In September, Dr. Zimmer's paper entitled, "Migration and left-behind parents and children of migrants in Cambodia: a look at household composition and the economic situation," was published in Asian Population Studies. The paper was co-authored by M. Van Natta, a doctoral candidate at UCSF.
Linking Spirituality and Religiosity to Life and Health Expectancy team publishes new work
The project team's paper on religion, life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy among older women and men in the Unites States was recently accepted for publication in The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Follow the link to read the accepted manuscript: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby098.
New Research Published
Dr. Zimmer's recent article "Persistent, Consistent, and Extensive: The Trend of Increasing Pain Prevalence in Older Americans", co-authored with Dr. Anna Zajacova, has now been published in the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. This article sets to assess trends in pain prevalence from 1992 to 2014 among older U.S. adults and by major population subgroups, … Continue reading New Research Published
Early release of paper to be published in Demographic Research
Please follow the link to view an early release of our paper on functional limitation trajectories of the Cebu cohort - Functional limitation trajectories and their determinants among women in the Philippines. It took several years and numerous rounds of analysis to finally complete this paper, but I believe the time and effort was worth it … Continue reading Early release of paper to be published in Demographic Research
New publication!
Be sure to check out Dr. Zimmer's latest publication in the October 2016 issue of Demography - Offspring Socioeconomic Status and Parent Mortality Within a Historical Population. Partial funding for this research is from the Early Life Conditions, Survival, and Health: A Pedigree-Based Population Study. Dr. Heidi Hanson and Dr. Ken Smith from the University of Utah are co-authors … Continue reading New publication!
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