Deborah Belle,
Experiences in the After-school Hours

Deborah Belle’s, PhD, most recent book is The After-School Lives of Children: Alone and with Others While Parents Work. Earlier, she edited Lives in Stress: Women and Depression and Children’s Social Networks and Social Supports. She has been a William T. Grant Foundation faculty scholar and a fellow at the Bunting Institute and at the Radcliffe Public Policy Center. She is a professor of psychology at Boston University, where her current research focuses on the emotional and physical health costs of economic inequality and on the ways in which individuals and families make sense of poverty and homelessness in a wealthy nation.