Penn State Population Research Institute

10/30/2024

This newly published study by Bhat et al. examines how hardships during the Great Recession are associated with subjective and objective indicators of sleep among aging adults in the U.S.

https://doi.org/10.3389/frsle.2024.1403818

09/09/2024

New work from Cleothia Frazier and colleagues from the Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin asks if psychosocial factors associated with the "strong Black woman" concept are linked to depression in older Black women.

Read more: https://doi.org/10.1177/17455057241274923

09/04/2024

In our first Brown Bag Lecture Series of the fall semester, we are joined by Jason De León on September 17.

Register: https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nHU64HHJQ022fHxQ-wWzTQ

Note the location change!

07/18/2024

New work in Preventative Medicine from Jilli Jung and Andrew Fenelon shows how later school start times initially had a positive effect on adolescents' sleep duration and substance use in South Korea, though effects disappeared one year later.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2024.108028

06/07/2024

A new research brief from the Population Reference Bureau highlights recent work from Léa Pessin, Sarah Damaske, and Adrianne Frech in the journal Demography.

College Shapes Black, White, and Latina Women’s Work and Family Lives Differently
https://popresearchcenters.org/research-highlights/college-shapes-black-white-and-latina-womens-work-and-family-lives-differently/

To access the peer-reviewed article, see:

How Education Shapes Women's Work and Family Lives Across Race and Ethnicity
https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10878053

Léa Pessin, Sarah Damaske, Adrianne Frech; How Education Shapes Women's Work and Family Lives Across Race and Ethnicity. Demography 1 August 2023; 60 (4): 1207–1233. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10878053

04/01/2024

A new study from Kira England, Liying Luo, Ashton Verdery, and Shannon Monat suggests there are strong cohort differences in the use of drugs with elevated overdose risk in the US.

https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spae013

03/18/2024

Did early life exposure to World War II impact later life physical and functional health? Using SHARE data, Steven Haas and Daniel Ramirez find a lasting influence on physical functional health among older European cohorts.

https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae029

01/16/2024

A new meta-regression analysis of the relationship between environmental stressors and migration from Shuai Zhou and Guangqing Chi is out in Demographic Research.

Read more:

Volume 50 - Article 2 | Pages 41–100

12/06/2023

An international team of researchers that includes Nicolás Sacco recently published "Diverging reproductive outcomes by maternal education during the Covid-19 pandemic across Brazilian and Colombian regions" in Population, Space and Place.

Open access link: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2735

09/15/2023

Adrianne Frech, Jane Lankes, Sarah Damaske, & Adrienne Ohler identify six multitrajectories of U.S. Baby Boomer men's employment in a new Socius article.

(Long story short, most men do not achieve the "ideal worker norm.")

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23780231231197031

09/11/2023

For the first PRI Brown Bag of the fall, Dr. Theresa Gildner from WUSTL Anthropology will be joining us to discuss her research.