Penn State Population Research Institute

New paper, led by former Penn State Rural Sociology graduate student Cara Adrien, on environmental shocks and child fostering:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New research brief from @elenapojman.com and Florence Becot on caregiving in the northeast region of the U.S.

Five days left to submit your abstract(s) for the 2025 SDA Meeting in Lexington, KY (due Friday, July 25)! Check the meeting website for more info about the conference and for the link to submit your paper or poster abstract or to propose a session/panel: sda-demography.org/sys/website/...

In Social Science & Medicine, Cayley Ryan-Claytor finds evidence that U.S. adults (especially young adults with college degrees) use the internet to complement information and services provided by traditional medical providers, rather than to replace them.

doi.org/10.1016/j.so... #OA

New pub with my amazing colleague and the grad students in my most recent seminar on the corporate drug trade.
#geosky #academicsky 🛟
@ssripennstate.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu @pennstategeography.bsky.social

My new-to-blusky friend Nicole Kreisberg @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social is looking for interviewees for her project on immigrant couples! Her research team is in particular need of more respondents from Latin America and/or on student visas. Please share widely! #Socsky

In @wssjournal.bsky.social, Cleothia Frazier finds perceived neighborhood disadvantage is associated with increased anxiety and externalized anger, suggesting older adults’ perceptions of physical neighborhood stressors can have a deleterious impact on emotional health.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ws...

If you or a loved one ever spent time at Oswald Tower at Penn State you may be entitled to a brick.

Our new publication titled “Identifying air quality monitoring deserts in the United States” is out in PNAS.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on Remittances in Guatemala: A Causal Impact Analysis Remittances constitute a major way in which migrants contribute to their family’s well-being and stability. Almost 2 million people of Guatemalan-orig…

Just out in Economics Letters our study on Remittances in Guatemala! We use Bayesian Structural Time-Series and Causal Impact to study the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on remittances received in Guatemala.

Result: They increased and the impact was still observed in December 2024.

Excited to have @clarklgray.bsky.social as our @pop.psu.edu seminar speaker today, talking about "Measuring Climate Vulnerability using Big Population Data":

pop.psu.edu/events/pri-b...

Register now for the PRI Methods Workshop on hard-to-reach populations held May 13.

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High school experiences linked to midlife body weight | Penn State University High schools have long been recognized for shaping students’ futures. According to a new study by researchers from Penn State, the University of Texas, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Univ...

According to a new study by @edshareproject.bsky.social researchers High schools have long been recognized for shaping students’ futures. High schools may even contribute to how much a person weighs later in life.

Congratulations to Kelsey Shaulis for winning the poster award with the High School & Beyond (HS&B:80)’s analysis on the Gender Differences in Educational Trajectories and Midlife Health! @popassocamerica.bsky.social @pop.psu.edu

Some of our Demography students presenting at #PAA2025

New research from PRI associate Michelle Frisco and colleagues: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

📚 New PopDigest!

A study led by @mkroberts.bsky.social ( @oxforddemsci.bsky.social ) examines the long-term consequences of housing instability experienced between the ages of 18 and 26 on finances, mental health & stress.

🔗https://tinyurl.com/yvxytvzt

This Week in Immigration Podcast: "Estimating the Unauthorized Immigrant Population" | Social Science Research Institute In this week’s episode, BPC Senior Advisor Theresa Cardinal Brown sits down with Robert Warren from the Center for Migration Studies, Jeffrey Passel from the Pew Research Center, and Jennifer Van…

@bpc-bipartisan.bsky.social 's This Week in Immigration Podcast "Estimating the Unauthorized Immigrant Population" features @pop.psu.edu director @vanhookjenny.bsky.social.
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Register now for the PRI Methods Workshop on hard-to-reach populations held May 13.

tinyurl.com/2025gradmeth...

Poster session at PAA 2024 in columbus ohio

Willing to serve as a #PAA2025 poster discussant? Help foster engagement and deliver feedback to the research presented at the poster sessions. Interested in volunteering, sign up here: form.jotform.com/250658911441...

Kinship Structures for Left Behind Older Adults in High Outmigration Contexts: Evidence from Puerto Rico AbstractObjectives. Migration accelerates population aging in high-outmigration contexts. Older adults who remain in high-outmigration contexts are at high

Kinship structures for Left Behind Older Adults in High Outmigration Contexts: Evidence from Puerto Rico pre-proofs are available. (Early Access)

Coauthored with: Amílcar Matos Moreno, Diego Alburez, Ivan Williams, Ashton M. Verdery, Mariana Fernández Soto

@pop.psu.edu @ssripennstate.bsky.social

Applications are open for the @pop.psu.edu external fellows program. Come be a part of our awesome demographic community!

pop.psu.edu/resources/si...

Thiede featured at PopTalks on climate shocks in population research | Social Science Research Institute Megatrends met migration patterns as we launched the all-new PopTalks conversation series, hosted by Columbia’s own Thoai Ngo and featuring Brian Thiede of the Population Research Institute (PRI) at…

@pop.psu.edu Associate @brianthiede.bsky.social joined Thoai Ngo from Columbia University, on Feb. 17 to kick off the all-new PopTalks convo series. They discussed population health & migration in a changing climate. Full Article ⬇️

How Do Gender and Marital Status Impact High-Risk Polysubstance Use? Drug overdose deaths in the United States increasingly include the use of multiple drugs, known as polysubstance use. These include opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine, tranquilizers, and sedatives. Pol...

Polysubstance use is increasingly involved in #overdose deaths. Learn more about how gender and marital status impact high-risk #polysubstance use in this new @maxwellsu.bsky.social #SULerner #pophealth research brief: surface.syr.edu/lerner/271/

They summarize their findings in a @sulernercenter.bsky.social research brief.
doi.org/10.14305/rt....

Kira England and Alex Chapman investigate polysubstance use across gender and marital status between 2002-2019, finding use is higher among men and the unmarried. New in Social Science and Medicine:
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

Join us for the next PARC Aging Chat (@pennaging.bsky.social)

RURAL HEALTH & AGING
MONDAY 3/3 | 12-1 pm | McNeil Room 403 & Virtual
(Zoom info on image)

Shannon Monnat (@smonnat.bsky.social) at @maxwellsu.bsky.social &
Brian Clemens Thiede @brianthiede.bsky.social at @pop.psu.edu

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New estimates reveal size and heterogeneity of unauthorized immigrant population | Social Science Research Institute The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) recently released its latest estimates of the size of the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population, finding that between 2019 and 2023, the unauthorized immigrant…

@vanhookjenny.bsky.social (SSRI cofund & @pop.psu.edu director) w/ @migrationpolicy.bsky.social released estimates of the size of the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population, finding that between 2019 & 2023, the unauthorized immigrant population grew by 3 million. ⬇️

The #PAA2025 preliminary program is online: submissions.mirasmart.com/PAA2025/Itin...

Make sure you are registered before rates increase in March: www.populationassociation.org/paa2025/reg-...

Who are immigrants to the US, where do they come from and where do they live? | Social Science Research Institute This article was originally written for The Conversation by Jennifer Van Hook, PRI Director & Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography.

@pop.psu.edu Director, Jennifer Van Hook, wrote a piece in @us.theconversation.com about who are #Immigrants to the US, where do they come from, and where do they live.

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