Brady West & collaborators find youth who take medication for ADHD for an extended period of time early in life are no more at risk for substance abuse than teens without ADHD
June 9, 2016
Sean Esteban McCabe, Kara Dickinson, Brady West, & Timoth E. Wilens also find that teens who start using Ritalin, Adderall, or other ADHD medications for a short time later in adolescence are at high risk of substance abuse. This study used data from the Monitoring the Future survey.Full story...
According to Brilliant Q3 Hiring Forecast & Richard Curtin, Hiring for Accounting, Finance & Information Technology Stays Strong
June 2, 2016
Unfilled positions in accounting and finance remain widespread, but plans for hiring have shifted more to information professionals. Richard Curtin says, “businesses have kept up with growing needs for more accounting and finance professionals, while the demand for additional IT staff has...
Luke Shaefer Quoted in Slate Article
June 2, 2016
Luke Shaefer was quoted in the Slate article, “‘Oh My God – We’re on Welfare?!’ The strange story of what ‘welfare’ has become since the 1996 reforms”: “…you can choose to use this money for cash assistance&a program that's not...
Shannon Mejia finds longtime couples sync up in health and sickness
May 23, 2016
Shannon Mejia’s work on how longtime couples tend to become physically linked was presented at the Gerentological Society of America and picked up by the NPR health section this weekend: “”Aging is something that couples do together. You’re in an environment together, and...
Fomby finds mothers with children by different partners more likely to be depressed and stressed
May 16, 2016
Paula Fomby’s article in Journal of Family Issues was reported on in Deseret News. She finds that mothers with children by multiple partners are more likely to be depressed and stressed, and have less social support, than mothers of children by a single partner.Read the Deseret News article...
Sandra Tang on mother/child relationships
May 16, 2016
Sandra Tang wrote a piece for Motto which examines recent research on how a child’s relationship with his or her mother can predict success. The piece was reprinted in Fortune.
Early Data from the Index of Consumer Sentiment Shows Shift Towards Spendings
May 16, 2016
The May Index of Consumer Sentiment was released and is at its highest level since June of 2015. Richard Curtin said in a statement, “”To be sure, the data still indicated the negative impact of uncertainty about future economic policies associated with the Presidential election, but...
75% of opioid misuse begins with medications not prescribed to the users, according to Richard Miech
May 13, 2016
Richard Miech’s work with data from Monitoring the Future was used in a story in the NH Voice which finds that 75% of all opioid misuse begins with people taking medications which were not prescribed to them.
Read that story here. See also a column in Scientific American, Opioid Addiction...
Shapiro was quoted in a Washington Post column about the drag savings put on the U.S. economy
May 12, 2016
Matthew Shapiro says, “'People got a cruel lesson about [the dangers] of debt,' but that accumulating savings could help to even out spending in the future.
Army STARRS find genetic variants may put soldiers at a higher risk of PTSD
May 12, 2016
A team of researchers for Army STARRS-TS, including Steve Heeringa and Colter Mitchell, have found two genetic variants which could be associated with an increase risk of PTSD.
Read the full story at EurekAlert and the related journal article.