Nov 3, 2015 CPC’s Carolina Demography launched a series on reapportionment and redistricting on Monday, November 2nd. “Reapportionment and redistricting shape the political landscape for the 10 years between census and have profound impacts on citizens,” said Rebecca Tippett, Director … Read more

Nov 3, 2015 A new report from CPC’s Carolina Demography examines population trends to predict likely shifts in the nation’s political geography. Every decade, following the decennial Census, the 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are allocated to … Read more

Oct 7, 2015 The Network on Life Course Health Dynamics & Disparities in 21st Century America website was launched on October 6, 2015.  Bob Hummer is CPC’s PI on this collaborative project, working with colleagues at the University of Southern … Read more

Oct 6, 2015 The Population Association of America announced the results of the recent election of its officers and Board of Directors. Robert Hummer is Vice President-elect and Amy Tsui is President-elect. Robert Hummer is the Howard W. Odum Professor … Read more

Oct 5, 2015 UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted an announcement about a recently published article co-authored by Carolina Population Center Faculty Fellow Barry M. Popkin. This is an excerpt of the announcement: More than 80 percent of … Read more

Sep 3, 2015 The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health recently released a Research Brief using the study’s data. “Lifestyle and Behavior in Young Adulthood” provides a snapshot of the lifestyle habits of young adults in the U.S. … Read more

Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey – HSE data is now available via Dataverse Data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey – Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE) is now available for researchers to access via Dataverse. The RLMS-HSE is a series of … Read more

Sep 1, 2015 Access the new Add Health Codebook Explorer (ACE) to search for questions administered in the In-School and In-Home Interviews Interested in browsing the Add Health In-School and In-Home interviews for questions related to a specific topic, or … Read more

Aug 24, 2015 A recent study by Kathleen Mullan Harris and her co-authors found that there is a causal connection between a person’s polygenic score and the years of education they achieve. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of … Read more

Aug 17, 2015 CPC Fellow Linda Adair is now leading the Social Sciences and Population Studies ‘A’ Study Section for NIH. UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted a news story about her new role, this is an excerpt: … Read more