PSC In The News
Rodriguez, Bound, and Geronimus find presidential party and infant mortality linked
Yang says proposed tariff on imports from Mexico could increase net migration to U.S.
ISR's Pasek and Conrad discuss the art and science of predicting election outcomes
Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at noon:
H. Luke Shaefer
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Kravitz-Wirtz looks at racial/ethnic disparities in exposure to air pollution over two decades
Apply now for university-community funding for anti-poverty strategies in Michigan.
Gonzalez, Alter, and Dinov win NSF "Big Data Spokes" award for neuroscience network
Michigan Population Studies Center
Child development in same-sex couple families
Narayan Sastry and Paula Fomby lead this project to add data to PSID's Child Development Supplement on children whose primary caregiver is in a same-sex union.
Is nicotine really what most teens vape?
Recent analyses by Richard Miech, Megan Patrick and colleagues challenge the common assumption that teen e-cigarette users generally inhale tobacco/nicotine. They found that most teens reported vaping just flavoring, with nicotine use a distant second at 13% among 8th graders and about 20% among 10th and 12th graders.
Post-ACA changes in health insurance coverage for blacks, whites, Hispanics
Thomas Buchmueller, Helen Levy, and colleagues find reduced racial/ethnic disparities in health insurance coverage following implementation of the Affordable Care Act, particularly in states that expanded Medicaid programs.
Race, social disadvantage, and young women's use of contraception
Yasamin Kusunoki, Jennifer Barber, Elizabeth Ela, and Amelia Bucek examine racial and sociodemographic differences in sexual and contraceptive behavior to untangle disparities in unintended pregnancies.
Best practices for collecting criminal justice data
Michael Mueller-Smith examines how best to implement and scale-up the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System - a joint venture with the Census Bureau.
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...
PSC receives core funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (R24 HD041028) and the National Institute on Aging (P30 AG012846).