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Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center faculty member Margaret McConnell on her promotion to associate professor of global health economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. A former PGDA…

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center faculty member and Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology Mary C. Brinton, PhD, who has been named the director of the Harvard institute that supports research on Japan and provides a forum for related academic…

Are you interested in researching how the long-run effects of early-childhood circumstances and education affect income and health state transitions in older ages? Learn more about this opportunity to join our team…

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center faculty member Meredith Rowe, EdD on being awarded this cross-sector fellowship which is given to professionals who are sparking new ideas and fostering breakthrough approaches for communicating the insights of early…

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, is an author on the paper published in Health Affairs that has received media attention.

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center faculty member Lawrence Bobo, PhD, who has been named a Harvard College Professor, a five-year appointment that offers extra support for research or scholarly activities. Learn more in The Harvard Gazette.

Faculty members Alex Tsai and David R. Williams are among the authors on a study in The Lancet that utilizes novel data on police killings of black Americans to reveal the spillover effects on those living in the same state. Learn more in The New York…

An NBER working paper by faculty member Nicole Maestas, PhD, that illustrates how the financial returns for working later in life may be greater for women than for men is catching attention in the media. 

Faculty member S V Subramanian, PhD, and former RWJF Health & Society Scholar Christina Roberto, are among the authors of a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that has received coverage in The Washington Post.

A recent working paper by Harvard Pop Center Bell Fellow Natalia Rigol, PhD, along with faculty member Rohini Pande, PhD, is the subject of this post on Ideas for India that offers some explanations as to why previous studies have shown that…