Youth, Families, and Social Mobility
The research area of Youth, Families, and Social Mobility at HCPDS focuses on a diverse set of questions, largely geared toward the better understanding of and improvements in the well-being of marginalized populations. Our affiliated faculty focus on youth and families across the globe, and work to advance knowledge related to social mobility. This work is focused on maternal health and child health, early-life outcomes, causes and consequences of family and gender inequality, and class and socio-economic mobility.
Social Demography Seminar Series
Since 2016, HCPDS has been sponsoring the Social Demography Seminar series, a lively forum that brings together a diverse intellectual community including faculty, fellows, researchers, and students from different schools and departments (and since it became a hybrid series in 2021, from different universities as well) who work on research questions related to population health and composition, social relations, and social inequalities. Sociologists, epidemiologists, economists, and public policy experts gather (either in person at HCPDS or via Zoom) on a weekly basis to attend a seminar led by a guest speaker who disseminates research on the measurement of social processes (e.g., racism, gender systems, family processes) related to population dynamics (e.g., fertility, migration, mortality).
Below are the Harvard Pop Center faculty members engaged in the research area of Youth, Families, and Social Mobility.
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Randall Akee, PhD
Julie Johnson Kidd Professor of Indigenous Governance and Development, Faculty Director of the Project on Indigenous Governance and DevelopmentHarvard Kennedy School
Lisa Berkman, PhD
Thomas D. Cabot Research Professor of Public PolicyHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Deirdre Bloome, AM, PhD
Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School |Professor, Department of Sociology
David Canning, PhD
Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population ScienceDepartment of Global Health and Population
Brittany Charlton, ScD
Associate ProfessorHarvard Medical School | Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Wafaie Fawzi, MBBS, MPH, MS, PhD
Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population SciencesDepartments of Epidemiology, Global Health and Population, and Nutrition
Claudia Goldin, PhD
Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts & Sciences, Henry Lee Professor of Economics
Russ Hauser, MD, MPH, ScD
Frederick Lee Hisaw Professor of Reproductive PhysiologyDepartment of Environmental Health
Stephanie Jones, PhD
Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood DevelopmentHarvard Graduate School of Education
Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhD
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital |
Ichiro Kawachi, MB ChB, PhD
John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social EpidemiologyDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Chunling Lu, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital |Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Margaret McConnell, PhD
Faculty Member, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute |Associate Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Meredith L. Rowe, EdD
Saul Zaentz Professor of Early Learning and DevelopmentHarvard Graduate School of Education
Daniel Schneider, PhD
Associate Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies |Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School |
S (Subu) V Subramanian, PhD
Professor of Population Health and GeographyDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Henning Tiemeier, MA, MD, PhD
Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child HealthDepartment of Social and Behavioral Science
Mary C. Waters, PhD
PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard UniversityJohn L. Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Aisha Khizar Yousafzai, PhD
Professor of Child Development and HealthDepartment of Global Health and Population
Publications and media coverage of research by our affiliates related to Youth, Families, and Social Mobility
New book challenges commonly held belief that two-parent households are a panacea for equalizing racial disparities
Harvard Pop Center faculty member and former postdoctoral fellow Christina Cross, PhD, discusses the findings of her book titled “Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families” in her first…
Rita Hamad offers evidence-based recommendation for next U.S. administration on alleviating child poverty and poor health
This news piece by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health features a Q&A with our faculty member Rita Hamad on why child poverty is such a pressing public health issue and how certain government policies, such as the expansion of the Child Tax…
Study explores link between epigenetic aging and racial, economic injustice
Nancy Krieger is an author on an original investigation published in JAMA Network Open that is the subject of a featured news story on the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health website. A key finding from the study is that there was significantly…
Racial inequalities in exposure to household member deaths: A “hidden” social determinant of health?
Losing a family member is stressful, especially if that person is a household member. Since Black people are both more likely to live in a home that includes extended family members and also face lower life expectancy than White people, former Bell…
Better mental health and sleep of older adults in Europe during pandemic is linked with educational level of their adult children
Harvard Bell Fellow Erika Meza, PhD, is an author on a novel paper that reports finding an association between higher levels of adult children’s educational attainment (a core marker of socio-economic status) with their older parents experiencing a…
Automation of scheduling and reminders associated with improved transition to postpartum healthcare
With the aim of helping to improve maternal health outcomes, Harvard Pop Center faculty member Jessica Cohen, PhD, and her colleagues designed a behavioral economic intervention utilizing default scheduling of appointments with primary care providers and…
Could experiencing gratitude boost one’s longevity?
A study published in JAMA Psychiatry is one of the first to provide empirical evidence indicating an association between a grateful affect and longevity. Harvard Pop Center faculty member Laura Kubzansky is one of the authors on this population-based…
Nicotine use and cardiometabolic health: A novel look at the complementary relationship between genetic and socioeconomic/lifestyle factors
Former Harvard postdoctoral fellows Adam Lippert, Dan Corsi, and Rockli Kim, along with faculty member S (Subu) V Subramanian, and their colleagues have published a study in Nicotine and Tobacco Research that is one of few studies to assess cumulative…
Voting Rights Act linked with reduction in Black infant deaths in Jim Crow states
HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliate Tamara Rushovich, along with faculty member Nancy Krieger and their colleagues have published a study in the American Journal of Public Health that investigates the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on Black and…
Cross and Pedulla share ASA award for their work to advance the field of family sociology
HCPDS faculty members Christina Cross and David Pedulla were both recognized by the American Sociological Association (ASA) with the ASA Family Section’s 2023 Article of the Year Award for their independent journal articles published last year.…
How does level of educational attainment relate to discrepancies in the reporting of contraception use by spouses in rural Nepal?
HCPDS Research Scientist Elyse Jennings, PhD, has co-authored a paper published in Studies in Family Planning that examines the data that from monthly reporting by both spouses of 822 couples in rural Nepal between 2008 and 2016. Findings reveal that…
Caregiving responsibilities at home may impact working mothers’ intentions to expand family
A study published in the European Sociological Review by former HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliate Sinn Won Han, current HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliate Ohjae Gowen, and HCPDS faculty member Mary Brinton expands recent research that shows an increase in…
