Social/structural determinants of health
We have just finished up two studies in which we examined the effects of electoral partisan bias on children. In the first study, we examined the effects of electoral bias on generosity of state budgetary and regulatory policies affecting child well-being between 1980 and 2019. In the second study, we extended this research to examine the effects of electoral partisan bias on infant mortality and preterm births, and the extent to which this bias was mediated through the policies.
We are currently writing a paper to elucidate a conceptual framework that expands thinking about structural determinants of health and health inequities. Our next research study will be based on this framework.
Graduate students in the lab are also preparing to conduct or conducting studies on neighborhood effects, parental incarceration, and firearm violence.