Dennis Culhane (PSC Research Associate) was featured in a New York Times Op-ed, "The Bill for My Homelessness Was $54,000" by Lori Teresa Yearwood, about debt incurred during homelessness, which can include unpaid utility bills, court fees and fines, as well as child support.
More »New research co-authored by PSC/PARC Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell on the emerging Micro-pensions market and its benefits in India was published by the Innovations for Poverty Action.
More »Alison M. Buttenehim (PSC Research Associate) was quoted an article entitiled, "About 30 Percent of the Fully Vaccinated in the U.S. Have Gotten Boosted. Omicron Could Speed Things Up." in The Washington Post about the recent decline in COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake in light of the Omicron wave.
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Fang, Hanming and Xincheng Qiu. 2021. "'Golden Ages': A Tale of the Labor Markets in China and the United States." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-79.
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Purcell, Helene 2021. "The Heterogeneous Impacts of Natural Disasters on Risk Preferences in Indonesia." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-78.
More »New paper co-authored by PSC Research Associate Annette Lareau titled "Hostile Ignorance, Class, and Same-Race Friendships: Perspectives of Working-Class College Students" was published in Socius. Read more in the announcement on the Penn Sociology website here.
More »Heather Schofield (PSC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today for new research published in Science entitled, "Informing Sleep Policy Through Field Experiences: Evidence is Particularly Needed from Poorer Communities." This research identifies several high-priori More »
John M. MacDonald (PSC Research Associate) was featured in a 6ABC interview about the influence of green spaces in Philadelphia to help curb gun violence. “The built environment of places shapes crime,” he says. “When areas are clean, where there’s less trash, where there’s less physical disorder, residents are more likely to engage with each other.”
More »Diana Montoya-Williams (PSC Research Associate) wrote an Op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the health insurance needs of mixed-status immigrant families and solutions to meet them. More »
Regina Baker (PSC Research Associate) was featured in OMNIA about research that examines the relationship between poverty, marriage, and racial inequality. “Research kind of hit a brick wall and stopped at this behavioral perspective, focusing on individual decisions—in this case, Black women having kids out of wedlock,” she says. More »
Dorothy Roberts (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in an ABC News article about race-norming in clinical tests following an NFL controversy. "The idea of adjusting medical tests for race is deeply rooted in the history of racism in America and has been contested for a long time," Roberts told ABC News. More »
Harsha Thirumurthy (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today for new research published in The Lancet HIV. More »
Damon Centola (PSC Research Associate) wrote an Op-ed for the Los Angeles Times about the use of networked collective intelligence in addressing medical bias. While implicit bias trainings don’t appear to make a difference, Centola says he and his colleagues have “discovered a surprisingly effective answer: an online group reasoning technique known as networked collective More »
New research by Olivia S. Mitchell ( PSC/PARC Research Associate) discusses the myths and realities of working women in the US in a blog published on Population Research Bureau.
More »Olivia S. Mitchell (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was featured in the Wall Street Journal about the future of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing and socially responsible investing trends in the next 10 years.
More »Damon Centola (PSC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today for recently published research in Nature Communications, "The Reduction of Race and Gender Bias in Clinical Treatment Recommendations Using Clinician Peer Networks in an Experimental Setting." In a More »
Sharon Wolf (PSC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today about new research in Ghana that examines implications of COVID-19 on returning to school.
More »Emily Hannum (PSC Research Associate) has been appointed Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences. Hannum is a sociologist and demographer whose research focuses on poverty and child welfare, social stratification, and sociology of education, particularly in China. Read more about this announcement on the Penn Arts & Sciences News webpage.
More »Pilar Gonalons-Pons (PSC/PARC Research Associate) has been named Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Assistant Professor of Sociology. Gonalons-Pons studies how gender, work, and public policies structure economic inequalities, with a focus on how inequalities change over time and the life course. More »
Research by Olivia S. Mitchell (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was cited in Morning Consult where she discusses how Social Security needs reforms to strengthen it. One that would incentivize workers to delay retirement is to pay the delayed-retirement credit as a lump sum.
More »Harsha Thirumurthy (PSC/PARC Research Associate) wrote an Op-ed for The Philadelphia Inquirer about the pros and cons of waiving the COVID-19 vaccine patents for low-income countries.
More »Forthcoming research co-authored by Tiffany Huang (PSC Postdoctoral Fellow) about anti-immigrant sentiments was featured in The New York Times.
More »Olivia S. Mitchell (PSC/PARC Research Associate) discusses the role of poor financial literary in investing behaviors of the Chilean people and how that contributes to the struggles in Chilean retirement. More »
David Mandell (PSC Research Associate) co-authored an Op-ed in The Hill about the need to bolster support for the mental health care system in the US.
More »Dirk Krueger (PSC Research Associate) was featured in a Q&A in Penn Today about the meaning and nuances of the "tax the rich" movement.
More »Dolores Albarracín (PSC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today about the likely success of vaccine mandates in increasing vaccine uptake.
More »PSC/PARC Researchers Atheendar Venkataramani, Courtney Boen, and John MacDonald are investigators in a new NIH funded project, which includes an unprecedented $10 million over the course of 5 years, to study the impact of environmental and economic interventions on reducing health disparities in Black Ph More »
Luca Maria Pesando, GGD Alumni and PSC Research Affiliate, was awarded a 2022-2024 Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship, a globally competitive Fellowship dedicated to improving the development, learning, and living conditions of children and youth worldwide.
More »Dennis Culhane (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in Penn Today discussing ethics and integrated data projects supported through the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2).
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Jacobs, Jerry and Elinore Avni. 2021. "A Global Turn in Sociology: Approaching Social Problems from an International Vantage Point." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-77.
More »Wendy Roth (PSC) was interviewed for an NPR segment about the potential role of genetic ancestry testing in the growth of the multiracial population in the 2020 Census.
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Hoang, Cung, Vikesh Amin, Jere Behrman, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Iliana Kohler. 2021. "Heterogenous Trajectories in Physical, Mental and Cognitive Health among Older Americans: Roles of Genetics and Earlier SES." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-76.
More »PSC and PARC Research Associates, Courtney Boen and Atheendar Venkataramani, were recently awarded funding through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Policies for Action: Public Policy Research to Advance Racial Equity and Racial Justice program. More »
Andrew Stokes (GGD alumni) and PSC/PARC Research Associates, Irma T. Elo and Samuel H. Preston co-authored new research about accounting for excess COVID-19 deaths was featured in MedicalXpress.
More »Linda Aiken (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today and Penn Nursing News about a new article published in Medical Care that finds More »
New research co-authored by Irma T. Elo (PSC/PARC Research Associate) titled " Inaccurate reporting conceals COVID-19's impact on vulnerable populations" was published Medical News Today. More »
Courtney Boen (PSC/PARC Researcher Associate) was featured in Vox about sleep deprivation and insomnia as an increasing symptom of the COVID-19 pandemic.
More »Alison Buttenheim (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer about states' determination of exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccine.
More »Congratulations to Ewa Batyra, former PSC Postdoc, for joining the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) in Barcelona, Spain. Batyra will be working with Diederik Boertien on the Sexual Minorities and Inequality of Opportunity (MINEQ) project.
More »Alison Buttenheim (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in The New York Times about the choices and behaviors of individuals who refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine in light of federal and state mandates.
More »Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in The New York Times about the multiplier effects of a vaccinated workforce. The article discusses the relationship between the economic recovery and the uncertain future of public health.
More »Alison Buttenheim (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in Five Thirty-Eight about the effectiveness and complexity of vaccine mandates in school settings. More »
Harsha Thirumurthy (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was featured in a CBS News segment about the success, or lack thereof, of vaccination incentive programs. More »
Corinne Low (PSC Research Associate) was featured in a Knowledge@Wharton podcast segment on how Jeopardy! revealed hiring bias when seeking out a new host.
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Abufhele, Alejandra, Andrés Castro Torres, and Luca Maria Pesando. 2021. "Parental Educational Similarity and Infant Health in Chile: Evidence from Administrative Records, 1990-2015." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-75.
More »Atheendar Venkataramani (PSC/PARC Research Associate) co-authored research published in JAMA Network Open that examines the relationship between state-level eviction moratoriums and the risk of individuals being diagnosed with COVID-19. More »
New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Pesando, Luca Maria 2021. "Safer if Connected? Mobile Technology and Intimate Partner Violence." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-74.
More »Linda Aiken (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in CBS News about nursing burnout. “The problem is that we don’t have enough funded, permanent, full-time positions for nurses in the settings where they’re needed, namely hospitals, nursing homes and schools,” Aiken said.
More »Wendy Roth (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in an NPR article about the effects DNA tests have on reporting multiracial identity in the 2020 Census. Her research published in the American Journal of Sociology was featured. More »
Wendy Roth (PSC Research Associate) was interviewed for an NPR segment about the potential role of genetic ancestry testing in the growth of the multiracial population in the 2020 Census.
More »Olivia Mitchell (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was featured in a MarketWatch article about the ticking clock of solvency for Social Security.
More »Congratulations to PSC/PARC Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell on being named as 1 of 11 women who are "leaving a mark" on the global economy by the IMF. Via Chile's Diario Financiero
More »New research by Atheendar Venkatramani (PSC/PARC Research Associate) titled "Association of Remote vs In-Person Benefit Delivery With WIC Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic" published in JAMA Network Open was cited in a Penn LDI Blog More »
Courtney Boen (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and co-author, Julia Raifman, wrote an Op-ed for The Hill calling for policy makers and leaders to take action in protective measures and preventive policies to avoid child hospitalizations. More »
Iliana Kohler (PSC/PARC Research Associate) is the newly-elected representative for Research Faculty on University Council for the 2021-2023 term.
Congratulations Iliana!
Kevin Volpp (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in Politifact article about the success of lotteries to incentivize vaccination uptake. Academic studies of early vaccine lotteries do provide reason for skepticism about how successful such programs have been. However, the studies so far have produced mixed findings, rather than unanimously negative ones. Two studies of Ohio’s lottery found a positive impact while two found no impact or a negative impact. More »
Alison M. Buttenheim's study titled "Systematic review of clinician-directed nudges in healthcare contexts" was cited in a blog post on the Penn LDI website. The article titled "Nudges that Improve Clinical Outcomes" explains how certain decision making nudges from clinicans can help patients make wise decision about their care.
More »John MacDonald (PSC Research Associate) was featured in an LDI research update about a study he co-authored, published in JAMA Network Open, which found that structural repairs to homes in low-income, predominantly Black neighborhoods were associated with lower crime. More »
Olivia S. Mitchell (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was interviewed for the Knowledge@Wharton podcast about the potential for the federal government to "green" its pension plan.
More »Damon Centola (PSC Research Associate) wrote an Op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the push to recruit social media and other "influencers" to turn the tide on vaccination hesitancy. Centola points to five scientific principles to guide strategy on
identifying key actors in creating social change.
Linda H. Aiken (PSC/PARC Research Associate) wrote an Op-ed for The New York Times about the need for better nursing support including improved working conditions and nurse staffing policies. More »
Linda H. Aiken (PSC/PARC Research Associate) wrote an Op-Ed for The New York Times titled "Nurses Deserve Better. So Do Their Patients" which was featured in a Penn LDI Blog.
More »In a recent interview in Wharton Business Daily, PSC/PARC Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell talks about the effect of Climate Change on retirement plans - whether its investing in green companies or thinking about potential natural disasters while choosing a retirement location. More »
Xi Song (PSC Research Associate) received the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility, awarded annually to recognize a scholar who has made major contributions early in their career.
More »Hyunjoon Park's (PSC/PARC Research Associate) Demographic Research paper, "Diverging Gaps in Childcare Time by Parental Education in South Korea," was selected by the editorial board as one of the best papers in Volume 44 and will be included in the More »
Courtney Boen (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was awarded the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Aging and the Life Course Outstanding Publication Award for “Criminal Justice Contacts and Psychophysiological Functioning in Early Adulthood: Health Inequality in the Carceral State,” published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
More »Damon Centola (PSC Research Associate) wrote an Op-ed for The Hill discussing vaccine hesitancy and utilizing research from his study in Nature Communications to influence public health behaviors.
More »Roberto Gonzales (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in a CBS News article about the recent Texas court decision which blocks new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program applications.
More »New research in JAMA Network Open co-authored by John MacDonald (PSC Research Associate) found that increasing the number of houses that received the Philadelphia Basic Systems Repair Program intervention on a block was associated with a dose-dependent decrease in crime. These findings suggest that intentional and targeted financial investment in structural, scalable, and sust More »
Alison Buttenheim (PSC Research Associate) was interviewed for WHYY's Radio Times podcast about vaccine hesitancy and moving forward in the pandemic when at least half the country is not vaccinated.
More »New research (cited below) co-authored by Atheendar Vankataramani (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was featured in The Hill.
More »Pilar Gonalons-Pons (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the child tax credit under the American Rescue Plan and accessibility issues for low-income families.
More »Irma Elo (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in an NBC News article discussing causes in the decline in life expectancy in the US. The particular impact the pandemic had on Hispanic and Black Americans "reflects the inequalities that were present before the pandemic that have to do with unequal access to health care and racial and ethnic disparities More »
Samuel Preston (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the drop in life expectancy in the United States and excess deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
More »New study by John M. MacDonald published in JAMA Network Open titled "Association Between Structural Housing Repairs for Low-Income Homeowners and Neighborhood Crime" was cited in a recent article on Population Health on the Penn LDI website.
More »Damon Centola (PSC Research Associate) and Douglas Guilbault co-authored a new study published in Nature Communications that introduced Complex Centrality, the first and only model for effectively predicting the mass spread of ‘complex contagions’, such as new innovations, ideas and behaviors. More »
Damon Centola (PSC Research Associate) wrote an article on BottomLineInc about the dangers and pitfalls of using social media for interaction around news and politics.
More »Angela Lee Duckworth (PSC Research Associate) co-authored new research published in Educational Researcher entitled, "Students Attending School Remotely Suffer Socially, Emotionally, and Academically." This study found that for high school students who learned remotely, the thriving gap was universal, hitting middle- and upper-income students just as much as it impacted low-income students and stude More »
Angela Lee Duckworth (PSC) co-authored new research published in Educational Researcher entitled, "Students Attending School Remotely Suffer Socially, Emotionally, and Academically." This study found that for high school students who learned remotely, the thriving gap was universal, hitting middle- and upper-income students just as much as it impacted low-income students and students of color. More »
Dennis Culhane (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in The Seattle Times about the different struggles homeless populations experience related to homeless shelter systems especially in extreme weather.
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More »Hans-Peter Kohler (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was interviewed on the KYW News Radio In Depth podcast about the consequences of declining birth rates in the United States.
More »Kevin Volpp (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in Penn Today and Penn Medicine News about the behavioral economics behind vaccine lotteries. "Monetary incentives have universal appeal, and for that More »
PARC Associates, Julia Lynch, Rachel Werner, and PSC Associate, Sharon Wolf, were featured in Penn Today discussing the unequal effects exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, systemic issues which contribute to these inequalities, an More »
Matthew McHugh (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was elected to become a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Read more in the Penn Nursing announcement.
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Liu, Xiaoying, Huazhang Miao, Jere Behrman, Emily Hannum, Zhijiang Liang, and Qingguo Zhao. 2021. "The Asian Games, Air Pollution and Birth Outcomes in South China: An Instrumental Variable Approach." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-72.
More »Alison Buttenheim (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in MarketWatch about the utilization of behavioral science in vaccine lotteries. Recently, Philadelphia announced Philly Vax Sweepstakes, which will give three dozen residents cash prizes of up to $50,000, with three drawings this summer.
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Sharon Wolf (PSC Research Associate) was interviewed for NPR's Rough Translation podcast about discipline and teaching strategies in Ghana's education system.
More »Atheendar Venkataramani (PSC/PARC Research Associate) received the Milbank Quarterly Early Career Award in Population Health. Read more in the Penn Medicine announcement.
More »New paper co-authored by Hyunjoon Park ( PSC/PARC Research Associate) titled "Trends and educational variation in the association between spouses’ marital histories in South Korea, 1993–2017" was published in Demographic Research. Read more in the announcement on the Penn Sociology website here.
More »New research by PSC/PARC Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell featured in an article on Pension and Investments suggests that Black and hispanic women face greater economic challenges as compared to White women during times of crisis.
More »Pilar Gonalons-Pons (PSC/PARC Research Associate) recently co-authored a paper “Marriage and Masculinity: Male-Breadwinner Culture, Unemployment, and Separation Risk in 29 Countries,” in American Sociological Review was featured in ScienceDaily and Penn Today.
More »Courtney Boen (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Morgan Hoke's (PSC Research Associate) recent Social Science & Medicine paper eviction and heath was featured in an LDI Health Policy$ense blog post entitled "More »
Pilar Gonalons-Pons (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was interviewed in Penn Today about the potential effects of the expanded child tax credits as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
More »Olivia S. Mitchell (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor about how the pandemic has forced boomers to rethink retirement plans.
More »Irma Elo (PSC/PARC Research Associate), Samuel Preston (PSC/PARC Research Associate), and Neil Mehta (GGD alumni) were featured in a recent issue of Today's Research on Aging published by the Population Reference Bureau.
More »Kevin G. Volpp (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in a Penn Medicine News article about new research that found adding gamification with either competition or support increased physical activity for patients with Type 2 diabetes.
More »Hyunjoon Park ( PSC/PARC Research Associate) has co-authored research on homeownership amongst US baby boomers titled "US baby boomers’ homeownership trajectories across the life course: A Sequence Analysis approach" published in Demographic Research.
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Regina S. Baker (PSC Research Associate) is awarded a Trustees Council of Penn Women (TCPW) Faculty Research Grant for her project, "Historical Racialized Institutional Contexts and Contemporary Inequalities across Southern Counties." Read More in the announcement on the Penn Sociology website here.
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New working paper co-authored by PSC/PARC Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell titled "Debt and Financial Vulnerability on the Verge of Retirement" published in National Bureau of Economic Research was cited in an article in Population Research Bureau. Read the full article and working paper.
More »Courtney Boen and Morgan Hoke's (PSC/PARC Research Associates) study titled "The health impacts of eviction: Evidence from the national longitudinal study of adolescent to adult health" was cited in a Penn LDI Blog.
More »Joseph Kable (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today about his new research that examines the roles of neuro-networks in the brain in moments of imagination.
More »Matthew McHugh (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today about new research on minimum hospital nurse-to-patient ratio policies.
More »Nazar Khalid, Ph.D. Candidate in the Graduate Group in Demography (GGD), was awarded the Inaugural Presidential PhD Fellowship. Drawing from the most accomplished and diverse Ph.D. trainees, the 2021 Presidential Ph.D. Fellows come from across the nine schools at Penn that offer Ph.D. programs. More »
New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Kulkarni, Vani, Veena Kulkarni, Katsushi Imai, and Raghav Gaiha. 2021. "Changes in Subjective versus Objective Well-Being in India." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-71.
More »Daniel Aldana Cohen (PSC Research Associate) was interviewed in the latest episode of OMNIA's In These Times podcast about the fight against environmental racism and moving toward environmental justice.
More »Harsha Thirumurthy (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in Penn Today discussing the role of politics and public health in India's COVID-19 crisis.
More »New paper co-authored by Annette Lareau (PSC Research Associate) titled "Structural constraints and the school choice strategies of black American middle-class parents" was published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education. Read more in the announcement on Penn Sociology website here.
More »New study on the gap in financial literacy in men and women by PSC/PARC Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell was cited in an article on Marketplace titled "What’s behind the male-female financial-literacy gap? These academics say they’ve found an answer".
More »New research co-authored by PSC/PARC Research Associate Hyunjoon Park on diversity in selective NY schools titled "The Academic Success of East Asian American Youth: The Role of Shadow Education" was cited in a NY Daily News article. More »
Rachel Werner (PARC Research Associate) and Norma Coe (PSC/PARC Research Associate) authored a new paper entitled, "Nursing Home Staffing Levels Did Not Change Significantly During COVID-19," published in Health Affairs. The study examines nurse staffing levels, workload, and self-reported More »
Samuel Preston (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Yana Vierboom (GGD alumni) wrote an Op-ed published in The Guardian entitled, "Why Do Americans Die Earlier than Europeans?"
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Hans-Peter Kohler (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was interviewed on Smart Talk (WTIF), a regional radio program, about the relationship between population growth, fertility rates, and economic impacts. Tune in at 31:20 to listen to the discussion.
More »Hyunjoon Park (PSC Research Associate) was featured in the NY Daily News about his research on the limits of test prep and standardized testing in creating more diverse student populations, as New York City elite schools admit fewer Black and Latino students.
More »Kevin Volpp (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in a West Virginia Public Broadcasting article on West Virginia's monetary incentives to increase COVID-19 vaccinations. “If it's the proverbial check is in the mail, that's going to be much less effective than if people get the savings bond right when they g More »
Tukufu Zuberi (PSC Research Associate) was interviewed in a recent segment of OMNIA's In These Times podcast. More »
Kevin J. Thomas, GGD alumnus, was recently named a 2021 Carnegie Mellon Fellow. Kevin J. A. Thomas is professor of African and African Diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on international migration, global health, race-ethnicity, and African development.
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Early-Life Human Capital Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa
Project on Human Capital Development in Africa
Co-PIs: Jere R. Behrman and Claudia Vazquez
More »Alison Buttenheim (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in The Washington Post about the behavioral science behind financial incentives for getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
More »PSC/PARC Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell talks about potential economic consequences of slow population growth in the US in a recent interview on Marketplace.
More »Damon Centola (PSC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today for his research on network dynamics and their applicability to NBA scouting. Centola discussed the value in untapped knowledge and seeking out influential individuals in networks. More »
Pilar Gonalons-Pons (PSC Research Associate) and Alison Buttenheim (PSC Research Associate) was featured in a New York Times piece about gendered motivations for getting vaccinated. More »
Wendy Roth (PSC Research Associate) was interviewed in Maisonneuve about people who discover non-paternity events through DNA testing and how it impacts their identities. Roth's research about genetic testing and identity was also featured in a Consumer Reports artic More »
Norma Coe (PARC Research Associate) and Rachel Werner (PSC/PARC Research Associate) co-authored an Op-ed published in Newsweek. More »
Samuel Preston (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Yana Vierboom (GGD alumnus) were featured in Penn Today for their publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. More »
John MacDonald (PSC Research Associate) was featured in a recent episode of OMNIA's In These Times podcast about institutionalized racism. MacDonald discusses policing procedures and the criminal justice system.
More »New Penn Education and Inequality Working Paper: Shen, Wensong, and Emily Hannum. 2020. "Effect Pathways of Informal Family Separation on Children’s Outcomes: Paternal Labor Migration and Long-term Educational Attainment of Left-Behind Children in Rural China." Penn Education and Inequality Working Papers, #8.
More »Daniel Aldana Cohen (PSC Research Associate) led the research on a new report, "A Green New Deal for Public Housing to Deliver Racial, Economic, and Climate Justice," produced by the climate + community project (ccp) that he co-directs. More »
Frank Furstenberg (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in The Atlantic about financial and emotional stressors on modern parents. The article entitled, "Parents Are Sacrificing Their Social Lives on the Altar of Intensive Parenting," discusses the anxiety parents can experience when balancing careers, social lives, and parenting.
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Kulkarni, Vani S, and Raghav Gaiha. 2021. "The Role of Public Trust in People's Subjective Well-Being." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-70.
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Fang, Hanming, Ziteng Lei, Liguo Lin, and Peng Zhang. 2021. "Family Companionship and Elderly Suicide: Evidence from the Chinese Lunar New Year." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-69.
More »Olivia Mitchell (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in Penn Today and Knowledge@Wharton about the growing number of older Americans in debt. “This is a very different world in terms of debt than our parents and grandparents lived in,” says Ol More »
New research by Olivia Mitchell (PSC/PARC Research Associate), in Penn Today, examines the financial well-being among Black and Hispanic women.
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Musick, Kelly, Pilar Gonalons-Pons, and Christine Schwartz. 2021. "Change and Variation in Couples' Earnings Equality Following Parenthood." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-68.
More »Alison Buttenheim (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in The New York Times about the rollout of the largest vaccination campaign in human history and states efforts to address vaccine hesitancy.
More »Jerry Jacobs (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in Penn Today about how the pandemic has reinforced gender-biased household divisions of labor.
More »Damon Centola (PSC Research Associate) was featured in Knowable Magazine discussing the role of social networks in building community trust in vaccines.
More »Pilar Gonalons-Pons (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the history of childcare in the US and how the pandemic has shed a light on social and economic problems in childcare.
More »Rebecca Schut, a joint PhD student in the Graduate Group in Demography and Sociology, was named a 2021-2022 Dean's Scholar for her academic performance and intellectual promise. Register to attend the virtual celebration on April 21, 2021 at 4:30 PM. Congratulations Rebecca!
More »Richard Berk (PSC Research Associate) was featured in a FOX43 Local Harrisburg segment on the need for better data on incidents of domestic violence.
More »Chenoa Flippen (PSC Research Associate) has been selected for the Provost's Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring. This award is in recognition of her commitment to teaching at Penn. The selection committee chose her from a competitive nomination pool based on the letters written on her behalf by our colleagues and students.
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Kämpfen, Fabrice, Fatima Zahra, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Rachel Kidman. 2021. "The Effects of Negative Economic Shocks at Birth on Adolescents’ Cognitive Health and Educational Attainment in Malawi." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-67.
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Kohler, Iliana, Fabrice Kämpfen, Alberto Ciancio, James Mwera, Victor Mwapasa, and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2021. "Curtailing COVID-19 on a Dollar-a-Day in Malawi: Implications for the Ongoing Pandemic." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-66.
More »Irma Elo (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Regina Baker (PSC Research Associate) are credited with research support in a recent episode of the TradeOffs podcast. More »
The climate + community project, a new climate policy research network co-directed by Daniel Aldana Cohen (PSC Research Associate), launched on March 13 with a report advocating a Green Stimulus for K-12 Schools, in partnership with Rep. Jamaal Bowman. More »
Irma Elo (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Samuel Preston (PSC/PARC Research Associate) were featured in Penn Today about the new National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine report on More »
David Mandell (PSC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today about a new tool that he helped develop for more inclusive autism screening.
More »New working paper published by PSC/PARC Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell titled "Do Required Minimum Distribution 401(k) Rules Matter, and For Whom? Insights from a Lifecycle Model" was cited in an article on PlanSponsor as to whether DC Plan Participants benefit from the increasing RMD age. Read the full article here.
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Jere Behrman (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Linda Aiken (PSC/PARC Research Associate) were featured in a list of the top 100 Researchers with h-indexes that exceed 100, according to their Google Scholar Profiles. Behrm More »
New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Greenwood, Jeremy, Nezih Guner, and Ricardo Marto. 2021. "The Great Transition: Kuznets Facts for Family-Economists." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-65.
More »Courtney Boen (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Morgan Hoke (PSC Research Associate) co-authored new research, published in Social Science & Medicine, that links eviction to a greater risk for depression. More »
Linda Aiken (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was quoted in a WHYY article discussing the outcomes of understaffing in hospitals.
More »Matt McHugh (PSC/PARC Research Associate) and Linda Aiken (PSC/PARC Research Associate) were featured in Deseret News about the complexities of nurse staffing.
More »PSC/PARC Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell was quoted in an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer on the potential side effects of COVID 19 on Social Security and Medicare. This article was titled "Social Security and Medicare may experience their own COVID-19 side effects, experts say"
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Hoke, Morgan and Courtney Boen. 2021. "The Health Impacts of Eviction: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-64.
More »Olivia Mitchell (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was interviewed in a recent episode of the Knowledge@Wharton podcast about why early 401k withdrawals are a bad idea. More »
PSC/PARC Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell is quoted in Pensions and Investments on how individuals should not hold stock in employers company which can be detrimental as compared to a well-diversified retirement account.
More »Atheendar Venkataramani (PSC/PARC Research Associate) moderated the first LDI Health Equity virtual seminar of 2021. The virtual seminar dives into the interconnections of voting, structural racism, and health inequities. More »
New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Hervé, Justine, Subha Mani, Jere Behrman, Arindam Nandi, Anjana Sankhil Lamkang, and Ramanan Laxminarayan. 2021. "Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-63.
More »Daniel Aldana Cohen (PSC Research Associate) was interviewed in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the Texas electricity black-outs and how a Green New Deal could prevent such disasters. Cohen discusses the disadvantages of deregulated and market-based energy systems.
More »The Behavior Change for Good Initiative (BCFG), co-directed by Angela Duckworth (PSC Research Associate), at the Wharton School and the School of Arts & Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, today released findings from two of the largest-ever research studies aimed at increasing vaccine adoption. More »
Damon Centola (PSC Research Associate) was interviewed for a recent segment of The Money with Richard Aedy, an Australian radio program. Centola discussed how social change happens and his research on the science of networks.
More »Wendy Roth (PSC Research Associate) was featured in The New York Times and appeared on The Behavior Corner podcast discussing her research on genetic ancestry testing and racial perceptions.
More »Research by Wendy Roth (PSC Research Associate) was cited in a New York Times Op-ed entitled, "America’s Brutal Racial History Is Written All Over Our Genes." The article discusses the relationship between genetic testing services, identity, and perceptions of race in the US.
More »Tukufu Zuberi (PSC Research Associate) launched a new YouTube channel entitled, Curating National Narratives, which will feature his documentaries, African Independence; a history of ancient Sudan entitled, “Before Things Fell Apart” and “Decolonizing The Narrative,” a series on museums, reparations, restitution, and race. More »
PSC/PARC Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell was recently quoted in an article titled "Here Are Three Strategies for Buying Annuities for Retirement Income When Rates Are Low" published in Barron's
More »A new LDI/PARC Research Brief on a recent study by Alberto Ciancio, Fabrice Kämpfen, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Iliana Kohler looking at the health effects of blood pressure screenings for adults in rural Malawi. The PARC team found that adults with elevated blood pressure who were referred to a health care provider were 22 percentage points less likely to have hypertension four years later. More »
Daniel Aldana Cohen's (PSC Research Associate) book, A Planet to Win, has been translated into Brazilian Portuguese by Autonomia Literária, with a new preface by Raquel Rolnik, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on housing as a human right and Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at More »
Dennis Culhane (PSC Research Associate) opened the Spring 2021 Penn Population Studies Colloquium Series on January 25, 2021. The session, entitled “Advances in the Establishment of Administrative Data Linkage Centers for Population and Policy Research,” focused on how Culhane and his colleagues make innovative use of existing big data sources as an alternative to traditional survey or census data. More »
New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Georgiadis, Andreas, Liza Benny, Paul Dornan, and Jere Behrman. 2021. "Maternal Undernutrition in Adolescence and Child Human Capital Formation over the Life-Course: Evidence from an International Cohort Study." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2021-62.
More »New research by Damon Centola (PSC Research Associate) published in Nature Communications was featured in Penn Today. More »
Wendy Roth (PSC Research Associate) created a video for the Penn Latin American and Latinx Studies Program (LALS) describing her career and research on the dynamics of racial classification in the United States and Latin America. Roth discusses some her of past and current projects surrounding the questions of why and how racial classification changes across
cultures and geographies.
Daniel Aldana Cohen (PSC Research Associate) advised Senator Ed Markey's office on its new environmental justice mapping bill. More »
Congratulation to PSC/PARC Research Associate, Iliana Kohler on winning the prestigious National Academy of Medicine Grant for her Aging and Health Project in Malawi, Africa. Read More about her work here. Read the full announcement on the Penn Arts and Sciences website here.
More »New research by PSC/PARC Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell was cited in a recent article on NPR where she notes that even pre-pandemic, many older Americans carried substantial debt in student loans, mortgages, and medical bills. Now many are tapping into retirement savings to support loved ones. More »
Olivia S. Mitchell (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today about getting financially fit in 2021. Mitchell gives five financial resolutions for people who aim to save and eliminate debt in 2021.
More »Damon Centola's (PSC Research Associate) newest book, CHANGE: How to Make Big Things Happen, was recently released. In his book, Centola debunks popular myths about change, like the Myth of the Influencer, and shows how people in the network periphery are essential for triggering social transformations in art, politics, medicine and popular culture. More »
Dennis P. Culhane (PSC Research Associate) was quoted in The Seattle Times about homelessness in the U.S. after major recessions. Culhane discusses the impact of unemployment benefits and the impact the CARES Act had on poverty in 2020.
More »Alison M. Buttenheim (PSC Research Associate) was featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer discussing the pros and cons of incentivizing people to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Buttenheim talks about the behavioral science behind financial incentives and how they may not apply to the COVID-19 vaccination context.
More »New research published in Journal of Health Economics on Health screening for non communicable diseases in Sub Saharan Africa by PSC/PARC Associates Hans-Peter Kohler and Iliana Kohler was cited in a Penn LDI Brief.
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Köksal, Selin, Luca Maria Pesando, Valentina Rotondi, and Ebru Şanlıtürk. 2022. "Harnessing the Potential of Google Searches for Understanding Dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence Before and After COVID-19 Outbreak." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2022-61.
More »PSC/PARC Research Associate Olivia S. Mitchell authors an introduction to the special virtual issue of the Journal of Pension Economics and Research on 'Developments in Financial Literacy'. Read the full introduction here.
More »New Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC): Liu, Xiaoying, Jere Behrman, Emily Hannum, Fan Wang, and Qingguo Zhao. 2022. "Same Environment, Stratified Impacts? Air Pollution, Extreme Temperatures, and Birth Weight in Southeast China." University of Pennsylvania Population Center Working Paper (PSC/PARC), 2022-60.
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