Seed Grants Awarded
A listing of MPRC Seed Grants awarded since 2009, in reverse chronological order
| Title | Description | Effective Date |
|---|---|---|
| Can Coverage Expansions Address Racial and Gender Disparities in Health Outcomes Among Americans with Chronic Disease? | Jerome Dugan investigates the connection between health coverage type and access to affordable quality healthcare | Sep 30, 2013 05:05 PM |
| Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Postpartum Depression among a National Sample of US Mothers of Infants | Rada Dagher investigates the prevalence of postpartum depression among mothers from different racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds | Sep 30, 2013 04:40 PM |
| Parental Age and Children's Disability in the United States | Philip Cohen and Gneisha Dinwiddie investigate the effects of parents' age on the health of their babies | Sep 30, 2013 04:30 PM |
| Geographical distance between young adults and their parents: Predictors and consequences for adult children's mental health and deviant outcomes | Faculty Associates David Maimon and Terence Thornberry, Criminology and Criminal Justice, plan to geocode and analyze Rochester Youth Development Study data to expand understanding of parental proximity effects. | May 16, 2012 03:40 PM |
| Income inequality and adolescent 'drop out' behaviors | Melissa Kearney, Economics, plans to expand research into the relationship between income inequality and birth decisions by low-income women | May 16, 2012 03:40 PM |
| Teens, technology, dating relationships, and dating violence | Faculty Associate Donna Howard, Behavioral and Community Health, is working on a mixed-method study of dating behaviors and electronic communication | May 16, 2012 03:40 PM |
| Exploring the Nexus of Exposure to Violence, Psychological Stressors and Criminal Justice Involvement among Victims of Violent Injuries in Baltimore City | Joseph Richardson, African American Studies | Aug 26, 2010 11:25 AM |
| Improving Quality of Life in Chinese and Korean Breast Cancer Patients or Survivors: Pilot Study | Sunmin Lee, Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Aug 26, 2010 11:10 AM |
| Consequences of Childhood and Adolescent Time Use for Health: Incorporating Race, Gender and SES Status Processes and School Context for an R01 resubmission | Melissa Milke, Sociology | Dec 02, 2009 12:00 AM |
| Life Course Perspectives on Bio-Social Risk: Understanding Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease | Gniesha Y. Dinwiddie, African American Studies Department | Dec 06, 2009 12:00 AM |
| Urban Slum Research in Sub-Saharan Africa | Francis Dodoo, African American Studies | Dec 03, 2001 12:00 AM |
| Gender, Family, and Work in Maryland’s Blue Crab Fishery: A Pilot Research Proposal | Michael Paolisso, Anthropology | Dec 01, 2001 12:00 AM |
| The Effects of Benefit Mandates on Employer Sponsored Health Insurance | Ginger Jin, Economics | Dec 02, 2001 12:00 AM |
| Onset and Pace of Kenya’s Fertility Transition | Laurie DeRose, Sociology | Dec 04, 2001 12:00 AM |
| Proposal for a Pilot Study to Examine Work and Family Conditions Associated with Anger | Scott Schieman, Sociology | Dec 01, 2002 12:00 AM |
| Revisiting the Educational Cost of Teenage and Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing - Evidence from Nonparametric Matching | Seth Sanders and Jeffrey Smith, Economics | Dec 02, 2002 12:00 AM |
| Assessing the High School Career With Respect to Work and Crime | Shawn Bushway and Ray Paternoster, Criminology | Dec 03, 2002 12:00 AM |
| Stress, Mental Health, Marriage and Parenthood: Trends, Correlates, and Consequences | John Robinson and Melissa Milkie, Sociology | Dec 01, 2003 12:00 AM |
| The Effect of Immigration on Residential Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1990-2000 | John Iceland, Sociology | Dec 02, 2003 12:00 AM |
| In-Migration to the South – in Black and White | William Falk, Sociology | Dec 03, 2003 12:00 AM |
| MPRC Pilot Project on HIV/AIDS Treatments | Mark Duggan, Economics | Dec 04, 2003 12:00 AM |
| Life-Cycle Dynamics in GeoGraph Agent-Based Laboratories | Catherine Dibble, Geography | Dec 05, 2003 12:00 AM |
| Effects of Mortality Reversals in Sub-Saharan Africa on Fertility and Infant and Child Survival | Laurie DeRose, Sociology | Dec 06, 2003 12:00 AM |
| Making Restricted-Use National Crime Victimization Survey Data Available for Population Research | Brian Wiersema, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Dec 01, 2004 12:00 AM |
| Medical Quality and Incentives | Kenneth Leonard, Agriculture and Resource Economics | Dec 02, 2004 12:00 AM |
| Urban low-Income fathers and children’s wellbeing | Natasha Cabrera, Human Development | Dec 03, 2004 12:00 AM |
| Life Course Trajectories of Aging Men: Disadvantage and Discontinuity On the Margins of Families and Work | Kevin Roy, Family Studies | Dec 01, 2005 12:00 AM |
| Family Wealth and the Purchase of a First Home | Annette Lareau, Sociology | Dec 02, 2005 12:00 AM |
| Child Care Subsidy Impact Study | Sandra Hofferth, Family Studies | Dec 03, 2005 12:00 AM |
| The Role of Firms in Immigration Assimilation and Labor Market Adjustment | John Haltiwanger, Economics | Dec 04, 2005 12:00 AM |