Selected publications:

 

Books

 

Halpert, Julie and Deborah Carr. 2008. Making Up with Mom: Why Mothers and Daughters Disagree About Kids, Careers, and Casseroles (and What to Do About It). New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press. (April 15, 2008 publication date)

 

Giddens, Anthony, Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum, and Deborah Carr. 2008. Essentials of Sociology, 2^nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton.

 

Carr, Deborah, Randolph Nesse, and Camille B. Wortman (Eds.). 2006. Spousal Bereavement in Late Life. New York: Springer Publishing.

    For an excerpt, see:   Carr, Deborah, Camille B. Wortman and Randolph M. Nesse. 2006. “Understanding Late Life Widowhood: New Directions in Research, Theory, and Practice.” Pp. 3-18 in Spousal Bereavement in Late Life, edited by Deborah Carr, Randolph Nesse, and Camille B. Wortman. New York: Springer.

 

Carr, Deborah, Anu Pemmarazu, and Dorothy Rice. 1996. Improving Data on the Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

 

Articles & Chapters

Pudrovska, Tetyana, and Deborah Carr.  Forthcoming. "Age at First Birth and Fathers’ Subsequent Health: 

	Evidence from Sibling and Twin Models.” American Journal of Men’s Health.

 

Carr, Deborah and Alena Singleton. 2008. “Life Expectancy.” Pp. 848-52 Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, edited by Richard T. Schaefer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2008. “Keeping the Faith.” Contexts  7(1):52-53

 

Carr, Deborah. 2007. “The Cost of Kids.” Contexts  6(4):62.

 

Lee, Min-Ah and Deborah Carr. 2007. “Does the Context of Spousal Loss Affect the Physical Functioning of Widowed Older Persons? A Longitudinal Analysis.” Research on Aging 29: 457-487.

Carr, Deborah. 2007. “The Global Digital Divide” Contexts  6(3):58.

Carr, Deborah, Michael A. Friedman, and Karen Jaffe. 2007. “Understanding the Relationship Between Obesity and Positive and Negative Affect: The Role of Psychosocial Mechanisms.” Body Image 4(2): 165-177.

Carr, Deborah and Dmitry Khodyakov. 2007. "Health Care Proxies in Later Life: Whom Do we Choose and Why?" Journal of Health and Social Behavior 48(2): 180-194.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2007. “Baby Blues” Contexts  6(2):62.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2007. “Body Work” Contexts  6(1):58.

Carr, Deborah and Michael Friedman. 2006."Body Weight and Interpersonal Relationships." Social Psychology Quarterly 69: 127-49.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2006. “Monkeying with Science” Contexts 5(2):50.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2006. “A Place to Call Home.” Contexts 5(1):45.

 

Ha, Jung-Hwa, Deborah Carr, Rebecca Utz, and Randolph Nesse. 2006. “Older Adults’ Perceptions of Intergenerational Support after Widowhood: How Do Men and Women Differ?” Journal of Family Issues 27: 3-30.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2005. “Black Death, White Death.” Contexts 4(4): 43.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2005. "Defining 'Moral.'" Contexts 4(3):15.

 

Ha, Jung-Hwa and Deborah Carr. 2005. “Parent-Child Geographic Proximity and Older Adults’ Adjustment to Widowhood.” Research on Aging 27(5): 578-610.

 

Byrne, Anne, and Deborah Carr. 2005. "Caught in the Cultural Lag: The Stigma of Singlehood." Psychological Inquiry 16: 84-91.

 

Carr, Deborah and Michael Friedman. 2005. "Is Obesity Stigmatizing?  Body Weight, Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Well-Being in the United States. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 46: 244-259.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2005. "Mothers at Work." Contexts 4(2): 51.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2005. "The Psychological Consequences of Midlife Men's Social Comparisons with their Young Adult Sons." Journal of Marriage and Family 67: 240-50.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2005. "Capturing the Youth Vote." Contexts 4(1): 47.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2005. "Political Polls." Contexts 4(1):31-32.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2004. "Black/White Differences in Psychological Adjustment to Spousal Loss among Older Adults." Research on Aging 26(6): 591-622.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2004. "The Desire to Date and Remarry among Older Widows and Widowers." Journal of Marriage and Family 66: 1051-68

 

Utz, Rebecca, Erin Reidy, Deborah Carr, Randolph M. Nesse, and Camille B. Wortman. 2004. “The Daily Consequences of Widowhood: The Role of Gender and Intergenerational Transfers on Subsequent Housework Performance.” Journal of Family Issues 25(5): 683-712.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2004. "‘My Daughter Has a Career - I Just Raised Babies’: Women’s Intergenerational Social Comparisons." Social Psychology Quarterly 67(2): 132-54.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2004. “Gender, Pre-Loss Marital Dependence and Older Adults’ Adjustment to Widowhood.” Journal of Marriage and Family 66: 220-35.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2003. "A 'Good Death' for Whom? Quality of Spouse's Death and Psychological Distress among Older Widowed Persons." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 44: 215-32.

 

Carr, Deborah (2003) "Psychological well-being across three cohorts: A response to shifting work-family opportunities and expectations? Work and well-being across three cohorts." Pp. 452-484 in How Healthy Are We? A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife, edited by O. G. Brim, Carol D. Ryff, and Ronald C. Kessler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2002. "Socioeconomic Background and Midlife Health in the United States" Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 22: Economic Outcomes in Later Life: Public Policy, Health, and Cumulative Advantage, edited by Stephen Crystal and Dennis Shea. New York: Springer Publishing Co.

 

Carr, Deborah and Rebecca Utz. 2002. “Late-Life Widowhood in the United States: New Directions in Research and Theory.” Ageing International, 27 (1): 65-88.

 

Utz, Rebecca, Deborah Carr, Randolph M. Nesse, and Camille B. Wortman. 2002. "The Effect of Widowhood on Older Adults' Social Participation: An Evaluation of Activity, Disengagement, and Continuity Theories."  The Gerontologist 42(4): 522-33.

 

Carr, Deborah. 2002. “The Psychological Consequences of Work-Family Tradeoffs for Three Cohorts of Women and Men.” Social Psychology Quarterly 65(2): 103-24.

 

Carr, Deborah, James S. House, Camille Wortman, Randolph M. Nesse, and Ronald C. Kessler. 2001.  “Psychological Adjustment to Sudden and Anticipated Spousal Death Among the Older Widowed.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 56B(4): S237-48.

 

Carr, Deborah, James S. House, Ronald C. Kessler, Randolph M. Nesse, John Sonnega, and Camille Wortman. 2000. “Marital Quality and Psychological Adjustment to Widowhood Among Older Adults: A Longitudinal Analysis.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 55B(4):S197-207.

 

Singer, Burton H., Carol D. Ryff, Deborah Carr, and William Magee. 1998. “Linking Life Histories and Mental Health: A Person-Centered Strategy.” Sociological Methodology 28:1-51.

 

Carr, Deborah. 1997. "The Fulfillment of Career Dreams at Midlife: Does it Matter for Women's Mental Health.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 38(4): 331-344.

  

Carr, Deborah. 1996. "Two Paths to Self-Employment? Women's and Men's Self-Employment in the United States, 1980." Work and Occupations 23(1): 26-53.

[Reprinted in Daniel B. Cornfield, Karen Campbell, and Holly McCammon (eds), Restructured Workplaces: Challenges and New Directions for the Sociology of Work. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 2001.]