This CJARS project will enable the design of a public web-based reporting system, including the creation of tailored statistical reports for state agencies, and the promotion of user adoption of data usage through a fellowship grant competition. The grant competition will support new external users to apply for and use CJARS data, especially for underrepresented… Continue reading Criminal Justice Administrative Records System: Public Reporting and Fellowship Competition
Research Theme: PSC
Reintegration Policies, the Safety Net, and Spillover Impacts of Justice Involvement
Michael Mueller-Smith These projects will make use of well-developed research designs, carried out using a remarkable set of administrative records. These records include our maturing Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS), detailed IRS tax and federal and state program participation microdata, and a developing infrastructure of harmonized administrative data to study families and their outcomes… Continue reading Reintegration Policies, the Safety Net, and Spillover Impacts of Justice Involvement
Children and the US Justice System
The Effect of Letters of Recommendation in the Youth Labor Market
Sara Heller This funding supports research manager salary to manage a research project studying the effects of letters of recommendation in the youth labor market. In this project, youth who participated in the 2016 and 2017 New York City Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) are randomly assigned to be eligible to receive a letter of… Continue reading The Effect of Letters of Recommendation in the Youth Labor Market
LGBTQ Professionals in STEM: Workplace Experiences and Navigation Strategies of Sexual and Gender Minority Scientists and Engineers
Erin Cech Collaborative Research: SBP: LGBTQ Professionals in STEM: Workplace Experiences and Navigation Strategies of Sexual and Gender Minority Scientists and Engineers Science and engineering play undeniably influential roles in U.S. security and economic well-being; factors that prevent talented and motivated members of certain groups from succeeding in STEM are of both scholarly and national… Continue reading LGBTQ Professionals in STEM: Workplace Experiences and Navigation Strategies of Sexual and Gender Minority Scientists and Engineers
Aging, Major Life Transitions, and Suicide Risk
Briana Mezuk, Sarah Burgard Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US, with over 42,000 cases annually. There is an urgent need to identify modifiable risk factors that can inform public health prevention strategies. This research seeks to leverage and integrate several existing datasets to support novel secondary analyses aimed at identifying… Continue reading Aging, Major Life Transitions, and Suicide Risk
Long-Term Mobility and Wellbeing of New Orleans Residents after Hurricane Katrina
Narayan Sastry Two key tasks will be undertaken at the University of Michigan as part of this project. First, we will collaborate with the Elizabeth Fussell and other staff at Brown University as well as with staff at the U.S. Census Bureau to design and implement the analysis of linked data from the Decennial Census,… Continue reading Long-Term Mobility and Wellbeing of New Orleans Residents after Hurricane Katrina
Improving Learning: Developing Measures of Accountability and Evaluating their Association with Students’ Gains in Achievement in Nepal
Dirgha Ghimire This project aims to develop and validate measures of accountability to be shared with the Nepal Ministry of Education (MOE), local stakeholders and scientific communities, and to use those measures in an analysis of the determinants of accountability and its association with students’ gains in achievement. The proposed study will build on the… Continue reading Improving Learning: Developing Measures of Accountability and Evaluating their Association with Students’ Gains in Achievement in Nepal
Economic distress and growing educational disparities in life expectancy: Weathering, high effort coping, and despair
Arline T. Geronimus Researchers have used a variety of data sources and methodologies to independently document two disturbing trends: a halt to universal gains in life expectancy (LE) across US subpopulations, and a subsequent rise in educational inequality in LE since 1990—both of which take us further from achieving the high-priority national public health objective… Continue reading Economic distress and growing educational disparities in life expectancy: Weathering, high effort coping, and despair
Understanding the Connections among Genes, Environment, Family Processes, and Mental Health
William G. Axinn Psychiatric disorders are the leading source of disability worldwide and affect 53% of the U.S. population. In addition to the individual suffering they entail, disabilities associated with these disorders may have substantial consequences for family and health outcomes. This includes long-term consequences for family formation and dissolution behaviors. Dissecting the relationship among… Continue reading Understanding the Connections among Genes, Environment, Family Processes, and Mental Health