Publications

Social Networks and Interpersonal Health Effects

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

N.A. Christakis and J.H. Fowler, "Social Network Visualizations in Epidemiology," Norwegian Journal of Epidemiology 19(1): 5-16 (March 2009) MS#097

J.H. Fowler, C.T. Dawes, and N.A. Christakis, "Model of Genetic Variation in Human Social Networks," PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  106(6): 1720-1724 (February 2009) MS#096  [Supplementary Information | Supplementary Appendix]  (Editorial)

J.H. Fowler and N.A. Christakis, "The Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis Over 20 Years in the Framingham Heart Study," British Medical Journal  2008; 337: a2338 (doi:10.1136/bmj.a2338) (December 2008) MS#095  (Editorial I | Editorial II)  (For supplementary online material about this paper, click here.)

K. Lewis, J. Kaufman, and N.A. Christakis, "The Taste for Privacy: An Analysis of College Student Privacy Settings in an Online Social Network," Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 14(1): 79-100 (December 2008) MS#094

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. Lewis, J. Kaufman, M. Gonzalez, A. Wimmer, and N.A. Christakis, "Tastes, Ties, and Time: A New (Cultural, Multiplex, and Longitudinal) Social Network Dataset Using Facebook.com," Social Networks  30(4): 330-342 (October 2008) MS#090

J.H. Fowler and N.A. Christakis, "Estimating Peer Effects on Health in Social Networks," Journal of Health Economics  27(5): 1386-1391 (September 2008) MS#089 (For an earlier version of this paper, with full Monte Carol simulations and supplementary material, click here.)

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

N.A. Christakis and J.H. Fowler, "The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network," New England Journal of Medicine  358(21): 2249-2258 (May 2008) MS#083 (For supplementary online material about this paper, click here.)
Watch video here. For a downloadable copy of the original animation of the collective dynamics of smoking [without narration], click here. (PC users right click link, MAC users click and hold.)  (Editorial)

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

N.A. Christakis and J.H. Fowler, "The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years," New England Journal of Medicine  357(4): 370-379 (July 2007) MS#078 (For supplementary online material about this paper, click here.) Watch video here. For a downloadable copy of the original animation of the spread of obesity [without narration], click here. (PC users right click link, MAC users click and hold.)  (Editorial)

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

N.A. Christakis, "Social Networks and Collateral Health Effects – Have Been Ignored in Medical Care and Clinical Trials, But Need to Be Studied," British Medical Journal  329(7459): 184-185 (July 2004) MS#065

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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