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Arline Geronimus wins Excellence in Research Award from School of Public Health

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Research Area: 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.

Recent Publications

Books

Harding, David J. 2010. Living the Drama: Community, Conflict, and Culture among Inner-City Boys. University of Chicago Press.

Cancian, Maria, and Sheldon H. Danziger. 2009. Changing Poverty, Changing Policies. New York: Russell Sage.

Journal Articles

2011

King, Katherine E., Jeffrey Morenoff, and James S. House. 2011. "Neighborhood Context and Social Disparities in Cumulative Biological Risk Factors." Psychosomatic Medicine, 73(7): 572-579. PMCID: PMC3216672.

Kershaw, Kiarri N., Ana Diez Roux, Sarah Burgard, Lynda D. Lisabeth, Mahasin S. Mujahid, and Amy J. Schulz. 2011. "Metropolitan-Level Racial Residential Segregation and Black-White Disparities in Hypertension." American Journal of Epidemiology, 174(5): 537-545. PMCID: PMC3202148.

Wodtke, Geoffrey, David J. Harding, and Felix Elwert. 2011. "Neighborhood Effects in Temporal Perspective: The Impact of Long-Term Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage on High School Graduation." American Sociological Review, 76(5): 713-736. PMCID: PMC3413291.

Harding, David J. 2011. "Rethinking the Cultural Context of Schooling Decisions in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods: From Deviant Subculture to Cultural Heterogeneity." Sociology of Education, 84(4): 322-339. PMCID: PMC3413303.

Axinn, William, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Meeso Caponi Ro. 2011. "Gender double standards in parenting attitudes." Social Science Research, 40(2): 417-432. PMCID: PMC3035381.

Burgard, Sarah. 2011. "The Needs of Others: Gender and Sleep Interruptions for Caregivers." Social Forces, 89(4): 1189-1215.

Jones, Malia, Anne R R. Pebley, and Narayan Sastry. 2011. "Eyes on the block: Measuring urban physical disorder through in-person observation." Social Science Research, 40(2): 523-537. PMCID: PMC3106307.

Freedman, Vicki, Irina Groafova, and Jeannette Rogowski. 2011. "Neighborhoods and chronic disease onset in later life." American Journal of Public Health, 101(1): 79-86. PMCID: PMC2912970.

Huang, Penelope M., Pamela Smock, Cara Bergstrom-Lynch, and Wendy Manning. 2011. "He Says, She Says': Gender and Cohabitation." Journal of Family Issues, 32(7): 876–905. PMCID: PMC3106995.

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