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 |
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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) | Siân 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 |
Associated People
Allison Aiello
Epidemiology
Gustavo Angeles
Maternal and Child Health
Clare Barrington
Health Behavior
Richard E. Bilsborrow
Biostatistics
Kenneth A. Bollen
Psychology & Neuroscience and Dept of Sociology
Barbara Entwisle
Sociology
Luca Flabbi
Economics
Elizabeth Frankenberg
Sociology and Public Policy
Jane Cooley Fruehwirth
Economics
Penny Gordon-Larsen
Nutrition
Clark Gray
Geography
David K. Guilkey
Economics
Guang Guo
Sociology
Jacqueline M. Hagan
Sociology
Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa
Public Policy
Taylor Hargrove
Sociology
Kathleen Mullan Harris
Sociology
Robert Hummer
Sociology
Jon M. Hussey
Maternal and Child Health
Arne L. Kalleberg
Sociology
Douglas Lee Lauen
Public Policy
Joanna “Asia” Maselko
Epidemiology
Jeremy Moulton
Public Policy
Ted Mouw
Sociology
Keely Muscatell
Psychology and Neuroscience
Shu Wen Ng
Nutrition
Andrew F. Olshan
Epidemiology
Krista M. Perreira
Social Medicine
Audrey E. Pettifor
Epidemiology
Barry M. Popkin
Nutrition
Tonia Poteat
Social Medicine
Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba
Public Policy
Kavita Singh
Maternal and Child Health
Jessica Su
Sociology
Sean Sylvia
Health Policy Management
Amanda L. Thompson
Anthropology
Paul R. Voss
Sociology
Sharon S. Weir
Epidemiology
Katherine Weisshaar
Sociology
Colin West
Anthropology