Is Local Social Development Associated with Workforce Composition? A Municipal Analysis of Mexico, 1990–2015
Joshua T. Wassink, NSF - SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellow, shows that in Mexico, between 1990 and 2015, improvements in local social development in terms of educational attainment, housing quality, and access to utilities, were associated with lower rates of subsistence farming and higher rates of formal employment and entrepreneurship.November 30, 2018
Women most likely to leave labor force after first child, not later births
Catherine J.Doren, Postdoctoral Research Associate, using data from the nationally representative 1979-2012 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, has discovered that a woman’s transition to motherhood — the birth of her first child — is the most important point in determining her future work patterns. October 22, 2018
Hannah Postel co-author of - Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion - published in The American Economic Review
An important class of active labor market policy has received little impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to raise wages and employment by shrinking labor supply. Theories of endogenous technical advance raise the possibility of limited or even perverse impact. We study a natural policy experiment: the exclusion of almost half a million Mexican bracero farm workers from the United States to improve farm labor market conditions. With novel labor market data we measure state-level exposure to exclusion and model the absent changes in technology or crop mix. We fail to reject zero labor market impact, inconsistent with this model.August 31, 2018
Noreen Goldman appointed as visiting scholar for 2018-2019 at The Russell Sage Foundation.
Noreen Goldman, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs and Anne Pebley will analyze longitudinal data on Latino health outcomes, focusing on how factors such as documentation status and occupational segregation affect the physical well-being of immigrants and native-born Latinos. February 21, 2018
Interview with Anne Case
Anne C.Case, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Interview - Princeton economist on the cost of AIDS in South Africa, “deaths of despair” in the U.S. and women in economicsDecember 18, 2017
Kristen Matlofsky graduated with High Honors from the Dixon School of NursingCongratulations Kristen!September 07, 2017
At the cellular level, a child’s loss of a father is associated with increased stress
In a study published July 18 in the journal Pediatrics, a team of researchers, including those from Princeton University, report that the loss of a father has a significant adverse effect on telomeres, the protective nucleoprotein end caps of chromosomes.July 18, 2017
Princeton Family YMCA 2016 Centennial Award Honoree:
Thomas J.Espenshade, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus. The YMCA Centennial Award recognizes remarkable individuals in the community who demonstrate outstanding commitment to helping kids gain the skills and confidence they need to reach their potential, from birth to president (or astronaut or doctor or playwright) and beyond.October 21, 2016
Marta Tienda to Deliver 2016 Brown Lecture in Education Research
Marta Tienda, Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs; Director, Program in Latino Studies; Director, Program in Population StudiesMay 02, 2016
Age and Mobility Predict Death Better Than One’s ‘Molecular Clock’
Noreen Goldman, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs; Acting Director, Office of Population Research, and co-authors alumni Dana Glei and Maxine Weinstein find when it comes to predicting death, more rudimentary measures—like a person’s age or a person’s ability to climb stairs or walk a short distance—are much more powerful predictors of survival than certain biomarkers.April 06, 2016
Janet Currie awarded the 2015 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award
Janet M.Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; Chair, Department of Economics; Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing. This annual award by the American Economic Association recognizes and honors an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession.December 09, 2015
James Trussell awarded the Michael S. Burnhill Memorial Lectureship
James Trussell, Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs. Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus This annual award by PPFA and ARHP honors innovation and leadership in the field of women’s reproductive health.November 04, 2015
Ending the Cycle of Racial Isolation
Douglas S.Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Director, Office of Population Research. His research demonstrates that good things can happen when the cycle of racial isolation is broken.October 18, 2015
ASA Section on Methodology's Leo Goodman Award.
Matthew Salganik, Professor of Sociology has been presented with this honor for outstanding research within 10 years of his Ph.D.October 01, 2015
Tienda Named to Population Reference Bureau’s Board of Trustees
Marta Tienda, Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies. Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Director, Program in Latino Studies.The bureau, based in Washington, D.C., informs people around the world about population, health and the environment to advance the well-being of current and future generations.September 29, 2015
America’s Immigration Policy Needs Less Emotion and More Reason
Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Director, Office of Population Research. U.S. policymaking should be rooted in geographic, demographic and economic considerations, not in our hopes and fears.September 25, 2015
The Historical Demography of Racial Segregation
OPR Ph.D. student Angelina Grigoryeva and Martin Ruef published in the June 2015 issue of the American Sociological Review. This article advances scholarship on racial residential segregation by theorizing and empirically examining how the structural bases of the “backyard” pattern vary from other dimensions of segregation.September 17, 2015
Segregation Destroys Black Wealth
Research by Douglas Massey and Ph.D. student Jonathan Tannen shows that the history of discrimination has taken an enormous toll on black wealth.September 15, 2015
New Acting Director
Noreen Goldman, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs assumed as OPR's acting director September 09, 2015
Westoff Prize in Demography
Charles F.Westoff, Maurice P. During '22 Professor of Demographic Studies, Emeritus and Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was on hand to deliver the 2015 Westoff Prize in Demography to Sherry H. Li for her senior thesis analyzing determinants of fertility in China.September 01, 2015
The Truth About Illegal Immigration
Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Director, Office of Population Research Net immigration to the US from Mexico isn't nearly as high as it was 5-10 years ago. The real number: zeroSeptember 01, 2015
Cellphone Data can Track Infectious Diseases
C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School is in the news at Princeton for her article titled "Cellphone data can track infectious diseases".August 21, 2015
A Response to Trump's Proposal for Immigration Reform
Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Director, Office of Population Research responds to Donald Trump's recently released proposal for imigration reform in a Foreign Policy article.August 18, 2015
The Growing Latino Population
Marta Tienda was recently interviewed by the Alumni Society for her views on the topic of "The Latino population is growing. Can colleges help Wall Street keep up"August 15, 2015