Center News
MPRC faculty contribute to theoretical and applied developments in their various fields as well as to discussions that impact public policy. Some recent news stories are abstracted below.
Financial incentives to increase birth rates insufficient
Philip Cohen’s comments featured, where he notes that financial incentives alone are not enough to increase dropping birth rates.
DOGE’s impact on the reliability of future U.S. statistics
Katharine Abraham comments on the Trump administration’s impact on survey data
Nolan Pope’s study on the impacts of divorce featured in Newsweek
Pope’s study finds that children of divorce more likely to have reduced earnings, teen pregnancy, incarceration, and early death
Philip Cohen comments on the impacts of divorce on children
Children whose parents divorce have reduced earnings as adults
Unemployment rates and the labor market
Katharine Abraham’s comments featured in a story about how unemployment rates are calculated
Monica Das Gupta emphasizes the need for India to revamp public health systems
Das Gupta's paper advocates for structural reform, grassroots workforce revitalization, and better public health systems.
Gourevitch: price of pregnancy varies
Findings show that different racial and ethnic groups have different experiences with the U.S. healthcare system
MPRC Associates study intergenerational poverty through $2.5 million grant
Leonard and Madhavan to study the transmission of poverty across generations in Tanzania
Faculty Associates Fish and Roberts honored
Jessica Fish and Jennifer Roberts received Editor's Choice awards from Psychiatric Services and American Journal of Health Promotion
Cohen research notes marriage rate and divorce level shift
Faculty Associate Philip Cohen analyzed declining divorce rates for not-college-educated in recent years
Carter: "People do still have power"
In light of rapid issuing of executive orders Niambi Carter emphasizes the importance of state and local elections