Natasha Pilkauskas, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Children’s living arrangements are increasingly diverse and complex, and a robust body of research has documented links between living arrangements, economic wellbeing, and child outcomes. Despite increasing recognition of the diversity in children’s living arrangements most research continues to focus on the nuclear family. This talk draws on a number of published and papers in progress that focus on shared living arrangements of children in the U.S.–examining the people children live with beyond their nuclear family.

If you would like to schedule a time to meet Prof. Pilkauskas this week, please sign up here.

We are thrilled to announce that CSDE Affiliate Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, and his project team (including Affiliate Heather Hill, Associate Professor at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance), have been awarded a highly competitive U01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the relationship between Federal Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) and violence prevention.

The project will be the first comprehensive evaluation of the impact of state EITCs as a primary prevention strategy for multiple forms of violence.

Congratulations to Janelle Taylor, CSDE faculty affiliate in Anthropology, who received an Administrative Supplement to her NIA-funded project, “Health Outcomes for Patients with Dementia without Family Caregivers”.

This study uses data from the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study, an ongoing prospective longitudinal study of dementia at Kaiser Permanente (formerly Group Health).  The supplement was the result of finding a rich new source of information about family and caregiving support for older adults with dementia: The narrative medical documents created for the diagnostic review meeting contain much information about the patient’s social context even though the original purpose of the documents is to provide diagnostic medical information.

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), in partnership with the IUSSP Panel on Big Data and Population Processes, is organizing and hosting the first Symposium on Digital Demography (Rostock, October 17-18, 2018).

The symposium marks the launch of the new MPIDR Lab on Digital and Computational Demography, headed by MPIDR director and CSDE regional affiliate Emilio Zagheni. CSDE Science Core Director Matt Hall is a featured speaker.

We invite faculty, staff, and fellows actively working in the field of family planning, contraception, and abortion to participate in the UW Symposium on Family Planning, Contraception and Abortion to guide efforts as a UW community. The symposium’s goal is to highlight UW strengths in this domain and identify opportunities for future projects and collaboration.  CSDE affiliates Sara Curran and Adrian Raftery will be giving two separate and brief presentations starting at 11:00 AM, regarding their research related to demography, fertility, and contraceptive prevalence.

We know that each of you is currently working on exciting research. Don’t keep that buildup of academic energy static, share it in a lightning talk. It’s time to submit project abstracts to CSDE’s Fall Lighting Talks!

There are lots of benefits to participating:

• Get intimate feedback from eminent and interdisciplinary scholars!
• Tune up your presentation skills for PAA and other conferences!
• Use that poster that you have to make for class anyway!

The deadline to submit your projects is October 12, 2018

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