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
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
Emilce Santana's research, Situating Perceived Discrimination - published in The Sociological Quarterly
This study uses the Latino National Study to explore the relationship between skin color, acculturation, and perceived discrimination across four situations to understand how perceptions of discrimination may function depending on the situation.
August 24, 2018
Matthew Salganik Appointed to Mathematica Policy Research Board of Directors
Matthew Salganik, Professor of Sociology
August 08, 2018
Kathryn Edin is the new co-director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing.
Kathryn Edin, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
August 08, 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 economics
December 18, 2017
Betsy Levy Paluck, awarded a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship (the “Genius” Award)
Elizabeth LevyPaluck, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; John Maclean Jr. Presidential University Preceptor.
October 11, 2017
Barriers to accessing abortion services and perspectives on using mifepristone and misoprostol at home in Great Britain
James Trussell, Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs, Emeritus. Article release today in Contraception Journal finds women in Britain say they are turning to illegal home abortions because they can't get to clinics.
September 20, 2017
Kristen Matlofsky graduated with High Honors from the Dixon School of Nursing
Congratulations 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
Juliette Hackett was awarded the The Charles F. Westoff Prize in Demography for her thesis titled: Paths to Polarization: The Development of Abortion Views in Two Generations of Elite American College Students.
The Charles F. Westoff Prize in Demography was established by the Office of Population Research in 1992, to be awarded yearly to an undergraduate or graduate student for excellence in demographic studies. The prize consists of a certificate and a cash award.
June 05, 2017
Louis Donnelly is a PAA 2017 Poster Session Winner - The Protective Effects of Housing Assistance Programs on Eviction • Louis Donnelly*
Louis J.Donnelly, Postdoctoral Research Associate, CRCW and Sara McLanahan, Princeton University; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Irwin Garfinkel, Columbia University
May 26, 2017
Cheng Cheng is a PAA 2017 Poster Session Winner - Women's Education and Household Decision-Making From a Multi-Generational Perspective •
Cheng Cheng, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology
May 26, 2017
Janet Currie Receives an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Zurich
Janet M.Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; Chair, Department of Economics; Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing
May 25, 2017
Congratulations - Newly Elected Fellow to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor in Sociology
April 26, 2017
Doug Massey recently made a cameo appearance on Adam Ruins Everything in a segment about the proposed border wall.
Douglas S.Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs; Director, Office of Population Research
February 15, 2017
Marta Tienda Named Chair of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Board of Trustees
Marta Tienda, Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs; Director, Program in Latino Studies.
January 06, 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
Patricia Fernández-Kelly has been selected as one of five finalists for the 2015 C. Wright Mills Award for her book, The Hero’s Flight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State.
Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Sociology. The Society for the Study of Social Problems notes that “this award is one of the most prestigious, coveted, and competitive awards given in the social sciences.”
June 28, 2016
Youth with Parents and Household Members in Prison More Likely to Have First Baby Before Marriage
Aaron Gottlieb’s research examines how imprisonment of parents and other household members influence a child’s future. Aaron Gottlieb is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and the Office of Population Research.
June 15, 2016
Dennis Feehan won the award for his Ph.D. dissertation in Demography entitled “Network Reporting Methods.”
The Charles F. Westoff Prize in Demography was established by the Office of Population Research in 1992, to be awarded yearly to an undergraduate or graduate student for excellence in demographic studies. The prize consists of a certificate and a cash award.
May 31, 2016
Germán Rodríguez was honored with a 2016 service recognition award given by the Population Association of America
Germán Rodríguez, Senior Research Demographer
April 06, 2016
Celeste Marin won the APHA Population, Reproductive, and Sexual Health Section 2015 Student Scholarship Award
For her research on Adolescent reproductive health needs in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
December 08, 2015
Colorism and Classism Confounded: Perceptions of Discrimination in Latin America
Angela Dixon's paper has won the ASA James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award and the Society for the Study of Social Problem's Division of Racial and Ethnic Minorities Outstanding Student Paper Award.
October 19, 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
FACULTY AWARD: Metcalf Awarded by Wellcome Fund to Study Population, Disease Dynamics
C. Jessica E.Metcalf, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
September 16, 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
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
