Research Index
Shows all research entries in reverse order of their creation date
Title | Description | Tags | State |
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Global Trends of Mask Usage in 19 Million Adults | Faculty Associate Frauke Kreuter and colleagues are using large scale data gathered on Facebook to get a sense of public understanding about mask-wearing | Health in Social Context, Big data, Research, Faculty impact, Survey Methodology | external |
Improving Educational Equity and Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond | Amy Lewin and Kevin Roy work with Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools | Social and Economic Inequality, Regional News, Research, Faculty impact | external |
Engaging Women in the Market for Mobile Money | Faculty Associate Jessica Goldberg awarded National Science Foundation three-year grant to examine questions of participation and impact for women | Labor market, Faculty impact, Women, Research, Social and Economic Inequality, Gender, Family, and Social Change | external |
Kinship, Nuptiality and Child Health Outcomes in a Low Income Urban Area - JAMAA na AFYA ya MTOTO (JAMO) | Sangeetha Madhavan PI, with Kristen Stoebenau, Kenneth Leonard and Michael Wagner | Research, Gender, Family, and Social Change, Faculty impact, Africa, Social networks, Madhavan | external |
Work mobility during COVID | NSF Rapid Response project will examine job restructuring, policy effects | Health in Social Context, Social and Economic Inequality, Faculty impact, Research | external |
Investigating Determinants of Educational Attainment and Achievement in Mexico | NSF award funds collaboration between scholars at the University of Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania to study the effects of supply-side and demand-s... | Mexico, Faculty impact, Research, Education, Social and Economic Inequality, Longitudinal Study, Parker, Petra Todd, Grant support | external |
Promoting Economic Recovery After COVID-19 | Melissa Kearney and colleagues offer bi-partisan plan for economic recovery | Coronavirus, Labor market, Faculty impact, Kearney, Social and Economic Inequality, Economics, Research | external |
NSF RAPID Study on the 2020 Coronavirus Social Impacts | Long Doan along with Faculty Associates Liana Sayer, Sociology, and Jessica Fish, Family Science, will examine the social impacts of the 2020 Coronavirus pandem... | Research, Fish, Coronavirus, Sayer, Faculty impact, COVID-19, Health in Social Context, Social and Economic Inequality | external |
Using New Policy Parameter to Study Early Childhood Intervention for Low Birth-weight Infants | Erich Battistin examines a relatively understudied early-childhood intervention for low birth-weight infants using new policy parameter | Health in Social Context, Research, Battistin, Faculty impact, Early Childhood Intervention, Childhood, Child health, Children | external |
Exploring perceived coercive aspects of transactional sex in Central Uganda | Kirsten Stoebenau examines the Central Uganda Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW)'s participation in transactional sex | Women, Women's Health, Faculty impact, Research, Uganda, Stoebenau, Gender, Family, and Social Change | external |
Standard measures of Unemployment make U.S. labor market looks a bit too tight | Katharine Abraham and John Haltiwanger examine U.S. labor market tightness by addressing the limitations of the standard measures | Labor market, Abraham, Faculty impact, Social and Economic Inequality, Haltiwanger, Research | external |
Reproductive readiness predicts a woman’s non-use of contraception in the postpartum months in U.S. | Michael S. Rendall and Monica L. Caudillo examine reproductive readiness in U.S. Women’s Postpartum Non-Use of Contraception | Caudillo, Health in Social Context, Rendall, Faculty impact, Research | external |
Trends in stratification of pre-marital childbirth | Kirsten Stoebenau and Sangeetha Madhavan examine impact of economic inequality through NICHD R03 | Faculty impact, Gender, Family, and Social Change, Research, Social and Economic Inequality | external |
Empirical evidence on the unintended consequences of the one-child policy in terms of child trafficking in China | Implementation of the one-child policy and deep-rooted cultural preference for boys have together significantly increased both child abandonment and child abduc... | Galiani, Human trafficking, China, Gender, Family, and Social Change, Migration and Immigrant Processes, Child abduction, Faculty impact, Research | external |
Advanced School Progression Relative to Age and Early Family Formation in Mexico | Mónica Caudillo Demography article re-examines education outcomes in light of advanced school progression by age | Health in Social Context, Demography, Gender, Family, and Social Change, Faculty impact, Research | external |
Boudreaux examines men's life expectancy in cities | Demography paper with External Affiliate Andrew Fenelon finds "remarkable increases" | Men's health, Health in Social Context, Research, Faculty impact | external |
The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply | Mary Zaki and her colleagues published a working paper analyzing the effects of work requirements on SNAP participation, beneficiary composition, and labor supp... | Zaki, Faculty impact, Research, Social and Economic Inequality | external |
Public Health Researchers Win Data Contract to Study LGBTQ Health Disparities | Access to new dataset opens up research opportunities | Research, Fish, Boekeloo, LGBTQ, Health in Social Context, Health Disparities, Faculty impact | external |
Climate change is not a simplistic comparison of apartheid but entails global cooperation to deal with it | Alok Bhargava responds to Desmond Tutu's Comparison of Climate Change as Developed Countries' "Climate Apartheid" On the Poor | Social and Economic Inequality, Migration and Immigrant Processes, Bhargava, Faculty impact, Research | external |
Dynamism diminished: The role of housing markets and credit conditions | John Haltiwanger looks at the effect of housing market shocks on young businesses and start-ups | Labor market, Economics, Faculty impact, Research, Social and Economic Inequality | external |