Archive: Mar 2016

Thank you again to Cassandra Okechukwu for giving a seminar this past Thursday. Dr. Okechukwu has a new paper out in Social Science and Medicine titled “Supporting employees’ work-family needs improves health care quality: longitudinal evidence…

Former RWJF Health & Society Scholar Summer Hawkins and faculty member Matthew Gillman are co-authors on a BMC Medicine article on the establishment of the Linked CENTURY database. Hawkins, Gillman and their colleagues linked the existing CENTURY…

“The Labor Supply of Undocumented Immigrants,”  a new study by George Borjas, revealed three key insights: Undocumented immigrant men are far more likely to work than other groups, while undocumented immigrant women are far less…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member David Laibson, PhD, shares tips on how to prepare for retirement in this USAToday.com piece.

Bell Fellows Molly Rosenberg and Xavier Gomez-Olives have contributed to a paper looking at a phase III, individually randomized trial to assess the effect of a conditional cash transfer on HIV acquisition among South African young women. The study has…

A new paper by Alexandra Killewald uses the term “tethered autonomy” to describe post-parenthood changes in partners’ housework hours, paid work hours, occupation traits, and wages. Killewald found that variation across American couples…

Former Pop Center student Aditi Krishna is lead author on a new study in Economics & Human Biology that examines the role of birth weight in childrens’ height; Lisa Berkman, Gunther Fink, and SV Subramanian are…

RWJF alumnus Adam Lippert has recently published an article titled “Neighborhood Crime Rate, Weight-Related Behaviors, and Obesity: A Systematic Review of the Literature” in Sociology Compass.  The piece, which is a review of current…

Former Harvard RWJF Health & Society scholar Steven Haas is an author on a new study published in Demography. The study examined the co-development of cognitive and physical function in older Americans using an age-heterogeneous sample drawn from the…

Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman appears on PBS NewsHour Weekend speaking about the longevity gap between people at opposite ends of the economic ladder. The interview is part of the series Chasing the Dream, a new public…