PSC In The News
Stephenson et al find "alarmingly high rates" of intimate partner violence among male couples
Stafford's findings on gender gap in children's allowances suggest entrenched nature of wage gap
More PSC brown bags, Fall 2018
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Student volunteers needed for IAPHS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, Oct 3-5. Register July 23.
West et al. examine HS seniors' nonmedical use of prescription stimulants to boost study
Seefeldt promoted to associate professor of social work, associate professor of public policy
Michigan Population Studies Center
Inglehart on 50 years of cultural change across the globe
In this new book, Ronald Inglehart traces and analyzes key global shifts in culture during the past 5 decades, distilling these into a presentation of the Evolutionary Modernization theory.
New PSC program stimulates population science at U-M
The Population Dynamics and Health Program stimulates and supports cross-disciplinary and early-career researchers' work in population science at U-M. PDHP is funded by NICHD and led by Jeff Morenoff, Narayan Sastry, and Bill Axinn.
DMACS builds partnerships, collects vital data in metro Detroit
Built upon the long-running DAS, the Detroit Metropolitan Area Communities Survey serves as a nexus for data gathering and analysis crucial to place-based investments, policies, and resource allocation in metro Detroit.
US tobacco control policies and smoking disparities by SES, race, age
PSC researchers Michael Elliott, Megan Patrick and Paula Lantz analyze the health equity impact on Americans of extant and emerging tobacco control policies.
CDS Online Data Center enhances accessibility, functionality
Data from a part of PSID's longitudinal panel study focused on children, the Child Development Supplement, are being made available via a new online data center led by Narayan Sastry and Paula Fomby.
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Michigan's Population Studies Center,
established in 1961, has a rich history as an interdisciplinary community of scholars in population research and training. PSC is one of five centers within the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (ISR). More...
PSC receives core funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (P2CHD041028) and the National Institute on Aging (P30AG012846).
MiCDA, a joint program of PSC & SRC spurs new research on aging