Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, Morgan Philbin will present her research in this week’s CSDE seminar. Dr. Philbin’s presentation will investigate the relationship between immigration policies and birth outcomes among U.S. versus foreign born Latinx individuals from 2013-2019. Specifically, the study examines the relationship between the immigration policy climate and birth outcomes.

You can register for the seminar HERE, and check out all the upcoming topics and register for future seminars on our website.

This seminar is co-sponsored with the Population Health Initiative.

In new study, CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat and a number of colleagues quantify exposure disparities by race/ethnicity and income throughout the contiguous United States for six criteria air pollutants, during the period 1990 to 2010. For all years and pollutants, the racial/ethnic group with the highest national average exposure was a racial/ethnic minority group. Over the period studied, national absolute racial/ethnic exposure disparities declined. You can find the full study HERE.

Springer Link has just published the first International Handbook on Population and Environment and CSDE Director Sara Curran contributed one of three chapters on theoretical perspectives.  Her chapter focuses on micro perspectives and provides an integrative approach to incorporating demography and demographic concepts into the classic livelihoods framework at the intersection of population and environment research.

Early this month, CSDE Affiliate Christine Galavotti and co-author Victoria Boydell published an article in Studies in Family Planning, available HERE. The authors conduct a meta-analytic survey of the meaning and measurement of intention-to-use (ITU) contraception in the research literature. Finding that despite growing evidence around the construct of ITU, there are inconsistencies in how ITU is defined and measured, and this tends not to be informed by advances in behavioral theory and research.

In a new article published last week, available in full HERE, CSDE Affiliate Emilio Zagheni and his co-authors expand the methodological toolkit for capturing cultural similarities driven by migration with the novel use of Facebook Ad data. In most countries, larger immigrant populations are associated with more similar food and drink preferences between their country of origin and the country of destination. The authors’ results suggest that immigrants contribute to bringing the culture of their home countries to new countries.