The number of women and children living in close proximity to armed conflict and/or community-based violence has increased globally and in the United States in recent decades. Violence is known to disrupt health service delivery and individuals ability to utilize certain health services, including antenatal care and facility delivery. These disruptions likely contribute to poor… Continue reading Exposure to violence and maternal health
Research Theme: SRC
Childhood adversity, DNA methylation, and risk for depression: A longitudinal study of protective factors and sensitive periods in development
Little is known about the extent to which the biological embedding of promotive and protective factors pre-loads a capacity for resilience across the life course. If researchers better understood how promotive and protective factors operate biologically we could better determine what causes depression, which children are most at risk, and perhaps most critically, the optimal… Continue reading Childhood adversity, DNA methylation, and risk for depression: A longitudinal study of protective factors and sensitive periods in development
UAS-CLEAR: A new nationally representative longitudinal study of caregiving experiences and well-being across the lifecourse
Family caregivers are essential to the nations well-being and economy yet little information exists regarding the daily lives of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) and non-ADRD caregivers across the diverse social partners who provide care. The present study develops and administers new survey instruments in the Understanding America Study (UAS) (https://uasdata.usc.edu/index.php) to identify caregivers… Continue reading UAS-CLEAR: A new nationally representative longitudinal study of caregiving experiences and well-being across the lifecourse
Breakthroughs in science: The role of funding approaches and investment balance across Stokes’ quadrants
This project examines whether and how different models for funding and organizing research may relate to the disruptiveness of science. We pay special attention to an innovative model introduced by DARPA, as described by Dugan and Kaigham in 2013 and 2022, which is built on three key principles:
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
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.
Measuring Racial Inequality in Tax Data
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