The Long-Term Consequences of Parental Mental Health Problems, Christina Kamis
Despite growing literature on the impact of adverse childhood experiences on life course health, little is known about the long-term consequences of parental mental health problems. Specifically, questions remain on how this childhood stressor shapes adult distress over time, and whether the severity and duration of the parental mental health problems is consequential to its effect on offspring. With data from the 2007-2015 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the 2014 Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study, this study further explores the relationship between parental mental health and children's adult distress.
Stress Proliferation and Disability from a Life Course Perspective, Jessie West
Disability is a growing health concern affecting roughly one out of eight Americans. Given the aging of the population, the high costs of disability, and the impact of disability on quality of life, I am proposing a dissertation that consists of three separate studies that together examine the experiences of people with disabilities at different stages of the life course.
Full abstracts: http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/seminars/node/6040