Grants, Publications, and Papers
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research
Bryn Mawr College
Grants
"Long-term Effects of Food Stamp Receipt during Childhood on Adult Outcomes.” $110,605 grant from the Economic Research Service, USDA, September, 2008-December, 2010.
"The Long-Term Outcome of Food Stamp Participation", with Joe
Harkness, Johns Hopkins University. $40,000 grant from the
Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and
the USDA, July, 2007-December, 2008.
Evaluation of the Supporting Families After Welfare Reform Program, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. $398,000 grant. With Carolyn Needleman and Sanford Schram. 2000-2003.
"
Income and Job
Market Outcomes After Welfare: 1990-1995." $20,000 grant
received
from the Joint Center for Poverty Research at the
University of Chicago and Northwestern University. 1998-1999.
Publications
"Intergenerational
Neighborhood-Type Mobility:
Examining Differences between Blacks and Whites", 2007, in Housing Studies., with Page Walker
Buck and Philip Gleason.
"A Comparison of Asians and Non-Asians Educational Attainments in the United States", with David Karen, Page Walker Buck, and Wendy Cadge, The Sociological Quarterly, 2007.
"Childhood
and Adolescent Neighborhood
Effects on Adult Income: Using Siblings to Examine Differences in OLS
and Fixed Effect Models
(2005)", With Page Walker Buck. Social
Service Review, March, pp. 60-94.
" The Welfare Myth: Disentangling the Long-Term Effects of
Poverty and Welfare Receipt for Young Single Mothers". With
Justine McNamara. in the Journal of Sociology
and Social Welfare,.
Abstract .
“Welfare policy choices in the states: Does the hard line
follow the color line? (2004)” with Joe Soss, Sanford Schram, and Erin
O’Brien. Focus.
Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Institute for Research on Poverty, Winter.
"Older Women in Poverty: The Impact of Mid-Life Factors". With Justine McNamara. The Journal of Marriage and the Family, May, 2002, V. 64, #2, pp532-548. Abstract.
“The Hard Line and the Color Line: Race, Welfare, and the Roots
of
Get-Tough Reform” (2002), with Joe Soss, Sanford Schram, and Erin
O'Brien, in Race, Welfare and
the Politics of Reform, Sanford Schram,
Joe Soss, and Richard Fording, eds., (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press).
Setting the Terms of Relief: Explaining State Policy Choices in the
Devolution Revolution, With Joe Soss, Sandford Schram, and Erin
O'Brien. American Journal of Political
Science , April, 2001, Volume 24, No. 2, pages 69-86. Abstract.
Work After Welfare: How Do Former AFDC Recipients Fare in the Job Market? With Justine McNamara. In the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, , Volume 27, No. 2, pages 41-78,June, 2000. Abstract.
Adolescent Neighborhood Effects on Labor Market and Economic Outcomes , in Social Service Review , Volume 73, June, 1999, pages 142-167. Abstract
Childhood Conditions and Adult Welfare Use: Examining Neighborhood and Family Factors, Journal of Marriage and the Family , Vol. 61, 225-237. February, 1999. Abstract.
Locational Effects on AFDC Exits: Examining Local Labor Markets , in the Journal of Socio-Economics , Volume 28, Number 4, pages 607-631. October, 1999. Abstract.
Do Neighborhood Conditions Affect the High School Dropout and College Graduation Rates? With Philip Gleason. Journal of Socio-Economics , Volume 28, Number 1, pages 21-41. January, 1999. Abstract.
Already Hit Bottom: Welfare Retrenchment, General Assistance, and Single Male Migration. With Joe Soss, Sanford Schram, and Jim Baumohl, in the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare , June, 1999. Vol. 26, No. 2. Abstract.Neighborhood Effects on AFDC Exits: Examining the Social Isolation, Relative Deprivation, and Epidemic Theories. Social Service Review , Vol. 71. pp. 548-73, December, 1997. Abstract.