(919) 660-5629
Box 90088, 417 Chapel Drive
Durham, NC 27708
417 Chapel Hill Drive, Campus Box 90088
Durham, NC 27708
Angela M. O'Rand
Director of the Duke University Population Research Institute
Director of the Center for Population Health and Aging
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
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Overview
My major research interests focus on patterns of inequality across the life span, with a special interest in the temporal diversity of life transitions, their consequences for later life, and the impact of institutions on these transitions over time. Over forty years I have examined workplace policies related to wage and benefit structures and the impact of workers' educational, work and family histories on socioeconomic outcomes. The changing employment relationship and the re-organization of retirement institutions (especially pensions) have been a central concern of my research. Most recently, I have turned to the cumulative impact of economic adversity on mid- and later-life health risks, such as heart attack. This research has uncovered the persistent effects of childhood adversity on adult heart attack risk, especially among women. I am expanding this focus over the next few years to examine the more general question of "life course risks" and increased economic and social inequalities in life course trajectories of health and wealth (including the role of debt as a stressor).
Education
Ph.D., Temple University (1974)
Publications
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Jones, SA; Li, Q; Aiello, AE; O'Rand, AM; Evenson, KR (2018). Correlates of changes in walking during the retirement transition: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.. Preventive Medicine Reports, 11 221-230.
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Noppert, GA; Aiello, AE; O'Rand, AM; Cohen, HJ (2018). Investigating pathogen burden in relation to a cumulative deficits index in a representative sample of US adults.. Epidemiology and Infection, 146 (15), 1968-1976.
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Jones, SA; Li, Q; Aiello, AE; O'Rand, AM; Evenson, KR (2018). Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Retirement: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 54 (6), 786-794.
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Zeng, Y; Nie, C; Min, J; Chen, H; Liu, X; Ye, R; Chen, Z; Bai, C; Xie, E; Yin, Z; Lv, Y; Lu, J; Li, J; Ni, T; Bolund, L; Land, KC; Yashin, A; O'Rand, AM; Sun, L; Yang, Z; Tao, W; Gurinovich, A; Franceschi, C; Xie, J; Gu, J; Hou, Y; Liu, X; Xu, X; Robine, J-M; Deelen, J; Sebastiani, P; Slagboom, E; Perls, T; Hauser, E; Gottschalk, W; Tan, Q; Christensen, K; Shi, X; Lutz, M; Tian, X-L; Yang, H; Vaupel, J (2018). Sex Differences in Genetic Associations With Longevity.. Jama Network Open, 1 (4),
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Remle, RC; O'Rand, AM (2013). Intergenerational Solidarity in Blended Families: The Inequality of Financial Transfers to Adult Children and Stepchildren. 31-58.
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O'Rand, AM (2013). The devolution of risk and the changing life course (reprint).
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O'Rand, AM (2012). Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: latest words on "life words".. Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 67 (2), 235-237.
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Brown, TH; O'Rand, AM; Adkins, DE (2012). Race-ethnicity and health trajectories: tests of three hypotheses across multiple groups and health outcomes.. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 53 (3), 359-377.
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(2012). The Changing Life Course. 197-211.
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O'rand, AM (2011). 2010 SSS presidential address: The devolution of risk and the changing life course in the United States. Social Forces; a Scientific Medium of Social Study and Interpretation, 90 (1), 1-16.