Jennifer Romich

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, combines the disciplines of economics and human development in her research on employment, family processes and use of tax and social benefits by low-income families. Her current work focuses on intrafamilial resource exchanges and the structure of marginal taxation facing low-income workers.

Major Research Projects:

• Give and Take: Child Agency in Resource Allocation
• Punished by Progressivity: Do High Effective Marginal Tax Rates Trap Low-Income Workers?
• Financial asset-building strategies and the well-being of children and youth in poverty.
• How much does work pay? New data on combined marginal tax rates

Sample Publications:

Lundberg, S.; Romich, J.; Tsang, K. P., (Forthcoming), Independence Giving or Autonomy Taking? Childhood Predictors of Decision-Making Patterns Between Youth Adolescents and Parents, Journal of Research on Adolescence.


Holt, S. D.; Romich, J. L., (2007), Marginal Tax Rates Facing Low- and Moderate-Income Workers Who Participate in Means-Tested Transfer Programs, National Tax Journal, 60(2): 253.


Romich, J. L., (2007), Sharing the Work: Mother-Child Relationships and Household Management, Journal of Early Adolescence, 27(2): 192-222.


2006 Romich, Jennifer L. (2006), Difficult calculations: Low-income workers and marginal tax rates, Social Service Review, 80(1): 27-66.


Romich, Jennifer L. (2006), Randomized social policy experiments and research on child development, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 27: 136-150.

For a complete list of publications by Jennifer Romich, visit her page in the poverty research section of the website.

Relevant Courses:

• SW 501: Poverty and Inequality
• SW 553: Contemporary Social Policy
• SW 561: Concepts and Methods of Policy Analysis

Contact Information:

Jennifer Romich
Email: romich@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://faculty.washington.edu/romich/
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