First-time Marijuana Use in College at Highest Level in 30 Years
April 21, 2017
Results from a new Monitoring the Future study show a sharp increase in first-time use of marijuana during college: the probability of past-year marijuana use for college students averages 17% to 22% from 1977 to 2012 and increased to 51% in 2015. The lead author, Richard Miech, said,...
Colter Mitchell awarded a 2017-2019 Jacobs Foundation Fellowship
April 18, 2017
The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers aiming at improving the development and living conditions of children and youth or contributing to one of the Jacobs Foundation's thematic priorities. This includes,...
UM Office of Research to Recognize Nicholas Prieur with the Research Administrator Recognition Award
April 4, 2017
Nick Prieur is a research process manager for Youth & Social Issues and serves as YSI’s overall research administrator. Between 2011 and 2016, Prieur served as the administrator of record for 116 awards, worth more than $54 million in funding.
Innovations in Federal Statistics
March 22, 2017
A new book from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Innovations in Federal Statistics: Combining Data Sources While Protecting Privacy, “examines the opportunities and risks of using government administrative and private sector data sources to foster a paradigm...
Overall level of consumer sentiment remained favorable in early March
March 20, 2017
The Current Economic Conditions component of the Surveys of Consumers, which reached it’s highest level since 2000, is not affected by partisanship, but the component about future economic prospects continues to reveal a deep partisan divide. In a conference call, Richard Curtin said,...
Helen Levy on Marketplace
March 2, 2017
PRI’s Marketplace cited Helen Levy’s study which found that Michigan’s Medicaid Expansion helped not only the 600,000 people who got health insurance, but the state’s overall economy: People 'now have Medicaid, so the clinic is getting paid more,' Levy said. 'But also the...
Consumer sentiment dipped in February
February 28, 2017
Consumer sentiment, based on the Surveys of Consumers, dipped to 96.3, down from January’s index of 98.5. It was still higher than a year ago, and higher than predicted. Richard Curtin says the Sentiment Index has been higher in the last 3 months than anytime since March 2004. However, the...
Birditt comments on new study linking stress hormone and health advantages of marriage
February 23, 2017
A new study by Brian Chin, et al. finds that marital status is a predictor of cortisol levels. In an article at Reuters, Kira Birditt commented, “This study is exciting because we know being married is associated with better health but we don’t know why this association occurs. Cortisol...
“Generational Forgetting” and Out of Fashion Drugs
February 16, 2017
Lloyd Johnston‘s term, “generational forgetting”, which describes how each generation forgets the dangers of out of fashion drugs, was cited in Vice. Richard Miech of Monitoring the Future said, “While one generation may have learned the hard way about the dangers of a...
High intensity drinking rates highest among college students
February 15, 2017
In the annual Monitoring the Future survey, about 24% of 19 and 20 year olds report drinking 5 or more alcoholic drinks on a single occasion in the last 2 weeks. High intensity drinking is defined as 10 or more drinks on a single occasion: about 10% of respondents said...
