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....
New paper tracks changes to food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic
November 13, 2025
New paper tracks changes to food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemicANN ARBOR — The COVID-19 pandemic threw the world into chaos in wide-ranging and unexpected ways. The virus affected elements of societal infrastructure, both large and small, and disrupted key services and systems as...
All in the family: U-M expert reflects on 5 decades focused on Nepal, from youth to leading 30-year study
November 7, 2025
ANN ARBOR—When Bill Axinn‘s parents took him to Nepal in 1976 for their own work in agricultural and social development, he was “pretty upset to be missing seventh grade.” Axinn’s parents brought him to the then-isolated Chitwan Valley, and he went from being sad...
Remembering Jerry Bachman
November 6, 2025
Jerald (Jerry) Bachman passed away on October 31, 2025. He had just celebrated his 89th birthday.Jerry was one of the founding members and principal investigator of the Youth in Transition study (YIT), which preceded Monitoring the Future. Youth in Transition surveyed male students entering the...
SRC Researchers at the Gerontological Society of America 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting
October 31, 2025
Schedule of SRC researchers at the 2025 Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, November 12-15 in Boston, MA.Visit Survey Research Center and Institute for Social Research booths: Monitoring the Future (MTF) (Booth 222), Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) (Booth 300), National Archive...
Bride pauses first dance to let Mom and her dad finally have the dance they never got to have at her wedding
October 29, 2025
Work by Bill Axinn, Sarah Brauner-Otto, and Dirgha Ghimire was cited in a sweet Upworthy article about a first dance. Their work showed that stronger emotional connections between parents can positively influence their children, helping them view marriages positively https://myumi.ch/g3PDQIn the...
Friendships could ease loneliness for dementia caregivers
October 29, 2025
ANN ARBOR — Caring for a family member with a significant illness is a difficult burden to bear, and certain ailments can exact an especially heavy toll. Dementia, in its many forms, can be one such illness, and dementia caregivers can be especially vulnerable to loneliness. This can be a...
