Archive: 2013

Pop Center faculty member David Canning, studies the relationship between tobacco tax policy, population health and earnings in his paper, “The Effect of Health Improvements Due to Tobacco Control on Earnings in the United States.”

Pop Center faculty members, David Bloom and David Canning, and PGDA fellows, Isabel Gunther and Sebastian Linnemayr, analyze the role of mortality expectations on population growth in their paper, “Fertility Choice, Mortality Expectations, and…

Pop Center faculty member, Maria Glymour, investigates how different activities during time away from work predict later cognitive function. Read more…

Data from the past two decades confirms that more people are getting healthier as they age, finds David Cutler, Pop Center faculty member. Read more …

In their recent study, “School-Day and Overall Physical Activity Among Youth“, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Pop Center faculty members Steven L. Gortmaker and SV Subramanian, find that increasing physical activity…

The socio-economic patterning of NCD prevalence differs markedly when assessed by standardized criteria versus self-reported diagnoses, concludes Harvard Pop Center faculty member SV Subramanian and his co-authors.

Former Harvard RWJF Health & Society scholar, Mahasin Mujahid, investigates relationships between home and workplace neighborhood environments in his recent study, “Home and work neighborhood environments in relation to body mass index: the…

Study by Pop Center director Lisa Berkman, faculty member Maria Glymour and research fellow Erika Sabbath investigates whether health effects of combined occupational exposures during working life are observed after individuals retire and are no longer…

Arijit Nandi and Elizabeth Sweet, former RWJF Health & Society Scholars, find debt to be an important socioeconomic determinant of health in their recent study, “The high price of debt: Household financial debt and its impact on mental and…

Neighborhood foreclosures are associated with local population weight gain finds Pop Center faculty members, Maria Glymour, Ichiro Kawachi and SV Subramanian, and Pop Center research scientist, Mariana Arcaya, in their recent study published in the…