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.
Pfeffer on why Americans are angry
May 11, 2016
Fabian Pfeffer was quoted in an article on Nerdwallet: “'Net worth dropped long before the recession, if you exclude housing wealth”.Read the paper by Pfeffer, Sheldon Danziger and Robert Schoeni on which this article is based here: Wealth Levels, Wealth Inequality, and the Great...
Shaefer’s work on extreme poverty cited in Washington Post
May 11, 2016
Luke Shaefer’s work with Kathryn Edin was cited in a Washington Post article about Bernie Sander’s position on the 1996 welfare reform law. They found that the law were a boon for the working poor but the numbers of households living in extreme poverty has roughly doubled.Read the...
Nahum-Shani’s research featured in NIH blog
May 9, 2016
Inbal Nahum-Shani’s research on just-in-time mobile interventions and behavior changes was featured in an article in the NIH OBSSR Connector blog.
Read the full post here and the Health Psychology article abstract.
Susan Murphy inducted into the National Academy of Sciences
May 6, 2016
Susan Murphy has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. This is one of the highest honors a researcher can receive, and is very much deserved by Susan. Congratulations to Susan for yet another important recognition of her outstanding contributions! Read more information at the University...
Index of Consumer Sentiment Examined in Washington Post
May 3, 2016
John Sides of the Washington Post looked at trends in the Index of Consumer Sentiment since 1960 to measure the connection between attitudes about the economy and current voter anger.
Margaret Levenstein appointed next director of ICPSR
April 28, 2016
Margaret Levenstein has been appointed director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, another center at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. ICPSR is the largest archive of digital social science data in the world, with more than 500,000...