Patrick Ishizuka uses quantitative and experimental methods to examine how economic resources, cultural expectations, and social change shape gender and socioeconomic inequality in family life. His recent research investigates why the gender revolution in housework has stalled in the United States, how the relationship between female breadwinning and marriage has changed among cohabiting couples, and contemporary cultural norms regarding parents’ responses to adolescents’ gender expression, gender identity, and sexuality.

His research has been published in Demography, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Social Science Research and featured in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Independent, and the BBC. Ishizuka’s work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Mathematica Policy Research, and Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences.

Ishizuka received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2016 and previously was the Frank H. T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Population Center at Cornell University.