Inequality, Mobility, and Well-being

What factors drive the desire to invest in education, enter the labor force, relocate to a new city, or even a new country? How do these cumulative decisions contribute to overall levels of development and inequality for the population? CPC faculty fellows take advantage of rich data available through Federal Statistical Research Data Centers and harness variations in the introduction of new policies to understand the dynamics of these dimensions of population change.

Associated Projects

Project	Principal Investigator	Description	Tags	Countries
A Perfect Match? How Job Demands Shape Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring	Katherine Weisshaar	The project will examine whether and how job demands - the required skills and experiences associated with a job opening - are associated with gender and racial discrimination levels in hiring.		United States of America
Add Health Parent Study: Phase I	Kathleen Mullan Harris	The Add Health Parent Study (2015-2017), gathered social, behavioral, and health survey data in 2015-2017 on a probability sample of the Add Health parents who were originally interviewed in 1995.	Demography, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Race/Gender/Age/SES	United States of America
Cardiovascular Health of Sexual and Gender Minorities in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos	Tonia Poteat; Krista M. Perreira	The goal of this study is to examine relationships between sexual/gender minority stress, coping, social support, and heart disease - a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among Hispanic/Latinos in the U.S.		United States of America
Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence (CT & IPV) Research Collaborative	Clare Barrington	Advancing the research agenda linking cash transfers and IPV—defining and contributing evidence to knowledge gaps, bringing coherence to future research plans, and disseminating research findings—in order to effectively leverage cash programming for IPV prevention among poor and vulnerable women in low- and middle-income settings.
Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls and young Women to Reduce Sexual Risk in Tanzania: A Qualitative and Behavioral Economics Assessment of the CARE Study	Audrey E. Pettifor	Examining the experiences of adolescent girls and young women who were part of the CARE Study.	Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	United Republic of Tanzania
Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey	Linda S. Adair	A longitudinal study following new mothers and their infants over 30+ years of life course development.	Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Philippines
China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS)	Barry M. Popkin; Penny Gordon-Larsen	CHNS examines how the social and economic development of Chinese society is affecting the health of its population.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	China
Data for Impact (D4I)	Sian L. Curtis	We strengthen the technical and organizational capacity of local partners to collect, analyze, and use data to support their move to self-reliance.	Data Science, Interventions and Evaluation, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Bangladesh, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe
Developing and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Pictorial Health Warnings on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Overcome Language and Literacy Barriers	Marissa Hall; Lindsey Smith Taillie	Our proposed project aims to design and evaluate pictorial health warnings on SSBs, with a long-term goal of informing policies that can improve diet, prevent obesity, and ultimately prevent type 2 diabetes and other cardiometabolic diseases among Latino children.		United States of America
Drivers and Consequences of Climate-Induced Migration in Africa	Clark Gray	This project will provide new insight into climate-induced migration in Sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on how this process varies over space and how destination areas are affected.	Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES
Early Life Mortality in the United States	Robert Hummer	This project seeks to better understand early life mortality (ages 0-24) in the United States in the context of substantial racial/ethnic inequality and very rapid socioeconomic and family changes that have occurred in recent decades.	Race/Gender/Age/SES	United States of America
Ecuador Projects	Stephen J. Walsh; Richard E. Bilsborrow	This program investigates the social, economic, and demographic effects on land use change among colonist and indigenous communities in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Ecuador
Evolution of Well-Being among Older Adults	Elizabeth Frankenberg	Looking at longer-term consequences of large-scale disasters on the health and well-being of older adults.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Indonesia
Full Access, Full Choice: Increasing Youth's Access to Expanded Method Choice	Ilene S. Speizer	The project will help fill gaps in existing global, country, and program-level data and information to support future evidence-informed investments on expanded contraceptive method choice among youth.	Race/Gender/Age/SES
Impact of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer on Beneficiaries' Vulnerabilities Throughout the Life Cycle	Clare Barrington	Identfying vulnerable sub-groups receiving unconditional cash transfers in Malawi, and identifying ways in which the Social Cash Transfer Programme can enhance its positive effect on their well-being.	Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Malawi
LAMHA - Latino Adolescent Migration, Health and Adaptation Project	Krista M. Perreira	Examining the mental health status and needs of recent Latino immigrant youth and their primary caretakers in North Carolina.	Race/Gender/Age/SES	North Carolina, United States of America
Longer Term Effects of a Natural Disaster on Health and Socio-Economic Status	Elizabeth Frankenberg	This project will collect and analyze data from Sumatra, Indonesia, on how children and prime-age adults are affected by and respond to a large-scale natural disaster, the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, which killed an estimated 160,000. The Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR) is a longitudinal survey of individuals, households, communities, and facilities in the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Indonesia
Mapping North Carolina's public postsecondary education pipeline	Rebecca Tippett	Mapping out a complete picture of North Carolina's postsecondary educational pipeline and identifying the biggest opportunities for improvement	Demography, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Race/Gender/Age/SES	North Carolina, United States of America
MEASURE Evaluation	James Thomas	MEASURE Evaluation’s mission is to contribute to better health for people living in low-income countries by assisting governments and health institutions to generate and use information to change what doesn’t work and to scale up what does.	Data Science, Interventions and Evaluation, Multi-level Approaches	Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Eastern Caribbean, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Republic of Moldova, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Monitoring Social Change: Health, Reproduction, Aging	Barry M. Popkin	Adding a follow-up survey to collect and analyze biomarker data from participants in the China Health Nutrition Study.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	China
Multilevel mechanisms of HIV acquisition in young South African women	Audrey E. Pettifor	Identifying social determinants and their pathways of effect that shape HIV risk among young women in sub-Saharan Africa, a population that bears an enormous burden of disease.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	South Africa
Nang Rong Projects	Stephen J. Walsh; Ronald R. Rindfuss; Barbara Entwisle	A team collected information from more than 50,000 individuals as well as from administrative records, meteorological data, satellite images, and many other sources over a span of 20 years in the Nang Rong district in northeast Thailand.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Thailand
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health	Kathleen Mullan Harris	The Add Health Wave V Program Project will add new data to the existing longitudinal multilevel social, behavioral, biological, and genetic data to create an unparalleled scientific resource for investigating the developmental origins of health and disease.	Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	United States of America
Network on Life Course Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America	Robert Hummer	A research network investigating how and why the United States is increasingly falling behind virtually all comparably developed/wealthy nations		United States of America
Nutrition Transition Program	Barry M. Popkin	A set of research projects that study the rapid increases in inactivity and obesity, and the associated rise in noncommunicable diseases, that have occurred along with other rapid social and economic changes in the developing world.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES
Policy Options to Improve Educational Impact of the Malawi SCTP	Clare Barrington	Investigating why school-aged children in Malawi continue to drop out of school at high rates, despite households in Malawi receiving an unconditional school bonus for school-aged children.		Malawi
Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE (RLMS-HSE)	Barry M. Popkin	The RLMS is a household-based longitudinal survey designed to measure the effects of Russian reforms on the economic well-being of households and individuals.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Russian Federation
Searching for Clean Air and Sustainable Energy Transitions in Yangon	Pamela Jagger	An estimated 10-15% of Yangon's 5 million residents are considered 'unofficial', residing in high density, peri-urban, and often informal settlements.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course
Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health Across the Life Course	Carolyn Tucker Halpern	Exploring how sexual orientation/gender identity and socioeconomic status intersect and contribute to health and disease across the life course.	Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES	United States of America
Socioeconomic and Racial Gaps in Schools: Implications for Health and Employment	Kathleen Mullan Harris	For lower SES and racial minority children, school experiences are often characterized by inequalities in which they are disadvantaged relative to higher SES and White children.	Multi-level Approaches	United States of America
Southern Immigrant Academic Adaptation Study (SIAA)	Krista M. Perreira	SIAA is a population-based study examining of the daily acculturation experiences and academic adaptation of Latino youth in a new receiving community.	Longitudinal/Life-Course, Race/Gender/Age/SES	North Carolina, United States of America
Stepping Stones and Ladders: The Sources of the Mobility of Low Wage Workers in the United States, 1996-2012	Ted Mouw	Analyzing the conditions under which low-wage workers achieve upward mobility.		United States of America
Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery	Elizabeth Frankenberg	The Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR) provides data and analyses regarding the long-term impact of exposure to an extreme event, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, on population health and well-being.	Biomarkers, Data Science, Demography, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Race/Gender/Age/SES	Indonesia
Supporting Evidence-based Policy Making in sub-Saharan Africa through the Transfer Project	Gustavo Angeles	A multi-country cash transfer research initiative to find out if and how cash transfers impact other aspects of people's lives.	Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES
Tailoring Teaching to Fit the Class: Teaching Practice and Classroom Composition Under Random Assignment	Jane Cooley Fruehwirth	The main purpose of this project is to explore teaching practice through the lens of classroom composition (based on student initial achievement, race, socioeconomic status, and gender).	Race/Gender/Age/SES	United States of America
The effect of poverty, stress and immune function on health across the life-course	Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa	This project assess the medium term impact of a large-scale national anti-poverty program on disease and health risk of young adults age (19-25) and their parents or caregivers (age 55-65).		Malawi, Kenya
Transfer Project	Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa	The Transfer Project is a multi-country cash transfer research initiative.	Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES
U.S. Social Welfare Policy and the Size and Scope of the U.S. Criminal Justice Population	Carmen Gutierrez	Gutierrez will examine whether and how the ACA influences the size, composition, and geographic distribution of the U.S. criminal justice population.		United States of America
Understanding the risk profile of young women's male partners in rural South Africa.	Audrey E. Pettifor	Assessing the empirical data on the male partners of young women in sub-Saharan African who are at very high risk of HIV infection.		South Africa