Jessica Halliday Hardie

Jessica Hardie is a Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, a Faculty Associate at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, and a Faculty Affiliate at the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Family Demography and Individual Development at the Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Hardie specializes in the areas of inequality, family, health, education, work, social demography, and the transition to adulthood. In particular, her research explores how class, race, and gender shape young people’s trajectories through adolescence and young adulthood. She has conducted qualitative and quantitative research on adolescent social capital, the relationship between maternal health and child well-being, work and health, and economic resources and romantic relationship quality. Her work has appeared in journals such as Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociology of Education, Social Problems, Socius, and Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

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Selected recent publications:

Hardie, Jessica Halliday. 2022. Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times. University of California Press.

Ju, Daeshin Hayden*, Karen Amaka Okigbo*, Sejung Sage Yim*, and Jessica Halliday Hardie. 2022. “Ethnic and Generational Differences in Partnership Patterns among Asian Americans.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48(15): 3789-3809.

Hardie, Jessica Halliday and Kristin Turney. 2022. “Maternal Depression and Adolescent Wellbeing.” SSM - Population Health 19.

Lucas, Amy, Jessica Halliday Hardie, and Sejung Yim*. 2021. “Pushed Together or Pulled Apart? Economic Stressors and Romantic Relationship Quality.” Sociological Perspectives 64(4): 563-586.

Turney, Kristin and Jessica Halliday Hardie. 2021. “The Repercussions of Parental Depression for Perceptions of Coparental Cooperation.” Journal of Marriage and Family 83(2): 466-481.

Hardie, Jessica Halliday, Jonathan Daw, and S. Michael Gaddis. 2019. “Job Characteristics, Job Preferences, and Physical and Mental Health in Later Life.” Socius 5:1-18.