Stanley E Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 367859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stanley E Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stanley E |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3536-6996 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 408 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Demography of Mortality Disadvantage Among Male U.S. Veterans in Later Life
Using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), this article explores the association between military service and mortality among American men over age 50 between 1992 and 2020. Cox regressions show veterans who served during wartime have consistently higher mortality than nonveterans across major conflicts of the 20th century. Peacetime service does not increase mortality significantly, but Hispanic peacetime veterans have lower mortality than oth…
Military Service, Combat Experience, and Civic Participation
Military service is a highly social-and potentially socializing-experience. However, the long-term social effect of military service is a little-studied topic, and some have dismissed any direct impact of service on civic participation. Using data from a large, national survey, our estimates show, in contrast, that the likelihood and intensity of group participation is higher among veterans than other men and that combat veterans have the highest…
Does adult height predict later mortality
Vicious Habits
We analyze a random sample of 15,049 white veterans and 5,329 black veterans of the US Civil War examined by physicians between 1890 and 1906. We calculate a period prevalence of STI of 1.2–1.7 % among whites and 4.2–8.0 % among blacks, even though blacks and whites had almost identical prevalence of STI s in their wartime medical records. Furthermore, we find evidence that Board physicians were on the lookout for STI s among black veterans that …
Union Army veterans, all grown up
This paper overviews the research opportunities made possible by a NIA-funded program project, Early Indicators, Intergenerational Processes, and Aging. Data collection began almost three decades ago on 40,000 soldiers from the Union Army in the US Civil War. The sample contains extensive demographic, economic, and medical data from childhood to death. In recent years, a large sample of African-American soldiers and an oversampling of soldiers fr…
Family Economics and Obesity
Obesity deserves attention by economists because it has moved to the forefront of public health concerns worldwide and because it is a health condition that defies the general economic pattern that economic prosperity is associated with better health. The economic theory of household behavior and accompanying empirical evidence both suggest that married couples are able to reap the rewards of more efficient investment in health. Obesity, however,…
Marriage, gender and obesity in later life
More Dollars than Sense
Chasing Success
Gary C. Bryner
Professor Gary C. Bryner passed away on March 10, 2010, at age 58. Gary courageously faced the challenge of pancreatic cancer with more concern about his wife, family, and friends than for himself. Gary personified the ideal colleague. He was unfailing in his willingness to assist others with their research and was a devoted teacher. He was always first to volunteer when help was needed. Although the cancer progressed quickly, he was grateful for…
PREJUDICE & Policy Racial Discrimination in the Union Army Disability Pension System, 1865-1906
The Union Army disability pension was an early experiment in colorblind social policy. However, it shortchanged Blacks in 2 ways. First, the law was unable to account for the challenges Blacks faced in proving their eligibility because of the legacy of slavery and discrimination against Black troops during the Civil War. Second, the increasing leniency accorded White soldiers by the Pension Bureau was not extended in the same measure to Blacks. A…
Disease prevalence and survey design effects
A Lot More to Do
In 1995, Beck and Katz (B&K) instructed the profession on “What to do (and not to do) with time-series, cross-section data,” and almost instantly their prescriptions became the new orthodoxy for practitioners. Our assessment of the intellectual aftermath of this paper, however, does not inspire confidence in the conclusions reached during the past decade. The 195 papers we reviewed show a widespread failure to diagnose and treat common problems o…
Do panel surveys make people sick? US arthritis trends in the Health and Retirement Study
Good marriages gone bad
The health capital of families
Warfare and Welfare
This article investigates the impact of military service on the duration of a veteran's first marriage, a topic in the literature with both scant and highly contradictory conclusions. Our sample consisted of 3,800 males from the National Survey of Families and Households (1987-1994). Using hazard rate analysis, we estimate the impact of both combat and noncombat assignments on marital duration. Our statistical results imply: (1) self-reported par…
APL Applications To Social Science Research
Although social science research has been greatly facilitated by the advent ofpreprogrammed 'statistical packages,'such as SPSS and SAS, these generally require relatively large scale computer resources which are often unavailable to social science researchers at smaller colleges and universities. However, recent advances in computer technology have increased the availability of mini- and microlevel computers while significantly reducing equipmen…
A Lot More to Do
In 1995, Beck and Katz (B&K) instructed the profession on “What to do (and not to do) with time-series, cross-section data,” and almost instantly their prescriptions became the new orthodoxy for practitioners. Our assessment of the intellectual aftermath of this paper, however, does not inspire confidence in the conclusions reached during the past decade. The 195 papers we reviewed show a widespread failure to diagnose and treat common problems o…
More Dollars than Sense
The health capital of families
Chasing Success
Good marriages gone bad
Warfare and Welfare
This article investigates the impact of military service on the duration of a veteran's first marriage, a topic in the literature with both scant and highly contradictory conclusions. Our sample consisted of 3,800 males from the National Survey of Families and Households (1987-1994). Using hazard rate analysis, we estimate the impact of both combat and noncombat assignments on marital duration. Our statistical results imply: (1) self-reported par…
Do panel surveys make people sick? US arthritis trends in the Health and Retirement Study
Military Service, Combat Experience, and Civic Participation
Military service is a highly social-and potentially socializing-experience. However, the long-term social effect of military service is a little-studied topic, and some have dismissed any direct impact of service on civic participation. Using data from a large, national survey, our estimates show, in contrast, that the likelihood and intensity of group participation is higher among veterans than other men and that combat veterans have the highest…
Union Army veterans, all grown up
This paper overviews the research opportunities made possible by a NIA-funded program project, Early Indicators, Intergenerational Processes, and Aging. Data collection began almost three decades ago on 40,000 soldiers from the Union Army in the US Civil War. The sample contains extensive demographic, economic, and medical data from childhood to death. In recent years, a large sample of African-American soldiers and an oversampling of soldiers fr…
PREJUDICE & Policy Racial Discrimination in the Union Army Disability Pension System, 1865-1906
The Union Army disability pension was an early experiment in colorblind social policy. However, it shortchanged Blacks in 2 ways. First, the law was unable to account for the challenges Blacks faced in proving their eligibility because of the legacy of slavery and discrimination against Black troops during the Civil War. Second, the increasing leniency accorded White soldiers by the Pension Bureau was not extended in the same measure to Blacks. A…
APL Applications To Social Science Research
Although social science research has been greatly facilitated by the advent ofpreprogrammed 'statistical packages,'such as SPSS and SAS, these generally require relatively large scale computer resources which are often unavailable to social science researchers at smaller colleges and universities. However, recent advances in computer technology have increased the availability of mini- and microlevel computers while significantly reducing equipmen…
Good marriages gone bad
The health capital of families
Warfare and Welfare
This article investigates the impact of military service on the duration of a veteran's first marriage, a topic in the literature with both scant and highly contradictory conclusions. Our sample consisted of 3,800 males from the National Survey of Families and Households (1987-1994). Using hazard rate analysis, we estimate the impact of both combat and noncombat assignments on marital duration. Our statistical results imply: (1) self-reported par…
Do panel surveys make people sick? US arthritis trends in the Health and Retirement Study
Disease prevalence and survey design effects
A Lot More to Do
In 1995, Beck and Katz (B&K) instructed the profession on “What to do (and not to do) with time-series, cross-section data,” and almost instantly their prescriptions became the new orthodoxy for practitioners. Our assessment of the intellectual aftermath of this paper, however, does not inspire confidence in the conclusions reached during the past decade. The 195 papers we reviewed show a widespread failure to diagnose and treat common problems o…
Gary C. Bryner
Professor Gary C. Bryner passed away on March 10, 2010, at age 58. Gary courageously faced the challenge of pancreatic cancer with more concern about his wife, family, and friends than for himself. Gary personified the ideal colleague. He was unfailing in his willingness to assist others with their research and was a devoted teacher. He was always first to volunteer when help was needed. Although the cancer progressed quickly, he was grateful for…
PREJUDICE & Policy Racial Discrimination in the Union Army Disability Pension System, 1865-1906
The Union Army disability pension was an early experiment in colorblind social policy. However, it shortchanged Blacks in 2 ways. First, the law was unable to account for the challenges Blacks faced in proving their eligibility because of the legacy of slavery and discrimination against Black troops during the Civil War. Second, the increasing leniency accorded White soldiers by the Pension Bureau was not extended in the same measure to Blacks. A…
More Dollars than Sense
Chasing Success
Marriage, gender and obesity in later life
Family Economics and Obesity
Obesity deserves attention by economists because it has moved to the forefront of public health concerns worldwide and because it is a health condition that defies the general economic pattern that economic prosperity is associated with better health. The economic theory of household behavior and accompanying empirical evidence both suggest that married couples are able to reap the rewards of more efficient investment in health. Obesity, however,…
Union Army veterans, all grown up
This paper overviews the research opportunities made possible by a NIA-funded program project, Early Indicators, Intergenerational Processes, and Aging. Data collection began almost three decades ago on 40,000 soldiers from the Union Army in the US Civil War. The sample contains extensive demographic, economic, and medical data from childhood to death. In recent years, a large sample of African-American soldiers and an oversampling of soldiers fr…
Does adult height predict later mortality
Vicious Habits
We analyze a random sample of 15,049 white veterans and 5,329 black veterans of the US Civil War examined by physicians between 1890 and 1906. We calculate a period prevalence of STI of 1.2–1.7 % among whites and 4.2–8.0 % among blacks, even though blacks and whites had almost identical prevalence of STI s in their wartime medical records. Furthermore, we find evidence that Board physicians were on the lookout for STI s among black veterans that …
Military Service, Combat Experience, and Civic Participation
Military service is a highly social-and potentially socializing-experience. However, the long-term social effect of military service is a little-studied topic, and some have dismissed any direct impact of service on civic participation. Using data from a large, national survey, our estimates show, in contrast, that the likelihood and intensity of group participation is higher among veterans than other men and that combat veterans have the highest…
The Demography of Mortality Disadvantage Among Male U.S. Veterans in Later Life
Using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), this article explores the association between military service and mortality among American men over age 50 between 1992 and 2020. Cox regressions show veterans who served during wartime have consistently higher mortality than nonveterans across major conflicts of the 20th century. Peacetime service does not increase mortality significantly, but Hispanic peacetime veterans have lower mortality than oth…
Medicine (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Population (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Demography (7 works) · Gerontology (6 works)