Archive: 2016

A new study published in the American Sociological Review by Harvard Pop Center’s faculty member Alexandra Killewald, PhD, suggests that division of labor may have more to do with predicting a couple’s risk of divorce than the money or…

Courtney Cogburn, PhD, a Harvard RWJF HSS program alumna, is featured in this ScienceFriday podcast on the impact that racism can have on health and life expectancy.

Rebecca Clark Thurston, PhD, Harvard RWJF Health & Society program alumna, comments in a New York Times article on the latest findings based on the SWAN (Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation) and published in journal…

The findings of a study by Harvard Pop Center faculty member Maria Glymour, ScD, research associate Ivan Mejia, PhD, and their colleagues published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is the subject of this United Press…

Adam Lippert, PhD, who recently completed a fellowship at the Harvard Pop Center, comments on the role that e-cigarettes may be playing in cultivating future conventional smokers in this piece on Reuters.

Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, and visiting scientist Cathal McCrory, PhD, are authors on a paper published in Circulation Research that finds that those among a group of age 50 and older participants who had the slowest heart rate…

Harvard Pop Center faculty members Jessica Cohen, PhD, and Margaret McConnell, PhD, are authors on a paper published in Social Science & Medicine that examines the effectiveness of different types of cash transfer programs in reducing maternal…

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Laura Kubzansky, PhD, is an author on a paper published in Psychosomatic Medicine that has found that those older adults who are the most optimistic are the least likely to suffer cognitive impairment as they age.

In response to a news item in The Washington Post on the trend amongst Millennials to avoid, or at least postpone, getting married, a piece on MercatorNet refers to Killewald’s research on the marriage premium, the wage increase that tends to occur…

Daily stressors impact the mood, physical health and cortisol patterns of adolescents. A Work, Family & Health Network intervention study published in Health Psychology finds that youth who experienced parental warmth were better able to recover from…