Davis-Kean Accepts Appointment as Senior Fellow in Michigan Society of Fellows
May 30, 2018
Pamela Davis-Kean accepted an appointment to serve as a Senior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows beginning in the fall of 2018. The Society of Fellows provides a unique interdisciplinary community which allows for junior and senior fellows to share and discuss each other’s research,...
Dan Keating Awarded 2019 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award
May 29, 2018
Dan Keating was awarded the 2019 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology for Born Anxious: The Lifelong Impact of Early Life Adversity — and How to Break the Cycle.
From the publisher website: “Why are we the way we are? Why do some of us find it impossible to calm a...
Langa’s research featured in Washington Post
May 24, 2018
Ken Langa’s research on the downward trend of dementia prevalence was featured in the Washington Post article, Now More Of Us Can Count On More Time Dodging The Dementia Bullet. Langa also comments on research, which uses data from the Health and Retirement Study, finding that cognitive...
Johnson finds a redistribution of wealth from to 20% to bottom 80% could increase consumption rate
May 24, 2018
David Johnson and collaborators used the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to study the ways consumption, income inequality, and wealth inequality work together. 'In economics, there's this theory that people tend to smooth their consumption,' said U-M researcher and study author David Johnson. 'Even...
Charles Brown comments on minimum wage debate
May 22, 2018
On Monday, the Michigan One Fair Wage group submitted over 370,000 signatures in support of increasing Michigan’s minimum wage from $9.25 to $12.00 by 2022. The effect minimum wage increases has on employment is a long standing one. Charles Brown says, “Most studies point to negative,...
SRC Researchers at American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference
May 16, 2018
SRC faculty, staff and student papers and posters at the 2018 AAPOR Annual Conference:Wednesday, May 168-11:30 am, Richard Valliant, Short Course, Non-probability Sampling and Analysis for Population Inference, Governor’s Square 11Thursday, May 178:00-9:30 am, Brady West, Michael Elliott,...
Survey Methodology Program Students Win Awards at AAPOR Conference
May 15, 2018
Mengyao Hu won the Seymour Sudman Student Paper Competition Award for her paper “Improving the Anchoring Vignette Methodology with Visual Vignettes' The Seymour Sudman Student Paper Competition Award is in memory of Seymour Sudman; it recognizes his many important contributions to AAPOR as...
Medicaid Expansion Reduced Out-of-Pocket Expenses for Americans Near or Below Poverty Level
May 15, 2018
Joelle Abramowitz’ new study, The Effect of ACA State Medicaid Expansions on Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenditures, found that in states which expanded Medicaid, people near or below the poverty level had fewer out-of-pocket medical expenses. Expansion also led some workers to drop their...
SRC Researchers Presenting at the 2018 Population Association of America Annual Meeting
April 25, 2018
Here is a list of SRC faculty presenting at the 2018 Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Denver.Thursday, April 2611:10-11:30 am, Vicki Freedman, Presenter, Family Caregiving: A Sequencing Analysis of Time Use Over the Day, Director’s Row4:30-6:00 pm, Amanda Sonnega,...
Wealth inequality among the 99%
April 23, 2018
Fabian Pfeffer was quoted in a U.S. News & World Report story about the racial wealth gap and some ways it can be countered. In regards to how hard middle-income black and Latino families were hit by the Great Recession, Pfeffer says, “The numbers are so tremendous that people immediately...
