Amy Castro Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 291634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Castro Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy Castro |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2074-3501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
It’s a Life Lesson: The Role of Unconditional Cash in Financial Socialization of Youth
This study investigates how unconditional cash supports financial learning and well-being among young people, particularly those from low-income and racially minoritized communities. The research draws on the qualitative sub-strand of the larger, mixed-methods Youth Cash Transfer (YCT) study, which provided high school students ages 14 to 20 with $50 weekly in unconditional cash for 10 months. Interview findings show that the cash transfers promp…
Time Scarcity, Health Behaviors, and Unconditional Cash in Los Angeles
Unconditional cash interventions, such as guaranteed income, are a proposed solution for mediating the adverse health outcomes associated with financial scarcity. To test this, the City of Los Angeles, California, conducted a mixed-methods, randomized controlled trial in which they gave 3202 people $1000 with no strings attached for 12 months in 2022. Although the quantitative findings demonstrated mixed health effects, the qualitative findings h…
Renegotiating deservedness: A Big Qual analysis across eight guaranteed income experiments
Accessing the US safety net depends on labour market participation and demonstrating behaviour policymakers deem responsible. These prescriptions create moral distinctions between deserving and undeserving recipients, generating stigma and shame. Despite increasing experimentation with unconditional cash, little data exists interrogating perceptions of deservedness among recipients and potential recipients. Using a Big Qual analysis of survey dat…
Impact of Guaranteed Income on Health, Finances, and Agency: Findings from the Stockton Randomized Controlled Trial
The purpose of this experiment was to test the effects of a $500 per month guaranteed income for 2 years on health and financial outcomes. A mixed-methods randomized controlled trial in Stockton, CA, USA enrolled 131 individuals to the treatment condition and 200 to control to receive a guaranteed income from February 2019 to January 2021. Quantitative data collection began 3 months prior to allocation at 6-month intervals concluding 6 months aft…
The Case for Basic Income Experiments
How income inequality influenced personal decisions on disaster preparedness: A multilevel analysis of homeowners insurance among Hurricane Maria victims in Puerto Rico
Revisiting hope’s third pillar: Mattering, spirituality, and social connectedness among financially marginalized households
While hope is an established strength within the catalog of positive psychology virtues and a theoretically established concept in economic development (Lybbert & Wydick, 2018 Lybbert, T. J., & Wydick, B. (2018). Poverty, aspirations, and the economics of hope. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 66(4), 709–753. https://doi.org/10.1086/696968[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), little applied research has considered the role …
Reversing the Gains of the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements: How Housing Strain and Market Exclusion Led to Wealth Depletion During the Great Recession
Objective: We use feminist standpoint theory to investigate how the intersection of identity influenced wealth loss following the Great Recession among older single adults who benefitted from the social movements and legislative gains of the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back on more than a decade of recession and recovery, this study explores how intersections of race, class, and gender produced different wealth outcomes for the early baby boomer EBB…
Mitigating loss of health insurance and means tested benefits in an unconditional cash transfer experiment: Implementation lessons from Stockton's guaranteed income pilot
Cash transfers, universal basic income, and guaranteed income have re-emerged as potential solutions to income volatility.•Methods used in Stockton's guaranteed income experiment, are testing how GI can exist alongside existing safety net benefits.•A multi-tiered approach to mitigating potential means tested benefits loss is both effective and ethically sound
Clinical Data Mining With the Listening Guide: An Approach to Narrative Big Qual
We developed a novel approach to narrative Big Qual research that combines Carol Gilligan and Lyn Mikel Brown's Listening Guide with Irwin Epstein's clinical data mining. We adapted the voice-based research methodology of the Listening Guide for use with a corpus of clinical case notes drawn from an integrated data system (IDS) of a social service intervention serving families in an immigrant enclave. This methodological innovation was inspired b…
From labour to leisure
Once a fundamental part of the labour environment, many domesticated animals including (but not exclusively) dogs and horses are now predominantly leisure companions to humans. This chapter considers the experiences and implications of this historical shift in human: animal relations. Considering humans’ inherent animal nature and that a range of occupations can provide a sense of meaning and purpose for nonhuman animals leads us to question how …
There's a Difference—I Own This”: Negotiating Social and Financial Services under Threat of Mortgage Foreclosure
Although national housing markets have recovered from the Great Recession, communities hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis remain immersed in mortgage trouble. Nineteen percent of homeowners are underwater on their mortgages and communities of color are overrepresented among zip codes still experiencing default in rising numbers. The social services needs of homeowners at risk of foreclosure show few signs of abating. High levels of market risk…
When You’re in a Crisis Like That, You Don’t Want People to Know”: Mortgage Strain, Stigma, and Mental Health
Objectives. We analyzed experiences of stigmatization, concealment, and isolation among African American homeowners who were experiencing mortgage strain. Methods. We conducted semistructured interviews between March 2012 and May 2013 with 28 African American homeowners in a northeastern US city who were experiencing mortgage strain. We coded all of the transcripts and reviewed data for codes relating to stigma, sharing information, social suppor…
Confronting Barriers to Critical Discussions about Sexualization with Adolescent Girls
Journal Article Confronting Barriers to Critical Discussions about Sexualization with Adolescent Girls Get access Amy Castro Baker, Amy Castro Baker Amy Castro Baker, PhD, MSW, is assistant professor, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Lyn Mikel Brown, EdD, is professor of education, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Marisa Ragonese, MA, is a PhD candidate, Graduate Center, Cit…
Eroding the Wealth of Women: Gender and the Subprime Foreclosure Crisis
This article considers how mortgage markets evolved beyond protective legislation, creating a policy gap conducive to new forms of gender inequity in housing and lending. In the early 2000s, single women represented the fastest-growing group of homeowners in the United States, but they also experienced higher rates of risky lending than their male peers, even when controlling for financial profile. To date, the only policy protecting women’s acce…
Fragile health and fragile wealth: Mortgage strain among African American homeowners
Revealed preferences of a state bureau: Case of New Mexico's underground storage tank program
Leaking underground storage tanks (USTs) are a pervasive national environmental problem. Cleanup of leaking USTs is largely publicly financed and under the control of state agencies. In the transition to new compliance standards, individual states have taken advantage of provisions in federal regulations to implement their own programs. This raises the policy question of environmental federalism and the appropriate locus of government control. Th…
Eroding the Wealth of Women: Gender and the Subprime Foreclosure Crisis
This article considers how mortgage markets evolved beyond protective legislation, creating a policy gap conducive to new forms of gender inequity in housing and lending. In the early 2000s, single women represented the fastest-growing group of homeowners in the United States, but they also experienced higher rates of risky lending than their male peers, even when controlling for financial profile. To date, the only policy protecting women’s acce…
Fragile health and fragile wealth: Mortgage strain among African American homeowners
When You’re in a Crisis Like That, You Don’t Want People to Know”: Mortgage Strain, Stigma, and Mental Health
Objectives. We analyzed experiences of stigmatization, concealment, and isolation among African American homeowners who were experiencing mortgage strain. Methods. We conducted semistructured interviews between March 2012 and May 2013 with 28 African American homeowners in a northeastern US city who were experiencing mortgage strain. We coded all of the transcripts and reviewed data for codes relating to stigma, sharing information, social suppor…
The Case for Basic Income Experiments
Impact of Guaranteed Income on Health, Finances, and Agency: Findings from the Stockton Randomized Controlled Trial
The purpose of this experiment was to test the effects of a $500 per month guaranteed income for 2 years on health and financial outcomes. A mixed-methods randomized controlled trial in Stockton, CA, USA enrolled 131 individuals to the treatment condition and 200 to control to receive a guaranteed income from February 2019 to January 2021. Quantitative data collection began 3 months prior to allocation at 6-month intervals concluding 6 months aft…
There's a Difference—I Own This”: Negotiating Social and Financial Services under Threat of Mortgage Foreclosure
Although national housing markets have recovered from the Great Recession, communities hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis remain immersed in mortgage trouble. Nineteen percent of homeowners are underwater on their mortgages and communities of color are overrepresented among zip codes still experiencing default in rising numbers. The social services needs of homeowners at risk of foreclosure show few signs of abating. High levels of market risk…
Clinical Data Mining With the Listening Guide: An Approach to Narrative Big Qual
We developed a novel approach to narrative Big Qual research that combines Carol Gilligan and Lyn Mikel Brown's Listening Guide with Irwin Epstein's clinical data mining. We adapted the voice-based research methodology of the Listening Guide for use with a corpus of clinical case notes drawn from an integrated data system (IDS) of a social service intervention serving families in an immigrant enclave. This methodological innovation was inspired b…
Confronting Barriers to Critical Discussions about Sexualization with Adolescent Girls
Journal Article Confronting Barriers to Critical Discussions about Sexualization with Adolescent Girls Get access Amy Castro Baker, Amy Castro Baker Amy Castro Baker, PhD, MSW, is assistant professor, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Lyn Mikel Brown, EdD, is professor of education, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Marisa Ragonese, MA, is a PhD candidate, Graduate Center, Cit…
Revealed preferences of a state bureau: Case of New Mexico's underground storage tank program
Leaking underground storage tanks (USTs) are a pervasive national environmental problem. Cleanup of leaking USTs is largely publicly financed and under the control of state agencies. In the transition to new compliance standards, individual states have taken advantage of provisions in federal regulations to implement their own programs. This raises the policy question of environmental federalism and the appropriate locus of government control. Th…
Eroding the Wealth of Women: Gender and the Subprime Foreclosure Crisis
This article considers how mortgage markets evolved beyond protective legislation, creating a policy gap conducive to new forms of gender inequity in housing and lending. In the early 2000s, single women represented the fastest-growing group of homeowners in the United States, but they also experienced higher rates of risky lending than their male peers, even when controlling for financial profile. To date, the only policy protecting women’s acce…
Fragile health and fragile wealth: Mortgage strain among African American homeowners
When You’re in a Crisis Like That, You Don’t Want People to Know”: Mortgage Strain, Stigma, and Mental Health
Objectives. We analyzed experiences of stigmatization, concealment, and isolation among African American homeowners who were experiencing mortgage strain. Methods. We conducted semistructured interviews between March 2012 and May 2013 with 28 African American homeowners in a northeastern US city who were experiencing mortgage strain. We coded all of the transcripts and reviewed data for codes relating to stigma, sharing information, social suppor…
Confronting Barriers to Critical Discussions about Sexualization with Adolescent Girls
Journal Article Confronting Barriers to Critical Discussions about Sexualization with Adolescent Girls Get access Amy Castro Baker, Amy Castro Baker Amy Castro Baker, PhD, MSW, is assistant professor, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Lyn Mikel Brown, EdD, is professor of education, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Marisa Ragonese, MA, is a PhD candidate, Graduate Center, Cit…
There's a Difference—I Own This”: Negotiating Social and Financial Services under Threat of Mortgage Foreclosure
Although national housing markets have recovered from the Great Recession, communities hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis remain immersed in mortgage trouble. Nineteen percent of homeowners are underwater on their mortgages and communities of color are overrepresented among zip codes still experiencing default in rising numbers. The social services needs of homeowners at risk of foreclosure show few signs of abating. High levels of market risk…
From labour to leisure
Once a fundamental part of the labour environment, many domesticated animals including (but not exclusively) dogs and horses are now predominantly leisure companions to humans. This chapter considers the experiences and implications of this historical shift in human: animal relations. Considering humans’ inherent animal nature and that a range of occupations can provide a sense of meaning and purpose for nonhuman animals leads us to question how …
Mitigating loss of health insurance and means tested benefits in an unconditional cash transfer experiment: Implementation lessons from Stockton's guaranteed income pilot
Cash transfers, universal basic income, and guaranteed income have re-emerged as potential solutions to income volatility.•Methods used in Stockton's guaranteed income experiment, are testing how GI can exist alongside existing safety net benefits.•A multi-tiered approach to mitigating potential means tested benefits loss is both effective and ethically sound
Clinical Data Mining With the Listening Guide: An Approach to Narrative Big Qual
We developed a novel approach to narrative Big Qual research that combines Carol Gilligan and Lyn Mikel Brown's Listening Guide with Irwin Epstein's clinical data mining. We adapted the voice-based research methodology of the Listening Guide for use with a corpus of clinical case notes drawn from an integrated data system (IDS) of a social service intervention serving families in an immigrant enclave. This methodological innovation was inspired b…
How income inequality influenced personal decisions on disaster preparedness: A multilevel analysis of homeowners insurance among Hurricane Maria victims in Puerto Rico
Revisiting hope’s third pillar: Mattering, spirituality, and social connectedness among financially marginalized households
While hope is an established strength within the catalog of positive psychology virtues and a theoretically established concept in economic development (Lybbert & Wydick, 2018 Lybbert, T. J., & Wydick, B. (2018). Poverty, aspirations, and the economics of hope. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 66(4), 709–753. https://doi.org/10.1086/696968[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), little applied research has considered the role …
Reversing the Gains of the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements: How Housing Strain and Market Exclusion Led to Wealth Depletion During the Great Recession
Objective: We use feminist standpoint theory to investigate how the intersection of identity influenced wealth loss following the Great Recession among older single adults who benefitted from the social movements and legislative gains of the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back on more than a decade of recession and recovery, this study explores how intersections of race, class, and gender produced different wealth outcomes for the early baby boomer EBB…
The Case for Basic Income Experiments
Impact of Guaranteed Income on Health, Finances, and Agency: Findings from the Stockton Randomized Controlled Trial
The purpose of this experiment was to test the effects of a $500 per month guaranteed income for 2 years on health and financial outcomes. A mixed-methods randomized controlled trial in Stockton, CA, USA enrolled 131 individuals to the treatment condition and 200 to control to receive a guaranteed income from February 2019 to January 2021. Quantitative data collection began 3 months prior to allocation at 6-month intervals concluding 6 months aft…
Time Scarcity, Health Behaviors, and Unconditional Cash in Los Angeles
Unconditional cash interventions, such as guaranteed income, are a proposed solution for mediating the adverse health outcomes associated with financial scarcity. To test this, the City of Los Angeles, California, conducted a mixed-methods, randomized controlled trial in which they gave 3202 people $1000 with no strings attached for 12 months in 2022. Although the quantitative findings demonstrated mixed health effects, the qualitative findings h…
Renegotiating deservedness: A Big Qual analysis across eight guaranteed income experiments
Accessing the US safety net depends on labour market participation and demonstrating behaviour policymakers deem responsible. These prescriptions create moral distinctions between deserving and undeserving recipients, generating stigma and shame. Despite increasing experimentation with unconditional cash, little data exists interrogating perceptions of deservedness among recipients and potential recipients. Using a Big Qual analysis of survey dat…
It’s a Life Lesson: The Role of Unconditional Cash in Financial Socialization of Youth
This study investigates how unconditional cash supports financial learning and well-being among young people, particularly those from low-income and racially minoritized communities. The research draws on the qualitative sub-strand of the larger, mixed-methods Youth Cash Transfer (YCT) study, which provided high school students ages 14 to 20 with $50 weekly in unconditional cash for 10 months. Interview findings show that the cash transfers promp…
Economics (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Finance (5 works) · Housing Market and Economics (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works)