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Factoring in where women live could provide critical insight into lagging life expectancy of American women
Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, comments in this New York Times piece on the findings of a new study published in SSM – Population Health. Lead author of the study is former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Jennifer Karas…
Plan for your future retirement when in your fifties to leverage best decision-making abilities
David Laibson, PhD, comments on how to take advantage of our peak cognitive abilities to help make sound decisions regarding our fiscal future in this article on plansponser.com.
Child stunting in developing countries increases national economic burden
Harvard Pop Center faculty members Günther Fink, PhD, and Wafaie Fawzi, Dr.P.H., are authors on a paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that is among the first to quantify the economic cost of growth faltering of children in developing…
Working paper explores cognitive health of aging population in Sub-Saharan Africa
Harvard Bell Fellow Collin Payne is lead author on a working paper that investigates the cognitive health of the understudied, growing population of aging adults (+45 years) in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Rising temperatures may lower your spirits, sense of well-being
Former Harvard Pop Center fellows Clemens Noelke, Mark McGovern, and Daniel Corsi, along with Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, are among the authors of a study published in Environmental Research that looked at temperature and emotional…
Risk of divorce tied to division of labor
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 in ScienceFriday podcast on health effects of racism
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.
Insights into hot flash variants, including "super flashers," sheds light on women's health in midlife
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…
Modern lifestyle may be more to blame for obesity epidemic than genes
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…