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Philip Cohen Featured in The New York Times on declining U.S. birthrates

Frauke Kreuter Named 2025 AAAS Fellow for Data Science Contributions

Faculty Associate Philip Cohen featured on Vietnam Today

MPRC Faculty Associate Katrina Walsemann honored at Maryland Research Excellence Celebration

Natasha Cabrera Co-Authors Book on the Role of Fathers

Faculty Associate Jennifer Roberts receives ISRCA award

Susan Parker earns first prize in the Premio Banamex de Economía

Findings from the JAMO project highlighted in The Standard

Reducing survey burden and improving response quality with app-based modular designs

Parker research cited in The Economist

Cohen sees limitations to financial incentives for birthrate increases

Financial incentives to increase birth rates

Trends in stratification of pre-marital childbirth

Reproductive readiness predicts a woman’s non-use of contraception in the postpartum months in U.S.

Standard measures of Unemployment make U.S. labor market looks a bit too tight

Exploring perceived coercive aspects of transactional sex in Central Uganda

Using New Policy Parameter to Study Early Childhood Intervention for Low Birth-weight Infants

NSF RAPID Study on the 2020 Coronavirus Social Impacts

Promoting Economic Recovery After COVID-19

A Conversation About Race

Investigating Determinants of Educational Attainment and Achievement in Mexico

Work mobility during COVID

Engaging Women in the Market for Mobile Money

Improving Educational Access and Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Global Trends of Mask Usage in 19 Million Adults

'Accountable Care' hospitals may assist rural Alzheimer's population

Desai co-authors brief on health insurance inequities in India

Business Formation: A Tale of Two Recessions

Using Big Data to measure bias impacts on birth outcomes

Examining and Addressing COVID-19 Racial Disparities in Detroit

High Frequency Business Dynamics During COVID-19

Gender, Transport, and Employment in Mumbai

Care Coordination for African American and Hispanic Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

Kinship, Nuptiality and Child Health Outcomes in a Low Income Urban Area - JAMAA na AFYA ya MTOTO (JAMO)

Another brick on the wall: On the effects of non-contributory pensions on material and subjective well being

Pandemic sees new business formation surge

Maryland Environmental Justice Map and Screening Tool

Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality

Confronting Racism in Environmental Health Sciences

Beyond the (family) binary: Family environment heterogeneity among transgender adults

Stigma as a deterrent to PrEP usage among Black sexual minority men

Profiles of caregiver racial-ethnic socialization found to promote academic engagement in Black and Latinx youth

Hard times in economic data collection call for innovative data sourcing

The importance of parental engagement in learning activities for socioemotional development in low-income Black and Latinx youth

13 million Facebook users weigh in on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, vaccination, and mask wearing

Environmental Systems and Occupational Health Policy Analyses to Interrupt the Impact of Structural Racism

Can incentivized peer-to-peer health communication promote preventative health behaviors?

Work in the time of COVID-19: social norms and pluralistic ignorance

Broader approaches are necessary for formulating evidence-based climate policies

Emotional well-being in South African migrants

Expectations for male provision and women's sexual health risks in sub-Saharan Africa

Local violence accelerates cohabiting union transitions among disadvantaged women

Built environment features mediate the relationship between neighborhoods' racial and ethnic composition and health outcomes

The opioid epidemic's effects on families

A cross-national investigation of women's empowerment

Expanding racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity in Economics

School-based health centers reduce income-based health disparities

Inequities in childrens' exposure to neurotoxicants

Asian Americans & Racism: Individual and Structural Experiences (ARISE)

"Rosie" learns Spanish: The AI-powered chatbox bridging disparities in maternal and infant health

Victimization and minority stress in first-gen Latinx immigrant adolescents

State level structural racism and alcohol and tobacco use behaviors

Elementary School Desegregation and Mid-Life Cognitive Function

Wildfires and Child Health

Dyadic patterns in childbirth intention

Medication and procedural abortions before 13 weeks gestation and risk of psychiatric disorders

The built environment and traffic collisions in the United States

Educational and economic gains from expanding computer science courses in Maryland

Improving mental health for older adults

Examining open-ended survey responses between web and face-to-face

Temporal trends in mental health disparities among sexual minorities

The impact of private high schools on adult earnings in Chile

Examining the effects of maternal smoking on offspring depression

The impact of mental health treatment on women's alcohol use

Examination of pregnancy related deaths in Georgia

Grandmothers' support and its effect on mental health among young mothers in Nairobi

Untapped human capital in sub-Saharan Africa

The impact of education on fertility in the U.S. over five decades

The relationship between familial deaths and one's own mortality among Black Americans

The introduction of Medicaid abortion coverage in Illinois

Differential convergence in twenty-first-century gender gaps in home tasks

Preterm birth during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico

The modern mortgage set the stage for the US baby boom

Racial and ethnic discrimination (RED) & tobacco use and cannabis co-use behaviors among young adults

The nexus of the risk of depression and residential mobility for urban poor mothers in Nairobi

Differences in out-of-pocket spending for maternity care by race and ethnicity

Gatekeeping in telephone surveys of female migrants in India

High school friendship (in)stability from adolescence to young adulthood

The Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality in Tanzania

Faculty Associates Fish and Roberts honored

SPH launches new Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health

Lifetime achievements of Partha Lahiri celebrated internationally

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