Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Publications

• Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth, Mathew V. Kiang, Alicia R. Riley, Magali Barbieri, Yea-Hung Chen, Kate A. Duchowney, Ellicott C. Matthay, David Van Riper, Kirrthana Jegathesan, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, and Jonathon P. Leider. 2021.“Geographically-targeted COVID-19 vaccination is more equitable and averts more deaths than age- based thresholds alone.” Science Advances 7.

• Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth, Sarah Garcia, Jonathon P. Leider, and David Van Riper. 2021. “COVID-19 Mortality at the Neighborhood Level: Racial and Ethnic Inequalities Deepened in Minnesota in 2020.” Health Affairs 40(10): 1-10.

• Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. “City Health Departments, Public Health Expenditures, and Urban Mortality over 1910-1940.” Forthcoming, Economic Inquiry 1-25. DOI:10.1111/ecin.13038

• Horner, Kimberly, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, and Jonathan P. Leider. 2021. “A First Look: Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality Among US-born and Foreign-born Minnesota Residents.” Population Research and Policy Review. DOI:10.1007/s11113-021-09668-1

• Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth and Dennis Feehan. “In a Stationary Population, the Average Lifespan of the Living is a Length-Biased Life Expectancy.” Forthcoming, Demography

• Feehan, Dennis and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. "How do Populations Aggregate?" Forthcoming, Demographic Research

• Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth, Sarah Garcia, Jonathan P. Leider, Chris Robertson, and Rebecca Wurtz. “Racial Disparities in COVID-19 and Excess Mortality in Minnesota.” Socius 6.

• Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth. 2020. "U.S. Racial Inequality May Be as Deadly as Covid-19.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (36):21854-21856.

• Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth. 2020. "Life Years Lost to Police Encounters in the United States.” Socius 6.

• "Multidimensional Mortality Selection: Why Individual Dimensions of Frailty Don’t Act Like Frailty". 2020. Demography 57(2):747-777.

• "Regional and Racial Inequality in Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1900-1948," with James Feigenbaum and Chris Muller. 2019. Demography 56:1371-1388.

• "Mortality Crossovers from Dynamic Subpopulation Reordering," with Felix Elwert. 2016. Pp. 177-199 in Dynamic Demographic Analysis, edited by Robert Schoen. NY: Springer.

• "Mortality Deceleration and Mortality Selection: Three Unexpected Implications of a Simple Model." 2014. Demography 51(1):51-71.

• "Mortality Deceleration is Not Informative of Unobserved Heterogeneity in Open Groups." 2013. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 11:15-36.

Activities

Awards

• Outstanding Article Award, American Sociological Association Section on Mathematical Sociology, 2020
• Fesler-Lampert Chair in Aging Studies, 2019 - 2020
• Kathryn DuPre Lumpkin Dissertation of the Year Award, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015
• Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award, Social Sciences Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013
• Clifford Clogg Award, American Sociological Association, Methodology Section, 2012
• Gunther Beyer Award, European Association for Population Studies, 2010
• Poster Award, Population Association of America (eight awards), 2009 - 2019
• Fellowships and Traineeships: Institute for Advanced Study, UMN (2020); NICHD (2013-2014); Institute for Research on Poverty (summer 2013; 2012-2013, declined); Ford Foundation (2012-2013); National Science Foundation (2009-2012)
• Fellowships and Traineeships: University Prize Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2007-2009); Richard A. and Jeanette L. Hoffman Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2006-2007)

Courses

• SOC 3246 Diseases, Disasters, and Other Killers
• SOC 3811 Social Statistics
• SOC 3201 Inequality: Introduction to Stratification
• SOC 8890 Sex, Death, and Mobility: Population Modeling