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Maria Schletzbaum, Amy Kind, et al, “Age-Stratified Thirty-Day Rehospitalization and Mortality and Predictors of Rehospitalization among Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: a Medicare cohort study”
Young adults with lupus on Medicare had very high 30-day rehospitalization at 36%. Considering socioeconomic disadvantage and comorbidities provided good prediction of rehospitalization risk, particularly in young adults. Young lupus beneficiaries with comorbidities should be a focus of programs aimed at reducing rehospitalizations.
Megan Bea and Kallista Bley, “(Un) conditional consumer protections in high‐cost lending regulation: impacts on local lending geographies”
Regulation of small-dollar lending in the United States is heterogeneous, leaving open the question about what policy designs work best for protecting consumers. We compare the effectiveness of regulations that include a consumer eligibility component and regulations that apply to all consumers, centering our analyses on communities with disproportionate exposure to high-interest lending storefronts.
Mosi Ifatunji et al., “Black Nativity and Health Disparities: A Research Paradigm for Understanding the Social Determinants of Health”
Abstract After more than a century of research and debate, the scientific community has yet to reach agreement on the principal causes of racialized disparities in population health. This debate currently centers on the degree …
Alejandra Ros Pilarz et al, “Making Sense of Childcare Instability Among Families with Low Incomes: (Un)desired and (Un)planned Reasons for Changing Childcare Arrangements.”
Childcare instability can negatively affect family well-being. Yet not all childcare changes are bad for families. This qualitative study (N = 85) examines work, family, provider, and subsidy-related factors contributing to childcare changes among families with low incomes. We focus on the desirability—the extent to which parents wanted to leave their provider—and the planned nature of childcare changes—the extent to which parents anticipated the change and had time to plan.
Trainee Profile: Annaliese Grant
Name: Annaliese Grant Title: PhD candidate Hometown: Tucson, Arizona Educational background: Barnard College, BA in Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; minor in Math Can you describe your research interests? Current research projects? I …
Congratulations to Graduating Students and Recent Retirees
Congratulations to Sebastian Daza, Amelia Gibbons, Michael King, Julie Kirsch, Amrita Kulka, Isabel Pike, Jessica Polos, Ankit Rastogi, and Nathan Seltzer on the recent/upcoming successful defense of their dissertations! We wish them well on their …
DemSemX – A Cross-Center Collaboration
CDE has developed a new cross-center collaborative effort – DemSemX – that will virtually bring together faculty and students from population research centers across 8 U.S. universities (Bowling Green, Cornell, Michigan, Minnesota, Penn State, Texas, …
New Grants around CDE
Deb Ehrenthal and Lonnie Berger received R01 funding from NICHD for their project on “Prenatal Opioid Exposure: Birth, Health, Socioeconomic, and Educational Outcomes of Mothers and Their Children.” The research team has assembled a database of …
CDE Hosted Virtual ‘Census 2020 Symposium’
Following UW-Madison’s move to fully remote work in mid-March due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus, CDE decided to hold its planned March 24th symposium on Census 2020 online – a first for CDE …