Publications

Marriage and Health

L. Jin, F. Elwert, J. Freese, and N.A. Christakis, "Reduction in Long-Term Survival in Men Given High Operational Sex Ratio at Sexual Maturity," Demography under revision. (Current version)

N.A. Christakis and P.D. Allison, "Inter-Spousal Mortality Effects: Caregiver Burden Across the Spectrum of Disabling Disease," in D. Cutler et al., eds., Health in Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly, in press, 2008

K.P. Smith and N.A. Christakis, "Association Between Widowhood and Risk of Diagnosis with Sexually Transmitted Infection in Older Adults," American Journal of Public Health 99(11): 2055-2062 (November 2009) MS#103

L. Jin and N.A. Christakis, "Investigating the Mechanism of Marital Mortality Reduction: The Transition to Widowhood and Quality of Health Care," Demography 46(3): 605-625 (August 2009) MS#100

F. Elwert and N.A. Christakis, "Variation in the Effect of Widowhood on Mortality by the Causes of Death of Both Spouses," American Journal of Public Health  98(11): 2092-2098 (November 2008) MS#092

F. Elwert and N.A. Christakis, "Wives and Ex-Wives: A New Test for Homogamy Bias in the Widower Effect," Demography  45(4): in press (November 2008) MS#091

K.P. Smith and N.A. Christakis, "Social Networks and Health," Annual Review of Sociology  34: 405-429 (August 2008) MS#088

S.V. Subramanian, F. Elwert, and N.A. Christakis, "Widowhood and Mortality Among the Elderly: The Modifying Role of Neighborhood Concentration of Widowed Individuals," Social Science and Medicine  66(4): 873-884 (February 2008) MS#081

K. Zivin and N.A. Christakis, "The Emotional Toll of Spousal Morbidity and Mortality," American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 15(9): 772-779 (September 2007)
MS#079

F. Elwert and N.A. Christakis, "Widowhood and Race," ASR: American Sociological Review  71(1): 16-41 (February 2006) MS#073 (For supplementary online material about this paper, click here.)

N.A. Christakis and P.D. Allison, "Mortality After the Hospitalization of a Spouse," New England Journal of Medicine  354(7): 719-730 (February 2006) MS#072

T.J. Iwashyna and N.A. Christakis, "Marriage, Widowhood, and Health Care Use," Social Science and Medicine  57(11): 2137-2147  (December 2003) MS#063

N.A. Christakis and T.J. Iwashyna, "The Health Impact on Families of Health Care: A Matched Cohort Study of Hospice Use by Decedents and Mortality Outcomes in Surviving, Widowed Spouses," Social Science and Medicine  57(3): 465-475 (August 2003) MS#062

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