Jenny Higgins, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and longtime CDE affiliate, was awarded the 2024 Women’s Health Research Mentorship Award by the UW SMPH Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS) and the UW BIRCWH Program. This award recognizes outstanding mentorship that supports the career development of women scientists …
Vikas Gawai, PhD Candidate in Agricultural & Applied Economics Hometown: Malvan, a tiny coastal town on the west coast of India Educational Background: MS in Economics, UW-Madison; B.Tech. in Civil Engineering, V.J.T.I., Mumbai University 1. What are your research interests and current research projects? I am an Applied Economist with a focus on policy evaluations …
Congratulations to Christine Schwartz for her NIH-funded R03 “The Divorce Decline and Relationship Stability: 1970-2019.” Christine Schwartz is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Sociology, with her primary research interests including social demography, family, and stratification. “The Divorce Decline and Relationship Stability: 1970-2019 is an NIH-funded R03 on trends in divorce and relationship dissolution in the …
Tiffany Green was named a 2023 UW-Madison Outstanding Women of Color Honoree. The annual Outstanding Women of Color Awards acknowledge and honor women of color within the UW–Madison community “whose advocacy, activism, or scholarship has fostered social justice and organizational change; who have created positive transformation within their institutions and/or the community to achieve the …
Katherine Magnuson (PI) and Sarah Halpern-Meekin (co-I) have received a large NICHD R01 to continue the highly innovative Baby’s First Years study. The study uses an experimental, mixed-method design to assess the causal impact of monthly, unconditional cash gifts to low-income mothers recruited at the time of their child’s birth. Monthly cash gifts provided by …
We are excited to share three new awards across CDE’s research themes from our faculty affiliates. Congratulations to Mosi Adesina Ifatunji, who was awarded a supplemental NIH award for his research on health and mortality disparities among Native- and Foreign-born Blacks in the United States; affiliates Michal Engelman (PI) & Jen Dykema (co-investigator), along with …
The “Addressing the Long-Term Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Families” ad-hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) released a report on the long-term effects of COVID-19 on children living in high-risk communities, with consequences and solutions presented by the committee. CDE affiliate & Associate Professor of Social …
A Generational Shift: Race and the Declining Lifetime Risk of Imprisonment published in Demography explores the present landscape of incarceration in the United States, with findings featured in the Washington Post. “Surprising to many, in this paper we demonstrate that the black male incarceration declined by 45% between 2001 and 2019. As a result, the …
A special issue in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility celebrating the career of past CDE Director Robert Mare was published at in June 2023. With contributions by multiple CDE affiliates and alumni, including Christine Schwartz (“Robert Mare’s legacy: Advances in the study of assortative mating”), past CDE Director Robert Hauser (“Breaking barriers: Robert Denis …
Name: Sharada Dharmasankar Title: PhD Student in the Department of Economics Hometown: Aurora, IL Educational Background: BA in Economics and English Language & Literature What are your research interests and current research projects? My research interests lie in the economics of labor and education. My job market paper studies how different phases of one’s K-12 education affect a host …