Joan Maya Mazelis

Investigates the factors associated with students’ reports of moving to a parent’s home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings indicate that students’ material needs stemming from loss of housing or employment affected but did not fully explain their housing decisions. Parent-child relationships evolve during the transition to adulthood, influencing decisions to seek support in crises.

Examines student's expectations about family formation and other effects of student loans after graduation.

Examines relationships between college students’ student loan presence and self-rated physical and mental health, major medical problems, mental health conditions, physical, dental, and mental health care visits and delays, and medication use and reductions. Results provide evidence of health and health care use divides among college students by loan presence.

Explores student loans, family support, and reciprocity during the transition out of college into adulthood. Findings indicate that receiving help may prolong—but also facilitate—the transition to adulthood.

Argues that organizations that serve the needs of poor people can help to create more sustainable supportive ties among them.

Explores how low‐income mothers and fathers who recently have had a child avoid and access financial and other instrumental support from kin, and the statements they make about kin support.

Examines the experiences of people living below the poverty level, looking at the tension between social isolation and social ties among the poor to explore how they survive and the benefits they gain by being connected to one another.

Discusses how the norms of reciprocity partially govern social support behavior, particularly in the context of an organization requiring participation in an exchange network. Examines how reciprocity fosters social capital for those who fulfill norms of reciprocity and hinder social capital for those who violate them.