My teaching and research interests focus on social inequality and health. My interest in the general area of social inequality is a product of my early graduate training in social demography. During ...

The past two decades has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of the health and well-being of the older population. The workshop looked at these recent trends and set the stage for the next ...

In this course we will look at the social consequences of demographic processes including intermarriage, differential fertility, population aging, and demographic transitions. The emphasis of the ...

BACKGROUND Individual lifespans differ. Some of those differences are due to heterogeneity, some to stochasticity. Some of the heterogeneity is due to socioeconomic, physiological, or environmental ...