Peer Reviewed Journal Articles: 

Arias, E., Carolyn Liebler, Marc A. Garcia, and Rogelio Saénz. 2025. Data Impacts of Changes in U.S. Census Bureau Procedures for Race and Ethnicity Data. SSM – Population Health, 29, March 2025.

Jim, MA., Elizabeth Arias, Donald S. Haverkamp, Roberta Paisano, Andria Apostolou, and Stephanie C. Melkonian. 2025. Improving Quality of Mortality Data Among Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native People, 2020. American Journal of Epidemiology. May 2, 2025.

GBD US Health Disparities Collaborators. 2025. Healthy life expectancy by county, race, and ethnicity in the USA, 2009–19: a systematic analysis of health disparities. The Lancet Regional Health Americas (In Press).

GBD US Health Disparities Collaborators. 2025. Life expectancy by county and educational attainment in the USA, 2000–19: a systematic analysis of health disparities. The Lancet Public Health, 10 2: E136-E147.

Arias, E., Betzaida Tejada-Vera. 2023. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy in the US Hispanic population. N-IUSSP. November 6, 2023.

Yan, BW., Elizabeth Arias, Alan C. Geller, Donald R. Miller, Kenneth D. Kochanek, and Howard K. Koh. 2023. Widening gender gap in life expectancy in the US, 2010-2021. JAMA Internal Medicine, 13, 2023.

Arias, E., Betzaida Tejada-Vera. 2023. Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy loss within the Hispanic population. Demographic Research, 48: 339-352.

GBD US Health Disparities Collaborators. 2022. Life expectancy by county race, and ethnicity in the USA, 2000-19: A systematic analysis of health disparities. Lancet, 400: 25-38.

Arias, E., Norman J. Johnson, Betzaida Tejada-Vera. 2020. Racial disparities in mortality in the adult Hispanic population. SSM – Population Health, 11, August 2020.

Dowell, Deborah, Elizabeth Arias, Kenneth Kochanek, et al., 2017.  Contribution of Opioid-Involved Overdose to Life Expectancy, United States 2000-2015. JAMA 318 11, pp. 1065-1067.

Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu, and Melissa A. Jim.  2014. Period Life Tables for the Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native Population, 2007-2009.  American Journal of Public Health Vol. 104, No. S3, pp. S312-S319.

Jim, Melissa A., Elizabeth Arias, DS Seneca, et al.  2014. Racial Misclassification of American Indians and Alaska Natives by Indian Health Service Contract Health Service Delivery Area. American Journal of Public Health Vol. 104, No. S3, pp. S295-S302.

Arias, E., Karl Eschbach, William S. Schauman and Eric Backlund.  2010. The Hispanic Mortality Advantage and Ethnic Misclassification on US Death Certificates.  American Journal of Public Health 100S1: 171-177.

Palloni, Alberto and Elizabeth Arias.  2004. Paradox Lost: Explaining the Adult Hispanic Mortality Advantage. Demography 413:385-415. 

Cole, Stephen and Elizabeth Arias.  2004. Can Demand-Side Variables Explain the Low Numbers of Minority Faculty in Higher Education?  The American Economic Review 942.   

Sorlie, Paul, Sean Coady, Charles Lin and Elizabeth Arias. 2004. Factors Associated with Out-of- Hospital Coronary Heart Disease.  Annals of Epidemiology 147:447-452. 

Arias, E., Marian F. MacDorman, Donna M. Strabino and Bernard Guyer.  2003. Annual Summary of Vital Statistics-2002.  Pediatrics. 112 8: 1215-1230. 

De Vos, Susan and Elizabeth Arias.  2003. A note on the living arrangements of elders 1970-2000, with special emphasis on Hispanic subgroup differentials.  Population Research and Policy Review.  22: 91-101. 

Lin, Charles C., Eugene Rogot, Norman J. Johnson, Paul D. Sorlie, and Elizabeth Arias.  2003. A Further Study of Life Expectancy by Socioeconomic Factors in the National Longitudinal Mortality Study. Ethnicity and Disease.  132: 240-247. 

Arias, E., 2001. Change in Nuptiality Patterns Among Cuban Americans: Evidence of Cultural and Structural Assimilation?  International Migration Review. 352: 525-556. 

Arias, E., and Alberto Palloni.  1999.  Patterns and Trends in Levels of Female Headed Households in Latin America. Journal of Comparative Family Studies.  302:257-281. 

De Vos, Susan and Elizabeth Arias.  1998. Headship, Marital Status, and Material Well-Being: Colombia 1985.  International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 392:177-197.   

Arias, E., and Susan De Vos. 1996. Using Housing Items to Indicate Socioeconomic Status: Latin America. Social Indicators Research. 381:53-80. 

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters: 

Arias, E., Kenneth Kochanek, and Betzaida Tejada-Vera. 2025. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Life Expectancy by Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. In: Couch KA. eds Handbook on Inequality and COVID-19. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Arias, E., 2019. Race Crossover in Longevity. In: Gu D., Dupre M. eds Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham.

Cole, Stephen and Elizabeth Arias. 2003. The Pipeline Into Academia.  In Cole, Stephen and Elinor Barber, Increasing Faculty Diversity: The Occupational Choices of High-Achieving Minority Students.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 

Palloni, A., Hector Perez-Brignoli and Elizabeth Arias.  2000. Malthus in Latin America: Demographic Responses During the 19th and 20th Centuries.  In Tommy Bengtsson and Osamu Saito ed. Population and Economy.  Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

National Center for Health Statistics Publications:    

Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu, and Kenneth Kochanek. 2025. United States Life Tables, 2023. National Vital Statistics Reports, 74(6). 

Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu, and Kenneth Kochanek. 2025. United States Life Tables, 2022. National Vital Statistics Reports, 74(2). 

Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu, Betzaida Tejada-Vera, and Brigham Bastian. 2024. U.S. State Life Tables, 2021. National Vital Statistics Reports 73(7). 

Murphy, SL., Kenneth Kochanek, Jiaquan Xu, and Elizabeth Arias. 2024. Mortality in the United States, 2023. NCHS Data Brief 521. 

Kochanek, K., Sherry L. Murphy, Jiaquan Xu, and Elizabeth Arias. 2024. Mortality in the United States, 2022. NCHS Data Brief 492.  

Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu, and Kenneth Kochanek. 2023. United States Life Tables, 2021. National Vital Statistics Reports 72(12).  

Kochanek, K., Sherry L. Murphy, Jiaquan Xu, and Elizabeth Arias. 2023. Deaths: Final Data for 2020. National Vital Statistics Reports, 7210. 

Arias, E., Kenneth Kochanek, Jiaquan Xu, and Betzaida Tejada-Vera. 2023. Provisional life expectancy estimates for 2022. Vital Statistics Rapid Release 31.  

Arias, E., Betzaida Tejada-Vera, Kenneth Kochanek, and Farida Ahmad. 2022. Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for 2021. Vital Statistics Rapid Release 23. 

Xu, Jiaquan, Sherry L. Murphy, Kenneth Kochanek, Elizabeth Arias. 2022. Mortality in the United States, 2021. NCHS Data Brief 456.  

Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu, Betzaida Tejada-Vera, Sherry L. Murphy, and Brigham Bastian. 2022. U.S. State Life Tables, 2020. National Vital Statistics Reports 712.  

Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu. 2022. United States life tables, 2020. National Vital Statistics Reports 711.  

Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu. 2022. United States life tables, 2019. National Vital Statistics Reports 709.  

Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu, Betzaida Tejada-Vera, and Brigham Bastian. 2022. U.S. State Life Tables, 2019. National Vital Statistics Reports 7018.  

Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu, Betzaida Tejada-Vera, Sherry L. Murphy, and Brigham Bastian. 2021. U.S. State Life Tables, 2018. National Vital Statistics Reports 7019.  

Murphy, Sherry L., Kenneth Kochanek, Jiaquan Xu and Elizabeth Arias. 2021. Mortality in the United States, 2020. NCHS Data Brief 427.

 Xu, Jiaquan, Sherry L. Murphy, Kenneth Kochanek, and Elizabeth Arias. 2021. Deaths: Final Data for 2019. National Vital Statistics Reports, 708.

 Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu, Sally Curtin, Brigham Bastian, and Betzaida Tejada-Vera. 2021. Mortality Profile of the Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native Population, 2019. National Vital Statistics Reports 7012.

 Arias, E., Betzaida Tejada-Vera, Farida Ahmad, and Kenneth Kochanek. 2021. Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for 2020. Vital Statistics Rapid Release 015. 

 Arias, E., Betzaida Tejada-Vera, Farida Ahmad. 2021. Provisional life expectancy estimates for January through June 2020. Vital Statistics and Rapid Release 010.

 Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu. 2020. United States life tables, 2018. National Vital Statistics Reports, 6912.

 Kochanek, Kenneth, Jiaquan Xu and Elizabeth Arias. 2020. Mortality in the United States, 2019. NCHS Data Brief 395.

Murphy, SL, Jiaquan Xu, Kenneth Kochanek, K., Elizabeth Arias, and Betzaida Tejada-Vera. 2021. Deaths: Final Data for 2018. National Vital Statistics Reports, 6913.

 Arias, E., Sally Curtin, Betzaida Tejada-Vera. 2020. U.S. Decennial Life Tables for 2009–2011,

Methodology of the United States Life Tables. National Vital Statistics Reports 6910.

 Arias, E., 2020. U.S. Decennial Life Tables for 2009–2011, United States Life Tables, National Vital Statistics Reports 698.

 Xu, Jiaquan, Sherry L., Kenneth Kochanek, and Elizabeth Arias. 2020. Mortality in the United States, 2018. NCHS Data Brief 355.

 Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu, Kenneth Kochanek. 2019. United States life tables, 2017. National Vital Statistics Reports 684.

 Kochanek, K., Sherry L. Murphy, Jiaquan Xu, and Elizabeth Arias. 2019. Deaths: Final Data for 2017. National Vital Statistics Reports, 689.

 Curtin, Sally C., Elizabeth Arias. 2019. Mortality Trends by Race and Ethnicity Among Adults Aged 25 and Over: United States, 2000-2018. NCHS Data Brief 342.

 Arias, E., Jiaquan Xu. 2018. United States life tables, 2016. National Vital Statistics Reports 677.

 Arias, E., Loraine Escobedo, Jocelyn Kennedy, Chunxia Fu, and Jodi Cisewski. 2018. U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project: Methodology and Results Summary. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, 181. 

 Murphy, Sherry L., Xu, Jiaquan, Kenneth Kochanek, and Elizabeth Arias. 2018. Mortality in the United States, 2017. NCHS Data Brief 328.

 Xu, Jiaquan, Sherry L. Murphy, Kenneth Kochanek, Brigham Bastian, and Elizabeth Arias. 2018. Deaths: Final Data for 2016. National Vital Statistics Reports, 675.

 Arias, E., Melonie Heron, and Jiaquan Xu.  2017. United States Life Tables, 2014. National Vital Statistics Reports 664.  

 Arias, E., Melonie Heron, and Jiaquan Xu.  2017. United States Life Tables, 2013. National Vital Statistics Reports 663.   

 Kochanek, Kenneth, Sherry L. Murphy, Xu, Jiaquan, Kenneth Kochanek, and Elizabeth Arias. 2017. Mortality in the United States, 2016. NCHS Data Brief 293.

 Murphy, SL, Jiaquan Xu, Kenneth Kochanek, Sally C Curtin, and Elizabeth Arias. 2017. Deaths: Final Data for 2015. National Vital Statistics Reports, 666. 

Arias, E., Melonie Heron, and Jahn Hakes.  2016. The Validity of Race and Hispanic-Origin Reporting on Death Certificates in the United States: An Update. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, 172.  

 Arias, E., Melonie Heron, and Jiaquan Xu.  2016. United States Life Tables, 2012. National Vital Statistics Reports 658.   

 Kochanek, Kenneth D., Elizabeth Arias, and Brigham A. Bastian.  2016. The Effect of Changes in Selected Age-Specific Causes of Death on On-Hispanic White Life Expectancy between 2000 and 2014.  NCHS Data Brief 250.  

 Arias, E., 2016. Changes in Life Expectancy by Race and Hispanic Origin in the United States, 2013-2014.  NCHS Data Brief 244.  

 Xu, Jiaquan, Sherry Murphy, Kenneth Kochanek, and Elizabeth Arias.  2016. Mortality in the United States, 2015.  NCHS Data Brief 267.  

 Arias, E., Kenneth D. Kochanek, and Robert N. Anderson.  2015. How Does Cause of Death Contribute to the Hispanic Mortality Advantage in the United States.  NCHS Data Brief 221.  

 Kochanek, Kenneth D., Elizabeth Arias, and Robert N. Anderson.  2015. Leading Causes of Death Contributing to Decrease in Life Expectancy Gap Between Black and White Populations: United States, 1999-2013. NCHS Data Brief 218.  

 Arias, E., 2015. United States Life Tables, 2011. National Vital Statistics Reports 6411.  

 Murphy, Sherry, Kenneth Kochanek, Xu, Jiaquan, and Elizabeth Arias.  2015. Mortality in the United States, 2014.  NCHS Data Brief 267.  

 Arias, E., 2014. United States Life Tables, 2010. National Vital Statistics Reports 637.  

 Arias, E., 2014. United States Life Tables, 2009. National Vital Statistics Reports 627.  

 Kochanek, Kenneth, Sherry L. Murphy, Jiaquan Xu, and Elizabeth Arias. 2014. Mortality in the United States, 2013.  NCHS Data Brief 178.  

 Xu, Jiaquan, Kochanek, Kenneth, Sherry L. Murphy, and Elizabeth Arias. 2014. Mortality in the United States, 2012.  NCHS Data Brief 168.  

 Kochanek, Kenneth D, Elizabeth Arias, and Robert N. Anderson.  2013.  How Did Cause of Death Contribute to Racial Differences in Life Expectancy in the United States in 2010.  NCHS Data Brief 125.  

 Arias, E., Melonie Heron, Betzaida Tejada Vera.  2013.  United States Life Tables Eliminating Certain Causes of Death, 1999-2001.  National Vital Statistics Reports 619.  

Arias, E., 2012. United States Life Tables, 2008. National Vital Statistics Reports 613.  

 Arias, E., 2011. United States Life Tables, 2007.  National Vital Statistics Reports 599.  

 Arias, E., 2010. United States Life Tables by Hispanic Origin. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, 152.  

 Arias, E., 2010. United States Life Tables, 2006. National Vital Statistics Reports 5821. 

 Rostron, Brian L., John L. Boies, and Elizabeth Arias.  2010. Education Reporting and Classification on Death Certificates in the United States. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, 151. 

 Arias, E., Brian L. Rostron, and Betzaida Tejada-Vera. 2010. United States Life Tables, 2005. National Vital Statistics Reports 5810.   

 Arias, E., William S. Schauman, Karl Eschbach, Paul Sorlie and Eric Backlund.  2008. The 

Validity of Race and Hispanic Origin Reporting on Death Certificates in the United States.  Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, 148.   

 Arias, E., Lester Curtin, Rong Wei, Robert Anderson.  2008. US Decennial Life Tables for 1999-2001, United States Life Tables. National Vital Statistics Reports 571.    

 Arias, E., 2007. United States Life Tables, 2004.  National Vital Statistics Reports 569.   

 Arias, E., 2006. United States Life Tables, 2003.  National Vital Statistics Reports 5414.   

 Arias, E., 2004. United States Life Tables, 2002.  National Vital Statistics Reports 536.   

 Arias, E., 2004. United States Life Tables, 2001. National Vital Statistics Reports 52 14. 

 Arias, E., Robert N. Anderson, Hsiang-Ching Kung, Sherry L. Murphy, Kenneth D. Kochanek. 2003. Deaths: Final Data for 2001. National Vital Statistics Reports 523.     

Anderson, Robert N. and Elizabeth Arias.  2003. The Effect of Revised Populations on Mortality Statistics for the United States, 2000.  National Vital Statistics Reports 519.   

  Arias, E., and Betty L. Smith.  2003. Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2001. National Vital Statistics Reports 515.   

  Ingram, Deborah D., Jennifer D. Parker, Nathaniel Schenker, James A. Weed, Brady Hamilton, Elizabeth Arias, and Jennifer H. Madans.  2003. United States Census 2000 Population with Bridged Race Categories.  Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, 135.   

  Arias, E., 2002. United States Life Tables, 2000.  National Vital Statistics Reports 513.   

Minino, Arialdi, Elizabeth Arias, Kenneth D. Kochanek, Sherry L. Murphy, Betty L. Smith. 2002.  Deaths: Final Data for 2000. National Vital Statistics Reports 5015.   

  Hoyert, Donna L., Elizabeth Arias, Betty L. Smith, Sherry L. Murphy, Kenneth D. Kochanek.  2001.  Deaths: Final Data for 1999. National Vital Statistics Reports 498.