Hans-Peter Kohler in the News

Hans-Peter Kohler of the School of Arts and Sciences is interviewed on PBS Newshour on the downward trend in the birthrate despite improved economic conditions. Watch interview here. This interview was also quoted in the Associated Press (AP).

Global Family Change: Persistent Diversity with Development, authored by Luca Maria Pesando, Andrés Castro, Hans-Peter Kohler, Frank Furstenberg and other international collaborators, was posted today in the PSC Working Paper Series. Read the abstract and paper here.

This week Victor Mwapasa and Chiwoza Bandawe from the University of Malawi College of Medicine visited the University of Pennsylvania. Hans-Peter and Iliana Kohler have written with Victor and Chiwoza about the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health for several years. The group's research has focused on the relationship between HIV prevalance, transmission and disclosure and family health. Recently Hans-Peter, Iliana, Chiwoza, and Colin Payne authored a paper about the Demography of Mental Health Among Mature Adults in a Low-Income, High-HIV-Prevalence Context. This summer a team of researchers including Penn PhD students went to Malawi to train and do data collection. The collaborators will meet on Friday to discuss current research and the PSC coud not be more pleased to host them.

Collin Payne, Luca Maria Pesando, and Hans-Peter Kohler authored a new Working Paper in the PSC/PARC Scholarly Commons series.

New Working Paper: Payne, C.F., I.V. Kohler, C. Bandawe, K. Lawler, and H.-P. Kohler. 2016. "Cognitive Health among Older Adults: Evidence from Rural Sub-Saharan Africa." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC) WP2016-3.

New PSC/PARC Working Paper: Sudharsanan, N., J.R. Behrman, and H.-P. Kohler. 2016. "Limited Common Origins of Multiple Adult Health-Related Behaviors: Evidence from U.S. Twins." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC) WP2016-2.

Population Association of America 2016 Nominations include: Presidential nomination for Irma T. Elo, Nomination Committee nomination for Hans-Peter Kohler, and Board of Directors nomination for former graduate Quincy Stewart ('01).

Hans-Peter Kohler and Susan C. Watkins are mentioned in a Penn Current article discussing two decades worth of research on AIDS in Malawi.

Hans-Peter Kohler is quoted in a Penn News article about how AIDS treatment benefits people without HIV/AIDS.

New Working Paper: Castanheira, Helena Cruz and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2015. "It is Lower Than You Think it is: Recent Total Fertility Rates in Brazil and Possibly Other Latin American Countries." PSC Working Paper Series, WPS 15-5.

Hans-Peter Kohler (in collaboration with Ayesha Kharsany at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa [CAPRISA]), recently received a 5yr NIH R01 Grant for "Identifying sources of HIV infection in adolescent girls in rural South Africa". The aim of this project is to utilize an innovative approach to identify networks of HIV transmission, combining extensive epidemiologic sampling with phylogenetic analyses of HIV-1 sequence data and traditional sexual networking methods. Insights into the sexual networking patterns driving high HIV incidence in adolescent girls in rural South Africa could be critical for informing future design of HIV prevention interventions.

New PSC Working Paper: Anglewicz, Philip, Mark VanLandingham, Lucinda Manda-Taylor, and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2015. "Cohort Profile: The Migration and Health in Malawi (MHM) Study." PSC Working Paper Series, WPS 15-4.

New PSC Working Paper: Kohler, Iliana V., Collin F. Payne, Chiwoza Bandawe, and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2015. "The Demography of Mental Health Among Mature Adults in a Low-Income High HIV-Prevalence Context." PSC Working Paper Series, PSC 15-1.

Hans-Peter Kohler and Thomas Anderson's research on South Korean fertility published in Asian Population Studies was cited in the Washington Post.

Hans-Peter Kohler is quoted in a September 6, 2013 New York Times article about the fertility rate in the United States.

New PSC Working Paper: Fedor, Theresa M., Hans-Peter Kohler, and Jere R. Behrman. 2013. "The Impact of Married Individuals Learning HIV Status in Malawi: Divorce, Number of Sexual Partners, Condom Use with Spouses." PSC Working Paper Series, PSC 13-02.

New PSC Working Paper: Kohler, Iliana V., Philip Anglewicz, Hans-Peter Kohler, John F. McCabe, Ben Chilima and Beth J. Soldo. 2012. "Evaluating Health and Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Minimally Invasive Collection of Plasma in the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH)." PSC Working Paper Series, PSC 12-05.

Now available: Myrskylä, Mikko, Hans-Peter Kohler and Francesco Billari. 2011. "High Development and Fertility: Fertility at Older Reproductive Ages and Gender Equality Explain the Positive Link." Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, PSC Working Paper Series, PSC 11-06.

Now Available: Delavande, Adeline and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2011. "HIV/AIDS-related Expectations and Risky Sexual Behavior in Malawi." PSC Working Paper Series, PSC 11-04.

Hans-Peter Kohler and Sam Preston are both cited in "The Only Child: Debunking the Myths" in TIME on July 8, 2010.

The paper by Hans-Peter Kohler, Mikko Myrskylä, and Francesco Billari is discussed in an article entitled "Bending the Population Curve," in the latest issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette Nov/Dec 2009.

"Advances in development reverse fertility declines," a paper by Mikko Myrskylä, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Francesco C. Billari has just been published in Nature. Also see the commentary "Demography: Babies make a comeback" by Shripad Tuljapurkar, the Editor's Summary of their research findings, and the Nature Podcast on burgeoning birth rates.