individual publications

• academic article

  • Ideology and the Experience of Poverty Risk: Views about Poverty within a Focus Group Design.  Journal of Poverty.  15:350-370. 2011
  • Home Ownership Across the American Life Course: Estimating the Racial Divide.  Race and Social Problems.  2:125-136. 2010
  • Estimating the Risk of Food Stamp Use and Impoverishment During Childhood.  Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.  163:994-999. 2009
  • American Poverty as a Structural Failing: Evidence and Arguments.  Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.  30:3-29. 2003
  • Does Marriage Increase the Odds of Affluence: Exploring the Life Course Probabilities.  Journal of Marriage and Family.  65:927-938. 2003
  • Welfare Use as a Life Course Event: Toward a New Understanding of America's Safety Net.  Social Work.  47:237-248. 2002
  • Rags or Riches: Estimating the Probabilities of Poverty and Affluence Across the Adult American Life Span.  Social Science Quarterly.  82:651-669. 2001
  • The Measurement of Long Term Risks Across the Life Course.  Social Science Quarterly.  82:680-686. 2001
  • The Occurrence of Poverty Across the Life Cycle: Evidence from the PSID.  Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.  20:737-756. 2001
  • Community Effects on Welfare Participation.  Sociological Forum.  14:155-174. 1999
  • Estimating the Risk of Poverty Across the Elderly Years.  Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.  54B. 1999
  • The Economic Risk of Childhood in America: Estimating the Probability of Poverty Across the Formative Years.  Journal of Marriage and Family.  61:1058-1067. 1999
  • The Likelihood of Poverty across the American Adult Life Span.  Social Work.  44:201-216. 1999
  • The Link Between Welfare Participation and Population Density.  Demography.  30:607-622. 1993
  • The Effect of Population Density on Welfare Participation.  Social Forces.  70:225-235. 1991
  • A Rural/Urban Comparison of Welfare Exits: the Importance of Population Density.  Rural Sociology.  53:190-206. 1988

• chapter

  • The Food Stamp Program and Hunger: Constructing Three Different Claims.  Food, Eating and Nutrition as Social Problems: Constructionist Perspectives. 241-260. 1995
• Affluence and Marriage: How Likely, How Often? 2001
• The Link Between Population Density and Food Stamp Program Participation 1992