Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print. Prior research documents associations between personal network characteristics and health, but establishing causation has been a long-standing research priority. To evaluate approaches to causal in…
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print. Affective polarization—the tendency for individuals to exhibit animosity toward those on the opposite side of the partisan divide—has increased in the United States in recent years. This article pr…
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print. The idea that socioeconomic differences are a “fundamental cause” of health and well-being is the basis for large volumes of research. However, one of the challenges in this area is that of linking…
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print. Suicide is steadily rising. Many blamed worsening economic conditions for this trend. Sociological theory established clear pathways between joblessness and suicide focused on status threat, shame,…
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print. This study examined the cross-sectional associations between intergenerational caregiving and health risks among sandwiched Chinese grandparents who provide care to grandchildren, great-grandparent…
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print. This study analyzes the longitudinal association between precarious employment and physical and mental health in a dualized labor market by disaggregating between-employee and within-employee effec…
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print. Policy mechanisms shaping population health take numerous forms, from behavioral prohibitions to mandates for action to surveillance. Rising drug overdoses undermined the state’s ability to promote…
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print. Quantitative studies of racial health disparities often use static measures of self-reported race and conventional regression estimators, which critics argue is inconsistent with social-constructiv…
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print. Although empirical work has shown that personal and spousal education are both related to health, the nature of these associations has been harder to establish. People select into marriages on the …
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print. Although physical pain lies at the intersection of biology and social conditions, a sociology of pain is still in its infancy. We seek to show how physical and psychological pain are jointly parts …