News & Announcements

Jeff Morenoff discusses the complexity of police reform & public safety policy in Detroit and in cities across the country.

Natasha Pilkauskas & Katherine Michelmore find EITC boosts employment, with decreasing impact as children age

Arline Geronimus receives James S. Jackson Distinguished Career Award for Diversity Scholarship

Philippa Clarke et al evaluated physician-level variation in receipt of aggressive end-of-life care and examined physician-level factors contributing to this variation in the SEER-Medicare data set

Heather Ann Thompson receives U-M Regents’ Award for Distinguished Public Service

Kristin Seefeldt notes federal intervention lowered the percentage of Michiganders living in poverty from 11.7 percent in 2019 to 8.8 percent in 2020, despite the pandemic's economic hardships

Thornton, Young-DeMarco, and Allendorf explain how developmental idealism theory applies to the US while tracking a half century of trends in American family attitudes.

Colter Mitchell et al examine the impact of paternal education on epigenetic aging in adolescence and mid-adulthood

Luke Shaefer testifies before the US Congressional Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on what the American Rescue Plan's Child Tax Credits has meant for families

Alexandra Minna Stern notes vaccine hesitancy may be informed by a comparable history of medical abuse which also included forced sterilization

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PSC receives core funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (P2CHD041028). The Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP) , which supports research in population health, is part of PSC.

Calendar

Sept 29

Unprecedented: The Expansion of the Social Safety Net During the COVID Era and Its Impacts on Poverty and Hardship (Luke Shaefer)

Sept 29

Using Life History Calendars to Improve Measurement of Lifetime Experience With Trauma and Psychiatric Disorders: The Chitwan Valley Family Study in Nepal (Axinn & Chardoul)

Oct 13

Linking Data within the CVFS and Beyond (Emily Treleaven and Adrienne Epstein)

Oct 25

Is the Phone Mightier than the Virus? Cell Phone Access and Epidemic Containment Efforts (Elisa Maffioli)

Nov 1

Consequences of Receiving Versus Being Denied a Wanted Abortion (Diana Greene Foster)

Nov 15

Science Communications in a Social Media Crisis: Lessons Learned from Dear Pandemic (Malia Jones)

Nov 29

The Gender Gap in Summer Work Interruptions (Melanie Wasserman)