Why Consumer Confidence Is Key to Fighting Inflation
July 28, 2022
Joanne Hsu and the Surveys of Consumers were featured in an explainer video from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).Consumer confidence, sentiment, expectations… Whatever you call it, the measurement of how consumers are feeling about the economy is being closely watched by the Federal Reserve....
Josh Ehrlich’s research on the connection between vision impairment and dementia was cited in the New York Times
July 5, 2022
The New York Times reported on the connection between dementia and eyesight. Josh Ehrlich’s research using the Health and Retirement Study which estimated that approximately 100,000 (or about 1.8%) of current dementia cases could have been prevented through healthy vision. Dr....
Richard Curtin’s work on inflationary psychology was cited in Inc.
June 28, 2022
An Inc. article, How Great Leaders Use Emotional Intelligence to Beat the Psychology of Inflation cited Richard Curtin’s commentary for Barron’s describing the upward spiral of prices and wages.
Ken Langa discusses the falling rate of dementia in Scientific American
June 28, 2022
Scientific American highlighted new research on the connections between mental illness and dementia. Progress on some risk factors may explain decreasing rates of dementia. Ken Langa said, “We think there are two main reasons: better cardiovascular risk factor control and a big increase in...
Joelle Abramowitz discussed the impact of the Roe v. Wade decision on health insurance coverage
June 28, 2022
Even before the reversal of Roe v. Wade, health insurance coverage of the procedure was limited. In an article on CNBC, Joelle Abramowitz points out that employers with self-funded health insurance may be able to maintain abortion coverage. She has some suggestions regarding “out of...
Monitoring the Future and Richard Miech cited in Senate Majority Whip’s investigation of youth vaping
June 27, 2022
From Senator Dick Durbin’s press release: Following an investigation by U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) of multiple health surveys and retail sales data, Durbin announced findings that more than 750,000 children have started to use e-cigarettes over the last nine months, in the...
Joelle Abramowitz discusses the impact of the reversal of Roe v. Wade
June 27, 2022
The reversal of Roe v. Wade means the United States has a patchwork of legal access to abortion. Abortion remains legal in Michigan, but that could change if a 1931 law banning the procedure goes into effect. The impact of this law will land hardest on women earning below the...
Josh Ehrlich is co-principal investigator of an NIH grant in Kenya which will enhance understanding of aging in Africa
June 10, 2022
With enabling support from Center for Global Health Equity, an international team of researchers has received a $338K grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to address major gaps in population-level data on aging in Kenya, one of Africa’s most populous nations.The NIH grant...
Journals of Gerontology special issue co-edited by Vicki Freedman and Judith Kasper features the National Health and Aging Trends Study
June 10, 2022
A new supplemental issue to The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences features papers examining outcomes from 10 years of the seminal National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS).NHATS, funded by the National Institute on Aging, is designed to...
Survey Research Center to partner with Coinbase Institute on cryptocurrency survey
June 9, 2022
Contact: Jon Meerdink, [email protected] ARBOR – The Survey Research Operations unit (SRO) at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center (SRC) is partnering with the newly launched Coinbase Institute for a comprehensive survey on cryptocurrency.Working in conjunction with...
