Research

Publications

Lisa Berkman and Beth C. Truesdale, eds. 2022. Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer. Oxford University Press.

Beth C. Truesdale, Lisa Berkman, and Alexandra Mitukiewicz.  2022.  “When I’m 54: Working Longer Starts Younger Than We Think.”  In Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer. Oxford University Press.

Berkman, Lisa, and Beth C. Truesdale.  2022. “Is Working Longer in Jeopardy?” In Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer. Oxford University Press.

Berkman, Lisa, Beth C. Truesdale, and Alexandra Mitukiewicz.  2022. “What Is the Way Forward? American Policy and Working Longer.” In Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer. Oxford University Press.

Beth C. Truesdale. 2020. “Better Jobs, Longer Working Lives: Proposals to Improve the Low-wage Labor Market for Older Workers.”  Brookings Institution.

Beth C. Truesdale and Christopher Jencks.  2016.  “The Health Effects of Income Inequality: Averages and Disparities.”  Annual Review of Public Health 37(1): 413-30.

Beth C. Truesdale and Christopher Jencks.  2016.  “Income Inequality and Health: Strong Theories, Weaker Evidence.”  Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research 5(5):30-37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/FPHSSR.0505.05

Working Papers

“The Effects of Income Inequality in U.S. States: Health Disparities across the Life Course.” Presented at the Population Association of America (PAA) Conference, April 2018.

“Coming of Age in an Unequal State: The Life Course Effects of Economic Inequality.”  Presented at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Conference, August 2017.

“The Life Course Influence of Economic Inequality on Individual Health and Health Behavior.”  Presented at the Tobin Project Conference on Inequality and Decision-Making, August 2016.

“Trickle-down Politics: Governors’ Influence on State Implementation of Federal Social Policy.”  With Daniel Honig.

“The Blue Collar Penalty: Explaining Educational Class Gaps in Work Disability.”