Hope Harvey

My research falls into four interconnected categories: 1) doubled-up households, 2) housing inequality, 3) family dynamics and wellbeing, and 4) administrative burden. My published and in-progress work on each of these topics is listed below.

Doubling Up

(*equal authorship, +student co-author)

Hope Harvey. 2025. Doubled Up: Shared Households and the Precarious Lives of Families. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247021/doubled-up

*Hope Harvey, *Kristin Perkins, and +Lucas Taulbee. “Shared Households as a Safety Net for Older Adults.” Previous draft available from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: https://crr.bc.edu/shared-households-as-a-safety-net-for-older-adults-paper/

Hope Harvey and Rachel Dunifon. 2023. “Why Mothers Double Up: The Role of Demographic, Economic, and Family Characteristics.” Journal of Marriage and Family 85(3): 845-868. http://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12903

*Hope Harvey and *Kristin Perkins. 2023. “Shared Housing and Housing Instability.” Book chapter in The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape our Social Lives, edited by Eva Rosen and Brian J. McCabe. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo203893859.html

Hope Harvey, Rachel Dunifon, and Natasha Pilkauskas. 2021. “Under Whose Roof? Understanding the Living Arrangements of Children in Doubled-up Households.” Demography 58 (3): 821–846. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9101102

Hope Harvey. 2020. “When Mothers Can’t ‘Pay the Cost to Be the Boss’: Roles and Identity within Doubled-up Households.” Social Problems (spaa022). https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaa022

Hope Harvey. 2020. “Cumulative Effects of Doubling Up in Childhood.” Demography 57 (2): 501-528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00860-0

Housing Inequality

(*equal authorship)

*Kelley Fong and *Hope Harvey. “When the House Finds You: Spontaneous Opportunities in the Housing ‘Search.’” 2025. Social Problems, spaf053. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaf053

*Brielle Bryan and *Hope Harvey. 2025. “Cause or Consequence? Evaluating the Evidence for Housing Instability as a Predictor of Adult Wellbeing.” Socius, 11. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251347047

Hope Harvey, Kelley Fong, Kathryn Edin, and Stefanie DeLuca. 2020. “Forever Homes and Temporary Stops: Housing Search Logics and Residential Selection.” Social Forces 98 (4):1498-1523. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soz110

Jennifer Darrah-Okike, Hope Harvey, and Kelley Fong. 2020. “‘Because the World Consists of Everybody’: Parents’ Understandings of Neighborhood Diversity.” City & Community 19(2): 374-397. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12445

Family Dynamics and Wellbeing

(*equal authorship)

*Paula Fomby, *Hope Harvey, and *Kelly Musick. 2023. “Income Sources Across Childhood in Families with Nonresident Fathers.” Demography 60(1): 41-72. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10424403

Laura Tach, Kathryn Edin, Hope Harvey, and Brielle Bryan. 2014. “The Family-Go-Round: Family Complexity and Father Involvement from a Father’s Perspective.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 654(1):169–84. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716214528655

Administrative Burden

Donald Moynihan, Hope Harvey, and Pamela Herd. 2015. “Administrative Burden: Learning, Psychological, and Compliance Costs in Citizen-State Interactions.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 25(1): 43-69. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muu009

Pamela Herd, Thomas DeLeire, Hope Harvey, and Donald Moynihan. 2013. “Shifting Administrative Burden to the State: A Case Study of Medicaid Take-Up.” Public Administration Review, 73(S1): S69-S81. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12114

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