With support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Office of Behavioral Science and University of Colorado Population Center are hosting the 6th annual conference entitled Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences.
A September NBER working paper by Randall Akee, E. Jane Costello, and colleagues describes the power of cash to offset poverty's effects on child personality and behavior.
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10/11/2015
Joseph Lariscy, a Sociology postdoctoral fellow in DUPRI’s National Institute on Aging-funded training program, has received the Minnesota Population Center's 2014 IPUMS-USA Research Award for the "best published or
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7/19/2015
A research team led by Dan Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, and Terrie Moffitt at Duke University reports that the process of aging is already highly variable among people still in their 20s and 30s Young people who are aging rapidly are already showing signs of physical and cognitive decline in the
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7/05/2015
DURHAM, N.C. -- Looking around at a 20th high school reunion, you might notice something puzzling about your classmates. Although they were all born within months of each other, these 38-year-olds appear to be aging at different rates.
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7/05/2015
CAROLINA POPULATION CENTER
400 MEADOWMONT VILLAGE CIRCLE, ROOM 200
SEMINAR: 1:00PM – 5:15PM
RECEPTION: 5:15-6:00PM
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5/13/2015
The third seminar will focus on Sensitive Periods, Plasticity and Resilience and will feature brief presentations by:
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4/21/2015
Jessi Streib's editorial in the Washington Post explores the themes of her new book, "The Power of the Past: Understanding Cross-Class Marriages" (Oxford University Press, 2015) in the context of increasing economic segregation.
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3/25/2015
New York Magazine's "Science of Us" column interviewed Jessi Streib about her new book The Power of the Past (Oxford University Press, 2015) exploring what happens when people from different classes get married.
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2/22/2015