McEniry, Mary Working paper no. 2010-02 Abstract The dramatic mortality decline of the 1930s-1960s in developing countries may have created a larger pool of adult survivors of poor childhood conditions. If hypotheses regarding the importance of early life exposures on adult health have merit, we would expect to observe that the health of older adults …
Halpern-Manners, Andrew, John Robert Warren, James Raymo, and D. Adam Nicholson Working paper no. 2010-13 Abstract Motivated by theoretical and empirical research in life course sociology, we examine relationships between trajectories of work and family roles across the life course and five measures of economic well-being in later adulthood. Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal …
Raymo, James, John R. Warren, Megan M. Sweeney, Robert M. Hauser, and Jeong-Hwa Ho Working paper no. 2010-14 Abstract Objectives:We examined the extent to which involuntary job loss, exposure to “bad jobs,” and employment in non-unionized jobs across the life course are associated with the risk of early retirement. Methods:Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal …
Grol-Prokopczyk, Hanna Working paper no. 2010-18 Abstract In the past decade, anchoring vignettes have become an increasingly popular tool for identifying and correcting for group differences in use of subjective ordered response categories. However, existing techniques to maximize response consistency (the use of the same standards for self-ratings as for vignette-ratings), which center on matching …
Novak, Beatriz Working paper no. 2011-07 Abstract The causes and consequences of the increasing trend in obesity prevalence observed worldwide have been a subject of interest of researchers, health agencies, and policy makers. The general public is also increasingly concerned about the health-related effects of adult obesity, as shown by several polls. Not only is adult …
DeLamater, John Working paper no. 2011-08 Abstract In the past decade, researchers have begun to study the sexual functioning of typical older persons. This review summarizes literature on the sexuality of men and women over age 50 as researched by social and health scientists. Research on the relationship of biological factors (changes accompanying aging), health …
Palloni, Alberto, and James A. Yonker Working paper no. 2012-04 Abstract We review a broad set of health-related indicators—mortality, health outcomes, proximate health determinants, and distal health determinants—for the US and a comparison group of peer OECD countries. The principal findings are: (a) the US ranks consistently worse than peer countries on all but a …
Raymo, James, Andrew Halpern-Manners, and John Warren Working paper no. 2013-05 Abstract Our understanding of career influences on mortality is limited by reliance on relatively old data, use of surveys that contain only partial employment histories, and lack of consensus about how to best summarize detailed life history data. In this article, we address these …
Novak, Beatriz, and Alberto Palloni Working paper no. 2013-08
Engelman, Michal, Vladimir Canudas-Romo, and Emily M. Agree Working paper no. 2013-10 Abstract This paper asks how the demographic and epidemiologic transitions of the past century and a half have influenced patterns of survival and health in aging populations. We hypothesize that survival improvements at younger ages may yield an older population with a more …