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...
Joelle Abramowitz comments on how an abortion ban could impact Michiganders
May 6, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court appears to be poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, which will restrict or eliminate access to abortion in 26 states, including Michigan. The restriction of access is likely to have steep economic costs. Joelle Abramowitz says, “For people who have unwanted pregnancies, they...
U-M Surveys of Consumers marks leadership change
April 29, 2022
Contact: Jon Meerdink, [email protected] Morgan Sherburne, [email protected] ARBOR—Joanne Hsu, a principal economist at the Federal Reserve Board, will succeed Richard Curtin as director of the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers, which provides closely watched indexes of...
Youth Policy Lab developed the High 5s program to help close the math achievement gap
April 18, 2022
Robin Jacob, research associate professor and founder of the Youth Policy Lab at the University of Michigan, and colleagues developed a math enrichment program called High 5s to help close the achievement gap. The hands-on, small-group program is being implemented for kindergartners and first...
Richard Curtin wrote about inflationary psychology in Barron’s
April 15, 2022
Richard Curtin wrote a commentary for Barron’s describing the upward spiral of prices and wages, a situation called “inflationary psychology.”Prices and wages will continue to spiral upward until the cumulative erosion in inflation-adjusted incomes causes the economy to collapse...
SRC Researchers at the 2022 Population Association of America Annual Meeting
April 4, 2022
Here is a schedule of SRC researchers at the 2022 Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Atlanta.ISR is hosting a casual reception April 7 at PAA in Atlanta! Join us 6:45-8pm at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room L507. Please RSVP.Thursday, April 78:00-9:15, Emily Treleaven,...
Inflation worries drive US consumer confidence to 11-year low
March 29, 2022
While consumer concerns about inflation and the war in Ukraine grow, confidence in economic policies is falling. Richard Curtin says,Just when difficult decisions need to be made about monetary and fiscal policies, consumers have expressed loss in confidence in government economic policies....
