Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, and faculty member Mauricio Avendano, PhD, have co-authored a paper published in Daedalus that examines the challenges and opportunities posed by an aging U.S. population, particularly as it relates to an aging workforce.
Early exposure to Medicaid may promote intergenerational mobility & economic opportunity
Rourke O’Brien, PhD, a Harvard Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar, has co-authored a discussion paper released by the Institute for Research on Poverty that evaluates the impact of the expansion of Medicaid on intergenerational mobility.
Lisa Berkman speaks on NPR’s Here & Now on American Workplace Policies
Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman shares findings from the Work, Family & Health Network intervention study with Robin Young in this NPR story that aired on Here & Now. This news story, “Are American Workplace Policies Stuck in the 1950s?,” is part of NPR’s focus this month on what factors shape health, the topic of a recent poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H.…
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Better work-life balance can contribute to better sleep
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Orfeu Buxton was quoted in this Boston Globe article and in this article in Entrepreneur on the role that a healthy work-life balance can have on people’s sleep. Buxton, along with Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman and other Work, Family & Health Network researchers, recently published their findings in the journal Sleep Health.
Reducing Work-Family Conflict in Workplace Helps Improve Sleep
A study by a team of researchers from the Work, Family & Health Network, including Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman and faculty member Orfeu Buxton, has found that an intervention designed to reduce conflict between work and family responsibilities has also been found to be effective at improving sleep. The study is published in the inaugural issue of Sleep Health, the journal of the National Sleep Foundation, and has…
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Long working hours linked to risky alcohol consumption
Cassandra Okechukwu, ScD, MSN, Pop Center affiliated faculty member, comments in this Time article on an editorial she wrote to accompany a study published in BMJ that links long working hours to risky alcohol consumption.
Report suggests that health disparities should be part of retirement age debate
Harvard RWJF Alum Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD, has co-authored a Brief Report in the Journals of Gerontology: Series B that examines the self-reported health of individuals ages 40-70 and their education levels. The findings suggest that age alone is not necessarily enough to consider when debating retirement age.
For unemployed men, the more generous the unemployment benefits, the better their health
Harvard Pop Center faculty member M. Maria Glymour, PhD, and former Bell Fellow Mauricio Avendano Pabon, PhD, are co-authors on a paper published in the American Journal of Public Health that explores the relationship between unemployment benefits and the self-reported health of the unemployed.
Employees with financial incentives more likely to participate in wellness programs
In this The St. Louis American article, Harvard Pop Center affiliated faculty member Jason Block, MD, MPH, comments on his new research that shows that a financial incentive can drastically increase employee participation in a health coach program, a wellness initiative that involves one-on-one phone calls with a personal health coach.
Does work-family context impact female life expectancy in US?
Harvard RWJF alumna Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD, and former Bell Fellow Mauricio Avendano Pabon, PhD, are co-authors on a paper published in Social Forces that explores the fact that female life expectancy is shorter in the US than in most other high-income countries in light of the work-family context. Do institutional supports of work-family balance make a difference?