In 2020, we celebrated two staff milestones: Tom Alarie's 25 years working at PSTC, and Sue Silveira's retirement.

The PSTC colloquia moved online for most of 2020.

PSTC Postdoctoral Research Associate Meghan Zacher studies how natural disasters affect physical health in a new paper.

With a focus on the demographic composition of the editorial teams of flagship quantitative geography journals, Franklin and her team investigated the persistent lack of gender diversity.

In order to collect submissions without being “extractive or intrusive,” users maintain ownership over their submissions and sign consent forms to share their anonymous entries.

PSTC sociologist John Logan describes the history of both informal and legally binding racial segregation between neighborhoods.

Steenland believes that providing long-acting reversible contraception in the immediate postpartum period will give women more control over childbearing.

PSTC economist Emily Oster's dashboard has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, and in her own Opinion article for the Washington Post.

PSTC sociologist Patrick Heller argues that India should invest in social safety nets to protect citizens from future crises.

PSTC biostatistician Joseph Hogan is one author of the editorial that Reuters is summarizing

“Looking at the relationship between paternal education and infant health is another way to understand how parents pass on their educational advantages to their children," Rangel said.

PSTC economist Emily Oster discusses whether schools are sites of significant COVID-19 transmission.

The PSTC Sociologist hopes to understand the extent to which school budget cuts will will increase inequality among students.

PSTC Epidemiologist Meghan Ranney comments on the continued hardship that healthcare workers face.

His work will examine the relationship between governments and health outcomes.

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial data is “potentially groundbreaking,” according to PSTC epidemiologist Mark Lurie, although he emphasized that we have not yet observed any long-term effects.

PSTC historian Linford Fisher sheds light on the colonial context of Providence Plantations, a title that Rhode Islanders voted to remove from the state's full name.

PSTC economist Glenn Loury argues that current narratives of race and white supremacy "remove agency" from Black Americans by blaming societal factors and ignoring patterns of behavior within the Black community.

Both Biden and Trump's platform embody different "tropes" of masculinity to pull in voters, according to PSTC anthropologist Matthew Gutmann.

The researchers used detailed transaction data from a large US grocery retailer in conjunction with nutritional information.

PSTC Epidemiologist Megan Ranney comments on the disaster that looms from COVID-19 spreading during Thanksgiving.

PSTC Economist Glenn Loury believes the term "white supremacy" spins a false narrative about a failing America.

The pace of economic recovery during the pandemic is stalling, according to PSTC Economist John Friedman.

On the podcast Planet Money, PSTC economist Emily Oster discusses her journey to create a COVID-19 School Response Dashboard to provide parents and schools with infection data.