Elizabeth Lawrence

Elizabeth Lawrence

Elizabeth Lawrence is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. She examines the consequences of social inequality, focusing on educational differentials in health. Health disparities by educational attainment are large, growing, and crucial to the trends, causes, and consequences of social inequality. To better understand why more highly educated individuals are healthier, Dr. Lawrence’s research considers the social origins of both educational and health inequalities. She uses a life course perspective to understand how educational and health disparities develop over time and across developmental life stages.