Alison Gemmill is quoted at Vox
You can’t even pay people to have more kids
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Birth Rates Have Risen in States With Abortion Bans
Alison Gemmill is quoted at HealthDay.
Overturning of Roe v. Wade led to 32,000 additional births, study finds
Alison Gemmill is quoted at Fox News.
“Lloyd’s played a central role in the underwriting of marine insurance pertaining to the slave trade.”
—Alexandre White, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, on hisresearch linking the insurance market to the transatlantic slave trade. Reuters, November 8, 2023
Lloyd’s of London to invest $65M following slavery report by Assistant professor Alexandre White and the Black Beyond Data team
Assistant professor Alexandre White and the Black Beyond Data team examined material from the Lloyd’s archive, including ledgers where insurers recorded policies for ships leaving Liverpool as part of the […]
More babies are dying in the U.S.: Details on the troubling trend
Alison Gemmill is quoted at USA Today.
Seriously, why aren’t millennials having kids?
Alison Gemmill is quoted at The Washington Post
Dr. Taylor Hargrove will give a talk on “Manifestations of Structural Racism across the Life Course: Approaches and Implications for Health and Aging” on Nov 10
Abstract: Structural racism is a fundamental cause of health. It involves interconnection of institutions, laws, practices, and ideologies that organize racialized groups in a hierarchical structure. Increasing quantitative work has […]
Dr. Mónica Caudillo will give a talk on “Individual Behaviors and Health Inequalities: The Case of Preterm Birth during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico” on Oct 20, 2023
Abstract: The public health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been extensively studied but little is known about how individuals’ adaptive behaviors, subject to heterogeneous structural constraints, drove disparities in […]
Dr. Feinian Chen will give a talk on “Adolescents’ Gender Beliefs in India: Does Mother’s Empowerment Matter?” on Sep 29
Abstract: Numerous studies have highlighted the positive influence of maternal empowerment on children’s health and education in the Global South. However, there remains a gap in understanding how maternal empowerment […]