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Pierotti finds shift in global attitudes on intimate partner violence
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Arline Geronimus wins Excellence in Research Award from School of Public Health
Yu Xie to give DBASSE's David Lecture April 30, 2013 on "Is American Science in Decline?"
U-M grad programs do well in latest USN&WR "Best" rankings
Sheldon Danziger named president of Russell Sage Foundation
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Danziger says U.S. poverty policies don't adequately address growing income gap
Smock says federal data show no negative effect for cohabitation on marriage
Danziger says Census Bureau report on poverty rates less dire than expected
Frey comments on changes in child poverty evidenced in latest census data
Jacob's work on impact of No Child Left Behind noted in Post
Johnston says decade-long period of decline in marijuana use has reversed
Geronimus cited for work on "weathering" in CHE article
Yang's work on migrant remittances yields place on U-M innovative ideas list
Killewald and Gough comment on wife-vs.-husband housework time
Harding says fear of victimization spurs violence among inner-city youth
Lantz says those seeking remediations for premature death should look beyond obesity
Slemrod cited in National Review piece on short- and long-term effects of changing tax rates
Kaplan to lead Network on Inequality, Complexity, and Health
LeClere comments on value of shared data
Bound contributes to page turner for higher ed wonks on globalization and American universities
Clarke finds chronically overweight have more socioeconomic problems
Harding interviewed on teen turf violence in Boston - video
Clarke finds chronically overweight have more health and socioeconomic problems
Clarke finds socioeconomic consequences of being over weight
Weir says new data will yield better comparisons in NFL dementia study
Geronimus and Low cited in piece on evolutionary theory and early childbearing among poor
Pienta says childlessness doesn't signal unhappiness among women in their 40s
Burgard comments on survey results showing shifts in time use among unemployed
Wildeman underscores program's potential for children of imprisoned fathers
Lowry studies aging in China - video
Xie says CFPS will transform social science while tracking shifts in fastest-changing nation
Neidert says growing areas of US reflect nationwide trend toward minority majority
Harding finds dangerous neighborhoods fuel youth violence
Smock views Gores' split in generational context
Sasson says neighborhood affects chance of surviving cardiac arrest
Clarke finds benefits for aging populations in enabling urban environments
Harding's book maps patterns of violence in poor Boston neighborhoods
Frey reports on continued economic declines in Metro Detroit
Frey says low residential mobility rates signal economic woes
Schoeni says parental support of adult children has increased over past 3 decades
Sullivan says returns to higher education go far beyond earnings
Stafford part of DC team demonstrating societal benefits of NSF funding
Xie discusses 'mammoth' China survey to document changing society
Bound et al. find time to BA degree a matter of resources rather than preparedness
Freedman says uptick in middle-age disability suggests need for prevention, early intervention
Neidert urges census participation on U-M campus
Brand and Xie find benefits of college graduation may be highest for disadvantaged students
Groves in Daily Show interview: 'Have you looked at the form?' - video
Groves wins praise for Census leadership so far
Post-doc Lowry looks at implications of China's 'grey tide' in rural village
U-M Census video ads push student participation
Neidert quantifies cost of low census response rates
Neidert highlights purpose, significance of Census
Courant discusses digital age scholarly publishing - video
Johnston discusses 35-year history of MTF with long-time respondent
Johnston says anti-obesity campaign should alter approach used in stop-smoking offensive
Groves says future censuses will use variety of collection methods
Neidert discusses census undercount among college students - audio
Frey discusses 2010 census on NPR's Diane Rehm Show - audio
Smock quoted in NYT article about living together and marriage
Smock says NCHS report supports no negative effect of cohabitation on marriage
Levy cited on mortality effects of Medicare in The Atlantic
Levy says Medicare increases use of health care, but has no effect on mortality
Kaplan and Lantz among 'impressive group' of experts urging Congress to pass reform bill
Danziger, Burgard, Schoeni and colleagues to study economy's effects on families in SE Michigan
Burgard's work cited in NYT story on heath effects of plant closing
Courant lends support to Google book settlement in federal court
Pienta's work on how stimulus funding affects social science research featured in SA
Frey debunks 5 myths on 2010 census and nation's population
Smock says tough economic times can test marital relations as more women enter workforce
Neidert underscores importance of 2010 Census in Michigan
Courant comments on open access for "orphan works" in Google Book Search case
Groves counts first household in Census 2010 enumeration
Smock comments on the economy and gender roles in AP story
Kimball cited in WSJ story on interest rates' role in housing bubble
2009
Johnston says marijuana use up, perceived risk down among teens
Lantz says Mich. law still requires insurers to cover mammograms for women in their 40s
PSC calculator shows how projected population changes yield reapportioned House seats in 2010
Knodel discusses impact of HIV/AIDS on older persons in SE Asia - audio
Weir testifies on findings from study of retired NFL players
Lantz discusses proposed federal health care reforms - video
Burgard says persistent job insecurity worse on health than layoff
Farley addresses poverty, potential for rebound, in Michigan - podcast
Eccles notes teens model parents in volunteerism
Research by Weir, Jackson, and Sonnega on retired NFL players reported in NYT
Burgard and Nicklett tie depression to downward social mobility among immigrants
Frey says annual ACS data richer and more timely than Census data
Weir looks at work expectations among older Americans
Frey says dismal economy has hit minorities the hardest in terms of poverty rates
Burgard, House, and Brand find job insecurity harder on health than losing job
Bound and Hershbein's work on college admissions competition cited in CHE
Smock says living together before marriage may not raise divorce risk
Galea discusses goals for new Center for Global Health (video)
Kimball, Mitchell, Thornton and Young-Demarco find college major impacts religious faith
Wildeman finds extreme disadvantages for children of incarcerated mothers
Burgard describes health toll of chronic job insecurity
Heeringa to help lead study of military mental health
Groves confirmed as Census Bureau Director
Smock says family rituals sustaining in dire times
Farley sees job diversification sustaining Detroit's black middle class
Smock looks at economic uncertainty and families (video)
Burgard says fear of losing job is detrimental to health
Danziger discusses poverty trends, anti-poverty policy (podcast)
Barber comments on implications of unplanned parenthood
Neidert remarks on connection between power outages, surge in births 9 months later
Geronimus' work on health and racism is Miller-McCune cover story
Farley tells NPR that Michigan Central Station still inspires
Clarke comments on recent jump in U.S. obesity rates
Frey sees dilution of racial identity politics with growth in multi-racial U.S. voters
Johnston says U.S. demand for illegal drugs 'insatiable'
Frey discusses trends in U.S. minority populations in C-Span interview
Smock's work cited in WSJ story on growing problem of nonmarital childbearing
Groves rules out statistical sampling in 2010 census
Johnston sees perceived risk as key in young people's use of high-THC marijuana
Hsin finds kids suffer when mothers have high-stress jobs
Burgard's work on fear of job loss cited by AARP
Galea discusses how to handle public health emergency on NPR
Groves is Obama's pick to run Census Bureau
Smock comments on trends in unmarried childbearing
Frey interviewed on C-Span about U.S. migration slowdown (video clip)
Frey comments on end of migration bubble in WSJ piece
Burgard featured in USNWR piece on how jobs affect longevity
Krause cited in Time story on biology of belief
Smock sees uncertain times as contributing to uptick in marriage
Levy says low-income people want to save, but cannot
Shapiro compares tax cuts to rebates as economic stimuli
Smock comments on evolving prevalence, nature of U.S. cohabitation
Burgard discusses effect of job uncertainty on health
Smock cited in NYT story on unmarried mothers
Moaddel taps Lebanese attitudes on politics, religion, egalitarianism
Burgard reports on health toll of job insecurity
2008
Burgard highlights importance of social networks to jobless
Johnston says decline in teen smoking 'particularly encouraging'
Inglehart finds choice, gender equality, tolerance drive rise in world happiness
Farley, Krysan, & Couper study role of race in neighborhood preferences
Smock says economic woes may deter unhappy couples from divorcing
Stafford looks at how housing market collapse affects college enrollment
Kristin Seefeldt's work on low-income women highlighted in NYT story
Frey attributes decreasing illegal immigration to job scarcity, not enforcement
Burgard and Brand's work finds social toll for job layoffs
Futurist story taps Inglehart's values research
Lam discusses economic challenges posed by population aging in Brazil (Portuguese)
Frey comments on changing composition of young population in U.S.
Smock comments on shifting nature of cohabitation
Inglehart finds global happiness on the rise
Smock's work cited in quandary over romantic partner terminology
Galea's work suggests post-disaster responsiveness key in reducing public health problems
One year after Katrina, Sastry and VanLandingham find lasting mental health effects
Burgard and Ailshire find common job stresses affect sleep patterns
Smock quoted on study finding divorce, unwed childbearing cost taxpayers billions
Stafford finds husbands add 7 hours to wives' weekly housework time
Morenoff calls for national debate on rising prison population
Weir, Ofstedal, Willis et al. find one in three over 70 has memory loss
Schoeni finds disability rates declining among older Americans
Schoeni and colleagues explore why disability rates are dropping among older Americans.
Smock comments on gender gap in housework
Schoeni cited in story on 'new normal' for 20-something men
Langa finds aging Boomers less likely than prior generations to develop severe memory loss
Yang comments on impact of weak dollar on immmigrant workers
Smock notes importance of finances in marriage
Sastry questions dramatic impact of sanitation findings
Burgard and House find link between job loss due to health and depression
2007
Smock's research on importance of money to marriage cited in WSJ story
Burgard and House find health-related job loss significant threat to well-being
Liu reports on inefficiency of divorced households
Galea finds high levels of trauma among New Orleans residents
Geronimus tapped for Post story on new research challenging social assumptions
Padilla finds sex tourism may be fueling Caribbean HIV
Gutmann cited in Nature on privacy threats in data sharing
Neidert contributes to Slate Q&A on fertility rates
Smock comments on census data showing spike in never-married young adults
Frey speculates on future migration scenarios for post-Katrina New Orleans
Income data and poverty: Examining the Census Bureau Report
Bachman comments on gendered importance of money in AP-MTV survey findings
Eccles says young Americans most often name parents as heroes
Moaddel finds Iraqi attitudes more secular & nationalistic
Harding looks at neighborhood effects on sex and romance among teens
Schoeni finds low birth weight linked to later life difficulties
Frey says boomers face delayed retirement
Frey discusses bipartisan Senate bill on immigration
Pienta explores influence of a mate and children on women’s later life happiness
Farley finds fewer Americans self-identify as multiracial
Weir cited in story on why overall health may be lower among boomers than their parents
Levy says research unable to establish causal relationship between health insurance and health
Lesthaeghe and Neidert visualize relationship between U.S. demographic shift and voting patterns
Danziger says political will, not policy, lacking in fight against poverty
2013
Kalousova and Burgard find credit card debt increases likelihood of foregoing medical care
Pierotti finds shift in global attitudes on intimate partner violence
Kruger says use of mobile phones may interfere with human interactions
Cheng and Xie find high school size effects likelihood of interracial friendships
Smock says many find cohabitation a 'legitimate family form'
Kimball says Bernanke is a hero of the financial crisis
Johnston says legalization of medical marijuana may affect teens' views on pot use
Seefeldt says poverty rate at highest level in 15 years
Elliott says blood lead levels tied to academic performance among Detroit students
Harding uses HBO's "The Wire" as context for teaching about urban public policy
Bachman says employment of more than 15 hours per week linked to problems for high school students
Smock discusses why married people tend to be wealthier
Stafford finds shrinking proportion of labor force with retirement accounts
Kimball interviewed by CNBC on why U.S. should have sovereign wealth fund
Seefeldt finds Detroit single mothers juggle debt in complicated ways
Frey says national rise in between-county moves signals better economic times
Frey says RI likely to lose another House seat in 2020
2012
Frey says drop in Hispanic birth rate driven by more than recession
Bailey and Dynarski cited in NYT story on the growing role of higher education in class divides
Johnston attends NIDA press conference to address 2012 MTF report findings
Bailey and Dynarski's work cited in Atlantic story on growing educational inequality
Johnston says 1% decline in teen smoking translates into significant decrease in premature deaths
Johnston calls downward trend in teen smoking 'striking'
Kimball talks paperless money, negative interest, investing vs. saving, quantitative easing
Burgard comments on study linking unemployment and heart attacks among older workers
Work by Burgard, Brand, and House cited in Atlantic piece on recession and health
Lavelle and Smock assess impact of divorce on women's health insurance coverage
House discusses role of stress in women's shrinking lifespans
Inglehart's pioneering work cited in Economist piece on national trends and GOP's future
Neidert tweets from NPR on election night
Stidham-Hall says depression, stress decrease proper use of birth control
Freedman says disability prevalence varies by age group among older population
Danziger comments on the influence of 'racialized rhetoric' in presidential campaigning
Burgard interviewed for RWJF Human Capital Blog
Danziger participates in NYT online debate on inequality and the economy
Best says U.S. medical research funding affected by social advocacy
Bailey's work on the efficacy of federal family planning programs covered in LSA Magazine
Nicholas says advance directives help ensure preferred EOL care in all localities (online forum)
Danziger ties Michigan's rise in poverty to slow economic recovery (audio)
Danziger says slow recovery to bad recession has increased poverty in Michigan
Barber says parents give less to their unintended children
Levy finds smoking ban has no significant economic impact on bars, restaurants
Pfeffer says social mobility in US tied to parental wealth
Burgard et al. find job insecurity has negative health impact on workers
Seefeldt, Burgard, and Danziger look at fighting poverty in Detroit
Panapasa highlights need to understand health disparities of Pacific Island population in US
Danziger comments on disparities in recent US disemployment
Li says friendships and family contacts important to well-being at midlife
Xie and Killewald's recent book discussed in Science news
Frey says Obama compaign should note importance of black voters in swing states
Pfeffer discusses importance of preschool exposures to educational outcomes
Farley comments on "black flight" from Detroit and other rust belt cities
Xie says high Asian immigration rates reflect demand for technical skills in U.S. job market
Xie and Killewald say American science still strong
Frey says baby boomers not ready for America's new demographics
Johnston says US teens smoke and drink less, but do more drugs, than European teens
Burgard and Ailshire find family relations impact sleep
Danziger says U.S. exceptional among rich countries in its tolerance of poverty
Bailey's research cited in discussion of impact of family planning programs
Frey says U.S. at multiethnic tipping point as white births no longer a majority
Stafford, Schoeni, and Chen find many Americans making little headway against debt
Wightman says parents more likely to financially support agreeable young adult children
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
Gough and Killewald's work cited in Forbes piece on benefits of marriage for women
Smock says cohabitation may be keeping divorce rates steady
Bailey says women more likely than men to attend college
Inglehart and World Values Survey cited in WSJ Op Ed on global happiness indicators
Bailey and Hershbein say women's access to pill raised their earnings
MTF cited in AP story on young adults' concerns about environmental issues
Johnston says new findings show continued decline in teen smoking
Bailey and Hershbein find women's access to pill raised their earnings
Wodtke finds better educated no more likely to support workplace affirmative action
Anderson interviewed on treatment of drinking water in rural South Africa
Frey tells NYT unmarried boomers face greater economic hardships than married counterparts
Levy featured in story on U-M faculty advisors to White House
Frey says age of senior citizen status a "gray area"
Lavelle speaks with PRI about women's post-divorce health insurance coverage
Smock and Greenland's work cited in NYT story on nonmarital childbirth
Farley's Detroit website referenced in NYT piece on Santorum's visit to city
Smock comments on Millennials' approach to romantic relationships in Monitor cover story
Weir says years near end of work life best time for retirement savings (USN&WR)
Bailey and Dynarski's work cited in NYT story on growing rich-poor education gap
Smock and Lavelle's work on divorce and health insurance cited in Journalist's Resource
Danziger sees vulnerability in safety net for very poor
Farley and Frey question new findings on urban racial residential segregation
Sastry says new findings point out need for focus on mental health in natural disasters
Levy discusses federally mandated state health insurance exchanges
Frey says child population declined in U.S. 2010-2011
Farley's 2011 Contexts article on residential segregation discussed in Jan/Feb 2012 Utne Reader
2011
Danziger cited in Huffington Post review of 2011
Groves says U.S. growth rate lowest since baby boom; Michigan loses population
Neidert comments on erosion of household tax base in Illinois over last 15 years
Frey says upcoming retirees "may not run with the herd," but many will still move to Florida
Danziger sees dismal prospects for poor and near-poor in U.S.
Burgard's work on women's nighttime caregiving cited in Post column on "midnight moms"
Latest MTF survey results: pot and K2 use up, alcohol and cigarette use down among teens
Frey comments on voting implications of growing income gap among blacks
Bailey says income drives college graduation rates, which drive rich-poor income gap
Frey says recession and mortgage meltdown has checked residential mobility
Bailey sees spike in rich-poor college completion gap since 1990s
Danziger comments on average vs. relative income mobility in U.S.
Danziger says widening age wealth gap especially hard on low-income students
Bailey says state spending on family planning yields later Medicaid savings
Lam says we should not be afraid to celebrate birth of 7 billionth child
Lam says 7 billionth child almost surely better off than 6 billionth
Lam discusses sustainability for the world at 7 billion with John Hockenberry (audio)
Lam discusses implications of innovation for population growth in Post story
Frey tells Post DC has become magnet for people aged 25 to 34
DeWitt maps five places where the rich got richer, 2008-2010
Schoeni discusses AJPH article on early childhood links to mid-life health
Wodtke and Harding look at effects of childhood neighborhood on high school graduation rates
Inglehart's World Values Survey work cited in NPR piece on the happiest places on Earth
Nicholas discusses end of life issues on public radio
Wodtke and Harding find growing up in poor neighborhood has large and lasting impacts
Nicholas et al find advance directives may improve care, cut costs at end of life
Harding and his work profiled by ISR
Smock's work cited in piece on how unemployment affects 'decisions of the heart'
Hermalin and Lowry find surprising smoking pattern for Chinese women
Danziger says Obama's job package will help address poverty in Michigan
Frey tells NYT more children in poverty now than since 1962
Danziger says Heritage Foundation's conservative commentator very influential with Republicans
Bailey finds federal programs helped reduce births among poor women in the 1960s and 70s
Smock says rising age of marriage in U.S. reflects new family formation trends
Smock comments on 'stayover' relationships in NYT
Bound notes social and health benefits of work-related activity for seniors
Padela, RWJ Clinical Scholar, finds religion shapes health care beliefs among US Muslims
Barber's survey method of 'ask less more often' cited as example for UX research
Norton finds insecurity over weight hinders women in workplace
Lam says fears of 'Population Bomb' unfounded in 2011
Geronimus says social stressors account for racial disparities in health among women and infants
DeWitt maps racial residential segregation in Westchester country
Shapiro finds only 13% of households spend extra take-home pay from stimulus tax cuts
Frey discusses U.S. trend toward "minority majority" on NPR
Frey says white middle-class Americans a shrinking population
R. Thornton and colleagues explore link between education and democratization
Cooke, RWJ clinical scholar, finds racial disparities in advanced treatment for heart attack
Galea says more deaths attributable to poverty, social factors than common diseases
Dorius says prevalence of multiple-partner fertility a factor in men having later life children
Yang discusses motivations behind food subsidies in developing countries
Lam says increased food production, education eased effects of population growth
Shapiro comments on Michigan's fiscal circumstances, credit rating
Bound says declines in low-skill jobs driving losses in men's labor force participation rates
Inglehart's work cited in piece on role of disease in democratization
DeWitt cited in story on Grand Rapids' inclusion on 'dying cities' list
Lam says nation's shrinking share of global population not cause for alarm
Norton comments on employment penalties for overweight women
Conrad, Groves, and colleagues look at characteristics of persuasive speech
Bachman says part-time work during high school linked to lower college completion rates
Xie cited in NYT on China's changing population
Dorius participates in NPR discussion of multiple partner families
Neidert assesses community shifts in child populations in Michigan
Dynarski says student loan debt represents healthy investment
Bound says disabled shouldn't be blamed for inability to work, need for DI benefits
Lam cited in discussion of world population changes over past 60 years - Portuguese
Lam says food production, urbanization, education mitigated "population bomb"
Dorius studies U.S. mothers who have children with more than one man
Dorius finds 1 in 5 U.S. mothers have children with more than one man
Dorius discusses multiple-partner fertility study in Business Week
Dorius says raising children with different fathers may transmit disadvantage
Weir finds the conscientious earn more
DeWitt maps urban racial segregation in Salon
Weir finds the conscientious earn more, save more for retirement
Frey discusses Hispanic boom, migration of blacks on PBS News Hour
Neidert says U-M jobs helped fuel county-level population growth
Frey discusses urban-suburban, north-south shifts in African American population
Frey says black populations in large Northern cities shifting to suburbs and South
Frey comments on exodus of Detroit's blacks to suburbs
Farley describes rise of Detroit's middle class in Atlantic story
Frey discusses evidence of Hispanic dispersion, black migration in census data
Geronimus and Bound find high death rates persist for black Americans in 2000
Bachman says students who work more than 15 hours a week less likely to complete college
Burgard says women 2.5 times more likely than men to interrupt sleep to care for others
Burgard discusses the real night shift in Post story
Smock says men and women differ on reasons for cohabiting
Farley comments on challenge of identifying race in a highly multiracial society
Frey comments on Michigan's declining birth rate
Kottak explores recent changes in the "very nature of humans"
Shapiro comments on new Federal Reserve findings in NYT
Burgard says women's nighttime caregiving, lack of sleep may affect career at critical period
Rhode says temperature shifts nothing new to U.S. farmers in NYT story on wheat frontier
2010
Neidert discusses population shifts revealed in Census data
PSC projections cited in Atlantic piece on apportionment
Frey discusses decline in black-white segregation in large metro areas
Frey says new data show national trend toward greater racial integration
Freedman documents connection between neighborhood and cancer among older men and women
Frey says recent Census data show "idea of postracial America has a way to go"
Willis finds handing over family finances to husbands weak in numeracy skills is costly
Neidert discusses migration, reapportionment, and 2010 census data
Burgard finds gender differences in nighttime caregiving
Inglehart says social intolerance linked to national corruption
Willis and colleagues find link between numeracy skills and family wealth
Smock comments on unmarried mothers and cohabitation in NYT article
Sastry finds maternal reading skill huge factor in young children's school success
Sastry finds mothers' reading skills greatest determinant of children's academic success
Inglehart cites shifts in political culture as factor in elections
Nicholas finds disparity between process and outcome measures for high-risk surgeries
Nicholas finds disparity between process and outcome measures for high-risk surgeries
Danziger comments on severity of recession among middle-income families
Willis notes importance of comparable datasets to study of elderly cognition worldwide
Willis discusses link between retirement and memory
Frey says recession has left Americans uncharacteristically "flat-footed"
Smock comments on cohabitation and divorce in Newsweek
Danziger weighs in on shrinking role of welfare
Brown comments on claims about the economic impact of small business