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The Mortgage Interest Deduction and the White-Black Wealth Gap, 1984-2021

How has the home mortgage interest deduction affected White-Black wealth gaps over the past several decades? This project will answer this question by using the NBERs TAXSIM program, which calculates federal and state income tax liabilities from typical survey data, to generate novel estimates of the wealth savings that households in the Panel Study of… Continue reading The Mortgage Interest Deduction and the White-Black Wealth Gap, 1984-2021

Dincecco,Mark

Mark Dincecco is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research examines the process of political and economic development both historically and today, with a focus on the drivers of effective governance and its implications for economic prosperity. Dincecco has published numerous articles in leading journals across both political science and economics.… Continue reading Dincecco,Mark

Intergenerational disadvantage and pediatric health disparities in acute respiratory illness and diarrhea

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Global literature underscores that certain children and families are more likely to experience persistent social and economic disadvantages often determined by their race, ethnicity, social group, or other socio- demographic characteristics. Simultaneously, studies from diverse settings demonstrate unequal burdens of disease and unequal access to timely, quality health services in early childhood, contributing to lifelong… Continue reading Intergenerational disadvantage and pediatric health disparities in acute respiratory illness and diarrhea

Shaping Real World Policies to Tackle Persistent Health Inequities using Randomized Early Access to COVID-19 Vaccinations through Michigan Medicine

Spearheaded by U-M Economics Professor Amanda Kowalski, the research team featuring U-M Sociology’s Sarah Burgard secured nearly $2M in financial support from U-M’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts for research examining health inequity exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study will examine early access to COVID-19 vaccination data from Michigan Medicine to evaluate… Continue reading Shaping Real World Policies to Tackle Persistent Health Inequities using Randomized Early Access to COVID-19 Vaccinations through Michigan Medicine

Landscapes of Population Health

Landscapes of Population Health (“Landscapes”) is an interdisciplinary research collective that includes historians, sociologists, psychologists, epidemiologists, and statisticians who bring their expertise in historical and contemporary racial violence and control, environmental justice, epigenomics, and population health to study the link between structural racism and population health. We bring together critical theories from the humanities and… Continue reading Landscapes of Population Health

Silber,Henning

Henning Silber is a Research Assistant Professor in the Survey Methodology Program, located within the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (U-M) campus. He earned his PhD from the University of Göttingen (Germany) in 2015 and completed his Habilitation at the University of Mannheim (Germany) in 2023. Before that, he received… Continue reading Silber,Henning

Rigby,David Lee

David Rigby is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Landscapes Lab. David’s research interests focus on understanding processes of racialization, the ways that social dynamics and institutions come to be informed by ideas about race, and the pathways through which historical forms of racial violence and social control shape institutions and cultures, impacting the contemporary… Continue reading Rigby,David Lee

DeAngelis,Reed Thomas

I am a population health scientist. Broadly, this means I research the interplay between human societies, health, and aging. Most of my work focuses specifically on explaining why certain groups of people live shorter and sicker lives than others. I also investigate how people cope with chronic stress using religion and other social support mechanisms.

Kristi Gamarel

Kristi Gamarel (she/her) is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Equity at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and a Research Associate Professor at the Population Studies Center. Her research focuses on addressing health inequities among LGBTQ+ communities in the context of HIV, mental health, substance use,… Continue reading Kristi Gamarel

Measuring Racial Inequality in Tax Data

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A major limitation faced by researchers working within the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data infrastructure is the absence of any information on race and ethnicity. The same limitation also affects researchers who use tax data in other environments, such as the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Additionally, the lack… Continue reading Measuring Racial Inequality in Tax Data