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

Beliefs About Genes and Environment as Causes of Behavior (Singer)

Breast Cancer Treatment Decisions and Outcomes in Latinas

Demographic Responses to Community and Family Context (Lee)

Ecometrics: New Directions for Multilevel Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences

Enhancing the PSID Child Development Supplement (Stafford)

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

HANDLS (Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Lifespan) Sample Design and Selection (Lepkowski)

Immigrant Elders: Living Arrangements, 1850-2000 (Gutmann)

Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey Wave 2 (Sastry)

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

Neighborhoods and the Health of Elderly Americans (Schoeni)

New York Social Environment Study (Galea)

Race, family factors and adolescent drug use (Broman)

Reciprocal Relations Between Population and Environment (Axinn)

Social and Physical Environments and Health Disparities

Social Consequences of Racial Residential Integration (Morenoff)

Social Environment and Health Program (House)

Testing Segmented Assimilation Theory with Add Health Data (Xie)

The Neighborhood Environment and Drug Use (Galea)

The Urban Environment and HIV Risk Behavior (Galea)

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

Urban Social Context, Health and Health Disparities (House)


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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
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