Faculty Associate authors win 2021 IPUMS Global Health Research Award

Written by Faculty Associates Kirsten Stoebenau, Sangeetha Madhavan, and Heide Jackson, with Emily Smith-Greenaway, University of Southern California, "Economic Inequality and Divergence in Family Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa" has been recognized a superior contribution to global health research using the IPUMS data and services.

The paper addresses evidence that "economic inequality has been rising in many sub-Saharan African countries alongside rapid changes to union and family formation. In high-income countries marked by rising inequality, union and family formation practices have diverged across socioeconomic statuses, with intergenerational social and health consequences for the disadvantaged. In this study, we address whether there is also evidence of demographic divergence in low-income settings."

See the paper at Population and Development Review 

Stoebenau, K., Madhavan, S., Smith-Greenaway, E. and Jackson, H. (2021), Economic Inequality and Divergence in Family Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Population and Development Review, 47: 887-912. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12443