Research Index
Shows all research entries in reverse order of their creation date
| Title | Description | Tags | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Understanding and Predicting Crime “Hot Spots” | Former felons share knowledge about how (and where) criminals plan their crimes | Faculty impact, Criminology, Porter, Research, People and Place | external |
| The Healthy Generations Program: Improving Access to Mental Health Care | New model of integrated service delivery makes mental health services more accessible to teenaged parents | Gender, Family, and Social Change, Health in Social Context, Research, Faculty impact, Social and Economic Inequality | external |
| Measuring Kinship Support for Children of Single Mothers | Sangeetha Madhavan investigates the effects of social and economic change on children's lives in Nairobi | Gender, Family, and Social Change, Faculty impact, Research | external |
| How does interview methodology affect interviewer variance? | Frauke Kreuter compares the effectiveness of commonly-used face-to-face interview methods | Faculty impact, Survey methodology, Research, Kreuter, Social and Economic Inequality | external |
| Mexico-US Migration during the Great Recession | Andrés Villarreal investigates the causal origins of the recent decline in migration from Mexico to the United States | Migration, Labor market, Faculty impact, International, People and Place, Latin America, Faculty Associate, Sociology, Villarreal, Research, Immigration | external |
| Cabrera joins the National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families | New research hub aims to improve policies and programs that serve Hispanic children and families | Gender, Family, and Social Change, Faculty impact | external |
| Parenthood Decisions and the Ticking Biological Clock | Philip Cohen and Gneisha Dinwiddie investigate whether children born later in life are at greater risk for disabilities | Research, Faculty impact | external |
| Gneisha Dinwiddie Investigates Links Between Race, Lifelong Stress, and Cardiovascular Disease | Ongoing social and economic stress leads to racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease outcomes | Health in Social Context, Research, Faculty impact, Social and Economic Inequality | external |
| Developing Nations: "Our Pollution is Your Consumption" | MPRC Faculty Associate Klaus Hubacek demonstrates how material consumption in rich countries is fueled by pollution and environmental destruction in the develop... | Faculty impact, People and Place, International, Social and Economic Inequality, Research, Geographic Sciences, Environment, World Bank, Hubacek | external |
| Race, Gender, and Educational Achievement | Odis Johnson investigates how social issues affect education | Children, Johnson, Odis, Faculty impact, Ethnicity and race, Social and Economic Inequality, Research, Education, African American Studies, Odis Johnson, Child ... | external |
| Affordable Care for All? | Faculty associate Jerome Dugan investigates the relationship between socioeconomic status, health insurance coverage, and affordable quality care | Research, Public policy, Faculty impact, Dugan, Health in Social Context, Health Disparities, Social and Economic Inequality | external |
| How Does Time Use Data Illuminate Important Social Patterns? | Liana Sayer starts a new Time Use Lab at the University of Maryland | People and Place, Faculty impact, Sociology, Sayer, Children, Transition to adulthood, Time use, Research, Gender, Family, and Social Change, Child development,... | external |
| Finding Economic Solutions for America | Faculty associate Katharine Abraham brings home experience from two years serving on the White House Council of Economic Advisors | Joint Program in Survey Methodology, Faculty impact, Economics, Research, Public policy, Employment, Abraham | external |
| Race, Gender, and Obesity: How the Social Environment Constrains or Enables Physical Activity | Faculty associate Rashawn Ray investigates the social and environmental changes needed in order to remove neighborhood barriers to regular physical exercise | Ray, Ethnicity and race, Obesity, Research, Sociology, Social and Economic Inequality, Health in Social Context, Health Disparities, Faculty impact, People and ... | external |
| More Young Adults Are Financially Dependent on Parents Than 50 Years Ago | Demography article by Kahn, Goldscheider, and Garcia-Manglano examines changing family residence patterns | Kahn, Faculty impact, Demography, Goldscheider, Employment, Research, Social and Economic Inequality, Economics, Gender, Family, and Social Change | external |
| Families and Inequality | Faculty Associate Philip Cohen brings sociology research to the public eye by tackling thorny issues about race, gender, family, and inequality in an online pub... | Sociology, Faculty impact, Ethnicity and race, Cohen, Research, Social and Economic Inequality, Gender, Family, and Social Change, Women | external |
| Using propensity scores for causal inference with covariate measurement error | Faculty Associate Frauke Kreuter's project, an R01 funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, seeks to develop and assess new statistical methods | Joint Program in Survey Methodology, Survey methodology, Kreuter, Health in Social Context, Faculty impact, Research | external |
| Overcoming the Obstacles and Capitalizing on the Incentives for Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Environmental Justice Communities | Faculty Associate Michael Paolisso and colleagues examine how diverse communities under severe threat from climate change impacts view climate change | Chesapeake Bay, Faculty impact, Environment, People and Place, Paolisso, Research | external |
| Time Use Data Access System | Sandra Hofferth continues Time Use project to extend data "backwards through time and geographically across countries" | Faculty impact, International, Time use, Research, Gender, Family, and Social Change, Hofferth, Family Science, Minnesota Pop Center | external |
| Multidimensional Pathways to Healthy Aging among Filipino Women | Feinian Chen is working with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on an interdisciplinary study for the National Institute on Aging on health and func... | Feinian Chen, Sociology, Faculty impact, Health in Social Context, Gender, Family, and Social Change, Research | external |
