Kearney, Melissa S. and Wendy Edelberg. "A Proposal for an Enhanced Partially Refundable Child Tax Credit,” The Hamilton Project, Brookings Institution, March 2023.

Kearney, Melissa and Phillip Levine, “The Causes and Consequences of Declining US Fertility,” in ed. Melissa S. Kearney and Amy Ganz, "Economic Policy in a More Uncertain World,” Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group, January 2023.

Kearney, Melissa S., “Will birth rates in the U.S. rebound? Probably Not.” Brookings Institution. May 24, 2021.

Kearney, Melissa S. and Phillip B. Levine. "Half a Million Fewer Children? The Coming Covid Baby Bust.” Brookings Institution. June 15, 2020.

Furman, Jason, Timothy Geithner, Glenn Hubbard, and Melissa Kearney, “Promoting Economic Recovery After Covid-19” Aspen Economic Strategy Group Task Force Report, June 2020.

Kearney, Melissa and Luke Pardue, “Exposure on the Job: Who are the Essential Workers Who Cannot Work from Home?” May 2020. Brookings Institute.

Kearney, Melissa, “Child Poverty in the U.S.,” EconoFact, March 2020.

Kearney, Melissa, “We could abolish child poverty in the U.S. with Social Security benefits for poor kids,” EconoFact, March 2020.

Kearney, Melissa and Luke Pardue, “COVID-19 Social Insurance Payments to U.S. Households,” EconoFact, March 2020.

Kearney, Melissa, “Widening Socioeconomic Differences in Children’s Family Structure,” EconoFact, June 2019.

Kearney, Melissa, “Welfare and the Federal Budget,” EconoFact, July 2017.

Kearney, Melissa and Philip B. Levine, “Income Inequality and the Decision to Drop Out of High School,” Communities & Banking. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 28(1), winter 2017.

Kearney, Melissa, “What Does Culture Have to Do With the American Dream?” Institute for Family Studies blog, May 22, 2017, edited transcript of remarks given at American Enterprise Institute.

Kearney, Melissa and Philip Levine, “The ‘marriage premium for children’ depends on family resources,” Brookings Social Mobility Memos, May 13, 2017.

Gale, William, Melissa Kearney, and Peter Orszag. “Would a significant increase in the top income tax rate substantially alter income inequality?” Brookings Institution. September 28, 2015.

Kearney, Melissa, Brad Hershbein, and Elisa Jacome “Profiles of Change: Employment, Earnings, and Occupations from 1990-2013.” The Hamilton Project. April 20, 2015.

Kearney, Melissa, Brad Hershbein, and Lawrence H. Summers. “Increasing Education: What it Will and Will Not Do for Earnings and Earnings Inequality,” The Hamilton Project. March 30, 2015.

Kearney, Melissa and Phillip Levine, “Economic despair: The vicious circle of inequality and social mobility,” Brookings Social Mobility Memos, May 29, 2015.

Kearney, Melissa and Phillip Levine, “Income inequality, social mobility, and the decision to drop out of high school,” voxeu.org, May 28, 2015.

Kearney, Melissa S. and Phillip Levine. “Teen Births are Falling: What’s Going on?” Brookings policy brief, March 2014.

Kearney, Melissa and Lesley Turner, “Giving Secondary Earners a Tax Break: A Proposal to Help Low- and Middle-Income Families. The Hamilton Project Discussion Paper, December 2013. (Proposal introduced into federal legislation by U.S. Senator Murray, March 2014.)

Kearney, Melissa S. and Phillip Levine. “Reducing Unplanned Pregnancies through Medicaid Family Planning Services,” Brookings CCF Brief number 39, July 2008.

Guryan, Jonathan, Erik Hurst, and Melissa Kearney, “Parental Education and Parental Time with Children,” voxeu.org, July 5, 2008.