Publications

Dhaurali S, Acevedo A, Abrams LR, Shrestha S. Psychosocial Stressors and Postpartum Depressive Symptoms Are Linked to Postpartum Contraceptive Use. Journal of Women's Health. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2023.071

Abrams LR, Myrskyla M, Mehta, NK. Reply to Polizzi and Dowd: Within-country counterfactual reveals importance of retirement age mortality in addition to established concern about working ages.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(4), e2320028121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2320028121

Abrams LR, Myrskyla M, Mehta, NK. The “double jeopardy” of midlife and old age mortality trends in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, 42, 10.1073/pnas.2308360120

Abrams LR, Berkman L. Quantifying the contribution of work characteristics to educational disparities in reporting health-induced work limitations. The Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, gbad112, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad112

Abrams, LR, Friedman, K., & Maestas, N. The role of physical and cognitive/emotional functioning in the associations between common health conditions and working. Social Science & Medicine, 322, 115816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115816 

Abrams LR, Harknett K, Schneider D. Older Workers with Unpredictable Schedules: Implications for Well-being and Job Retention. The Gerontologist, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnac067

Abrams LR, Myrskylä M, Mehta NK. The growing rural–urban divide in US life expectancy: contribution of cardiovascular disease and other major causes of death. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab158

Abrams LR, Clarke PJ, Mehta NK. Unmet expectations about work at age 62 and depressive symptoms. The Journal of Gerontology, Series B. 2021; doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbab113

Abrams LR, Hoffman GJ. Skilled nursing facilities modify the relationship between depressive symptoms and hospital readmissions but not health outcomes among older adults. Journal of Aging and Health. 2021; https://doi.org/10.1177/08982643211013127

Abrams LR, Finlay JM, Kobayashi LC. Job transitions and mental health outcomes among US adults aged 55 and older during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. 2021: gbab060. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab060

Abrams LR, Clarke PJ, Mehta NK. Work at age 62: expectations and realisations among recent cohorts of Americans. Ageing & Society. 2020 :1-21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X20001531  

Brown L., Abrams LR, Uchechi M, Ailshire J. Is exposure enough? Race differences in chronic stress exposure, appraisal, & mental health among older adults. Innovation in Aging. 2020; 4(5). https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa040 

Mehta, NK, Abrams LR, Myrskyla M. Stalling U.S. life expectancy in the 21st century: Cardiovascular disease, not drug deaths the main culprit. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2020; 117(13): 6998-7000. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920391117  

Abrams LR, Mehta NK. Changes in depressive symptoms over age among older Americans: Differences by gender, race/ethnicity, education, and birth cohort. Social Science & Medicine – Population Health. 2019; 7.  doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100399 

Abrams LR, Kalousova L, Fleischer NL. Gender differences in relationships between sociodemographic factors and e-cigarette use with smoking cessation: 2014-2015 Current Population Survey Tobacco Use Supplement. Journal of Public Health. 2019; 42(1): e42-50. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdz017.

Bouhlal S, Abrams LR, McBride CM, Persky S. Cognitive and Affective Factors Linking Mothers’ Perceived Weight History to Child Feeding. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2018; 72(11):1583-1591. doi: 10.1038/s41430-017-0071-0.

Abrams LR, Koehly LM, Hooker GW, Paquin RS, Capella JN, McBride CM. Media Exposure and Genetic Literacy Skills to Evaluate Angelina Jolie’s Decision for Prophylactic Mastectomy. Public Health Genomics. 2016;19(5):282-289. doi:10.1159/000447944.

Abrams LR, McBride CM, Hooker GW, Cappella JN, Koehly LM. The Many Facets of Genetic Literacy: Assessing the Scalability of Multiple Measures for Broad Use in Survey Research. PLoS One. 2015;10(10):e0141532. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141532.

McBride CM, Abrams LR, Koehly LM. Using a Historical Lens to Envision the Next Generation of Genomic Translation Research. Public Health Genomics. 2015;18(5):272-282. doi:10.1159/000435832.

Patterson, BA, Munoz, L, Abrams, LR, & Bass, C. Transformative Learning: A Case for Using Grounded Theory as an Assessment Analytic. Teaching Theology & Religion. 2015; 18(4), 303-325.  https://doi.org/10.1111/teth.12301