LECTURE SERIES: Individuals’ and Partners’ Life Courses and Biological Markers of Health

Studies in social sciences adopting the life course approach have shown that the sequencing, timing, and duration of events in the work, partnership, and fertility domains shape health in late adulthood and old age.  

Drawing from several ongoing empirical contributions, the lecture discusses two advances in the field: first, the explicit inclusion of partners’ life courses, that are currently absent or, at best, indirectly captured through individuals’ own life courses; second, the adoption of objective health measures derived from the collection of biospecimens (i.e. biomarkers), that are now increasingly available in large-scale surveys and can complement self-assessed measures of health by capturing physiological responses to social exposures more directly.  

Empirical analyses use linked retrospective life histories and cross-sectional blood-based biomarkers data at age 50+ in Europe (SHARE), United States (HRS), and the United Kingdom (ELSA), and rely on sequence analysis methods.

A lecture by Davide Gritti, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (IT).

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