Joseph Lariscy
  • Associate Professor

Biography

I am a social demographer and health sociologist with broad interests in racial/ethnic health disparities and quantitative methods for population research. My primary research contributions examine racial/ethnic disparities in U.S. adult mortality risk and the early-life processes, particularly educational attainment and health behaviors, that shape later-life health disparities. My research has also improved understanding of the linkage between tobacco use and all-cause and cause-specific adult mortality in the United States. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013, where I was a Graduate Trainee at the Population Research Center. I received further training as an NIA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Duke Population Research Institute at Duke University. My research has been published in Demography, Population Research and Policy Review, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Social Science and Medicine.

Courses Taught at Texas A&M

  • SOCI 642: Fertility and Mortality

Research Interests

  • Demography
  • Social Statistics
  • Population Health
  • Medical Sociology

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin

Selected Publications

    • Brown, Dustin C., Joseph T. Lariscy, and Benjamin Walker. (2023). State-Level Trends in Lifespan Variability in the United States, 1960–2019: A Research Note. Demography 60(1): 1–14.
    • Lariscy, Joseph T., Robert A. Hummer, and Richard G. Rogers. (2018). Cigarette Smoking and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Adult Mortality in the United States. Demography 55(5): 1855–1885.
    • Lariscy, Joseph T. (2017). Black-White Disparities in Adult Mortality: Implications of Differential Record Linkage for Understanding the Mortality Crossover. Population Research and Policy Review 36(1): 137–156.
    • Lariscy, Joseph T., Claudia Nau, Glenn Firebaugh, and Robert A. Hummer. (2016). Hispanic-White Differences in Lifespan Variability in the United States. Demography 53(1): 215–239.
    • Lariscy, Joseph T., Robert A. Hummer, and Mark D. Hayward. (2015). Hispanic Older Adult Mortality in the United States: New Estimates and an Assessment of Factors Shaping the Hispanic Paradox. Demography 52(1): 1–14.
    • Gorman, Bridget K., Joseph T. Lariscy, and Charisma Kaushik. (2014). Gender, Acculturation, and Smoking Behaviors among U.S. Asian and Latino Immigrants. Social Science & Medicine 106: 110–118.