Communicating With Policy Audiences

At the 2011 Population Association of America Meetings meetings in May, CPIPR hosted a session "Communicating Demographic Results to Policymakers."

As part of PRB's 2010-2011 Policy Seminar series, Suzanne Bianchi, a University of California Los Angeles sociology professor, examined new research on caregiving in later life. The study explored whether retirement and marital status made a difference in how men and women helped others. The finding…

PopPov researcher Duncan Thomas looks at the behavior of households in low-income settings and on the dynamics of decisionmaking.

PopPov researcher Nistha Sinha discusses her research on health, education, employment, and gender issues in low-income countries.

PopPov researcher Will Dow describes his work related to health economics, international health, and economic demography.

In this interview, Michelle Carlson, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses the Baltimore Experience Corps volunteer program and an on-going study of the program's benefits. Carlson's research examines how both the environment in which someone lives and the medications they take …

Robert Schoeni discusses the book Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy, an edited volume that identifies and quantifies health consequences of social policies.

Angus Deaton discusses his work on subjective well-being and its potential usefulness in public policy.

Andrew London and Janet Wilmoth lead a research project on "Military Service and Men's Health Trajectories in Later Life," supported by the National Institutes on Aging.

Robert Hummer outlines trends and differences in mortality as part of PRB's Policy Seminar series.

Anthony P. Carnevale discusses structural changes to the U.S. economy, the cost of college for the middle class, and the demographics of higher education disparities.

Marta Tienda, professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, discusses research into college planning and enrollment behavior under a policy guaranteeing high school graduates in the top 10% of their class admission to any Texas public college or university.