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Lawrence King is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research spans the social sciences, with a focus on health disparities, international development, and economic and political factors influencing public health outcomes.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective, 2022, Annual Review of Sociology
  • Incarceration and mortality in the United States, 2021, SSM - Population Health
  • Structural adjustment programmes and infectious disease mortality, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach, 2022, Theory and Society
  • Deindustrialisation and the post-socialist mortality crisis, 2023, Cambridge Journal of Economics

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Thomas Stubbs
  • Alexander Kentikelenis
  • Bernhard Reinsberg
  • Elias Nosrati
  • David Stückler

Lawrence King has published multiple works in several academic venues, with the most publications appearing in:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Theory and Society
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Their published books are associated with the Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology, including:

  • Collier on Bankruptcy Taxation, 2020
  • Collier Real Estate Transactions and the Bankruptcy Code, 2020

Lawrence King's main field of study is Social Sciences, with research distributed across subfields including:

  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Development
  • Political Science and International Relations

The primary topics of their work focus on:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • International Development and Aid
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Mass privatisation and the post-communist mortality crisis: a cross-national analysis

    David Stuckler;Lawrence King;Martin McKee

  • IMF conditionality and development policy space, 1985–2014

    Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Thomas H. Stubbs;Lawrence P. King

  • Central European Capitalism in Comparative Perspective

    Lawrence P. King

  • Is wealthier always healthier? The impact of national income level, inequality, and poverty on public health in Latin America

    Brian Biggs;Lawrence King;Sanjay Basu;David Stuckler

  • WHO's budgetary allocations and burden of disease: a comparative analysis

    David Stuckler;Lawrence King;Helen Robinson;Martin McKee

  • The International Monetary Fund and the Ebola outbreak

    Alexander Kentikelenis;Lawrence King;Martin McKee;David Stuckler

  • Mass Privatization, State Capacity, and Economic Growth in Post-Communist Countries

    Patrick Hamm;Lawrence P. King;David Stuckler

  • The State‐Led Transition to Liberal Capitalism: Neoliberal, Organizational, World‐Systems, and Social Structural Explanations of Poland’s Economic Success

    Lawrence P. King;Aleksandra Sznajder

  • Postcommunist Divergence: A Comparative Analysis of the Transition to Capitalism in Poland and Russia*

    Lawrence King

  • The impact of IMF conditionality on government health expenditure: A cross-national analysis of 16 West African nations.

    Thomas Stubbs;Thomas Stubbs;Alexander Kentikelenis;David Stuckler;Martin McKee

  • International Monetary Fund programs and tuberculosis outcomes in post-communist countries.

    David Stuckler;Lawrence P King;Sanjay Basu

  • How structural adjustment programs affect inequality: A disaggregated analysis of IMF conditionality, 1980-2014.

    Timon Forster;Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Bernhard Reinsberg;Thomas H. Stubbs

  • The world system and the hollowing out of state capacity: how structural adjustment programs affect bureaucratic quality in developing countries

    Bernhard Reinsberg;Alexander Kentikelenis;Thomas Stubbs;Lawrence King

  • How to evaluate the effects of IMF conditionality

    Thomas Stubbs;Thomas Stubbs;Bernhard Reinsberg;Bernhard Reinsberg;Alexander Kentikelenis;Lawrence King

  • Globalization and health equity: The impact of structural adjustment programs on developing countries.

    Timon Forster;Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Thomas H. Stubbs;Lawrence P. King

  • The political economy of farmers’ suicides in India: indebted cash-crop farmers with marginal landholdings explain state-level variation in suicide rates

    Jonathan Kennedy;Jonathan Kennedy;Lawrence King

  • Structural adjustment and public spending on health: evidence from IMF programs in low-income countries

    Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Thomas H. Stubbs;Lawrence P. King

  • Can a bank crisis break your heart

    David Stuckler;Christopher M Meissner;Christopher M Meissner;Lawrence Peter King

  • An Objective Corruption Risk Index Using Public Procurement Data

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  • Brazil's health catastrophe in the making.

    Katarzyna Doniec;Rafael Dall'Alba;Lawrence King

  • Catalyzing Aid? The IMF and Donor Behavior in Aid Allocation

    Thomas H. Stubbs;Thomas H. Stubbs;Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Alexander E. Kentikelenis;Lawrence P. King

  • WHO's budgetary allocations and burden of disease : a comparative analysis. Commentary

    Alan Lopez;David Stuckler;Lawrence King;Helen Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
David Stuckler
David Stuckler Bocconi University
Sanjay Basu
Sanjay Basu Stanford University
Marina Karanikolos
Marina Karanikolos London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Michael McKee
Michael McKee Appalachian State University
Gøsta Esping-Andersen
Gøsta Esping-Andersen Pompeu Fabra University

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