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Ryan K. Masters

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Ryan K. Masters — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 19
Works: 49
Citations: 1,972

Most-cited papers

The Impact of Obesity on US Mortality Levels: The Importance of Age and Cohort Factors in Population Estimates
Ryan K. Masters, E. Reither, D. Powers, Y. C. Yang +2 more
2013American Journal of Public Health301 citations Open access
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Education and the Gender Gaps in Health and Mortality
C. Ross, Ryan K. Masters, R. Hummer
2012Demography208 citations Open access
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Educational Differences in U.S. Adult Mortality: A Cohort Perspective
Ryan K. Masters, R. Hummer, D. Powers
2012American Sociological Review188 citations Open access
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Effect of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across populations in the USA and other high income countries: simulations of provisional mortality data
S. Woolf, Ryan K. Masters, L. Aron
2021British medical journal144 citations Open access
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Temporal Changes in Education Gradients of ‘Preventable’ Mortality: A Test of Fundamental Cause Theory
Ryan K. Masters, Bruce G. Link, J. Phelan
2014Social Science & Medicine (1967)133 citations Open access
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Explaining recent mortality trends among younger and middle-aged White Americans.
Ryan K. Masters, A. Tilstra, Daniel H. Simon
2018International Journal of Epidemiology129 citations Open access
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Obesity and US mortality risk over the adult life course.
Ryan K. Masters, D. Powers, Bruce G. Link
2013American Journal of Epidemiology102 citations Open access
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Should Age-Period-Cohort Studies Return to the Methodologies of the 1970s?
E. Reither, Ryan K. Masters, Y. Yang, D. Powers +2 more
2015Social Science & Medicine (1967)95 citations Open access
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Uncrossing the U.S. Black-White Mortality Crossover: The Role of Cohort Forces in Life Course Mortality Risk
Ryan K. Masters
2012Demography70 citations Open access
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Long-Term Trends in Adult Mortality for U.S. Blacks and Whites: An Examination of Period- and Cohort-Based Changes
Ryan K. Masters, R. Hummer, D. Powers, Audrey N. Beck +2 more
2014Demography64 citations Open access
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Changes in Life Expectancy Between 2019 and 2020 in the US and 21 Peer Countries
S. Woolf, Ryan K. Masters, L. Aron
2022JAMA Network Open63 citations Open access
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Racial disparities in self-rated health: Trends, explanatory factors, and the changing role of socio-demographics
Audrey N. Beck, B. Finch, Shih-Fan Lin, R. Hummer +1 more
2013Social Science & Medicine (1967)61 citations Open access
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A population-based analysis of increasing rates of suicide mortality in Japan and South Korea, 1985–2010
S. Jeon, E. Reither, Ryan K. Masters
2016BMC Public Health55 citations Open access
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Trends in "Deaths of Despair" among Working Aged White and Black Americans, 1990-2017.
A. Tilstra, Daniel H. Simon, Ryan K. Masters
2021American Journal of Epidemiology54 citations Open access
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Clarifying hierarchical age–period–cohort models: A rejoinder to Bell and Jones
E. Reither, K. Land, S. Jeon, D. Powers +9 more
2015Social Science & Medicine (1967)51 citations Open access
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Mortality from Suicide, Chronic Liver Disease, and Drug Poisonings among Middle-aged U.S. White Men and Women, 1980–2013
Ryan K. Masters, A. Tilstra, Daniel H. Simon
2017Biodemography and Social Biology39 citations Open access
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Fitting Age-Period-Cohort Models Using the Intrinsic Estimator: Assumptions and Misapplications
Ryan K. Masters, D. Powers, R. Hummer, Audrey N. Beck +2 more
2016Demography28 citations Open access
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Clarifying assumptions in age-period-cohort analyses and validating results
Ryan K. Masters, D. Powers
2020PLoS ONE22 citations Open access
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Recent Trends in Obstetric Practices, Gestational Age, and U.S. Birth Weight
A. Tilstra, Ryan K. Masters
2020Demography22 citations Open access
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The relationship between education and health among incarcerated men and women in the United States
Kathryn M. Nowotny, Ryan K. Masters, Jason D. Boardman
2016BMC Public Health19 citations Open access
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Life Expectancy Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2019-2021: Highly Racialized Deaths in Young and Middle Adulthood Distinguish the United States Among High-Income Countries.
Ryan K. Masters, L. Aron, S. Woolf
2023American Journal of Epidemiology14 citations
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Do Deaths of Despair Move Together? County-level Mortality Changes by Sex and Urbanization, 1990-2017.
Daniel H. Simon, Ryan K. Masters
2021American Journal of Epidemiology14 citations Open access
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Sources and Severity of Bias in Estimates of the BMI-Mortality Association
Ryan K. Masters
2023Population studies13 citations Open access
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Institutional Failures as Structural Determinants of Suicide: The Opioid Epidemic and the Great Recession in the United States
Daniel H. Simon, Ryan K. Masters
2024Journal of Health and Social Behavior12 citations
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Body size reference norms and subjective weight status: A gender and life course approach
R. Wedow, Ryan K. Masters, Stefanie Mollborn, Landon Schnabel +1 more
2017Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation11 citations Open access
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Exceptional mortality risk among police-identified young black male gang members
D. Pyrooz, Ryan K. Masters, Jennifer J. Tostlebe, R. G. Rogers
2020Preventive Medicine10 citations Open access
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Mortality Patterns in Late Life
R. Hummer, R. G. Rogers, Ryan K. Masters, Jarron M. Saint Onge
200910 citations
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Age-Specific Mortality During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic and Life Expectancy Changes in the United States and Peer Countries, 1980–2020
Ryan K. Masters, S. Woolf, L. Aron
2022The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences7 citations Open access
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Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates
Ryan K. Masters, A. Tilstra, Daniel H Simon, K. Coleman-Minahan
2023Journal of Health and Social Behavior6 citations Open access
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The National Death Index as a Source of Homicide Data: A Methodological Exposition of Promises and Pitfalls for Criminologists
Jennifer J. Tostlebe, D. Pyrooz, R. G. Rogers, Ryan K. Masters
2020Homicide Studies6 citations Open access
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Economic Conditions in Early Life and Circulatory Disease Mortality
Ryan K. Masters
2018Population and Development Review5 citations
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Increases in Obstetric Interventions and Changes in Gestational Age Distributions of U.S. Births
Ryan K. Masters, A. Tilstra, K. Coleman-Minahan
2023Journal of Women's Health4 citations Open access
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Simon and Masters Respond to "Do Small Cause-of-Death Correlations Throw into Question the Notion of a Collective "Deaths of Despair" Phenomenon?"
Daniel H. Simon, Ryan K. Masters
2021American Journal of Epidemiology2 citations
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Masters et al. Respond
Ryan K. Masters, D. Powers, E. Reither, Y. C. Yang +1 more
2017American Journal of Epidemiology2 citations Open access
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Masters et al. respond.
Ryan K. Masters, E. Reither, D. Powers, Y. C. Yang +2 more
2014American Journal of Public Health2 citations Open access
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Erratum: Trends in US older adults disability: Exploring age, period, and cohort effects (American Journal of Public Health (2011) 101: 11 (2157-2163) DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300602)
Shih-Fan Lin, Audrey N. Beck, B. Finch, R. Hummer +1 more
20132 citations Open access
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Reviving the Religious Origins of the U.S. Temperance Movement
Ryan K. Masters, Michael P. Young
20072 citations
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Period and Cohort Analysis in Demography
Y. Yang, Ryan K. Masters
20151 citations
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Religious Activism in Tocqueville’s America: The Temperance and Anti-Slavery Movements in New York State, 1828-1838
Ryan K. Masters, Michael P. Young
20131 citations
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Authors' Reply:
Ryan K. Masters, D. Powers, Bruce G. Link
2009American Journal of Epidemiology1 citations
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Policy Brief
Ryan K. Masters, A. Tilstra, Daniel H. Simon, K. Coleman-Minahan
2023Journal of Health and Social Behavior0 citations Open access
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The Power of Religious Activism in Tocqueville’s America: The Second Great Awakening and the Rise of Temperance and Abolitionism in New York State
Ryan K. Masters, Michael P. Young
2022Social science history0 citations Open access
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Age-Period-Cohort Analyses in Epidemiological Studies: Clarifying Assumptions and Validating Results
Ryan K. Masters
20180 citations
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Masters et al. Respond.
Ryan K. Masters, D. Powers, E. Reither, Y. C. Yang +1 more
2017American Journal of Public Health0 citations
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Improving Health and Mortality Measures
Jarron M. Saint Onge, Ryan K. Masters, A. Tilstra
20170 citations
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The Authors Reply
Ryan K. Masters, D. Powers, Bruce G. Link
2013American Journal of Epidemiology0 citations Open access
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Temporal Changes in Socio-economic Gradients of "Preventable" Mortality: A Test of Fundamental Cause Theory
Ryan K. Masters, Bruce G. Link
20120 citations
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A cohort perspective of U.S. adult mortality
Ryan K. Masters
20110 citations
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Ecological determinants of the New York State temperance movement, 1828-1834
Ryan K. Masters
20060 citations
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