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Family Economic Well-being and Children’s Educational Development Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sociologist Margot Jackson and Psychologist Taryn Morrissey examine the effects of state-level public spending on programs targeting children.
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Cultural Anthropologist Jessaca Leinaweaver examines the various ways that children receive, are denied, and provide care.
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Sociologist and Demographer Courtney Boen is on a team developing a multi-level intervention strategy for Black neighborhoods in Philadelphia, in order to reduce health inequities perpetuated by structural racism.
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Recent In the Media
The American Sociological Association announced its Inaugural Policy Outreach Fellows this week, and Emily Rauscher was named one of the 10 sociologists who will meet over the next year with the aim of honing skills in communicating with the media and translating complex scientific information from sociological research into plain language for policymakers and the public.
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MDPI is pleased to announce that Dr. Kevin M. Mwenda has been appointed Associate Editor of Populations.
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Brown Professor Speaks to UK Parliament on Social and Economic Mobility
John Friedman spoke to the UK House of Lords’ Social Mobility Policy Committee recently about his research on social and economic mobility.
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