Articles & briefs

Scommegna, P., Mather, M., and Elliott, Diana. (2025) More Than a Feeling: How Social Connection Protects Health in Later Life, Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 44.

Mather, M. and Scommegna, P. (2024) Mental health among U.S. older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 43.

Mather, M. and Scommegna, P. (2022). Rising obesity in an aging America., Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 42.

Mather, M. and Scommegna, P. (2021). Key factors underlying racial disparities in health between black and white older Americans, Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 41.

Mather, M. and Scommegna, P. (2020). The demography of dementia and dementia caregiving, Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 40.

Mather, M. (2020). Aging and health in China: What can we learn from the world’s largest population of older people? Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 39.

Mather, M. and Jarosz, B. (2018). Low-income working families: Rising inequality despite economic recovery. Data brief commissioned by the Working Poor Families Project; Spring 2018.

Mather, M. and Scommegna, P. (2017). How neighborhoods affect the health and well-being of older Americans, Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 35.

Scommegna, P. and Mather, M. (2017). Dementia trends: Implications for an aging America, Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 36.

Mather, M. (2015). Effects of the great recession on older Americans’ health and well-being. Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 31.

Roberts, B., Povich, D., and Mather, M. (2015). Low-Income working families: The racial/ethnic divide. Data brief commissioned by the Working Poor Families Project; Winter 2014-2015.

Mather, M. (2015). Effects of the great recession on older Americans’ health and well-being. Today’s Research on Aging, Issue 31.

Roberts, B., Povich, D., and Mather, M. (2015). Low-Income working families: The racial/ethnic divide. Data brief commissioned by the Working Poor Families Project; Winter 2014-2015.

Roberts, B., Povich, D., and Mather, M. (2014). Low-income working mothers and state policy: Investing for a better economic future. Data brief commissioned by the Working Poor Families Project; Winter 2013-2014.

O’Hare, W.P., Mather, M., Dupuis, G., Land, K.C., Lamb, V.L., and Fu, Q. (2013). Analyzing differences in child well-being among U.S. states, Child Indicators Research, 6:2 (pp. 401-431).

Mather, M. (2012). Demographics in the United States, trends and developments. In J. Banks (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education. (pp. 628-634).

Mather, M. (2007). Demographic data: Censuses, registers, surveys. Encyclopedia of Sociology, George Ritzer (editor), Blackwell Publishing.

Malhotra, A. and Mather, M. (1994). Do schooling and work empower women in developing countries? Gender and domestic decisions in Sri Lanka, Sociological Forum; 12:4.