Planning for retirement? Cut costs now & later, work longer, leverage employer savings plans
Harvard Pop Center faculty member David Laibson, PhD, shares tips on how to prepare for retirement in this USAToday.com piece.
Using cash transfers to reduce HIV risk in young South African women
Bell Fellows Molly Rosenberg and Xavier Gomez-Olives have contributed to a paper looking at a phase III, individually randomized trial to assess the effect of a conditional cash transfer on HIV acquisition among South African young women. The study has…
Killewald on "tethered autonomy"
A new paper by Alexandra Killewald uses the term “tethered autonomy” to describe post-parenthood changes in partners’ housework hours, paid work hours, occupation traits, and wages. Killewald found that variation across American couples…
Birth weight is a larger contributor to height than the socio-economic conditions in which a child grows up
Former Pop Center student Aditi Krishna is lead author on a new study in Economics & Human Biology that examines the role of birth weight in childrens’ height; Lisa Berkman, Gunther Fink, and SV Subramanian are…
Lippert on the association between neighborhood crime and BMI/activity levels
RWJF alumnus Adam Lippert has recently published an article titled “Neighborhood Crime Rate, Weight-Related Behaviors, and Obesity: A Systematic Review of the Literature” in Sociology Compass. The piece, which is a review of current…
Estimating the Co-Development of Cognitive Decline and Physical Mobility Limitations in Older U.S. Adults
Former Harvard RWJF Health & Society scholar Steven Haas is an author on a new study published in Demography. The study examined the co-development of cognitive and physical function in older Americans using an age-heterogeneous sample drawn from the…
Lisa Berkman speaks on widening gap between longevity & socioeconomic status on PBS NewsHour Weekend
Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman appears on PBS NewsHour Weekend speaking about the longevity gap between people at opposite ends of the economic ladder. The interview is part of the series Chasing the Dream, a new public…
Can Wall Street techniques fix high health care costs?
Wired Magazine asks Harvard Pop Center faculty member Amitabh Chandra, PhD, what he thinks about an innovative paper that introduces long-term solutions to help make high-priced treatments affordable, even when not covered by health insurance policies.
Steps South Asians can take to lower their increased risk for diabetes and heart attacks
Fahad Razak, MD, shares insights into ways that South Asians can lower their elevated risks for diabetes and heart attacks in this article in Health & Wellness section of the Toronto Star. Fahad is a visiting scientist at the Harvard Pop Center and a…
Work, Family & Health Network study findings featured in The New York Times Magazine
A study by Work, Family & Health Network (WFHN) researchers is spotlighted in this piece in The New York Times magazine on “Rethinking the Work-Life Equation.”