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Malia Jones Receives K01

Malia Jones received funding from NICHD for her new study “Estimating Childhood Infectious Disease Outbreak Risk in the Context of Heterogeneous Vaccine Coverage.” More information here.

R13 Conference Grant Awarded

Katherine Curtis, Marcy Carlson, and Malia Jones received R13 funding from NICHD to organize a conference on the demographic responses to changes in the natural environment. The conference will bring together scholars at varying career stages conducting research at the intersection of environmental studies and demographic analysis to promote the exchange of relevant conceptual frameworks, analytical …

Grant Awarded for Educational Researcher-Practitioner Partnership

Professor Eric Grodsky and colleagues at the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) received a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences on “Enhancing the Quality of Instruction in 4-Year-Old Kindergarten.” A partnership between the Wisconsin Center for Eduational Resarch and MMSD will look for ways to reduce educational inequality and enhance educational opportunity for all …

Christine Schwartz on Women Who Earn More Than Their Husbands

Christine Schwartz’s 2016 paper on women’s earning power and divorce was cited in the recent New York Times piece “When Wives Earn More than Husbands, Neither Partner Likes to Admit It.” The Times article explored new Census Bureau research that found in opposite-sex marriages, women who earned more than their husbands reported earning less while husbands claimed to earn …