Socius Abstract: How significant are behavioral causes of death—suicide, homicide, accidental poisoning, and traffic accidents—in determining how long Americans live? By “determining,” the authors mean limiting or reducing, as they are looking at factors (causes of death) that reduce an individual’s length of life. This data visualization portrays the extent to which deaths from homicide, …

Science Advances Abstract: How are children’s fluoride exposures associated with cognitive test performance in adolescence and midlife? Whereas most prior research has estimated effects of exposure to extremely high levels of fluoride, we consider exposure to levels of fluoride within the range typical in most places and of greatest relevance to policy debates about government …

JAMA Network Open Abstract: Importance  The incidence and prevalence of clinical Alzheimer disease (AD) are higher among Black and Latinx older adults than among White older adults. Past studies that compared plasma AD biomarker concentrations among groups minoritized by their race and ethnicity yielded inconsistent findings; however, these efforts did not include population representative samples …

Social Science & Medicine Abstract: Despite extensive research demonstrating how marriage affects health, less is known about how health changes impact marriages, particularly when one spouse’s health declines. This study extends the stress process model to dyadic contexts to ask whether and how one spouse’s cognitive decline is associated with the other spouse’s perceived marital …

Book chapter in Oxford Handbook of Social Stratification Abstract: The transitions from state socialism to market economies in the late twentieth century represented a profound transformation in virtually all aspects of the economic and social lives of the populations who experienced it. This chapter summarizes the voluminous literature that has arisen since the onset of …

Sociological Theory Abstract: Approaches to the study of markets in economic sociology have been converging with an approach to markets found in the field of evolutionary economics. In this view, markets are treated as sets of rules that facilitate the exchange of goods and information. These rule sets can be modeled and formalized as evolving …