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Kalousova and Burgard find credit card debt increases likelihood of foregoing medical care

Bachman says findings on teens' greater materialism, slipping work ethic should be interpreted with caution

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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Inequality and Group Disparities

PSC researchers have a long tradition of studying the sources of differences among populations in their family and fertility behavior, health and mental health, mortality, economic indicators, and population dynamics. Comparative research is conducted at Michigan on the causes and consequences of disparities across groups categorized by race/ethnicity, national origin, gender, neighborhood context, and biogenetic indicators.

Funded Research and Affiliated Programs

Candidate Epigenetic Biomarkers for PTSD: Insights From Detroit

Causes and Consequences of Public Subsidies in Higher Education: Evidence from Community College Districts

Creating a National Resource for Genetic Research in Behavioral & Health Sciences (Weir)

Demographic Responses to Community and Family Context (Leonard)

Development of Functional Limitations in the Built Environment of Mid-Aged Women

Dynamic Models of Racial Residential Segregation (Bruch)

Ecologic Stressors, PTSD, and Drug Use in Detroit

Economic Development and Changes in Crime and Risk Behaviors (Morenoff)

Estimating Neighborhood Effects on Low Income Youth

Evaluating the Impact of Set-Aside Laws on Ex-Offender Recidivism and Socioeconomic Outcomes

For-Profit Colleges, Educational Attainment, and Labor Market Outcomes (Harding)

Heat-Related Hospital Admissions Among the Elderly: Community, Socio-economic and Medical Determinants of Vulnerability and Economic Impacts

Human Genetic Variation in Fatty Acid Metabolism and Sudden Cardiac Arrest (Raghunathan)

Marginal Structural Modeling: Towards Recovering Casual Estimates of Neighborhood Poverty and Mortality (Elliott)

Measuring Conditions in American Secondary Schools Related to Childhood Obesity (Johnston)

Michigan Interdisciplinary Center on Social Inequality, Mind and Body (Kaplan)

Neighborhood and Family Effects on Disparities in Chronic Disease (Sastry)

Neighborhood Effects on Children Health and Access to Care (Sastry)

Neighborhoods and CVD Risk in a Multiethnic Cohort

Neighborhoods, Recidivism, and Employment among Returning Prisoners (Morenoff)

Race/Ethnicity, Psychosocial and Environmental Stressors, and Telomere Length (Geronimus)

Social Environment and Health Program (House)

Staging Reproductive Aging in Four Cohorts: Issues of Hormone Use Spotting Bias (Harlow)

The Demography of Prisoner Reentry: Residential Moves & Changing Social Contexts (Morenoff)

The Urban Environment and HIV Risk Behavior (Galea)

Tools for Measuring and Analyzing Cortisol Levels in Population Studies of Health Disparities

Transitions From Preschool Through High School: Family, Schools and Neighborhoods (Sastry)

Under the Skin: Understanding the Role of Stress and Immune Function in Health Disparities

Unpacking Trends in Neighborhood Poverty, Affluence, and Economic Diversity, 1970-2010

Urban Built Environments and Trajectories of Disability Among Older Adults (Clarke)

Urban Rural Differences in Excess Mortality Among High Poverty Populations (Coverage Research Initiative) (Geronimus)

Urban Social Context, Health and Health Disparities (House)