Faculty Directory
Cal Halvorsen
Assistant Professor
Affiliate, Center on Aging & Work at Boston College
Cal Halvorsen
Ph.D.
Contact
McGuinn Hall 321
Telephone: 617-552-1366
Email: cal.halvorsen@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., University of Iowa
- M.S.W., Washington University in St. Louis
- Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Research Interests
Productive engagement in later life, with emphasis on work, self-employment, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and encore careers; returning to school past midlife; charitable giving and nonprofit sustainability.
Expertise
- Aging
- Social and Economic Inclusion
- Macro
- Social Service Policies and Practice Effectiveness
- Systemic Inequities
- Evaluation
- Stress and Health at the Workplace
Selected Publications
Kim, S., & Halvorsen, C. (2021). Volunteering as an equalizer? A quasi-experimental study using propensity score analysis. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2021.05.004
Halvorsen, C. (2020). How self-employed older adults differ by age: Evidence and implications from the Health and Retirement Study. The Gerontologist, 61(5), 763-774. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa132
Halvorsen, C., Saran, I., & Pitt-Catsouphes, M. (2020). Assessments of fit and usability of work-life supports in the context of diversity and perceptions of fairness. Community, Work & Family, 23(5), 556-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2020.1809996 Halvorsen, C., & Emmanuel, E. (2020). An encore in social work? How our schools can become more age inclusive. Journal of Social Work Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2020.1762269
Halvorsen, C., & Yulikova, O. (2020). Older workers in the time of COVID-19: The Senior Community Service Employment Program and implications for social work. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 63(6-7), 530-541. https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2020.1774832
Halvorsen, C.*, & Yulikova, O.* (2020). Job training and so much more for low-income older adults: The Senior Community Service Employment Program. Clinical Social Work Journal, 48(2), 223-229. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-019-00734-y
Halvorsen, C., & Chen, Y. C. (2019). The diversity of interest in later-life entrepreneurship: Results from a nationally representative survey of Americans aged 50 to 70. PLoS ONE, 14(6). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217971
Halvorsen, C., & Skees, S. (2019). Financial capability in later life: Considerations for gerontological social work. In S. Sanders, S. R. Kolomer, C. W. Spellman, & V. M. Rizzo (Eds.), Gerontological Social Work and the Grand Challenges (pp. 157-168). Basel, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26334-8_11
Halvorsen, C. & Morrow-Howell, N. (2017). A conceptual framework on self-employment in later life: Toward a research agenda. Work, Aging and Retirement, 3(4), 313-324. https://doi.org/10.1093/workar/waw031
Morrow-Howell, N., Halvorsen, C., Hovmand, P., Lee, C., & Ballard, E. (2017). Conceptualizing productive engagement in a system dynamics framework. Innovation in Aging, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igx018