Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Temple University 1974
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 - 2016
  • Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Center for Population Health & Aging, Center for Population Health & Aging, Duke Population Research Institute 2011 - 2016
  • Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Institute 2014 - 2016
  • Dean of the Social Sciences, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2009 - 2014
  • Interim Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010
  • Chair, Department of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2009
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1987 - 1999
  • Assistant Professor, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1979 - 1987
• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • Aging and the Life Course Section/Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award. American Sociological Association. 2008
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • United States of America (Country) 

  • Research

    • Denmark (Country) 
    • France (Country) 
    • Germany (Country) 
    • Japan (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Behavior and Physiology in Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2020
  • Behavioral and Physiology in Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2020
  • Center for Population Health and Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2020
  • SANDERS Admin Supp: Using Response Time Data from Social Science Surveys to Model Cognition and Early Alzheimer's Disease awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2019
  • Behavior And Physiology In Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 1999 - 2015
  • Childhood Exposures and Adulthood Cardiovascular Disease awarded by National Institutes of Health 2006 - 2007
  • The Determinants and Consequences of Midlife Education awarded by  National Science Foundation 1998 - 2000
  • (93-0332) Joint Retirement in Two-Worker Couples awarded by National Institutes of Health 1992 - 1993
  • (89-0380) Effects of Competing Social Interest Groups on the Development of Contraceptive Technology awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1989
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Hughes, M. E., and A. M. O’Rand. The Lives and Times of the Baby Boom (Census 2000 monograph). New York: Russell Sage/Population Reference Bureau, 2004.
    • O’Rand, Angela M., and John C. Henretta. Age and Inequality: Diverse Pathways Through Later Life. Westview Press, 1998.
    • Osterbind, C. C., and A. M. O’rand. Older People in Florida: A Statistical Abstract 1978. Edited by University Presses of Florida. University Presses of Florida, 1976.

  • Academic Articles

    • Noppert, G. A., A. E. Aiello, A. M. O’Rand, and H. J. Cohen. “Investigating pathogen burden in relation to a cumulative deficits index in a representative sample of US adults..” Epidemiol Infect 146, no. 15 (November 2018): 1968–76. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095026881800153X.
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    • Jones, Sydney A., Quefeng Li, Allison E. Aiello, Angela M. O’Rand, and Kelly R. Evenson. “Correlates of changes in walking during the retirement transition: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis..” Preventive Medicine Reports 11 (September 2018): 221–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.07.002.
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    • Zeng, Yi, Chao Nie, Junxia Min, Huashuai Chen, Xiaomin Liu, Rui Ye, Zhihua Chen, et al. “Sex Differences in Genetic Associations With Longevity..” Jama Netw Open 1, no. 4 (August 2018). https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.1670.
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    • Jones, Sydney A., Quefeng Li, Allison E. Aiello, Angela M. O’Rand, and Kelly R. Evenson. “Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Retirement: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis..” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 54, no. 6 (June 2018): 786–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2018.02.022.
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    • Brown, Tyson H., Angela M. O’Rand, and Daniel E. Adkins. “Race-ethnicity and health trajectories: tests of three hypotheses across multiple groups and health outcomes..” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 53, no. 3 (September 2012): 359–77. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022146512455333.
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    • O’Rand, Angela M. “Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: latest words on "life words"..” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 67, no. 2 (March 7, 2012): 235–37. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbr160.
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    • O’rand, A. M., and J. Hamil-Luker. “Late employment careers, transitions to retirement, and retirement income in the united states,” December 1, 2011, 283–307.
    • O’Rand, Angela M. “2010 SSS Presidential Address: The Devolution of Risk and the Changing Life Course in the United States..” Social Forces; a Scientific Medium of Social Study and Interpretation 90, no. 1 (September 2011): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/90.1.1.
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    • Oksuzyan, Anna, Eileen Crimmins, Yasuhiko Saito, Angela O’Rand, James W. Vaupel, and Kaare Christensen. “Cross-national comparison of sex differences in health and mortality in Denmark, Japan and the US..” European Journal of Epidemiology 25, no. 7 (July 2010): 471–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-010-9460-6.
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    • O’Rand, Angela M., Jenifer Hamil-Luker, and Cheryl Elman. “Childhood adversity, educational trajectories, and self-reported health in later life among U.S. women and men at the turn of the century..” Zeitschrift Fur Erziehungswissenschaft : Zfe 12, no. 3 (September 2009): 409–36.
    • Elman, C., and A. M. O’Rand. “The effects of social origins, life events, and institutional sorting on adults' school transitions.” Social Science Research 36, no. 3 (September 1, 2007): 1276–99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.11.001.
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    • O’Rand, A. M., and K. M. Shuey. “Gender and the devolution of pension risks in the US.” Current Sociology 55, no. 2 (March 1, 2007): 287–304. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392107073315.
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    • Hamil-Luker, Jenifer, and Angela M. O’Rand. “Gender differences in the link between childhood socioeconomic conditions and heart attack risk in adulthood..” Demography 44, no. 1 (February 2007): 137–58. https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2007.0004.
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    • O’Rand, A. M. “From Adolescence to Adulthood in the Vietnam Era By Timothy Owens Springer, 2005. 195 pages. $69.95 (cloth).” Social Forces 84, no. 4 (June 1, 2006): 2365–67. https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2006.0102.
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    • O’Rand, A. M., and Kim Shuey. “Old and New Risks for Workers.” Research on Aging 28 (2006): 317–40.
    • O’Rand, Angela M., and Jenifer Hamil-Luker. “Processes of cumulative adversity: childhood disadvantage and increased risk of heart attack across the life course..” J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 60 Spec No 2 (October 2005): 117–24. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/60.special_issue_2.s117.
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    • Shuey, K. M., and A. M. O’Rand. “New risks for workers: Pensions, labor markets, and gender.” Annual Review of Sociology 30 (September 9, 2004): 453–77. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110534.
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    • O’Rand, A. M. “Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes. By Yu Xie and Kimberlee A. Shauman. Harvard University, 2003. 318 pp. Cloth, $59.95.” Social Forces 82, no. 4 (June 1, 2004): 1669–71. https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2004.0086.
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    • Elman, Cheryl, and A. M. O’Rand. “The race is to the swift: socioeconomic origins, adult education and mid-life economic attainment..” American Journal of Sociology 110 (2004).
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Cumulative Advantage Theory in Aging Research.” Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics Special Issue (2003): 14–30.
    • Elman, C., and A. M. O’Rand. “Perceived job insecurity and entry into work-related education and training among adult workers.” Social Science Research 31, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 49–76. https://doi.org/10.1006/ssre.2001.0718.
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    • O’Rand, A. M., and J. Farkas. “Couples’ Retirement Timing in the US in the 1990s: The impact of market and family role demands on joint and sequential work exits.” International Journal of Sociology 32 (2002): 11–29.
    • Elman, C., and A. M. O’Rand. “Midlife work pathways and educational entry.” Research on Aging 20, no. 4 (July 1, 1998): 475–505. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027598204005.
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    • Elman, Cheryl, and A. M. O. Rand. “Midlife entry into vocational training: a mobility model” 27 (1998): 128–58.
    • Farkas, J. I., and A. M. O’Rand. “The pension mix for women in middle and late life: The changing employment relationship.” Social Forces 76, no. 3 (January 1, 1998): 1007–32. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/76.3.1007.
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    • Hiedemann, B., O. Suhomlinova, and A. M. O’Rand. “Economic independence, economic status, and empty nest in midlife marital disruption.” Journal of Marriage and Family 60, no. 1 (January 1, 1998): 219–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/353453.
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    • O’Rand, A. M. “Observations on the practice of life course research..” Edited by J. Giele and Jr G H Elder. Methods of Life Course Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, 1998, 52–74.
    • O’Rand, Angela. “Book ReviewsEnding a Career in the Auto Industry: “30 and Out”. By Melissa A.  Hardy, Lawrence  Hazelrigg, and Jill  Quadagno. New York: Plenum Press, 1996. Pp. xiii+272. $39.50..” American Journal of Sociology 103, no. 4 (January 1998): 1122–24. https://doi.org/10.1086/231329.
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    • O’rand, A. M. “New Editor's Statement.” Research on Aging 20, no. 1 (January 1, 1998): 3–5. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027598201001.
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    • O’Rand, A. M. “The precious and the precocious: understanding cumulative disadvantage and cumulative advantage over the life course..” The Gerontologist 36, no. 2 (April 1996): 230–38. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/36.2.230.
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    • Henretta, J. C., A. M. O’Rand, and C. Chan. “Joint role investments and synchronization of retirement: a sequential approach to couples’ retirement timing.” Social Forces 71 (1993): 981–1000.
    • Henretta, J. C., A. M. O’rand, and C. G. Chan. “Gender Differences in Employment after Spouse's Retirement.” Research on Aging 15, no. 2 (January 1, 1993): 148–69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027593152002.
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    • O’Rand, A. M., and E. Agree. “Kin reciprocities, the familial corporation and other moral economies: workplace, family and kin in the modern global context” 13 (1993): 75–95.
    • O’Rand, A. M., and E. Agree. “Kin reciprocities, the familial corporation and other moral economies: workplace, family and kin in the modern global context.” Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics 13 (1993): 75–95.
    • Henretta, J. C., C. G. Chan, and A. M. O’Rand. “Retirement reason versus retirement process: examining the reasons for retirement typology..” Journal of Gerontology 47 (1992): 51–57.
    • Henretta, J. C., C. G. Chan, and A. M. O’Rand. “Retirement reason versus retirement process: examining the reasons for retirement typology..” Journal of Gerontology 47, no. 1 (January 1992): S1–7. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronj/47.1.s1.
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    • Brazy, J. E., C. O. Eckerman, J. M. Oehler, R. F. Goldstein, and A. M. O’Rand. “Nursery Neurobiologic Risk Score: important factor in predicting outcome in very low birth weight infants..” J Pediatr 118, no. 5 (May 1991): 783–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-3476(05)80047-2.
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    • Krecker, M. L., and A. M. O’Rand. “Contested milieux: Small firms, unionization, and the provision of protective structures.” Sociological Forum 6, no. 1 (March 1, 1991): 93–117. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01112729.
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    • O’Rand, A. M., and M. L. Krecker. “Concepts of the ’life cycle’: their history, meanings, and uses in the social sciences..” Annual Review of Sociology 16 (1990): 241–63.
    • Campbell, R. T., and A. M. O’Rand. “Settings and sequences: the heuristics of aging research..” Edited by J. E. Birren and V. Bengtson. Emergent Theories of Aging: Psychological and Social Perspectives on Time, Self and Society, 1988, 58–82.
    • DeViney, S., and A. M. O’Rand. “GENDER‐COHORT SUCCESSION AND RETIREMENT AMONG OLDER MEN AND WOMEN, 1951 TO 1984.” Sociological Quarterly 29, no. 4 (January 1, 1988): 525–40. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1988.tb01432.x.
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    • DeViney, S., and A. M. O’Rand. “Gender-cohort succession and retirement among older men and women: 1951-1984..” Sociological Quarterly, 1988, 47–61.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Convergence, institutionalization, and bifurcation: gender and the pension acquisition process..” Annual Review of Gerontology & Geriatrics 8 (January 1988): 132–55.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Knowledge form and scientific community: early experimental biology and the marine biological laboratory.” Edited by G. Bohme and N. Stehr. The Knowledge Society, Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 10 (1986): 183–202.
    • O’Rand, Angela M. “The hidden payroll: Employee benefits and the structure of workplace inequality.” Sociological Forum 1, no. 4 (1986): 657–83. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01107341.
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    • O’rand, A. M., and V. M. Maclean. “Labor market, pension rule structure and retirement benefit promise for long-term employees.” Social Forces 65, no. 1 (January 1, 1986): 224–40. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/65.1.224.
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    • O’Rand, A. M., and R. Landerman. “Women's and men's retirement income status. Early family role effects..” Research on Aging 6, no. 1 (March 1984): 25–44. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027584006001002.
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    • Velsor, Van, and A. M. O’Rand. “Family life cycle, work career patterns and women’s wages at midlife..” Journal of Marriage and the Family 46 (1984): 365–73.
    • Henretta, J. C., and A. M. O’Rand. “Joint retirement in the dual worker family.” Social Forces 62 (1983): 504–20.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Loss of work role and subjective health assessment in later life among men and unmarried women..” Edited by A. Kerckhoff. Research in the Sociology of Education and Socialization 5 (1983): 265–86.
    • O Rand, A. M., and J. C. Henretta. “Delayed career entry, industrial pension structure and early retirement in a cohort of unmarried women..” American Sociological Review 47 (June 1982): 365–73.
    • O’Rand, A. M., and J. C. Henretta. “Women at Middle Age: Developmental Transitions.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 464, no. 1 (January 1, 1982): 57–64. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716282464001006.
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    • Henretta, J. C., and A. M. O’Rand. “Labor-force participation of older married women..” Social Security Bulletin 43, no. 8 (August 1980): 10–16.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Professional standing and peer consultation status among biological scientists at a summer rsearch laboratory.” Social Forces 55, no. 4 (January 1, 1977): 921–37. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/55.4.921.
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    • O Rand, A. M., and R. A. Ellis. “Social class and social time perspective..” Social Forces 53 (September 1974): 53–62.

  • Book Sections

    • O’Rand, A. M. “The devolution of risk and the changing life course (reprint).” In Researching Social Gerontology, edited by M. Cutchin, C. Kemp, and V. Marshall. Sage Publishers, 2013.
    • Remle, R. C., and A. M. O’Rand. “Intergenerational Solidarity in Blended Families: The Inequality of Financial Transfers to Adult Children and Stepchildren.” In Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society: From Generation to Generation: Continuity and Change in Aging Families, edited by M. Silverstein, 31–58. Johns Hopkins University, 2013.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “The Changing Life Course.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology, 197–211, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444347388.ch11.
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    • O’Rand, A. M. “The Devolution of Risk and the Changing Life Course.” In The New Blackwell Companion to Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer. Blackwell, 2011.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Cumulative processes in the life course.” In The Craft of Life Course Research, edited by Jr Glen H Elder and Janet Z. Giele, 121–40. Guilford, 2009.
    • O’Rand, A. M., Katelin Isaacs, and Leslie Roth. “Age and Inequality in Global Context.” In The International Handbook of Social Gerontology, edited by W Dale Dannefer and Chris R. Phillipson, 127–36. Sage, 2009.
    • O’Rand, A. M., and Don Ebel. “Private Pensions in International Perspective.” In International Handbook of Population Aging, edited by Peter Uhlenberg ed, 429–44. Springer-Verlag, 2009.
    • O’Rand, A. M., and Jr Glen H Elder. “Changing Societies and Changing Lives.” In Within the Social World: Essays in Social Psychology, edited by J. Chin and C. Jacobson, 202–16. Longman, 2008.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Stratification and the life course: Life course capital, life course risks, and social inequality.” In Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 145–62, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088388-2/50012-2.
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    • O’Rand, A. M. “Theories of aging and the life course.” In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
    • O’rand, A. M. “Retirement.” In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
    • Hughes, M. E., and A. M. O’Rand. “The lives and times of the baby boomers.” In The American People: Census 2000, 224–55, 2005.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “When old age begins: Implications for health, work and retirement.” In Age-Based Public Policy in the 21st Century, edited by R. B. Hudson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “The future of the life course: Late modernity and life course risks..” In Handbook of the Life Course, edited by J. T. Mortimer and M. Shanahan, 693–701. New York: Plenum, 2003.
    • O Rand, A. M. “Stratification and the life course: the forms of life course capital and their interrelationships.” In Handbook on Aging and the Social Sciences, edited by R. B. Binstock and L. K. George, 197–216. New York: Academic Press, 2001.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Retirement patterns.” In The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Aging, edited by D. J. Ekerdt. New York: Macmillan, 2001.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Perpetuating women’s disadvantage: trends in U.S. private pensions, 1976-1995.” In Women, Work and Pensions: International Issues and Prospects, edited by J. Ginn, S. Arber, and D. Street, 230–56. Buckingham UK: Open University Press, 2001.
    • O Rand, A. M. “Women: their changing status (pp. 1061); Gender (pp. 414-415); and The employee income retirement security act (ERISA) (pp. 330-331).” In The Encyclopedia of Aging, edited by G. L. Maddox. New York: Springer, 2000.
    • O Rand, A. M. “Risk, rationality and modernity: Social policy and the aging self.” In Societal Impact on the Aging Self, edited by K. W. Schaie and J. Hendricks, 225–49. Springer, 2000.
    • O Rand, A. M. “Social inequality.” In The Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by E. F. Borgatta and M. L. Borgatta, 4:2690–95. MacMillan, 2000.
    • O Rand, A. M., and R. T. Campbell. “On re-establishing the phenomenon and specifying ignorance: research design and theory development in aging.” In Handbook of Theories on Aging, edited by V. Bengtson and K. W. Schaie, 59–78. Springer, 1999.
    • Elman, C., and A. M. O. Rand. “Midlife entry into vocational training: a mobility model.” In Social Science Research, 27:128–58, 1998.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Structuration and individualization: the life course as a continuous multi-level process..” In Generating Social Stratification, edited by A. C. Kerckhoff, 3–16. Westview Press, 1996.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Context, selection and agency in the life course: linking social structure and biography..” In Society and Biography: Interrelationships Between Social Structure, Institutions, and the Life Course, edited by A. Weymann and W. R. Heinz, 67–81. Deutscher Studien Verlag, 1996.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Women and retirement..” In Encyclopedia of Women and Work, 25–27. Garland Press, 1996.
    • Elder, Jr, and A. M. O’Rand. “Adult lives in a changing society..” In Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology, edited by K. Cook, G. Fine, and J. House, 452–75, 1995.
    • O Rand, A. M. “Women: their changing status; Gender; and The employee income retirement security act (ERISA).” In The Encyclopedia of Aging, edited by G. L. Maddox, 974-977;392-393;and307-308-974-977;392-393;and307-308. Springer, 1995.
    • O Rand, A. M. “The cumulative stratification of the life course.” In Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, edited by R. Binstock and L. K. George, 188–207. Academic Press, 1995.
    • O’Rand, A. M., and Sara Rix. “Equal employment opportunity commission (EEOC).” In The Encyclopedia of Aging, edited by G. L. Maddox, 327–28. Springer, 1995.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Mathematizing social science in the 1950’s: the early development and diffusion of game theory in the social sciences..” In History of Political Economy, (Special Issue) 24:177–204, 1992.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Social inequality..” In The Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by E. F. Borgatta and M. L. Borgatta, 1850-1856. MacMillan, 1992.
    • O’Rand, A. M., J. C. Henretta, and M. L. Krecker. “Family pathways to retirement..” In Family Retirement, edited by M. Szinovacz, 81–98. Sage, 1992.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Stratification and the life course..” In The Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, edited by R. Binstock and L. K. George, 130–48. New York: Academic Press, 1990.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Scientific thought style and the construction of gender inequality..” In Women and the Academy: Feminist Reconstruction of Knowledge, edited by J. O. Barr, 103–20. University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
    • O Rand, A. M. “Gender (p. 271); Sex Roles (pp. 604-606); Women: Their Changing Status (pp. 697-699); Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) (p. 24) and Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) (pp. 205-206).” In The Encyclopedia of Aging, edited by G. L. Maddox. New York: Springer, 1987.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Women.” In Handbook on the Aged in the U.S., edited by E. Palmore, 125–42. Greenwood Press, 1984.
    • O Rand, A. M. “Socioeconomic status and poverty.” In Research Instruments in Social Gerontology, edited by D. J. Mangen and W. A. Peterson, 2:281–341. University of Minnesota Press, 1982.
    • O’Rand, A. M., and J. C. Henretta. “Midlife work history and retirement income.” In Women’s Retirement: Policy Implications of Recent Research, edited by M. Szinovacz, 6:25–44. Sage Publications, 1982.
    • Mering, O. von, and A. M. Rand. “Illness and the organization of health care: a sociocultural perspective.” In Dimensions of Aging, Culture and Health, edited by C. L. Fry, 255–70. New Yorrk: J.F. Bergin Publishers, 1981.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Theories of aging and inequality: new research directions.” In Handbook of Theories of Aging, edited by V. L. Bengtson and R. Settersten, n.d.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Aging and the life course.” In Emerging Trends in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, edited by R. A. Scott and S. M. Kosslyn. Wiley Online, n.d.
    • O’Rand, A. M., and A. Bostic. “Lags and leaps: the dynamics of demography, Economy and Policy and their Implications for Life Course Research.” In The Handbook of the Life Course, edited by M. Shanahan, J. Mortimer, and M. Johnson. Springer, n.d.

  • Book Reviews

    • O’Rand, A. M. “The Transition to Adulthood in the Vietnam Era by Timothy Owens.” Social Forces. Springer, 2005, 2006.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes by Yu Xie and Kimberlee A. Shaumann.” Social Forces, 2004.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Ending a Career in the Auto Industry (Plenum, 1996) by Melissa A. Hardy, Lawrence Hazelrigg and Jill Quadagno.” American Journal of Sociology, 1998.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “The Social Networks of Older People: A Cross-National Analysis (Praeger, 1996).” Edited by H. Litwin. Contemporary Gerontology, 1998.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “What do we know and when do we know it? A self-exemplifying tale of gender politics and the popular production of knowledge.” Annual Review of Conflict Knowledge and Conflict Resolution, 1993.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Minerva’s owl flies at dusk..” The Gerontologist. Oxford University Press, 1989.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Volume 5 (JAI Press, 1986) edited by R.V. Robinson.” Contemporary Sociology, 1988.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Later Life: The Social Psychology of Aging (Sage 1986) edited by V.W. Marshall.” Social Forces, 1986.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Older Women: Issues and Prospects (Lexington Books, 1983) edited by Elizabeth W. Markson.” Social Forces, 1984.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Equal Employment Policy for Women (Temple University Press, 1980) by R.S. Ratner.” Sociology of Work and Occupations, 1983.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “Chemistry Transformed: The Paradigmatic Shift from Phlogiston to Oxygen (Ablex Publishing, 1978) by H. Gilman McCann.” Edited by R. Allen. The Eighteenth Century. AMS Press, 1983.
    • O’Rand, A. M. “The Structure of the Social Sciences: A Philosophical Introduction (Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1974) by Michael Lesnoff.” American Journal of Sociology. University of Chicago Press: No Paid Open Access, 1975.

  • Reports

    • O Rand, A. M. “The Vulnerable Majority: Older Women in Transition,” 1994.
    • O Rand, A. M. “Income maintenance in retirement and the need to rethink family policy..” Center Reports on Advances in Research, 1983.

  • Conference Papers

    • Shuey, K. M., and A. M. O’Rand. “Changing demographics and new pension risks.” In Research on Aging, 28:317–40, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027505285919.
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    • Elman, C., and A. M. O’Rand. “The race is to the swift: Socioeconomic origins, adult education, and wage attainment.” In American Journal of Sociology, 110:123–60, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1086/386273.
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• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Late Employment Careers, Transitions to Retirement and Retirement Income in the U.S.. May 16, 2009  2009
  • Life Course as a Policy Lens. January 30, 2009  2009
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