select publications
Wolfe, Joseph D., Mieke Beth Thomeer, and Shawn Bauldry. Forthcoming. “Twentieth Century Change in the Educational Costs of Adolescent Childbearing.” American Journal of Sociology
Wolfe, Joseph D., Mieke Beth Thomeer, and Rin Reczek. 2023. “Age at First Birth and Women's Midlife Health: Cohort and Race Differences Across the 20th Century.” Social Science & Medicine 301:1-9.
Wolfe, Joseph D. 2022. “The Financial Correlates of Midlife Obesity.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 63(1): S18-S27.
Wolfe, Joseph D., Elizabeth H. Baker, Jalal Uddin, and Stephanie Kirkland. 2022. “Varieties of Financial Stressors and Midlife Health Problems, 1996-2016.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 77(1): 149–159
Wolfe, Joseph D. and Mieke Beth Thomeer. 2021. “Divorce, Economic Resources, and Survival Among Older Black and White Women.” Journal of Marriage and Family 83:173-190.
Wolfe, Joseph D., Elizabeth H. Baker., and Isabel C. Scarinci. 2019. “Wealth and Obesity Among U.S. Adults Entering Midlife.” Obesity 27: 2067-2075.
Wolfe, Joseph D., Shawn Bauldry, Melissa A. Hardy, and Eliza K. Pavalko. 2018. “Multigenerational Attainments, Racial Inequalities, and the Mortality of Silent Generation Women.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 59: 335-351.
Pavalko, Eliza K., and Joseph D. Wolfe. 2016. “Do Women Still Care? Cohort Changes in U.S. Women's Care for the Ill or Disabled.” Social Forces 94: 1359-1384.
Wolfe, Joseph D. 2009. “Age at First Birth and Alcohol Use.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 50: 395-409.
other stuff