Research

Considering that many individuals spend roughly half of their life working and a quarter in retirement, and that promoting longer working lives is one of the most frequent proposals to address the challenges of population aging, we have devoted special attention to understand the health consequence of work status, retirement transitions, and late life labor force trajectories.

We have also explored the health consequences of moving decisions. This thread of our research largely draws on quasi-experimental designs and analytic approaches to distinguish causal effects from non-causal correlations and overcome other methodological problems encountered in life course analyses of social determinants of health. These methodological efforts are critical to successfully translate observational research into effective policy and interventions. Our key publications in this area focus on individuals over time.