Gender, Work and Family across the Life Course
Despite rapid progress towards gender equality in United States workplaces and households since the 1960s, progress towards gender parity has stalled in the past twenty years. In a series of papers, I demonstrate the utility of the life course perspective in articulating the mechanisms underpinning this persistent gender inequality in the labor force and within families. For example, in a first-authored paper (with Sarah Burgard, Advances in Life Course Research 2018), we use fixed effect models and multi-wave data to document how work-home spillover ebbs and flows for parents as children age from infancy to adolescence to adulthood, and whether this pattern differs for mothers and fathers (Mid-Life in the United States 1995-2006). In a solo-authored paper I analyze interview data from 60 medical trainees at two different stages of training – the end of medical school and the end of medical residency – to investigate how work and family factors shape their early career decisions (manuscript available upon request). In a second-authored paper (with Catherine Doren), we document gender disparities in earnings trajectories by race and education by estimating individual growth curve models using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. We argue that male labor market advantage uniquely intersects with racial and educational advantages, in cumulative ways, to produce divergent or parallel trajectories between men and women, across social groups. (revise and resubmit, manuscript available upon request).
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Health Disparities over the Life Course
In a separate stream of research, I utilize a life course perspective to examine the production and maintenance of health inequality, with an emphasis on documenting health disparities within aging populations. This research focuses on the role of work and home exposures over the life course, and how these exposures shape differential health experiences later in life. In a second-authored paper (Journal of Gerontology: Series B Social Sciences 2018), my co-authors and I investigate how individuals transition between health behavior profiles as they age. In a first-authored paper (with James Raymo, Rob Warren, and Andrew Halpern-Manners) my co-authors and I investigate the role that lifetime work histories play in explaining educational health disparities at later-life.
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Professional Socialization and Autonomy: The Case of the Medical Profession
My other on-going research focuses on the medical profession during a period of system-wide healthcare reform. I am particularly interested in the socialization and professionalization processes in medical education as well as the state of professional autonomy amongst practicing physicians. In a sole-authored paper published in Social Science and Medicine, I use four waves of the CTS Physician Study to examine how physicians practicing in a variety of practice types (solo, small group, and large group practices) perceive their levels of autonomy. In a first-authored paper also published in Social Science and Medicine, I use qualitative interview data to document how premedical students strike the balance between competing and cooperating with their peers.
Click here to see my physician autonomy paper.
Click here to see my premedical experience paper.
Despite rapid progress towards gender equality in United States workplaces and households since the 1960s, progress towards gender parity has stalled in the past twenty years. In a series of papers, I demonstrate the utility of the life course perspective in articulating the mechanisms underpinning this persistent gender inequality in the labor force and within families. For example, in a first-authored paper (with Sarah Burgard, Advances in Life Course Research 2018), we use fixed effect models and multi-wave data to document how work-home spillover ebbs and flows for parents as children age from infancy to adolescence to adulthood, and whether this pattern differs for mothers and fathers (Mid-Life in the United States 1995-2006). In a solo-authored paper I analyze interview data from 60 medical trainees at two different stages of training – the end of medical school and the end of medical residency – to investigate how work and family factors shape their early career decisions (manuscript available upon request). In a second-authored paper (with Catherine Doren), we document gender disparities in earnings trajectories by race and education by estimating individual growth curve models using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. We argue that male labor market advantage uniquely intersects with racial and educational advantages, in cumulative ways, to produce divergent or parallel trajectories between men and women, across social groups. (revise and resubmit, manuscript available upon request).
Click here to see my work-home spillover paper
Health Disparities over the Life Course
In a separate stream of research, I utilize a life course perspective to examine the production and maintenance of health inequality, with an emphasis on documenting health disparities within aging populations. This research focuses on the role of work and home exposures over the life course, and how these exposures shape differential health experiences later in life. In a second-authored paper (Journal of Gerontology: Series B Social Sciences 2018), my co-authors and I investigate how individuals transition between health behavior profiles as they age. In a first-authored paper (with James Raymo, Rob Warren, and Andrew Halpern-Manners) my co-authors and I investigate the role that lifetime work histories play in explaining educational health disparities at later-life.
Click here to see my health behavior profiles paper
Professional Socialization and Autonomy: The Case of the Medical Profession
My other on-going research focuses on the medical profession during a period of system-wide healthcare reform. I am particularly interested in the socialization and professionalization processes in medical education as well as the state of professional autonomy amongst practicing physicians. In a sole-authored paper published in Social Science and Medicine, I use four waves of the CTS Physician Study to examine how physicians practicing in a variety of practice types (solo, small group, and large group practices) perceive their levels of autonomy. In a first-authored paper also published in Social Science and Medicine, I use qualitative interview data to document how premedical students strike the balance between competing and cooperating with their peers.
Click here to see my physician autonomy paper.
Click here to see my premedical experience paper.
