Felix Elwert
4325 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 262-9510
Fax: (608) 262-8400
felwert@ssc.wisc.edu
Office Hours: T 11-12, W 1:30-2:30 (Fall'09)
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications:
Elwert, Felix, and Nicholas A. Christakis. 2008. “Wives and Ex-Wives: A New Test for Homogamy Bias in the Widowhood Effect.” Demography 45(4).
Elwert, Felix, and Nicholas A. Christakis. 2008. “Variation in the Effect of Widowhood on Mortality by the Causes of Death of Both Spouses.” American Journal of Public Health 98(11):2092-98.
Elwert, Felix, and Nicholas A. Christakis. 2006. “Widowhood and Race.” American Sociological Review. 71(1):16-41. [With ASR online supplement]
Education:
Ph.D., Sociology, Harvard University, 2007
Areas of Interest:
Aging, Life Course
Demography
Methods and Statistics
Race and Ethnic Studies
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of Medicine
Sociology of the Family
Affiliations:
Center for Demography and Ecology
Center for Demography of Health and Aging
Sociology
Research Interest Statement:
Felix Elwert’s research focuses on the social demography of marriage, mortality, and statistical methods of causal inference for the social sciences. Elwert has recently completed work on interpersonal health effects, marital status and mortality, race and spatial differences in hospice use, intergenerational effects of social context, and causal inference from observational data. He has developed a new test for unobserved heterogeneity in the apparent effect of widowhood on mortality, which uses information on current and former spouses to identify the causal effect of marital status. The test exploits the selective presence and absence of social ties to understand the social transmission of mortality, and can be translated to different substantive areas of social demography.