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Research Professor position in international family demography, PSC/SRC

Pamela Smock elected president of the Association of Population Centers

Elisha Renne awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for African studies

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Stafford, Schoeni, and Chen find many Americans making little headway against debt

Wightman and Schoeni find most young adults helped financially by parents

Johnston says decline in perceived risk contributes to rise in marijuana use among teens

Patrick calls increase in newborns undergoing drug withdrawal a public health epidemic

Danziger discusses use of IRS data in trend analyses of income distribution

50th Reunion of PSC

Population Studies Center

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Excess mortality in high-poverty areas

How are we doing on decreasing social and racial disparities in health?

Arline Geronimus, John Bound, and Cynthia Colen analyze mortality rates among black and white working-age adults in 7 high-poverty areas, 1980-2000. They found inequalities by race, gender, poverty rate, and rural/urban area, with excess mortality highest among black residents of high-poverty urban areas.

Michigan's Population Studies Center, established in 1961, has a rich history as an interdisciplinary community of scholars in population research and training. PSC is one of five centers within the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (ISR). More...

MiCDA MiCDA, a joint program of PSC & SRC
spurs new research on aging

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Shapiro, Bound, Brown, Brown, Danziger, Freedman, Neidert, Sylvester, Stephens, Jr., Lepkowski, & Nicholas, U-M Node of NSF-Census Research Network

Burgard, Elliott, & House, Negative Work Conditions and Health

Morenoff, & Harding, Demography of Prisoner Reentry