Poor vision plus unsafe homes drive higher fall risk in seniors
December 17, 2025
ANN ARBOR—Older adults with severe vision loss are three to four times more likely to fall when they live in homes with hazards such as missing grab bars, tripping risks or broken flooring.A new University of Michigan study, supported by the National Eye Institute, finds that...
ISR Insights talk highlights the widespread and ongoing effects of herpes
December 11, 2025
ANN ARBOR — Chances are good you have herpes.Up to 90% of adults likely have some kind of herpes virus in their system, making this one of our most prevalent viral companions when all eight human herpes viruses are taken into consideration.But these viruses are more than just health...
Survey finds strong sustainability commitment across U-M
December 11, 2025
The University of Michigan community is showing strong personal commitment to sustainability, according to 2024 Sustainability Cultural Indicators Program, or SCIP, data.Across the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses, students, faculty and staff report widespread engagement with sustainable...
Births down, wages up: U-M study links historic birth rate drop to closing gender pay gap
December 10, 2025
ANN ARBOR—As the U.S. birth rate reaches historic lows in 2025, these declines fuel economic change as the year comes to an end.
A University of Michigan study showed that low U.S. fertility has led to gains in pay equity. Eight percent of the narrowing gender pay gap came from...
Chitwan Valley Family Study 30th Anniversary
December 2, 2025
The Chitwan Valley Family Study (or CVFS) was launched in 1995 and celebrated its 30th anniversary this year with a series of events in Nepal. The CVFS was originally designed by William Axinn, building on deep roots in both Survey Research Center (SRC) and Population Studies Center (PSC). Axinn...
The widening gap between political affiliation and consumer sentiment
November 24, 2025
Political partisanship has become so persistent in sentiment surveys that some economists say it’s getting harder to accurately measure moods of consumers. Surveys of Consumers director, Joanne Hsu, tells Marketplace that looking at how independents feel is a better gauge of sentiment,...
Coffee and Donuts with the SRC Director
November 24, 2025
November’s Coffee and Donuts with the SRC Director was hosted by the d3center. Inbal (Billie) Nahum-Shani and Shiyu Zhang chatted with SRC director Pamela Davis-Kean about adaptive interventions and the integration of human and mobile delivered approaches https://myumi.ch/qZxd4
With end of shutdown and worries over high prices, consumer sentiment shows minor variation
November 21, 2025
ANN ARBOR—Consumer sentiment was little changed in November with a 2.6 index point decrease from last month that is within the margin of error, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.Over the course of the month, sentiment initially fell as the federal shutdown dragged...
Trump’s cheap stuff blunder
November 20, 2025
Joanne Hsu, director of the Surveys of Consumers, tells Business Insider that Americans are well aware that inflation has fallen, but prices haven’t come down and consumers know that, too. She says, “People are broadly feeling pretty negative about the economy.”
Real world impact of ISR research: Noura Insolera
November 17, 2025
In this video, Noura Insolera, assistant research scientist at ISR and the assistant director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), discusses how families move into and out of food insecurity over time, and longitudinal data from the PSID allows researchers to see how these shifts occur....
