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

Activity Involvement and Pathways to Educational Attainment (Eccles)

Cape Area Panel Study (Lam)

Cyclical, Intergenerational and Life Course Measures of Economics and Social Behavior: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) (Stafford)

Economic and Health Determinants of Retirement Behavior Funding (Brown)

Educational Inequalities in reform-era China, 1990-2000 (Wu)

Enhancing the PSID Child Development Supplement (Stafford)

Families, Communities and Youth Outcomes in South Africa (Lam)

From Exclusion to Destitution: Residential Segregation, Affordable housing, and the Racial Composition of the Homeless Population (Morenoff)

Gansu Survey of Children and Families

Health Insurance and Labor Supply: Evidence from Hypothetical Shocks to Wealth (Coverage Research Initiative) (Kimball)

Higher Education Markets and Labor Markets (Bound)

Improving the Academic Achievement of Students in Poverty (Featherman)

Income Volatility and Implications for Food Assistance Programs - II (Danziger)

Life Course Wealth, Health and Mortality in the PSID (Stafford)

Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey Wave 2 (Sastry)

Michigan Retirement Research Center

Modeling the Impact of Health Insurance on Retirement (Coverage Research Initiative)

Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) (Stafford)

Philanthropy Supplement - 2005 Data Collection (Wave 34) (Stafford)

Population Studies Center Infrastructure Grant (Thornton)

Testing Segmented Assimilation Theory with Add Health Data (Xie)


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Recent resources, events, news

New Publications

Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"

Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report

Next Brown Bag

Tues, Dec 1
Arland Thornton & Barb Koremenos
Mobilizing for Human Rights
For live stream
LINK HERE

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