Elizabeth M Lawrence

Biographic Data

ID87457
NAMEElizabeth M Lawrence
GIVEN NAMESElizabeth M
FAMILY NAMELawrence
SIGNATURELAWRENCE E M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas
ORCID0000-0001-9176-3991
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS221
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX9

  • Educational Attainment and Cardiovascular Disease Symptoms among Americans Entering Mid-Adulthood

    Open AccessA Zajacova, H Fishman et al.ARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2025References: 30

    Although the education-health gradient is well documented, relatively little is known about its application to cardiovascular disease (CVD), the leading cause of mortality in the United States. Furthermore, critical nuances across educational levels and demographic subgroups remain underexplored. The authors examine the association between education and CVD among U.S. adults entering mid-adulthood, leveraging a novel symptom-based CVD index captu…

  • Sex Differences in U.S. Adolescent and Young Adult Mortality

    Open AccessElizabeth M Lawrence, R G Rogers et al.ARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…2024References: 54

  • Do Men and Women Integrate Guns into Risky Health Lifestyles in Young Adulthood

    Open AccessAmy M Burdette, Elizabeth M Lawrence et al.ARTICLESociological Inquiry2024Cited by: 1References: 60

    In this paper, we use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and latent class analysis to assess the extent to which individuals integrate guns into broader health lifestyles. We also examine how these new health lifestyles differ for men and women. While men integrate guns with a variety of risk-taking behaviors, including smoking, heavy drinking, risky sexual behavior, and fast-food consumption, women do not. Ou…

  • Racial/ethnic and gender differences in smoking in early middle adulthood

    Open AccessJuhee Woo, Elizabeth M Lawrence et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2022

    Research has documented important differences in smoking rates across race/ethnicity, gender, and age. Much of the research has either focused on smoking initiation among adolescents or cessation among adults, but little is known about racial/ethnic patterns in intermittent and daily smoking across young and early middle adulthood. We therefore use the life course perspective to identify how racial/ethnic and gender differences in smoking unfold …

  • Peer Network Processes in Adolescents' Health Lifestyles

    Open AccessJ Adams, Elizabeth M Lawrence et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health and Social…2022Cited by: 6References: 64

    Combining theories of health lifestyles-interrelated health behaviors arising from group-based identities-with those of network and behavior change, we investigated network characteristics of health lifestyles and the role of influence and selection processes underlying these characteristics. We examined these questions in two high schools using longitudinal, complete friendship network data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to A…

  • Developing Health Lifestyle Pathways and Social Inequalities Across Early Childhood

    Open AccessMollborn, Elizabeth M Lawrence et al.ARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…2021Cited by: 4References: 64

  • Postsecondary Educational Attainment and Health among Younger U.S. Adults in the “College-for-All” Era

    Open AccessA Zajacova, Elizabeth M LawrenceARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2021Cited by: 5References: 11

    Population-health research has neglected differentiation within postsecondary educational attainments. This gap is critical to understanding health inequality because college experience with no degree, vocational/technical certificates, and associate degrees may affect health differently. We examine health across detailed postsecondary attainment levels. We analyze data on 14,750 respondents in Waves I and IV of the nationally representative Add …

  • Contributions and Challenges in Health Lifestyles Research

    Open AccessMollborn, Elizabeth M Lawrence et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health and Social…2021Cited by: 12References: 93

    The concept of health lifestyles is moving scholarship beyond individual health behaviors to integrated bundles of behaviors undergirded by group-based identities and norms. Health lifestyles research merges structure with agency, individual-level processes with group-level processes, and multifaceted behaviors with norms and identities, shedding light on why health behaviors persist or change and on the reproduction of health disparities and oth…

  • Greater mortality variability in the United States in comparison with peer countries

    Open AccessR G Rogers, R A Hummer et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2020Cited by: 6References: 15

    BACKGROUND: Over the past several decades, US mortality declines have lagged behind other high-income countries. However, scant attention has been devoted to how US mortality variability compares with other countries. OBJECTIVE: We examine trends in mortality and mortality variability in the US and 16 peer countries from 1980 through 2016. METHODS: We employ the Human Mortality Database and demographic techniques - with a focus on patterns in the…

  • A gender framework for understanding health lifestyles

    Open AccessMollborn, Elizabeth M Lawrence et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020Cited by: 11References: 46

  • The persistent southern disadvantage in US early life mortality, 1965-2014

    Open AccessNathan T Dollar, Iliya Gutin et al.ARTICLEDemographic Research2020Cited by: 2References: 74

    BACKGROUND: Recent studies of US adult mortality demonstrate a growing disadvantage among southern states. Few studies have examined long-term trends and geographic patterns in US early life (ages 1 to 24) mortality, ages at which key risk factors and causes of death are quite different than among adults. OBJECTIVE: This article examines trends and variations in early life mortality rates across US states and census divisions. We assess whether t…

  • Health Lifestyles and the Transition to Adulthood

    Open AccessElizabeth M Lawrence, Mollborn et al.ARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2020Cited by: 8References: 55

    Prior research has shown the theoretical importance and empirical feasibility of health lifestyles but has not examined their patterns over the life course or their dynamic associations with socioeconomic status (SES) and adult roles. The authors develop and apply a life-course approach to understanding individuals' health lifestyles across the transition to adulthood, using U.S. data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult He…

  • Power, Hegemony, and World Society Theory: A Critical Evaluation

    Open AccessL Downey, Elizabeth M Lawrence et al.ARTICLESocius Sociological Research for…2020Cited by: 10References: 49

    World society theory has been one of the better published theoretical paradigms of the past 30 to 40 years. But despite its publishing successes, world society theory and research are beset by a number of theoretical and empirical problems that call into question the theory's ability to accurately describe and explain the global diffusion of government practices, policies, and structures. The authors summarize world society theory's key claims, d…

  • Family Structure and Early Life Mortality in the United States

    Open AccessR G Rogers, R A Hummer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2020Cited by: 4References: 51

    ObjectiveThis study investigates the association between family structure and early life mortality (1-24 years of age) in the United States.BackgroundFew studies have examined this association.MethodWe employed the restricted-use 1999-2015 National Health Interview Survey-Linked Mortality Files to reveal all-cause and cause-specific mortality disparities by family structure, as captured at the time of entry into the study, including married-paren…

  • Family Socioeconomic Status and Early Life Mortality Risk in the United States

    Open AccessDavid B Braudt, Elizabeth M Lawrence et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2019

  • The Relationship Between Education and Health: Reducing Disparities Through a Contextual Approach

    Open AccessA Zajacova, Elizabeth M LawrenceARTICLEAnnual Review of Public Health2018

    Adults with higher educational attainment live healthier and longer lives compared with their less educated peers. The disparities are large and widening. We posit that understanding the educational and macrolevel contexts in which this association occurs is key to reducing health disparities and improving population health. In this article, we briefly review and critically assess the current state of research on the relationship between educatio…

  • Wide educational disparities in young adult cardiovascular health

    Open AccessElizabeth M Lawrence, R A Hummer et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2018

    Widening educational differences in overall health and recent stagnation in cardiovascular disease mortality rates highlight the critical need to describe and understand educational disparities in cardiovascular health (CVH) among U.S. young adults. We use two data sets representative of the U.S. population to examine educational disparities in CVH among young adults (24-34) coming of age in the 21st century: the National Health and Nutrition Exa…

  • Residential Mobility Across Early Childhood and Children’s Kindergarten Readiness

    Open AccessMollborn, Stefanie Mollborn et al.ARTICLEDemography2018Cited by: 9References: 64

    Understanding residential mobility in early childhood is important for contextualizing family, school, and neighborhood influences on child well-being. We examined the consequences of residential mobility for socioemotional and cognitive kindergarten readiness using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort, a nationally representative longitudinal survey that followed U.S. children born in 2001 from infancy to kindergarten. We describe…

  • Family, Peer, and School Influences on Children's Developing Health Lifestyles

    Open AccessMollborn, Elizabeth M Lawrence et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health and Social…2018Cited by: 21References: 57

    Health lifestyles are important for health and social identity, yet little is known about their development in early life. We use data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 1998-99 (ECLS-K; N = 8,786) to track children's health lifestyles and assess a theoretical model of health lifestyle development. Latent class analyses identify health lifestyles at four time points from first to eighth grade, and multivariate mode…

  • Racial/Ethnic Patterns of Kindergarten School Enrollment in the United States

    Open AccessElizabeth M Lawrence, Elizabeth Lawrence et al.ARTICLESociological Forum2017Cited by: 4References: 15

    Enrollment into unequal schools at the start of formal education is an important mechanism for the reproduction of racial/ethnic educational inequalities. We examine whether there are racial/ethnic differences in school enrollment options at kindergarten, the start of schooling. We use nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) to model whether parents seek information about their child's scho…

  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in Early-Life Mortality in the United States

    R G Rogers, Elizabeth M Lawrence et al.ARTICLEBiodemography and Social Biology2017Cited by: 10References: 32

    U.S. early-life (ages 1-24) deaths are tragic, far too common, and largely preventable. Yet demographers have focused scant attention on U.S. early-life mortality patterns, particularly as they vary across racial and ethnic groups. We employed the restricted-use 1999-2011 National Health Interview Survey-Linked Mortality Files and hazard models to examine racial/ethnic differences in early-life mortality. Our results reveal that these disparities…

  • The Cardiovascular Health of Young Adults: Disparities along the Urban-Rural Continuum

    Open AccessElizabeth M Lawrence, Elizabeth Lawrence et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2017Cited by: 6References: 37

    U.S. young adults coming of age in the early twenty-first century are the first cohort to grow up during the obesity epidemic; justifiably, there is much concern about their cardiovascular health. To date, however, no research has examined the extent to which there are disparities in young adult cardiovascular health across the urban-rural continuum. We examine this topic using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Heal…

  • Health lifestyles across the transition to adulthood: Implications for health

    Open AccessElizabeth M Lawrence, Mollborn et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2017Cited by: 23References: 32

  • Why Do College Graduates Behave More Healthfully Than Those Who Are Less Educated

    Open AccessElizabeth M LawrenceARTICLEJournal of Health and Social…2017Cited by: 17References: 42

    College graduates live much healthier lives than those with less education, but research has yet to document with certainty the sources of this disparity. This study examines why U.S. young adults who earn college degrees exhibit healthier behaviors than those with less education. I use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, which offers information on education and health behaviors across adolescence and young a…

  • Alcohol's Collateral Damage: Childhood Exposure to Problem Drinkers and Subsequent Adult Mortality Risk

    R G Rogers, Elizabeth M Lawrence et al.ARTICLESocial Forces2016

    The importance of childhood circumstances, broadly defined, for shaping adult health and longevity is well-established. But the significance of one of the most prevalent childhood adversities-exposure to problem drinkers-has been understudied from a sociological perspective and remains poorly understood. We address this gap by drawing on cumulative inequality theory, using data from the 1988-2011 National Health Interview Survey-Linked Mortality …