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The biological consequences of grandparental death for children: An analysis of telomere length Open

Michelle Sarah Livings, Emily Smith‐Greenaway, Brandon Wagner, Ashton M. Verdery · 2025

Increasingly, health scholars acknowledge bereavement as a determinant of population health. Some research suggests that childhood health is especially affected by the deaths of family members. Although most research has focused on losing …

LOVE HURTS: MARITAL STATUS AND CHRONIC PAIN Open

S. Choi, Brandon Wagner · 2024

While chronic pain is a highly prevalent and costly public health concern among older adults in the United States, longitudinal research on the social determinants of chronic pain, particularly its association with social relationships, ha…

Retail demand for emergency contraception in United States following New Year holiday: time series study Open

Brandon Wagner, Kelly Cleland · 2023

Objective To estimate the increase in sales of emergency contraception following the New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day holiday. Design Time series analysis using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model. Setting Traditional (that…

Using autoregressive integrated moving average models for time series analysis of observational data Open

Brandon Wagner, Kelly Cleland · 2023

This article discusses the use of autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models for time series analysis. Rather than forecasting future values, we focus here on examining change across time in outcomes of interest and how this c…

Increases in Retail Sales of Levonorgestrel Emergency Contraception in the United States, 2016-2022 Open

Brandon Wagner, Kelly Cleland · 2023

Objective: To understand changing patterns in demand for emergency contraception (EC), we characterize the sales of levonorgestrel (LNG) EC in the United States from traditional retail outlets. Study Design: We describe sales of LNG EC usi…

Acute care utilization and housing hardships in American children Open

Sarah Gold, Brandon Wagner · 2022

Effect of deep tube well use on childhood diarrhoea in Bangladesh Open

Verónica Escamilla, Brandon Wagner, M. Yunus, Peter Kim Streatfield, A. van Geen , et al. · 2020

To determine whether the installation of deep tube wells to reduce exposure to groundwater arsenic in rural Bangladesh had an effect on the incidence of childhood diarrhoeal disease.

Demographic and developmental patterns in telomere length across adolescence Open

Lauren Gaydosh, Colter Mitchell, Daniel A. Notterman, Lisa Schneper, Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn , et al. · 2020

Telomere length is often used in studies of adults as a biomarker of cellular aging and an indicator of stress exposure. However, we know little about how telomeres change over time, particularly over the course of the important developmen…

National Profiles of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality Risks by Age Structure and Preexisting Health Conditions Open

Ashton M. Verdery, Lauren Newmyer, Brandon Wagner, Rachel Margolis · 2020

Background and Objectives Although individual age and preexisting health conditions are well-documented risk factors for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality, it is unclear whether these 2 factors capture unique dimensions of risk…

Decline in Marriage Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Open

Brandon Wagner, Kate H. Choi, Philip N. Cohen · 2020

In the social upheaval arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, we do not yet know how union formation, particularly marriage, has been affected. Using administration records - marriage certificates and applications - gathered from settings rep…

Cohesive Neighborhoods Where Social Expectations Are Shared May Have Positive Impact On Adolescent Mental Health Open

Louis Donnelly, Sara McLanahan, Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn, Irwin Garfinkel, Brandon Wagner , et al. · 2020

Adolescent mental health problems are associated with poor health and well-being in adulthood. This study uses data from a birth cohort of children born in large U.S. cities (N=2,264) to examine whether neighborhood collective efficacy (so…

Decline in Marriage Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States Open

Brandon Wagner, Kate H. Choi, Philip N. Cohen · 2020

In the social upheaval arising from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we do not yet know how union formation, particularly marriage, has been affected. Using administration records—marriage certificates and applications—gat…

Peer characteristic moderation of peer influence in the adolescent initiation of drinking Open

Brandon Wagner · 2019

While it is understood that peers influence the behaviors of individuals, very little work has examined how the characteristics of peers factor into the influence process. Examining the adolescent transition to alcohol usage, this paper fo…

Correlates and Contexts of Sexual Infidelity in American Adults Open

Brandon Wagner · 2019

This project includes three projects that use sexual infidelity as a point of entry to examine topics such as digital data collection, relationship context, causation, measurement, and relationship satisfaction. In the first chapter, I tes…

“My BMI is too high for Plan B.” A changing population of women seeking ulipristal acetate emergency contraception online Open

Kelly Cleland, Brandon Wagner, Nicole Smith, James Trussell · 2019

Emergency contraceptive (EC) pills may be less effective for women with higher body mass index (BMI), but little is known about public response to the fact that EC may lose efficacy as weight increases. In November 2013, European authoriti…

Health Status and Transitions in Cohabiting Relationships of American Young Adults Open

Brandon Wagner · 2019

Objective: This study examines whether individual health predicts cohabiters' union transitions to marriage in American young adults. Background: Associations between health and subsequent marital transitions are well documented, but less …

Marriage, Cohabitation, and Sexual Exclusivity: Unpacking the Effect of Marriage Open

Brandon Wagner · 2018

Sexual concurrency, or having temporally overlapping sexual partnerships, has important consequences for relationship quality and individual health, as well as the health and wellbeing of others embedded in larger sexual networks. Although…

The politics of place: Presidential voting patterns and providers' prescription of emergency contraception Open

Kelly Cleland, Brandon Wagner, Pelin Batur, Megan McNamara, Justine Wu , et al. · 2018

Geography of intergenerational mobility and child development Open

Louis Donnelly, Irwin Garfinkel, Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn, Brandon Wagner, Sarah James , et al. · 2017

Significance Using data from an urban birth cohort study, we show that children from low-income families who grow up in counties that produce high levels of upward mobility, as recently estimated by Chetty and Hendren, exhibit fewer extern…

Sleep Duration and Telomere Length in Children Open

Sarah James, Sara McLanahan, Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn, Colter Mitchell, Lisa Schneper , et al. · 2017

Cohesive Neighborhoods Where Social Expectations Are Shared May Have Positive Impact On Adolescent Mental Health Open

Louis Donnelly, Sara McLanahan, Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn, Irwin Garfinkel, Brandon Wagner , et al. · 2016

Adolescent mental health problems are associated with poor health and well-being in adulthood. We used data from a cohort of 2,264 children born in large US cities in 1998-2000 to examine whether neighborhood collective efficacy (a combina…

“I don’t know what I would have done.” Women's experiences acquiring ulipristal acetate emergency contraception online from 2011 to 2015 Open

Nicole Smith, Kelly Cleland, Brandon Wagner, James Trussell · 2016

Economics of Resilient Cloud Services Open

Brandon Wagner, Arun Sood · 2016

Computer systems today must meet and maintain service availability, performance, and security requirements. Each of these demands requires redundancy and some form of isolation. When service requirements are implemented separately, the sys…

Unmanned Systems In Integrating Cross domain Naval Fires Open

Joshua Cox, David Erstad, John W. Fisher, D. Hanna, Zach Martens , et al. · 2016

The ability to communicate and transmit targeting data via the electromagnetic spectrum is crucial to the Navys ability to fight. However, in recent years, potential adversaries have significantly advanced their electronic warfare capabili…

Depression, Stressful Life Events, and the Impact of Variation in the Serotonin Transporter: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) Open

Brett C. Haberstick, Jason D. Boardman, Brandon Wagner, Andrew Smolen, John K. Hewitt , et al. · 2016

Our results provide partial support for the original hypothesis that 5-HTTLPR genotype interacts with the experience of stressful life events in the etiology of depression during young adulthood. However, even with this large sample, and a…

College Education and Sense of Control Open

Michael J. McFarland, Brandon Wagner, Scarlett Marklin · 2016

Although researchers routinely find a positive association between education and sense of control, it is unclear whether this association represents a causal connection or rather reflects correlations with unobserved factors related to fam…

Does a college education reduce depressive symptoms in American young adults? Open

Michael J. McFarland, Brandon Wagner · 2015

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