UM Population Studies Center

🏆 Know a demographer making a difference in the profession? Nominate a colleague (or yourself!) for a PAA 2027 award. 📅 Deadline: Dec. 14, 2026 (earlier than usual!) Help us celebrate excellence in demography: buff.ly/B47V3vi

Congratulations to #PSID Advisory Board Member and Penn State Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography Jennifer Van Hook @vanhookjenny.bsky.social, on being elected president of the Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social. #PAA pop.psu.edu/news/jennife...

Congratulations, @joelabriola.bsky.social! Well deserved! ✨

No one more deserving of this recognition!

Parents’ rights laws and teen healthcare www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/storie...

“The model was not wrong mathematically, but it was historically contingent. The difficulty was elevating transient demographic changes into timeless universal laws. Unlike physical laws, social patterns are generally shaped by changing circumstances” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🏠💰⏰ New paper on the US mortgage market! It's a standardized product and there are so many ads, but how competitive is it, really? We look at the degree of pass-through to rates when the GSEs waive certain lender fees for low-income first-time homebuyers... www.nber.org/papers/w35907

🎊 Congratulations to PSC trainee and rising scholar @janetjwang.bsky.social, winner of the @sda-demography.bsky.social's Everett S. Lee Graduate Paper Award! She was recognized for her paper, "Education and Later Life Income Stratification of US Men and Women." @umichstonecid.bsky.social

💙 Young scholars conducting research in the public interest bring together a kaleidoscopic array of themes in social science. We asked experts at @umisr.bsky.social to describe their work in just 6 words: www.youtube.com/shorts/Y4y-3... @um-src.bsky.social @rcgd-isr.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social

Find out how #KohnProfessor @pamherd.bsky.social and the Better Government Lab are helping state governments navigate new Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program pressures without losing sight of access in this fall’s State & Hill. Read: https://myumi.ch/qwEd2

@pamherd.bsky.social: "If you make it harder for people to receive benefits, fewer people will receive benefits." The @fordschool.bsky.social features the work of the Better Government Lab to help states address new burdens and barriers on SNAP. myumi.ch/Z8NAQ

Cell phones in schools: Brian Jacob, Justin Heinze, and Elyse Thulin are examining not only how students use phones during the school day, but the effects of restrictions schools place on the devices. A @fordschool.bsky.social feature: myumi.ch/5w5MG @um-ypl.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social

How do expectations about divorce shape decisions within marriage? Join our next Speaker Series event, where U-M economist Basit Zafar will discuss his research on beliefs about divorce, work, and household finances. Oct. 15, 12–1:30 p.m. · ISR Thompson, Room 6050 Details & RSVP: myumi.ch/2jDjm

Check out this opportunity from @umnanda.bsky.social:

👏 Congratulations to Amanda Kowalski, who has been elected as a fellow of the International Association for Applied Econometrics. Her significant work on clinical trials, vaccine access, and health spending have helped to inform policies and guidelines to benefit patients. #EconSky lnkd.in/gTi6iibC

☕ Can't wait for Sarah Burgard's brief interview *today* with special guest John Kubale of ICPSR. Join us for coffee chats monthly Tuesdays at 10 in the PSC director's bay. All are welcome. 💚

Promoting savings reduces spending on alcohol, transactional sex, and gambling among high-risk men in western Kenya, from Thirumurthy, Bair, @deanyang.bsky.social, Egbe, Ayieko, Wesonga, Napierala, Celum, Putt, Camlin, and Ayallo www.nber.org/papers/w35833

PSC alum Shoshana Shapiro: Black and Hispanic populations are shortchanged by the nonprofit safety net; for every nonprofit dollar spent per capita in predominantly white counties, just 38 cents is spent in majority Black communities. @fordschool.bsky.social Policy recs and more: myumi.ch/G7emq

PSC will run a skills clinic Oct. 7 to help investigators publishing research meet NIH requirements. ISR Information Resources Specialist Gabriella Oudsema presents at this hybrid event: psc.isr.umich.edu/events/psc-t...

The sweetest coffee chat is the UM Population Studies Center coffee chat. Join us for baked goods and a brief interview with special guest John Kubale of ICPSR on Oct. 6 at 10. All are welcome!

Ken-Hou Lin's research on US LinkedIn profiles shows that men signal more high-status skills across every competency domain. Join us for today's PSC Brown Bag Speaker Series live and online at noon! https://psc.isr.umich.edu/events/lin26/

Global health research can pay off at home, too. In The Conversation, ISR researcher Josh Ehrlich explains how investments abroad have led to new treatments, vaccines, stronger health systems and economic returns in the U.S. @umichnews.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social

ISR Director Kate Cagney spoke with WEMU about U-M’s new Center for American Dialogue, which will launch programming this fall to help people practice productive conversation across differences through in-person and online experiences.

A new review finds that while there is a growing body of evidence on minors’ experiences with abortion, there are many missed opportunities to generate needed data. More from @juliemaslowsky.bsky.social @lauralindberg.bsky.social et al @contraceptionjl.bsky.social: psc.isr.umich.edu/news/new-rev...

The sweetest coffee chat is the UM Population Studies Center coffee chat. Join us for baked goods and a brief interview with special guest John Kubale of ICPSR on Oct. 6 at 10. All are welcome!

Ken-Hou Lin's research on LinkedIn profiles confirms that men report more analytical, technical, and math skills, while women claim more relational, emotional ones. But men signal more high-status skills across every competency domain. Lin joins the PSC Brown Bag Speaker Series Oct. 5 at noon.

How are shifting demographics shifting the nation? Join @brookings.edu for an event Wednesday marking the release of the 3rd ed. of of William Frey’s book, “Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America.” Register to attend (hybrid): www.brookings.edu/events/futur...

We are so pleased that Shu Xu will be continuing her research at SRC's Demography of Aging, Disability and Care (DADC), which houses @micda-umisr.bsky.social

Shu Xu: "I cannot speak for all, but for me this is the perfect place for doing research." Xu and Cayley Ryan-Claytor spoke with us about what makes @um-psc.bsky.social and @um-src.bsky.social at @umisr.bsky.social a supportive environment for postdocs. #MentorshipAtISR youtube.com/shorts/L9kIW...

PSC will run a skills clinic Oct. 7 to help investigators publishing research meet NIH requirements. ISR Information Resources Specialist Gabriella Oudsema presents at this hybrid event: psc.isr.umich.edu/events/psc-t...

PSC postdoc Cayley Ryan-Claytor is working to answer 2 big questions: How do we use the resources we have to shape our health across the life course? And how are these strategies changing in the context of aging societies? Presenting at the #ISRNextGeneration poster session Oct. 14: myumi.ch/nVrJ5

Ren Farley, a force of nature, dedicated his life to addressing racial inequality and residential segregation. He left a mark on demography, on the city of Detroit, and on all the people in his orbit. myumi.ch/G7974

incredible synergies across ISR centers on this critical public health and social phenomenon, and what we might do about it

Demographers today:

Demographers at the PSC picnic— Rain O̶r̶ AND Shine @burgards.bsky.social @sashakillewald.bsky.social

#SuicidePreventionMonth asks Americans to talk more openly about a leading cause of death. That conversation is being reshaped by @kzivin.bsky.social, Lisa Wexler, and Briana Mezuk, whose new approaches look beyond the numbers, into the contexts and lived experiences behind them. myumi.ch/Ax4Vx

💗 Meet the new postdocs at @um-psc.bsky.social! @nathanfranz.bsky.social, @jessiehimmel.bsky.social, and @michaeltopping.bsky.social shared their research projects (summary in the link!) at PSC's kick-off brown bag seminar. @umisr.bsky.social @burgards.bsky.social psc.isr.umich.edu/news/meet-th...

👏 Congratulations to Brendan Moore, a U-M economics postdoc working in Amanda Kowalski's lab, who has won the Dissertation Award from @natltax.bsky.social. He studies how workers experience job loss and how social insurance policies can help them navigate economic shocks. #EconSky lnkd.in/gb44BjWn

Meet Charles Katulamu, a postdoc affiliate and alum of @um-psc.bsky.social. He is continuing his work on maternal health care in Uganda with a mobile app project to promote consistent use of Lenacapvir, a new injectable for preventing HIV. myumi.ch/bDq1r

Critical expertise from @um-psc.bsky.social affiliate @natashap.bsky.social on new family housing strategies

We get to work with the best people @um-psc.bsky.social including brand new postdocs!

We are thrilled to share that Rick Lowe’s public art project, Black Wall Street Journey, opens in less than 2 weeks at the #Umich Museum of Art Taubman Gallery. The exhibit includes “Kinship Networks,” a reimagining of the PSID’s own Family Tree. Don’t miss your chance to see it! myumi.ch/7JX91

@pamherd.bsky.social on @npr.org this weekend on how new Medicaid work requirements will affect people with disabilities ⬇️

This piece from @pamherd.bsky.social almost a year ago explains the deliberate administrative dysfunction created by the OBBBA. The coverage loss was baked into the economic estimates to justify Trump's tax cuts. People can't get help to buy groceries. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

Come on over! @um-psc.bsky.social kicks off its fall coffee chat series this morning with special postdoc guests @katulamucharles.bsky.social and Hannah Tessler. Welcome to all!

In a new Milbank Quarterly guest Opinion, @monahanna.bsky.social and Luke Shaefer, founders of Rx Kids — a community-wide maternal and infant cash prescription program — describe the "place-based targeted universalism” approach used in the program.