We are only beginning to clarify the ways the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in substantial changes to American neighborhoods. There has been an excess of permanent business closures, particularly among small neighborhood businesses most vulnerable to social distancing, such as local barbershops and nail salons. COVID-19 outbreaks in late September 2021 caused 2,000 neighborhood schools… Continue reading A National Neighborhood Data Resource to Understand Inequities in the Health and Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 in the United States
Research Theme: Poverty & Inequality
Immunosenescence, socioeconomic disadvantage and dementia in the US aging population
While risk factors for cognitive decline and Alzheimer ’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) have been widely studied, there is still much unknown about the biological pathways that lead to ADRD. This project seeks to improve our understanding of the pathophysiology of cognitive decline and ADRD by examining the role of peripheral immunosenescence in these… Continue reading Immunosenescence, socioeconomic disadvantage and dementia in the US aging population
Fragile Families Third Generation
The intergenerational persistence of poor health and poverty and the quest to understand underlying processes underscore the importance of rich multigenerational data. Very few existing datasets contain comprehensive information on social, environmental, and biological factors over the life course and across generations; lack of such data has seriously limited attempts to identify the processes shaping… Continue reading Fragile Families Third Generation
The Longitudinal and Dynamic Effects of Food Insecurity on Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Risk
By 2030, 8.5 million Americans will be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD); yet because socioeconomically disadvantaged populations are underrepresented in ADRD research, the extent of ADRD disparities by socioeconomic factors are poorly understood. Food insecurity, a condition of limited food availability due to insufficient resources, is an understudied dimension of socioeconomic disadvantage… Continue reading The Longitudinal and Dynamic Effects of Food Insecurity on Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Risk
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
Lee,Sun Kyoung Kyoung
Sun Kyoung Lee received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2019. After a postdoctoral associate position at the Economic Growth Center and the Department of Economics at Yale University, Sun joined SRC and the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID) as a Research Assistant Professor on September 1. Sun implements big data and… Continue reading Lee,Sun Kyoung Kyoung
Labriola,Joseph Mark
I am a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center. My research uses survey and administrative data to examine the roots of racial and socioeconomic inequalities in the contemporary United States. My current work primarily focuses on racial inequalities in housing and wealth. I have also published on the causes of… Continue reading Labriola,Joseph Mark
Mitnik,Pablo A
Pablo Mitnik is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. His research focuses on intergenerational mobility, economic inequality, labor markets, and statistical methods. His recent work has advanced new methodological approaches to measure mobility and inequality of opportunity and has studied these phenomena in the United States from a cross-national comparative… Continue reading Mitnik,Pablo A
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
Racial inequalities in health throughout adulthood: The cumulative impact of neighborhood chemical and non-chemical stressors on epigenomic pathways
Racial inequalities in healthy aging have been well-documented. Compared to White Americans, Black Americans experience illness and death at early ages and show steeper age-related declines in health. Our neighborhoods, as the site of where we live, learn, play, and pray, may serve as a powerful source of these racial inequalities. Racial residential segregation (which… Continue reading Racial inequalities in health throughout adulthood: The cumulative impact of neighborhood chemical and non-chemical stressors on epigenomic pathways