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Amy M. Pienta
Funded Research:
American State Constitutions: An Historical Analysis (NSF)
Archiving the NICHD Study of Early Child Care at ICPSR (NICHD)
Barriers and Opportunities for Sharing Research Data (NINR)
Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging (NIA)
National Drug Abuse and HIV Data Program (NIDA)
Retirement in the 1950s: Rebuilding a Longitudinal Database (PSC Initiatives Fund)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Associate Research Scientist, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo
Dr. Pienta has research interests in demography of aging and she studies retirement and health in later life. Her current research focuses on determinants of couples’ retirement behavior and uncovering social processes underlying health disparities among African Americans.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Tkatch, R., N. Artinian, J. Abrams, J. Mahn, M. Franks, S. Keteyian, B. Franklin, Amy M. Pienta, and S. Schwartz. 2011. "Social network and health outcomes among African American cardiac rehabilitation patients." Heart & Lung, 40(3): 193-200. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Abrahamson, M., K. Bollen, Myron Gutmann, G. King, and Amy M. Pienta. 2009. "Preserving Quantitative Research-Elicited Data for Longitudinal Analysis. New Developments in Archiving Survey Data in the US." Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung, 34(3): 51-59. Abstract. Local Access.
Gutmann, Myron, Mark Abrahamson, Margaret O. Adams, Micah Altman, Caroline Arms, Kenneth) Bollen, Michael Carlson, Jonathan Crabtree, Darrell Donakowski, Gary King, Jared Lyle, Marc Maynard, Amy M. Pienta, Richard Rockwell, Lois Timms-Ferrara, and Copeland H. Young. 2009. "From Preserving the Past to Preserving the Future: The Data-PASS Project and the Challenges of Preserving Digital Social Science Data." Library Trends, 57(3): 315-337. Abstract.
Artinian, N.I., J. Abrams, S.J. Keteyian, M.M. Franks, B. Franklin, Amy M. Pienta, R. Tkatch, L. Cuff, P. Alexander, and S. Schwartz. 2009. "Correlates of Depression at Baseline Among African Americans Enrolled in Cardiac Rehabilitation." Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, 29(1): 24-31. Abstract. Local Access.
Hoelter, Lynette, Felicia B. LeClere, Amy M. Pienta, R.E. Barlow, and James McNally. 2008. "Using ICPSR resources to teach sociology." Teaching Sociology, 36(1): 17-25. Abstract. Local Access.
Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya, Amy M. Pienta, and Tyson H. Brown. 2007. "Women of the 1950s and the 'normative' life course: The implications of childlessness, fertility timing, and marital status for psychological well-being in late midlife." International Journal on Aging and Human Development, 64(4): 299-330. DOI. Abstract.