Michelle Sarah Livings

Biographic Data

ID267249
NAMEMichelle Sarah Livings
GIVEN NAMESMichelle Sarah
FAMILY NAMELivings
SIGNATURELIVINGS M S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
ORCID0000-0002-8529-1614
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Extending the space–time prism for multimodal, household-level accessibility modeling

    Open AccessMengya Xu, Michelle Sarah Livings et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2026

  • The Parallel Declines of Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Marriage

    Open AccessMichelle Sarah Livings, Kathryn Edin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2026

    Intergenerational mobility declined in the second half of the 20th century—simultaneously with the decline in marriage rates and the rise of single parenthood. This study investigated whether county-level intergenerational mobility rates predict family formation patterns. We utilized a county-level measure of intergenerational mobility constructed by Chetty and Hendren for a cohort of young adults born between 1980 and 1986 and raised in lower-in…

  • The biological consequences of grandparental death for children

    Open AccessMichelle Sarah Livings, E Smith-Greenaway et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2025

    Increasingly, health scholars acknowledge bereavement as a determinant of population health. Some research suggests that childhood health is especially affected by the deaths of family members. Although most research has focused on losing a parent or sibling in childhood, more recently, scholarship has established grandparental death as a source of poor mental health. We know less, however, about whether grandparental death affects children biolo…

  • Exploring Variation in Welfare Attitudes Among Low-Income Parents

    D Bolger, Michelle Sarah LivingsARTICLEJournal of Poverty2025References: 14

  • Adolescents’ Mental Health

    Tanya Telfair LeBlanc, Jihong Liu et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2025

  • Falling Further Over the US Safety Net Benefits Cliff After Covid-19

    Vickie M Mays, Michelle Sarah LivingsARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2025References: 3

  • New insights into grocery store visits among east Los Angeles residents using mobility data

    Open AccessMengya Xu, James P Wilson et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2024References: 11

  • Breaking the Cycle of Family Violence

    Open AccessMichelle Sarah Livings, Victor Hsiao et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2023

    As the intergenerational transmission of family violence is associated with numerous negative outcomes, interventions are needed to interrupt this cycle. Our aim is to review the family violence intervention literature and to assess whether and how interventions interrupt the intergenerational transmission of family violence. Papers about interventions were identified through database searches (PubMed, JSTOR, CINAHL, PsycINFO), supplemented by re…

  • Ecological risk and protective factors for food insufficiency in Los Angeles County during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessK De La Haye, Htay-Wah Saw et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic increased food insufficiency: a severe form of food insecurity. Drawing on an ecological framework, we aimed to understand factors that contributed to changes in food insufficiency from April to December 2020, in a large urban population hard hit by the pandemic. Design: We conducted internet surveys every 2 weeks in April–December 2020, including a subset of items from the Food Insecurity Experience Scale. Longit…

  • Lost support, lost skills

    Open AccessMichelle Sarah Livings, Emily Smith-Greenaway et al.ARTICLESocial Science Research2023Cited by: 1References: 90

  • Bereavement & mental health

    Open AccessMichelle Sarah Livings, Michelle Livings et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic has left millions of children and adolescents grieving the sudden death of a grandparent. Yet, we lack knowledge of the mental health implications of a grandparent's death for youth. This study uses longitudinal data to examine if the loss of a grandparent increases adolescent grandchildren's likelihood of experiencing their mothers' major depressive disorder, and of having depressive symptoms themselves. Using data from the…

  • Self-reported dietary changes among Los Angeles County adults during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessSydney Miller, W Bruine De Bruin et al.ARTICLEAppetite2021Cited by: 5References: 32

    Poor diets are historically the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States (U.S.), causing over 44,000 deaths each month. Dietary patterns have likely changed during the COVID-19 pandemic due to major shifts and crises in social, economic, and food systems. This study examines self-reported dietary changes in Los Angeles (L.A.) County during COVID-19, and identifies factors associated with making healthy and unhealthy changes. …

  • The gendered relationship between maternal depression and adolescent internalizing symptoms

    Open AccessMichelle Sarah LivingsARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Cited by: 1References: 54