Discouraging Marriage: The hidden cost of means-tested government benefits [PDF], The Weekly Standard, September 21, 2015

Douglas J. Besharov and Neil Gilbert

Marriage Penalties in the Modern Social-Welfare State [PDF], R Street Policy Study, September 2015

Douglas J. Besharov and Neil Gilbert

Declining Labor Force Participation and the Expanding Social Safety Net [PDF], Index of Culture and Opportunity, The Heritage Foundation, August 2015

Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call

Reflections on Family: A Conversation with Douglas Besharov [PDF], U.S. Society & Values, January 2001

Douglas J. Besharov

African American Marriage Patterns [PDF], 2000

Douglas J. Besharov and Andrew West

Welfare Reform and Marriage [PDF], The Public Interest, Fall 1996

Douglas J. Besharov and Timothy S. Sullivan

One Flash: America Is Experiencing an Unprecedented Increase in Black-White Intermarriage [PDF], The New Democrat, July/August 1996

Douglas J. Besharov and Timothy S. Sullivan

Broken Family Values (book review) [PDF], The Washington Post, January 15, 1995

Douglas J. Besharov

Indicators: Not All Single Mothers Are Created Equal [PDF], The American Enterprise, September/October 1992

Douglas J. Besharov

Achieving Better Research on Family Violence: The Need to Address Definitional Issues [PDF], April 12, 1991

Douglas J. Besharov

How Much Are Working Mothers Working? [PDF] Public Opinion, November/December 1986

Douglas J. Besharov and Michelle M. Dally

Op-Eds

Asking More From Matrimony (PDF version), The New York Times, July 14, 1999

Douglas J. Besharov

A Look at Integration: The Interracial Generation: From Mixed Marriages, the Offspring of Hope [PDF], The Washington Post, July 21, 1996

Douglas J. Besharov

Unwed Moms Are White, Too: Once Again the Conventional Wisdom Has It Wrong [PDF], The Washington Post, May 3, 1987

Douglas J. Besharov

One Policy for Working Moms Won't Fit All [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, October 29, 1986

Douglas J. Besharov

Return the Family to 1954 [PDF], The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 1985

Douglas J. Besharov

 

Congressional Testimony

Testimony on the Future of Family Programs, House Committee on Ways and Means, January 17, 1995

Douglas J. Besharov