PSC In The News
Davis-Kean et al. link children's self-perceptions to their math and reading achievement
Yang and Mahajan examine how hurricanes impact migration to the US
Patrick and colleagues analyze high-intensity drinking among adolescents
Highlights
Pamela Smock elected to PAA Committee on Publications
Viewing the eclipse from ISR-Thompson
Paula Fomby to succeed Jennifer Barber as Associate Director of PSC
PSC community celebrates Violet Elder's retirement from PSC
Mon, Sept 11, 2017, noon:
Welcoming of Postdoctoral Fellows: Angela Bruns, Karra Greenberg, Sarah Seelye and Emily Treleaven
Shaefer compares low-income Americans to populations in poorer nations
a PSC In The News reference
"Yet Another Conservative Argument About Poverty Appears To Be Wrong" - Huffington Post. 08/06/2016.
This piece looks at some conservatives' characterization of poor Americans as being "pretty well off by international standards." It cites new work by Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin who analyze this issue, looking at four indicators of wellbeing: life expectancy, infant mortality, risk of homicide and risk of incarceration. Shaefer and Edin say that, by these metrics, Americans at the bottom of the economic ladder experience conditions comparable to those of countries with a small fraction of the per-capita output of the US.