Selina Miller

Biographic Data

ID5939999
NAMESelina Miller
GIVEN NAMESSelina
FAMILY NAMEMiller
SIGNATUREMILLER S
AFFILIATIONSWashington University in St. Louis
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Safety Net(works)

    Open AccessLaura J Brugger, Samuel Roll et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family and Economic…2026

    Informal financial support networks can potentially mitigate hardships associated with income loss. This study examines patterns of informal financial support receipt during the COVID-19 pandemic and explores how such support may have mitigated hardships due to pandemic-related job or income loss. Using a national sample of U.S. adults (n = 3874) who completed a survey during the first year of the pandemic, we descriptively examine patterns in in…

  • Which Side (of the Balance Sheet) Are You On? Household Financial Resources and Participation in the 2020 Protests

    Selina Miller, Samuel Roll et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Sociology & Social…2024

    The summer of 2020 was marked by widespread protests. Though research has often examined the predictors of protest participation, there exists little work examining the relationship between different types of wealth and protesting. Drawing on resource-based theories of protest participation and asset-based theories of civic engagement, we constructed regression models disentangling relationships between income, liquid assets, investment assets, h…

  • How Would Americans Respond to Direct Cash Transfers? Results from Two Survey Experiments

    Samuel Roll, Stephen Roll et al.ARTICLESocial Service Review2023Cited by: 1References: 3

    Universal basic income has gained renewed interest among policy makers and researchers in the United States. Although research indicates that unconditional cash transfers produce diverse benefits for households, public support lags in part because of predicted unemployment and frivolous spending. To understand how Americans would reorganize their lives around unconditional cash transfers, this article examines the relationship between the structu…

  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Housing Instability During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessYung Chun, Samuel Roll et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economics Race and…2022Cited by: 3References: 10

  • Timely and well-targeted financial help during Covid-19

    Mathieu Despard, Selina Miller et al.ARTICLECommunity Work & Family2022References: 4

    Economic disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic left many households without the income necessary to meet basic needs. We describe an innovative, community-based partnership between a financial services company, philanthropic funders, and employers to provide financial assistance to hotel workers in New Orleans who lost jobs and income due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results from a survey of 1,056 hotel workers show that workers experienced l…

  • Biopsychosocial Predictors of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms among First-Generation Black African Immigrants

    Open AccessSherinah Saasa, Selina MillerARTICLESocial Work2021Cited by: 1References: 8

    Few studies examine factors associated with mental health distress among immigrants from African countries. Using cross-sectional data from first-generation Black African immigrants across the United States (N = 180), this study examined biopsychosocial factors that influence depression and anxiety symptoms among African immigrants in the United States. Ordinary least squares regression was conducted to analyze the data. Approximately 22 percent …