Angela M. O'Rand
Director of the Center for Population Health and Aging
Director of the Duke University Population Research Institute
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 thirty-three years I have examined workplace policies related to wage and benefit structures and the impact of workers' educational, work and family histories on wage and fringe benefit 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 midlife health risks, such as heart attack. This research has uncovered the persistent effects of childhood adversity on midlife 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.
Publications
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O'Rand, AM; Hamil-Luker, J; Elman, C (2009). Childhood adversity, educational trajectories, and self-reported health in later life among US women and men at the turn of the century. Zeitschrift fur Erziehungswissenschaft, 12 (3), 409-436.
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O'Rand, AM (2009). Cumulative processes in the life course. 121-140.
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O'Rand, AM; Ebel, D (2009). Private Pensions in International Perspective. 429-444.
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O'Rand, AM; Glen H Elder, J (2008). Changing Societies and Changing Lives. 202-216.
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O'Rand, AM; Shuey, KM (2007). Gender and the devolution of pension risks in the US. Current Sociology, 55 (2), 287-304.
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Hamil-Luker, J; O'Rand, AM (2007). Gender differences in the link between childhood socioeconomic conditions and heart attack risk in adulthood.. Demography, 44 (1), 137-158.
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Elman, C; O'Rand, AM (2007). The effects of social origins, life events, and institutional sorting on adults' school transitions. Social Science Research, 36 (3), 1276-1299.
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Shuey, KM; O'Rand, AM (2006). Changing demographics and new pension risks. Research on Aging, 28 (3), 317-340.
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O'Rand, AM (2006). From adolescence to adulthood in the Vietnam era. Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation, 84 (4), 2365-2367.
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O'Rand, AM; Shuey, K (2006). Old and New Risks for Workers. Research on Aging, 28 317-340.