Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

  • Mazelis, Joan Maya. 2017. Surviving Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties Among the Poor. New York: NYU Press.

 

  • Kuperberg, Arielle, Kenneshia Williams, and Joan Maya Mazelis. 2023, “Student Loans and Self-Rated Physical, Mental and Dental Health, Health care, and Delay Among College Students and Graduates.” DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2022.2151840
  • Mazelis, Joan Maya and Arielle Kuperberg. 2022. “Student Loan Debt, Family Support, and Reciprocity in the Transition to Adulthood.” Emerging Adulthood 10(6): 1511–1528. https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968221080007 
  • Kuperberg, Arielle and Joan Maya Mazelis. 2022. “Social Norms and Expectations about Student Loans and Family Formation.” Sociological Inquiry 92 (1): 90-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12416
  • Mazelis, Joan Maya. 2020. “My crying is not a cry by itself: Building sustainable social ties through a poor people’s organization.” Annals of the American Academy for Political and Social Science 689(1): 110-128. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716220918165
  • Mazelis, Joan Maya and Laryssa Mykyta. 2020. “I Might Stay to Myself: Activation and Avoidance of Assistance from Kin.” Journal of Marriage and Family. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12680
  • Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam and Joan Maya Mazelis. 2018. “Urbanism and Happiness: A Test of Wirth’s Theory of Urban Life.” Urban Studies 55(2): 349-364. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016645470 
  • Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam and Joan Maya Mazelis. 2017. “More Unequal in Income, More Unequal in Wellbeing.” Social Indicators Research 132(3): 953-975. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-016-1327-0
  • Mazelis, Joan Maya. 2015. “I got to try to give back: How Reciprocity Norms in a Poor People’s Organization Influence Members’ Social Capital.” Journal of Poverty 19 (1): 109-131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2014.979458
  • Mazelis, Joan Maya. 2015. “Social Ties Among the Poor in a Neoliberal Capitalist Society.” Pp. 421-427 in The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.
  • Mazelis, Joan Maya and Brendan M. Gaughan. 2015. “We Are the 99 Percent: The Rise of Poverty and the Decline of Poverty Stigma.” Pp. 161-169 in The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.
  • Seligsohn, Andrew and Joan Maya Mazelis. 2015. “Deindustrialized Small Cities and Poverty: The View from Camden.” Pp. 26-32 in The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.
  • Mazelis, Joan Maya and Laryssa Mykyta. 2011. “Relationship Status and Activated Kin Support: The Role of Need and Norms.” Journal of Marriage and Family 73: 430-445.
  • Scott, Ellen K., Kathryn Edin, Andrew S. London, and Joan Maya Mazelis. 2001. “My Children Come First: Welfare-Reliant Women’s Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Trade-Offs and Marriage.” Pp. 132-153 in For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families, edited by Greg J. Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.