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
April 2024 QMLC newsletter
Please find below an exciting opportunity at University of Maryland for a postdoctoral fellow interested in working on a newly awarded NIH R01. The work is related to the measurement of structural racism and health inequalities. This time, we are … Read more
Senators Sanders (I-VT) and Booker (D-NJ) introduced a Senate bill on childhood diabetes that was based on research from the UNC Global Food Research Program as well as Lindsey Smith Taillie’s testimony in the Senate last December. Taillie is a … Read more
Clark Gray and Maia Call received the 2023 IPUMS Research Award in the category of published research using IPUMS Spatial data. Their paper, “Heat and drought reduce subnational population growth in the global tropics” was published in Population and Environment … Read more
