A study by Harvard Pop Center director Lisa Berkman, faculty members Ichiro Kawachi and Mauricio Avendano, and colleagues has revealed that both white and black students who attended majority-white schools were at higher risk of lifetime, non-medical use of prescription painkillers. Blacks who attended predominantly white schools were twice as likely to report misuse compared to blacks who attended predominantly black schools.
Education interrupted: Impacts of family disruption on children’s educational attainment
Recent Bell Fellow Juli Simon Thomas, PhD, has authored a paper that confirms that disruptive events within a family, such as parental loss/gain of job/partner lowered the chances of their children completing high school, attending college and finishing college, and more significantly contributes new insight into the increased negative effects of multiple events within a 2-year period.
Does timing of socioeconomic status (SES) impact late-life memory function and decline differently?
Researchers have found that early- and later-life SES has an impact on late-life memory in differing ways. The study is published in the American Journal of Epidemiology by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health doctoral student Jessica Marden, along with Harvard Pop Center faculty members Ichiro Kawachi and M. Maria Glymour.
Harvard Pop Center researchers to receive award for article on innovative use of life course work-family profiles to predict mortality risk
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has named four researchers affiliated with the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies as the recipients of the Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Awards for their paper published in the American Journal of Public Health on the innovative use of sequence analysis as a exposure assessment tool for life course research. Erika Sabbath, ScD, who is lead author on the study and was a visiting…
Pop Center researchers publish paper on use of life course work-family profiles to predict mortality risk among US women
Researchers affiliated with the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies have published a study in the American Journal of Public Health that examines the use of sequence analysis as an exposure assessment tool for life course research. Visiting Scientist Erika Sabbath, ScD, who is lead author on the study, collaborated with Research Associate Iván Mejía Guevara, PhD, faculty member M. Maria Glymour, ScD, and Director Lisa Berkman, PhD.