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Member Information
Irma T. Elo, PhD
Associate Professor of Sociology
Chair, Graduate Group in Demography
Office Phone: 215-898-9162
Office fax:
Email: popelo@pop.upenn.edu
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Keywords: Demography, Sociology, Health and Mortality
Research and/or Clinical Interests:
Dr. Elo's research focuses on social class and racial/ethnic differences in health and mortality across the life course.
Summary:
Dr. Elo has a long-ongoing research interest in how societal inequalities affect health outcomes. She has made substantive and methodological contributions in the areas of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in health and mortality and the effects of early life conditions on adult health. In the last few years, she has added major new dimensions to her research by combining her interest in racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in health and mortality and her interests in family sociology and the importance of early life conditions on health with a support of a major NICHD grant of which she is the PI to examine racial/ethnic and neighborhood disparities in infant and child health in Philadelphia with a survey of low-income women.
Representative Publications:
Elo, I.T. and G.L. Drevenstedt. "Cause-Specific Contributions to Black-White Differences in Male Mortality from 1960 to 1995." Demographic Research , forthcoming, 2003 .
Preston , S.H.. I.T. Elo, M Hill, and I. Rosenwaike. The Demography of African Americans, 1930-1990. Dordrecht , Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers. Forthcoming , 2003 .
Rodríguez, G. and I.T. Elo. "Intra-class correlation in random-effects models for binary data." The Stata Journal 3(1):1-15, 2003.
Elo, I.T. and G. L. Drevenstedt. "Educational Differences in Cause-specific Mortality in the United States ." Yearbook of Population Research in Finland 38 . Helsinki , Finland : The Population Research Institute, pages 37-54, 2002.
Elo, I.T. "New African American Life Tables from 1935-40 to 1985-90." Demography 38: 97-114, 2001.
Elo, I.T. and S.H. Preston. 2001. The African American Population: 1930-1990. In Massey, Douglas and Elijah Anderson, eds. Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the U.S. at the Millennium . New York : Sage Press, pages 168-123, 2001.
Elo, I.T. and S.H. Preston. "Racial and Ethnic Differences in American Mortality at Older Ages." In L. Martin and B. Soldo, eds. Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans. Washington , DC : National Academy Press, pages 10-42, 1997.
Elo, I.T. 1997. "Adult Mortality Among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: A Review of the Evidence." In K.S. Markides and M.R. Miranda, eds. Minorities, Aging and Health . Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage Publications, pages. 41-78, 1997.
Elo, I.T. and S.H. Preston. "Educational Differentials in Mortality: United States, 1979-1985." Social Science and Medicine 42: 47-57, 1996.
Preston , S.H., I.T. Elo, A. Foster, and H. Fu. Forthcoming. "Reconstructing the Size of the African-American Population by Age and Sex: 1930-1990." Demography, 1998.
Hussey, J. and I.T. Elo. Forthcoming. "Cause-specific Mortality Among Older African Americans: Correlates and Consequences of Age Misreporting. Social Biology, 1998.
Rosenwaike, I. , M.E. Hill, S.H. Preston, and I.T. Elo. Forthcoming. "Linking Death Certificates to Early Census Records: The African American Matched Records Sample." Historical Methods,1998.
