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The dramatic changes in the accessibility of home ownership may have “set the stage” for the baby boom

Residential mobility is associated with dislocation and stress

Caudillo and Cohen investigate how family structures have changed with rising opioid epidemic death rates

Familial loss increases midlife mortality risk among Black Americans

Although the decline in marriage has been cited as a possible contributor to the “despair” afflicting marginalized White communities, these studies have not directly considered mortality by marital status. This paper uses complete death certificate data from the Mortality Multiple Cause Files with American Community Survey data to examine age-specific mortality rates for married and non-married people from 2007 to 2017. The overall rise in White mortality is limited almost exclusively to those who are not married, for men and women. By comparison, mortality for Blacks and Hispanics has fallen or remained flat regardless of marital status (except for young, single Hispanic men). Analysis by education level shows death rates have risen most for Whites with the lowest education, but have also increased for those with high school or some college. Because mortality has risen faster for unmarried Whites at all but the lowest education levels, there has been an increase in the marriage mortality ratio. Mortality differentials are an increasingly important component of the social hierarchy associated with marital status.

Sangeetha Madhavan, African American Studies Department

Caryn N. Bell University of Maryland: Loneke T. Blackman Carr Duke University: 2019-006

The Impact of Parental Involvement Laws on the Abortion Rate of Minors

Rise represents a disturbing directional shift

Infertility in low-income countries is an Untold Health Story