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New research conducted by Paul Rosenbaum (PSC/PARC Research Associate) on duty hour reforms and its effect on surgeons was featured in a Penn LDI blog. Read more here.

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09 December 2020

Congratulation to PSC Research Associates Dirk Krueger and Jésus Fernández-Villaverde on their election as fellows to the Econometric Society. Read more in the Penn School of Arts and Sciences announcement here

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04 December 2020

New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Song, Xi, and Yu Xie. 2020. "Occupation-Based Socioeconomic Index with Percentile Ranks." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2020-59. 

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03 December 2020

New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Song, Xi, and Thomas Coleman. 2020. "Using Administrative Big Data to Solve Problems in Social Science and Policy Research." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2020-58.

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10 November 2020

New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Agarwal, Neha, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Subha Mani. 2020. "Path Dependence in Disability." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2020-57.

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05 November 2020

Daniel Aldana Cohen (PSC Research Associate) recently co-hosted an event to discuss the Latin American Green New Deal and the economic response to the impending climate crisis. Read more in Penn Today.

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23 October 2020

New study conducted by Diana Montoya-Williams (PSC Research Associate) titled "Racial/ethnic differences in maternal resilience and associations with low birthweight", published in Journal of Perinatology Society was cited in a recent blog on the Penn LDI website.  

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07 October 2020

New Population Center Work Paper (PSC/PARC): Gonalons-Pons, Pilar and David Calnitsky. 2020. "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in the Family." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2020-55. 

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04 October 2020

New Penn Education and Inequality Working Paper: Young, Natalie A. E. and Emily Hannum. 2018. "Childhood Inequality in China." Penn Education and Inequality Working Papers, #5.

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23 September 2020

New Penn Education and Inequality Working Paper: Liu, Ran, Andrea Alvarado-Urbina, and Emily Hannum. 2019. "Differences at the Extremes? Gender, National Contexts, and Math Performance in Latin America." Penn Education and Inequality Working Papers, #4.

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23 September 2020

New Penn Education and Inequality Working Paper: Young, Natalie A. E. 2020. "Getting the Teacher’s Attention: Parent-Teacher Contact and Teachers’ Behavior in the Classroom." Penn Education and Inequality Working Papers, #2.

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14 September 2020

New Penn Education and Inequality Working Paper: Young, Natalie A. E. 2018. "Departing from the Beaten Path: International Schools in China as Response to Discrimination and Academic Failure in the Chinese Educational System." Penn Education and Inequality Working Papers, #1. 

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14 September 2020

New Population Center Work Paper (PSC/PARC): Guillot, Michel, Julio Romero Prieto, Andrea Verhulst, and Patrick Gerland. 2020. "Modeling Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality: Results From a Log-Quadratic Model Applied to High-Quality Vital Registration Data." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2020-54. 

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31 August 2020

New study published by Karen Lasater (PARC Research Associate), Linda H.Aiken (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Matthew D. More »

31 August 2020

Boston official Michelle Wu released a blueprint for a Green New Deal that cited Daniel Aldana Cohen's (PSC Research Associate) co-authored A Planet to Win.

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24 August 2020

Hanming Fang (PSC/PARC Research Associate) has been appointed as the next Jospeh M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics. Read more in the Penn Economics Announcement here. 

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20 July 2020

New study by Jason Schnittker (PSC/PARC Research Associate) published in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis explored the stigma associated with patients who have been diagnosed with Hepatitis C. Read more here

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05 June 2020

New research by PSC/PARC Research associate Norma B. Coe published in the Journal of American Geriatric Society was cited in a recent Population Reference Bureau article titled "The Demography of dementia and Dementia Caregiving" 

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28 May 2020

Petra Todd (PSC Research Associate) and Jere Behrman ( PSC/PARC Research Associate) were awarded a National Science Foundation Social and Economic Science Grant for their work on “Using New Longitudinal Linked Data to Investigate the Determinants of Educational Attainment and Achievement in Mexico.” Read more in the Penn Economics announcement More »

05 May 2020

Mark V. Pauly (PSC/PARC Research Associate) comments on how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect health insurance premiums in the private sector. Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer. 


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31 March 2020

Hanming Fang (PSC Research Associate) investigates the importance of social distancing measures, and the horrible consequences of not doing it. Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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24 March 2020

Olivia S. Mitchell (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Stephen P. Utkus of Vanguard find that target date funds can pay retirement savers higher returns with lower risk in their new study. More »

29 January 2020