2024

Luck, Anneliese N. 2024. “The Distribution of Carceral Harm: County-Level Jail Incarceration and Mortality by Race, Sex, and Age.” Demography. Forthcoming.

Paglino, Eugenio and Irma T. Elo. 2024. “Immigrant Mortality Advantage in the United States During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Demographic Research 50(7):185-204. PMCID: PMC10861242.

Paglino, Eugenio, Dielle J. Lundberg, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Zhenwei Zhou, Joe A. Wasserman, Rafeya Raquib, Yea-Hung Chen, Katherine Hempstead, Samuel H. Preston, Irma T. Elo, M. Maria Glymour, and Andrew C. Stokes. “Excess Natural-Cause Mortality in US Counties and Its Association With Reported COVID-19 Deaths.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 121(6):e2313661121. PMCID: PMC10861891. Originally published as a medRxiv preprint: “Differences Between Reported COVID-19 Deaths and Estimated Excess Deaths in Counties Across the United States, March 2020 to February 2022.”

Paglino, Eugenio and Andrew C. Stokes. 2024. “Excess Mortality as a Tool to Monitor the Evolution of Health Emergencies: Choices, Challenges, and Future Directions.” American Journal of Public Health 114(6): 583–586. PMCID: PMC11079833.

Preston, Samuel, Yana Vierboom, and Mikko Myrskylä. 2024. “Socio-behavioral factors contributing to recent mortality trends in the United States.”  Demographic Research 51(7):191-214.

Wilkie, Rachel Z. and Jessica Y. Ho. 2024. “Life Expectancy and Geographic Variation in Mortality: An Observational Comparison Study of Six High-Income Anglophone Countries.” BMJ Open 14:e079365.

Xie, Wubin, Heather E. Hsu, Paul R. Shafer, Meghan I. Podolsky and Andrew C. Stokes. 2024. “Metabolic Disease and The Risk of Post-COVID Conditions: A Retrospective Cohort Study.“ medRxiv [preprint]. PMCID: PMC10996723.

2023

Hendi, Arun. 2023. “Estimation of Confidence Intervals for Decompositions and Other Complex Demographic Estimators.” Demographic Research 49(5):83-108. PMCID: PMC10795479.

Luck, Anneliese N., Irma T. Elo, Samuel H. Preston, Eugenio Paglino, Katherine Hempstead & Andrew C. Stokes. 2023. “COVID-19 and All-Cause Mortality by Race, Ethnicity, and Age across Five Periods of the Pandemic in the United States.” Population Research and Policy Review 42,71. PMCID: PMC10540502.

Luck, Anneliese N., Andrew C. Stokes, Katherine Hempstead, Eugenio Paglino, and Samuel H. Preston. 2023. “Associations Between Mortality From COVID-19 and Other Causes: A State-Level Analysis.” PLOS One 18(3):e0281683. PMCID: PMC9987806.

Lundberg, Dielle J., Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Ahyoung Cho, Rafeya Raquib, Elaine O. Nsoesie, Eugenio Paglino, Ruijia Chen, Mathew V. Kiang, Alicia R. Riley, Yea-Hung Chen, Marie-Laure Charpignon, Katherine Hempstead, Samuel H. Preston, Irma T. Elo, M. Maria Glymour & Andrew C. Stokes. 2023. “COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas of the Unites States from March 2020 to February 2022.” JAMA Network Open 6(5):e2311098. PMCID:  PMC10155069. Originally published as: Geographic and Temporal Patterns in Covid-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity in the United States from March 2020 to February 2022.

Monnat, Shannon M. & Irma T. Elo. 2023.  “Geographic Inequalities in Health and Mortality: Factors Contributing to Trends and Differentials .” Frontiers in Public Health 11:1217803.

Paglino, Eugenio,  Dielle J. Lundberg, Zhenwei Zhou, Joe A. Wasserman, Rafeya Raquib, Anneliese N. Luck, Katherine Hempstead, Jacob Bor, Samuel H. Preston, Irma T. Elo, & Andrew C. Stokes. 2023. Monthly Excess Mortality across Counties in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 2020 to February 2022. Science Advances 9(25):eadf9742. PMCID: PMC10289647. Originally published as: Monthly Excess Mortality across counties in the United States during the Covid-19 Pandemic, March 2020 to February 2022.

Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth, Kaitlyn M. Berry, Andrew C. Stokes, and Jonathon P. Leider. 2023. “COVID-19 Vaccination and Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Mortality at Midlife in Minnesota.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 64(2):259-264.

2022

Ackley, Calvin A., Dielle J. Lundberg, Lei Ma, Irma T. Elo, Samuel H. Preston, and Andrew C. Stokes. 2022. “County-Level Estimates of Excess Mortality Associated with COVID-19 in the United States.” SSM – Population Health 17:101021. PMCID: PMC8730693.

Aschmann, Helene E., Alicia R. Riley, Ruijia Chen, Yea-Hung Chen, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Andrew C. Stokes, M. Maria Glymour, & Mathew V. Kiang. 2022. “Dynamics of Racial Disparities in All-Cause Mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119(40):e2210941119. PMCID: PMC9546535.

Choi, Daesung, Unjali P. Gujral & Shivani A. Patel. 2022. “Mortality Differentials by Previous Diagnosis of Diabetes and Glycemic Status in the United States.” Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications 36(9):108250. PMCID: PMC10420970.

Choi, Daesung, K. M. Venkat Narayan & Shivani A. Patel. 2022. “Disparities in Diabetes between US-Born and Foreign-Born Population: Using Three Diabetes Indicators.” Biodemography and Social Biology 67(1):16-27. PMCID: PMC9039242.

Elo, Irma T., Anneliese Luck, Andrew C. Stokes, Katherine Hempstead, Wubin Xie,  & Samuel H. Preston. 2022. “Evaluation of Age Patterns of COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity from March 2020 to October 2021 in the US.” JAMA Network Open 5(8):e2228383. PMCID: PMC9115616.

Graetz, Nick and Irma T. Elo. 2022. “Decomposing County-Level Working-Age Mortality Trends in the United States between 1999–2001 and 2015–2017.” Spatial Demography 10(1):33-74. PMCID: PMC9435968.

Hendi, Arun S. & Jessica Y. Ho. 2022. “Smoking and the Widening Inequality in Life Expectancy between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas of the United States.” Frontiers in Public Health 10:942842. PMCID: PMC9490306.

Ho, Jessica Y. 2022. “Causes of America’s Lagging Life Expectancy: An International Comparative Perspective.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 77(Supplement_2):S117–S126. PMCID: PMC9154274.

Ho, J.Y. and Y. Franco. 2022. “The Rising Burden of Alzheimer’s Disease Mortality in Rural America.” SSM – Population Health 17:101052. PMCID: PMC8886050.

Luck, Anneliese N., Samuel H. Preston, Irma T. Elo, and Andrew C. Stokes. 2022. “The Unequal Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Capturing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in US Cause-Specific Mortality.” SSM – Population Health 17:101012. PMCID: PMC8697426.

Monnat, Shannon M. & Irma T. Elo. 2022. “Enhancing the Utility of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to Identify Drivers of Rising Mortality Rates in the United States.” Forum for Health Economics and Policy 25(1-2):57-84. PMCID: PMC9448826.

Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth, Kaitlyn M. Berry, Andrew C. Stokes & Jonathon P. Leider. 2022. “‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’? At Midlife, White People are Less vaccinated but Still at Less Risk of Covid-19 Mortality in Minnesota.” medRxiv [Preprint] 2022.03.02.22271808. PMCID: PMC8923115.

2021

Hendi, Arun S. and Jessica Y. Ho. 2021. “Immigration and Improvements in American Life Expectancy.” SSM – Population Health 15:100914. PMCID: PMC8426263.

Hendi, Arun S., Irma T. Elo, and Pekka Martikainen. 2021. “The Implications of Changing Education Distributions for Life Expectancy Gradients.” Social Science & Medicine 272:113712. PMCID: PMC7969123.

Preston, Samuel H. and Yana C. Vierboom. 2021. “Excess Mortality in the United States in the 21st Century.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118(16):e2024850118. PMCID: PMC8072323.

Stokes, Andrew C., Dielle J. Lundberg, Irma T. Elo, Katherine Hempstead, Jacob Bor, and Samuel H. Preston. 2021. “COVID-19 and Excess Mortality in the United States: A County-Level Analysis.” PLOS Medicine 18(5):e1003571. PMCID: PMC8136644. (medRxiv preprint: “Assessing the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on US Mortality: A County-Level Analysis.”)

Stokes, Andrew C., Dielle J. Lundberg, Jacob Bor, Irma T. Elo, Katherine Hempstead, and Samuel H. Preston. 2021. “Association of Health Care Factors with Excess Deaths Not Assigned to COVID-19 in the US.” JAMA Network Open 4(9):e2125287. PMCID: PMC8438594.

2020

Glei, Dana A. and Samuel H. Preston. 2020. “Estimating the Impact of Drug Use on US Mortality, 1999-2016.” PLOS ONE 15(1):e0226732. PMCID: PMC6961845.

Graetz, Nick, Samuel H. Preston, Morgan Peele, and Irma T. Elo. 2020. “Ecological Factors Associated with Suicide Mortality among Non-Hispanic Whites.” BMC Public Health 20(1):1339. PMCID: PMC7469302.

Ho, Jessica Y. 2020. “Cycles of Gender Convergence and Divergence in Drug Overdose Mortality.” Population and Development Review 46(3): 443-470. PMCID: PMC7880043.

Mehta, Neil, Sari Stenholm, Satu Männistö, Pekka Jousilahti, and Irma T. Elo. 2020. “Excess Body Weight, Cigarette Smoking, and Type II Diabetes Incidence in the National FINRISK Studies.” Annals of Epidemiology 42:12-18. PMCID: PMC7231607.

Vierboom, Yana C. and Samuel H. Preston. 2020. “Life Beyond 65: Changing Spatial Patterns of Survival at Older Ages in the United States, 2000–2016.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 70(5):1093-1103. PMCID: PMC7161363.

2019

Elo, Irma T., Arun S. Hendi, Jessica Y. Ho, Yana C. Vierboom, and Samuel H. Preston. 2019. “Trends in Non-Hispanic White Mortality in the United States by Metropolitan-Nonmetropolitan Status and Region, 1990-2016.” Population and Development Review 45(3):549-583. PMCID: PMC6771562.

Ho, Jessica Y. 2019. “The Contemporary American Drug Overdose Epidemic in International Perspective.” Population and Development Review 45(1):7-40. PMCID: PMC6527318.

Vierboom, Yana C., Samuel H. Preston, and Arun S. Hendi. 2019. “Rising Geographic Inequality in Mortality in the United States.” SSM – Population Health 9:100478. PMCID: PMC6804490.

2018

Ho, Jessica Y. and Arun S. Hendi. 2018. “Recent Trends in Life Expectancy across High-Income Countries: A Retrospective Observational Study.” The BMJ 362: k2562. PMCID: PMC6103465.

Preston, Samuel H., Daesung Choi, Irma T. Elo and Andrew Stokes. 2018. “Effect of Diabetes on Life Expectancy in the United States by Race and Ethnicity.” Biodemography and Social Biology 64(2): 139-151. PMCID: PMC6550350.

Preston, Samuel H., Yana C. Vierboom, and Andrew Stokes. 2018. “The Role of Obesity in Exceptionally Slow US Mortality Improvement.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115(5): 957-961. PMCID: PMC5798364.

Stokes, Andrew, Jason M. Collins, Bethany F. Grant, Robin F. Scamuffa, Chia-Wen Hsiao, Stephen S. Johnston, Eric M. Ammann, JoAnn E. Manson, and Samuel H. Preston. 2018. “Obesity Progression Between Young Adulthood and Midlife and Incident Diabetes: A Retrospective Cohort Study of U.S. Adults.” Diabetes Care 41 (5): 1025-1031. PMCID: PMC5911788.

Vierboom, Yana C., Samuel H. Preston, and Andrew Stokes. 2018. “Patterns of Weight Change Associated with Disease Diagnosis in a National Sample.” PLOS ONE 13(11):e0207795. PMCID: PMC6261267.

2017

Stokes, Andrew and Samuel H. Preston. 2017. “Deaths Attributable to Diabetes in the United States: Comparison of Data Sources and Estimation Approaches.” PLoS One 12(1):e0170219. PMCID: PMC5266275.

Stokes, Andrew and Samuel H. Preston. 2017. “The Contribution of Rising Adiposity to the Increasing Prevalence of Diabetes in the United States.” Preventive Medicine 101:91-95. PMCID: PMC5540312.