Journal ArticleDemography · December 2020
Analyses of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) between 1992 and 2014 compare the relationship between different levels and forms of debt and heart attack risk trajectories across four cohorts. Although all cohorts experienced growing household debt, inc ...
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Journal ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.) · May 2020
The social environment, both in early life and adulthood, is one of the strongest predictors of morbidity and mortality risk in humans. Evidence from long-term studies of other social mammals indicates that this relationship is similar across many species. ...
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Journal ArticleJ Racial Ethn Health Disparities · February 2020
BACKGROUND: Disparities in adult morbidity and mortality may be rooted in patterns of biological dysfunction in early life. We sought to examine the association between pathogen burden and a cumulative deficits index (CDI), conceptualized as a pre-clinical ...
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Journal ArticleEpidemiol Infect · November 2018
Pathogen burden is a construct developed to assess the cumulative effects of multiple, persistent pathogens on morbidity and mortality. Despite the likely biological wear and tear on multiple body systems caused by persistent infections, few studies have e ...
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Journal ArticlePreventive medicine reports · September 2018
Retirement from employment involves disruption in daily routines and has been associated with positive and negative changes in physical activity. Walking is the most common physical activity among older Americans. The factors that influence changes in walk ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA network open · August 2018
ImportanceSex differences in genetic associations with human longevity remain largely unknown; investigations on this topic are important for individualized health care.ObjectiveTo explore sex differences in genetic associations with long ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine · June 2018
IntroductionPhysical activity and sedentary behavior are major risk factors for chronic disease. These behaviors may change at retirement, with implications for health in later life. The study objective was to describe longitudinal patterns of mod ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of health and social behavior · September 2012
Racial-ethnic disparities in static levels of health are well documented. Less is known about racial-ethnic differences in age trajectories of health. The few studies on this topic have examined only single health outcomes and focused on black-white dispar ...
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Journal ArticleSocial forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · September 2011
Recent patterns of labor exit in late life in the United States are increasingly heterogeneous. This heterogeneity stems from diverse employment careers that are emerging in the workplace where job security is declining. Individuals' structural locations i ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean journal of epidemiology · July 2010
The present study aims to compare the direction and magnitude of sex differences in mortality and major health dimensions across Denmark, Japan and the US. The Human Mortality Database was used to examine sex differences in age-specific mortality rates. Th ...
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Journal ArticleZeitschrift fur Erziehungswissenschaft : ZfE · September 2009
A major objective of current life course research is to specify the processes linking early childhood conditions to subsequent life course statuses that span educational, occupational, familial, and health domains across the life span. This study confronts ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Science Research · September 1, 2007
This study tracks a longitudinal, nationally representative sample of non-baccalaureate, high school graduates or equivalents over the adult life course, examining postsecondary adult school transitions and the types of schools entered. Baccalaureate degre ...
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Journal ArticleCurrent Sociology · March 1, 2007
This article uses data from multiple waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine inequality in the accumulation of pension balances in private accounts for two cohorts of workers in the US. The new occupational pension environment is characteriz ...
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Journal ArticleDemography · 2007
A growing body of evidence shows that childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is predictive of disease risk in later life, with those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds more likely to experience poor adult-health outcomes. Most of these studies, however, ...
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Chapter · December 1, 2006
This chapter reviews the relationship of stratification with the life course. The cumulative acquisition of life-course capital is conditioned by life-course risks that are confronted from birth until death. The first life-course risks are attached with so ...
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ConferenceResearch on Aging · May 1, 2006
This study used longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine the hazards of pension saving associated with variations in household arrangements among two cohorts of older workers. Results from multivariate models predicting pension ...
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Journal ArticleAnnual Review of Sociology · September 9, 2004
This paper considers the changing social institution of employer-sponsored pensions within the framework of the sociology of risk. Employer-sponsored pensions are elements of a variable and changing occupational welfare system in which the risk and respons ...
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ConferenceAmerican Journal of Sociology · July 1, 2004
The "winners" in today's winner-take-all labor markets are differentiated by advanced levels of educational attainment, especially higher degrees. This article applies a sociological model of cumulative dis/advantage to the baby-boom cohort to examine whet ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Science Research · January 1, 2002
Stratification research focuses on the relationship between educational background and the work career. However, few studies have examined the extended educational career beyond young adulthood and its relationship to workers' labor market experiences, esp ...
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Journal ArticleResearch on Aging · July 1, 1998
This study examines how work pathways intersect with the pursuit of education and vocational training at midlife. The authors link two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to focus on respondents ages 42 to 62 at the second wave ( ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Forces · January 1, 1998
The effects of life-course, employment and labor market characteristics on the probability of pension participation and on type of pension coverage are estimated for two cohorts of working women in middle and late life, respectively. The National Longitudi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Marriage and Family · January 1, 1998
We examine the risk of separation or divorce later in the marital career from a family development perspective. With data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, we use a hazards framework to estimate the effects of women's economic independ ...
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Journal ArticleThe Gerontologist · April 1996
The explanation of increasing heterogeneity and inequality within aging cohorts is a central concern of the life-course perspective and common ground for demographers, economists, historians, sociologists, and psychologists alike. Income and wealth inequal ...
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Book ReviewAnnual Review of Conflict Knowledge and Conflict Resolution · 1993
Review Essay in response to Susan Faludi's Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of gerontology · January 1992
Studies have often used reason for retirement as an indicator of the pathway leading to retirement. We discuss the conceptual basis for the retirement-reason typology and evaluate the distinctiveness of various reasons for labor force exit by predicting th ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr · May 1991
We developed a nursery Neurobiologic Risk Score (NBRS) based on potential mechanisms of brain cell injury in preterm infants and correlated it with developmental outcome at the corrected ages of 6, 15, and 24 months. The NBRS was determined at 2 weeks of a ...
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Journal ArticleSociological Forum · March 1, 1991
Three trends in the workplace point to the importance of considering work relations as well as governance structures for the development of protective benefits such as pensions. The increasing concentration of employment growth in smaller firms, the genera ...
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Journal ArticleSociological Quarterly · January 1, 1988
Long‐term trends in occupational change and retirement policy have influenced the relative labor force participation and retirement patterns of subgroups of the older population. Structural changes in the economy have had a large impact on older men and wo ...
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Journal ArticleSocial security bulletin · August 1980
This article utilizes the 1969, 1971, and 1973 waves of the Longitudinal Retirement History Study (LRHS) to examine stopping work by working wives of respondents. Different patterns of labor-force participation reveal that younger wives of respondents were ...
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