PSC News
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Kevin Volpp's research profiled in Penn Medicine News.Date posted: 9/25/2013 | View listing
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Camille Z. Charles has been named a Fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice at New York University.Date posted: 9/25/2013 | View listing
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Angela Duckworth has been selected as a 2013 MacArthur Fellow.Date posted: 9/25/2013 | View listing
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An article on aging in India by Apoorva Jadhav has appeared in The Hindu Business Line.Date posted: 9/23/2013 | View listing
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Hans-Peter Kohler is quoted in a September 6, 2013 New York Times article about the fertility rate in the United States.Date posted: 9/10/2013 | View listing
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Date posted: 8/29/2013 | View listing
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Aiken's research on nurse staffing ratios is quoted in an article in the New York Times entitled "When No One Is on Call".Date posted: 8/20/2013 | View listing
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Date posted: 8/8/2013 | View listing
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Mark Pauly looks at hospitals hiring only non-smokers from an economic perspective.Date posted: 8/6/2013 | View listing
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Kevin Volpp discusses the “connected health movement” in Knowledge@Wharton.Date posted: 7/31/2013 | View listing
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Dennis Culhane and Tom Byrne of the School of Social Policy & Practice have helped to create an interactive Web-based application, Homelessness Analytics.Date posted: 7/19/2013 | View listing
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Irma Elo has been elected Chair of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Population.Date posted: 7/19/2013 | View listing
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Date posted: 6/10/2013 | View listing
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Date posted: 6/9/2013 | View listing
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According to Kevin Volpp employer-based wellness incentives are not as simple as just paying someone for doing the right thing.Date posted: 6/3/2013 | View listing
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Jerry Jacobs is cited in TIME for helping design a study on working motherhood.Date posted: 5/31/2013 | View listing
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Press Release: Jere R. Behrman leads the Grand Challenges Grant Project, related articles appear in the Penn Almanac and on page 7 of the SAS Magazine.Date posted: 5/28/2013 | View listing
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A new collaboration between Penn Nursing and Agnes Irwin, a private girls' school, is spurred by Loretta Jemmott.Date posted: 5/22/2013 | View listing
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Michael Katz has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS).Date posted: 5/21/2013 | View listing
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Olivia Mitchell comments on the practice of living abroad after retirement to make the most of your savings.Date posted: 5/17/2013 | View listing
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Olivia Mitchell comments in the New York Times on working abroad after retirement.Date posted: 5/14/2013 | View listing
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Collin Payne and Hans-Peter Kohler's research with J. Mkandawire in PLOS Medicine (also see the article discussion) has been featured in an interview on Voice of America and in a Voice of America news article and has appeared in the Penn Current.Date posted: 5/10/2013 | View listing
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Mark Pauly is quoted in an article about the wide range of hospital billing.Date posted: 5/10/2013 | View listing
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Linda Aiken has been named winner of the 2013 Velji Project of the Year Award for her global research using performance measures to demonstrate the critical impact of nurses on hospital patient outcomes.Date posted: 5/1/2013 | View listing
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Tukufu Zuberi has curated two major exhibitions on black history: “Tides of Freedom: African Presence on the Delaware River” and "Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art of the War Poster."Date posted: 5/1/2013 | View listing
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Grace Kao is featured in SAS Frontiers in an article about her studies of the immigrant experience and its effect on educational outcomes.Date posted: 5/1/2013 | View listing
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A New York Times article cites the research Flavio Cunha has done with James Heckman into the importance of early childhood education.Date posted: 4/3/2013 | View listing
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Samuel Preston has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Congratulations!Date posted: 4/3/2013 | View listing
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New PSC Working Paper: Greenwood, Jeremy, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos and Michèle Tertilt. 2013. "An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic." PSC Working Paper Series, PSC 13-03.Date posted: 4/2/2013 | View listing
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Sam Preston's research was cited in an article in the Boston Globe's "Brainiac" segment.Date posted: 3/25/2013 | View listing
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Jessica Ho's research is featured in Penn Current.Date posted: 3/25/2013 | View listing
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New PSC Working Paper: Fedor, Theresa M., Hans-Peter Kohler, and Jere R. Behrman. 2013. "The Impact of Married Individuals Learning HIV Status in Malawi: Divorce, Number of Sexual Partners, Condom Use with Spouses." PSC Working Paper Series, PSC 13-02.Date posted: 3/20/2013 | View listing
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Date posted: 3/19/2013 | View listing
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Andrew Stokes' research was highlighted in dailyRX.Date posted: 3/19/2013 | View listing
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The 2013 Penn @ PAA document is now available.Date posted: 3/13/2013 | View listing
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Date posted: 3/4/2013 | View listing
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Chenoa Flippen's research on Hispanic migration patterns was featured in SAS Frontiers.Date posted: 3/4/2013 | View listing
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Date posted: 2/26/2013 | View listing
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A recent paper by Hyunjoon Park, Jere Berhman and Jaesung Choi has been highlighted in the Huffington Post article "Do Boys Face More Sexism Than Girls?"Date posted: 2/25/2013 | View listing
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John MacDonald has been appointed to the fifth cohort of Penn Fellows.Date posted: 2/12/2013 | View listing
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Tukufu Zuberi has been awarded two top honors at the recent San Diego Black Film Festival, including Best Documentary and Best Director, for his feature-length film titled African Independence. The film traces the story of the African continent since enslavement and colonization by Europeans.Date posted: 2/12/2013 | View listing
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New PSC Working Paper: Kohler, Hans-Peter, Stéphane Helleringer, Jere R. Behrman and Susan C. Watkins. 2013. "The Social and the Sexual: Networks in Contemporary Demographic Research." PSC Working Paper Series, PSC 13-01.Date posted: 2/5/2013 | View listing
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In SAS Frontiers, John MacDonald discusses America’s relationship with guns.Date posted: 2/1/2013 | View listing
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A Penn research team led by Eduardo Fernandez-Duque has uncovered the benefits of monogamy among a population of owl monkeys in Argentina.Date posted: 1/25/2013 | View listing
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Emilio Parrado has been named one of the Delaware Valley’s Most Influential Latinos by the Impacto Latin Newspaper.Date posted: 1/23/2013 | View listing
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A study authored by Linda Aiken has concluded that poor patient outcomes thought associated with hospital hiring of temporary nurses are more likely the result of poor working conditions within the hospitals themselves than with the nurses hired to alleviate shortages.Date posted: 1/22/2013 | View listing
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A study co-authored by Jason Schnittker shows that many of the most common psychiatric disorders found among former inmates, including impulse-control disorders, emerge in childhood and adolescence and predate incarceration.Date posted: 1/16/2013 | View listing
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Sam Preston was interviewed on HuffPost Live about Americans dying younger than people in other developed countries.Date posted: 1/16/2013 | View listing
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Jonathan Klick of Law and John MacDonald of Criminology point to widespread cell-phone use as a factor in a "remarkable" crime-rate drop in the ‘90s.Date posted: 1/14/2013 | View listing
