Stacia West
Biographic Data
| ID | 3889204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stacia West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stacia |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8806-2318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Fragility by proxy
In the United States, racialized women are disproportionately responsible for unpaid care work and occupationally segregated into the paid care industry. Despite the importance of their labor, they are often devalued, resulting in poor compensation and exploitative working conditions that erode their health and well-being. For familial caregivers, this is compounded by gendered and cultural notions which demand their caring labor because of love …
It’s a Life Lesson
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
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
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
Reversing the Gains of the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements
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…
Why Do Households Lack Emergency Savings? The Role of Financial Capability
Mitigating loss of health insurance and means tested benefits in an unconditional cash transfer experiment
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
Housing Cost Burden and Maternal Stress among Very Low Income Mothers
As the affordable housing shortage proliferates, more American households struggle with high housing cost burdens. Grounded in Belsky’s (1984) parenting stress framework, we use a weighted low-income sample from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study of mothers who rent their homes (N=388) to investigate a relationship between housing cost burden, or paying a substantial portion of income toward housing, and higher rates of reported mater…
Universal Basic Income, Poverty, and Social Justice
Modern technology threatens to dramatically alter the U.S. labor economy, but the crumbling social safety net may be insufficient for affected workers. Some advocates propose to address these converging problems through universal basic income (UBI). Authors conducted a preliminary review of social work perspectives on the topic of UBI. They found very little relevant literature, especially among American scholars. Existent social work literature …
Does the composition of financial services in a community relate to an Individual’s savings account ownership
This study extends research on financial inclusion by exploring the composition of financial services within communities. Using propensity-score-adjusted probit regression, we explored associations with savings account ownership using restriscted-access, cross-sectional data from the 2015 National Financial Capability Study with merged financial services and community demographic data. Living in communities where the density of banks and credit u…
The Role of Social Support as a Moderator of Housing Instability in Single Mother and Two-Parent Households
With a dwindling supply of affordable housing and limited public dollars to help families afford rising rents, lower-income households and those headed by a single mother often pay rent late and face the threat of eviction. Social support systems have long been associated with helping families weather financial instability; yet, no research has explored whether different types and levels of social support are associated with housing stability for…
Coming Up Short
Objective: Existing research on savings and liquid-asset accumulation is largely quantitative and focuses on descriptions of how income inequality leads to the ability or inability to save. What has been left out of this body of research is an in-depth exploration of the role family composition may play in the way that households accumulate liquid assets. The purpose of this research is to understand how lower and higher income single- and two-pa…
They will go like I did”
Do Community Characteristics Relate to Young Adult College Students’ Credit Card Debt? The Hypothesized Role of Collective Institutional Efficacy
This study examines the extent of emergent, outstanding credit card debt among young adult college students and investigates whether any associations existed between this credit card debt and the characteristics of the communities in which these students grew up or lived. Using data ( N = 748) from a longitudinal survey and merging community characteristics measured at the zip code level, we confirmed that a community's unemployment rate, average…
A Population on the Brink
Financial fragility and inadequate emergency savings are commonly associated with lower educational attainment, lower household income, younger age, minority status, and lower rates of financial knowledge and financial literacy. Using the 2012 National Financial Capability Study (N = 25,509), the purpose of this research was to determine if renters, compared to homeowners, were more likely to report financial fragility or inadequate emergency sav…
Coming of Age on a Shoestring Budget
Lower-income millennials make important financial decisions that may affect their future financial well-being. With limited resources, this population is at risk for acquiring too much debt or being unprepared for a financial emergency that can send them further into poverty and constrain their ability to leverage resources for future economic mobility. A financial capability approach, an intervention that combines financial education with financ…
Young Adults' Race, Wealth, and Entrepreneurship
Asset Building among Low Income Adults
Some of the most severe burdens of the Great Recession were shouldered by low income people who lacked emergency savings. The absence of assets in the form of emergency savings makes low income families particularly vulnerable in times of economic distress. Without savings to cushion unexpected financial emergencies, many families who were financially fragile before the recession fell into, or deeper into, poverty. In this article, we provide an …
Individual Predictors of Community Costs Before and After Housing First
Using bivariate and multivariate models, the authors find that individual characteristics are associated with community costs accrued by a sample of individuals who were homeless for one year and then housed for one year (N = 41). Higher pre-Housing First total costs are associated with male gender and those with physical health conditions or physical and mental health conditions combined; post-Housing First, age and disability status dissipate a…
Does the composition of financial services in a community relate to an Individual’s savings account ownership
This study extends research on financial inclusion by exploring the composition of financial services within communities. Using propensity-score-adjusted probit regression, we explored associations with savings account ownership using restriscted-access, cross-sectional data from the 2015 National Financial Capability Study with merged financial services and community demographic data. Living in communities where the density of banks and credit u…
Asset Building among Low Income Adults
Some of the most severe burdens of the Great Recession were shouldered by low income people who lacked emergency savings. The absence of assets in the form of emergency savings makes low income families particularly vulnerable in times of economic distress. Without savings to cushion unexpected financial emergencies, many families who were financially fragile before the recession fell into, or deeper into, poverty. In this article, we provide an …
The Case for Basic Income Experiments
Coming of Age on a Shoestring Budget
Lower-income millennials make important financial decisions that may affect their future financial well-being. With limited resources, this population is at risk for acquiring too much debt or being unprepared for a financial emergency that can send them further into poverty and constrain their ability to leverage resources for future economic mobility. A financial capability approach, an intervention that combines financial education with financ…
Impact of Guaranteed Income on Health, Finances, and Agency
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…
Do Community Characteristics Relate to Young Adult College Students’ Credit Card Debt? The Hypothesized Role of Collective Institutional Efficacy
This study examines the extent of emergent, outstanding credit card debt among young adult college students and investigates whether any associations existed between this credit card debt and the characteristics of the communities in which these students grew up or lived. Using data ( N = 748) from a longitudinal survey and merging community characteristics measured at the zip code level, we confirmed that a community's unemployment rate, average…
A Population on the Brink
Financial fragility and inadequate emergency savings are commonly associated with lower educational attainment, lower household income, younger age, minority status, and lower rates of financial knowledge and financial literacy. Using the 2012 National Financial Capability Study (N = 25,509), the purpose of this research was to determine if renters, compared to homeowners, were more likely to report financial fragility or inadequate emergency sav…
Housing Cost Burden and Maternal Stress among Very Low Income Mothers
As the affordable housing shortage proliferates, more American households struggle with high housing cost burdens. Grounded in Belsky’s (1984) parenting stress framework, we use a weighted low-income sample from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study of mothers who rent their homes (N=388) to investigate a relationship between housing cost burden, or paying a substantial portion of income toward housing, and higher rates of reported mater…
Universal Basic Income, Poverty, and Social Justice
Modern technology threatens to dramatically alter the U.S. labor economy, but the crumbling social safety net may be insufficient for affected workers. Some advocates propose to address these converging problems through universal basic income (UBI). Authors conducted a preliminary review of social work perspectives on the topic of UBI. They found very little relevant literature, especially among American scholars. Existent social work literature …
Coming Up Short
Objective: Existing research on savings and liquid-asset accumulation is largely quantitative and focuses on descriptions of how income inequality leads to the ability or inability to save. What has been left out of this body of research is an in-depth exploration of the role family composition may play in the way that households accumulate liquid assets. The purpose of this research is to understand how lower and higher income single- and two-pa…
The Role of Social Support as a Moderator of Housing Instability in Single Mother and Two-Parent Households
With a dwindling supply of affordable housing and limited public dollars to help families afford rising rents, lower-income households and those headed by a single mother often pay rent late and face the threat of eviction. Social support systems have long been associated with helping families weather financial instability; yet, no research has explored whether different types and levels of social support are associated with housing stability for…
They will go like I did”
Young Adults' Race, Wealth, and Entrepreneurship
Individual Predictors of Community Costs Before and After Housing First
Using bivariate and multivariate models, the authors find that individual characteristics are associated with community costs accrued by a sample of individuals who were homeless for one year and then housed for one year (N = 41). Higher pre-Housing First total costs are associated with male gender and those with physical health conditions or physical and mental health conditions combined; post-Housing First, age and disability status dissipate a…
Individual Predictors of Community Costs Before and After Housing First
Using bivariate and multivariate models, the authors find that individual characteristics are associated with community costs accrued by a sample of individuals who were homeless for one year and then housed for one year (N = 41). Higher pre-Housing First total costs are associated with male gender and those with physical health conditions or physical and mental health conditions combined; post-Housing First, age and disability status dissipate a…
Asset Building among Low Income Adults
Some of the most severe burdens of the Great Recession were shouldered by low income people who lacked emergency savings. The absence of assets in the form of emergency savings makes low income families particularly vulnerable in times of economic distress. Without savings to cushion unexpected financial emergencies, many families who were financially fragile before the recession fell into, or deeper into, poverty. In this article, we provide an …
A Population on the Brink
Financial fragility and inadequate emergency savings are commonly associated with lower educational attainment, lower household income, younger age, minority status, and lower rates of financial knowledge and financial literacy. Using the 2012 National Financial Capability Study (N = 25,509), the purpose of this research was to determine if renters, compared to homeowners, were more likely to report financial fragility or inadequate emergency sav…
Coming of Age on a Shoestring Budget
Lower-income millennials make important financial decisions that may affect their future financial well-being. With limited resources, this population is at risk for acquiring too much debt or being unprepared for a financial emergency that can send them further into poverty and constrain their ability to leverage resources for future economic mobility. A financial capability approach, an intervention that combines financial education with financ…
Young Adults' Race, Wealth, and Entrepreneurship
Coming Up Short
Objective: Existing research on savings and liquid-asset accumulation is largely quantitative and focuses on descriptions of how income inequality leads to the ability or inability to save. What has been left out of this body of research is an in-depth exploration of the role family composition may play in the way that households accumulate liquid assets. The purpose of this research is to understand how lower and higher income single- and two-pa…
They will go like I did”
Do Community Characteristics Relate to Young Adult College Students’ Credit Card Debt? The Hypothesized Role of Collective Institutional Efficacy
This study examines the extent of emergent, outstanding credit card debt among young adult college students and investigates whether any associations existed between this credit card debt and the characteristics of the communities in which these students grew up or lived. Using data ( N = 748) from a longitudinal survey and merging community characteristics measured at the zip code level, we confirmed that a community's unemployment rate, average…
The Role of Social Support as a Moderator of Housing Instability in Single Mother and Two-Parent Households
With a dwindling supply of affordable housing and limited public dollars to help families afford rising rents, lower-income households and those headed by a single mother often pay rent late and face the threat of eviction. Social support systems have long been associated with helping families weather financial instability; yet, no research has explored whether different types and levels of social support are associated with housing stability for…
Housing Cost Burden and Maternal Stress among Very Low Income Mothers
As the affordable housing shortage proliferates, more American households struggle with high housing cost burdens. Grounded in Belsky’s (1984) parenting stress framework, we use a weighted low-income sample from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study of mothers who rent their homes (N=388) to investigate a relationship between housing cost burden, or paying a substantial portion of income toward housing, and higher rates of reported mater…
Universal Basic Income, Poverty, and Social Justice
Modern technology threatens to dramatically alter the U.S. labor economy, but the crumbling social safety net may be insufficient for affected workers. Some advocates propose to address these converging problems through universal basic income (UBI). Authors conducted a preliminary review of social work perspectives on the topic of UBI. They found very little relevant literature, especially among American scholars. Existent social work literature …
Does the composition of financial services in a community relate to an Individual’s savings account ownership
This study extends research on financial inclusion by exploring the composition of financial services within communities. Using propensity-score-adjusted probit regression, we explored associations with savings account ownership using restriscted-access, cross-sectional data from the 2015 National Financial Capability Study with merged financial services and community demographic data. Living in communities where the density of banks and credit u…
Why Do Households Lack Emergency Savings? The Role of Financial Capability
Mitigating loss of health insurance and means tested benefits in an unconditional cash transfer experiment
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
Reversing the Gains of the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements
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
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
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…
Fragility by proxy
In the United States, racialized women are disproportionately responsible for unpaid care work and occupationally segregated into the paid care industry. Despite the importance of their labor, they are often devalued, resulting in poor compensation and exploitative working conditions that erode their health and well-being. For familial caregivers, this is compounded by gendered and cultural notions which demand their caring labor because of love …
It’s a Life Lesson
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…
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