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...
Rate of dementia on the declineâbut beware of growing numbers
April 16, 2018
Contact Morgan Sherburne, Michigan News
ANN ARBOR&The good news? The rate of older Americans with dementia is on the decline.
The bad news? The number of Americans 85 and older will roughly double in the next 20 years, so even with a decline in the rate of dementia among older...
Miech & Monitoring the Future cited in New York Times on the growth of vaping among high school students
April 5, 2018
While some studies find that vaping is not likely to lead to smoking tobacco, the 2016 Monitoring the Future study found that 12th graders who vaped but had never smoked cigarettes were 4 times more likely to have taken up smoking a year later. Richard Miech pointed out that of...
Margaret Hicken’s work on the link between constant vigilance & obesity was featured in the Michigan Daily
April 5, 2018
The Michigan Daily profiled Margaret Hicken‘s study on the effects of constant vigilance on black women’s health. Hicken defines vigilance as the constant stress of worry, “That burden of not being seen as an individual but being just seen as a member of your race & I argue...
The Growing Gap in College Graduation
March 27, 2018
Fabian Pfeffer‘s forthcoming article in Demography – Growing Wealth Gaps in Education (PDF) – was featured in David Leonhart’s column, The Growing College Graduation Gap. Pfeffer found that while college attendance has been growing, graduation rates among the lowest wealth...
Frank Stafford Discusses 401(k) Plans on Stateside
February 23, 2018
Frank Stafford was on Michigan Radio’s Stateside to discuss 401(k) plans, how we use them, and the future of Social Security: “401(k) plans never meant to be a complete retirement plan. Where does that leave future retirees?“
Listening to the same songs on a loop
February 19, 2018
In a study published in Psychology of Music, Fred Conrad, et al. explored why and how participants in a survey listen to the same songs over and over. Approximately 86% of the participants listened to their favorite song daily or a few times a week and 60% listened to it...
