Cathleen D Zick
Biographic Data
| ID | 83711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathleen D Zick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathleen D |
| FAMILY NAME | Zick |
| SIGNATURE | ZICK C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3468-9147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 347 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Lean legacy, heavy heritage: Family history of diabetes and its association with young adult body mass index
Substantial intergenerational transmission of diabetes mellitus (DM) risk exists. However, less is known regarding whether parental DM and DM among extended family members relate to adult offspring’s body mass index (BMI), and whether any of these associations vary by sex. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997 cohort (NLSY97), we assess the sex-specific relationship between DM present in first-degree parents and second-deg…
The changing food environment and neighborhood prevalence of type 2 diabetes
In this ecological study, we used longitudinal data to assess if changes in neighborhood food environments were associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) prevalence, controlling for a host of neighborhood characteristics and spatial error correlation. We found that the population-adjusted prevalence of fast-food and pizza restaurants, grocery stores, and full-service restaurants along with changes in their numbers from 1990 to 2010 were ass…
Thx 4 the msg: Assessing the Impact of Texting on Student Engagement and Persistence
All in the family? The community context of childcare options and parents' childcare choices
Childcare in the United States is an important issue impacting parents as they navigate a landscape characterized by challenging choices between parental care only, the price of paid childcare, and largely unpaid kin care. Drawing on guidance from the accommodation model, the current work extends the examination of childcare choices by including non-paid care and by using a sample of families across a broad range of incomes. Data from a statewide…
Assessing the Likelihood of Having a Regular Health Care Provider among African American and African Immigrant Women
Expanding health care educational efforts for immigrants may be warranted. Future research should examine how cultural beliefs and time in residence influence health care utilization among US immigrants
Diet Quality of Farm and Nonfarm Households in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Roles of Technological Change and Women’s Work
In recent decades, dramatic increases in Americans’ obesity rates have led some nutrition activists to call for a return to the dietary norms of earlier times when homemakers spent more time in meal preparation. Using archival data from unique survey records gathered in Upstate New York in 1936 and 1952, we provide descriptive information on the quality of the diets using measures of the variety of foods served and a modified version of U.S. Depa…
Walkable neighborhoods and obesity: Evaluating effects with a propensity score approach
Results demonstrate that residential selection bias inherent in cross-sectional analysis slightly attenuates the true association between neighborhood walkability and obesity. Results lend support to the growing body of research suggesting that more walkable neighborhoods have residents with a lower prevalence of obesity. Absent propensity score controls, the causal relationship between environment and obesity would be underestimated by 6%. Our a…
The nexus between health and time use among racially and ethnically diverse women
Researchers and policy makers designing culturally sensitive physical activity health-related interventions should consider patterns of time use that are associated with poor health. Programs designed to improve sleep time and reduce sedentary television-viewing time may be as important as interventions designed to increase physical activity time. These broader patterns of time use mediated the relationships between race/ethnicity and physical an…
The joint effects of family risk of obesity and neighborhood environment on obesity among women
Family Health Histories and Their Impact on Retirement Confidence
As members of the public become increasingly aware of how genetics and other family factors affect intergenerational transmission of chronic diseases, it is likely that the link between family health histories and retirement confidence will intensify
Soft Transport Policies and Ground‐Level Ozone: An Evaluation of the “Clear the Air Challenge” in Salt Lake City
In recent years, communities have begun to implement both “soft” and mandatory policies designed to address worsening air quality. Voluntary or soft transportation policies have included air quality alert systems that encourage people not to drive on days when the air quality index is above a specified threshold and public education/action campaigns that focus on reducing automobile related travel. In this article, we evaluate the effectiveness o…
Harvesting More Than Vegetables: The Potential Weight Control Benefits of Community Gardening
Objectives. We examined the association of participation in community gardening with healthy body weight. Methods. We examined body mass index (BMI) data from 198 community gardening participants in Salt Lake City, Utah, in relationship to BMI data for 3 comparison groups: neighbors, siblings, and spouses. In comparisons, we adjusted for gender, age, and the year of the BMI measurement. Results. Both women and men community gardeners had signific…
Effects of neighborhood walkability on healthy weight: Assessing selection and causal influences
Trends in Americans’ food-related time use: 1975–2006
Objective To describe how the time spent in food-related activities by Americans has changed over the past 30 years. Design Data from four national time diary surveys, spanning 1975–2006, are used to construct estimates of trends in American adults’ time spent in food-related activities. Multivariate Tobits assess how food-related activities have changed over time controlling for sociodemographic and economic covariates. Results Both bivariate an…
Time Spent Eating and Its Implications for Americans’ Energy Balance
The Shifting Balance of Adolescent Time Use
In this study, time diary data from 1977 to 1978 and 2003 to 2005 are used to investigate time use in middle adolescence with the goals of ascertaining (a) changes in time use, (b) how socioeconomic and familial factors influence adolescent time allocation, and (c) the extent to which the mix of leisure undertaken by today's adolescents reflect a choice set that favors positive developmental experiences. The results suggest that over the past few…
Are You What Your Mother Weighs? Evaluating the Impact of Maternal Weight Trajectories on Youth Overweight
Mixed land use and walkability: Variations in land use measures and relationships with BMI, overweight, and obesity
Running to the Store? The relationship between neighborhood environments and the risk of obesity
Transition to Adulthood in Finland and the United States
Walkability and Body Mass Index
Impending widowhood and health care spending
His and Hers: Evaluating Husbands' Reports of Wives' Housework
Data from the 1985–1986 waves of the Panel Study on Income Dynamics are used to analyze reporting errors in husbands' estimates of wives' housework time relative to wives' self‐reported estimates. The difference between husbands' and wives' estimates is an average of −0.32 hours per week or approximately 20 minutes. This small difference is not statistically significant from zero. We also find, however, that husbands of poorly educated, nonemploy…
Mothers' Employment, Parental Involvement, and the Implications for Intermediate Child Outcomes
An Assessment of the Wealth Holdings of Recent Widows
These findings parallel what is known about income changes that surround the death of a spouse. They also point to the need for additional research on the relationship between wealth holdings and mortality as well as the roles that health care costs, life insurance, and bequests may play in altering widows' wealth
A New Look at Parents' Time Spent in Child Care: Primary and Secondary Time Use
An Examination of Parent-Child Shared Time
Data from time diaries kept by parents in two-parent, two-child families in four states in 1977 and 1978 were used to examine time shared by parents and children, as well as parent solitary times, in a number of household activities. The analysis focuses on how the mother's employment time affects shared parent-child time and whether the time was sex-typed. In addition, a weak test for whether parent-child shared time stimulates children's human …
Marital Transitions, Poverty, and Gender Differences in Mortality
Studies of the causes of marital status differentials in mortality have generally concluded that marriage serves to protect individuals from premature death. The analyses presented in this article extend this work by examining how recent marital transitions and associated levels of economic status affect mortality. With a health production model and micro-level data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics [for the United States] sex-specific prop…
Mothers' Employment, Parental Involvement, and the Implications for Intermediate Child Outcomes
Running to the Store? The relationship between neighborhood environments and the risk of obesity
Mixed land use and walkability: Variations in land use measures and relationships with BMI, overweight, and obesity
Linked Lives, Dependent Demise? Survival Analysis of Husbands and Wives
Past research has found that married individuals have substantially lower risks of mortality than their single counterparts. This paper examines how household characteristics affect spouses’ risks of mortality. A paired hazard rate model is estimated and tests are made to ascertain whether the estimated coefficients associated with risk factors differ between husbands’ and wives’ equations. Cigarette smoking, risk-avoidance behavior, poverty, and…
Remarriage patterns among recent widows and widowers
Remarriage is one of the most important determinants of physical and economic well-being among the widowed. The goal of this study is to estimate how hazard rates for remarriage vary among widows and widowers on the basis of both observable and unobservable characteristics. The remarriage estimates rely on nationally representative samples of widows and widowers from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Continuous-time hazard rate regressions indi…
An Assessment of the Wealth Holdings of Recent Widows
These findings parallel what is known about income changes that surround the death of a spouse. They also point to the need for additional research on the relationship between wealth holdings and mortality as well as the roles that health care costs, life insurance, and bequests may play in altering widows' wealth
Recent Widowhood, Remarriage, and Changes in Economic Well-Being
This research examines how changes in family composition due to the death of a spouse and subsequent remarriage affect economic status. The results of both descriptive analyses and a test of a simple multivariate model show that the death of a spouse translates into a substantial economic loss particularly for widows. Furthermore the economic gains for both widows and widowers who remarry are generally large compared to those of persons who remai…
The Shifting Balance of Adolescent Time Use
In this study, time diary data from 1977 to 1978 and 2003 to 2005 are used to investigate time use in middle adolescence with the goals of ascertaining (a) changes in time use, (b) how socioeconomic and familial factors influence adolescent time allocation, and (c) the extent to which the mix of leisure undertaken by today's adolescents reflect a choice set that favors positive developmental experiences. The results suggest that over the past few…
The Incidence of Poverty among the Recently Widowed: Mediating Factors in the Life Course
Taking a life-course perspective in the analysis of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study examines severalfactors that mediate the economic consequences of widowhood. Emphasis is given in the analysis to the possible mediating influences of six life-course variables: income in the yearprior to the widowhood event, the calendaryear of widowhood, age at widowhood, sex, years of marriage, and past work experience. Logistic regress…
Harvesting More Than Vegetables: The Potential Weight Control Benefits of Community Gardening
Objectives. We examined the association of participation in community gardening with healthy body weight. Methods. We examined body mass index (BMI) data from 198 community gardening participants in Salt Lake City, Utah, in relationship to BMI data for 3 comparison groups: neighbors, siblings, and spouses. In comparisons, we adjusted for gender, age, and the year of the BMI measurement. Results. Both women and men community gardeners had signific…
Effects of neighborhood walkability on healthy weight: Assessing selection and causal influences
All in the family? The community context of childcare options and parents' childcare choices
Childcare in the United States is an important issue impacting parents as they navigate a landscape characterized by challenging choices between parental care only, the price of paid childcare, and largely unpaid kin care. Drawing on guidance from the accommodation model, the current work extends the examination of childcare choices by including non-paid care and by using a sample of families across a broad range of incomes. Data from a statewide…
Soft Transport Policies and Ground‐Level Ozone: An Evaluation of the “Clear the Air Challenge” in Salt Lake City
In recent years, communities have begun to implement both “soft” and mandatory policies designed to address worsening air quality. Voluntary or soft transportation policies have included air quality alert systems that encourage people not to drive on days when the air quality index is above a specified threshold and public education/action campaigns that focus on reducing automobile related travel. In this article, we evaluate the effectiveness o…
Trends in married couples' time use: Evidence from 1977?78 and 1987?88
His and Hers: Evaluating Husbands' Reports of Wives' Housework
Data from the 1985–1986 waves of the Panel Study on Income Dynamics are used to analyze reporting errors in husbands' estimates of wives' housework time relative to wives' self‐reported estimates. The difference between husbands' and wives' estimates is an average of −0.32 hours per week or approximately 20 minutes. This small difference is not statistically significant from zero. We also find, however, that husbands of poorly educated, nonemploy…
Transition to Adulthood in Finland and the United States
Risk of mortality following widowhood: Age and sex differences by mode of death
This study examines how spouses' deaths from sudden or lengthy illnesses differentially affect the mortality risks of surviving widows and widowers by age. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find the mortality risk differs by gender, age, and type of widowhood. For nonelderly ( or = 65) widows, the mortality risk is lower than that of comparably aged married women when their husbands died after a long-term illness. These gender, age, an…
The joint effects of family risk of obesity and neighborhood environment on obesity among women
Assessing the Past and Future of Research on Household Work: A Comment on Bryant's Article
Gender and Poverty among the Widowed: A Comment on Smith and Zick
The Incidence of Poverty among the Recently Widowed: Mediating Factors in the Life Course
Taking a life-course perspective in the analysis of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study examines severalfactors that mediate the economic consequences of widowhood. Emphasis is given in the analysis to the possible mediating influences of six life-course variables: income in the yearprior to the widowhood event, the calendaryear of widowhood, age at widowhood, sex, years of marriage, and past work experience. Logistic regress…
Gender and Poverty among the Widowed: A Comment on Smith and Zick
Recent Widowhood, Remarriage, and Changes in Economic Well-Being
This research examines how changes in family composition due to the death of a spouse and subsequent remarriage affect economic status. The results of both descriptive analyses and a test of a simple multivariate model show that the death of a spouse translates into a substantial economic loss particularly for widows. Furthermore the economic gains for both widows and widowers who remarry are generally large compared to those of persons who remai…
Trends in married couples' time use: Evidence from 1977?78 and 1987?88
Remarriage patterns among recent widows and widowers
Remarriage is one of the most important determinants of physical and economic well-being among the widowed. The goal of this study is to estimate how hazard rates for remarriage vary among widows and widowers on the basis of both observable and unobservable characteristics. The remarriage estimates rely on nationally representative samples of widows and widowers from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Continuous-time hazard rate regressions indi…
Marital Transitions, Poverty, and Gender Differences in Mortality
Studies of the causes of marital status differentials in mortality have generally concluded that marriage serves to protect individuals from premature death. The analyses presented in this article extend this work by examining how recent marital transitions and associated levels of economic status affect mortality. With a health production model and micro-level data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics [for the United States] sex-specific prop…
Linked Lives, Dependent Demise? Survival Analysis of Husbands and Wives
Past research has found that married individuals have substantially lower risks of mortality than their single counterparts. This paper examines how household characteristics affect spouses’ risks of mortality. A paired hazard rate model is estimated and tests are made to ascertain whether the estimated coefficients associated with risk factors differ between husbands’ and wives’ equations. Cigarette smoking, risk-avoidance behavior, poverty, and…
Assessing the correlates of desired family size in Shaanxi, China
This exploratory analysis of factors associated with Chinese women's fertility desires uses data on married women between the ages of 18 and 35 who live in Shaanxi Province, China. Analyses using an economic framework found that both rural and urban couples who intended to sign, or who had already signed, the one-child certificate reported wanting significantly fewer children. However, in rural areas (where 80 per cent of the provincial populatio…
Assessing the Past and Future of Research on Household Work: A Comment on Bryant's Article
Risk of mortality following widowhood: Age and sex differences by mode of death
This study examines how spouses' deaths from sudden or lengthy illnesses differentially affect the mortality risks of surviving widows and widowers by age. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we find the mortality risk differs by gender, age, and type of widowhood. For nonelderly ( or = 65) widows, the mortality risk is lower than that of comparably aged married women when their husbands died after a long-term illness. These gender, age, an…
An Examination of Parent-Child Shared Time
Data from time diaries kept by parents in two-parent, two-child families in four states in 1977 and 1978 were used to examine time shared by parents and children, as well as parent solitary times, in a number of household activities. The analysis focuses on how the mother's employment time affects shared parent-child time and whether the time was sex-typed. In addition, a weak test for whether parent-child shared time stimulates children's human …
A New Look at Parents' Time Spent in Child Care: Primary and Secondary Time Use
Sociology
An Assessment of the Wealth Holdings of Recent Widows
These findings parallel what is known about income changes that surround the death of a spouse. They also point to the need for additional research on the relationship between wealth holdings and mortality as well as the roles that health care costs, life insurance, and bequests may play in altering widows' wealth
Mothers' Employment, Parental Involvement, and the Implications for Intermediate Child Outcomes
His and Hers: Evaluating Husbands' Reports of Wives' Housework
Data from the 1985–1986 waves of the Panel Study on Income Dynamics are used to analyze reporting errors in husbands' estimates of wives' housework time relative to wives' self‐reported estimates. The difference between husbands' and wives' estimates is an average of −0.32 hours per week or approximately 20 minutes. This small difference is not statistically significant from zero. We also find, however, that husbands of poorly educated, nonemploy…
Impending widowhood and health care spending
Walkability and Body Mass Index
Are You What Your Mother Weighs? Evaluating the Impact of Maternal Weight Trajectories on Youth Overweight
Mixed land use and walkability: Variations in land use measures and relationships with BMI, overweight, and obesity
Running to the Store? The relationship between neighborhood environments and the risk of obesity
Transition to Adulthood in Finland and the United States
Trends in Americans’ food-related time use: 1975–2006
Objective To describe how the time spent in food-related activities by Americans has changed over the past 30 years. Design Data from four national time diary surveys, spanning 1975–2006, are used to construct estimates of trends in American adults’ time spent in food-related activities. Multivariate Tobits assess how food-related activities have changed over time controlling for sociodemographic and economic covariates. Results Both bivariate an…
Time Spent Eating and Its Implications for Americans’ Energy Balance
The Shifting Balance of Adolescent Time Use
In this study, time diary data from 1977 to 1978 and 2003 to 2005 are used to investigate time use in middle adolescence with the goals of ascertaining (a) changes in time use, (b) how socioeconomic and familial factors influence adolescent time allocation, and (c) the extent to which the mix of leisure undertaken by today's adolescents reflect a choice set that favors positive developmental experiences. The results suggest that over the past few…
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