Social class inequalities in health and mortality have become an increasingly prominent
topic of study among sociologists, demographers, economists, and social epidemiologists …

In today's research environment, children's diet, physical activity, and other lifestyle factors
are commonly studied in the context of health, independent of their effect on cognition and …

While social scientists have documented severe consequences of job loss, scant research
investigates why workers lose their jobs. We explore the role of housing insecurity in …

Stress proliferation theory suggests that parental incarceration may have deleterious
intergenerational health consequences. In this study, I use data from the 2011–2012 …

The prevalence and consequences of eviction have transformed the lived experience of
urban poverty in America, yet little is known about why some families avoid eviction while …

Studies of the early-life origins of adult physical functioning and mortality have found that
childhood health and socioeconomic context are important predictors, often irrespective of …

A lifecourse perspective is key for understanding and interpreting racial and ethnic patterns
in neuropsychological test performance. In this article, we discuss contextual factors that …

Has the shape of the association between educational attainment and US adult mortality
changed in recent decades? If so, is it changing consistently across demographic groups …

Few studies have specifically examined trajectories of functional health status or estimated
the extent to which they are influenced by childhood health and socioeconomic conditions …

Past unemployment may have a pervasive psychological impact that occurs across nations.
We investigate the association between unemployment events across working life and …