Goldhaber’s New Research Examines the College and Employment Pathways of Prospective Teachers
CSDE Affiliate Dan Goldhaber (Social Work) in Educational Researcher, titled “The Long and Winding Road: Mapping the College and Employment Pathways to Teacher Education Program Completion in Washington State“. Nationally, more than 75% of individuals who are credentialed to teach are prepared in traditional college- or university-based teacher education programs (TEPs). But the college and employment pathways that prospective teachers take to TEP enrollment and completion have not been comprehensively examined. A better understanding of how credentialed individuals find their way into TEPs helps us understand the sources of new teacher supply early in the prospective teacher pipeline. With that in mind, authors analyze pathways into and through TEPs using historical postsecondary and unemployment insurance data from Washington State.
New Research by McElroy Critically Examines Landlord Technology
CSDE Affiliate Erin McElroy (Geography) authored new research in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, titled “The work of landlord technology: The fictions of frictionless property management“. Landlord technology—or the systems used by landlords to control and regulate tenant lives, spaces, and data—frequently promises “frictionless” building management and residential experiences. Yet services such as “digital doormen” and virtual property management platforms often create more work for tenants. With a proposition that new forms of material and affective labor are created by landlord technologies despite promises of frictionless living, this article focuses on the various struggles that workers and tenants face in using, maintaining, refusing, and, at times, organizing against property automation.
CSSS Seminar – The Promise and Peril of State Administrative Data: An Example from an Evaluation of Low-Barrier Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
Burt Discusses Use of Polygenic Indices in Social Science
CSDE Affiliate Callie Burt (Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University) released a new article in Sociological Methodology, titled “Polygenic Indices (aka Polygenic Scores) in Social Science: A Guide for Interpretation and Evaluation“. Polygenic indices (PGI)—the new recommended label for polygenic scores in social science applications—are genetic summary scales often used to represent an individual’s liability for a disease, trait, or behavior on the basis of the additive effects of measured genetic variants. Enthusiasm for linking genetic data with social outcomes and the inclusion of premade PGIs in social science data sets have facilitated increased uptake of PGIs in social science research, a trend that will likely continue. Yet most social scientists lack the expertise to interpret and evaluate PGIs in social science research. In this article, Burt provides a primer on PGIs for social scientists focusing on key concepts, unique statistical genetic considerations, and best practices in calculation, estimation, reporting, and interpretation.
*New* Issue of Journal of Demographic Economics
Read volume 90, issue 2 here!
CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Hosts Aja Sutton on Incorporating spatial structure into multilevel regression and poststratification for subnational demographic and small area estimation
*New* Registration is Now Open for the 2024 IAPHS Annual Conference
Registration is open on April 4, 2024 for the IAPHS Annual Conference from September 10-13 in St. Louis, MO. Numerous population health topics will be discussed related to the 2024 conference theme, Tackling Declining Life Expectancy in the U.S.: Investigating Social Drivers and Policy Solutions, are particularly encouraged. Register here before August 16th for the early registration rate.
*New* NIH Announces a Notice of Special Interest: Women’s Health Research
In alignment with the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to highlight interest in receiving research applications focused on diseases and health conditions that predominantly affect women (e.g., autoimmune diseases; depressive disorders, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias (ADRD), gender-based-violence), present and progress differently in women (e.g., cardiovascular disease; HIV; reproductive aging and its implications), or are female-specific (e.g., uterine fibroids; endometriosis; menopause). This NOSI has an expiration of November 5th, 2027.