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Selected Publications

West, S., & Castro Baker, A., Balakrishnan, S., Rao, K., & Tan, G.Y. (2018). Pre-Analysis Plan: Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration.

Castro Baker, A., West, S., & Famakinwa, F. (2018). On shaky ground: Stabilizing the financial security of single women. Policy Brief: Asset Funders Network.

Castro Baker, A. (2018). Financialisation, home equity, and social reproduction: Relational pathways of risk. Critical Housing Analysis, 5(2), 27-34.

Castro Baker, A., Kroehle, K*., Patel, H*., & Jacobs, C. (2018). Queering the question: Using survey marginalia to capture gender fluidity in housing and child welfare. Child Welfare. 96(1): 127-146.

Castro Baker, A., West, S., & Wood, A*. (2017). Asset depletion, chronic financial stress, and mortgage trouble among older female homeowners. The Gerontologist.

Castro Baker, A. & Keene, D.K. (2016). “There’s a difference—I own this”: Negotiating social and financial services under threat of mortgage foreclosure. Social Work, 61(4): 321-330.

Castro Baker, A., Brown, L.M. & Ragonese, M*. (2016). Confronting barriers to critical discussions about sexualization with adolescent girls. Social Work, 61(1): 79-81.

Castro Baker, A. (2014). Eroding the wealth of women: Gender and the subprime foreclosure crisis. Social Service Review, 88(1), 59-91.

Keene, D., Cowan, S.K. & Castro Baker, A. (2014). “When you’re in a crisis like that, you don’t want people to know”: mortgage strain, stigma and mental health. American Journal of Public Health,105(5): 1008–1012.

Keene, D., Lynch, J. & Castro Baker, A. (2014). Fragile health & fragile wealth: Mortgage strain among African American homeowners. Social Science & Medicine, 118, 119-126.

*Notes student co-author.

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