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Barbara Entwisle

Barbara Entwisle

· Kenan Distinguished Professor Department of Sociology Fellow Carolina Population Center

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Active 1978–2026

h-index36
Citations4.6k
Papers1379 last 5y
Funding$34.2M1 active

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About

Barbara Entwisle is a Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her areas of interest include Social Demography, Migration, Life Course, Quantitative Methods, and Population and Environment. She earned her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1980. Her professional background encompasses research and teaching in social demography, migration, life course studies, and quantitative methods, with a focus on population and environmental issues.

Research topics

  • Sociology
  • Geography
  • Political Science
  • Social Science
  • Computer Science
  • Psychology
  • Economic geography
  • Biology
  • Ecology
  • Genetics

Selected publications

  • Climate Change and Migration: New Insights from a Dynamic Model of Out-Migration and Return Migration

    American Journal of Sociology · 2020 · 71 citations

    1st authorCorresponding

    In popular accounts, stories of environmental refugees convey a bleak picture of the impacts of climate change on migration. Scholarly research is less conclusive, with studies finding varying effects. This paper uses an agent-based model (ABM) of land use, social networks, and household dynamics to examine how extreme floods and droughts affect migration in Northeast Thailand. The ABM explicitly models the dynamic and interactive pathways through which climate-migration relationships might oper…

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  • The PhenX Toolkit: Measurement Protocols for Assessment of Social Determinants of Health

    American Journal of Preventive Medicine · 2023 · 33 citations

    INTRODUCTION: Social determinants are structures and conditions in the biological, physical, built, and social environments that affect health, social and physical functioning, health risk, quality of life, and health outcomes. The adoption of recommended, standard measurement protocols for social determinants of health will advance the science of minority health and health disparities research and provide standard social determinants of health protocols for inclusion in all studies with human p…

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  • Life Course Events and Migration in the Transition to Adulthood

    Social Forces · 2020 · 27 citations

    Senior authorCorresponding

    Do life course events stimulate migration during the transition to adulthood? We identify nine specific life events in the family, education, and employment domains and test whether they lead to migration in the short term, using fixed-effects models that remove the influence of all stable individual-level characteristics and controlling for age. Marital and school completion events have substantively large effects on migration compared to individual work transitions, although there are more of…

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  • Population responses to environmental change: looking back, looking forward

    Population and Environment · 2021-03-23 · 14 citations

    articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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  • Linking Electronic Health Records to the American Community Survey: Feasibility and Process

    American Journal of Public Health · 2022-04-21 · 10 citations

    articleOpen accessSenior author

    Objectives. To assess linkages of patient data from a health care system in the southeastern United States to microdata from the American Community Survey (ACS) with the goal of better understanding health disparities and social determinants of health in the population. Methods. Once a data use agreement was in place, a stratified random sample of approximately 200 000 was drawn of patients aged 25 to 74 years with at least 2 visits between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2019. Information fro…

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Frequent coauthors

  • Ronald R. Rindfuss

    51 shared

  • Stephen J. Walsh

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    20 shared

  • Paul C. Stern

    Social and Environmental Research Institute

    13 shared

  • Leah K. VanWey

    12 shared

  • George P. Malanson

    University of Iowa

    12 shared

  • Myron P. Gutmann

    10 shared

  • Yothin Sawangdee

    Mahidol University

    10 shared

  • Ashton M. Verdery

    Pennsylvania State University

    9 shared

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