1. Erin York Cornwell is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University. She was the project coordinator for the first wave of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP), which provided the data for this article. She is interested in how social context and social relationships shape individuals' life chances. Her dissertation research used NSHAP data to examine how household disorder affects older adults' health and social connectedness. A forthcoming...
2. Linda J.Waite is Lucy Flower Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago. She was the principal investigator for the National Social Life, Health and Aging Study. She is co-author, with Frances Goldscheider, of New Families, No Families?: The Transformation of the American Home (University of California Press, 1991), winner of the Duncan Award from the American Sociological Association. She is also author, with Maggie Gallagher, of The Case for Marriage: Why...