Yoonsook Ha

YOONSOOK HAAssistant Professor, Social Welfare Policy
Phone: 617-353-6637
yha@bu.edu

Education

M.S.W., University of Wisconsin-Madison  
Ph.D. (Social Welfare), University of Wisconsin-Madison

Scholarly and Practice Interests

Child and family policy; poverty; the impacts of socioeconomic resources on the well-being of vulnerable children and families; family and work balance among low-income working families

Selected Publications

Ha, Y., Cancian, M. & Meyer, D. R. (in press). The regularity of child support and its contribution to the regularity of income. Social Service Review.

Ha, Y., Meyer, D.R. & Cancian, M. (2010). Unchanging child support orders in the face of unstable earnings. Journal of Public Policy and Management, 29(4): 799-820.

Ha, Y. & Meyer, D.R. (2010). Child care subsidy patterns: Are exits related to economic setbacks or economic successes?. Children and Youth Services Review, 32: 346-355.

Ha, Y. (2009). Stability of child care subsidy use and earnings of low-income working families. Social Service Review, 83(4): 495-525.

Meyer, D.R., Ha, Y. & Hu, M-C. (2008). Do high child support orders discourage child support payments?.” Social Service Review, 82(1): 93-118.


Selected Presentations

Yoonsook Ha, “Child Care Subsidies, Use of Quality Care, and Earnings among low-income families in South Carolina,” Paper presented at the 15th annual conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, Tampa, Florida, January 2011

Yoonsook Ha & Katherine Magnuson, “The Relationship between Child Care Subsidy Use and the Stability of Care,” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Fall Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Boston, MA, November 2010. Earlier versions invited to present at the Annual Meeting of the Child Care Policy Research Consortium, Washington, D.C., October 2009, 2010

Maria Cancian, Yoonsook Ha, Irv Garfinkel, & Daniel R. Meyer, “Robin Hood OR Reverse: Does Child Support Take from Poor Fathers to Pay Non-Poor Mothers?,” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Fall Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Boston, MA, November 2010

Yoonsook Ha & Marci Ybarra, “State-level variations in child care subsidy policy and its relation to the well-being of children and families,” Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Fall Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Boston, MA, November 2010

Yoonsook Ha and Daniel R. Meyer, “Are Exits Related to Economic Setbacks or Economic Successes?,” Paper presented at the 31th Annual Fall Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC., November 2009

Yoonsook Ha, “Do child care subsidies increase earnings of low-income single-mother families?” Paper presented at the 30th Annual Fall Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Los Angeles, California, November 2008

Selected Grant Activity

“Child Care Subsidy, Quality of Child Care, and Employment Outcomes among Low-Income Families in South Carolina,” Principle Investigator, Research Opportunity Program grant, University of South Carolina, 2009 –2011

“South Carolina Child Care State Research Capacity Building Project,” Co-Investigator, with South Carolina Department of Social Services under the Federal Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), 2009– 2010

“The Role of Child Care Subsidies in the Economic Well-being of Low-Income Families,” Child Care Research Scholar grant from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), 2007–2008

Consulting and Professional Activities

Steering committee. Child Care Policy Research Consortium, USDHHS, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation. 2008-present.

Peer Reviewer for journals. Social Service Review; Journal of Public Policy and Management; Children and Youth Services Review; Early Childhood Research Quarterly; Work and Occupations; Sloan Work-Family Encyclopedia.

Peer Reviewer for grants and conferences. Society for Social Work and Research conference. 2010-2011; Head Start Research Conference. 2009; Vilas Travel Fellowship Competition. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2007; Healthy Marriage Promotion Initiative grants, USDHHS, Office of Family Assistance, 2006.

Invited speaker, Child Care Policy Research Consortium, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation. 2009, 2010; Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. 2007.

Awards and Honors

Dissertation Fellowship. Institute for Research on Poverty. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2007-2008

IRP Graduate Fellow Research Award. Institute for Research on Poverty. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2006