PSC In The News
Kalousova and Burgard find credit card debt increases likelihood of foregoing medical care
Pierotti finds shift in global attitudes on intimate partner violence
Highlights
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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Manuela AngelucciMartha J. Bailey
John Bound
Sarah Burgard
Sheldon H. Danziger
Reynolds Farley
David J. Harding
David Lam
Helen Levy
Fabian T. Pfeffer
Robert F. Schoeni
John E. Schulenberg
Kristin Seefeldt
Jeffrey A. Smith
Frank P. Stafford
Melvin Stephens, Jr.
Robert Willis
Yu Xie
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George A. Kaplan
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Deborah Levison
Leticia Marteleto
Sarah E. Turner
Xiaogang Wu
Human Capital, Labor and Wealth
PSC research on human capital, labor, and wealth dates back to the 1960s and Otis Dudley Duncan. Today, a large group of PSC researchers study these areas, looking particularly at race, gender, and age disparities.
Funded Research and Affiliated Programs
Access, Assets and Poverty: The Role of Financial Services Among Low and Moderate-Income Households (Danziger)
Behavior on Surveys and in the Economy Using HRS (Willis)
Behavior on Surveys and in the Economy: HRS and Beyond (Willis)
Birth to Three Programming to Improve School Readiness (Featherman)
Cape Area Panel Study (Lam)
Collaborative Research: TLS: Where are all the Female Engineers? (Smith)
Documenting the War on Poverty's Community Programs (Bailey)
Economic and Health Determinants of Retirement Behavior Funding (Brown)
Employee Crime and Monitoring in Malawi
Estimating Neighborhood Effects on Low Income Youth
Evaluating the Impact of Set-Aside Laws on Ex-Offender Recidivism and Socioeconomic Outcomes
Federal Stimulus Funding for Research: An Assessment of Employment Responses (Bound)
Financial Innovations to Stimulate Remittances and Savings: An Experimental Approach (Yang)
For-Profit Colleges, Educational Attainment, and Labor Market Outcomes (Harding)
Gansu Survey of Children and Families
High-Skill Immigration: Educational Attainment and Labor Force Outcomes (Bound)
How Does Race Matter in Housing? Projected Mobility, Search, and Preferences (Couper)
Modeling the Effect of Health on Retirement (Bound)
Modeling the Impact of Health Insurance on Retirement (Coverage Research Initiative)
Negative Work Conditions and Health Across the Career (Burgard)
Neighborhoods, Recidivism, and Employment among Returning Prisoners (Morenoff)
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) (Stafford)
Public Housing Demolition, Relocation and Health in Atlanta, Georgia
Remittance and Financial Products Innovation Project (Yang)
Resettlement and Well-Being of New Orleans Residents After Hurricane Katrina (Sastry)
Social, Economic, and Demographic Factors Affecting the Scientific Labor Force (Xie)
Subsidies, Savings, and Sustainable Food Security: A Field Experiment in Mozambique (Yang)
Substance Use Disorders Among Low-Income Women: Treatment Access and Use After Welfare Reform (Danziger)
The Changing Safety Net: Low Income Families’ Economic Survival Strategies During a Recession (Seefeldt)
The Effect of Economic Conditions on Young Adult Behavior
The Effects of the Housing Crisis on Vulnerable Workers and Families (Danziger)
The Michigan Recession and Recovery Survey: Wave One Data Preparation and Initial Analysis (Burgard)
The Role of Intra-Family Financial and Other Support... (Danziger)
The Shape of Income and Mortality (Kaplan)
Understanding the Economic Concepts and Characteristics of Food Access (Danziger)
Unpacking Trends in Neighborhood Poverty, Affluence, and Economic Diversity, 1970-2010