Life-Course Transitions in Rural Residence and Old-Age Mortality in Iowa, 1930–2014

Evan Roberts; Wendy Rahn; DeAnn Lazovich

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.4.05

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 4 106-124

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.4.05

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online May 12, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Roberts, Evan, Wendy Rahn, and DeAnn Lazovich. 2022. “Life-Course Transitions in Rural Residence and Old-Age Mortality in Iowa, 1930–2014.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(4): 106–24. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.4.05. We thank the participants in the “Growing up in Rural America” workshop, the editors, and three anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. We particularly thank Reviewer 2 for constructive engagement with the paper and concrete suggestions for improvement. We thank the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research for supporting data collection through a Grant in Aid (#23111), and gratefully acknowledge support from the Minnesota Population Center (P2C HD041023) funded through a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. Shannyn Telander and Leah Engelman provided valuable exemplary research assistance with the record linkage. We thank the subjects of the Iowa Women’s Health Study for their participation in many waves of data collection. Direct correspondence to Evan Roberts, at eroberts@umn.edu, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota 909 Social Sciences, 267 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Evan Roberts^a,
Wendy Rahn^b and
DeAnn Lazovich^c

^aAssistant professor of sociology and population studies at the University of Minnesota, United States
^bEmeritus professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, United States
^cEmeritus associate professor of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota, United States