STARRS in San Antonio Express-News
April 13, 2016
The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (STARRS) was written about in an article in the San Antonio Express-News. Suicide in the military remain stubbornly high, despite this and multiple other programs.
Consumer Sentiment Remains Stable According to the Index of Consumer Sentiment
April 4, 2016
The Index of Consumer Sentiment hit 91 in March. According to Richard Curtin, “This stability reflected more positive personal finances being offset by less favorable prospects for the economy.”
Read coverage at CNBC, U.S. News & World Report, and Wall Street Journal.
Fomby finds that children who live with step- or half- siblings are more likely to be aggressive
April 4, 2016
Paula Fomby was interviewed by Vice about her recent article in Demography which found that children who live with step- or half- siblings are more likely to be aggressive than those who don’t.
Paper by McFall, Sonnega, Willis, and Hudomiet shows some jobs lead to early retirement while others lead to work longevity
March 23, 2016
A new paper by Brooke Helppie McFall, Amanda Sonnega, Robert Willis, and Peter Hudomiet was used in an article for an article in Money Magazine, Best Jobs for Avoiding Forced Retirement.
Vicki Freedman Finds Women’s Longer Life Expectancy Means More Years With Disability
March 22, 2016
According to a new study by Vicki Freedman, Douglas Wolf and Brenda Spillman, while both men and women gained in life expectancy, women spend more years after the age of 65 with a disability than do men. The reason are unclear. They could include unequal progress in treating women’s health...
Monitoring the Future Study Finds Declining Alcohol Consumption Among Teens and College Students
March 22, 2016
Nick Howe used the most recent Monitoring the Future report in a piece for Forbes . The MTF report finds that teen alcohol consumption is at its lowest level since 1975 (the year of the first survey), and consumption among college students has also declined in the last three decades.
Health and Retirement Study Genetic Data Now Available
March 10, 2016
In 2009 the NIA began receiving funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to expand research in aging and age-related cognitive change. One many projects supported by these funds was the genotyping of DNA samples collected from almost 20,000 participants in the Health and Retirement...
