2026 Douglas A. Wolf: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	45	3914	3612	1861	1686	139	7544

Overview

Douglas A. Wolf is affiliated with Syracuse University in the United States. Their research spans multiple topics within the social sciences and health professions, focusing on areas such as health disparities and outcomes, employment and welfare studies, global health care issues, retirement, disability, and employment, migration, aging, and tourism studies, insurance, mortality, demography, risk management, and intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving.

The main fields of study covered in their work include social sciences and health professions, with particular emphasis on subfields like general health professions, demography, health, economics and econometrics, and clinical psychology.

Douglas A. Wolf has published research in several academic venues, frequently contributing to:

The Gerontologist
Environmental Science Advances
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Milbank Quarterly

Some of the recent papers by Douglas A. Wolf include:

"The Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for an Aging U.S. Population" (2023, The Gerontologist)
"U.S. State Preemption Laws and Working-Age Mortality" (2022, American Journal of Preventive Medicine)
"Effects of US state preemption laws on infant mortality" (2021, Preventive Medicine)
"End-of-Life Planning Depends on Socio-Economic and Racial Background: Evidence from the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS)" (2021, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
"Paid Leave Mandates and Care for Older Parents" (2024, Milbank Quarterly)

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, indicating ongoing research relationships with:

Jennifer Karas Montez
Shannon M. Monnat
Emily Wiemers
Xue Zhang
Emily M. Agree

Best Publications

Married women's allocation of time to employment and care of elderly parents

Douglas A. Wolf;Beth J. Soldo

393
Citations
Functionally Relevant Thresholds of Quadriceps Femoris Strength

Lori L. Ploutz-Snyder;Todd Manini;Robert J. Ploutz-Snyder;Douglas A. Wolf

346
Citations
Household composition choices of older unmarried women.

Douglas A. Wolf;Beth J. Soldo

336
Citations
Living arrangements among older people: an overview of trends in Europe and the USA

C Tomassini;K Glaser;D A Wolf;M I Broese van Groenou

333
Citations
The Division of Family Labor: Care for Elderly Parents

Douglas A. Wolf;Vicki Freedman;Beth J. Soldo

295
Citations
Selection of Children To Provide Care: The Effect of Earlier Parental Transfers

John C. Henretta;Martha S. Hill;Wei Li;Beth J. Soldo

282
Citations
Family, households, and care arrangements of frail older women: A structural analysis

Beth J. Soldo;Douglas A. Wolf;Emily M. Agree

280
Citations
The Duration of Welfare Spells

June A. O'Neill;Laurie J. Bassi;Douglas A. Wolf

257
Citations
Time? money? both? the allocation of resources to older Parents

Kenneth A. Couch;Mary C. Daly;Douglas A. Wolf

226
Citations
Caregiver Stress and Noncaregiver Stress: Exploring the Pathways of Psychiatric Morbidity

Anna A. Amirkhanyan;Douglas A. Wolf

218
Citations
New methods for analyzing active life expectancy

Sarah B. Laditka;Douglas A. Wolf

207
Citations
Child care subsidies and the employment of welfare recipients.

Marcia K. Meyers;Theresa Heintze;Douglas A. Wolf

202
Citations
Parental Housing Assistance and Parent-Child Proximity in Italy

Cecilia Tomassini;Douglas A. Wolf;Alessandro Rosina

192
Citations
Parent Care and the Stress Process: Findings From Panel Data

Anna A. Amirkhanyan;Douglas A. Wolf

192
Citations
Reconsidering Substitution in Long-Term Care: When Does Assistive Technology Take the Place of Personal Care?

Emily M. Agree;Vicki A. Freedman;Jennifer C. Cornman;Douglas A. Wolf

191
Citations
Validation of New Measures of Disability and Functioning in the National Health and Aging Trends Study

Vicki A. Freedman;Judith D. Kasper;Jennifer C. Cornman;Emily M. Agree

177
Citations
Disability-Free Life Expectancy Over 30 Years: A Growing Female Disadvantage in the US Population

Vicki A. Freedman;Douglas A. Wolf;Brenda C. Spillman

156
Citations
Effective Tax Rates and Guarantees in the AFDC Program, 1967-1982

Thomas Fraker;Robert Moffitt;Douglas Wolf

145
Citations
Kin availability and the living arrangements of older women

Douglas A. Wolf

139
Citations
The underclass: definition and measurement.

Ronald B. Mincy;Isabel V. Sawhill;Douglas A. Wolf

137
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Vicki A. Freedman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

James N. Laditka University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Emily Grundy University of Essex

John C. Henretta University of Florida

Nancy Folbre University of Massachusetts Amherst

Suzanne M. Bianchi University of California, Los Angeles

Carlos F. Mendes de Leon Georgetown University

Kenneth F. Ferraro Purdue University West Lafayette

Deborah Carr Boston University

Linda K. George Duke University

External Links

Personal website of Douglas A. Wolf Google Scholar page

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