Does earning an occupational certificate (e.g., those issued by trade, professional and industry organizations) lead to higher earnings among younger workers? A study published in Social Science Research by Harvard Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work Kyle Albert, PhD, suggests that certification attainment has labor market value and is associated with higher earnings.
The Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty (CAWF) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has announced that Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman will be honored with its Third Annual Mentoring Award at the upcoming 2017 Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 10 from 2:30–4:15 P.M. The ceremony will also include the presentation of the Seventh Annual Alice Hamilton Award to Kirsten Davison, the Donald and Sue Pritzker…
A study published in The Journals of Gerontology Series B by recent Harvard Bell Fellow Philipp Hessel, Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, and faculty member Mauricio Avendano has found exposure to economic downturns among U.S. workers approaching retirement age to be associated with decreased cognitive functioning later in life. Longer periods of exposure to downturns were found to be associated with lower levels of functioning.
Harvard Pop Center Bell Fellow Natalia Rigol, PhD, and faculty member Rohini Pande, PhD, are authors on a working paper that explores what may be influencing the apparent gender gap in microenterprise performance.
Harvard Pop Center faculty member Nancy Krieger, PhD, is an author of this conceptual report published in The Lancet on the role that structural racism (how racial discrimination is fostered through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care, and criminal justice) plays in racial health inequities.
Researchers affiliated with the Harvard Pop Center have authored a paper based on research from the Health and Aging in Africa: a Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI) study that finds that older South African men had 30% higher odds than women of being limited when it came to performing activities of daily living (ADLs), and that this cohort in South Africa (men and women) did not…
Mirror Touch, a book by Harvard Pop Center faculty member Joel Salinas, MD, about his experiences as a neurologist who has mirror-touch synesthesia—a neurological trait that gives him heightened empathic abilities—will be released on April 18. A launch event for the book will take place at the Harvard Coop on Friday, April 21 at 7:00 p.m. which is free and open to the public. Dr. Salinas will be giving a reading and signing books.
Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, Harvard Pop Center faculty member, has authored this opinion in JAMA Forum that suggests that if the current administration sets out to “reboot” VBP, three key design principles should be included.
Former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Stefan Timmermans, PhD, is author on a paper published in the journal Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World that suggests that both formal volunteering and informal helpfulness between neighbors increased in regions and segments of the population that likely benefited from Medicaid expansions. Not only can prosocial behavior like volunteering be beneficial for societies, but it can also improve the well-being of those engaged in the giving.
Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman, PhD, and faculty member Joel Salinas, MD, are among the authors on a paper published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions that reveals that those with more social support were found to have higher serum levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which is linked to reduced risk of dementia and stroke in certain subsets.