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Jennifer Van Hook is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a notable concentration in sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and health-related fields. Their work frequently addresses issues connected to migration, health, and labor dynamics, emphasizing social policy and welfare studies.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of interconnected themes, including:

  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies

Jennifer Van Hook has contributed to several academic journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • Population and Development Review
  • Demography
  • Population Research and Policy Review
  • Sociological Science

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Spanning Borders, Cultures, and Generations: A Decade of Research on Immigrant Families," 2020, Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • "Racial/ethnic and nativity disparities in U.S. Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy during vaccine rollout and factors that explain them," 2022, Social Science & Medicine
  • "Undocumented Older Latino Immigrants in the United States: Population Projections and Share of Older Undocumented Latinos by Health Insurance Coverage and Chronic Health Conditions, 2018-2038," 2021, The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • "Comparing immigration status and health patterns between Latinos and Asians: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Uncertainty About the Size of the Unauthorized Foreign-Born Population in the United States," 2021, Demography

The scientist has collaborated extensively with coauthors including Michelle L. Frisco, Sarah R. Hayford, Daniel L. Carlson, Abbie E. Goldberg, and Matthew Johnson.

Jennifer Van Hook's academic output also includes contributions to book publications. Notably, a book titled "Texas-Style Exclusion: Mexican Americans and the Legacy of Limited Opportunity" was published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Marital Dissolution Among Interracial Couples

    Yuanting Zhang;Jennifer Van Hook

  • The Living Arrangements of Children of Immigrants

    Nancy S. Landale;Kevin J. A. Thomas;Jennifer Van Hook

  • Immigration and living arrangements: moving beyond economic need versus acculturation.

    Jennifer Van Hook;Jennifer E. Glick

  • Ineligible parents, eligible children: Food Stamps receipt, allotments, and food insecurity among children of immigrants

    Jennifer V. W. Van Hook;Kelly Stamper Balistreri

  • Parents' Coresidence With Adult Children: Can Immigration Explain Racial and Ethnic Variation?

    Jennifer E. Glick;Jennifer Van Hook

  • Immigrant generation, socioeconomic status, and economic development of countries of origin: a longitudinal study of body mass index among children.

    Jennifer Van Hook;Kelly Stamper Balistreri

  • A decomposition of trends in poverty among children of immigrants.

    Jennifer Van Hook;Susan L. Brown;Maxwell Ndigume Kwenda

  • Circular, invisible, and ambiguous migrants: components of difference in estimates of the number of unauthorized Mexican migrants in the United States.

    Frank D. Bean;Rodolfo Corona;Rodolfo Tuiran;Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield

  • Immigration and changing patterns of extended family household structure in the United States: 1970-1990.

    Jennifer Elyse Glick;Frank D. Bean;Jennifer Lynne Van Hook

  • For Love or Money? Welfare Reform and Immigrant Naturalization

    Jennifer Van Hook;Susan K. Brown;Frank D. Bean

  • School segregation and academic achievement among Hispanic children.

    Igor Ryabov;Jennifer Van Hook

  • Big boys and little girls: Gender, acculturation, and weight among young children of immigrants

    Jennifer Van Hook;Elizabeth Baker

  • Can We Measure Immigrants' Legal Status? Lessons from Two U.S. Surveys

    James D. Bachmeier;Jennifer Van Hook;Frank D. Bean

  • Who Stays? Who Goes? Selective Emigration Among the Foreign-Born

    Jennifer Van Hook;Weiwei Zhang

  • Socioeconomic and cultural incorporation and marital disruption among Mexican Americans.

    Frank D. Bean;Ruth R. Berg;Jennifer V.W. Van Hook

  • Spanning Borders, Cultures, and Generations: A Decade of Research on Immigrant Families

    Jennifer Van Hook;Jennifer E. Glick

  • Generational Differences in Cohabitation and Marriage in the US

    Susan L. Brown;Jennifer Van Hook;Jennifer E. Glick

  • Socioeconomic Status and Body Mass Index Among Hispanic Children of Immigrants and Children of Natives

    Kelly Stamper Balistreri;Jennifer Van Hook

  • Un)Healthy Immigrant Citizens Naturalization and Activity Limitations in Older Age

    Zoya Gubernskaya;Frank D. Bean;Jennifer Van Hook

  • Welfare Reform's Chilling Effects on Noncitizens: Changes in Noncitizen Welfare Recipiency or Shifts in Citizenship Status?*

    Jennifer Lynne Van Hook

  • Country of origin, type of public assistance, and patterns of welfare recipiency among U.S. immigrants and natives

    Frank D. Bean;Jennifer Lynne Van Hook;Jennifer Elyse Glick

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank D. Bean
Frank D. Bean University of California, Irvine
Susan M. McHale
Susan M. McHale Pennsylvania State University
Valarie King
Valarie King Pennsylvania State University
Alan Booth
Alan Booth Pennsylvania State University
Charissa S. L. Cheah
Charissa S. L. Cheah University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Susan L. Brown
Susan L. Brown Bowling Green State University
Marianne M. Hillemeier
Marianne M. Hillemeier Pennsylvania State University
Paul R. Amato
Paul R. Amato Pennsylvania State University
Robert A. Hummer
Robert A. Hummer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Linda M. Burton
Linda M. Burton University of California, Berkeley

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