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2025

  • Abrams, L., Brower, N., Myrskylä, M., & Mehta, N. (2025). Pervasive stagnation: flat and increasing cardiovascular disease mortality rates after 2010 across US states and counties. American journal of epidemiology, 194(8), 2261–2269. PMCID: PMC12342862  PMID: 39449565
  • Chauhan, S., Carr, D. C., & Taylor, M. (2025). Associations Between Pre-Widowhood Psychological Resilience and Subsequent Depressive Symptom Recovery Following Spousal Loss Among Men and Women. The Gerontologist, 65(6), gnaf084. PMID: 39985279 PMCID: PMC12086059 (available on 2026-02-22)
  • Choi, E. Y., & Ailshire, J. A. (2025). Ambient outdoor heat and accelerated epigenetic aging among older adults in the US. Science advances, 11(9), eadr0616. PMCID: PMC11864172  PMID: 40009659
  • England, K., Luo, L., Verdery, A. M., & Monnat, S. M. (2025). Shifting Cohort Patterns in the Use of Drugs with Elevated Overdose Risk in the United States. Social problems, 72(3), 1239–1259. PMCID: PMC12334180  NIHMSID: NIHMS2055714  PMID: 40785729
  • Kim, Y., Kim, S. J., Jang, S., Lee, A., Brannon, G. E., & Jang, Y. (2025). From marginalized to strength: Socio-ecological coping strategies of older Korean Americans with language barriers and healthcare needs. Journal of social service research, 51(3), 888–900. PMID: 40842953 PMCID: PMC12366926 (available on 2026-01-24)
  • O’Brien, R., Schechtl, M., Manduca, R., & Venkataramani, A. (2025). Local government expenditure centralization and spatial variation in working-age mortality. SSM – population health, 30, 101791. PMCID: PMC11997379  PMID: 40236605
  • Vaitsiakhovich, N., Landes, S. D., & Monnat, S. M. (2025). The role of perceived social support in subjective wellbeing among working-age U.S. adults with and without limitations in activities of daily living. Disability and health journal, 18(1), 101705. PMID: 39242222 PMCID: PMC11625594 (available on 2026-01-01)
  • Wong, J., & Zang, E. (2025). Regional disparities in cognitive life expectancy: The role of birth and current residence in the United States. Health & place, 94, 103475. PMID: 40311376 PMCID: PMC12258385 (available on 2026-07-01)

2024

  • Ard, K., Thomas, J., & Bullock, C. (2024). Toxic air pollution and cognitive decline: Untangling particulate matter. Health & place, 89, 103330. PMCID: PMC11402554  NIHMSID: NIHMS2018685  PMID: 39153260
  • Brown, T. H., & Homan, P. (2024). Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement. Journal of health and social behavior, 65(1), 141–160. PMCID: PMC11110275  NIHMSID: NIHMS1977392  PMID: 38308499
  • Dore, E. C., Shrivastava, S., & Homan, P. (2024). Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States. Journal of health and social behavior, 65(1), 2–19. PMCID: PMC10918039  NIHMSID: NIHMS1930656  PMID: 37675877
  • Gaydosh, L., & Harris, K. M. (2024). Institutional Context Shapes the Physical Health of College Graduates Differently for U.S. White, Black, and Hispanic Adults. Demography, 61(3), 933–966. PMID: 38809598 DOI: 10.1215/00703370-11380743
  • Homan P. (2024). Health consequences of structural sexism: Conceptual foundations, empirical evidence and priorities for future research. Social science & medicine (1982), 351(Suppl 1), 116379. PMCID: PMC11149901  NIHMSID: NIHMS1948260  PMID: 38825372
  • Keyes, K. M., Kandula, S., Martinez-Ales, G., Gimbrone, C., Joseph, V., Monnat, S., Rutherford, C., Olfson, M., Gould, M., & Shaman, J. (2024). Geographic Variation, Economic Activity, and Labor Market Characteristics in Trajectories of Suicide in the United States, 2008-2020. American journal of epidemiology, 193(2), 256–266. PMCID: PMC11484616  PMID: 37846128
  • Khadka, A., Hebert, J. L., Glymour, M. M., Jiang, F., Irish, A., Duchowny, K. A., & Vable, A. M. (2024). Quantile regressions as a tool to evaluate how an exposure shifts and reshapes the outcome distribution: A primer for epidemiologists. American journal of epidemiology, 194(7), 2075–2084. Advance online publication. PMCID: PMC12234224  PMID: 39098821
  • Kim, Y., Rangel, J., & Colabianchi, N. (2024). Food Environments and Cardiovascular Disease: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study. American journal of preventive medicine, 67(2), 201–209. PMCID: PMC12266339  NIHMSID: NIHMS2090954  PMID: 38484903
  • Lee, H., Choi, Y. J., & Jung, J. H. (2024). Does Religion Mitigate the Effect of Neighborhood Disorder on Cognitive Decline?: Evidence From a National Longitudinal Study of U.S. Older Adults. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 79(12), gbae147. PMCID: PMC11601166  PMID: 39180185
  • LeMasters, K., D’Alessio, A. S., Touma, F., Andrabi, N., Brinkley-Rubinstein, L., & Gutierrez, C. (2024). The physiological toll of arrests: An examination of arrest history on midlife allostatic load. Annals of epidemiology, 96, 1–12. PMCID: PMC11283360  NIHMSID: NIHMS2000347  PMID: 38796042
  • MacConnachie, L., Zhang, Y. S., Farina, M., Gutierrez, C., Hoover, A., He, Y., Aiello, A. E., & Noppert, G. A. (2024). The association between incarceration and housing insecurity and advanced immune age during late life. Social science & medicine (1982), 347, 116698. PMCID: PMC11164318  NIHMSID: NIHMS1986567  PMID: 38461610
  • Noppert, G. A., Clarke, P., Hoover, A., Kubale, J., Melendez, R., Duchowny, K., & Hegde, S. T. (2024). State variation in neighborhood COVID-19 burden across the United States. Communications medicine, 4(1), 36. PMCID: PMC10907669  PMID: 38429552
  • Taylor, M. G., Bruefach, T., & Carr, D. C. (2024). Measuring Psychological Resilience in Aging: Findings From the Health and Retirement Study and National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Innovation in aging, 8(3), igae013. PMCID: PMC10972578  PMID: 38544525
  • Testa, A., Jackson, D. B., DeAngelis, R., Heard-Garris, N., Semenza, D. C., & Johnson, O., Jr (2024). Historical Redlining and Contemporary Violent Victimization Over the Life Course. American journal of preventive medicine, 67(4), 477–484. PMCID: PMC11416311  NIHMSID: NIHMS2017391  PMID: 38906426
  • Wolf, D. A., Monnat, S. M., Wiemers, E. E., Sun, Y., Zhang, X., Grossman, E. R., & Montez, J. K. (2024). State COVID-19 Policies and Drug Overdose Mortality Among Working-Age Adults in the United States, 2020. American journal of public health, 114(7), 714–722. PMCID: PMC11153954  PMID: 38696735
  • Wong, J., Lu, S., Lou, Y., Zang, E., & Carr, D. (2024). A Novel Time Use Approach on Daily Active Engagement With Life: The Intersectionality of Race and Gender. The Gerontologist, 65(1), gnae150. PMID: 39435851 PMCID: PMC11761692
  • Zhang, X., Rhubart, D. C., & Monnat, S. M. (2024). Social Infrastructure Availability and Suicide Rates among Working-Age Adults in the United States. Socius : sociological research for a dynamic world, 10, 10.1177/23780231241241034. PMCID: PMC11155474  NIHMSID: NIHMS1992065  PMID: 38846792
  • Zhang, X., & Monnat, S. M. (2024). Watchful, skeptics, and system distrusters: Characteristics associated with different types of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among U.S. working-age adults. Vaccine, 42(24), 126080. PMID: 38902188 PMCID: PMC11401754
  • Zhang, X., & Monnat, S. M. (2024). Geographically specific associations between county-level socioeconomic and household distress and mortality from drug poisoning, suicide, alcohol, and homicide among working-age adults in the United States. SSM – population health, 25, 101595. PMCID: PMC10821584  PMID: 38283546

2023

  • Abrams, L. R., Myrskylä, M., & Mehta, N. K. (2023). The “double jeopardy” of midlife and old age mortality trends in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(42), e2308360120. PMCID: PMC10589701
  • Brown, T. H., Hargrove, T. W., Homan, P., & Adkins, D. E. (2023). Racialized Health Inequities: Quantifying Socioeconomic and Stress Pathways Using Moderated Mediation. Demography, 60(3), 675–705. PMID: 37218993 PMCID: PMC10841571
  • Brown & Homan. 2023. “The Future of Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream to Structural Drivers.” The Milbank Quarterly 101(S1):36-60. PMCID: PMC10126983
  • Dore, Shrivastava, & Homan. 2023. “Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior. PMID: 37675877
  • Jones, M., Bhattar, M., Henning, E., & Monnat, S. M. (2023). Explaining the U.S. rural disadvantage in COVID-19 case and death rates during the Delta-Omicron surge: The role of politics, vaccinations, population health, and social determinants. Social science & medicine (1982), 335, 116180. PMID: 37713775; PMCID: PMC10557078.
  • Lawrence, John, & Bhatta. 2023. “Urbanicity and Cognitive Functioning in Later Life.” Alzheimer’s & Dementia 15(2):312149. PMCID: PMC10130675.
  • Masters. 2023. “Sources and Severity of Bias in Estimates of the BMI-Mortality Association.” Population Studies 77(1):35-53. PMCID: PMC9992219.
  • Melton-Fant. 2023. “Heterogenous Effects of Local Government Spending on Mortality Across Racial Groups Among Working-Age Adults in the U.S.”AJPM – Focus 2(2):100085. NIHMSID: 1930988.
  • Monnat, S. M., Wheeler, D. C., Wiemers, E., Sun, Y., Sun, X., Wolf, D. A., & Karas Montez, J. (2023). U.S. States’ COVID-19 physical distancing policies and working-age adult mental health outcomes. Preventive medicine reports, 35, 102370. PMCID: PMC10468353  PMID: 37662872
  • Noppert, G. A., Clarke, P., Hoover, A., Kubale, J., Melendez, R., Duchowny, K., & Hegde, S. T. (2023). State Variation in Neighborhood COVID-19 Burden: Findings from the COVID Neighborhood Project. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 2023.05.19.23290222. PMID: 37293100 PMCID: PMC10246150
  • Reynolds & Homan. 2023.“Income Support Policy Packages and Birth Outcomes in U.S. States: An Ecological Analysis.” Population Research & Policy Review 42:73. NIHMSID: 1931042
  • Thunell, Ferido, & Zissimopoulos. 2023. “COVID-19 Hospitalization and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Racially and Ethnically Diverse Persons Living with Dementia.” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 71(5):1429-1439. PMCID: PMC10175159.
  • Zacher, Brady, & Short. 2023. “Geographic Patterns of Dementia in the United States: Variation by Place of Residence, Place of Birth, and Subpopulation.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 26;78(7):1192-1203. PMCID: PMC10292838.

2022

  • Clark, Lawrence, & Monnat. 2022. “Support from Adult Children and Parental Health in Rural America.” Journal of Rural Social Sciences 37(1):2. PMCID: PMC36299915.
  • Cobb et al. 2022. “Multiple Reasons for Perceived Everyday Discrimination and All-Cause Mortality Risk Among Older Black Adults.” Journals of Gerontology: Series A77(2):310-314. PMCID: PMC9012980.
  • Everett et al. 2022. “Structural Heteropatriarchy and Birth Outcomes in the United States.” Demography 59(1):89-110. PMCID: PMC9179016.
  • Farina et al. 2022. “Trends in Dementia Prevalence, Incidence, and Mortality in the United States (2000-2016).” Journal of Aging and Health 34(1):100-108. PMCID: PMC8989461.
  • Green et al. 2022. “Rural Population Health and Aging: Introduction to Special Issue.” Journal of Rural Social Sciences 37(1):1. PMCID: PMC9590413.
  • Jackson & Engelman. 2022. “Deaths, Disparities, and Cumulative (Dis)Advantage: How Social Inequities Produce an Impairment Paradox in Later Life.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 77(2): 392-401. PMCID: PMC8824561.
  • Kemp, Grumbach, & Montez. 2022. “U.S. State Policy Contexts and Physical Health Among Working-age Adults.” Socius 8:1-14. PMCID: PMC9581408
  • Kim, Lee, & Cubbin. 2022. “Effect of Social Environments on Cardiovascular Disease in the United States.” Journal of the American Heart Association 11:e025923. PMCID: PMC36250657.
  • Lee et al. 2022. “Childhood Lead Exposure is Associated with Lower Cognitive Functioning at Older Ages.” Science Advances 8(45):eabn5164. PMCID: PMC9645703.
  • Lee et al. 2022. “Effect of Childhood Proximity to Lead Mining on Late Life Cognition.” SSM – Population Health 17:101037. PMCID: PMC8818565.
  • Lee. 2022. “Disorder, Networks, and Cognition: Do Social Networks Buffer the Influence of Neighborhood and Household Disorder on Cognitive Functioning?” Aging and Mental Health 26(5): 1010-1018. PMCID: PMC8754472.
  • Monnat & Elo. 2022. “Enhancing the Utility of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to Identify Drivers of Rising Mortality Rates in the United States.” Forum for Health Economics & Policy 25:57-84. PMCID: PMC35254742.
  • Monnat. 2022. “Demographic and Geographic Variation in Fatal Drug Overdoses in the United States, 1999-2020.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 703(1):50-78. PMCID: PMC10292656
  • Montez & Cheng. 2022. “Educational Disparities in Adult Health across U.S. States: Larger Disparities Reflect Economic Factors.” Frontiers in Public Health 10:966434. PMCID: PMC36052002.
  • Montez et al. 2022. “US State Policy Contexts and Mortality of Working-age Adults.” PLoS ONE 17(10):e0275466. PMCID: PMC9604945.
  • Pendergrast & Monnat. 2022. “Perceived Impacts of COVID-19 on Wellbeing Among US Working-age Adults with ADL Difficulty.” Disability and Health Journal J15:101337. PMCID: PMC35643600.
  • Rhubart & Monnat. 2022. “Self-Rated Physical Health Among Working-Aged Adults Along the Rural-Urban Continuum – United States, 2021.” MMWR Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report 71(5):161-166. PMCID: PMC8812834.
  • Sun & Monnat. 2022. “Rural-Urban and Within-Rural Differences in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates.” Journal of Rural Health 38(4):916-922. PMCID: PMC8661570.
  • Wolf, Monnat, & Montez. 2022. “U.S. State Preemption Laws and Working-age Mortality.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 63(5):681-688. PMCID: PMC10164355.
  • Zhang & Monnat. 2022. “Racial/Ethnic Differences in Clusters of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Associations with Adolescent Mental Health.” SSM – Population Health 17:100997. PMCID: PMC8693281.

2021

  • Ailshire & Brown. 2021. The Importance of Air Quality Policy for Older Adults and Diverse Communities. Public Policy and Aging Report 31:33-37. PMCID: PMC7799383
  • Burgard et al. 2021. “Aging Policy From a Multilayered Geographic and Life Course Perspective.” Public Policy & Aging Report 31:44991. PMCID: PMC33462549.
  • Chapman, Verdery, & Monnat. 2021. “Opioid Misuse and Family Structure: Changes and Continuities in the Role of Marriage and Children over Two Decades.” Drug and Alcohol Dependence 222:108668. PMCID: PMC33766441.
  • Crimmins & Ailshire. 2021. “Aging and Place: The Importance of Place in Aging.” Public Policy and Aging Report 31:44928. PMCID: PMC33859458.
  • Farina et al. 2021. “US State Disparities in Life Expectancy, Disability-Free Life Expectancy, and Disabled Life Expectancy Among Adults Aged 25 to 89 Years.” American Journal of Public Health 111:708-717. PMCID: PMC33600246
  • Fenelon & Mawhorter. 2021. “Housing Affordability and Security Issues Facing Older Adults in the United States.” Public Policy and Aging Report 31:30-32. PMCID: PMC33462553.
  • Gutin & Hummer. 2021. “Social Inequality and the Future of U.S. Life Expectancy.” Annual Review of Sociology 47:501-520. PMCID: PMC34366549.
  • Hamilton & Hagos. 2021. “Race and the Healthy Immigrant Effect.” Public Policy & Aging Report 31:14-18. PMCID: PMC33462550.
  • Hargrove, Garcia, & Cagney. 2021. “The Role of Neighborhoods in Shaping the Aging Experience During Times of Crisis.” Public Policy and Aging Report 38-43. PMCID: PMC33462555.
  • Homan, Brown, & King. 2021. “Structural Intersectionality as a New Direction for Health Disparities Research.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 62:350-370. PMCID: PMC34355603.
  • Homan. 2021. “Sexism and Health: Advancing Knowledge Through Structural and Intersectional Approaches.” American Journal of Public Health 111:1725-1727. PMCID: PMC34529509.
  • Monnat. 2021. “Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 698:111-136. PMCID: PMC35493266.
  • Montez & Farina. 2021. “Do Liberal US State Policies Maximize Life Expectancy?” Public Policy & Aging Report 31:45120. PMCID: PMC33875913.
  • Montez, Hayward, & Zajacova. 2021. “Trends in U.S. Population Health: The Central Role of Policies, Politics, and Profits.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 62:286-301.PMCID: PMC34528482.
  • Reyes, Thunell, & Zissimopoulos. 2021. “Addressing the Diverse Needs of Unpaid Caregivers Through New Health-Care Policy Opportunities.” Public Policy & Aging Report 31:19-23. PMCID: PMC33462551.
  • Rhubart et al 2021. “The Unique Impacts of U.S. Social and Health Policies on Rural Population Health and Aging.” Public Policy & Aging Report 31:24-29. PMCID: PMC33462552.
  • Simon & Masters. 2021. “Do Deaths of Despair Move Together? County-level Mortality Changes by Sex and Urbanization, 1990-2017.” American Journal of Epidemiology190:1169-1171. PMCID: PMC33534907.
  • Tilstra, Simon, & Masters. 2021. “Trends in “Deaths of Despair” Among Working-Aged White and Black Americans, 1990-2017.” American Journal of Epidemiology 190:1751-1759. PMCID: PMC33778856.
  • Wolf, Monnat, & Montez. 2021. “Effects of U.S. State Preemption Laws on Infant Mortality.” Preventive Medicine 145:106417. PMCID: PMC33422579.

2020

  • Barthold, D., Joyce, G., Brinton, R., Wharton, W., Kehoe, G.K., Zissimopoulos, J. “Association of combination statin and antihypertensive therapy with reduced Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia risk,” PLoS ONE. 2020, 15(3): doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0229541. PMCID: PMC7055882
  • Brown, LL., Mitchell, UA., Ailshire, JA. “Disentangling the Stress Process: Race/Ethnic Differences in the Exposure and Appraisal of Chronic Stressors Among Older Adults.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 2020 February 14;75(3):650-660. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gby072 PMCID: PMC7328036
  • Cheng, Sun, and Monnat. 2020. “COVID-19 Death Rates Are Higher in Rural Counties With Larger Shares of Blacks and Hispanics.” Journal of Rural Health 36:602-608. PMCID: PMC32894612.
  • Jensen, L., Monnat, S. M., Green, J. J., Hunter, L. M., & Sliwinski, M. J. (2020). Rural Population Health and Aging: Toward a Multilevel and Multidimensional Research Agenda for the 2020s. American journal of public health, 110(9), 1328–1331. doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305782. PMCID: PMC32673118.
  • Kemp, B., Montez, J. K. “Why does the importance of education for health differ across the United States?” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 2020. 6, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023119899545. PMCID: PMC7088460
  • Monnat. 2020. “Trends in U.S. Working-Age non-Hispanic White Mortality: Rural-Urban and Within-Rural Differences.” Population Research and Policy Review 39:805-834. PMCID: PMC32921854.
  • Montez et al. 2020. “US State Policies, Politics, and Life Expectancy.” The Milbank Quarterly 98:668-699. PMCID: PMC32748998.
  • Montez. 2020. “Policy Polarization and Death in the United States.” Temple Law Review92:889-916. PMCID: PMC34531640.
  • Montez. 2020. “US State Polarization, Policymaking Power, and Population Health.” The Milbank Quarterly 98:1033-1052. PMCID: PMC33078878.
  • Verdery, A., England, K., Chapman, A., Luo,L., McLean,K., Monnat, S. 2020. “Visualizing Age, Period, and Cohort Patterns in the U.S. Opioid Crisis.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 6:1-3. DOI:10.1177/2378023120906944

2019

  • Aronson, B., Keister, L. 2019. “Overwork, Specialization and Wealth” Journal of Marriage and Family. October 2019, 81:5 DOI:10.1111/jomf.12596
  • Cantu, P., Sheehan, CM., Sasson, I., Hayward, MD. “Increasing Education-Based Disparities in Healthy Life Expectancy Among U.S. Non-Hispanic Whites 2000-2010.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 2019 November 11. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbz145. PMID: 31711225
  • Chen, C., Lim, J, Chia, N., Wang, L., Tysinger, B., Zissimopoulos, J. et al. “The Long-term Impact of Functional Disability on Hospitalization Spending in Singapore.” Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019. 14:1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2019.02.002. PMCID: PMC6922027
  • Chen, Y., Tysinger, B., Crimmins, E., Zissimopoulos, J. “Analysis of Dementia in the U.S. Population using Medicare Claims: Insights from Linked Survey and Administrative Claims Data,” Alzheimer’s and Dementia Translational Research and Clinical Interventions. 2019. 5: 197-207. doi: 10.1016/j.trci.2019.04.003. PMCID: PMC6556828
  • Drabo, E., Barthold, D., Joyce, G., Ferido, P., Chui, H., Zissimopoulos, J. “Longitudinal Analysis of Dementia Diagnosis and Specialty Care Among Racially Diverse Medicare Beneficiaries,” Alzheimer’s and Dementia. 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2019.07.005. PMCID: PMC6874742
  • Engelman M, Jackson H. “Gradual Change, Homeostasis, and Punctuated Equilibrium: Recovering Patterns of Health in Later Life.” Demography. 2019 Dec; 56(6):2323-2347. doi:10.1007/s13524-019-00826-x. PMCID: PMC6917959 
  • Farina MP, Hayward MD, Crimmins EM, Kim JK. “Racial and Educational Disparities in Dementia and Dementia-Free Life Expectancies.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 2019 April 25. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbz046. PMCID: PMC7530490
  • Grol-Prokopczyk, Hanna.  2019.  “Use and Opinions of Prescription Opioids Among Older American Adults:  Sociodemographic Predictors.”  Journal of Gerontology:  Social Sciences 74(6):1009-1019. doi:10.1093/geronb/gby093. PMCID: PMC6941497.
  • Margerison CE, Goldman-Mellor S. “Association Between Rural Residence and Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior Among California Adults: A Population-Based Study.” Journal of Rural Health. 2019 Mar;35(2):262-269. doi: 10.1111/jrh.12352. PMCID: PMC6436983
  • Mitchell, U.A., Ailshire, J.A., Kim, J.K., Crimmins, E.M. “Black-White Differences in 20-year Trends in Cardiovascular Risk in the United States, 1990-2010.” Ethnicity & Disease. 2019. 29(4), 587-598. doi: 10.18865/ed.29.4.587. PMCID: PMC6802170
  • Monnat, S., Peters, D., Berg, M., Hochstetler, A., “Using Census Data to Understand County-Level Differences in Overall Drug Mortality and Opioid-Related Mortality by Opioid Type.” American Journal of Public Health. 2019. 109:1084-1091. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305136. PMCID: PMC6611117
  • Montez, J., Hayward, MD, Zajacova, A. “Educational Disparities in Adult Health: U.S. States as Institutional Actors on the Association”. Socius : Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 2019 January;5. doi:10.1177/2378023119835345. PMCID: PMC6640858
  • Montez JK, Zajacova A, Hayward MD, Woolf SH, Chapman D, Beckfield J. “Educational Disparities in Adult Mortality Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s?” Demography. 2019 Apr;56(2):621-644. doi: 10.1007/s13524-018-0750-z. PMCID: PMC6450761
  • Peters, D., Monnat, S., Hochstetler, A., Berg, M. “The Opioid Hydra: Understanding Mortality Epidemics and Pandemics across the Rural-Urban Continuum.” Rural Sociology. October 2019. DOI:10.1111/ruso.12307
  • Thunell, J., Ferido, P., Zissimopoulos, J. “Measuring Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias in Diverse Populations Using Medicare Claims Data,” Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2019 72(1): 29-33. doi: 10.3233/JAD-190310. PMCID: PMC6999832
  • Zissimopoulos, J., Thunell. J., Mudrazija, S. “Parental Income and Wealth Loss and Transfers to their Young Adult Children,” Journal of Family and Economic Issues. 2019. doi: 10.1007/s10834-019-09645-z. PMCID: PMC7236555

2018

  • Barthold, D., Joyce, G., Wharton, W., Kehoe, P., Zissimopoulos, J. “The association of multiple anti-hypertensive medication classes with Alzheimer’s disease incidence across sex, race, and ethnicity”. PLoS ONE. 2018, 13(11): e0206705. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0206705. PMCID: PMC6211717
  • Belsky DW, Domingue BD, Weedow R, Arseneault L, Boardman J, Caspi A, Conley DC, Fletcher J, Freese J, Herd P, Moffitt TE, Poulton R, Sicinski K, Wertz J, Harris KM. “Genetic Analysis of Social-class Mobility in Five Longitudinal Studies.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (Published online July 9, 2018). 2018 Jul 31;115(31), E7275-E7284. doi:10.1073/pnas.1801238115. PMCID: PMC6077729
  • Chen, C., Goldman, D.P., Zissimopoulos, J., J. Rowe, Research Network on an Aging Society. “A Multi-dimensional Comparison of Countries’ Adaptation to Societal Aging,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  Aug 2018, 201806260; doi:10.1073/pnas.1806260115. PMCID: PMC6140517
  • Chen, C., Zissimopoulos, J., “Racial and ethnic disparities in dementia prevalence and risk factors from 2000 to 2012 in the United States,” Alzheimer’s and Dementia Translational Research 4, 2018: 510-520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trci.2018.8.009. PMCID: PMC6197734
  • Crimmins EM, Saito Y, Kim JK, Zhang YS, Sasson I, Hayward MD. “Educational Differences in the Prevalence of Dementia and Life Expectancy with Dementia: Changes from 2000 to 2010.” Journals of Gerontology, Series B. 2018 Apr 16;73(suppl_1):S20-S28. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbx135. PMCID: PMC6019027
  • Goldman, D., Chen, C., Zissimopoulos, J., Rowe, J. “Measuring how Nations Adapt to Societal Aging,” Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, 2018, January 16. 115(3):435-437. doi:10.1073/pnas.1720899115. PMCID:PMC5777012
  • Hummer, R., Gutin, I. “Racial/Ethnic and Nativity Disparities in the Health of Older US Men and Women.” In National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Committee on Population; Majmundar MK, Hayward MD, editors. Future Directions for the Demography of Aging: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2018 Jun 26. 2. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513079/
  • Joyce G., Henkhaus, L., Gascue, L., Zissimopoulos, J. “Generic Drug Price Hikes and Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs for Medicare Beneficiaries.” Health Affairs. 2018. 37(10): 1578-1586.   https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.0628. PMID: 30273018
  • Kim, J.K., Ailshire, J.A., & Crimmins, E.M. “Twenty Year Trends in Cardiovascular Risk among Men and Women in the United States.” Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2018 March 22. doi:10.1007/s40520-018-0932-y. PMCID: PMC6151160
  • Mitchell, U.A., Ailshire, J.A., & Crimmins, EM. “Change in Cardiometabolic Risk among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2018 February 14. doi:10.1093/gerona/gly026. PMCID: PMC6333938
  • Monnat, Shannon M. “Factors Associated with County-Level Differences in U.S. Drug-Related Mortality Rates.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2018. 54(5):611-619. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.01.040. PMCID: PMC6080628
  • Preston SH, Choi D, Elo IT, Stokes A. “Effect of Diabetes on Life Expectancy in the United States by Race and Ethnicity.” Journal of Biodemography and Social Biology. 2018;64(2):139-151. doi:10.1080/19485565.2018.1542291. PMCID: PMC6550350
  • Rigg, K., Monnat, S., Chavez, M,. “Opioid-Related Mortality in Rural America: Geographic Heterogeneity and Intervention Strategies.” International Journal of Drug Policy. 2018. 57:119-129. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.04.011. PMID: 29754032
  • Sheehan C, Montez JK, Sasson I. “Does the Functional Form of the Association Between Education and Mortality Differ by U.S. Region?”. Biodemography and Social Biology. 2018 January;64(1):63-81. doi: 10.1080/19485565.2018.1468239. PMCID: PMC5994609
  • Trejo S, Belsky DW, Sicinski K, Freese J, Herd P, Boardman J, Harris KM, Domingue BW. “Schools as moderators of genetic associations with life-course attainments: Evidence from the WLS and Add Heath.” (2018). Sociological Science, 5;513-540. doi: 10.15195/v5.a22. PMCID: PMC6314676
  • Walsemann, K.M., Hummer, R.A., & Hayward, M. “Heterogeneity in Educational Pathways and the Health Behavior of U.S. Young Adults”. 2018 Population Research and Policy Review, June;37(3), 343-366. doi: 10.1007/s11113-018-9463-7. PMCID: PMC6155998.
  • Zajacova, A., & Montez, JK. “Explaining the Increasing Disability Prevalence among Mid-life US Adults, 2002-2016.” 2018. Social Science and Medicine, doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.05.041. PMCID: PMC6067976
  • Zissimopoulos, J., Tysinger, B., St Clair, P., Crimmins, E. “The Impact of Changes in Population Health and Mortality on Future Prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias in the United States.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2018. Volume 73, Issue suppl_1, 16 April 2018, Pages S38–S47, doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbx147. PMCID: PMC6019010

2017

    • Crimmins E. “Introduction to Issue on Gender Dynamics and Disparities in Health and Mortality.” Journal of Biodemography and Social Biology. 2017;63(1):1-2. doi: 10.1080/19485565.2017.1293423. PMCID: PMC6548185
    • Diaz-Venegas, C., Schneider, DC, Myrskylä, M., & Mehta, NK. “Life Expectancy with and without Cognitive Impairment by Diabetes Status Among Older Americans.” PLoS One, 2017 December 29;12(12). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190488. PMCID: PMC5747473.
    • Elo, I.T., N. Mehta, & S. Preston. “The Contribution of Weight Status to Black-White Differences in Mortality.” Biodemography and Social Biology, 2017,63(3):206-220. doi:10.1080/19485565.2017.1300519.PMCID: PMC5657005
    • Jackson, H. Engelman, M., and Bandeen-Roche, K. “Robust Responders and Lost Limitations: Mortality, Attrition, and the Estimation of Health Trajectories.” Journal of Aging & Health, 2017 December doi:10.1177/0898264317747079. PMCID: PMC5984107
    • Mehta, N., & Myrskylä, M. “The Population Health Benefits of a Healthy Lifestyle: Life Expectancy Increased and Onset of Disability Delayed.” Health Affairs, 2017 June 19, 36(8):1-8. doi:10.1007/s40520-018-0932-y. PMCID: PMC5775051
    • Montez, JK. “Deregulation, Devolution, and State Preemption Laws’ Impact on US Mortality Trends.” American Journal of Public Health, Editorial, November 2017;107(11):e1-e2. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304080. PMCID: PMC5637688
    • Olson JS, Hummer RA, & Harris KM. “Gender and Health Behavior Clustering among U.S. Young Adults.” Biodemography and Social Biology. 2017;63(1):3-20. doi:10.1080/19485565.2016.1262238. PMCID: PMC5351770
      • Zajacova A, & Montez JK. “Physical Functioning Trends among US Women and Men Age 45-64 by Education Level.” Biodemography and Social Biology, 2017;63(1):21-30. doi: 10.1080/19485565.2016.1263150. PMCID: PMC5494255

2016

    • Freedman VA, Wolf DA, & Spillman BC. “Disability-Free Life Expectancy Over 30 Years: A Growing Female Disadvantage in the US Population.” American Journal of Public Health, 2016 June;106(6):1079-85. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303089. PMCID: PMC4860065
    • Mitchell UA, & Aneshensel CS. “Social Inequalities in Inflammation: Age Variations in Older Persons.” Journal of Aging and Health, 2016 April 25. doi:10.1177/0898264316645546. PMCID: PMC5222881
    • Mitchell UA, Ailshire JA, Brown LL, Levine ME, & Crimmins EM. “Education and Psychosocial Functioning Among Older Adults: 4-Year Change in Sense of Control and Hopelessness.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Science, 2016 March 24, 73(5):849-859. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbw031. PMCID: PMC6283311
    • Montez JK, Zajacova A, & Hayward MD. “Explaining Inequalities in Women’s Mortality Between U.S. States.” Social Science and Medicine – Population Health, 2016 December;2:561-571. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.07.004. PMCID: PMC5049881