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Demographers identify the causes, challenges of a rapidly aging Puerto Rico

Feb 8, 2023

The Puerto Rican population is aging rapidly, with the percentage of older adults on the island the 10th highest in the world. Penn State researchers are discovering, for the first time, the causes of population aging and how it will negatively impact Puerto Rico. Amílcar Matos-Moreno, postdoctoral…
News Topics: PRIAgingKinshipCollege of Health and Human DevelopmentHuman Development and Family Studies
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New T32-funded postdoctoral position

Feb 1, 2023

The Population Research Institute at Penn State is delighted to announce an opening for a Postdoctoral position in its T32-funded program in Social Environments and Population Health.  Please help us get the word out about this fabulous opportunity!  Applicants must have a Ph.D. in demography,…
News Topics: PRIPostdoctoral
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PRI Visiting Scholar Program

Jan 20, 2023

Penn State's Population Research Institute (PRI) is delighted to announce a new Visiting Scholars Program. Candidates will receive support from PRI to prepare a grant for submission to NIH/NICHD. The Visiting Scholars will visit Penn State’s University Park campus for one week of intensive writing…
News Topics: PRIPRI AffiliateVisiting Scholar
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Frankenberg named among top RHSU Edu-Scholars

Jan 10, 2023

PRI Associate Erica Frankenberg, professor of education (educational leadership and demography) and director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights (CECR), is included in the 2023 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, ranking the university-based scholars in the United States who did…
News Topics: PRICollege of EducationCenter for Education and Civil Rights
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Long-term impacts of famine include health and socioeconomic challenges - Researchers study survivors of the ‘Dutch Hunger Winter’ famine identify numerous long-term consequences

Oct 4, 2022

Millions of children are exposed to extreme hunger each year, but children who experience malnutrition are more likely to have poorer health and developmental delays that persist into old age, according to previous research findings. Researchers at Penn State recently examined the results of early-…
News Topics: PRIPRI Associatemalnutrition
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Alexis Santos appointed to Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee

Sep 23, 2022

Alexis Santos, assistant professor of human development and family studies and co-funded faculty member in the Social Science Research Institute at Penn State, has been appointed to the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee (NAC). The committee considers issues related to hard-to-reach…
News Topics: PRIPRI AssociateCensus
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Study finds white children more likely to be overdiagnosed for ADHD

Sep 13, 2022

A new study led by Paul Morgan, Harry and Marion Eberly Faculty Fellow and professor of education (educational theory and policy) and demography, and published in the Journal of Learning Disabilities, examines which sociodemographic groups of children are more likely to be overdiagnosed and…
News Topics: PRICenter for Educational DisparitiesCollege of EducationADHD
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Social Science Research Institute welcomes Jessica Ho as cofunded faculty member

Sep 11, 2022

Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) recently announced new cofunded faculty member Jessica Ho, who will join the institute in the 2022-23 academic year. Ho is an associate professor of sociology and demography and an associate of the Population Research Institute and comes to Penn…
News Topics: SSRI cofundsPRIPRI AssociateAgingLife Expectancyhealth disparitiesSocial Inequity
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In Rural America, Older Adult Vaccination Rates were Higher in Counties with More Aging and Disability Services

Aug 10, 2022

In this Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion research brief, PRI's Danielle Rhubart and Yue Sun describe how aging and disability services (ADS) played an important role for older adults in the COVID-19 vaccination rollout, including sharing information, providing transportation, and serving…
News Topics: COVID-19AgingPRIPRI Associate
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The Russia-Ukraine war will hurt millions in Central Asia. Here's why.

Aug 8, 2022

by Guangqing Chi and Erin Hofmann, For The Inquirer The past three years haven’t been easy for Central Asian migrant workers in Russia like Murat and Aigul, a Kyrgyz couple who have worked in Moscow since 2018. In 2020, due to the pandemic lockdown in Moscow, the couple was confined for more than a…
News Topics: Migration ResearchImmigrationRural SociologyPRIPRI Associate
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Insecure: New study links tap water avoidance and food insecurity

Aug 4, 2022

Many Americans take tap water for granted. Water bills are often less expensive compared to people’s other bills, and tap water has been a part of most Americans’ lives since they were born. For nearly 61 million Americans, however, tap water is either unavailable or untrusted. New research from…
News Topics: WaterFood SecurityBiobehavioral HealthAnthropologyPRI
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Race matters in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, research finds

Jul 27, 2022

Hispanic and Black Americans have suffered higher rates of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 than white Americans. A new Penn State study analyzed data collected when COVID-19 vaccines first became available to determine whether these racial and ethnic disparities are related to vaccine…
News Topics: COVID-19Racial DisparitiesRacial and Ethnic MinoritiesPRIPRI AssociateCollege of Liberal ArtsSociologyDemography
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Losing spouse to COVID may be worse for mental health than other causes of death

Jul 26, 2022

Losing a spouse can be a devastating experience for anyone. A new study found that experiencing the death of a spouse due to COVID-19 may be worse for mental health than deaths from other causes. Penn State researchers found that while there were strong associations between the recent death of a…
News Topics: PRIPRI AssociateCOVID-19DeathSociologyDemography
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High incarceration rates may not help U.S. citizens feel safer

Jul 13, 2022

The U.S. is the world leader in incarceration rates, spending $80 billion a year to imprison two million people. But despite these practices aiming to help Americans feel safer, a new Penn State study suggests they may not result in the intended effect. In a study comparing feelings of safety in…
News Topics: PRICriminology
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Suicide vulnerability index, machine learning model help predict counties’ risk

Jun 29, 2022

Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States, but the models that have been used to predict suicide rates weight risk factors equally and rely on data for large geographic areas, limiting the precision of the predictions, according to Penn State researchers. Now, the researchers have…
News Topics: SuicidePRI AssociatePRIMachine Learning
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Unemployment associated with worse mental and physical health later in life

Jun 23, 2022

When and how often a person experiences unemployment in their 20s, 30s and 40s has serious implications for their health later in life, which could be in part due to a lack of access to health care while unemployed, according to new research. The researchers found that people who had little…
News Topics: PRIunemployment rateMental HealthHealth
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Older adults more likely to have multiple health ailments than prior generations

Jun 22, 2022

Later-born generations of older adults in the United States are more likely to have a greater number of chronic health conditions than the generations that preceded them, according to a study conducted by Penn State and Texas State University. According to the researchers, the increasing frequency…
News Topics: AgingHealth CareSociologyDemographyPRIPRI Associate
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Losing a grandmother may trigger rise in depression for some of her survivors

Jun 17, 2022

Losing a beloved family member is never easy, but a new study suggests the loss of a grandmother in particular may have repercussions for the loved ones she leaves behind. The researchers found that for up to seven years after the death of their grandmother, adolescent boys had a 50% increase in…
News Topics: GriefCOVID-19DepressionSociologyPRI
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PAA’s annual meeting features strong Penn State presence

May 9, 2022

Many researchers from Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) and Population Research Institute (PRI) participated in the Population Association of America’s (PAA) annual meeting, which took place recently in Atlanta. This year’s conference featured 235 sessions from a variety of…
News Topics: PAAPRI
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Gen Z does not dream of labor

May 2, 2022

PRI Associate Director Sarah Damaske was quoted in a Vox.com article about how over the past two years, young millennials and members of Gen Z have created an abundance of memes and pithy commentary about their generational disillusionment toward work. The jokes, which correspond with the rise of…
News Topics: PRI
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Penn State social scientists anticipate Ukrainian refugees’ needs, challenges

Mar 24, 2022

In one of the largest mass migration flows in recent history, approximately 3.4 million people have fled their homes in Ukraine since late February. Most are women and children, and many families have been torn apart because the Ukraine State Border Guard Service has prohibited men ages 18 to 60…
News Topics: ImmigrationMigration ResearchPRI
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Aging and Disability Services are Unequally Distributed Across the United States

Feb 22, 2022

The U.S. population is aging rapidly, but 15% of U.S. counties have no aging and disability services organizations. This research brief by Syracuse University’s Claire Pendergrast and Penn State's PRI Associate Danielle Rhubart shows that rural counties and counties with the highest rates of…
News Topics: AgingPRILerner Center for Public Health Promotion Brief
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Researchers examine link between residential and school segregation

Feb 9, 2022

School segregation has remained a hot-button political issue since Brown vs. Board of Education, a landmark 1954 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the justices ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional. New research from a Penn State…
News Topics: Center for Education and Civil RightsCollege of EducationPRI
Percentage of Respondents ages 18-64 Reporting Fair or Poor Physical Health by Metro Status, 2021

Joint Lerner/PRI brief on rural working-age adults' health vs. urban workers

Feb 8, 2022

Self-rated health is considered a strong predictor of chronic disease risk and premature mortality. This brief by Shannon M. Monnat, Syracuse University, and Danielle Rhubart, PRI associate at Penn State, analyzes data from the National Wellbeing Survey (NWS), a sample of approximately 4,000 U.S.…
News Topics: PRI
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Shenk named AAAS Fellow

Jan 31, 2022

Congratulations to PRI Associate Mary Shenk, one of five Penn State faculty members named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society. Story in Penn State News.
News Topics: PRIPRI Associate

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