Miles Taylor

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Education and Recent Professional Experience:

Postdoctoral Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008
Ph. D., Department of Sociology, Duke University, 2005
M.A, Department of Sociology, Duke University, 2002

Selected Papers and Publications:

Taylor, Miles G. 2010 “Capturing Transitions and Trajectories: The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Later Life Disability.” Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. READ
Lynch, Scott M., J. Scott Brown and Miles G. Taylor “The Demography of Disability." Forthcoming in International Handbook of the Demography of Aging. (Springer-Verlag).
Elder, Glen H. Jr. and Miles G. Taylor. “Life Course Methods: Recasting Biographical and Historical Data to Study Lives in Time and Place” Forthcoming in The Craft of Life Course Research (Guilford).
Kamp Dush, Claire, Miles G. Taylor and Rhiannon Kroeger. 2008. “Marital Happiness and Well-Being over the Life Course” Family Relations, Special Issue 57:211-226. READ
Taylor, Miles G. 2008. “Timing, Accumulation, and the Black/White Disability Gap in Later Life: A Test of Weathering.” Research on Aging: Special Issue on Race, SES, and Health 30: 226-250. READ
Morgan, S. Philip and Miles G. Taylor. 2006. “Low Fertility at the Turn of the 21st Century” Annual Review of Sociology, 32, 375-399. READ
Taylor, Miles G. and Scott M. Lynch. 2004. “Trajectories of Impairment, Social Support, and Depressive Symptoms in Later Life.” Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 59B, S238-S246. READ

Awards:

2006. Student Research Dissertation Award, Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America
2005. Award for Best Poster, Population Association of America
2004. Award for Best Student Paper, Section on Aging and the Life Course, American Sociological Association, with Amélie Quesnel-Vallée

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