L Leopold
Biographic Data
| ID | 245806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Leopold |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Leopold |
| SIGNATURE | LEOPOLD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2721-8339 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Do men and women define health differently? A cross-national study of gender differences in self-rated health
Introduction: Self-rated health (SRH) is a common measure for examining gender differences in health. However, it is unclear if men and women assess similar health factors in their ratings, particularly outside the US. This study expands on previous research in Germany, Italy, and Sweden-countries with varying gender norms. Methods: We analyze how chronic conditions, mental health, physical functioning, and health behaviors affect SRH ratings amo…
Social body weight norms: A population-based profile in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States
These findings provide a population-representative baseline of social body weight norms and contradict the notion of a thinness norm
Mental Health in China: Social Change in Life Course Trajectories
Knowledge about life course trajectories and intercohort changes in mental health is limited mainly to Western populations. To address this gap, our study analyzes mental health trajectories in China, drawing on data on depressive symptoms from the China Family Panel Studies over the period 2012-2020 (N = 31,700 individuals aged 16-70; N = 87,787 person-years). Employing hierarchical linear regression models, our findings reveal moderate increase…
Education and age trajectories of chronic conditions: Are tests of the cumulative advantage and disadvantage hypothesis biased by underreporting
Underreporting affected conclusions about the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes, but it did not affect conclusions about the CAD hypothesis for either condition
Health Measurement and Health Inequality Over the Life Course: A Comparison of Self-rated Health, SF-12, and Grip Strength
The cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis predicts education differences in health to increase with age. All previous tests of this hypothesis were based on self-reported health measures. Recent research has suggested that self-reported health measures may not adequately capture differences in key analytical constructs, including education, age, cohort, and gender. In this study, I tested the cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis using a self-repor…
Education and Physical Health Trajectories in Later Life: A Comparative Study
The cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis states that health disparities between education groups increase with age. The present study examined this hypothesis in a comparative analysis of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Sweden. These countries offer sharp contrasts in the social conditions that may intensify or inhibit processes of cumulative (dis)advantage. Using harmonized panel data from the HRS, ELSA, and SHARE, th…
Education and Health across Lives and Cohorts: A Study of Cumulative (Dis)advantage and Its Rising Importance in Germany
Research from the United States has supported two hypotheses. First, educational gaps in health widen with age-the cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis. Second, this relationship has intensified across cohorts-the rising importance hypothesis. In this article, we used 23 waves of panel data (Socio-Economic Panel Study, 1992-2014) to examine both hypotheses in the German context. We considered individual and contextual influences on the associatio…
Do Immigrants Suffer More From Job Loss? Unemployment and Subjective Well-being in Germany
This study asks whether immigrants suffer more from unemployment than German natives. Differences between these groups in pre-unemployment characteristics, the type of the transition into unemployment, and the consequences of this transition suggest that factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on subjective well-being are more concentrated in immigrants than in natives. Based on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Pa…
Sing Me a Song with Social Significance: The (Mis)Use of Statistical Significance Testing in European Sociological Research
In the abstract of this article (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcw047), published on 24 December 2016, the words ‘in a comparable review in the field of economics’ have erroneously been repeated. The correct sentence is ‘These results are similar to those of the comparable review in the field of economics’. The publisher apologizes for this error. Further, in the ‘References’ section, ‘European Sociological Review’ is repeated in ‘Leopold, L. …
Sing Me a Song with Social Significance: The (Mis)Use of Statistical Significance Testing in European Sociological Research
Published: 24 December 2016
Cumulative Advantage in an Egalitarian Country? Socioeconomic Health Disparities over the Life Course in Sweden
According to the cumulative advantage hypothesis, health gaps between socioeconomic groups widen with age. In the United States, studies have supported this hypothesis. Outside this context, evidence remains scarce. The present study tests the cumulative advantage hypothesis in Sweden, a society that contrasts sharply with the United States in terms of policies designed to reduce social disparities in health-related resources. I draw on longitudi…
Cultural Capital Does Not Travel Well: Immigrants, Natives and Achievement in Israeli Schools
This study examines the effects of cultural capital on the achievement of Israeli natives and of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union. We hypothesize that teachers are insensitive to cultural distinctions among immigrants. Therefore, they do not reward culturally endowed immigrants to the same extent as native students with similar levels of cultural capital. To test this hypothesis, we use data provided by 4th, 9th, and 11th graders as well a…
Bildung und Gesundheitsungleichheit im Alter: Divergenz, Konvergenz oder Kontinuität
Mineral resources of Fort Defiance and Tohatchi quadrangles, Arizona and New Mexico
The 15-minute Fort Defiance and Tohatchi quadrangles lie south of latitude 36 degrees and include a part of San Juan Basin, New Mexico, as well as the bordering region in Arizona. The area contains a part of the synclinal "Gallup embayment," a part of the Defiance uplift and monodine, the southern end of the high Chuska Mountain plateau, and the north end of the lower Manuelito Plateau. Smaller features are the Todilto Park dome and Buell Park di…
Education and Physical Health Trajectories in Later Life: A Comparative Study
The cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis states that health disparities between education groups increase with age. The present study examined this hypothesis in a comparative analysis of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Sweden. These countries offer sharp contrasts in the social conditions that may intensify or inhibit processes of cumulative (dis)advantage. Using harmonized panel data from the HRS, ELSA, and SHARE, th…
Education and Health across Lives and Cohorts: A Study of Cumulative (Dis)advantage and Its Rising Importance in Germany
Research from the United States has supported two hypotheses. First, educational gaps in health widen with age-the cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis. Second, this relationship has intensified across cohorts-the rising importance hypothesis. In this article, we used 23 waves of panel data (Socio-Economic Panel Study, 1992-2014) to examine both hypotheses in the German context. We considered individual and contextual influences on the associatio…
Cultural Capital Does Not Travel Well: Immigrants, Natives and Achievement in Israeli Schools
This study examines the effects of cultural capital on the achievement of Israeli natives and of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union. We hypothesize that teachers are insensitive to cultural distinctions among immigrants. Therefore, they do not reward culturally endowed immigrants to the same extent as native students with similar levels of cultural capital. To test this hypothesis, we use data provided by 4th, 9th, and 11th graders as well a…
Health Measurement and Health Inequality Over the Life Course: A Comparison of Self-rated Health, SF-12, and Grip Strength
The cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis predicts education differences in health to increase with age. All previous tests of this hypothesis were based on self-reported health measures. Recent research has suggested that self-reported health measures may not adequately capture differences in key analytical constructs, including education, age, cohort, and gender. In this study, I tested the cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis using a self-repor…
Cumulative Advantage in an Egalitarian Country? Socioeconomic Health Disparities over the Life Course in Sweden
According to the cumulative advantage hypothesis, health gaps between socioeconomic groups widen with age. In the United States, studies have supported this hypothesis. Outside this context, evidence remains scarce. The present study tests the cumulative advantage hypothesis in Sweden, a society that contrasts sharply with the United States in terms of policies designed to reduce social disparities in health-related resources. I draw on longitudi…
Sing Me a Song with Social Significance: The (Mis)Use of Statistical Significance Testing in European Sociological Research
Published: 24 December 2016
Do Immigrants Suffer More From Job Loss? Unemployment and Subjective Well-being in Germany
This study asks whether immigrants suffer more from unemployment than German natives. Differences between these groups in pre-unemployment characteristics, the type of the transition into unemployment, and the consequences of this transition suggest that factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on subjective well-being are more concentrated in immigrants than in natives. Based on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Pa…
Sing Me a Song with Social Significance: The (Mis)Use of Statistical Significance Testing in European Sociological Research
In the abstract of this article (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcw047), published on 24 December 2016, the words ‘in a comparable review in the field of economics’ have erroneously been repeated. The correct sentence is ‘These results are similar to those of the comparable review in the field of economics’. The publisher apologizes for this error. Further, in the ‘References’ section, ‘European Sociological Review’ is repeated in ‘Leopold, L. …
Bildung und Gesundheitsungleichheit im Alter: Divergenz, Konvergenz oder Kontinuität
Mineral resources of Fort Defiance and Tohatchi quadrangles, Arizona and New Mexico
The 15-minute Fort Defiance and Tohatchi quadrangles lie south of latitude 36 degrees and include a part of San Juan Basin, New Mexico, as well as the bordering region in Arizona. The area contains a part of the synclinal "Gallup embayment," a part of the Defiance uplift and monodine, the southern end of the high Chuska Mountain plateau, and the north end of the lower Manuelito Plateau. Smaller features are the Todilto Park dome and Buell Park di…
Bildung und Gesundheitsungleichheit im Alter: Divergenz, Konvergenz oder Kontinuität
Cultural Capital Does Not Travel Well: Immigrants, Natives and Achievement in Israeli Schools
This study examines the effects of cultural capital on the achievement of Israeli natives and of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union. We hypothesize that teachers are insensitive to cultural distinctions among immigrants. Therefore, they do not reward culturally endowed immigrants to the same extent as native students with similar levels of cultural capital. To test this hypothesis, we use data provided by 4th, 9th, and 11th graders as well a…
Sing Me a Song with Social Significance: The (Mis)Use of Statistical Significance Testing in European Sociological Research
Published: 24 December 2016
Cumulative Advantage in an Egalitarian Country? Socioeconomic Health Disparities over the Life Course in Sweden
According to the cumulative advantage hypothesis, health gaps between socioeconomic groups widen with age. In the United States, studies have supported this hypothesis. Outside this context, evidence remains scarce. The present study tests the cumulative advantage hypothesis in Sweden, a society that contrasts sharply with the United States in terms of policies designed to reduce social disparities in health-related resources. I draw on longitudi…
Do Immigrants Suffer More From Job Loss? Unemployment and Subjective Well-being in Germany
This study asks whether immigrants suffer more from unemployment than German natives. Differences between these groups in pre-unemployment characteristics, the type of the transition into unemployment, and the consequences of this transition suggest that factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on subjective well-being are more concentrated in immigrants than in natives. Based on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Pa…
Sing Me a Song with Social Significance: The (Mis)Use of Statistical Significance Testing in European Sociological Research
In the abstract of this article (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcw047), published on 24 December 2016, the words ‘in a comparable review in the field of economics’ have erroneously been repeated. The correct sentence is ‘These results are similar to those of the comparable review in the field of economics’. The publisher apologizes for this error. Further, in the ‘References’ section, ‘European Sociological Review’ is repeated in ‘Leopold, L. …
Education and Physical Health Trajectories in Later Life: A Comparative Study
The cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis states that health disparities between education groups increase with age. The present study examined this hypothesis in a comparative analysis of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Sweden. These countries offer sharp contrasts in the social conditions that may intensify or inhibit processes of cumulative (dis)advantage. Using harmonized panel data from the HRS, ELSA, and SHARE, th…
Education and Health across Lives and Cohorts: A Study of Cumulative (Dis)advantage and Its Rising Importance in Germany
Research from the United States has supported two hypotheses. First, educational gaps in health widen with age-the cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis. Second, this relationship has intensified across cohorts-the rising importance hypothesis. In this article, we used 23 waves of panel data (Socio-Economic Panel Study, 1992-2014) to examine both hypotheses in the German context. We considered individual and contextual influences on the associatio…
Health Measurement and Health Inequality Over the Life Course: A Comparison of Self-rated Health, SF-12, and Grip Strength
The cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis predicts education differences in health to increase with age. All previous tests of this hypothesis were based on self-reported health measures. Recent research has suggested that self-reported health measures may not adequately capture differences in key analytical constructs, including education, age, cohort, and gender. In this study, I tested the cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis using a self-repor…
Education and age trajectories of chronic conditions: Are tests of the cumulative advantage and disadvantage hypothesis biased by underreporting
Underreporting affected conclusions about the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes, but it did not affect conclusions about the CAD hypothesis for either condition
Social body weight norms: A population-based profile in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States
These findings provide a population-representative baseline of social body weight norms and contradict the notion of a thinness norm
Mental Health in China: Social Change in Life Course Trajectories
Knowledge about life course trajectories and intercohort changes in mental health is limited mainly to Western populations. To address this gap, our study analyzes mental health trajectories in China, drawing on data on depressive symptoms from the China Family Panel Studies over the period 2012-2020 (N = 31,700 individuals aged 16-70; N = 87,787 person-years). Employing hierarchical linear regression models, our findings reveal moderate increase…
Do men and women define health differently? A cross-national study of gender differences in self-rated health
Introduction: Self-rated health (SRH) is a common measure for examining gender differences in health. However, it is unclear if men and women assess similar health factors in their ratings, particularly outside the US. This study expands on previous research in Germany, Italy, and Sweden-countries with varying gender norms. Methods: We analyze how chronic conditions, mental health, physical functioning, and health behaviors affect SRH ratings amo…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Demography (5 works)