Institute for Social Research API | Research Themes

Family Migration Context And Early Life Outcomes

Jennifer Glick, Dirgha Ghimire Migration is an increasing global phenomenon impacting individuals and families from most regions of the world. Although migration figures prominently in the family life course of many throughout the world, there is limited understanding of how these dynamics influence the lives of children and adolescents beyond the impact on household economies… Continue reading Family Migration Context And Early Life Outcomes

Impact of relationship factors on physical and psychological health and wellbeing

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Dirgha Ghimire This project studies the associations between courtship processes, marital quality, and marital dissolution in a society just beginning a dramatic transition in marital relationship and behavior. This study will focus on two aspects of marital quality: (1) love and affection (2) disagreement and criticism within marriage, and marital dissolution (separation and divorce). The… Continue reading Impact of relationship factors on physical and psychological health and wellbeing

Scientific and Technical Core

Brady T. West A sub-project of Michigan Research Infrastructure for Population Sciences– The objective of the Scientific and Technical Core (STC) is to advance the overarching objective of this P2C proposal – to design, create, and use new data to advance population science – by enhancing methods used for all three activities, and by providing… Continue reading Scientific and Technical Core

Zhao,Wei

Wei Zhao is a Research Assistant Professor at the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan (UM) and is affiliated with the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH), the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA), the Eisenberg Family Depression Center, and the UM Precision… Continue reading Zhao,Wei

Intergenerational Influences on Marriage, Contraception and Childbearing

William G. Axinn, Brady T. West, Erin Bakshis Ware, Dirgha J. Ghimire Family formation processes, including marriage, divorce, contraception and childbearing, are among the most important factors shaping the health and wellbeing of families and children. The substantial, long-term consequences of the parental family for children’s family formation outcomes are among the most well-documented forces of change… Continue reading Intergenerational Influences on Marriage, Contraception and Childbearing

Kate Duchowny

Dr. Kate Duchowny is a social epidemiologist and research assistant professor in the Social Environment and Health Program at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Her overarching research goal seeks to bridge the social, environmental, and biological determinants of musculoskeletal health and physical functioning in older adults to inform interventions. Dr. Duchowny’s current… Continue reading Kate Duchowny

Cagney,Kathleen Anne

Kathleen Cagney, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Sociology. Her work examines social inequality and its relationship to health with a focus on neighborhood, race, and aging and the life course. Her general aim is to bring insights from urban sociological theory and methods to research on health. In… Continue reading Cagney,Kathleen Anne

Interdisciplinary Research Training Program for International Population Science

Across the past five decades, data creation investments in the U.S. and Western Europe have spurred dramatic breakthroughs in the social and behavioral sciences. The creation of large scientific studies of human behavior and social experience in the general population form a crucial cornerstone of these investments. Because the data from these studies are so… Continue reading Interdisciplinary Research Training Program for International Population Science

Migration, family context, and child health

As international labor migration becomes a more common livelihood strategy globally, this widespread population and social change has profound demographic and health consequences, including for young children left behind by migrating parents or family members. Many children left behind receive remittance income from migrant parents or family members. However, identifying the effects of this additional… Continue reading Migration, family context, and child health