Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Alexandra Killewald, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, challenges the conclusion of Budig and Hodges (2010) that the motherhood penalty is larger for low-wage women by using an unconditional versus a conditional quantile regression model in a recently published study.
Can lay community health workers be trained to use mobile phone app to find cases of prenatal depression?
Former RWJF Scholar Alexander Tsai, PhD, MD has co-authored a study that explores whether lay community health workers in South Africa could be trained to conduct case finding using a mobile phone application to evaluate whether a woman is suffering from postnatal depression.
Team of Harvard Pop Center researchers publish paper on impact of unemployment on smoking and drinking
A team of Harvard Pop Center researchers, including current Yerby Fellow Mariana Arcaya, and Pop Center-affiliated faculty members Maria Glymour, Ichiro Kawachi, and SV Subramanian, have published a paper in Social Science & Medicine that looks at individual and spousal unemployment as predictors of smoking and drinking behavior.
Can dependence of dementia patients be delayed?
Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Maria Glymour has published a study that explores the possibility of delaying the dependence (e.g. needing to be institutionalized) that is often associated with dementia patients by adjusting modifiable risk factors.
Thurston examines link between MetS and subclinical atherosclerosis
Rebecca Thurston, a former RWJF scholar at the Harvard Pop Center, has co-authored a study (based on participants in The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation) recently published in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association, that examines the association between MetS (the metabolic syndrome) and subclinical atherosclerosis, and the role that race/ethnicity in midlife women may play.