Archive: Nov 2018

Harvard Bell Fellow Emilie Courtin, PhD, is lead author on a study published in Social Science & Medicine that reveals that when mandatory length of education among teenagers in France was raised from age 14 to 16 by a government policy, those…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Marcia Castro, PhD, has authored a chapter in the book  Water and Sanitation‐Related Diseases and the Changing Environment: Challenges, Interventions, and Preventive Measures, Second Edition. Castro examines the…

Beth Truesdale, PhD, a Harvard Pop Center Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work, is this year’s recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Aging & the Life Course graduate student paper award. Learn more in the ASA’s…

Faculty member Stephanie Jones, PhD, and her research teammates are studying the very early educational patterns of a cohort of 3-and 4-year-olds in Massachusetts to learn about which “micro-features” of an educational system are most helpful…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Laura Kubzansky, PhD, and colleagues are authors of a longitudinal study in Social Science & Medicine that has found that those who recalled receiving parental warmth during childhood were more likely to also self…

A study published in npj Digital Medicine by faculty member Ashish K. Jha, MD, and colleagues (including Google researchers) has found that a machine-learned model can help identify a food safety breach at a restaurant or health department more quickly,…

According to a new Harvard Kennedy School study—with Harvard Pop Center faculty member Rohini Pande and recent Harvard Bell Fellow Natalia Rigol among its authors—men in India are 33 percentage points more likely than women to own a cell phone, on…

We are very saddened at the Harvard Pop Center to learn of the passing of Harvard sociologist Devah Pager. The Harvard Gazette pays tribute to this academic ‘force of nature’ who passed away last Friday.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has produced a guide (based on papers that were presented at a public workshop in 2017) to demography of aging research trends and future directions. Harvard Bell Fellow Nikkil Sudharsanan,…

A study in Pediatrics contributes to the evidence that links early exposure to antibiotics with higher body weight in five-year old children. Lead author of the study is Jason Block, MD, a Harvard Pop Center faculty member and former Harvard RWJF Health…