life course and aging inequality, race/ethnic and gender stratification, social demography, health disparities, wealth mobility, and quantitative methods
Dr. Brown’s program of research utilizes life course perspectives and methods to investigate how ascriptive characteristics such as race/ethnicity and gender affect health and wealth. This research interest takes shape in three distinct research projects. The first project examines how race/ethnicity and the intersection of race/ethnicity with immigration and gender impact health trajectories. The second project uses multiple longitudinal data sets to investigate how dynamic processes of wealth accumulation vary by race/ethnicity, resulting in increasing wealth inequality across the life course. The final project extends his research on racial/ethnic and gender inequality by considering group differences in the effects of social and economic factors on health and wealth trajectories.
Selected Publications/Recent
Research:
Pienta, A.M., and T.H. Brown, Health, Gender, and Retirement: Men and Women Managing a Work Limitation.”,
Research on Aging (Forthcoming 2010).
Elder, G.,V. Wong, N. Spence, D. Adkins, and T. H. Brown, Young Men’s Pathways to the U.S. All-Volunteer Force,
Social Science Quarterly (Forthcoming).
Brown T.H., and D. F. Warner, “Divergent Pathways? A Life Course Study of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Women’s Labor Force Withdrawal.”,
Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, vol. 63 (2008),
pp. S122-S134.
Koropeckyj-Cox, T., A.M. Pienta and T.H. Brown, "Women of the 1950s and the 'Normative' Life Course: The Implications of Childlessness, Fertility Timing, and Marital Status for Psychological Well-being in Late Midlife.",
International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol. 64 no. 4 (2007),
pp. 299-330.
Brown, T.H., Marital Histories and Wealth Accumulation: The Role of Timing and Duration,
Social Forces (Revise and Resubmit).
