Request for Articles
Moving Beyond Deaths of Despair: Understanding Rising Mortality and Morbidity among Americans without College Degrees 

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

We invite scholars to submit proposals that address the questions of what explains the growing educational divide in physical and mental health and what this widening means for the lives of Americans without college degrees. We expect that many of the papers will directly address differences in mortality, including not only drug abuse, alcohol-related disease, and suicide but also major causes of death such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. But we also encourage papers that will encompass topics as diverse as the changing labor market; social class; gender, racial, ethnic perspectives; studies of family and personal life; spatial variation; political processes; and social policy.

Prospective contributors should submit a CV and an abstract no later than 5 PM Eastern on September 4, 2024.

See the complete request online.