Special Issue of Work, Aging, and Retirement devoted to Health and Retirement Study
January 16, 2018
In December, Gwenith G. Fisher (Colorado State University) and Lindsay H. Ryan (SRC) published 'Overview of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Introduction to the Special Issue' in the Oxford journal Work, Aging and Retirement. This introduction article describes the HRS and highlights...
James Morgan, ISR Founding Member and Creator of Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Passed Away at 99
January 10, 2018
James N. Morgan, an economist who created the longest-running intergenerational household survey in the world, died on January 8, 2018 at University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 99 and lived in Ann Arbor.
Morgan was a great believer in new ideas and worked with other economists,...
Michigan Daily Finds the Monitoring the Future Results Resonate with UM Students
January 9, 2018
An article in the Michigan Daily, Monitoring the Future results show vapes replacing cigarettes, finds parallels in current students’ lives. Richard Miech says in the report, 'Historically marijuana use has gone up as adolescents see less risk of harm in using it. We've found that the risk...
Langa comments on links between Alzheimer’s disease and education attainment
January 3, 2018
Ken Langa comments in a question about the link between Alzheimer’s disease and education for HealthSmart in the Crookston Times: “…our study shows that people with more schooling have a better chance of fending off the disease. That's because they typically have more 'cognitive...
U.S. Adolescent Drug Trends
December 15, 2017
Monitoring the Future’s 2017 press release (PDF) was posted on December 14. This long running study of American adolescents and young adults reports on the first-ever U.S. standard estimates for vaping of nicotine, marijuana, and flavoring, as well as marijuana use, the decline in use of...
Xu finds long term cognitive consequences of early life exposure to famine
December 15, 2017
Hongwei Xu and colleagues drew on data from China’s nationally representative longitudinal survey of middle-aged and older adults in 2011 and a 2013 follow-up survey and found China’s 1959-61 famine has had long terms consequences on those who were conceived and born in those years:...
Miech comments in a CNN piece about links between smoking and marijuana use
December 6, 2017
A new study in the American Journal of Health finds that smokers are 7 times more likely to use marijuana daily than non-smokers. In a piece — Smokers are 7 times more likely to use marijuana daily, study says — on CNN, Richard Miech says that trends of marijuana use are particularly...
Women with little to no college experience at greater risk of sexual assault
November 27, 2017
Bill Axinn, Maura Bardos, and Brady West reported in their article, General population estimates of the association between college experience and the odds of forced intercourse, that forced intercourse in the United States is common and, while the rate has remained stable over the years, it varies...
Abramowitz on the Young Adult Provision in the Affordable Care Act
November 16, 2017
Joelle Abramowitz wrote a piece — How Obamacare changed the love lives of young adults — for The Conversation US, which has since been picked up by several news sources including Huffington Post, Salon, Montana Standard Online, and the New Haven Register.Abramowitz finds that the...
Gift to Barger Leadership Institute will establish the Richard H. Price Founders Fund at LSA
November 16, 2017
A new $10 million commitment from retired Jet Airways CEO & UM alumnus Dave Barger will expand and sustain the Barger Leadership Institute (BLI). Part of the gift will establish the Richard H. Price Founders Fund at LSA and will honor Richard Price, the founder of BLI and a research professor...