CSDE Affiliate Hyungmin Cha (Sociology) and co-authors just published an article in Demography, titled “How Does the Risk of Dementia Change With Each Additional Year of Education?”. The authors leverage the 2000–2018 Health and Retirement Study to evaluate how dementia risk changes with each year of education among non-Hispanic White and Black older adults. The results show a linear decline in dementia incidence with increasing years of educational attainment,

CSDE external affiliate and former CSDE T32 Fellow Delaney Glass (University of Toronto) and co-authors recently published an article, “Toward New Directions in Human Biology: A Roadmap for Anthropological Causal Inference With Observational Data” in the American Journal of Human Biology. The roadmap that Glass and co-authors developed begins with theory development, defines causal questions and estimands, employs directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to clarify assumptions, and evaluates key identification criteria prior to statistical analysis.

The Population Research Center at Portland State University, directed by CSDE External Affiliate Ethan Sharygin (Portland State University), has published a resource guide for finding federal data during the shutdown. These sources include Census Reporter, Esri, PolicyMap, IPUMS, NHGIS, and the Data Rescue Project Portal.

CSDE Affiliate Kam Wing Chan (Geography) was quoted in South Morning Post in Hong Kong, a major English newspaper in Asia, in an article in a special issue on the 76th Anniversary of the founding of People’s Republic of China. The article, “New Urbanisation Push Aims to Narrow Rural-Urban Divide,” was published on October 1. To read more, click here.

CSDE Affiliates Laura Dwyer-Lindgren (Health Metrics Sciences) and Ali Mokdad (Health Metrics Sciences) just published an article titled, “Using Mortality and Years-of-Life-Lost Metrics to Evaluate Health System Performance and Inform Health Care Policy,” in the New England Journal of Medicine: Catalyst. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) collaborated with Kaiser Permanente (KP) to augment KP’s existing suite of quality measures with estimates of mortality rates and years-of-life-lost (YLL) rates for KP members.

Each quarter, CSDE offers 3-5 workshops on data sources, statistical and biomarker methodology, introductions to analysis programs, and more, all given by CSDE staff and faculty affiliates. These workshops can include hands-on training in novel methods and programming, lectures on innovative data sources, and discussions of important issues in research and data collection. Over the coming academic year, CSDE will offer a diverse and exciting set of workshops in a remote format. Students, faculty, staff,