University Research Week will take place at UNC from October 23-27. You can see all events here. Below, we have listed all of the events that feature an affiliate of the Carolina Population Center. Galapagos Seed Grant Program 2023-34 Q&A … Read more

In 2016, a California policy (Senate Bill 277) eliminated nonmedical vaccination exemptions for school entry. Afterwards medical exemptions for kindergarteners increased, and California tightened restrictions on medical exemptions through two Senate bills (collectively SB276) passed in 2019. A new research … Read more

Faculty Fellow Stephanie Martin recently co-authored a blog post entitled “The Psychosocial Resources Caregivers Need to Provide Nurturing Care: How Can We Help?” for USAID Advancing Nutrition, the Agency’s flagship multi-sectorial nutrition project. Martin and other researchers detail how nutrition … Read more

CHAPEL HILL, NC—The Carolina Population Center (CPC) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was awarded a new $90 million cooperative agreement by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement the Global Health Program Evaluation, … Read more

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) recently convened a committee of experts to conduct a comprehensive study of intergenerational poverty in the United States. Faculty Fellow Fenaba Addo served as a member of the Committee, which released … Read more

The US Census Bureau released the 2022 1-Year American Community Survey (ACS) data on September 14. The ACS is a rolling monthly survey that reports socioeconomic characteristics – income, poverty, educational attainment, commuting, etc. – of the population annually.  ACS … Read more

New research by Anna Manzoni and Jane Lee published in Sociological Perspectives challenges the notion of complete independence as a necessary marker of adulthood. The two researchers examine how parents and children exchange both financial and housing resources over their … Read more