In a Michigan jail, educational programming led to a reduction in incarceration-based harms.

New research is showing a clearer cause and effect for many veterans.

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.