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Kristen Harknett's book chapter Parents' Relationships is available to read for free online.

Kristen Harknett's new article in Demography about Partner Violence has been cited in The Atlantic.

New Position in School of Social Policy & Practice announced

Allison Buttenheim spoke about best nursing practices at the 2016 Penn Health Policy Retreat.

Camille Charles of the School of Arts & Sciences says in an interview with Plan Philly and a Penn News article, “We need to figure out how can we have gentrification and maintain affordable housing so it actually benefits people who have lived in the community.”

Camille Charles speaks about disappearing low-cost rental housing in federal genrtification study in WHYY segment.

Olivia Mitchell is quoted in a Bloomberg article about social security, cash, and retirement.

John Trojanowski is quoted in a new article about Penn's Quest to Battle Alzheimer's

Michel Guillot was interviewed on Radio France about life expectancy in the U.S.

Irma Elo and Arun Hendi are quoted in a new NPR article about life expectancy in the U.S.

Richard Berk, otherwise known as the Data Oracle, is discussed in a new Omnia article.

Emilio Parrado is featured in a video of the Multicultural Democracy Panel.

Hyunjoon Park and Grace Kao launch new website and research brief for Korean Millennials project.

Kevin Volpp is cited in Reader's Digest article about motivation and health.

Daniel Polsky talks about the Affordable Care Act in a recent episode of Knowledge@Wharton.

Dirk Krueger and John MacDonald were two of five conferences awarded grants will address a variety of issues related to economic policy, infrastructure, housing in the future, diversity and more: The Philadelphia Workshop on Macroeconomics and Economic Policy, in which Dirk Krueger, professor of economics in Arts & Sciences, will pool academics and researchers from across Penn and policy institutions to present and discuss macroeconomic research and fiscal policies at the Federal Res More »

Sam Preston is quoted in New York Times article about new study focusing on rates of Dementia in the U.S.

Study led by Linda H. More »

New report Families Caring for an Aging America is available for free download.

Mark Pauly is quoted in NPR article about GOP Healthcare.

Jeremy Greenwood examines macroeconomic models of family economics in new working paper.

Daniel Polsky is quoted in NewsWorks article about the dangers of repealing ACA.

Matthew McHugh is mentioned in a new Penn Nursing article about Racial Disparities in Postoperative Readmission.

Olivia Mitchell is cited in a MarketWatch.com article about changing the retirement age.

Kevin Volpp is cited in MarketWatch.com article about how to get your kids to eat their vegetables.

Kristen Harknett's new Working Paper, which links unstable schedules to health problems, was mentioned in a Penn News article. 

Camille Charles is mentioned in new Omnia article about the Africana Studies Summer Institute for Pre-Freshmen

Emilio Parrado is featured in a Knowledge by the Slice video of his talk on immigration in the U.S.

Daniel Polsky is quoted in New York Times article "Savings? Yes. But Narrow Health Networks Also Show Troubling Signs."

Hans-Peter Kohler and Philip Anglewicz are mentioned in UNAIDS about their journal article Migration and HIV Infection in Malawi.

John Trojanowski is mentioned in Penn News article about scholarship on concussions.

Richard Berk is quoted in New York Times article about crime and data.

Angela Duckworth questions the success of students in High School versus College in Washington Post article.

Hyunjooon Park and Grace Kao's new project is mentioned on page 3 of the newest issue of the Almanac.

Olivia Mitchell is quoted in Bloomberg article about women putting off retirement.

Mark Pauly is quoted in USA Today article "Growth in workers' premiums slow as deductibles pick up the slack".

Mark Pauly discusses recent EpiPen price controversy on new episode of Knowledge @ Wharton podcast.

Alison Buttenheim is cited in new research project that uses Twitter as a data source.

John MacDonald examines the relationship between natural habitat and crime in new Omnia article. 

Kevin Volpp is quoted in Penn LDI article about new collaborative research.

Hyunjoon Park and Grace Kao are awarded $1.34 Million from Academy of Korean Studies for a new project.

Kristen Harknett is quoted in Seattle Times article about Costco and scheduling laws.

Dirk Krueger's new working paper is discussed in Penn News article.

Daniel Cohen, along with David Wachsmuth of McGill University and Hillary Angelo of the University of California, Santa Cruz have publish a new study in Nature  about how current conversations about urban sustainability are too narrowly focused, ignoring regional and global impacts and leaving out key grassroots groups with social justice agendas. More »

Hanming Fang is awarded by the China Research & Engagement fund in the newest issue of the Penn Almanac.

Angela Duckworth is cited in a Huffington Post article about one person's Grit Quotient.

John Q. Trojanowski is mentioned in recent Penn Medicine article about new NIH funding.

Dennis Culhane is quoted in an LA Times article about homelessness and shifts toward permanent housing.

Dennis Culhane is quoted in Science Magazine article about homelessness and cash programs.

Dennis Culhane is quoted in San Francisco Chronicle article "Solutions to homelessness in San Francisco within reach".

Dorothy Roberts is quoted in PBS New Hour segment report about racial 'care gap' in medical treatment.

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.

Hans-Peter Kohler's work on social networks in Malawi is mentioned in a recent Penn Current article about his newly funded Gates Foundation work in India with Cristina Bicchieri.

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.

Richard Berk is quoted in Washington Post article about city crime rates.

Mikko Myrskylä, director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, visited the PSC today. He is photographed here with Irma Elo.

Tukufu Zuberi's summer reading list is featured in Omnia.

Richard Berk is profiled in new Bloomberg Technology article.

Richard Berk is quoted in Philly.com article about the fact checking and presidential nominees.

Daniel Polsky and research team are mentioned in new Knowledge@Wharton article.

Jerry A. Jacobs examines reliance on journal impact scores for tenure decisions in new Inside Higher Ed article.

Jere R. Behrman and David Bravo were interviewed in Chilean newspaper Pulso about project Chile Inclusivo at the Centro de Encuestas y Estudios Longitudinales. 

David S. Mandell's research about insurance coverage of Autism Spectrum Disorder is mentioned in Penn Med News article.

John Trojanowski to be a part of renewed funding grant for Dementia research.

David Mandell is cited in Philly.com article "Study: There's more help for autism, but not enough".

Jere Behrman is discussed in Penn News article about cash transfers.

Richard Berk is quoted in Philly.com article about the use of algorithms in predicting criminal behavior.

Solveig A. Cunningham is cited in the New York Times about childhood obesity

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is quoted in a Penn News article about Economics and Dynamic Game Theory

Linda H. Aiken nominated Mary D. Naylor, recently named Distinguished Investigator.

Kevin Volpp is cited in NPR article about the use of science in healthy meal choices.

Welcome, Dorothy Roberts, the newest PSC Research Associate. More »

Linda H. Aiken presented Mary D. Naylor, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, With AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award. Naylor was nominated by Linda H. Aiken, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, and the first nurse to be awarded this honor. “Dr. More »

Monica He, current GGD student, was interviewed by the Penn News about her recent article in Social Science & Medicine on commercial truck fatalities.

Richard Berk contributed a paper on Observational Studies to the NIH's Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) e-Source digital anthology.

The Census Bureau Approves a New Federal Statistical Research Data Center in Philadelphia.

Dirk Krueger is quoted in Washington Post article about inequality and the recession.

Angela Duckworth wrote an article in the New York Times about grit after graduation.

Matthew McHugh, Linda Aiken, Paul Rosenbaum, and Herbert Smith collaborated with other researchers from the Center for Outcomes Research at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at Penn’s School of Nursing, Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the More »

Dorothy Roberts is quoted in Quartz article "African-American genes show how slavery and the Great Migration shaped the US".

Olivia Mitchell is cited in MarketWatch.com article about the importance of financial literacy.

Angela Duckworth and her book were featured in CNBC article.

Alison Buttenheim is cited in LDI article about applying behavioral economics to the issue of vaccine acceptance.

Angela Duckworth and grit are written about in a Smithsonian.com article.

Richard Berk is quoted in Washington Post article about local homocides rates.

Angela Duckworth and her book, Grit, are featured in PBS article.

David Mandell is quoted in NPR article about insurance mandates for Autism treatments.

Angela Duckworth is cited in New York Times article written by David Brooks.

Sam Preston is quoted in a New York Times article on life expectancy of Black Americans.

Angela Duckworth is quoted in Business Insider article about taking control of success.

Andres Castro is this year's Nancy Fariss Paper Award recipient for best paper in Latin American and Latino Studies written by a current graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.

GGD alumni, Eileen Crimmins (Ph.D. Demography, 1974) and Wolfgang Lutz (Ph.D., Demography, 1983) have just been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences.

Angela Duckworth and Grit are talked about in CBS This Morning article.

Alison Buttenheim is a winner of Penn's Summer Undergraduate Research Group Grant.

Angela Duckworth is quoted in New York Times article about the complexities of grit.

Former graduates Katherine Hempstead ('92) and Julie Phillips ('98) research on adult suicide is discussed in this New York Times article: "U.S. More »

Samuel H. Preston is quoted in the New York Times article: "White Americans Are Dying Younger as Drug and Alcohol Abuse Rises."

Michel Guillot was quoted in this CBS News article: "Life Expectancy for White Women Falls Slightly in U.S."

John M. MacDonald's paper in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research with co-authors S. Han and C. C. Branas was made available online today: "The Effect of a Sunday Liquor-Sales Ban Repeal on Crime: A Triple-Difference Analysis."

Jere R. More »