Sep 12, 2012 The research project is called “The Relationship between Soil Degradation, Rural Livelihoods, and Household Well-Being.” Clark Gray, Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow and UNC-Chapel Hill Assistant Professor of Geography, is the project’s principal investigator. His research team … Read more

Sep 12, 2012 The Guardian’s story is: Kenyan study shows that cash-transfer payments reduce sexual risk: New research shows that cash payments reduce risky sexual behaviour and HIV infection among orphans and children. Read it here. The study was conducted … Read more

Sep 11, 2012 Yang Yang, Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow, was awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. The prize recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or recently tenured faculty. Yang … Read more

Aug 20, 2012 S. Philip Morgan and co-authors Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Christine Bachrach and Hans Peter Kohler received the 2012 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social Demography on Sunday. The award was presented to Morgan by the American … Read more

J. Richard Udry, esteemed population studies scholar and Carolina Population Center’s Director from 1977 – 1992, died at his home on Sunday, July 29, 2012. He was 83. Dick Udry joined the UNC faculty as Associate Professor of Maternal and … Read more

Aug 17, 2012 The Academy of Management selected Arne L. Kalleberg’s book for its annual George R. Terry Book Award. The book, ‘Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s to … Read more

Aug 16, 2012 In a recent post on the Global Health Policy blog, Amanda Glassman and Denizhan Duran evaluate several programs that use cash transfers to reduce HIV-related risky behaviors among young people. Cash Transfers: Good for HIV/AIDS Too includes … Read more

Aug 1, 2012 S. Philip Morgan, an internationally known sociologist and population scientist, has been named the new director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He will also become a UNC professor … Read more

Jul 16, 2012 The Lancet published an important series of articles on family planning in its July 14, 2012 issue. That issue also includes a profile of Amy Tsui who is “a scholar, an outstanding researcher, a leader in her … Read more

Jul 6, 2012 News story is cross-posted from the Add Health website here. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, UNC researchers have found that women who are overweight or obese years before becoming pregnant deliver babies … Read more