With the proportion of older people increasing in the United States and around the world, we face new challenges and opportunities, particularly in the areas of health care and retirement systems, long-term care, and family supports. To help inform public discussion of such issues and promote the health and well-being of older adults, the National… Continue reading Coordinating Center for the NIA Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Related Dementias
Research Theme: ISR
Killewald,Alexandra Achen
Dr. Killewald uses quantitative methods to study inequality in the contemporary United States. In one line of research, she investigates the gendered intersection of work and family. In a second line of research, she analyzes how wealth inequality persists across generations and the role of intergenerational processes in the racial wealth gap. She is currently… Continue reading Killewald,Alexandra Achen
College and Beyond II
College and Beyond II (CBII) is a data resource for studying the impact and outcomes of higher education. It contains student record and transcript data on bachelor’s-seeking undergraduates enrolled from 2000-2021 at 19 public colleges across seven university systems. In total, CBII contains data on over 1 million students studying a wide range of majors,… Continue reading College and Beyond II
Social, Behavioral, & Economic COVID Coordinating Center
The COVID-19 pandemic presents research challenges for measuring governmental, community, and population responses to a public health crisis. To date, the actions to mitigate disease transmission have been economic, social, and behavioral, as well as medical. These interventions have untold consequences on a wide range of aspects of human and environmental well-being, which we are… Continue reading Social, Behavioral, & Economic COVID Coordinating Center
Research Data Ecosystem
The Research Data Ecosystem will make research data accessible to broaden participation in the frontiers of scientific research. It will accomplish this goal by modernizing the existing software platform so that it supports the entire research lifecycle with an enhanced user experience to increase the ability of researchers to safely and securely access, connect, store,… Continue reading Research Data Ecosystem
New Methods to Support Census Bureau Record Linkage
This project is undertaking research that will improve Census capabilities for entity resolution and record linkage. We have brought together world-class researchers from multiple disciplinary backgrounds, including statistics, survey methodology, economics, history, computer science, and demography. Through this work, we will: build on ongoing projects linking Census data products to themselves, to external surveys, and… Continue reading New Methods to Support Census Bureau Record Linkage
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) is a collaborative, cross-national program of comparative electoral behavior among over 60 election study teams from around the world. The CSES allows examination into how societal, political, economic and structural contexts shape citizen behavior and condition democratic choice; the nature of political and social divisions; and how citizens… Continue reading Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)
The Elections Archive (THEA)
The Elections Archive (THEA) is an archive of detailed, subnational election results and associated materials. Our motivation is to preserve and consolidate these valuable data in one comprehensive and reliable resource that is ready for analysis and publicly available at no cost. This public good is expected to be of use to a range of… Continue reading The Elections Archive (THEA)
American National Election Studies
Founded in 1948, the core mission of the American National Election Study (ANES) is to inform explanations of election outcomes by providing data that support rich hypothesis testing, maximize methodological excellence, measure many variables, and promote comparisons across people, contexts and time. The ANES serves this mission by providing researchers with survey data from a… Continue reading American National Election Studies
Collaborative Research: Impacts of Hard/Soft Skills on STEM Workforce Trajectories
The proposed project will integrate original survey data with university administrative data to support analyses that address the ways in which STEM doctoral student’s individual characteristics and training environments shape their acquisition of skills and the effects skill acquisition has on scientific and employment outcomes after graduation. We assess skill acquisition using a variety of… Continue reading Collaborative Research: Impacts of Hard/Soft Skills on STEM Workforce Trajectories