Janet Wilmoth

Biographic Data

ID121265
NAMEJanet Wilmoth
GIVEN NAMESJanet
FAMILY NAMEWilmoth
SIGNATUREWILMOTH J
AFFILIATIONSJanet Wilmoth is an associate professor of sociology, director of the sociology undergraduate program, and senior research associate in the Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University. Her research examines older adult migration, living arrangements, social support, and health status. In addition, she is interested in pedagogical issues related to social statistics, research methods, and social gerontology courses.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS58
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX2

  • Aging, Demography of

    Open AccessRebecca Wang, Janet Wilmoth et al.OTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2016

    The demography of aging primarily uses quantitative methods to document population aging worldwide and in the United States. In doing so, it provides a justification for studying older adults, identifies the demographic mechanisms driving population aging, and considers the various consequences of shifting population age structure. Demography of aging documents changes in mortality, morbidity, and disability, and identifies trends in the composit…

  • The Influence of Veteran Status, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and Traumatic Brain Injury on Inadequate Sleep

    A S London, Sarah Burgard et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Sociology & Social…2014

    Adequate sleep is essential for health, social participation, and wellbeing. We use 2010 and 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data (N = 35,602) to examine differences in sleep adequacy between: non-veterans; non-combat veterans with no psychiatric diagnosis or traumatic brain injury (TBI); combat veterans with no psychiatric diagnosis or TBI; and veterans (non-combat and combat combined) with a psychiatric diagnosis and/or TBI. On …

  • Aging, Demography of

    Open AccessCharles F Longino, Janet Wilmoth et al.OTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2007

    Demography is the scientific study of human populations. Its origins are as old as those of science. The demography of aging, on the other hand, did not begin to emerge as a distinct subfield until the second half of the twentieth century, when low fertility and mortality rates were creating dramatic shifts in the age structure of developed countries. In 1980, Jacob Siegel devoted his presidential address to the Population Association of America …

  • Special Reviewers

    Open AccessJoyce Abma, Alan Acock et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2005

  • Questions and Comments about National, Externally Graded Assessment Exams: A Response to Wagenaar

    Open AccessJanet Wilmoth, Janet M WilmothARTICLETeaching Sociology2004Cited by: 1

    EDGE Theodore Wagenaar extends an invitation to readers to engage in a conversation about the merits of using a national, externally graded essay exam to assess undergraduate students. This invitation is appropriate, given that there are few comprehensive assessment instruments in sociology and none, to my knowledge, that has been endorsed by the American Sociological Association. Perhaps, through a collective dialogue we can arrive at a reasonab…

  • Arranjos de vida de idosos nos Estados Unidos

    Open AccessJanet Wilmoth, Janet M WilmothARTICLESociologias2002References: 30

    Este artigo repassa a literatura corrente no que se refere a arranjos de vida (condições e locais de moradia e co-habitação) entre idosos nos EUA. As razões para o estudo dos arranjos de vida estão delineadas e as tendências agregadas estão humanizadas. Os dois modelos conceituais comumente usados nesta área de pesquisa estão apresentados. Estes modelos identificam as características de nível que influenciam os arranjos de vida na terceira idade.…

  • Does Marital History Matter? Marital Status and Wealth Outcomes Among Preretirement Adults

    Open AccessJanet Wilmoth, Janet M Wilmoth et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2002Cited by: 49References: 27

    Data from the 1992 Health and Retirement Survey are used to specify ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models predicting wealth. Separate models are estimated for men and women. The results indicate that individuals who are not continuously married have significantly lower wealth than those who remain married throughout the life course. Remarriage offsets the negative effect of a marital dissolution. There are significant gender differences …

  • Teaching Students Inferential Statistics: A "Tail" of Three Distributions

    John Wybraniec, Janet Wilmoth et al.ARTICLETeaching Sociology1999Cited by: 6

    THERE IS LITTLE question that fundamental concepts of statistics are quintessentially abstract (Watts 1991:290). As a result, the teaching of introductory statistics can be as frustrating as it is satisfying. It is frustrating in the sense that a complete understanding of statistical principles generally exceeds that which can be taught in a single semester. It is satisfying because the instructor is left with the creative task of finding mathema…

  • Profits and Pitfalls: Thoughts on Using a Laptop Computer and Presentation Software to Teach Introductory Social Statistics

    Janet Wilmoth, Janet M Wilmoth et al.ARTICLETeaching Sociology1998Cited by: 2

    Janet Wilmoth, John Wybraniec, Profits and Pitfalls: Thoughts on Using a Laptop Computer and Presentation Software to Teach Introductory Social Statistics, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Jul., 1998), pp. 166-178

  • The Elementary Forms of Statistical Reason

    Janet Wilmoth, Janet M Wilmoth et al.ARTICLETeaching Sociology1997