Report outlines direct economic impact of sponsored research
July 19, 2023
Grants awarded to University of Michigan faculty members were used, in part, to purchase $400 million worth of research-related goods and services last year from companies nationwide, accelerating innovative projects and supporting employment across large and small businesses.That is according to...
With paid leave, older adults care for parents instead of grandchildren
July 6, 2023
ANN ARBOR—In 2004, California passed a law requiring employers above a certain size to provide paid family leave to their employees.Much of the research looking at this policy has examined its impact on the work, income and leave-taking of new parents and women of childbearing age—but...
U-M Professor Amanda Kowalski Receives Econometrics Award
June 13, 2023
ANN ARBOR—Health economist Amanda Kowalski, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and a faculty associate of the Population Studies Center and the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research, received the Willard G. Manning Memorial Award for...
Next-Generation Vaccine Cards: New Technology for Improved Equity in East Africa
May 1, 2023
The University of Michigan Center for Global Health Equity has awarded $1.1 million to the Next Generation Vaccine Project co-led by Kenyan health researcher Gershim Asiki and Emily Treleaven of the Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. The...
Relocation later in life and contact frequency with friends: Do contact modes matter?
October 10, 2022
Contact: Jared Wadley, 734-834-7719, [email protected] ARBOR—When older adults move to a new location far from their residence, their friends should not expect too many telephone calls or visits, according to a new University of Michigan study.U-M researchers examined changes in the...
Are Adult Children Close with their Stepparents?
September 26, 2022
Vicki Freedman discussed the strength of parent-adult child ties in biological and stepfamilies in Futurity. In their article for Demography, Freedman and coauthors found that the ties between biological families and stepfamilies were similar when parents share a child.Why ties are similar in...
Josh Ehrlich discussed the connection between vision impairment and cognitive health
September 22, 2022
In an article for the AARP, researchers discussed the connection between vision impairment and cognitive health.Researchers aren’t sure exactly how or why vision and cognitive health are related, but they believe it’s likely the same mechanism that links hearing loss to dementia.One...
The ties that bind: Joint children may strengthen stepfamily ties to older parents
September 19, 2022
Contact: Morgan Sherburne, 734-647-1844, [email protected] ARBOR—Researchers have been concerned that as the makeup of America’s families grows more complex, adult children in stepfamilies may not be as willing as those in biological families to care for aging parents.But a research...
Raphael Nishimura discussed the elections in Brazil with BBC News Brazil
September 16, 2022
Electoral polls from several respected institutions agree that former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) leads the polls, while the current president, Jair Bolsonaro (PL), is in second place. However the size of the lead varies widely. Raphael Nishimura discussed the reasons for this...
U.S. consumers feel worse now than they did during Covid lockdowns
September 7, 2022
While unemployment is at an historic low, consumer sentiment has rarely been so pessimistic. Inflation is at a four decade high and is driving much of the pessimism. Joanne Hsu, director of the Surveys of Consumers, said of the latest survey reading that consumers “signaled strong concerns...
