Scott Michael Lynch | Scholars@Duke

Scott Michael Lynch
Professor in the Department of Sociology

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor in the Department of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014
Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Community Health, Community and Family Medicine 2017
Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Center for Population Health & Aging, Center for Population Health & Aging, Duke Population Research Institute 2011
Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Institute 2014

Contact Information

258 Soc/Psych Bldg, Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708
scott.lynch@duke.edu
Personal Web Page

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Duke University 2001
Duke Appointment History
- Scholar In Residence in the Department of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014
Recognition
In the News
- SEP 2, 2014
  
  American Sociological Association Honors Three Duke Faculty
Awards & Honors
Research
Selected Grants
- Behavioral and Physiology in Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2020
- Understanding US Regional Health & Mortality Disparities: A Life Course Approach awarded by National Institutes of Health 2011 - 2018
- Social, Medical and Economic Demography of Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health 1997 - 2017
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Lynch, SM. Using Statistics in Social Research. Springer Science & Business Media, September 7, 2013.
  - Lynch, SM. Using statistics in social research: A concise approach. August 1, 2013. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM. Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists. Springer Science & Business Media, June 30, 2007.
- Book Sections
  - Lynch, SM, and Taylor, MG. "Trajectory Models for Aging Research." In Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences: Eighth Edition, 23-51. September 8, 2015. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM. "Bayesian Theory, History, Applications, and Contemporary Directions." In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition, 378-382. March 26, 2015. Full Text
  - Brown, JS, and Lynch, SM. "A demographer’s view: Population structures tell a story about lifecourses." In Population Ageing from a Lifecourse Perspective: Critical and International Approaches, 13-27. January 1, 2015.
  - Lynch, SM, and Kugelmass, H. "Types of stressors." In the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Behavior, and Society, edited by WC Cockerham, R Dingwall, and S Quah. Blackwell, 2014. (Chapter)
  - Lynch, SM, and Brown, JS. "Stratification and inequality over the life course." In Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 105-117. December 1, 2011. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM, and Brown, JS. "Demographic Approaches and Their Potential Applications in Third Age Research." In Gerontology in the Era of the Third Age: Implications and Next Steps, edited by DC Carr and K Komp, 89-106. Springer, 2011. (Chapter)
  - Lynch, SM. "How Many Lags of X?." In Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged, edited by K Newman and R O'Brien, 163-174. University of California Press, 2011. (Appendix)
  - Lynch, SM, Scott Brown, J, and Taylor, MG. "The Demography of Disability." In International Handbook of Population Aging, edited by P Uhlenberg, 567-582. Springer-Verlag, 2009. (Chapter)
  - Lynch, SM, and Scott Brown, J. "Race, Ethnicity, and Aging." In Encyclopedia of Health and Aging, edited by K Markides, 204-208. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007. (Chapter)
  - Lynch, SM. "Bayesian Statistics." In Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, edited by K Kempf-Leonard, 135-144. Elsevier, Inc, 2005. (Chapter)
  - Lynch, SM, and Philip Morgan, S. "Demography's Success and Its Future: The Role of Data and Methods." In Population Health and Aging: Strengthening the Dialogue Between Epidemiology and Demography, edited by M Weinstein, AI Hermalin, and MA Stoto, 35-51. 2001.
- Conference Papers
  - Kaye, S, Bell, M, Bell, R, Fredrickson, E, LeBlanc, B, Lee, K, Lynch, S, and Sabbagh, S. "Energy confinement scaling in the low aspect ratio National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX)." October 2006. Full Text
  - Kaye, SM, Valovic, M, Chudnovskiy, A, Cordey, JG, McDonald, D, Meakins, A, Thomsen, K, Akers, R, Bracco, G, Brickley, C, Bush, C, Cote, A, DeBoo, JC, Greenwald, M, Hoang, GT, Hogweij, D, Imbeaux, F, Kamada, Y, Kardaun, OJWF, Kus, A, Lebedev, S, Leonov, V, Lynch, S, Martin, Y, Miura, Y, Ongena, J, Pacher, G, Petty, CC, Romanelli, M, Ryter, F, Shinohara, K, Snipes, J, Stober, J, Takizuka, T, Tsuzuki, K, and Urano, H. "The role of aspect ratio and beta in H-mode confinement scalings." May 1, 2006. Full Text
- Journal Articles
  - Dupre, ME, Xu, H, Granger, BB, Lynch, SM, Nelson, A, Churchill, E, Willis, JM, Curtis, LH, and Peterson, ED. "Access to routine care and risks for 30-day readmission in patients with cardiovascular disease." American heart journal 196 (February 2018): 9-17. Full Text
  - Taylor, MG, Lynch, SM, and Ureña, S. "Race Differences in ADL Disability Decline 1984-2004: Evidence From the National Long-Term Care Survey." Journal of aging and health 30, no. 2 (February 2018): 167-189. Full Text
  - Berchick, ER, and Lynch, SM. "Regional Variation in the Predictive Validity of Self-Rated Health for Mortality." SSM - population health 3 (December 2017): 275-282. Full Text
  - Dupre, ME, Nelson, A, Lynch, SM, Granger, BB, Xu, H, Churchill, E, Willis, JM, Curtis, LH, and Peterson, ED. "Socioeconomic, Psychosocial and Behavioral Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized With Cardiovascular Disease." The American journal of the medical sciences 354, no. 6 (December 2017): 565-572. Full Text
  - Bardo, AR, Lynch, SM, and Land, KC. "The Importance of the Baby Boom Cohort and the Great Recession in Understanding Age, Period, and Cohort Patterns in Happiness." Social Psychological and Personality Science 8, no. 3 (April 2017): 341-350. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM. "Commentary on "Disability Trajectories at the End of Life: A Countdown Model" The Problems With Time-to-Death as a Predictor of Disability." The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 70, no. 5 (September 2015): 753-756. Full Text
  - Vasunilashorn, S, Lynch, SM, Glei, DA, Weinstein, M, and Goldman, N. "Exposure to stressors and trajectories of perceived stress among older adults." The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 70, no. 2 (March 2015): 329-337. Full Text
  - Olson, WH, Ma, Y-W, Crivera, C, Schein, J, Lefebvre, P, Laliberté, F, Dea, K, Germain, G, and Lynch, SM. "Economic outcomes with prasugrel versus clopidogrel in acute coronary syndrome patients: observations from prasugrel users and matched clopidogrel users." Journal of medical economics 18, no. 12 (January 2015): 1074-1084. Full Text
  - Olson, WH, Ma, Y-W, Laliberté, F, Lefebvre, P, Crivera, C, Schein, JR, Fields, LE, Dea, K, Germain, G, and Lynch, SM. "Prasugrel vs. clopidogrel in acute coronary syndrome patients treated with prasugrel." Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics 39, no. 6 (December 2014): 663-672. Full Text
  - Olson, WH, Crivera, C, Ma, Y-W, Panish, J, Mao, L, and Lynch, SM. "Bayesian data analysis in observational comparative effectiveness research: rationale and examples." Journal of comparative effectiveness research 2, no. 6 (November 2013): 563-571. Full Text
  - Steele, LG, and Lynch, SM. "The Pursuit of Happiness in China: Individualism, Collectivism, and Subjective Well-Being During China’s Economic and Social Transformation." Social Indicators Research 114, no. 2 (November 2013): 441-451. Full Text
  - Owens, J, and Lynch, SM. "Black and Hispanic Immigrants’ Resilience against Negative-ability Racial Stereotypes at Selective Colleges and Universities in the United States." Sociology of Education 85, no. 4 (October 2012): 303-325. Full Text
  - Taylor, MG, and Lynch, SM. "Cohort differences and chronic disease profiles of differential disability trajectories." The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 66, no. 6 (November 2011): 729-738. Full Text
  - Haller, W, Portes, A, and Lynch, SM. "Dreams Fulfilled, Dreams Shattered: Determinants of Segmented Assimilation in the Second Generation." Social Forces 89, no. 3 (March 1, 2011): 733-762. Full Text
  - Haller, W, Portes, A, and Lynch, SM. "On the Dangers of Rosy Lenses: Reply to Alba, Kasinitz and Waters." Social Forces 89, no. 3 (2011): 775-781. Full Text Link to Item
  - Haller, W, Portes, A, and Lynch, SM. "Dreams Fulfilled, Dreams Shattered: Determinants of Segmented Assimilation in the Second Generation." Social Forces 89, no. 3 (2011): 733-762. Full Text Link to Item
  - Haller, W, Portes, A, and Lynch, SM. "On the Dangers of Rosy Lenses: Reply to Alba, Kasinitz and Waters." Social Forces 89, no. 3 (2011): 775-781. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM, and Taylor, M. "Cohort Differences in Chronic Disease Profiles of Differential Disability Trajectories." Journals of Gerontology: Series B 66, no. 6 (2011): 729-738.
  - Lynch, SM, and Brown, JS. "Obtaining multistate life table distributions for highly refined subpopulations from cross-sectional data: A Bayesian extension of Sullivan's method." Demography 47, no. 4 (November 2010): 1053-1077. Full Text
  - Kimbro, RT, Lynch, SM, and McLanahan, S. "The Influence of Acculturation on Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration for Mexican-Americans." Population Research and Policy Review 27, no. 2 (April 2008): 183-199. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM. "Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health in Life-Course Perspective." Research on Aging 30, no. 2 (March 2008): 127-136. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM. "Race, Socioeconomic Status and Health Across the Life Course: Introduction to the Special Issue." Research on Aging 30, no. 2 (2008): 127-136.
  - Lynch, CR, Khandekar, S, Lynch, SM, and DiSario, JA. "Sublingual L-hyoscyamine for duodenal antimotility during ERCP: a prospective randomized double-blinded study." Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 66, no. 4 (October 2007): 748-752. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM. "Explaining life course and cohort variation in the relationship between education and health: the role of income." Journal of health and social behavior 47, no. 4 (December 2006): 324-338. (Review) Full Text
  - Agarwala, R, and Lynch, SM. "Refining the Measurement of Women's Autonomy: An International Application of a Multi-dimensional Construct." Social Forces 84, no. 4 (June 1, 2006): 2077-2098. Full Text
  - Agarwala, R, and Lynch, SM. "Refining the measurement of women's autonomy: An international application of a multi-dimensional construct." Social Forces 84, no. 4 (June 1, 2006): 2077-2098. (Review) Full Text
  - Zajacova, A, Lynch, SM, and Espenshade, TJ. "Self-Efficacy, Stress, and Academic Success in College." Research in Higher Education 46, no. 6 (September 2005): 677-706. Full Text
  - Rashotte, LS, Webster, M, and Whitmeyer, JM. "2. Pretesting Experimental Instructions." Sociological Methodology 35, no. 1 (August 2005): 151-175. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM, and Brown, JS. "A New Approach to Estimating Life Tables with Covariates and Constructing Interval Estimates of Life Table Quantities." Sociological Methodology 35, no. ArticleType: research-article / Full publication date: 2005 / Copyright © 2005 American Sociological Association (2005): 189-237. Full Text Link to Item
  - Cornman, JC, Lynch, SM, Goldman, N, Weinstein, M, and Lin, H-S. "Stability and change in the perceived social support of older Taiwanese adults." The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 59, no. 6 (November 2004): S350-S357. Full Text
  - Taylor, MG, and Lynch, SM. "Trajectories of impairment, social support, and depressive symptoms in later life." The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 59, no. 4 (July 2004): S238-S246. Full Text
  - Mustillo, S, Wilson, J, and Lynch, SM. "Legacy Volunteering: A Test of Two Theories of Intergenerational Transmission." Journal of Marriage and Family 66, no. 2 (May 2004): 530-541. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM, and Western, B. "Bayesian Posterior Predictive Checks for Complex Models." Sociological Methods & Research 32, no. 3 (February 2004): 301-335. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM, and Scott Brown, J. "Race, Aging, and Health: The History and Future of the Double Jeopardy Hypothesis." Contemporary Gerontology 10, no. 3 (2004): 105-109.
  - George, LK, and Lynch, SM. "Race differences in depressive symptoms: a dynamic perspective on stress exposure and vulnerability." Journal of health and social behavior 44, no. 3 (September 2003): 353-369.
  - Lynch, SM, Brown, JS, and Harmsen, KG. "Black-White Differences in Mortality Compression and Deceleration and the Mortality Crossover Reconsidered." Research on Aging 25, no. 5 (September 2003): 456-483. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM, Brown, JS, and Harmsen, KG. "The Effect of altering ADL thresholds on active life expectancy estimates for older persons." The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 58, no. 3 (May 2003): S171-S178. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM. "Cohort and life-course patterns in the relationship between education and health: a hierarchical approach." Demography 40, no. 2 (May 2003): 309-331. (Review) Full Text
  - Lynch, SM, and George, LK. "Interlocking trajectories of loss-related events and depressive symptoms among elders." The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 57, no. 2 (March 2002): S117-S125. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM, Magold, WD, Bean, LG, Adams, DJ, and Schwab, WA. "Who Goes, Who Stays: An Assessment of the Effects of a Freshman Mentoring and Unit Registration Program on College Persistence." Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice 4, no. 2 (2002): 107-134.
  - Morgan, SP, and Lynch, SM. "Success and future of demography: the role of data and methods." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 954 (December 2001): 35-51. (Review)
  - Brown, JS, Lynch, SM, and Harmsen, KG. "Effect of measurement of disability on active life expectancy estimayes: Does measurement matter?." GERONTOLOGIST 41 (October 2001): 116-116. Link to Item
  - Lynch, SM. "Where biodemographic theory and demographic data meet: a review of the Quest for Immortality (by Olshansky and Carnes). Essay review." Social biology 48, no. 3-4 (September 2001): 329-332.
  - Lynch, SM, and Brown, JS. "Reconsidering mortality compression and deceleration: an alterative model of mortality rates." Demography 38, no. 1 (February 2001): 79-95. Full Text
  - Lynch, SM. "Measurement and Prediction of Aging Anxiety." Research on Aging 22, no. 5 (September 2000): 533-558. Full Text
  - Barrett, AE, and Lynch, SM. "Caregiving networks of elderly persons: variation by marital status." The Gerontologist 39, no. 6 (December 1999): 695-704. Full Text
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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

In the News

Awards & Honors

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Books

Book Sections

Conference Papers

Journal Articles

Recent Courses

Presentations & Appearances

Service to the Profession