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List of works by Samuel H. Preston

"The Use of the Census to Estimate Childhood Mortality: Comparisons fromthe 1900 and 1910 United States Census Public Use Samples"

scientific article published in May 1996

A new method for estimating smoking-attributable mortality in high-income countries

scientific article

African-American mortality at older ages: results of a matching study

scientific article published in May 1996

Age reporting among white Americans aged 85+: results of a record linkage study.

scientific article published in May 2000

An Introduction to the Public Use Sample of the 1910 U.S. Census of Population

An integrated approach to cause-of-death analysis: cause-deleted life tables and decompositions of life expectancy

scientific article

Anatomy of a Municipal Triumph: New York City's Upsurge in Life Expectancy

scientific article

Ansley Johnson Coale, 14 November 1917 · 5 November 2002

scientific article

Are educational differentials in adult mortality increasing in the United States?

scientific article published on 01 November 1995

Are major behavioral and sociodemographic risk factors for mortality additive or multiplicative in their effects?

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Assessing the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on US Mortality: A County-Level Analysis

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Association of Weight Loss Between Early Adulthood and Midlife With All-Cause Mortality Risk in the US

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Comment on steven ruggles’s “the rise of divorce and separation in the United States, 1880–1990”

scientific article published in 1997

Commentary: When people behave badly

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

Continued Increases in the Relative Risk of Death From Smoking

scientific article published on February 16, 2012

Contribution of obesity to international differences in life expectancy

article by Samuel H Preston & Andrew Stokes published November 2011 in American Journal of Public Health

Deadweight?--The influence of obesity on longevity

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Deaths Attributable to Diabetes in the United States: Comparison of Data Sources and Estimation Approaches

scientific article

Differential Fertility and the Distribution of Traits: The Case of IQ

article by Samuel H. Preston & Cameron Dougall Campbell published March 1993 in American Journal of Sociology

Ecological factors associated with suicide mortality among non-Hispanic whites

scientific article published on 03 September 2020

Educational differentials in mortality: United States, 1979-85.

scientific article published in January 1996

Effect of Diabetes on Life Expectancy in the United States by Race and Ethnicity

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Effects of categorization and self-report bias on estimates of the association between obesity and mortality.

scientific article

Effects of early-life conditions on adult mortality: a review

scientific article

Estimates of the Association of Dementia With US Mortality Levels Using Linked Survey and Mortality Records

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

Estimating African-American mortality from inaccurate data

scientific article published on August 1994

Estimating Smoking-Attributable Mortality in the United States

scientific article published on August 1, 2012

Estimating the Proportion of American Marriages That End in Divorce

scientific article published in 1975

Estimating the impact of drug use on US mortality, 1999-2016

scientific article published on 15 January 2020

Ethnic and religious differentials in Bulgarian mortality, 1993–98

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths

Factors responsible for mortality variation in the United States: A latent variable analysis

scientific article

Forecasting United States mortality using cohort smoking histories

scholarly article

How Dangerous Is Obesity? Issues in Measurement and Interpretation

scientific article

How smoking affects the proportion of deaths attributable to obesity: assessing the role of relative risks and weight distributions

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

Increases in BMI and chronic pain for US adults in midlife, 1992 to 2016

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Life Beyond 65: Changing Spatial Patterns of Survival at Older Ages in the United States, 2000-2016

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Linking Death Certificates to Early Census Records: The African American Matched Records Sample

Low Life Expectancy in the United States: Is the Health Care System at Fault?

scientific article published in August 2009

MORTALITY, THE FAMILY AND THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI.

scientific article

Modeling obesity histories in cohort analyses of health and mortality

scientific article published on January 2013

Multi-layer deformation estimation for fluoroscopic imaging

scientific article published on January 2013

New Model Life Tables for High-Mortality Populations

article

Nutritional supplementation in girls influences the growth of their children: prospective study in Guatemala

scientific article published on 30 September 2009

Obesity Progression Between Young Adulthood and Midlife and Incident Diabetes: A Retrospective Cohort Study of U.S. Adults

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Obesity and Incident Prescription Opioid Use in the U.S., 2000-2015

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

Obesity paradox: conditioning on disease enhances biases in estimating the mortality risks of obesity

scientific article published on May 2014

Patterns of weight change associated with disease diagnosis in a national sample

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Population Change among the Elderly: International Patterns

scientific article published on February 2013

Prevalence and Trends in Lifetime Obesity in the U.S., 1988-2014.

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Projecting the Effect of Changes in Smoking and Obesity on Future Life Expectancy in the United States

scientific article published in September 2012

Projecting the effect of changes in smoking and obesity on future life expectancy in the United States

scientific article published in February 2014

Reconstructing the size of the African American population by age and sex, 1930–1990

scientific article published on February 1, 1998

Revealing the burden of obesity using weight histories

scientific article

Rising geographic inequality in mortality in the United States

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

Sex mortality differences in the United States: the role of cohort smoking patterns

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Smoking and reverse causation create an obesity paradox in cardiovascular disease

scientific article

Sources of Population Aging in More and Less Developed Countries

scientific article published on June 2012

The Changing Relation between Mortality and level of Economic Development

article

The Contribution of Weight Status to Black-White Differences in Mortality

scientific article

The Future of American Fertility

scientific article published in November 2008

The State of Population Research: IRG Insights

The State of Population Research: IRG Insights

scientific article published in 1982

The Use of the Census to Estimate Childhood Mortality: Comparisons from the 1900 and 1910 United States Census Public Use Samples

article

The changing contribution of smoking to educational differences in life expectancy: indirect estimates for Finnish men and women from 1971 to 2010.

scientific article

The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. 1975.

scientific article published on January 2003

The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. Population Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, July 1975

scientific article

The contribution of a history of heavy smoking to Scotland's mortality disadvantage

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

The contribution of rising adiposity to the increasing prevalence of diabetes in the United States

scientific article published on June 2017

The dynamics of diabetes among birth cohorts in the U.S.

scientific article published on 10 February 2014

The role of obesity in exceptionally slow US mortality improvement

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Trends in Non-Hispanic White Mortality in the United States by Metropolitan-Nonmetropolitan Status and Region, 1990-2016

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

US mortality in an international context: age variations

scientific article

Vietnamese Casualties During the American War: A New Estimate

scientific article (publication date: December 1995)