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...
David Johnson was quoted in a column about middle-class Americans’ lack of savings.
April 27, 2016
David Johnson was quoted in a column in The Atlantic: “People studied savings and debt. But this concept that people aren't making ends meet or the idea that if there was a shock, they wouldn't have the money to pay, that's definitely a new area of research.”
SRC formalizes long-standing relationship with Statistics Netherlands
April 27, 2016
The Survey Research Center signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the Dutch agency that gathers statistical information about the Netherlands. The nearly 15-year collaboration between the SRC and CBS with regard to Blaise development was formalized with a five-year...
Brady West On Complex Sampling in Wall Street Journal
April 25, 2016
Brady West was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on designing samples that are both cost-efficient and representative.
Richard Curtin decreases his spending forcast
April 18, 2016
In an article highlighting economic data from Friday, April 15, 2016, Bloomberg reports that, according to Richard Curtin and the Survey of Consumer Attitudes, both consumer sentiment and consumer spending are falling.