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.
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5/12/2023
DUPRI Scholars Manoj Mohanan is one of seven Duke faculty named as a 2023 Bass Chair and inducted into the Bass Society of Fellows in recognition of his demonstrated excellence in both undergraduate teaching and research.
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5/09/2023
DUPRI Scholar Kenneth Dodge has been elected member of the
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4/20/2023
The recent Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting, held in New Orleans from April 12-15, featured presentations and posters from numerous DUPRI scholars and students. At this year's PAA, DUPRI scholars and students were well-represented, with a total of 28 faculty, postdocs, and s
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4/19/2023
A recent article Matt LoJacono published on the Sanford School of Public Policy website examines the work of several DUPRI scholars focused on children and families, including Jennifer Lansford, Christina Gibson-Davis, Lisa Gennetian, Kenneth Dodge, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Sarah Komisarow.
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4/10/2023
Sarah Komisarow received the Thomas A. Downes Best Paper Award for authoring the top journal article published in 2022 in Education Finance and Policy, the flagship journal of the Association for Education Finance and Policy.
In the paper, "Comprehensive Support and Student Success: Can Out of School Time Make a Difference?," Komisarow finds that students who won random lotteries to enroll in a program offering extra summer and after-school educational and social support had better grades and less chance of being suspended than similar students who did not participate.
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4/10/2023
A recent article Matt LoJacono published on the Sanford School of Public Policy website examines the work of several DUPRI scholars focused on children and families, including Jennifer Lansford, Christina Gibson-Davis, Lisa Gennetian, Kenneth Dodge, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Sarah Komisarow.
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4/10/2023
DUPRI Scholar Angela O'Rand and Duke co-author Jenifer Hamil-Luker have a forthcoming paper to be published in Social Science & Medicine: Population Health titled "Black/white differences in the relationship between debt and risk of heart attack across cohorts". They find that debt is predictive of heart attack risk among aging adults, but the direction and strength of the relationship varies by type of debt, debtors’ racial identity, and economic context.
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3/20/2023
Jennifer Lansford, DUPRI scholar and director of the Center for Child and Family Policy, has been named President-Elect of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), the society announced on February 8.
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3/06/2023