Category: news

Sarah Halpern Meekin quoted in NYT “America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny”

Meg Bea quoted in CNN “The latest shopping trend? Not shopping”

Christine Schwartz & colleagues working paper cited in NYT “Ozempic Can’t Fix What Our Culture Has Broken”

Marcy Carlson nominated President of Population Association of America (PAA)

Congratulations to Marcy Carlson, the President-elect of the Population Association of America (PAA) beginning January 1st, 2025! Marcy is a Sewell-Bascom Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean at UW–Madison. Marcy formerly served as the Director of CDE from 2016-2021 and now sits on the CDE Executive Committee.

Jenny Higgins interviewed by WPR “Insurance coverage of abortions, Faculty layoffs at UW-Milwaukee, Therapy dogs in De Pere schools”

Leigh Senderowicz awarded K01 by NICHD “Contraceptive Autonomy: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Developing a Novel Family Planning Measure”

Congratulations to CDE affiliate Leigh Senderowicz, who has been awarded a K01 by NICHD for her project “Contraceptive Autonomy: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Developing a Novel Family Planning Measure.” Dr. Senderowicz is an Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, and Obstetrics & Gynecology. Her mixed-methods research focuses on contraceptive autonomy, exploring the ways that …

J. Michael Collins interviewed by PBS News “J. Michael Collins on the US economy and low wage workers”

Meg Bea Receives NICHD Grant to Study Debt Fluctuation and Health 

Meg Bea & Mariana Amorim (Washington State University) have been awarded an NIH R21 award for their project “Within-Year Debt Fluctuations, Stress, and Health.” “This project will collect high-frequency data to understand how short-term changes in debt amounts and sources of debt impact stress, anxiety, and depression among lower income individuals,” Bea shares, “we are looking …

Jenny Higgins quoted in Mother Jones “Overturning Roe Didn’t Just Cut Off Access. It Sabotaged Science, Too.”

Tiffany Green quoted in AP News “Infant mortality rate rose 8% in wake of Texas abortion ban, study shows”