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

Aug 11, 2015 Post-Ebola, ask the right questions By Antigone Barton on August 10, 2015. The following is a guest post by Kathy Doherty of MEASURE Evaluation The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa exposed the weaknesses of national health … Read more

Aug 3, 2015 UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted a news story about CPC Fellow Audrey Pettifor and her presentation at the recent 8th International Aids Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention. This is an … Read more

Jul 23, 2015 Carolina Population Center Fellow Margaret (Peggy) Bentley was recently elected one of two new faculty directors of the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center. UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health posted this announcement about Bentley’s new role: Margaret … Read more