Economic Exchange and Relational Work in Doubled-Up Households

Hope Harvey

doi:10.7758/RSF.2026.12.2.04

Article Information

vol. 12 no. 2 84-108

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2026.12.2.04

Published By

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online May 13, 2026.

© 2026 Russell Sage Foundation. Harvey, Hope. 2026. “Economic Exchange and Relational Work in Doubled-Up Households.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 12(2): 84–108. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2026.12.2.04. For helpful comments on previous versions of this article, I thank Alexandra Killewald, Devah Pager, Kathryn Edin, Mario Small, Asad Asad, Monica Bell, Jennifer Darrah-Okike, Stefanie DeLuca, Kelley Fong, Anna Rhodes, Eva Rosen, Alexandra Feldberg, Barbara Kiviat, Margot Moinester, Alix Winter, and Xiaolin Zhou. This article also benefited from feedback from the editors and participants of the RSF Three Decades Since Making Ends Meet Conference. This work was supported in part by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy, and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Data collection was made possible by generous support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Direct correspondence to: Hope Harvey, at hope.harvey{at}uky.edu, 140 Patterson Dr. Lexington, KY 40506, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.