Author Emily Oster, known for her influential book "Expecting Better," introduces her fourth book, "The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications."

I.G.N.I.T.E., a program at Genessee County Jail, is lowering the number of people re-entering the system. Peter Hull, professor of economics at Brown University and the author of a study on the jail’s program, joined the show to discuss I.G.N.I.T.E.’s mission.

Study shows perceptions of 'good' schools are heavily dependent on the preparation of the students entering them.

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Anthropologist Kate Mason about the Pandemic Journaling Project and how important it is to have a record of this time.

The PSTC is now accepting applications from graduate students for summer 2024 research awards. Summer research support nurtures research projects consistent with the PSTC’s mission to promote innovative and high-quality population science.

In 2023, over 108 million people have been forced to flee worldwide, and 41% of these are children under the age of 18. This creates disparities in human development between migrant children and adolescents and those of the host country, which can, however, be mitigated by access to services and regularization programs.

Appearances of Brown University Faculty, Researchers, and Students at the PAA 2024 Annual Meeting | April 17-20, 2024 | Columbus, OH

The PSTC welcomes proposals to advance Brown’s research and distinctive reputation in anthropological demography.

New methods of measuring racism and sexism find a larger, systemic impact.

Deep in the basement of Harvard’s Indian College, John Eliot worked for 14 years to translate and print the Bible. Completed in 1663, Eliot’s Bible was written in Wôpanâak, the language of local Native American tribes.

In its latest look at teacher staffing in the Providence Public School District, the Annenberg Institute at Brown University says it finds cause “for optimism” in how teachers are being retained in the state’s largest school district and an equal cause “for concern.”

With numbers for January showing that inflation stands at 3.1 percent down from 9.1 percent inflation peak in mid-2022, the “soft landing” scenario — reducing the post-COVID era inflation without tipping into a recession—has become the most likely one.

No perfect parenting method exists. But a number of decades ago, educators thought differently – so much so that they acquired babies from local orphanages for home economics students to "parent."

Researchers studying the COVID-19 pandemic will maintain wide access to this paradigm-shifting historical record at its new placement at Syracuse University

Many of those displaced also reported food shortages and predatory scams, according to new data from the Census Bureau.

The Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) offers insight into people’s lives and experiences from May 2020 to 2022 in 55 countries through nearly 27,000 online journal entries of text, images, and audio.

"About half of American adults have hypertension and of them only half of them have it under control," said Dr. Eric Loucks, director of the mindfulness center at Brown, who designed this study.

Compared to students entering kindergarten before the pandemic, current students started school with weaker math and reading skills and were less likely to start school at grade level, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Oxfam International published its inequality report this month, detailing a slew of grim predictions about the ever-widening wealth gap.

Once program co-founder asks, ‘Why couldn't you just teach every kid in America to read one-on-one?’

Sociologist Ananda Martin-Caughey is re-examining social survey data to analyze the impacts of job title stratification.

Suicide and overdoses are among the leading causes of maternal death in the U.S.

Most part-time workers in America are women — leaving them with less access to retirement plans and less money to sock away.

An ongoing project will help the School of Public Health generate recommendations for how to handle another event like COVID-19.

By reevaluating existing data, researchers find the procedure is even more valuable than consensus had indicated.

John Papay's and colleagues' research on "Understanding High Schools’ Effects on Longer-Term Outcomes" was chosen as the most important education study of 2023 by Amber Northern, Vice President of Research for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, during the Research in Review segment of the Institute's last podcast of the year.

To help students regain academic ground lost during the pandemic, schools have often rearranged their class schedules to eke out more time for instruction in individual subjects. But new research suggests adding extra time to the school calendar—rather than rescheduling classes—is what really adds up for students over time.

PSTC researcher Daniel Jordan Smith’s 2022 book documents how citizen-government relationships in Nigeria have been impacted by the state’s infrastructural shortcomings.

The top 1% of American earners now control more wealth than the nation’s entire middle class, federal data show.

Brown University’s Emily Oster says Zelma could democratize school performance data as schools struggle to recover from pandemic.

Brown University analysis of test data shows that ‘recovery is possible,’ but many states lag behind.

A research project called MAPPS is convening a wide array of community members to better understand how social mixing contributes to virus spread, and how that may inform future pandemic response.

Using innovative survey techniques, the project aims to comprehensively document the experiences of migrants to the U.S. from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Before rushing to build the next DARPA, we need to assess the R&D model we have.

Most evaluations of health equity policy have focused on the effects of individual laws. However, multiple laws’ combined effects better reflect the crosscutting nature of structurally racist legal regimes.

The childhood cancer cases and subsequent litigation were chronicled in ‘A Civil Action.’

Childhood experiences have an enormous impact on children’s long-term societal contributions. Experiencing childhood maltreatment is associated with compromised physical and mental health, decreased educational attainment and future earnings, and increased criminal activity.

The differences in how rich and poor children are educated start very early.

Robin Jeffrey, a visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies in Singapore, and Patrick Heller, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University in the U.S., will speak at a session on Kerala economy.

As part of the TestRI research project, PSTC epidemiologist Alexandra B. Collins worked alongside RI community partners to better understand and mitigate local overdose risk.

The scores offer among the most comprehensive national pictures of student learning, pointing to some progress but persistent challenges.

We like to think of the workplace as a meritocracy, but is it really?

Implementing a portfolio of programs and policies to reduce intergenerational poverty would yield a high payoff for children and the entire nation, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Virginia educators say that it will be difficult to find enough tutors to implement Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s new plan to boost test scores for elementary and middle school students.

Dayo Sobowale argues that religion has a way of interfering with states’ capacity for sustainable growth.

In the past few years, Vermont has earned high rankings for its relatively low climate risk. A 2020 ProPublica report classified four Vermont counties as part of the top 10 across the country that are least likely to suffer from climate change effects like wildfires, extreme heat, and sea level rise.

Families are more anxious than ever to find out what happens in school. But there may be value in a measure of not-knowing and not-telling.

Does technology still have what it takes to make life better?

The U.S. had more than 9 million open roles in June, and while that’s down from the peak of 12 million in March 2022, it’s still among the highest number of openings we’ve had since before 2000.

Assistant Professor of Population Studies Meghan Zacher explores potential link between educational inequality and women’s increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.