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“Recognizing the important role that fathers, mothers and other adults play in the health-seeking behavior of boys and girls, and especially in rural areas, is crucial to getting adolescents into formal health system for information and treatment.”
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"Simply ending the one-child policy, without additional institutional measures that address the issue of work-life incompatibility for women, may not successfully boost fertility level."
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Balancing Rigor, Replication, and Relevance.
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NGOs, government agencies, and scholars have been trying to increase awareness and involvement of young men in SRH matters for at least three decades, with mixed results at best.
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The postpartum period is a major life transition that most women go through, often multiple times.
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Economic incentives to improve HIV prevention and treatment
Omar Galárraga explores innovative approach to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of HIV in low-income and middle-income countries.
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Katherine Mason discusses how the 2003 outbreak of the SARS virus drastically changed China's public health system.
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Remembering Sidney Goldstein
On August 5, 2019, the Population Studies and Training Center lost a visionary scholar, founding director, and beloved mentor Sidney Goldstein.
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PSTC Faculty Associate Stelios Michalopoulos received the distinguished scientific award for social sciences as part of the Bodossaki Foundation’s Scientific Prizes for 2019.
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Harsher punishment leads to more suspensions for black kids
Elementary schools discipline black students more harshly than white students, leading to a considerable racial gap in expulsion and suspension, according to a new study published by PSTC Associate Jayanti Owens.
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Four PSTC faculty associates were named endowed chairs by the Corporation of Brown University in May.
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PSTC Postdoc Maria Steenland examines a Medicaid reimbursement policy's impact on long-acting contraception use in South Carolina.
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PSTC Faculty Associate and Professor of Economics Anna Aizer publishes findings on long-term outcomes of children born to teen mothers.
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Dennis Hogan Receives Honor from PAA
PSTC Faculty Associate Dennis Hogan was recently named an Honored Member of the Population Association of America in recognition of his contributions to the field of demography.
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Two PSTC associates win PAA poster awards
Congratulations to PSTC Faculty Associate Jayanti Owens and PSTC Alumna Xuan Zhang for their PAA Poster Awards.
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PSTC graduating trainees to begin new positions
From the Federal Reserve Bank to the University of Michigan, PSTC postdoctoral fellows and graduating trainees will be putting their population studies training to work.
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PSTC Trainee awarded Rome Prize
Berhane was awarded the 2019 Rome Prize for her work investigating the experiences of Eritrean refugees in Bologna, Italy.
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Cribsheet - A new guide to data-driven parenting
Oster cuts through the often overwhelming and contradictory information currently available to new parents to highlight reputable data so that parents may feel more confident about their choices.
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Neighborhoods, which change over time, have major effects on the health and well-being of their residents.
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Foster receives mentoring award
PSTC Faculty Associate Andrew Foster was awarded the 2018-19 Graduate School Faculty Award for Advising and Mentoring.
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Mexico-U.S. migration from the Mexican perspective
Series features top Mexican migration scholars providing current research findings and perspective on the future of Mexico-U.S. migration.
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PSTC sociologist Margot Jackson to produce the first research to comprehensively examine the effects of public investments on inequality in family behavior and child well-being.
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GIS and improving maternal health
GIS Institute participants present research with a GIS perspective.
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The PSTC's Elizabeth Fussell to create data sets to examine outcomes in decade following hurricane.
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Former PSTC director named AAAS fellow
John Casterline elected for prestigious honor for his contributions to the field of social demography.
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PSTC awards faculty seed funds
Four faculty associates receive funding for projects on housing and health, adolescent life, racial disparities and household strategies.
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Kevin Escudero and Andrea Flores coordinate event to address the importance of place in immigrant activism.
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New junior faculty join PSTC community
Four new faculty members drawn by Center's interdisciplinary nature and more.
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Partner selection in marriage and re-marriage
Sociologist Zhenchao Qian finds previously married individuals often face demographic shortages in the supply of potential partners.
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Study evaluates effect of SNAP on household expenditures
Economists Justine Hastings and Jesse Shapiro find SNAP benefits do indeed lead to increased household spending on food.
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PSTC anthropologist finds Nigerian households develop cultural strategies to cope with infrastructural deficiencies.
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Grant Writing Workshop supports faculty proposals
PSTC workshop provides mentoring to earlier-career faculty for proposal development.
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PSTC Postdoc Eric Seymour examines the post-crisis housing markets and worsening housing security.
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PSTC awarded $1.5 million NICHD training grant
Funding supports postdoctoral and predoctoral trainees in population studies.
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PSTC awards record number of fellowships
Nine predoctoral trainees receive full funding this year.
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Anna Aizer, the first female to earn tenure in Brown’s Department of Economics, is now serving as the first female chair of the department.
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PSTC welcomes new community members (2018)
Faculty associates, visiting scholars, predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees, and staff members join the Center community.
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PSTC Faculty Associate Elizabeth Fussell examines use of data to analyze environmental disasters and their consequences for older adults.
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Caven named Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellow
PSTC Trainee Meghan Caven will teach a course on Schools and Social Inequality at Wheaton College this year.
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PSTC hosts Leadership Alliance students
Three students to do research and be mentored at the PSTC this summer.
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Trainees Tate Kihara, Janet Carolina Lopez, and Haoming Song presented their research at the GIS Institute Conference.
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Newsletter recaps PSTC research and awards
Catch up with the latest in the Spring 2018 edition of the PSTC newsletter.
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BIARI kicks off at Brown and in Kenya
PSTC faculty associates convene Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) on campus and across the globe.
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PSTC alum receives PAA service award
Jennifer Park ('04 PhD in Sociology) has received the 2018 Excellence in Public Service Award from PAA.
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PSTC faculty associates receive University promotions
Several PSTC faculty associates are being promoted by Brown University, effective July 1.
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Oh, the places they’ll go
Predoctoral trainees and postdocs secure placements following completion of the PSTC training program.
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PSTC faculty and alum to present at commencement forums
Mindfulness, incarceration, inter-generational mobility, and migration to be addressed.
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PSTC faculty receive University funding and awards
Five PSTC faculty associates have received Research Seed Funds, Salomon Awards, and a teaching award from Brown University.
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Multiple PSTC affiliates and alum have contributed to the newly published handbook.
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