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Baorong Guo

GuoAssistant Professor
203 Bellerive Hall
Telephone: 314-516-6618
Fax: 314-516-6416
Email: guob@umsl.edu
Homepage: http://www.umsl.edu/~guob

Baorong Guo joined the Social Work faculty of the University of Missouri-St. Louis in August 2005, and she is a Faculty Associate at the Center for Social Development (CSD) at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Guo currently is teaching Research Methods and Social Issues & Social Policy Development at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her current research focuses on inclusion of the poor in asset-building, human service nonprofits, and socioeconomic development. Her recent research projects include the effects of household assets on material hardships (e.g., food insecurity), funding streams for human service nonprofits, and evaluation research on asset-based policies in the United States and China. She has published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Social Work Research, Journal of Social Policy and Disability and Society. Baorong is the recipient of the 2004 Emerging Scholar Award by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).

Professional interests:

  • Social Policy
  • Asset-building among low-income families
  • Human service nonprofits

Teaching Interests:

  • Social Policy
  • Research Methods
  • Program Evaluation

Education:

  • PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, 2005
  • MA, Peking University, China, 2000
  • BA, China Youth University for Political Science, 1997

Recent publications:

Huang, J., Guo, B., and Kim, Y. (accepted). Food insecurity and disability: Do economic resources matter? Social Science Research.

Guo, B. (revise and resubmit). Household economic resources and food security: Evidence from the Survey of Program Dynamics. Journal of Family and Economic Issues

Suda, Y. & Guo, B. (revise and resubmit). Blurring the boundaries between for-profit and nonprofit providers: Long-term care insurance system in Japan. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

Guo, B. (in press). Beyond the public safety net: The role of nonprofits in addressing material hardship of low-income households. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

Guo, B., Perron, B., & Gillespie, D. (in press). A systematic review of structural equation modeling in social work research. British Journal of Social Work.

Guo, B., Zhang, L., and Sherraden, M. (2009). Household assets and health in China: Evidence and policy implications. China Journal of Social Work 2(1), 66-79.

Guo, B., Huang, J., Sherraden, M., and Zou, L. (2008). Dual Incentives and Dual Asset Building: Policy Implications of the Hutubi Rural Social Security Loan Programme in China. Journal of Social Policy 37(3), 453-470.

Guo, B., Huang, J., Zou, L., and Sherraden, M. (2008). Asset-based policy in Rural China: an innovation in the retirement social insurance programme. China Journal of Social Work 1(1), 63-76.

Pandey, S. and Guo, B. (2007). A Longitudinal Study of Welfare Exit among American Indian Families. Social Work Research 31(2), 95-107.

Guo, B. (2006). Charity for profit? Exploring factors associated with the commercialization of human service nonprofits. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 35(1), 123-138.

Guo, B., Bricout, J. C., & Huang, J. (2005). A common open space or a digital divide? A social model perspective on the online disability community in China. Disability and Society, 20(1), 49-66.

Courses:

FS2009

  • SW 3410 - Research Design in Social Work
  • SW 5450 - Social Work Research Methods and Analysis II