Events
Disability Health Inequities Research Network (DHERN) Seminar – Dr. Anjali Forber-Pratt, Ph.D., Director of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Administration for Community Living (ACL), “Disability Research Representation”. – 7/2022
Co-Sponsored Methodology Workshop: Scott Cunningham, Professor of Economics at Baylor University will give a workshop discussing the Three Methods for Casual Inference: Regression Discontinuity Designs (RDD), Difference-in-Difference (DiD), and Instrumental Variables (IV). – 4/2022
Disability Health Inequities Research Network (DHERN) Seminar – Lisa Iezzoni, MD, MSc, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, “Survey of Outpatient Physicians in U.S. about Caring for Patients with Disability.” – 4/2022
CAPS Seminar: David Rehkopf, Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford University, “Learning from the Implementation of New Deal Work Programs: Lessons for Advancing Health Equity.” – 3/2022
ASI Seminar: Laura Baker, Associate Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, “Multidomain Lifestyle Interventions to Prevent Cognitive Decline and Dementia.” – 3/2022
CAPS Seminar: Fabian Pfeffer, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, “Wealth Inequality and Children.” – 3/2022
AHN Cluster: Faculty Flash Talks
Join us to meet new Aging, Health, and Neuroscience (AHN) Cluster Faculty Affiliates.
-Jun Li – US health care policies and their effects on aging Americans
– Catherine Garcia – Raices de Salud: The Social Determinants of Health among Older Latina/o/xs in the U.S.
– Marc Garcia – Aging and Cognition among Older Latinos in the United States – 2/2022
CAPS Methodology Workshop with Scott Cunningham – Difference-in-Differences Workshop – The most common quasi-experimental method in the quantitative social sciences is the difference-in-differences research design. This methodology has undergone substantial updates over the last few years as econometricians and statisticians have begun investigating the historical use of panel fixed effects estimators more closely as well as devising alternative models to perform best under heterogenous treatment effects and heterogenous policy adoption. This 1-day workshop will cover the most important new theoretical papers with an aim toward intuition and implementation. – 2/2022
CAPS Seminar – Jason Fletcher, Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Understanding Geographic Disparity in Mortality.” – 2/2022
Grant Awards
Ellyn A. Riley, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (Associate Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders) was awarded a Barbara Martin Aphasia Research Grant from the National Aphasia Association and the Academy of Aphasia. Title of Project: Development and Validation of Aphasia-Optimized Tools to Identify Post-Stroke Fatigue and Sleepiness. -7/2022
Congratulations to Maria Brown and Miriam Mutambudzi for receiving a grant from the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health for the project, “Childhood Adversity and Cognitive Trajectories in Later Life: The Influence of Race and Everyday Discrimination.” – 4/2022
Shannon Monnat is the PI on a grant funded by the University of Michigan’s NIH-funded Social, Behavioral, and Economic COVID Coordinating Center (SBE CCC). The project “Enhancing the Utility of the National Wellbeing Survey to Understand Rural-Urban Differences in the Impacts of COVID-19 on Adult Psychological Wellbeing and Substance Use” will enable the research team to oversample rural residents in the 2022 wave of the National Wellbeing Survey, which was disseminated in 2021. Co-investigators include Jennifer Karas Montez (SU), Doug Wolf (SU), Emily Wiemers (SU), and David Wheeler (Virginia Commonwealth University). – 3/2022
Achievements
Congratulations to Marc A. Garcia, who has been elected as a Council Member to the ASA Section on Aging and the Life Course. – 6/2022
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Rachel Jarrold-Grapes for successfully completing her degree in Economics. Rachel was an undergraduate at Centre College and has spent much of the last three years as a graduate research assistant to Gary Engelhardt, working on a variety of topics involving the economics of aging. She wrote a very-creative, topically diverse dissertation on the impact of changes in teacher pension policy on teach retention and student outcomes in North Carolina, as well as the impact of recreational marijuana legalization in Oregon and Washington State on high school educational attainment and behavior outcomes. Rachel will take the formidable set of skills she developed while working in ASI to a job as an Economist in the Antitrust Division of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington D.C. – 5/2022
Congratulations to Karen Cimilluca, ASI Assistant Director, on 30 years of service to Syracuse University and the Maxwell School. – 4/2022
Congratulations to Shannon Monnat for receiving the 2022 Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award. Shannon was also elected Vice President of the Rural Sociological Society (RSS). – 4/2022
Congratulations to Kent Cheng, his work received honorable mention for the Graduate Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Work. -3/2022
Shannon Monnat was appointed to the Population Association of American Committee on Population Statistics (COPS). COPS is a prestigious group of PAA members, appointed by the PAA President, who examine technical issues and activities important to Federal statistical agencies and advise the PAA leadership on these issues. – 2/2022
Publications
Hyojeong Kim, Colleen Heflin, and Taryn Morrissey – Lerner Center/CAPS Population Research Brief Series – Expansions in the U.S. Child Care and Development Block Grant Improved Stability – 8/2022
Yue Sun, Danielle C. Rhubart in Journal of Applied Gerontology – Rural-Urban Differences in the Associations Between Aging and Disability Services and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Among Older Adults – 8/2022
Congratulations to Scott Landes and his collaborators on authoring the first and second most-cited articles in Disability and Health Journal for 2021.
1. Margaret A. Turk, Scott D. Landes, Margaret K. Formica, and Katherine D. Goss in Disability and Health Journal – Intellectual and developmental disability and COVID-19 case-fatality trends: TriNetX analysis
2. Scott D. Landes, Margaret A. Turk, Margaret K. Formica, Katherine E. McDonald, and J Dalton Stevens in Disability and Health Journal – COVID-19 outcomes among people with intellectual and developmental disability living in residential group homes in New York State – 8/2022
Shane Sanders, Nuwan Indika Millagaha Gedara, Bhavneet Walia, Christopher Boudreaux, and Merril Silverstein in Journal of Data Science – Does Aging Make Us Grittier? Disentangling the Age and Generation Effect on Passion and Perseverance – 8/2022
Merril Silverstein and Ying Xu Ma in Public Policy & Aging Report – Older Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren in Rural China: Cohort Change in Resources and Deficits Across 17 years – 8/2022
Doug Wolf in Economics & Human Biology – A comment on “Treatment design, health outcomes, and demographic categories in the literature on minimum wages and health.” – 8/2022
Michael D. Carr and Emily E. Wiemers in Labour Economics – The Decline in long-term earnings mobility in the U.S.: Evidence from survey-linked administrative data – 7/2022
Colleen Heflin and Taryn Morrissey in Race and Social Problems – Patterns of Earnings and Employment by Worker Sex, Race, and Ethnicity Using State Administrative Data: Results from a Sample of Workers Connected to Public Assistance Programs – 7/2022
Yue Sun, Kent Jason G. Cheng, and Shannon M. Monnat in Journal of Rural Social Sciences – Rural-Urban and Within-Rural Variation in COVID-19 Mortality Rates – 7/2022
Kelsey Roberts, Janet Wilmoth, and Shannon M. Monnat – Lerner Center/CAPS Population Health Research Series – Resilience is Low among Both Military and Non-Military Populations with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – 6/2022
Nader Mehri and Jennifer Karas Montez – Lerner Center/CAPS Population Health Research Brief Series – The Chances of Dying Young Differ Dramatically Across U.S. States – 6/2022
Colleen Heflin, Leslie Hodeges, Irma Arteaga, Chinedum O. Ojinnaka in Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy – Churn in the older adult SNAP population – 6/2022
Mellie Torres, R. Anna Hayward, Gabriella Meltzer, Catherine Garcia, Tatiana E. Bustos, and Alejandro Silva Diaz in Natural Hazards Center Quick Response Grant Report Series – ¡Estamos Bien, Puerto Rico! Young Adults and the Impacts of Compounding Disasters – 6/2022
Claire Pendergrast and Shannon M. Monnat in Disability and Health Journal – Perceived Impacts of COVID-19 on Wellbeing among U.S. Working-Age Adults with ADL Difficulty – 6/2022
Red Thaddeus D. Miguel, Adovich S. Rivera, Kent Jason Cheng, Kem Rand, Fredrick Dermawan Purba, Nan Luo, Ma-Ann Zarsuelo, Annne Julienne Genuino-Marfori, Irene Florentino-Farinas, Anna Melissa Guerrero, and Hilton Y Lam in Quality of Life Research – Estimating the EQ-5S-5L value set for the Philippines – 6/2022
Blakelee R. Kemp, Jacob M. Grumbach, and Jennifer Karas Montez – Lerner Center/CAPS Population Health Research Brief Series – Civil Rights, Firearm Safety, and Environmental Protection Policies Predict Better Health among U.S. Midlife Adults – 6/2022
Madonna Harrington Meyer – Lerner Center/CAPS Population Research Brief Series – Nine Ways Grandparenting is Changing with the COVID-19 Pandemic – 6/2022
Marc A. Garcia and Rogelio Saenz – Lerner Center/CAPS Population Health Research Brief Series – COVID-19 Has Reduced the Latino Mortality Advantage among Older Adults – 5/2022
Alejandro Colon-Lopez and Catherine Garcia in Journal of Aging and Health – 20th Century Puerto Rico and Later-Life Health: The Association Between Multigenerational Education and Chronic Conditions in Island-Dwelling Older Adults – 5/2022
Blakelee R. Kemp, Jacob M. Grumbach, Jennifer Karas Montez in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World – U.S. State Policy Contexts and Physical Health among Midlife Adults – 5/2022
Lauren L. Brown, Catherine Garcia, Alexis N. Reeves, John R. Pamplin, and Uchechi A. Mitchell in Journal of Aging and Health – Stress is a Latent Construct: Exploring the Differential Experience of Stress and Discrimination on Depressive Symptoms Among Black Older Adults – 4/2022
Andrew S. London and Scott D. Landes in Biodemography and Social Biology – Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and the age pattern of adult mortality – 4/2022
Rogelio Saenz and Marc A. Garcia – Lerner Center/ CAPS Population Health Research Brief Series – White COVID-19 Deaths Increased More in Red States Than in Blue States in 2021 – 4/2022
Danielle C. Rhubart, Yue Sun, Claire Pendegrast, and Shannon M. Monnat in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World – Sociospatial Disparities in “Third Place” Availability in the United States – 4/2022
Woosang Hwang, Jeung Hyun Kim, Maria T. Brown, and Merril Silverstein in Journal of Marriage and Family – Do religious transitions from early to established adulthood predict filial elder-care norms? – 4/2022
Scott Landes published an op-ed with Health Affairs: “A Call to Eliminate Postmortem Diagnostic Overshadowing for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.” – 4/2022
Colleen Heflin and Hannah Patnaik in Journal of Family and Economic Issues – Material Hardship and the Living Arrangements of Older Adults – 4/2022
Edward C. Norton, Jun Li, Anup Das, Andrew M. Ryan, and Lena M. Chen in Society for Medical Decision Making – Medicare’s Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program Values Quality over QALYs – 4/2022
Scott D. Landes, J. Dalton Stevens, and Margaret A. Tuck in Journal of Health and Social Behavior – Postmortem Diagnostic Overshadowing: Reporting Cerebral Palsy on Death Certificates – 3/2022
Shannon M, Monnat and Irma T. Elo in Forum for Health Economics & Policy – Enhancing the Utility of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to Identify Drivers of Rising Mortality Rates in the United States – 3/2022
Rogelio Saenz, Marc A. Garcia, and Claire Pendergrast – Lerner Center/CAPS Population Health Research Brief Series – COVID-19 Deaths Soared among U.S. Whites in 2020 – 3/2022
Marco Albertini, Aviad Tur-Sinai, Noah Lewin-Epstein, and Merril Silverstein in European Journal of Population – The Older Sandwich Generation Across European Welfare Regimes: Demographic and Social Considerations – 3/2022
Shelley Clark, Elizabeth M. Lawrence, and Shannon M. Monnat in Journal of Rural Social Sciences – Support from Adult Children and Parental Health in Rural America – 2/2022
Scott D. Landes, Margaret A. Turk, and Julia M. Finan in Journal of Intellectual Disability Research – Factors Associated with the Reporting of Down Syndrome aa the Underlying Cause of Death on US Death Certificates – 2/2022
Claire Pendergrast and Danielle Rhubart – Lerner Center/CAPS Population Health Research Brief Series – Aging and Disability Services are Unequally Distributed Across the United States – 2/2022
Scott D. Landes, Janet M. Wilmoth, Katherine E. McDonald and Alyssa N. Smith in Preventive Medicine – Racial-Ethnic Inequalities in Age at Death among Adults with/without intellectual and Developmental Disability in the United States – 2/2022
Danielle Rhubart and Shannon M. Monnat in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report – Self-Rated Physical Health among Working-Aged Adults Along the Rural-Urban Continuum – United States, 2021 – 2/2022
Shannon M. Monnat in ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science – Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults – 2/2022
Catherine Garcia, Marc A. Garcia, and Jennifer A. Ailshire in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B (Advanced Article) – Demographic and Health Characteristics of Older Latino Birth Cohorts in the Health and Retirement Study – 2/2022
Athena Koumoutzis and Nader Mehri in Journal of Aging and Health – The Impact of Caregiving Intensity and Religiosity on Spousal Caregivers’ Health and Mortality in the US (2004-2014) – 2/2022
Elizabeth A. Asiago-Reddy, John McPeak, Riccardo Scarpa, Amy Braksmajer, Nicola Ruszkowski, James McMahon, and Andrew S. London in PLoS ONE – Perceived access to PrEP as a critical step in engagement: A qualitative analysis and discrete choice experiment among young men who have sex with men – 2/2022
Andrew S. London in The Social Science of Same Sex Marriage: LGBT People and Their Relationships in the Era of Marriage Equality – Marital Status among Transgender Individuals in the U.S. – 2/2022
Andrew S. London, Carrie Elliot, Rebecca Wang, Tre Wentling, and Natalee Simpson in The Social Science of Same-Sex Marriage: LGBT People and Their Relationships in the Era of Marriage Equality – Gender Transition and Same-Sex Marriage: A Qualitative Consideration -2/2022
Andrew S. London in SSM-Population Health – Depression and Mental Health Service Use among 12 – 17 Year Old U.S. Adolescents: Associations with Current Parental and Sibling Military Service – 2/2022
Claire Pendergrast, Marc A. Garcia, and Catherine Garcia – Lerner Center/CAPS Population Health Research Brief Series – Latinos Report Higher Rates of Cognitive Impairment than U.S. – Born Whites, But Rates Vary Between Latino Subgroups – 2/2022
In the News
Marc A. Garcia Lerner Center/CAPS Brief was highlighted by NBC News – COVID-19 narrows long-standing Latino mortality advantage, study finds – 5/2022
Emily Wiemers talked to the New York Times about wealth created by the Pandemic housing market – “The Extraordinary Wealth Created by the Pandemic Housing Market” – 5/2022
Merril Silverstein was quoted in the New York Times Article – The Nuclear Family is No Longer the Norm. Good. – 4/2022
Gary Engelhardt spoke to the Washington Post about the impact of inflation on retirees – “Fewer hot showers, less meat: How retirees on fixed incomes are dealing with inflation.” – 3/2022
Shannon Monnat’s research was highlighted in the New York Times article, “There’s a reason Trump loves the truckers.” -2/2022
Scott Landes was quoted and his research highlighted in a recent article on vaccine hesitancy among care workers in the Atlantic – https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/02/home-health-care-covid-vaccination/622029/ – 2/2022