Melissa S. Kearney

American economist — University of Maryland — author of The Two-Parent Privilege — who argues that the decline of two-parent households is a primary driver of economic inequality and that this is a mainstream economic finding suppressed by political discomfort.

Creates the two-parent household economics argument — Kearney's The Two-Parent Privilege makes the economic case (the data shows two-parent households substantially improve children's outcomes even controlling for income) in a way designed to be non-judgmental but clear about causality.