Robert B Nielsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 112499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert B Nielsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert B |
| FAMILY NAME | Nielsen |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2282-4900 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Credit Card Utilization Among Households Receiving Social Welfare
Methodology and Axiomatic Characterization of a Multidimensional and Fuzzy Measure of Deprivation
Residential Satisfaction among College Students: Examining High‐End Amenity Student Housing
Compared to previous generations of students, today's college‐bound students have found that their housing situation offers demonstrably more amenities. These amenities can be offered either through university‐provided housing or through private student housing providers specializing in high‐amenity housing. This study is based on research on residential satisfaction, housing adjustment theory, and housing careers to help understand the effects t…
Do We Know What We Think We Know About Payday Loan Borrowers? Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
The field of social work is becoming increasingly savvy regarding the financial lives of people, but despite seeming conclusive and resolved, knowledge about payday loan borrowing is still nascent. To understand it more thoroughly, this study employed descriptive and inferential multivariate quantitative methods using cross-sectional secondary data from the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances (n = 6015). Results revealed that many of the simple diff…
Linking financial distress to marital quality: The intermediary roles of demand/withdraw and spousal gratitude expressions
This study investigates demand/withdraw communication and spousal expressions of gratitude as intervening variables in the association between financial distress and marital quality. With a sample of 468 married individuals, dual‐mediation models revealed demand/withdraw transmitted the effect of financial distress onto 3 different marital outcomes; in most instances, this indirect effect occurred through total couple demand/withdraw and not one …
Launching a Research Career: T‐15 Years and Counting
This invited reflection paper offers suggestions for early career researchers—both graduate students and new assistant professors—that are grounded in my own experiences during my quest to launch a research career. Topics include developing both topical and methodological expertise, identifying informal and formal mentors who have experience leading others toward research‐based careers, cultivating a network of colleagues capable of offering insi…
Financial Wellness and Relationship Satisfaction: Does Communication Mediate
This research investigated if married couples' positive and negative communication patterns mediate the association between financial wellness and relationship satisfaction. Data were collected from married individuals in a southern state in 2007 (N = 515) and 2011 (N = 489). Guided by social exchange theory, structural equation models isolated the mediating effects of positive and negative communication patterns. In concert with a consistent and…
Rental Real Estate Ownership Prior to the Great Recession
The purpose of this study was twofold: To provide an updated profile of rental real estate investors and to investigate household characteristics associated with investment in rental real estate prior to the Great Recession. Based on the Life Cycle Hypothesis of Savings, analyses were conducted using data from the 2004 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Multivariate results indicated that household net worth was the most sig…
So Many People are Struggling”: Developing Social Empathy Through a Poverty Simulation
This article reports on the use of a poverty simulation with a sample of students from a large public university in the Southeast. To better understand whether participation in a poverty simulation influences attitudes and fosters social empathy for people in poverty, a pre- and postquestionnaire and a reflection paper were used. Quantitative analysis suggests that the simulation fostered more understanding of the conditions contributing to pover…
Employer-Provided Health Insurance Coverage: A Comparison of Employed Native-born and Immigrant Americans
This research examined differences in employer-based health insurance coverage among employed native-born Americans and immigrants using cross-sectional and panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey, cohort 1979 (NLSY79). Compared with native-born Americans, immigrants were 10.5% less likely to have employer-based health insurance when controlling for other social and economic characteristics. Income and educational attainment of immigrant…
Cues to Quality in Quantitative Research Papers: Quantitative Research Papers
In this paper I propose three criteria by which quantitative research manuscripts may be judged: Contribution, Clarity, and Citizenship. A manuscript’s scientific contribution is the most critical criterion to consider when assessing its value. Structural clarity refers to the extent to which the manuscript follows journal article reporting standards, whereas content clarity refers to how the research is conveyed in both text and tabular form. Ci…
Guest Editors’ Note
Transportation Access: A Key Employment Barrier for Rural Low-Income Families
Findings from three sequential studies build an understanding of the transportation barriers facing poor rural families and the link between transportation access and economic outcomes. An in-depth, longitudinal qualitative study explored multiple dimensions of the role of transportation in family life. The results of this study yielded emergent themes and hypotheses used in the subsequent studies. The second study used multiple methods to analyz…
Food Insecurity and Out‐of‐Pocket Medical Expenditures: Competing Basic Needs
Resource‐constrained families face difficult choices when attempting to meet their basic needs and enhance their health and wellness. This research investigated the relationship between a family’s efforts to access enough food and pay their medical bills through an examination of data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The data provided information on out‐of‐pocket medical expenditures and responses to an abbreviated version of …
Health Insurance Stability and Health Status: Do Family-Level Coverage Patterns Matter
Being uninsured affects one's ability to access medical services and maintain health. Using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the authors investigated how individual and family insurance coverage affects adult health. They found that health insurance coverage often varies across family members and changes frequently. Employing multivariate analyses that control for personal insurance status, predisposing chara…
Financial Wellness and Relationship Satisfaction: Does Communication Mediate
This research investigated if married couples' positive and negative communication patterns mediate the association between financial wellness and relationship satisfaction. Data were collected from married individuals in a southern state in 2007 (N = 515) and 2011 (N = 489). Guided by social exchange theory, structural equation models isolated the mediating effects of positive and negative communication patterns. In concert with a consistent and…
Food Insecurity and Out‐of‐Pocket Medical Expenditures: Competing Basic Needs
Resource‐constrained families face difficult choices when attempting to meet their basic needs and enhance their health and wellness. This research investigated the relationship between a family’s efforts to access enough food and pay their medical bills through an examination of data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The data provided information on out‐of‐pocket medical expenditures and responses to an abbreviated version of …
Transportation Access: A Key Employment Barrier for Rural Low-Income Families
Findings from three sequential studies build an understanding of the transportation barriers facing poor rural families and the link between transportation access and economic outcomes. An in-depth, longitudinal qualitative study explored multiple dimensions of the role of transportation in family life. The results of this study yielded emergent themes and hypotheses used in the subsequent studies. The second study used multiple methods to analyz…
So Many People are Struggling”: Developing Social Empathy Through a Poverty Simulation
This article reports on the use of a poverty simulation with a sample of students from a large public university in the Southeast. To better understand whether participation in a poverty simulation influences attitudes and fosters social empathy for people in poverty, a pre- and postquestionnaire and a reflection paper were used. Quantitative analysis suggests that the simulation fostered more understanding of the conditions contributing to pover…
Cues to Quality in Quantitative Research Papers: Quantitative Research Papers
In this paper I propose three criteria by which quantitative research manuscripts may be judged: Contribution, Clarity, and Citizenship. A manuscript’s scientific contribution is the most critical criterion to consider when assessing its value. Structural clarity refers to the extent to which the manuscript follows journal article reporting standards, whereas content clarity refers to how the research is conveyed in both text and tabular form. Ci…
Residential Satisfaction among College Students: Examining High‐End Amenity Student Housing
Compared to previous generations of students, today's college‐bound students have found that their housing situation offers demonstrably more amenities. These amenities can be offered either through university‐provided housing or through private student housing providers specializing in high‐amenity housing. This study is based on research on residential satisfaction, housing adjustment theory, and housing careers to help understand the effects t…
Health Insurance Stability and Health Status: Do Family-Level Coverage Patterns Matter
Being uninsured affects one's ability to access medical services and maintain health. Using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the authors investigated how individual and family insurance coverage affects adult health. They found that health insurance coverage often varies across family members and changes frequently. Employing multivariate analyses that control for personal insurance status, predisposing chara…
Do We Know What We Think We Know About Payday Loan Borrowers? Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
The field of social work is becoming increasingly savvy regarding the financial lives of people, but despite seeming conclusive and resolved, knowledge about payday loan borrowing is still nascent. To understand it more thoroughly, this study employed descriptive and inferential multivariate quantitative methods using cross-sectional secondary data from the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances (n = 6015). Results revealed that many of the simple diff…
Launching a Research Career: T‐15 Years and Counting
This invited reflection paper offers suggestions for early career researchers—both graduate students and new assistant professors—that are grounded in my own experiences during my quest to launch a research career. Topics include developing both topical and methodological expertise, identifying informal and formal mentors who have experience leading others toward research‐based careers, cultivating a network of colleagues capable of offering insi…
Health Insurance Stability and Health Status: Do Family-Level Coverage Patterns Matter
Being uninsured affects one's ability to access medical services and maintain health. Using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the authors investigated how individual and family insurance coverage affects adult health. They found that health insurance coverage often varies across family members and changes frequently. Employing multivariate analyses that control for personal insurance status, predisposing chara…
Transportation Access: A Key Employment Barrier for Rural Low-Income Families
Findings from three sequential studies build an understanding of the transportation barriers facing poor rural families and the link between transportation access and economic outcomes. An in-depth, longitudinal qualitative study explored multiple dimensions of the role of transportation in family life. The results of this study yielded emergent themes and hypotheses used in the subsequent studies. The second study used multiple methods to analyz…
Food Insecurity and Out‐of‐Pocket Medical Expenditures: Competing Basic Needs
Resource‐constrained families face difficult choices when attempting to meet their basic needs and enhance their health and wellness. This research investigated the relationship between a family’s efforts to access enough food and pay their medical bills through an examination of data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The data provided information on out‐of‐pocket medical expenditures and responses to an abbreviated version of …
So Many People are Struggling”: Developing Social Empathy Through a Poverty Simulation
This article reports on the use of a poverty simulation with a sample of students from a large public university in the Southeast. To better understand whether participation in a poverty simulation influences attitudes and fosters social empathy for people in poverty, a pre- and postquestionnaire and a reflection paper were used. Quantitative analysis suggests that the simulation fostered more understanding of the conditions contributing to pover…
Employer-Provided Health Insurance Coverage: A Comparison of Employed Native-born and Immigrant Americans
This research examined differences in employer-based health insurance coverage among employed native-born Americans and immigrants using cross-sectional and panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey, cohort 1979 (NLSY79). Compared with native-born Americans, immigrants were 10.5% less likely to have employer-based health insurance when controlling for other social and economic characteristics. Income and educational attainment of immigrant…
Cues to Quality in Quantitative Research Papers: Quantitative Research Papers
In this paper I propose three criteria by which quantitative research manuscripts may be judged: Contribution, Clarity, and Citizenship. A manuscript’s scientific contribution is the most critical criterion to consider when assessing its value. Structural clarity refers to the extent to which the manuscript follows journal article reporting standards, whereas content clarity refers to how the research is conveyed in both text and tabular form. Ci…
Guest Editors’ Note
Rental Real Estate Ownership Prior to the Great Recession
The purpose of this study was twofold: To provide an updated profile of rental real estate investors and to investigate household characteristics associated with investment in rental real estate prior to the Great Recession. Based on the Life Cycle Hypothesis of Savings, analyses were conducted using data from the 2004 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Multivariate results indicated that household net worth was the most sig…
Financial Wellness and Relationship Satisfaction: Does Communication Mediate
This research investigated if married couples' positive and negative communication patterns mediate the association between financial wellness and relationship satisfaction. Data were collected from married individuals in a southern state in 2007 (N = 515) and 2011 (N = 489). Guided by social exchange theory, structural equation models isolated the mediating effects of positive and negative communication patterns. In concert with a consistent and…
Linking financial distress to marital quality: The intermediary roles of demand/withdraw and spousal gratitude expressions
This study investigates demand/withdraw communication and spousal expressions of gratitude as intervening variables in the association between financial distress and marital quality. With a sample of 468 married individuals, dual‐mediation models revealed demand/withdraw transmitted the effect of financial distress onto 3 different marital outcomes; in most instances, this indirect effect occurred through total couple demand/withdraw and not one …
Launching a Research Career: T‐15 Years and Counting
This invited reflection paper offers suggestions for early career researchers—both graduate students and new assistant professors—that are grounded in my own experiences during my quest to launch a research career. Topics include developing both topical and methodological expertise, identifying informal and formal mentors who have experience leading others toward research‐based careers, cultivating a network of colleagues capable of offering insi…
Do We Know What We Think We Know About Payday Loan Borrowers? Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
The field of social work is becoming increasingly savvy regarding the financial lives of people, but despite seeming conclusive and resolved, knowledge about payday loan borrowing is still nascent. To understand it more thoroughly, this study employed descriptive and inferential multivariate quantitative methods using cross-sectional secondary data from the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances (n = 6015). Results revealed that many of the simple diff…
Residential Satisfaction among College Students: Examining High‐End Amenity Student Housing
Compared to previous generations of students, today's college‐bound students have found that their housing situation offers demonstrably more amenities. These amenities can be offered either through university‐provided housing or through private student housing providers specializing in high‐amenity housing. This study is based on research on residential satisfaction, housing adjustment theory, and housing careers to help understand the effects t…
Methodology and Axiomatic Characterization of a Multidimensional and Fuzzy Measure of Deprivation
Credit Card Utilization Among Households Receiving Social Welfare
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