Baorong Guo

Assistant Professor
203 Bellerive Hall
Telephone: 314-516-6618
Fax: 314-516-6416
Email: guob@umsl.edu

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 Human Service Organizations. Her current research focuses on human service nonprofits and inclusion of the poor in asset-building. Her recent research projects include the effects of household assets on material hardship (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, Children & Youth Services Review, and Social Science Research. Media report of her research on the marketization of human service nonprofits can be found in Stanford Social Innovation Review.Baorong also received grants to support her research on nonprofit organizations and retirement insurance in rural China.

Professional interests:

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

Education:

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

Recent publications:

Sherraden, M. S., Johnson, L., Guo, B. & Elliott, W. (forthcoming). “Financial capability in children: Effects of participation in a financial education and savings program.” Journal of Family and Economic Issues.

Guo, B. (forthcoming). “Material assistance: Who is helped by nonprofits?” Social Work Research.

Elliott, W., Sherraden, M., Johnson, L., & Guo, B. (2010). Young children’s perceptions of college and saving: Potential role of child development accounts. Children & Youth Services Review, 32, 1577–1584.

Guo, B. (2010). Beyond the public safety net: The role of nonprofits in addressing material hardship of low-income households. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 39(5),784–
801.

Suda, Y. & Guo, B. (2011). Dynamics between nonprofit and for-profit providers operating under the Long-Term Care Insurance System in Japan. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 40(1), 79-106.

Guo, B. (2011). Household economic resources and food security: Evidence from the Survey of Program Dynamics. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 32(1), 98-110.

Huang, J., Guo, B., & Kim, Y. (2010). Food insecurity and disability: Do economic resources matter? Social Science Research, 39(1), 111–124.

Huang, J., Guo, B., Kim, Y. & Sherraden, M. (2010). Parental income, assets, borrowing constraints and children’s post-secondary education. Children & Youth Services Review, 32(4), 585–594.

Guo, B., Perron, B., & Gillespie, D. (2009). A systematic review of structural equation modeling in social work research. British Journal of Social Work, 39(8), 1556-1574.