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DUPRI student Garrett Baker has been awarded First Prize in the Gene Carte Student Paper Competition by the American Society of Criminology for his paper titled "Shattered Dreams: Paternal Incarceration, Youth Expectations, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantage" which is forthcoming in Sociological Science.

The annual call for papers for the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America is out now. The submission deadline is October 1.

DUPRI scholars Jennifer Lansford, Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy and Director of the Center for Child and Family Policy, and Anna Gassman-Pines, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, have been recognized with prestigious awards from the American Psychological Association's Division 7 for their outstanding contributions to the field of developmental science.

DUPRI scholar Christina Gibson-Davis, in partnership with colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, has been awarded a grant of approximately $2.7 million from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The collaboration aims to advance research on the relationship between economic well-being, wealth, adolescent functioning and mental health. By collecting data on specific assets and debts relevant to lower-resourced families—such as payday loans and criminal justice debt, often overlooked in wealth surveys—the study seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of wealth disparities and racial and ethnic inequalities among adolescents, a critical developmental period as they approach adulthood. This joint grant between Duke University and the University of Pittsburgh will facilitate data collection at both institutions.

New study of baboons shows that a stressful upbringing can shorten life, but strong social bonds can help get those years back.

Are you interested in the intellectual breadth of demography? Do you want to know who demographers cite, who cites demographers and where demographers publish? DUPRI’s Giovanna Merli, James Moody, and Mark Yacoub, in collaboration with Ashton Verdery at Penn State, have a new Demography paper out in which they use bibliographic information from all articles published in the three leading journals of demography (Demography, Population and Development Review, Population Studies) during 1947-2020 to survey anglophone demography’s key research areas over the past 70 years. In the paper, they capture demography’s “conversations” with other disciplines and examine the visibility and influence of demographic research in the broader scientific literature as well as its cross-disciplinary translational reach.

DUPRI Scholars Sarah Gaither and Manoj Mohanan are two of seven Duke faculty named as a 2023 Bass Chair and inducted into the Bass Society of Fellows in recognition of their demonstrated excellence in both undergraduate teaching and research.