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Jennifer Karas Montez

Jennifer Karas Montez

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
30
Citations
7237
World Ranking
7632
National Ranking
3712

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Andrew Carnegie Fellow

Best Publications

  • Social Relationships and Health: A Flashpoint for Health Policy

    Debra Umberson;Jennifer Karas Montez

  • Cumulative Childhood Adversity, Educational Attainment, and Active Life Expectancy Among U.S. Adults

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Mark D. Hayward

  • Educational Attainment and Adult Mortality in the United States: A Systematic Analysis of Functional Form

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Robert A. Hummer;Mark D. Hayward

  • Trends in the Educational Gradient of U.S. Adult Mortality From 1986 Through 2006 by Race, Gender, and Age Group

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Robert A. Hummer;Mark D. Hayward;Hyeyoung Woo

  • US State Policies, Politics, and Life Expectancy

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Jason Beckfield;Julene Kemp Cooney;Jacob M. Grumbach

  • The Significance of Education for Mortality Compression in the United States

    Dustin C. Brown;Mark D. Hayward;Jennifer Karas Montez;Robert A. Hummer

  • Educational Disparities in Adult Mortality Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s?

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Anna Zajacova;Mark D. Hayward;Steven H. Woolf

  • Childhood Adversities and Adult Cardiometabolic Health: Does the Quantity, Timing, and Type of Adversity Matter?

    Esther M. Friedman;Jennifer Karas Montez;Connor Mc Devitt Sheehan;Tara L. Guenewald

  • Educational attainment and adult health: under what conditions is the association causal?

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Esther M. Friedman

  • Country of Birth and Language Are Uniquely Associated with Intakes of Fat, Fiber, and Fruits and Vegetables among Mexican-American Women in the United States

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Karl Eschbach

  • Trends in Mortality Risk by Education Level and Cause of Death Among US White Women From 1986 to 2006

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Anna Zajacova

  • Why Is the Educational Gradient of Mortality Steeper for Men

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Mark D. Hayward;Dustin C. Brown;Robert A. Hummer

  • Early Life Conditions and Later Life Mortality

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Mark D. Hayward

  • Explaining the Widening Education Gap in Mortality among U.S. White Women

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Anna Zajacova

  • Explaining Inequalities in Women's Mortality between U.S. States.

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Anna Zajacova;Mark D. Hayward

  • Trends in the educational gradient of mortality among US adults aged 45 to 84 years: bringing regional context into the explanation.

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Lisa F. Berkman

  • Why is life expectancy declining among low-educated women in the United States?

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Anna Zajacova

  • Disparities in Disability by Educational Attainment Across US States.

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Anna Zajacova;Mark D. Hayward

  • Educational Disparities in Adult Health: U.S. States as Institutional Actors on the Association.

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Mark D Hayward;Anna Zajacova

  • Do U.S. states' socioeconomic and policy contexts shape adult disability?

    Jennifer Karas Montez;Mark D. Hayward;Douglas Alan Wolf

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