Pop Center faculty members Killewald and Pager named as Radcliffe Institute Fellows
Congratulations to Harvard sociologists Alexandra Killewald and Devah Pager who will be joining the 2017-2018 cohort of incoming Radcliffe Institute Fellows.
For younger workers, does occupational certification pay off?
Does earning an occupational certificate (e.g., those issued by trade, professional and industry organizations) lead to higher earnings among younger workers? A study published in Social Science Research by Harvard Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work…
Lisa Berkman to receive CAWF Mentoring Award from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty (CAWF) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has announced that Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman will be honored with its Third Annual Mentoring Award at the upcoming 2017 Awards…
Economic downturns negatively impact future cognitive functioning of older U.S. workers
A study published in The Journals of Gerontology Series B by recent Harvard Bell Fellow Philipp Hessel, Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, and faculty member Mauricio Avendano has found exposure to economic downturns among U.S. workers…
New Working Paper—Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-entrepreneurs
Harvard Pop Center Bell Fellow Natalia Rigol, PhD, and faculty member Rohini Pande, PhD, are authors on a working paper that explores what may be influencing the apparent gender gap in microenterprise performance.
Nancy Krieger on structural racism & health inequities in US
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger, PhD, is an author of this conceptual report published in The Lancet on the role that structural racism (how racial discrimination is fostered through mutually reinforcing systems of housing,…
How do functional abilities of aging population in South Africa compare to those in other LMICs?
Researchers affiliated with the Harvard Pop Center have authored a paper based on research from the Health and Aging in Africa: a Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI) study that finds that older South African men…
Launch event for book release by MD who feels patients' pain
Mirror Touch, a book by Harvard Pop Center faculty member Joel Salinas, MD, about his experiences as a neurologist who has mirror-touch synesthesia—a neurological trait that gives him heightened empathic abilities—will be released on April…
Adding value to value-based purchasing (VBP), a pay-for-performance health care policy tool
Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, Harvard Pop Center faculty member, has authored this opinion in JAMA Forum that suggests that if the current administration sets out to “reboot” VBP, three key design principles should be included.
Beyond improving our health and finances, does health care reform help us be more helpful to others?
Former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Stefan Timmermans, PhD, is author on a paper published in the journal Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World that suggests that both formal volunteering and informal helpfulness…