Carolina Population Center Fellow Dr. Kavita Arora received the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, recognizing her outstanding work in her field. She is an expert in disparities surrounding sterilization and reproductive bioethics. Her research covers contraceptive care, LGBTQ … Read more
Carolina Population Center Fellow Dr. Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa was awarded the 2025 Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement by the UNC Center for Faculty Excellence. A professor since 2003, Dr. Handa is the Kenan Eminent Professor of Public Policy at UNC … Read more
New research from the Carolina Population Center shows that when a man’s yearly income reaches a certain tax threshold, it can negatively influence what his female partner earns due to conventional divisions of household labor. A recent study by Carolina … Read more
Carolina Population Center Fellow Dr. Amanda Thompson was recently named a Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy.
The Carolina-Duke rivalry is arguably one of the greatest, but when it comes to the population sciences, faculty are often close research collaborators and good friends. This was showcased September 6, 2024 as the Carolina Population Center (CPC) hosted friends … Read more
The Carolina Population Center’s Faculty Fellows elected nine UNC faculty members to join the CPC Fellows program in 2024. Kavita Arora, School of Medicine (Obstetrics/Gynecology) Dr. Kavita Shah Arora is an Associate Professor with Tenure and the Division Director for … Read more
The Covid-19 pandemic had an unprecedented effect on college students’ mental health: symptoms like anxiety and major depression in young adults ages 18-25 increased significantly compared to before the pandemic. A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill … Read more
The following data are now available to Add Health contract researchers. Wave V Contextual Despair This contextual data set focuses on the social, political, and resource environment of Add Health respondents at the tract, county, and state level that are … Read more
In 2004, a pair of economists published a landmark study to measure discrimination in the labor market. In the study, the researchers applied to real job openings with fictitious applicants but change the applicant names to reflect a different gender or … Read more
On April 30, the academy announced the election of 120 new members and 24 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to membership in the academy is considered one of the highest honors … Read more
