Julia R Henly
Biographic Data
| ID | 99546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia R Henly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia R |
| FAMILY NAME | Henly |
| SIGNATURE | HENLY J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4657-8639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 668 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Precarious work schedules and flexibility
Although there is growing recognition that unstable and unpredictable work schedules create challenges for working parents, research is scarce on whether access to flexibility from different resources can attenuate problems created by scheduling instability. Guided by Emlen’s conceptualization of flexibility and the Job Demands-Resource Model, we examine the buffering effects of flexibility resources—from work, child care, and family—on work-care…
Aligning Work and Care in a 24/7 Economy
Given changing employment conditions and childcare policy investments since Making Ends Meet , Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein’s 1997 book, this study explores the childcare arrangements of low-income parents of young children working nontraditional hours and unpredictable work schedules. Using a 2019 nationally representative sample of low-income parents with young children, we analyze nontraditional hour (NTH) childcare usage patterns by family str…
Impact of Perceived Racial Discrimination on Depressive Symptoms and School Outcomes Among Asian American Youth
Using two survey datasets--the Korean American Families(KAF) Project and the Cross Cultural Families(CCF) Project, this study examined how perceived racial discrimination influences depressive symptoms and school outcomes among Asian American adolescents, and what factors mediate the association between perceived discrimination and youth outcomes, focusing on Korean American(KA) youth ( n =220), Cambodian American(CA) youth (n=164), and Vietnames…
How Work Hour Variability Matters for Work-to-Family Conflict
Variable work hours are an understudied source of work-to-family conflict (WFC). We examine the relationships between the magnitude and direction of work hour variability and WFC and whether work hour control and schedule predictability moderate these relationships. We estimate a series of linear regressions using the 2016 US General Social Survey, examining women and men workers separately and together. Findings indicate that as the magnitude of…
Reducing childcare subsidy instability through eligibility period extensions
Advancing research on equitable access to early care and education in the United States
The Longitudinal Impact of Family, Religious, and School Support on the Mental Health of Filipino and Korean American Youth Across Adolescence
Asian Americans, currently the most rapidly expanding racial group in the USA, are experiencing persistent mental health inequities. These inequities are particularly pronounced during adolescence, highlighting the critical need for dedicated focus on this demographic. Social support is a key shield against mental distress among these adolescents, yet little research has examined the collective impact of multiple sources of support over time, acr…
Making Sense of Childcare Instability Among Families with Low Incomes
Childcare instability can negatively affect family well-being. Yet not all childcare changes are bad for families. This qualitative study (N = 85) examines work, family, provider, and subsidy-related factors contributing to childcare changes among families with low incomes. We focus on the desirability—the extent to which parents wanted to leave their provider—and the planned nature of childcare changes—the extent to which parents anticipated the…
How Is Instability in Child-Care Subsidy Use Associated with Instability in Child-Care Arrangements
Federal child-care subsidies through the Child Care and Development Fund support low-income parents’ employment and their children’s development. However, unstable patterns of subsidy use may be associated with instability in care arrangements and with potential negative consequences for parental employment and child well-being. Using a unique data set that links longitudinal administrative subsidy records to survey and child-care calendar data, …
Dynamics of child care subsidy use and material hardship
The New Realities of Working-Class Jobs
Over the last 40 years, changing employer practices have introduced instability and insecurity into working-class jobs, limiting the voice that employees have in their own employment and deteriorating overall job quality. In the decade after the Great Recession, slow but sustained economic growth benefitted workers in terms of generally higher employment and wages and reductions in involuntary part-time work. But we show that in that same period,…
Supplemental nutrition assistance program and school readiness skills
Centrality of Employment Policies for Individual and Public Health
Workplace Flexibility and Worker Well-Being by Gender
ObjectiveThe study examines the associations between two distinct forms of workplace flexibility-flexible schedules and working at home-and workers' well-being, with special attention to the distinct reasons for working at home and gender differences.BackgroundWorkplace flexibility can be a key resource to manage work and family responsibilities. However, there are gaps in knowledge regarding the types of flexibility that provide either a benefit…
Precarious Work Schedules as a Source of Economic Insecurity and Institutional Distrust
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences - Volume 5, Number 4, September 2019
Increasing Schedule Predictability in Hourly Jobs
For hourly workers, schedule predictability often depends on how far in advance schedules are posted. This article presents results from a process evaluation of an intervention to increase advance schedule notice in hourly retail jobs. The authors open up the black box of implementation to understand managers’ experiences posting schedules further in advance and employees’ ability to anticipate working time. Although schedules were posted further…
Health crises, social support, and caregiving practices among street children in Bangladesh
They Are Underpaid and Understaffed
Scholars have explored the nature and consequences of administrative burden but less is known about how citizens interpret costly encounters with the state. This qualitative study of 85 child care subsidy recipients applies attribution theory from psychology to illustrate how clients develop causal explanations for administrative burden. The findings show that clients either blamed negative experiences on bureaucrats—viewing workers as in control…
What Explains Short Spells on Child-Care Subsidies
Child-care assistance is a critical safety net program that directly benefits families and society. But short spells and program churning raise concerns about the effectiveness of the child-care subsidy program to support stable employment and contribute to long-term family economic stability. On the basis of data that link administrative child-care assistance records with survey data on a sample of subsidy recipients in Illinois and New York, we…
Enough Time for Housework? Low-Wage Work and Desired Housework Time Adjustments
Although studies examine preferences for hours spent in paid employment, little attention has been given to preferences for hours spent in unpaid household labor. This study examines the extent to which women working in low-paid retail jobs would prefer to spend more or less time on household work and how alignment between preferred and actual time on housework is related to characteristics of paid work. Using original survey data and company rec…
Age, Wage, and Job Placement
Older women seeking employment often find opportunities limited to low-wage jobs, such as those in retail. We report findings about job placement and starting wages for hourly workers hired at a women's apparel retailer from August 2006 to December 2009. We examine competing hypotheses regarding the role of age in explaining women's job placement and starting wages. Although newly hired women age 55+ earn higher wages and are placed in higher-qua…
Unpredictable Work Timing in Retail Jobs
Unpredictability is a distinctive dimension of working time that has been examined primarily in the context of unplanned overtime and in male-dominated occupations. The authors assess the extent to which female employees in low-skilled retail jobs whose work schedules are unpredictable report greater work-life conflict than do their counterparts with more predictable work schedules and whether employee input into work schedules reduces work-life …
Domain-Specific Trajectories of Involvement Among Fathers of Children Born to Young, Low-Income, African American Mothers
Although research on low-income, nonresidential fathers is expanding, fathers’ involvement with their children over time has mainly been studied using composite measures of involvement. This study examines 3 domains of father involvement (financial support, child care, decision making) with a sample of young, low-income African American mothers (N = 248). These domains are examined separately to assess the extent to which unique patterns and pred…
Schedule flexibility in hourly jobs
This article considers the challenge of extending conventional models of flexibility to hourly jobs that are often structured quite differently than the salaried, professional positions for which flexibility options were originally designed. We argue that the assumptions of job rigidity and overwork motivating existing flexibility options may not be broadly applicable across jobs in the US labor market. We focus specifically on two types of flexi…
The work–family support roles of child care providers across settings
They Are Underpaid and Understaffed
Scholars have explored the nature and consequences of administrative burden but less is known about how citizens interpret costly encounters with the state. This qualitative study of 85 child care subsidy recipients applies attribution theory from psychology to illustrate how clients develop causal explanations for administrative burden. The findings show that clients either blamed negative experiences on bureaucrats—viewing workers as in control…
The contribution of social support to the material well-being of low-income families
We hypothesize that the social support available from low-income networks serves primarily a coping function, rather than a leverage function. Social support and its relationship to material well-being is assessed in a sample of 632 former and current welfare recipients. Respondents report higher levels of perceived emotional, instrumental, and informational support than perceived financial support, and received financial aid is particularly unco…
Nonstandard Work Schedules
Nonstandard scheduling is a pervasive feature of the American workplace. Drawing from interviews with 54 low‐income mothers employed in six retail workplaces in the Chicago area, and from interviews with representative human resource managers in each workplace, this study demonstrates how employer practices introduce variability and unpredictability into the schedules of female workers who have young children. It also suggests that employee‐drive…
Unpredictable Work Timing in Retail Jobs
Unpredictability is a distinctive dimension of working time that has been examined primarily in the context of unplanned overtime and in male-dominated occupations. The authors assess the extent to which female employees in low-skilled retail jobs whose work schedules are unpredictable report greater work-life conflict than do their counterparts with more predictable work schedules and whether employee input into work schedules reduces work-life …
Schedule flexibility in hourly jobs
This article considers the challenge of extending conventional models of flexibility to hourly jobs that are often structured quite differently than the salaried, professional positions for which flexibility options were originally designed. We argue that the assumptions of job rigidity and overwork motivating existing flexibility options may not be broadly applicable across jobs in the US labor market. We focus specifically on two types of flexi…
Subjective Constructions of Neighborhood Boundaries
This article explores the boundaries of neighborhoods as subjectively constructed by 37 adolescents and 33 parents across four census-defined block groups in a Western city. We examine the degree of consensus among participants on the spatial boundaries of their neighborhoods, the stability of participants’ subjectively constructed neighborhood definitions, and the overlap between subjectively constructed definitions and census block group and tr…
The Negotiation of Child Care and Employment Demands Among Low‐Income Parents
Low‐income working mothers face significant child care challenges. These challenges are particularly salient in an era of welfare reform, when welfare recipients are under increased pressure to find a job. The current study examines how child care demands are negotiated for an urban sample of low‐income mothers. The sample includes a racially and ethnically diverse group of 57 respondents with and without welfare experience who are mothering chil…
Precarious Work Schedules as a Source of Economic Insecurity and Institutional Distrust
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences - Volume 5, Number 4, September 2019
Workplace Flexibility and Worker Well-Being by Gender
ObjectiveThe study examines the associations between two distinct forms of workplace flexibility-flexible schedules and working at home-and workers' well-being, with special attention to the distinct reasons for working at home and gender differences.BackgroundWorkplace flexibility can be a key resource to manage work and family responsibilities. However, there are gaps in knowledge regarding the types of flexibility that provide either a benefit…
The work–family support roles of child care providers across settings
What Explains Short Spells on Child-Care Subsidies
Child-care assistance is a critical safety net program that directly benefits families and society. But short spells and program churning raise concerns about the effectiveness of the child-care subsidy program to support stable employment and contribute to long-term family economic stability. On the basis of data that link administrative child-care assistance records with survey data on a sample of subsidy recipients in Illinois and New York, we…
Child care as family support
Informal support in maltreating families
The New Realities of Working-Class Jobs
Over the last 40 years, changing employer practices have introduced instability and insecurity into working-class jobs, limiting the voice that employees have in their own employment and deteriorating overall job quality. In the decade after the Great Recession, slow but sustained economic growth benefitted workers in terms of generally higher employment and wages and reductions in involuntary part-time work. But we show that in that same period,…
The Complexity of Support
The importance of social support to the well‐being of adolescent parents is a frequently discussed topic in the teen parenting literature. However, the meaning and conceptualization of social support varies across study and the heterogeneity within the teen parent population is often overlooked. In an effort to understand its role more precisely, the present study defined support both in terms of its structural and provision components, and exami…
Increasing Schedule Predictability in Hourly Jobs
For hourly workers, schedule predictability often depends on how far in advance schedules are posted. This article presents results from a process evaluation of an intervention to increase advance schedule notice in hourly retail jobs. The authors open up the black box of implementation to understand managers’ experiences posting schedules further in advance and employees’ ability to anticipate working time. Although schedules were posted further…
Enough Time for Housework? Low-Wage Work and Desired Housework Time Adjustments
Although studies examine preferences for hours spent in paid employment, little attention has been given to preferences for hours spent in unpaid household labor. This study examines the extent to which women working in low-paid retail jobs would prefer to spend more or less time on household work and how alignment between preferred and actual time on housework is related to characteristics of paid work. Using original survey data and company rec…
Domain-Specific Trajectories of Involvement Among Fathers of Children Born to Young, Low-Income, African American Mothers
Although research on low-income, nonresidential fathers is expanding, fathers’ involvement with their children over time has mainly been studied using composite measures of involvement. This study examines 3 domains of father involvement (financial support, child care, decision making) with a sample of young, low-income African American mothers (N = 248). These domains are examined separately to assess the extent to which unique patterns and pred…
Confronting welfare stereotypes
Journal Article Confronting welfare stereotypes: Characteristics of general assistance recipients and postassistance employment Get access Julia R. Henly, PhD, Julia R. Henly, PhD assistant professor of social welfare School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles, 3250 Public Policy Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
The Significance of Social Context
The incidence of adolescent childbearing is significantly higher among African Americans compared to Whites, whereas the rates of early childbirth have declined more rapidlyforAfricanAmericans over the past two decades. Although traditional measures of socioeconomic status do not account for the difference in adolescent childbirth rates by race, there are important reasons to question the external validity of these conventional variables. After s…
Making Sense of Childcare Instability Among Families with Low Incomes
Childcare instability can negatively affect family well-being. Yet not all childcare changes are bad for families. This qualitative study (N = 85) examines work, family, provider, and subsidy-related factors contributing to childcare changes among families with low incomes. We focus on the desirability—the extent to which parents wanted to leave their provider—and the planned nature of childcare changes—the extent to which parents anticipated the…
How Work Hour Variability Matters for Work-to-Family Conflict
Variable work hours are an understudied source of work-to-family conflict (WFC). We examine the relationships between the magnitude and direction of work hour variability and WFC and whether work hour control and schedule predictability moderate these relationships. We estimate a series of linear regressions using the 2016 US General Social Survey, examining women and men workers separately and together. Findings indicate that as the magnitude of…
Advancing research on equitable access to early care and education in the United States
How Is Instability in Child-Care Subsidy Use Associated with Instability in Child-Care Arrangements
Federal child-care subsidies through the Child Care and Development Fund support low-income parents’ employment and their children’s development. However, unstable patterns of subsidy use may be associated with instability in care arrangements and with potential negative consequences for parental employment and child well-being. Using a unique data set that links longitudinal administrative subsidy records to survey and child-care calendar data, …
Supplemental nutrition assistance program and school readiness skills
The Significance of Social Context
The incidence of adolescent childbearing is significantly higher among African Americans compared to Whites, whereas the rates of early childbirth have declined more rapidlyforAfricanAmericans over the past two decades. Although traditional measures of socioeconomic status do not account for the difference in adolescent childbirth rates by race, there are important reasons to question the external validity of these conventional variables. After s…
Confronting welfare stereotypes
Journal Article Confronting welfare stereotypes: Characteristics of general assistance recipients and postassistance employment Get access Julia R. Henly, PhD, Julia R. Henly, PhD assistant professor of social welfare School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles, 3250 Public Policy Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
The Complexity of Support
The importance of social support to the well‐being of adolescent parents is a frequently discussed topic in the teen parenting literature. However, the meaning and conceptualization of social support varies across study and the heterogeneity within the teen parent population is often overlooked. In an effort to understand its role more precisely, the present study defined support both in terms of its structural and provision components, and exami…
The Future of Child Protection
The Future of Child Protection
The Negotiation of Child Care and Employment Demands Among Low‐Income Parents
Low‐income working mothers face significant child care challenges. These challenges are particularly salient in an era of welfare reform, when welfare recipients are under increased pressure to find a job. The current study examines how child care demands are negotiated for an urban sample of low‐income mothers. The sample includes a racially and ethnically diverse group of 57 respondents with and without welfare experience who are mothering chil…
Child care as family support
Informal support in maltreating families
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The contribution of social support to the material well-being of low-income families
We hypothesize that the social support available from low-income networks serves primarily a coping function, rather than a leverage function. Social support and its relationship to material well-being is assessed in a sample of 632 former and current welfare recipients. Respondents report higher levels of perceived emotional, instrumental, and informational support than perceived financial support, and received financial aid is particularly unco…
Nonstandard Work Schedules
Nonstandard scheduling is a pervasive feature of the American workplace. Drawing from interviews with 54 low‐income mothers employed in six retail workplaces in the Chicago area, and from interviews with representative human resource managers in each workplace, this study demonstrates how employer practices introduce variability and unpredictability into the schedules of female workers who have young children. It also suggests that employee‐drive…
The work–family support roles of child care providers across settings
Subjective Constructions of Neighborhood Boundaries
This article explores the boundaries of neighborhoods as subjectively constructed by 37 adolescents and 33 parents across four census-defined block groups in a Western city. We examine the degree of consensus among participants on the spatial boundaries of their neighborhoods, the stability of participants’ subjectively constructed neighborhood definitions, and the overlap between subjectively constructed definitions and census block group and tr…
Domain-Specific Trajectories of Involvement Among Fathers of Children Born to Young, Low-Income, African American Mothers
Although research on low-income, nonresidential fathers is expanding, fathers’ involvement with their children over time has mainly been studied using composite measures of involvement. This study examines 3 domains of father involvement (financial support, child care, decision making) with a sample of young, low-income African American mothers (N = 248). These domains are examined separately to assess the extent to which unique patterns and pred…
Schedule flexibility in hourly jobs
This article considers the challenge of extending conventional models of flexibility to hourly jobs that are often structured quite differently than the salaried, professional positions for which flexibility options were originally designed. We argue that the assumptions of job rigidity and overwork motivating existing flexibility options may not be broadly applicable across jobs in the US labor market. We focus specifically on two types of flexi…
Unpredictable Work Timing in Retail Jobs
Unpredictability is a distinctive dimension of working time that has been examined primarily in the context of unplanned overtime and in male-dominated occupations. The authors assess the extent to which female employees in low-skilled retail jobs whose work schedules are unpredictable report greater work-life conflict than do their counterparts with more predictable work schedules and whether employee input into work schedules reduces work-life …
Age, Wage, and Job Placement
Older women seeking employment often find opportunities limited to low-wage jobs, such as those in retail. We report findings about job placement and starting wages for hourly workers hired at a women's apparel retailer from August 2006 to December 2009. We examine competing hypotheses regarding the role of age in explaining women's job placement and starting wages. Although newly hired women age 55+ earn higher wages and are placed in higher-qua…
What Explains Short Spells on Child-Care Subsidies
Child-care assistance is a critical safety net program that directly benefits families and society. But short spells and program churning raise concerns about the effectiveness of the child-care subsidy program to support stable employment and contribute to long-term family economic stability. On the basis of data that link administrative child-care assistance records with survey data on a sample of subsidy recipients in Illinois and New York, we…
Enough Time for Housework? Low-Wage Work and Desired Housework Time Adjustments
Although studies examine preferences for hours spent in paid employment, little attention has been given to preferences for hours spent in unpaid household labor. This study examines the extent to which women working in low-paid retail jobs would prefer to spend more or less time on household work and how alignment between preferred and actual time on housework is related to characteristics of paid work. Using original survey data and company rec…
Health crises, social support, and caregiving practices among street children in Bangladesh
They Are Underpaid and Understaffed
Scholars have explored the nature and consequences of administrative burden but less is known about how citizens interpret costly encounters with the state. This qualitative study of 85 child care subsidy recipients applies attribution theory from psychology to illustrate how clients develop causal explanations for administrative burden. The findings show that clients either blamed negative experiences on bureaucrats—viewing workers as in control…
Precarious Work Schedules as a Source of Economic Insecurity and Institutional Distrust
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences - Volume 5, Number 4, September 2019
Increasing Schedule Predictability in Hourly Jobs
For hourly workers, schedule predictability often depends on how far in advance schedules are posted. This article presents results from a process evaluation of an intervention to increase advance schedule notice in hourly retail jobs. The authors open up the black box of implementation to understand managers’ experiences posting schedules further in advance and employees’ ability to anticipate working time. Although schedules were posted further…
Supplemental nutrition assistance program and school readiness skills
Centrality of Employment Policies for Individual and Public Health
Psychology (21 works) · Economics (19 works) · Political science (15 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (15 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (13 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works)