Previous research has documented changes in health differentials by marital status over
time. However, recent shifts in family patterns and continuing socioeconomic changes …

Education's benefits for individuals' health are well documented, but it is unclear whether
health benefits also accrue from the education of others in important social relationships. We …

Objectives: This study examines educational differences in living alone and in self-rated
health trends among middle-aged and older adults. Methods: We used logistic regression to …

BACKGROUND The percentage of older adults in the United States reporting being in good
health has increased since the 1980s. OBJECTIVE This study tries to explain long-term …

Although the meanings and rates of being married, divorced, separated, never-married, and
widowed have changed significantly over the past several decades, we know very little …

Recent literature has documented changes in educational differences in health over recent
time periods, across the life course, and by gender and race. We unite previous literature …

Research examining gender differences in self-rated health (SRH) has typically not
distinguished between age and cohort-related changes in the health of men and women …

Extensive evidence leads us to expect that health disparities by race and socioeconomic
status found in one generation might be reproduced in the next. To the extent that this occurs …

Using a national sample of single mothers from the 2007 and 2009 waves of the Panel
Study of Income Dynamics, this study examined the effects of multiple employment statuses …

This study provides a systematic assessment of US differentials in self-rated health over the
past five decades (1972–2018) at the intersection of race and gender (ie, White men, White …