Category Archives: Life Course

Mortality and Work-Family Trajectories for U.S. Women, 1968–2013

Cluster member Sarah McKetta, working with Seth Prins, Jonathan Platt, Lisa Bates, and Katherine Keyes, recently published research examining social roles of US women and how the patterning of these roles impacts mortality. Changes in employment patterns in the 20th … Continue reading

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Retirement Sequences and Functional Ability in Later Life

Social Epidemiology Unit member Esteban Calvo and his coauthors recently published research in the Journal of Aging and Health on the dynamic association between retirement sequences and functional ability.  The work highlights potential new approaches to simultaneously promote productive engagement … Continue reading

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From snapshots to movies: Labor-force sequences and health trajectories in old age

On Wednesday Feb 1 Social Epi Cluster Faculty member Esteban Calvo, will give a talk entitled, “From snapshots to movies: Labor-force sequences and health trajectories in old age”. When a continuous motion is represented as a series of snapshots of … Continue reading

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