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Jenifer Hamil Luker

Jenifer Hamil Luker

Associate Professor of the Practice of Sociology
Sociology
jenifer.hamil@duke.edu
Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708-0088
2200 West Main Street, Suite 700, Durham, NC 27705

Selected Publications

Black/white differences in the relationship between debt and risk of heart attack across cohorts.

Journal Article SSM - population health · June 2023 BackgroundNumerous studies show that increasing levels of education, income, assets, and occupational status are linked to greater improvements in White adults' health than Black adults'. Research has yet to determine, however, whether there are r ... Full text Open Access Cite

Landfall After the Perfect Storm: Cohort Differences in the Relationship Between Debt and Risk of Heart Attack.

Journal Article Demography · 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 ... Full text Cite

Childhood adversity, educational trajectories, and self-reported health in later life among U.S. women and men at the turn of the century.

Journal Article Zeitschrift 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 ... Full text Cite

Gender Differences in the Link between Childhood Socioeconomic Conditions and Heart Attack Risk in Adulthood

Journal Article Demography · 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, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Trajectories of public assistance receipt among female high school dropouts

Journal Article Population Research and Policy Review · December 1, 2005 This paper maps patterns of public assistance receipt for 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth female high school dropouts between 1984, when they were 19-27 years old, and 1998 when they reached their early 30s and 40s. Using latent class cluster mo ... Full text Cite

Women's wages: Cohort differences in returns to education and training over time

Journal Article Social Science Quarterly · December 1, 2005 Objective. This article examines the effects of education and work-related training on wage-growth trajectories for two cohorts of women as they aged from their early 20s and 30s into their early 30s and 40s. I test whether occupational training compensate ... Full text Cite

Trajectories of Public Assistance Receipt among Female High School Dropouts

Journal Article Population Research and Policy Review · 2005 This paper maps patterns of public assistance receipt for 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth female high school dropouts between 1984, when they were 19-27 years old, and 1998 when they reached their early 30s and 40s. Using latent class cluster mo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Diverse trajectories of cocaine use through early adulthood among rebellious and socially conforming youth.

Journal Article Social science research · June 2004 This paper tests predictions of continuity and change in antisocial behavior over time as derived from population heterogeneity and life-course perspectives. These predictions are assessed with respect to a rarely studied form of delinquent/criminal behavi ... Full text Cite

Later life education in the 1990s: increasing involvement and continuing disparity.

Journal Article The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · November 2002 ObjectivesWe examine age differences in adults' participation in, perceived barriers to, and institutional support for educational activities provided by schools, businesses, and community organizations in the 1990s.MethodsWe conduct desc ... Full text Cite

The prospects of age war: Inequality between (and within) age groups

Journal Article Social Science Research · January 1, 2001 For decades, political analysts have been predicting a war between age groups over scarce public resources, such as income, health care, and social services. This article examines theoretical propositions and emp11irical evidence regarding the possibility ... Full text Cite

Religious Authority and Public Opinion on the Right to Die

Journal Article Sociology of Religion · 1998 Over the past fifty years, numerous public opinion surveys have indicated growing support for physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, and right-to-die legislation. This pro-euthanasia trend, however, goes against fundamental Judeo-Christian principles that ... Full text Link to item Cite