Excited for the first week of the semester! The number of students signing up for my demography class is reaching 120! This is a big deal as the average class size at Yale tends to be small. So thrilled to see this much love for demography among the younger generation!!!!

New in inequality research: Using relative distribution methods, UM Population Studies Center alum Siwei Cheng New York University et al offer a useful approach for analyzing economic polarization. Full abstract below. Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… In addition to overall dispersion, the

📅The Fall 2024 UM Population Studies Center Brown Bag Series starts Sept. 16 with an introduction to our postdocs, and a lineup that includes Hanna Wang, Julie Maslowsky, Kim Korinek, Christina J. Cross and Christine Exley. Save the dates! psc.isr.umich.edu/events/

Morgan Chambers, speaking on Youth Policy Lab, describes her research project with UM Population Studies Center trainee Erykah Noelle, relating school engagement and depression among high school students.

Kamri Hudgins Kamri Hudgins shares a 🧵on her work on Black Reparations, published in this summer's Russell Sage Foundation special issue. #ISRNextGeneration coauthors include Erykah Noelle, Zoe Walker, and Sydney L. Carr, PhD with Center for Political Studies mentors mara c. ostfeld and Vincent Hutchings et al.

⚡️We've got some of those at UM Population Studies Center! Happy #PowerRangers day to you too, @PRBData.

🎵 Go, go, Data Rangers! 🎸 ⚡ Happy #PowerRangers Day to our hardworking friends/full-time data heroes at @um_psc! ⚡

1 MONTH until the deadline for #PAA2025 submissions! ow.ly/fVFe50T36Mm

Few studies have assessed cities’ progress on heat planning. New research combines plan evaluation approaches from the frontlines of the Southwest that can be used by communities everywhere. UM Population Studies Center alum Sara Meerow first authors: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Using evidence from a video-based nutrition-sensitive agriculture program in Ethiopia, a World Bank working paper co-authored by UM Population Studies Center alum Rachael Pierotti reveals benefits of targeting both men and women with information. econpapers.repec.org/paper/wbkwbrwp…

ICYMI: U-M ISR featured our own Student Fellow Giovanni Román-Torres! Learn about Gio’s journey to Michigan Sociology . Thanks for the great story Jon Meerdink UM Population Studies Center isr.umich.edu/news-events/ne…

Very excited to be hosting this conference University of Notre Dame, co-organized w/Katherine Michelmore (@Umich). Also, grateful for additional support from ND's Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEIatND), Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts), & the legendary Stata.

“Cash transfers probably do less to improve people’s lives than the proponents of them thought that they would,” says Sarah Miller UM Population Studies Center, who led the largest US experiment investigating unconditional transfers: nytimes.com/2024/08/30/bus…

Join us for the kickoff of the Fall 2024 Research Center for Group Dynamics seminar series on the social psychology of systemic racism! Series organizer Nick Camp introduces the series Sept. 9 and gives the first talk Sept. 16. Mondays at 3:30. myumi.ch/M6k4p

The Center for Racial Justice at Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy presents a pre-election panel Sept. 9 on "Immigration on the Ballot," with mara c. ostfeld Center for Political Studies, Kristina Fullerton Rico, William D. Lopez and Angela S. García. fordschool.umich.edu/event/2024/imm…

A new Social Forces paper that shows FQHCs improved health care access for undocumented workers in the US is also the story of T32 postdocs coming together. Emily Parker said this work, with Dr. Courtney Boen, PhD, MPH and Rebecca Anna Schut, emerged out of a PAA practice talk session.

☕️ Our fall series of UM Population Studies Center coffee chats kicks off Sept. 10, with a flash presentation featuring Mike Mueller-Smith 🏳️‍🌈 of CJARS. Save all the dates!

Here is the link for the book discount. Pamela Herd 🐀 and Don Moynihan ‘s Administrative Burden is a personal favorite of mine. russellsage.org/welcome-apsa

#UmichSoc grad student Sofia Hiltner's latest article, "Fossil fuel industry influence in higher education: A review and a research agenda," is out now in WIREs Climate Change! 🌍📘 Explore Hiltner’s insightful Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews review: myumi.ch/N6xQk

Adoption from China is deeply enmeshed in its population politics. This The New York Times piece on China’s sudden ban of foreign adoption opened with Prof Wang Feng’s insights that position the current moment in the long chain reactions of the one-child policy. I also shared some thoughts