December 01, 2023
As the 2024 presidential election draws near, media attention will be centered on both official and unofficial campaign events, from tumultuous debates to jarring revelations and scandals. Bu...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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Study shows how media use can shape voters views of candidates
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November 29, 2023
Sociologist and author Ruha Benjamin, whose latest book argues that seemingly small efforts can help build a more just and joyful world, is the featured speaker for Northwestern University’...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health
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Princeton sociologist and author is known for her original research on race, technology, and justice
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November 28, 2023
The daughter of an immigrant holds a flag at her mother's naturalization ceremony in 2019.
Even before the United States was founded, Benjamin Franklin worried about the number of Germans ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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IPR experts' findings illuminate how the two can differ, with some counterintuitive results
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November 28, 2023
This month's new research from IPR faculty explores gut microbiota in wild baboons that have access to trash containing processed food high in sugar, the challenges of balancing primary and ge...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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November 27, 2023
The number of uninsured children in the U.S. has been declining for decades. But between 2016 and 2019, the trend reversed and the number of children without health insurance started rising...
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Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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Study finds that certain policies hinder Medicaid and CHIP enrollment, disproportionally affecting disadvantaged populations
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November 06, 2023
Police et Société en France (Policing in France)
Edited by Jacques de Maillard and Wesley G. Skogan
Presses de Science Po, 2023
In France, the security ma...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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IPR faculty tackle key issues around policing, race, and digital access
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November 03, 2023
New research suggests that a school’s racial climate is linked to students' physical health long after they leave the classroom.
In a recent JAMA Pediatrics study, IPR health p...
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Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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Study suggests a school’s racial climate is linked to Black students’ health later in life
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November 01, 2023
The federal funds allotted to school districts to combat pandemic-induced learning loss will end in less than a year, but the U.S. is stalled on progress to reverse the once-a-century educati...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy
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How tutoring can turn the tide on pandemic learning losses
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October 24, 2023
The theme of this year’s World Food Day was “Water is life, water is food. Leave no one behind.”
The journal Nature Water commemorated the day on October 16 by hosting a webina...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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Sera Young argues if we care about food insecurity, we must pay attention to water insecurity
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October 23, 2023
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation’s mental health has been in decline. Years of uncertainty, lockdowns, grief, and economic precarity led to at least four out...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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Research suggests that ignoring the decline in Americans’ mental health could eventually put U.S. democracy at risk
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October 23, 2023
SESP and Weinberg senior Amelia Vasquez (right) discusses a research project with IPR developmental psychologist Terri Sabol (left), who mentored Vasquez during the SURA program over the sum...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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Over 40 students picked up valuable hard and soft skills working with IPR faculty researchers this summer
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October 20, 2023
This month’s new research from IPR faculty examines support for political violence, a two-generation program to improve immigrant parents' english, and proposes a multidisciplinary roadm...
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Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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October 17, 2023
Researchers filmed interactions of preschoolers to create a new video measure of implicit bias in classrooms.
On a balmy summer day, 17 Evanston preschoolers happily played with blocks, worked on ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy
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IPR researchers create a toolkit to measure racial bias in preschools with help from Evanston families and a local business
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October 10, 2023
Northwestern Provost Kathleen Hagerty has appointed IPR social psychologist Mesmin Destin as faculty director of student access and enrichment, effective Sept. 1.
In this inaugural role, Destin ...
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Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2023 |
IPR psychologist will work to enhance engagement with first-generation and lower-income students across Northwestern
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September 27, 2023
On August 11, President Joe Biden announced his intention to appoint IPR economist Kirabo Jackson as a senior member of his Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). The CEA sits within the Executive O...
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Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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Kirabo Jackson brings expertise in labor and education policy
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September 26, 2023
Daniel Galvin, Eli Finkel, Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Ofer Malamud, Sally Nuamah, Elizabeth Tipton (from top left, clockwise)
Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research (IPR) welcomed social ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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New gift establishes a named faculty fellowship, IPR celebrates faculty promotions
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September 21, 2023
This month’s new research from IPR faculty investigates early-life psychological stress and long-term health effects, the incarceration rates of immigrants and U.S.-born men, and public perce...
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Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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September 13, 2023
During the 2022–23 academic year, IPR psychologist Sylvia Perry took leave for a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. Each year...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality
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IPR psychologist Sylvia Perry discusses her recent fellowship and leading a diversity workshop
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August 30, 2023
By the end of March 2020, over 4,000 colleges and universities across the country had closed their campuses in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, affecting more than 25 million students. Eighty-f...
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Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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IPR legal experts explain how the pandemic challenged the university-student contract
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August 30, 2023
Andrew Papachristos speaks at a CORNERS symposium in December 2022.
Northwestern University has appointed prominent sociologist Andrew Papachristos director of its Institute for Policy...
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Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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Prominent sociologist is an engaged policy researcher and community collaborator
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August 24, 2023
IPR developmental psychologist Terri Sabol and IPR economist Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach recently released a new IPR rapid research report, “The Chicago Universal Pre-K ...
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Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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Report finds increase in pre-K capacity due to growth in community-based childcare
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August 16, 2023
Each summer since 1998, the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) has run the Summer Undergraduate Research Assistants (SURA) program, which gives undergraduate students first-hand experience in the ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development
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August 03, 2023
In 2020, California established a Reparations Task Force to study “the institution of slavery and its lingering negative effects on living African Americans” and develop proposals for...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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IPR anthropologist Christopher Kuzawa emphasizes that reparations must consider physical health inequities
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August 02, 2023
This month’s new research covers studies examining the relationship between an individual’s COVID-19 vaccination status and their preferred news source, the impact of concerns abou...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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August 02, 2023
Young women, especially Black and Latina girls, suffer disproportionately from trauma-related depression, PTSD, and anxiety, yet little is known about treatment options.
Recent research by...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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Study finds that program decreased PTSD symptoms by 22%, depression by 14%, and anxiety by nearly 10%
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August 01, 2023
The 2023 "Economic Report of the President" to Congress outlined some of the country's greatest economic challenges from food insecurity to affordable education, presenting policymakers with poss...
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2023 |
Studies support policy recommendations on climate change, education, and the economy
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August 01, 2023
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Mesmin Destin, Christopher Kuzawa, Soledad McGrath, Jonathan Guryan, Terri Sabol, Kirabo Jackson, Andrew Papachristos, Sera Young, Dan Galvin (from top left, ...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development; Education Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Social Disparities and Health
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Studies cited in president’s report, legislation, and elsewhere signal depth and rigor of IPR research
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July 31, 2023
IPR developmental psychologist Terri Sabol and IPR economist Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and their colleagues, Kathryn Gonzalez, Tianshi Wang, and Elana Rich, recently released an IPR rapid resea...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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Report finds declines in enrollment and capacity, trends that COVID-19 exacerbated
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July 20, 2023
IPR economist Elisa Jácome studies public policy issues centered on immigration, crime, and mental health.
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2023 |
IPR economist studies public policy issues centered on immigration, crime, and mental health
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July 11, 2023
Sera Young (far left) works with farmers in rural Tanzania on an experiment to improve gender equality in farming.
Empowering women farmers in low- and middle-income countries can lead to greater ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2023 |
Study shows doing so can improve global food supply, while supporting women’s rights
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June 26, 2023
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach introduces Harvard economist Raj Chetty in February 2023. Under her leadership, IPR became a nexus for policy discussion and debate at Northwestern.
Economist Diane Whi...
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Performance Measurement and Rewards; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2023 |
IPR economist and fellow will take up senior role at the University of Florida in August
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June 22, 2023
The 2024 primary election cycle will kick off in less than a year, determining which candidates will end up on ballots in the November general election. But appealing to primary voters and their ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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Prioritizing primary voters over general election voters may pay off, but can increase polarization
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June 20, 2023
Stay up-to-date with the latest IPR faculty media mentions concerning COVID-19 as well as other IPR news related to the coronavirus in 2023. See media mentions and research from 2020, 2021, an...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy
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June 15, 2023
By the end of June, the Supreme Court will rule on the consideration of race in college admission decisions. Two cases allege that Harvard University and the University of North Carol...
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Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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IPR talks with sociologist Anthony Chen about the Supreme Court and race-conscious admissions
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June 15, 2023
The World Cultural Council (WCC) announced on June 15 that esteemed IPR statistician and methodology researcher Larry Hedges will receive the José Vasconcelos World Award of Education on...
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Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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The World Cultural Council will honor his ‘groundbreaking’ research in meta-analysis
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June 14, 2023
This month’s new research covers studies examining how water insecurity relates to food insecurity, the connection between low socioeconomic status and responses to immediate rewards, and...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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May 23, 2023
Yale social psychologist Jennifer Richeson discusses her research examining the myth of racial progress.
The abolition of slavery, repeal of Jim Crow laws, and election of the first Black presiden...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2023 |
Distinguished social psychologist reveals how Americans overestimate advances in racial equality, distorting reality and derailing progress
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May 22, 2023
This month’s new research from IPR faculty investigates how pre-pregnancy maternal mental health impacts children, federal agencies with substantial personnel change in the Trump era, and a n...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy
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May 18, 2023
Protestors breached the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2020 over the results of the 2020 election.
A record-breaking 17 million Americans bought one or more guns in 2020, and the gun-bu...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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Survey finds pandemic gun buyers are also more likely to believe in conspiracies, distrust government
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May 18, 2023
Approximately one billion people, or one in seven, around the globe suffer from a mental health condition, according to the World Health Organization. Despite billions of dollars being spen...
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Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2023 |
Robin Nusslock and his colleagues outline model in the inaugural issue of Nature Mental Health
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May 02, 2023
Water insecurity is often considered a problem in low-income countries, but new research is showing that many high-income nations around the globe struggle with water, too.
Recent survey d...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2023 |
Tool developed by IPR anthropologist shows how even wealthy nations struggle with water insecurity
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May 01, 2023
Over the 2018–19 school year, Chicago began expanding free, full-day prekindergarten (pre-K) for 3- and 4-year-olds through Chicago Public Schools (CPS). IPR developmental psychologis...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy
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IPR researchers examine the expansion’s impact, detailing progress on capacity, enrollment, and programming
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April 27, 2023
Attendees came from 40 different government, NGOs, development banks, and academic institutions in Latin America, as well as from U.N. entities.
Access to adequate, safe, and reliable water ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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More than 60 thought leaders gather in Mexico City to discuss how better measurement can lead to global progress in public health
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April 25, 2023
This month’s new research from IPR faculty investigates academic testing and genetic factors in autism, how childhood adversity is linked with health among potential parents, and educators' b...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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April 24, 2023
It’s April, another Earth Day has arrived, with another alarming report on the state of our climate and our planet. In March, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Clim...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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IPR researchers focus on climate change’s human costs and climate inequality
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April 12, 2023
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported rising COVID-19 vaccination rates since the start of the pandemic, but these data might give an overly optimistic view of ...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2023 |
Researchers show many more are unvaccinated than what CDC data suggest
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April 12, 2023
How does Americans’ understanding of racial disparities, including perceptions of the wealth gap between Black and White Americans, affect the nation’s path to racial progress? Yale s...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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Distinguished scholar to discuss how this mythology shapes beliefs about, and solutions for, racial inequality
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April 03, 2023
When IPR social policy expert Sally Nuamah attended a Chicago community meeting in 2012 about potentially shutting down a school, she heard residents discuss the closure like it was “...
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Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2023 |
A new book examines links between school closings and democratic disillusionment in Black and Brown communities
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March 29, 2023
Harvard economist Raj Chetty (right) takes questions from the audience about big data and upward mobility with IPR's Diane Schanzenbach, who moderated the discussion.
In his IPR Distinguished Publ...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Social Disparities and Health
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2023 |
Influential economist describes novel work tracking economic mobility and policies to boost it
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March 29, 2023
Behavioral scientist and IPR associate Linda Teplin was elected a 2022 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in recognition of her “distinguished contribu...
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Urban Policy and Community Development
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2023 |
IPR associate honored for distinguished contributions to public health policy
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March 27, 2023
This month’s new research from IPR faculty examines a meaningful measure of food policy progress, how liberals and conservatives engage with social media posts from elites, and effects o...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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March 02, 2023
Nearly three years into the pandemic, young adults are returning to their pre-pandemic social lives. Yet a mental health crisis among America’s young adults persists, according to a r...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2023 |
Survey finds depression remains high among young adults, with 34% reporting thoughts of suicide or self harm
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February 27, 2023
IPR experts Emma Adam, Terri Sabol, and Jonathan Guryan spoke on a panel about the impact of the COVID-19 panel on children and adolescents moderated by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (seated fr...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy
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2023 |
IPR experts discuss how the pandemic altered childcare, schooling, and mental health
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February 22, 2023
This month’s new research from IPR faculty examines whether food security can improve mental health, the legacies of apartheid and psychiatric illness, and whether infants exposed to sign lan...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development
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February 19, 2023
Rebecca Blank, shown here in her IPR office, was an IPR fellow.
Rebecca M. Blank, who was poised to become Northwestern’s 17th president this summer, died on February 17 near Madison, ...
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Performance Measurement and Rewards; Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2023 |
Esteemed economist, presidential adviser, and university leader was an IPR fellow for 10 years
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February 06, 2023
Twitter's headquarters in downtown San Francisco.
Since Elon Musk bought Twitter in October, the platform has experienced several tumultuous months under his leadership. His controversial de...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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Democrats are significantly more likely than Republicans to distrust Musk
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January 27, 2023
A store in Portland, Oregon, advertises that it accepts SNAP.
Since April 2020, states have been able to award Emergency Allotment, or EA, payments to SNAP recipients to supplement the form...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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IPR's Diane Schanzenbach estimates the allotments' amount and impact in a new report
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January 26, 2023
Illinois State Senator Cristina Pacione-Zayas spoke about how crucial it is for participants to come together to stop gun violence at the symposium on community violence intervention on Dec. ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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Corners previews promising evidence that community violence intervention and citywide partnerships can help prevent shootings
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January 24, 2023
In the 2020 election, a record number of Republican women won congressional elections around the country. Yet Republican women still represented a small minority of GOP politicians in the 117...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2023 |
Mary McGrath and Sara Saltzer find evidence that gender biases among primary voters contribute to the gender gap in office
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January 23, 2023
This month’s new research from IPR faculty examines the connection between eviction rates and adverse pregnancy outcomes, the association between childhood risk and cardiovascular risk, and...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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January 10, 2023
It was a dorm that led IPR postdoctoral fellow Lauren Tighe to a career in academic research.
During her first year at the University of Michigan, she shared how becoming part of a research ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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IPR postdoctoral fellow Lauren Tighe discusses her journey from teacher to researcher on two-generation initiatives
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January 09, 2023
How can we give children from all backgrounds a better chance of succeeding? Harvard economist Raj Chetty will discuss his efforts to study the science of economic opportunity using big data&...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2023 |
Lecture will detail how big data can help combat child poverty and inform policy
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December 22, 2022
Stay up-to-date with the latest IPR faculty media mentions concerning COVID-19 as well as other IPR news related to the coronavirus in 2022. See media mentions and research from 2020 and 2021. The ...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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December 21, 2022
In March 2022, Ukrainians go to the Lviv railway station to escape the country after Russia's invasion.
As the war in Ukraine nears its one-year anniversary in February 2023, American news c...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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Survey results show that there is broad bipartisan support for an aggressive use of force if Russians use nuclear weapons
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December 14, 2022
A survey of American adults found that nearly half reported having been infected with COVID-19 at least once, with 35% saying they have tested positive more than once. The report also revea...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2022 |
New report sheds light on the state of vaccinations and ongoing health risks at a time when the nation is experiencing a “tripledemic”
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December 13, 2022
Over the past year, the articles that were among IPR’s most read took stock of unfolding current events—from spreading misinformation to the midterm elections, abortion politics, raci...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
IPR’s most-read coverage reflects pressing social issues, from inflation and abortion to racism and shootings
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December 13, 2022
This month’s new research from IPR faculty explores Black girl space, when citizens engage in corruption, and the gun spike during the pandemic. It also examines the link between drug ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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November 21, 2022
Brookings scholar Richard Reeves (left) speaks to IPR Director and economist Diane Schanzenbach on November 3.
Men are falling behind women in school, in the workplace, and in other ...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy
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Boys and men are struggling, says Brookings’ Richard Reeves, but helping them can also help women and gender inequality
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November 21, 2022
IPR scholars Stephanie Edgerly, Laurel Harbridge-Yong, and Erik Nisbet (left to right) share their insights during the 2022 midterm elections panel.
In opening IPR’s 2022 midterm ele...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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IPR scholars share insights on the ‘red wave that wasn’t,’ misinformation, and media viewing
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November 21, 2022
IPR social demographer Christine Percheski (front left) and some of IPR's 2022 summer undergraduate research assistants take a photo break during a training session.
How might spouse...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy
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Undergraduates discuss what it was like conducting research with IPR faculty and what they learned
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November 17, 2022
This month’s new research from IPR faculty explores racial and ethnic differences in eating duration and meal timing, whether education protects against job loss during an economic downturn...
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy
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November 14, 2022
Katherine Amato, Matthew Easterday, Steven Epstein, Diane Schanzenbach, Onnie Rogers, Vijay Mittal, Eli Finkel (from top left going clockwise)
Seven IPR scholars were selected for Northwest...
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Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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Seven scholars were honored for their commitment to the classroom
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November 10, 2022
Countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa have experienced severe droughts and unprecedented floods in the last year. How are individuals in these and other regions faring in terms of their ab...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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IPR scholar deploys a more holistic measure that reveals the impact on millions of individuals
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October 25, 2022
Donald Trump's estate, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida.
On August 8, 2022, the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, to search for classified docu...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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Political party played a role in whether Americans supported or opposed the raid
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October 17, 2022
Raphael Bostic discusses inflation, the legacy of racism in the economy, and more at IPR's Distinguished Lecture.
Rising rents, distressing dinner tabs, climbing gas prices, and ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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In an IPR lecture, Raphael Bostic describes challenges in battling inflation, cautions against ‘temptation’ to lower interest rates prematurely
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October 17, 2022
This month’s new research from IPR faculty explores racial inequalities in birth weight among college-educated mothers, improving generalizability in academic studies, and how social psycho...
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Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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October 12, 2022
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker delivers his inaugural address on January 14, 2019, in Springfield.
Twenty-eight governors, 15 Republicans and 13 Democrats, will be up for re-election in November, and a...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
But partisans rate Democratic governors more positively and that could be ‘consequential’ for close races
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October 06, 2022
Between 2021 and 2031, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects U.S. employment in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, jobs will rise by nearly 11%—double the rate fo...
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy
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2022 |
IPR researchers will be part of a national effort to improve resources and teaching excellence
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September 29, 2022
IPR's new fellows (from left to right): Economist Elisa Jácome, African American Studies scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and political scientist Brian Libgober.
Three new fellows joined No...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
They examine critical policy topics, including immigration, housing, discrimination, and inequality
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September 19, 2022
This month’s new research from IPR faculty investigates how reflecting on positive events influences academic achievement, the effects of protective caregiving practices on mental heal...
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Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
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September 07, 2022
IPR statistician Larry Hedges leads a training during the Improving Evaluations of R&D in STEM Education Summer Institute.
How can researchers conduct small education studies when lar...
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy
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2022 |
Larry Hedges and Elizabeth Tipton trained researchers in the latest evaluation methods
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September 07, 2022
Raphael Bostic, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, will deliver the 2022 Fall Distinguished Public Policy Lecture at Northwestern University’s Ins...
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2022 |
Raphael Bostic to discuss the 'battle against inflation' on Oct. 5
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August 30, 2022
A group of protestors rallied in support of Amazon workers and unionization on January 15, 2022, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Workers at Starbucks, Chipotle, Amazon, REI, Trader Joe’s, a...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
Research suggests that states with more union members maintained better work conditions and offered workers more protections, despite a period of steep decline
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August 24, 2022
Each summer since 1998, the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) has run the Summer Undergraduate Research Assistants (SURA) program, which gives undergraduate students first-hand experience in the ...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2022 |
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August 16, 2022
In 1989, pro-choice demonstrators gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
Even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion remained one of the most polariz...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
IPR talks with IPR political scientist Chloe Thurston about politicians’ changing views on abortion and the role interest groups play
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August 11, 2022
Research suggests that Mexican American adolescents may be at greater risk for major depression and suicide than White teenagers. In an effort to help their teens, some Mexican American parents&#...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2022 |
IPR anthropologist explains how moms navigate being a ‘good mother’ and what it might mean for policy
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August 08, 2022
Our lives depend on water, but climate change, population growth, and poor governance can all jeopardize our water security. One of the goals of sustainable development is to ensure equal d...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2022 |
IPR anthropologist Sera Young investigates how improvements in water security do not always occur equitably
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August 02, 2022
Many Americans take tap water for granted. Water bills are often less expensive compared to people’s other bills, and tap water has been a part of most Americans’ lives since th...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2022 |
IPR researchers highlight the connection between water and food insecurity
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July 25, 2022
A worker fills out information for the 2020 Census.
In 1997, computer scientist Latanya Sweeney was able to identify then-Massachusetts Governor William Weld from anonymous hospital records ...
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
Researchers call for using benefit-cost analysis to protect privacy and enhance research and policymaking
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July 21, 2022
After the Supreme Court’s June 24 landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade, how did the announcement shift public opinion? And c...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
Support is highest among those who say they plan to vote in the midterm elections
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July 11, 2022
This month’s new research from IPR faculty examines the effects of social support on inflammation in high school students, functional neurological disorder's link to trauma, mental health, ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy
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2022 |
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July 11, 2022
For years research has shown that owning a gun increases the risk of suicide—a prospect that has only been amplified with the rise in gun ownership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In o...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2022 |
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July 08, 2022
SIBASS participants practiced biological approaches to research, such as learning how to draw blood.
Do poverty and racism affect your health? If so, what are the best methods for measuring the ef...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2022 |
IPR experts train 30 social science researchers in the latest methods
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July 08, 2022
Residents visit a memorial to the victims of the July 4, 2022, shooting in Highland Park, Illinois.
Mass shootings have been on the rise in the U.S.—not just in schools like the ...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2022 |
IPR experts detail the sweeping effects on survivors and communities—and discuss policies to help prevent them
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June 09, 2022
Susan Dynarski holds up her copy of “Keeping College Affordable” by Morton Schapiro and Michael McPherson, sharing how it informed her research, as fellow panelists Eric Bettinger (fa...
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Education Policy
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2022 |
Symposium honors Morton Schapiro for his research and efforts to make higher education more accessible
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June 09, 2022
From left: Diane Schanzenbach, Eric Bettinger, Susan Dynarski, Sarah Turner, and Jesse Rothstein discuss how their research can inform policy around college access.
IPR Director and economist Dian...
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Education Policy
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2022 |
The nation’s top higher education scholars dig into the role of money, financial aid, and other challenges
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June 09, 2022
From left: David Figlio, Adam Gamoran, Bridget Long, Sandy Baum, and Michael McPherson address what colleges can do to increase access and student success.
While the first panel of the May 10...
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Education Policy
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2022 |
Prominent higher education leaders outline how institutions can use evidence to promote student success
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June 09, 2022
Morton Schapiro (left) and James Kvaal cover some of higher education’s top headlines.
Two panels on higher education research and practice set up the May 10 “College Access and Succes...
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Education Policy
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2022 |
Northwestern’s president and the U.S. under secretary of education informally discuss student debt, loan forgiveness, and other topics
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June 08, 2022
Can your behavior as a child influence your income as an adult? New research by IPR economist Ofer Malamud and Robert Kaestner of the University of Chicago shows that it can.
The study, pu...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2022 |
Research suggests that children who do not fit gender stereotypes are penalized
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June 06, 2022
Three IPR scholars earned notable recognition for their policy-focused research.
IPR economist Kirabo Jackson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and IPR psychologist Alice...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy
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2022 |
Honors reflect IPR faculty’s expertise and innovation in social science research
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June 06, 2022
IPR political scientist Tabitha Bonilla presents on “The Role of Descriptive and Substantive Representation in Voter Decision-Making” at the CAB 2022 Conference.
On May 6, nearly 80...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
Faculty and graduate students returned to Evanston after two years of remote conferences
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June 01, 2022
This month’s new research from IPR faculty investigates how supply disruptions led to a drop in community college enrollment during the pandemic, if and why fathers spend less on their daug...
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Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
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May 04, 2022
New research can help officials identify hidden networks of officers engaging in misconduct and criminal behavior within police organizations. The study shows that police misconduct is a group ph...
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Urban Policy and Community Development
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2022 |
New study shows cop “crews” cause disproportionate amount of police misconduct, especially in Black and Latinx communities
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May 04, 2022
Legislation currently before Congress, the Levering Integrated Networks in Communities (LINC) to Address Social Needs Act, is meant to better connect social service and health organizations via p...
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Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2022 |
Research-based recommendations for better public-private social service and health networks
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April 21, 2022
Five IPR faculty have recently been recognized in their fields for the impact of their policy-driven research. Their studies span a range of topics, including COVID-19 infections and antibodies, ...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2022 |
Accolades highlight the influence of IPR research
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April 19, 2022
Assassination. Secret air pollution. Draught. Police shootings. Unexpected and beyond the control of individuals, these outside forces can “shock” people in ways beyond just a psychol...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2022 |
IPR experts explain how the shock of external events and disasters affects health and lives
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April 19, 2022
As the 20th anniversary of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) approaches, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) convened a committee to review current pract...
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy
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2022 |
Two IPR researchers served on the committee that authored a report outlining new priorities in education sciences
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April 18, 2022
This month’s new research from IPR faculty explores trends in gun violence in Cook County, Illinois, between 2018–20, whether social relationships can improve students' academic...
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Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2022 |
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March 24, 2022
In January 2020, the U.S. labor market reached a milestone: Women held more paid jobs than men for only the second time in American history.
Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, plunging the U.S. eco...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2022 |
IPR researchers discuss the pandemic’s effect on U.S. women’s employment and policies to support them
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March 14, 2022
This month’s new research from IPR faculty investigates the role of systemic inflammation in the impact of trauma on mental health, how school shootings affect elections, and the asso...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
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March 10, 2022
How have parents’ likelihood of vaccinating their kids changed since vaccines were authorized for 5- to 15-year-olds last year?
A recent national survey reveals that parents of child...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2022 |
Parents of kids under 5 are the least likely to report they plan to vaccinate them
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March 08, 2022
In 2014, Black Lives Matter (BLM) became a political movement after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri that would go on to shift public and political conversations about race....
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2022 |
Onnie Rogers traces how children drew from its broader conversations about race
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February 25, 2022
A new report shows that African women who migrate to France have more children than French-born women—but not as many as women in their home countries. The migrant women’s use o...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2022 |
New findings shed light on aspects of migrant integration, an issue in the 2022 French elections
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February 24, 2022
On June 6, 2020, people gathered on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia to protest the murder of George Floyd.
After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, millions of Americans ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy
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2022 |
IPR faculty share research insights about how children and adults can be anti-racist
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February 18, 2022
This month’s new research from IPR faculty explores the prevalence of adverse childhood experience of students in Chicago Public Schools, the connection between parents' education and...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Social Disparities and Health
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2022 |
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February 03, 2022
Andrew Papachristos welcomed guests to an N3 symposium on the science and practice of street outreach in December.
The Harry Frank Guggenheim (HFG) Foundation named IPR sociologist Andrew Papachri...
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Urban Policy and Community Development
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2022 |
Andrew Papachristos will explore how powerful politicians and warring street gangs shaped Chicago’s concentrated violence
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February 03, 2022
Can migrating to a very different society affect a woman’s contraceptive use?
A new study in Demography by IPR sociologist Julia Behrman and her colleagues shows that it can. She and...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2022 |
IPR sociologist studies how migration affects women’s contraception
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February 02, 2022
At the Republican National Convention in 1988, presidential candidate George H. W. Bush told fellow Republicans that he would not allow Congress to raise taxes, saying “Read my lips, ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
Tabitha Bonilla shows what campaign promises signal to voters
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January 26, 2022
“Are we going to be a nation that lives not by the light of the truth but in the shadow of lies?” President Joe Biden asked the country on the first anniversary of the January 6 insur...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
IPR experts explain how mis- and disinformation affect our lives and offer ideas for how to counter it
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January 21, 2022
This month’s new research from IPR faculty examines whether the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) affected birth outcomes, how Black residents’ political behavior chang...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2022 |
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January 21, 2022
More than a quarter of those surveyed remain unsure if N95s offer more protection than cloth masks.
Up to 6% of adult COVID-19 cases are not being counted due to the use of at-home test kits.
...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2022 |
N95 masks are seen as better, but most still wear cloth; at-home test kits are likely causing case undercounts
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January 06, 2022
On January 6, 2021, supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol.
One year after supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, a new survey finds that 52% of Ame...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
Overall support for the insurrection is low, but an increasing partisan divide is ‘concerning,’ says IPR researcher
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January 04, 2022
In June 2021, community members at a North Carolina school board meeting express their support and opposition to teaching critical race theory.
Over the last few years, Critical Race The...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
Support for teaching CRT and racism varies by political party and racial/ethnic group
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January 04, 2022
In November 2021, children in the Province of British Columbia received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Will parents vaccinate their kids as pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations rise ...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2022 |
Republican, Asian, and rural parents have higher levels of concerns than other parents
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January 03, 2022
Former president Trump gives a White House coronavirus update briefing on April 13, 2020.
Competent elected leaders are often successful in improving the lives of those they serve, b...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2022 |
2020’s pandemic response shows why studying leaders’ abilities matters
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December 31, 2021
Stay up-to-date with the latest IPR faculty media mentions concerning COVID-19 as well as other IPR news related to the coronavirus in 2021. See media mentions and research from 2020 on the followi...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
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December 17, 2021
In October 2021, community members attend a school board meeting in Burlington, North Carolina.
Conflicts around COVID-19 restrictions and teaching critical race theory have increased atte...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2021 |
Top concerns when choosing a school board include school safety, COVID-19 vaccines, and mental health
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December 17, 2021
Parents who are Democrats, college-educated, city dwellers, and older (over age 35) were more likely to say their 5- to 11-year-olds were getting vaccinated over those who were not, accordi...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2021 |
But worrying trends seen in parental enthusiasm for COVID vaccines and teen vaccinations
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December 14, 2021
N3 executive director Soledad McGrath moderates the final panel on the future of street outreach during N3's 2021 Symposium on Dec. 8, 2021.
At the end of November, Chicago’s homicid...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
Symposium examines lessons learned and the future of a promising violence reduction strategy
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December 14, 2021
This month's new research from IPR faculty examines how news consumption in Russia shapes belief in COVID-19 misinformation, mentor strategies in emerging fields, and measuring children's experie...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2021 |
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December 14, 2021
Snapshots from IPR's most-read 2021 articles (captions below)
As the COVID-19 crisis continued to ravage the U.S. and the globe, 2021 saw a January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the inaugur...
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
Beyond the pandemic, our most-read content also covered violence, education, opioids, and racism, among others
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December 03, 2021
Over 1 million students are currently in the midst of applying to college, and for good reason. Research shows that college typically confers many critical lifelong benefits on those who attend&#...
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Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy
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2021 |
College-for-all policies have set most U.S. high school seniors on paths to higher learning, but are they the right paths for all?
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November 18, 2021
A new survey of more than 1,200 U.S. college students shows those in colleges with mask and vaccine mandates were more likely to approve of their universities’ handling of COVID-19 than tho...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
But nearly half of those surveyed could not accurately describe their colleges’ COVID-19 policies
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November 17, 2021
This summer, the SURA program launched with a Zoom training about campus research resources and best practices for being a research assistant led by IPR social demographer Christine Percheski.
...
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Performance Measurement and Rewards; Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
Over 40 undergraduates worked on policy-relevant research with IPR faculty this summer
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November 17, 2021
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers whether increased public K–12 school spending improves student outcomes, the threats facing Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Pr...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2021 |
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October 27, 2021
For over a decade, Americans’ approval of the way Congress handles its job has been well below 50%. Recent congressional sparring over previously bipartis...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
IPR asks Laurel Harbridge-Yong about congressional conflict around current legislation, the debt ceiling—and what it all means for midterms and democracy
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October 26, 2021
On October 26, the Food and Drug Administration's vaccine advisory committee voted to endorse use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on 5- to 11-year-olds. If approved, this could set the st...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
Nearly one-third of parents said they were unlikely to get their kids under 12 vaccinated
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October 25, 2021
This month's new research from IPR faculty examines stress and high-stakes testing among students from low-income backgrounds, the disproportionate school punishment of Black students and their l...
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Education Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2021 |
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October 22, 2021
While 29% of Americans are still unvaccinated, nearly two-thirds of this group (19%) are concerned enough about the spread of COVID-19 to regularly wear a mask—and the No. 1 reason for a la...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
National poll cites their No. 1 reason as concern for protecting their loved ones
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October 11, 2021
As coronavirus cases continue to surge around the nation, President Biden has taken a harder stance against those unwilling to vaccinate by issuing vaccine mandates. Recent polling shows that mos...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
Support for vaccine mandates remains high, while approval drops for the president’s handling of the pandemic
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October 06, 2021
As the world struggles to stop a global pandemic and reel in climate change, globally comparable information about water insecurity is crucial for action.
A new study by IPR anthropologist Sera ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2021 |
IPR anthropologist’s scale provides snapshot of people’s experiences during global water crisis
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October 01, 2021
IPR associate Seth Stein, Northwestern PhD student Molly Gallahue, and former IPR graduate research assistant Leah Salditch at the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California.
...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2021 |
Leah Salditch was honored for her research on natural hazards and risks
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September 30, 2021
Even before COVID, childcare was a challenge. The pandemic’s swift economic plunge only made it worse, closing down childcare centers, shedding workers, increasing food insecurity, and turn...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
IPR researchers outline ways that improving children’s lives supports the nation
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September 29, 2021
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) finds that Americans, even the nation’s wealthiest, have shorter lives when compared with Europeans. At ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2021 |
Americans now have shorter lives than Europeans, even though the Black/White gap has been cut in half, study finds
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September 27, 2021
This month's new research from IPR faculty investigates how adolescents respond to racism on social media, whether a family's attitude toward gender impacts a girl's math score, and the impacts o...
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Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
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September 24, 2021
This spring, IPR graduate research assistant Sheridan Fuller received two competitive awards for his research, one of which was the Presidential Fellowship, Northwestern’s highest hon...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
IPR graduate researcher Sheridan Fuller receives two fellowships for his research on the social safety net
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September 10, 2021
Street outreach workers, part of a Communities Partnering 4 Peace organization, serve meals to neighborhood residents.
Individuals’ gun victimization dropped by nearly 20% after 18 months of...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
Collaboration reaches and helps those at high risk for gun violence
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September 09, 2021
Like many parts of the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted child care as 60% of programs nationwide were forced to close in spring 2020. It left parents and caregivers with no or few child c...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2021 |
Findings by IPR developmental psychologist suggest good news for the state
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August 30, 2021
How long do the immunity benefits of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines last? A new study by IPR researchers biological anthropologist Thomas McDade, postdoctoral fellow Amelia Sancilio, and professor o...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
IPR biological anthropologist finds that prior exposure to COVID-19 does not guarantee a high level of antibodies
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August 17, 2021
Chicago CRED street outreach workers connect with at-risk men in Chicago to prevent gun violence.
After a near record increase in 2020, levels of gun violence in Chicago remain stubbornly e...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2021 |
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August 11, 2021
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers how racial discrimination gets under the skin, the case for teaching preregistration in graduate school, and improving work-related social ...
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
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August 10, 2021
Despite having one of the largest economies in the world, India lags behind many countries around issues of gender equality. Female labor participation in India dropped to 20% over the last...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2021 |
IPR economist shows a school-based intervention shifted adolescents’ attitudes about gender
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August 10, 2021
Each summer since 1998, the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) has run the Summer Undergraduate Research Assistants (SURA) program, which gives undergraduate students first-hand experience in the ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
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July 29, 2021
Following the Surgeon General’s July 15 advisory on health misinformation and social media, President Joe Biden remarked that Facebook and other social media platforms are “killing pe...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
Facebook likely plays role in COVID-19 misinformation, affecting vaccination rates
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July 28, 2021
As the highly transmissible Delta variant pushes up cases of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the U.S. to alarming levels, President Joe Biden and other top administration officials have taken ...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
Messages from Democrats risk “backlash effects” that could deter Republicans from getting vaccinated
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July 26, 2021
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation Pandemic Response Policy Research Fund at Northwestern University is funding eight projects to inform and advance future pandemic policy responses, three of which...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
$1 million research initiative seeks to inform and improve pandemic relief and recovery policies
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July 22, 2021
Living a longer life may be tied to how much money you have made by midlife.
In the first wealth and longevity study to incorporate siblings and twin pair data, the researchers, led by IPR postd...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
Study examines association between wealth and longevity within siblings and twin pairs
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July 21, 2021
Children under 12 may be eligible for COVID-19 vaccines by September or October, but will parents vaccinate their children?
New survey results from a consortium of universities, including Northw...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
Young mothers and mothers of young children remain the most vaccine hesitant
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July 12, 2021
Rob Greenwald, a long-time IPR colleague and founding executive director of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE), died of natural causes on June 26.
Greenwald, who was 60, ...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2021 |
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July 09, 2021
As states reopen and lift COVID-19 safety measures, a new survey of more than 185,000 people from all 50 states shows another sign of improvement—levels of social isolation are fa...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
A study finds that poorer and less educated respondents remain more isolated than others
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June 28, 2021
Before the COVID crisis, there was the opioid crisis. Though the pandemic has grabbed the headlines, Americans continue to die of opioids at alarming rates: 136 Americans die every day from...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
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June 23, 2021
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers how opioid use impacts the hospital system in Illinois, predicting homeowners' gender, and designing a five-question index to measure women's age...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
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June 15, 2021
Even before infants can roll over in their cribs, research has shown that listening to language boosts their cognition. For infants as young as 3 months, listening to human speech supports their ...
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Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2021 |
IPR researchers identify neural mechanisms underlying the unique human link between language and cognition
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June 15, 2021
IPR social policy expert Sally Nuamah recently received two prestigious awards that recognize her contributions to research and activism in education, gender, and race this spring.
In April, Nua...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
Policy expert honored for her scholarship and work as a filmmaker and activist
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June 10, 2021
Helping someone with their homework or running errands for a homebound senior are examples of social support that have been associated with better mental health and wellbeing, as well as better p...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
IPR scholars find that a balance of giving and receiving social support is linked to a longer life
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May 28, 2021
Protestors gather in Graham, North Carolina, in January 2021 to protest evictions and call for housing security.
Is America heading out of a pandemic lockdown into a housing lockout?
On one...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2021 |
At a moment of promise and peril, IPR experts offer insights to key policy prescriptions
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May 27, 2021
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers the effect of exposure to immigrants on the academic outcomes of U.S.-born students, how the gut microbiome can improve health inequities, and wh...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2021 |
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May 27, 2021
IPR political scientist James Druckman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign assistant professor of political science Aleks Ksiazkiewicz, and IPR political scientist Mary McGrath at CAB 202...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
This year’s workshop highlights novel research by four women political scientists
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May 25, 2021
IPR biological anthropologist Thomas McDade was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, two of the nation’s most prestigious s...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
IPR biological anthropologist earns membership for his pioneering research achievements
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May 25, 2021
“During COVID, hunger has swelled,” IPR Director Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach told the members of the U.S. Representatives House Rules Committee on April 28 during a virtual three-hour...
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Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
Economist Diane Schanzenbach calls for bipartisan support to end hunger in America
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May 21, 2021
With vaccination rates increasing and states reopening, many are hopeful that the pandemic is finally nearing its end. Despite the optimism around the pandemic’s progress, a national survey...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
Young adults have been hit the hardest with depression
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May 17, 2021
Chicago’s skyline, taken from the city’s East Village/Ukrainian Village neighborhood.
A two-year-old program in Chicago designed to change policing and ensure communities have a voice ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2021 |
Preliminary evaluation finds challenges arose due to the pandemic, aftermath of George Floyd, and others; offers recommendations for greater impact
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May 14, 2021
As more Americans receive the COVID-19 vaccine and communities begin re-opening, many remain divided about whether proof of vaccination, or “vaccine passports,” should be requir...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
Attitudes vary across party affiliation, gender, and race/ethnicity
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May 11, 2021
Farmers and agricultural researchers discuss a composting technique during training using the participatory Farming for Change curriculum.
A groundbreaking study finds that an innovative p...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
Peer mentorship reduces food insecurity and gender inequity
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May 07, 2021
IPR graduate research assistant Abby Smith was named as one of the Center for Data and Computing’s inaugural Rising Stars in Data Science.
The center, based at the University of Chic...
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2021 |
Abby Smith was recognized for her work in entity resolution and network science
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May 06, 2021
New survey results from a consortium of universities that includes Northwestern, Harvard, Northeastern, and Rutgers reveal a slight increase in Americans who support vaccination requirement...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2021 |
Survey indicates cities and Democratic-leaning states will be more likely to implement them
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May 04, 2021
Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine arrives at Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, New York
A new survey from a research consortium that includes Northwestern reveals that 74% of respo...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
The survey also shows clear preferences for certain vaccines
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May 03, 2021
In 2015, a 21-year-old white supremacist shot and killed nine Black Americans during a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Stories of the shooting flooded media...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2021 |
Survey reveals importance of talking about racism with White 8- to 12-year-olds when Black children start to experience it
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April 28, 2021
Children playing in Centennial Park Playground in Howard County, MD.
How can organizations in different sectors work together to improve educational outcomes? A Northwestern study shows ci...
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Education Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2021 |
Study shows 'collective impact' framework no more effective than others; simplifies ‘formula’ for achieving social impact
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April 20, 2021
More than 30 IPR faculty have been recognized as being among the top 2% most cited academics in their respective fields, according to a database published in PLOS Biology by Stanford University r...
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Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
IPR faculty rank globally among the 2% of most-cited researchers in their fields
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April 19, 2021
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers the spread of COVID-19 in metropolitan areas in the fall of 2020, Chicago students' self-reported risk behaviors, and improving high school couns...
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Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
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April 19, 2021
Former faculty fellow and director Margaret (Margo) T. Gordon, 81, died on April 1 in Seattle.
A groundbreaking scholar and accomplished administrator, Gordon became IPR’s third dire...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2021 |
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April 13, 2021
An assay plate contains mailed-in samples of reconstituted blood.
As the U.S. rushes to vaccinate Americans to prevent a wider outbreak of COVID-19, the FDA has currently authorized three va...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2021 |
Northwestern study reveals need for two doses of mRNA vaccines for mild and asymptomatic cases
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March 26, 2021
Since January, more U.S. healthcare workers have said they are ready to get vaccinated, with rates of vaccine hesitancy dropping from 37% to 29%, according to a new survey from a research consort...
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Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
But survey shows lags for those who earn less and have less education
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March 23, 2021
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is one of five Republican governors who has higher approval ratings from Democrats than Republicans.
How much Americans approve—or disapprove̵...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
New survey also shows 53% of Americans support Biden’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis
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March 22, 2021
While coronavirus vaccines are yet to be approved for children, public health officials worry that the increasing numbers of parents skeptical of vaccinating their children for any disease ...
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Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
Young mothers are largely driving the resistance among parents
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March 17, 2021
A student sits behind a protective shield inside a school classroom in October 2020.
How are students faring as U.S. schools reopen after being shuttered due to the pandemic? M...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy
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2021 |
As millions of children return to schools, IPR faculty examine key education issues through their work
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March 17, 2021
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers the role of social-emotional development in students' lives, policy and science during the pandemic, and whether bipartisan policymakers are more...
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Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2021 |
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March 12, 2021
A Northwestern study finds that messages about the positive power of a student’s background can support the achievement and wellbeing of marginalized high school or college students. The fi...
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Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
Low-income students benefit from messages that acknowledge their backgrounds as strengths
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March 12, 2021
A Des Moines public school employee gets a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on February 6.
In his March 11 primetime address, President Biden pledged that all adults over the age o...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
Wealthy and more educated Americans are more likely to be vaccinated; complex distribution systems can hinder efforts to vaccinate the most vulnerable
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March 12, 2021
IPR economist Jonathan Guryan released a study with the University of Chicago Education Lab that demonstrates individualized, intensive—or “high-dosage”—tutoring can doubl...
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Education Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2021 |
As school districts grapple with learning loss from COVID-19, a new study shows personalized tutoring can bring adolescents to grade level quickly and at low cost
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February 26, 2021
As a child, Stephanie Edgerly remembers observing her mom engage in politics and current events through media outlets like the “Today” show, “The View,” and the Nati...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
IPR associate studies how audiences consume and engage with the news
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February 25, 2021
Protesters in Kansas City, Kansas, call for measures to ensure equity in policing in July 2020.
On his first day as president, Joe Biden signed an executive order that the federal governme...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2021 |
IPR researchers’ data-driven suggestions seek to diminish inequities through federal policy proposals
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February 24, 2021
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers how good relationships with parents during childhood can be a buffer to the common cold later in life, how experiences earlier in life, such as b...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2021 |
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February 19, 2021
A doctor at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, MD., gets vaccinated on Dec. 14, 2020. Women working in healthcare reported more resistance getting a vaccine than me...
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Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
White men and those with higher education and income levels are more likely to be vaccinated
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February 09, 2021
Two-thirds of respondents (67%), whether students or parents, say they are concerned about the quality of K–12 learning during the pandemic, according to a new national survey of more...
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Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
But a majority also comes out against a return to physical classrooms
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February 05, 2021
President Trump supporters carry guns at a United We Stand & Patriots March in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 12 to protest shutdowns.
Amid the protests and turbulence of 2020,...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2021 |
New survey shows those who protested, got COVID-19, or felt extremely stressed were more likely to buy guns
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January 27, 2021
An employee of the Metropolitan Transit Authority receives a COVID-19 vaccine at New York City's Javits Center on January 13.
As President Joe Biden promises to vaccinate more than 10...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
National survey finds most Americans favor vaccination, suggests doctors are best in convincing you to get one
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January 27, 2021
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers some of the real causes of the opioid crisis, how teachers can humanize relationships with Black students, identity frames and support for Black ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2021 |
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January 27, 2021
How did an English major working on a dairy farm end up as a pediatrician? IPR associate Craig Garfield began by deciding that he would prefer to help people rather than cows.
Going from English...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
Pediatrician Finds His Research Calling as a Stay-at-Home Dad
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January 27, 2021
More than 240,000 U.S. students have experienced gun violence at school since the 1999 Columbine shooting, according to an analysis by the Washington Post. In a new working paper, IPR economists ...
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Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
College attendance and employment rates are lower among high school students who were exposed to a shooting at school
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January 26, 2021
2020 was a year in which we saw the unrelenting spread and devastation of the coronavirus, George Floyd’s death and Black Lives Matter protests, a turbulent presidential election amidst entrenched political divisiveness, misinformation and disinformation, growing disparities, deadly gun violence, and a widening recession. Across IPR’s top content of year, seven key research themes emerged: food insecurity, poverty, racial disparities, policing and violence, politics, education, and, of course, the pandemic itself.
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Performance Measurement and Rewards; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development; Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Social Disparities and Health
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2021 |
IPR’s top content over the year reflects key social themes and the coronavirus pandemic
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January 22, 2021
A CRED mentor and participant shake hands.
With gun violence at a 20-year high in Chicago, a new report by IPR’s Northwestern Neighborhood & Network Initiative (N3) examines a promis...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2021 |
N3 report details preliminary findings from Chicago CRED’s street outreach program
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January 08, 2021
A protestor shows a bullet casing found at the scene of a drive-by shooting in Chicago, 2016.
At the same time that Chicago was battling a global health epidemic in 2020, it also experienc...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2021 |
Most victims connected to other victims through their social networks
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December 30, 2020
Stay up-to-date with the latest IPR faculty media mentions concerning COVID-19 as well as other IPR news related to the coronavirus in 2020. The University has been sending out official commun...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Social Disparities and Health; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
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December 21, 2020
A new survey reveals the dismal scope of many Americans’ economic struggles as Congress approved an eleventh-hour $900 billion pandemic relief package before their remaining benefits expire...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
Parents with children at home, Hispanics, and COVID-stricken have been particularly hard hit
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December 21, 2020
An evicted family's belongings line the street in Detroit. The app provides information on seven economic indicators, including on missed mortgage or rent payments.
During the COVID-...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy
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2020 |
Data highlight the severity of the ongoing pandemic crisis for many Americans
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December 17, 2020
Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris and President-Elect Joe Biden share the stage at a victory rally in Wilmington, Del., on November 7.
As President-Elect Joe Biden continues to fill out his incom...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Urban Policy and Community Development; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2020 |
Policy advice addresses key social challenges
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December 17, 2020
“My mother, like most of our parents, really emphasized the power and the value of school and education as a mechanism for trying to improve our life chances,” said IPR social policy ...
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Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
IPR social policy expert advocates for feminist schools and studies school closures
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December 16, 2020
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers the connection between mortality effects and health insurance choice, monitoring children's internet use, the punishment of Black girls in school...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy
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2020 |
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December 16, 2020
Boston protestors offer their support for the lawsuit by Students for Fair Admissions against Harvard University in October 2018.
In November, an appellate court ruled on the latest challenge to t...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy
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2020 |
Study examines the origins of affirmative action in higher education
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December 16, 2020
When the coronavirus shut down the economy, U.S. working women were hit with what has been called the "shecession": They lost jobs in greater numbers than in previous downturns and working ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
Study calculates women’s wages might not recover before 2040
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December 03, 2020
As the United States waits to see how high already grim rates of COVID-19 will go after Thanksgiving, a new survey shows that the states with the lowest levels of social distancing behavior...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
States with lowest rates of distancing and mask wearing now suffering worst COVID outbreaks
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December 03, 2020
Despite differing opinions about whether shutdowns have been effective, new survey results show 6 in 10 Americans support more restrictive measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Following t...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Six in 10 approved of limits to large gatherings, travel, events, and others
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November 30, 2020
More Illinoisans are wearing masks, like one of the Art Institute of Chicago's iconic guardian lions, but have fallen short on other behaviors that would help prevent the spread of the coro...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Being indoors more and COVID fatigue likely behind second wave; ‘surge upon surge’ expected
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November 24, 2020
IPR economist Hannes Schwandt, a professor in the School of Education and Social Policy, was named one of Capital magazine’s “Young Elite - the Top 40 under 40” this year in the...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
IPR scholar receives recognition from German business magazine
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November 18, 2020
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers how parent and adolescent stress influence executive functioning in urban youth, principals relationships with parents, how the internet can help...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2020 |
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November 18, 2020
Biden-Harris supporters in Washington, D.C. celebrate the news on November 7.
Four days after Election Day on November 7, major news organizations called it for Joe Biden. On November 9, the...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
IPR panelists dissect what election results indicate for key social issues and for the incoming administration
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November 12, 2020
The next administration will face more than the COVID-19 infection in its battle against the pandemic: It will also have to face an unprecedented national mental health emergency.
A new survey o...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Thoughts of suicide and self-harm increased 10 times over the rate before COVID-19
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November 11, 2020
Grocery shoppers wait in line during the pandemic in Queens, New York.
Using anonymous cell phone data to map the hourly movements of 98 million people to places like restaurants, gyms, and church...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Study identifies 'super-spreader' sites, shows how to better protect those most at risk for getting the virus
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November 03, 2020
In Virginia, wearing a mask is required in polling stations like this one in Fairfax County on November 3, 2020.
How have Americans’ opinions changed about the government responses to COVID-...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Surveys show views of pandemic influence presidential picks
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November 03, 2020
Voters wait in line at the start of early voting in Evanston, Ill., on October 20, 2020.
As the nation heads into Election Day, a survey of more than 20,000 American voters on the most important p...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Survey also indicates how these top issues might affect their choice for president
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November 01, 2020
Political polarization between U.S. parties has only escalated since Newt Gingrich’s partisan attacks against President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. But for the first time, contempt for the o...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Supporters of political parties now operate like warring sects
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October 30, 2020
As the fall semester gets underway against the backdrop of a national reckoning with racial and social inequality in America, new research sheds light on an apparent conflict between women’...
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2020 |
Women saw historically white sororities as putting the brakes on efforts to find equal footing with men
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October 29, 2020
Stress from COVID-19—along with stress related to healthcare, the economy, racism and the presidential election—is seriously threatening the mental health of our country...
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Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
IPR's Emma Adam offers recommendations on coping with uncertainty
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October 29, 2020
An international study is one of the first to reveal how those who set out to collect drinking water in low- and middle-income countries can face serious injury.
Co-authors IPR anthropologist Se...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
Anthropologists reveal social and gender inequities of a hidden global health challenge
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October 22, 2020
With less than two weeks to go until November 3, the 2020 election will be historic on many levels—from casting votes during a pandemic and ongoing protests around racial injustice to...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
IPR political experts dissect voter behavior, opinions, and partisanship amid a historic election marked by COVID-19
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October 21, 2020
Older Americans and Republicans are more likely to share fake news websites about COVID-19 on Twitter, new research shows. But at the same time, older people are less likely to believe misi...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Republicans also tweet out fake news sites more than Democrats, independents
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October 21, 2020
During this socially volatile moment in the U.S., is there a connection between having been arrested and belief in the “American First” ideology espoused by President Trump?
A new st...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2020 |
IPR researcher links “America First” beliefs and lifetime criminal arrests
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October 20, 2020
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers how therapists can help with unexplained illness, which groups are most likely to be misinformed about COVID-19, and the link between household w...
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Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
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October 19, 2020
A woman hands a COVID-19 testing kit to a vehicle at a testing center at the Walmart Supercenter in Elizabethville, PA.
The average turnaround time for COVID-19 nasal swab tests decreased ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2020 |
Despite the faster test results, turnaround times are still too slow for broad contact tracing
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October 14, 2020
On October 14, the Mindset Scholars Network announced the launch of the Data Archive for Interdisciplinary Research on Learning, or DAIRL, a new data and paper repository, that has been desi...
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Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2020 |
IPR statistician Elizabeth Tipton is part of a network opening access to 34 datasets to improve education studies
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October 14, 2020
Growing up in Germany, IPR economist Hannes Schwandt became curious about what underlies happiness—peoples’ health, their children, their well-being. He was also intrigued by the stud...
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Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
IPR economist studies how economics can impact peoples’ wellbeing
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October 13, 2020
IPR director and economist Diane Schanzenbach worked with undergraduate research assistant Natalie Tomeh on Zoom this summer to study food insecurity and employment.
The Institute for...
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Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students still got 'hands-on' policy-relevant research experience, albeit remotely
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October 09, 2020
The map shows average food insecurity rates for April 23–July 21 for all respondents. See a larger version of the map.
During the COVID-19 crisis, rates of food insecurity have soared. Acc...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
New app allows users to visualize food insecurity data
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October 09, 2020
A new survey indicates why Americans might see President Trump ahead at the end of election night on November 3, but then see Biden pull ahead and declared the winner by the end the week.
The re...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Counting a record number of mail-in votes could turn an early Trump lead into an eventual Biden win
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October 07, 2020
Several members of Northwestern's anthropology department, former and current, are among a diverse group of scholars who contributed to a special issue of The American Journal of Human Biology. T...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2020 |
Northwestern faculty and students examine critical issues in special journal issue
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October 05, 2020
In the face of stalled talks on a new coronavirus relief package, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed a largely symbolic $2.2 trillion one on October 1. A new national survey finds 80% of Americans support passage of a new relief bill. The survey, conducted between September 4 and 27, asked more than 20,000 Americans for their opinions on the next COVID-19 relief bill. Congress has passed four COVID-19 relief packages totaling $3.4 trillion since the start of the pandemic in the United States, including the latest, the CARES Act, on March 27. The strong support for a fifth bill cuts across party affiliation and race.
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
New survey shows Americans prefer giving direct cash payments to individuals over other types of aid
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September 29, 2020
In September, the Northwestern Neighborhood and Network Initiative (N3), housed within IPR, delivered a report to the City of Evanston reviewing its use of force policy and data for its police de...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2020 |
N3 Initiative partners with city on report that could lead to greater accountability and transparency in its policing
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September 23, 2020
If you get your news from social media, you are more likely to fall for misinformation about coronavirus conspiracies, risk factors, and preventative treatments, according to the latest sur...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Survey shows social media users are more likely to believe misinformation, local TV news and media websites lower misperceptions
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September 18, 2020
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan visited tutors and students in the SAGA program at Bogan High School in Chicago.
SAGA Education, an intensive math tutoring program, has been...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy
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2020 |
SAGA can add up to two years of math in a single year; new funding to expand program in Chicago and New York
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September 17, 2020
A team of street outreach workers with Communities Partnering 4 Peace helps to manage three epidemics in Chicago.
Chicago’s more than 180 street outreach workers, who work to prevent gun v...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
How street outreach workers are addressing gun violence and COVID-19
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September 16, 2020
A vigil in June 2020 for George Floyd and others who have lost their lives to police brutality.
The protests that followed the killing of George Floyd at thexxx hands of Minneapolis ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2020 |
IPR sits down with sociologist Andrew Papachristos to discuss the pandemics of gun violence and COVID-19, as well as policing
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September 15, 2020
Francesca Gaiba (left) presents a gift to the Williams Institute's Jocelyn Samuels at a joint IPR-ISGMH lecture in 2019.
In August, cultural anthropologist Francesca Gaiba joined IPR...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
IPR welcomes its first senior director of operations and outreach
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September 15, 2020
The White House Task Force takes questions from reporters early on the pandemic in March 2020.
How much do Americans trust politicians, organizations, and others to “do the right thi...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Survey shows that a desire to vaccinate depends on trust in leaders and institutions
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September 10, 2020
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis saw his approval rating drop significantly in the latest survey results by IPR political scientist James Druckman looking at Americans' attitudes about the cor...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
New survey data shows their approval drops despite the decrease in cases across states
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September 09, 2020
Despite the tragic and sudden rise in the number of young homicide victims in Chicago in 2020, the number of very young homicide victims has decreased sharply since the 1990s, according to new re...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
New research shows that the typical victim is in their late 20s
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September 09, 2020
Armando Leal Jr. Middle School's staff in San Antonio, Texas, distribute food to drivers picking up meals for their children.
The COVID-19 health emergency has led to a sharp economic slow...
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Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
Large increase in unemployment explains more than half of the increase in food insecurity
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September 09, 2020
At a mass distribution site next to the Alamodome in Texas, recipients receive food from the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service Disaster Household Distributions and the San Antonio Food Bank.
...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
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September 02, 2020
Each summer since 1998, the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) has run the Summer Undergraduate Research Assistants (SURA) program, which gives undergraduate students first-hand experience in...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
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August 24, 2020
Doctors and epidemiologists have continually emphasized the importance of handwashing during the COVID-19 pandemic, but still people across the globe struggle to access the clean water necessary ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
Nearly 25% of households in lower-income countries struggle to find water for handwashing
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August 20, 2020
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers whether personality traits are associated with smoking and drinking during pregnancy, how retail health clinics affect emergency room use, privat...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2020 |
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August 18, 2020
According to the latest results from an ongoing national survey of attitudes about COVID-19, most Americans do not believe it is safe for K-12 students to return to in-person classes ...
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Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Survey found differences across groups of Americans, notably by gender and race
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August 18, 2020
Even for infants just beginning to speak their first words, the way an object is named guides infants’ encoding, representation, and memory for that object, according to new research by IPR...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
Research by IPR’s Sandra Waxman sheds light on the advantage of naming on infant object categorization
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August 14, 2020
As communities across America have gathered in recent months to protest police abuses, researchers are taking a close look at how, where, and why racial disparities in policing occur. IPR sociolo...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2020 |
IPR sociologist Beth Redbird measured racial disparities in data from 1999–2015
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August 13, 2020
When Communities Partnering 4 Peace (CP4P) launched a new partnership among several leading outreach organizations aimed at reducing gun violence in Chicago, some resistance was expected. In many...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Participants in a program to curb urban violence praised its methods in a new report
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August 13, 2020
In February, President Donald Trump spoke at a "Keep America Great" rally in Phoenix, Arizona.
Every Republican president dating back to Dwight D. Eisenhower seemed to act out the same bas...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Daniel Galvin outlines the unparalleled way in which Trump dominates the GOP
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August 06, 2020
Researcher examines a COVID-19 test to find out results at the Pennsylvania Department of Health Bureau of Laboratories.
According to the latest results from an ongoing national surve...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Survey shows average wait times miss the window for optimal contact tracing in 44 states
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August 06, 2020
IPR labor economist Kirabo (“Bo”) Jackson has been honored with the David N. Kershaw Award by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). The award recogn...
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Education Policy
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2020 |
Kershaw Award recognizes distinguished policy research contributions for scholars under 40
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August 03, 2020
COVID-19 took center stage at the 14th annual Chicago Area Social and Political Behavior Workshop, hosted virtually on July 10.
“We altered the program to focus on COVID-19 and matters of ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Virtual workshop details effects on political engagement and racial attitudes
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July 31, 2020
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers how parental depression and incarceration each affect children, how the public views partisanship, family sizes in France, narratives about gende...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2020 |
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July 31, 2020
IPR sociologist Beth Redbird's map of racial disparities in arrests.
As the volume of information produced in the world increases every day, more data than ever is at the public’s fingerti...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
New apps and visualization tools are delivering data on critical topics to policymakers and the public
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July 30, 2020
IPR associate examines decision making and how research can become effective policy.
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Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
IPR associate examines decision making and how research can become effective policy
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July 09, 2020
A middle school in Arlington, Virginia provides families with meals during COVID-19, particularly for those eligible for free- or reduced-priced meals.
During the COVID-19 crisis, food insecurit...
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2020 |
New data shows Black and Hispanic households with children much more likely to experience food hardships
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July 09, 2020
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey at a rally in 2018.
The latest results from an ongoing survey of Americans’ opinions about the COVID-19 pandemic show that confidence in executive leadership is...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
New survey data from IPR’s James Druckman shows the average governor seeing a steep drop in approval rating.
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July 07, 2020
District 25 community ambassadors meet with CPD officers.
In January 2019, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) in collaboration with the Policing Project at New York University School of Law...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2020 |
Early results show increased trust and community engagement
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June 25, 2020
Only 30% of Chicago’s residents are African American, yet as of late June they comprise 44% of those who have died from COVID-19, according to Chicago’s Department of Public Hea...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health
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2020 |
IPR researchers heed the call for data and policy perspectives
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June 24, 2020
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers how bullying affects the brain, the effects of increasing private school choice vouchers on public school students, how feelings of uncertaint...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy
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2020 |
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June 17, 2020
Kit developed by Northwestern researchers to collect a finger stick dried blood spot.
Northwestern University researchers have received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2020 |
IPR project will investigate the origins of social inequalities in COVID-19 across Chicago neighborhoods
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June 16, 2020
Experts have begun to refer to a “learning crisis” in the developing world, where many of the poorest nations’ poorest children leave the school system without basic literacy or...
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Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy
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2020 |
New research from IPR sociologist Julia Behrman shows how poor schools fail poor children
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June 11, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a difficult dilemma for policymakers as they weigh the cost of protecting public health versus opening the economy. IPR health psychologists Edith Chen and Greg M...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2020 |
Lessons from the Great Recession can inform policy in the current pandemic
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June 10, 2020
Volunteers arrive to distribute food at the San Antonio Food Bank in Texas.
The COVID-19 crisis has not impacted everywhere in the U.S. equally, and to evaluate this as demonstrated b...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
In the U.S., food insecurity is more than two times what it was prior to COVID-19
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June 09, 2020
The wealth gaps between black and white families with children, and between Hispanic and black families, have widened since the Great Recession in 2007–09, even though the long-time gap bet...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Black families with children had one penny of wealth for every dollar white families had in 2016
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June 08, 2020
According to the latest results from an ongoing survey of Americans’ opinions about the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans’ trust is fraying in their institutions’ ability to respond ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2020 |
New survey data shows the largest drop among police, with trust falling by nearly 10 points.
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June 08, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, researchers are reporting findings of randomized trials comparing standard care with care augmented by experimental drugs. The trials have small sample sizes,...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2020 |
In a new IPR working paper, IPR's Charles Manski says this could negatively affect patient outcomes
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June 04, 2020
Recent news stories have highlighted the racial disparities in COVID-19 deaths nationally and locally in Chicago, with many noting that the “great equalizer” has been far from equal. ...
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Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
Research by IPR’s Sylvia Perry sheds light on racial disparities around COVID-19
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June 01, 2020
People wait in line outside a food pantry at St. Bartholomew's Roman Catholic Church in Elmhurst, Queens.
IPR Director and economist Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach has studied food insecurity...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
IPR’s Diane Schanzenbach details the nation’s widespread COVID-19 food crisis, calls on lawmakers to act
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May 29, 2020
A majority of Americans (60%) support efforts to make it easier to vote by mail in the upcoming November election, including majorities in 46 states, according to the latest report from an ongoin...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Three out of five Americans support efforts to allow them to mail in ballots
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May 27, 2020
On May 1, Soledad Adrianzén McGrath (WCAS 98) joined the Northwestern Neighborhood & Network Initiative, or N3, as its first executive director.
McGrath, who returns to Northwestern where s...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
Legal and policy expert discusses new role and ‘coming home’ to Northwestern
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May 26, 2020
How will the coronavirus affect pregnant women and their babies? What can be learned from the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic and seasonal influenza? Studies show that if a woman gets the flu dur...
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Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
Research provides cautious optimism about how COVID-19 affects pregnant women and their children
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May 22, 2020
A majority of Americans (60%) continue to prefer that the country wait at least four weeks before reopening, according to a new survey of more than 20,000 Americans between May 2 and 15. But part...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
But results shows partisan gaps emerging on most survey topics
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May 18, 2020
A man assists with traffic control at the Chesterfield Food bank.
The COVID Impact Survey also collected representative information for a select set of states and metropolitan areas. The t...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
Report offers second week of estimates for 10 U.S. states and 8 metro areas
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May 18, 2020
A member of the National guard helps at a food bank in Ohio.
In their May 18 report, IPR Director and economist Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and research analyst Abigail Pitts continue to mon...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
Second week of data continue to show 1 in 3 respondents reporting food insecurity; 1 in 10 in New York and Texas reported help from a food pantry in the previous week
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May 14, 2020
The COVID Impact Survey also collected representative information for a select set of states and metropolitan areas. These data allow IPR Director and economist Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and rese...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
New report offers estimates for 10 U.S. states and 8 metro areas
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May 13, 2020
Food bank in Olympia, Washington.
The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted lives in a manner unprecedented in modern times, but for none more so than low-income working families with children. Une...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
Data show nearly half worry they will run out of food and have no money for more
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May 07, 2020
An unprecedented challenge like the COVID-19 pandemic calls for not just interdisciplinary collaboration, but for scholars to reach out across communities and pool their resources to better under...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy
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2020 |
National panel of researchers discussed the shared response to the coronavirus pandemic
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May 06, 2020
Unrest, confusion, and anxiety are growing around the country as policymakers determine how best to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a Nature Human Behaviour article, more than 40 social scie...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
A new study offers research insights for better communication, following guidelines, and more
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May 06, 2020
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers ethnic and socioeconomic identities in college, whether voters are biased against female political candidates, the motivation behind public service...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
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May 06, 2020
An assay plate contains samples of reconstituted blood collected from a finger prick that are ready for analysis.
As antibody testing ramps up across the country, a team of Northwestern Universit...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2020 |
Minimally invasive approach requires one drop of blood
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April 30, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, with the U.S. now leading the world in reported cases, an international team of leading social scientists came together to analyze what the soc...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
Social and behavioral scientists offer research insights to address isolation, prejudice, relationships, polarization, and other pressing issues
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April 29, 2020
In medical school, psychiatrist and IPR associate Crystal T. Clark found herself torn between two passions: psychiatry, and obstetrics and gynecology. Rather than make a difficult choice, s...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
Psychiatrist and IPR associate challenges stigmas of mental illness in pregnant women
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April 29, 2020
IPR faculty Edith Chen, Mary Pattillo, James Spillane, Teresa Woodruff, and Jennifer Richeson were elected to the National Academy of Arts and Sciences in April.
Five of the Institu...
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Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
The researchers were recognized for their exceptional achievements
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April 28, 2020
Children who experience trauma, abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction are at increased risk of having heart disease as adults, according to a new study by community health scholar and IPR associ...
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Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
New study establishes link between childhood family environment and adult health
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April 08, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to spread in the U.S. and around the globe, its effects have been wide-ranging and abrupt, throwing untold tens of millions out of work, shutting down societies and ec...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2020 |
IPR researchers apply their research, launch new projects to tackle pandemic’s wide-ranging effects
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April 02, 2020
Three IPR fellows spoke at a university-wide March forum on diversity-related issues in developmental science, presenting their own research and new frameworks on topics including children’s social awareness of racial issues and racial disparities in school expulsions.
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2020 |
Three psychologists examine issues of racial identity and bias in their field
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April 01, 2020
In her new book Rejecting Compromise, IPR political scientist Laurel Harbridge-Yong and her colleagues find that one of the key predictors of rejecting compromise was the perception that vot...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2020 |
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March 24, 2020
Students in IPR developmental psychologist Terri Sabol's class, including undergraduate Alan Perez (center), made policy recommendations before the Illinois governor's office abo...
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Education Policy
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2020 |
In a course taught by IPR’s Terri Sabol, undergraduates give policy recommendations to the governor’s office
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March 19, 2020
New York Times reporter Jason DeParle spoke about his immersive reporting on global migration and its impact on one family at Northwestern University.
In 2018, remittances to low- and middle- in...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
New York Times reporter recounts one family’s journey from Manila’s slums to Galveston’s suburbs
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March 18, 2020
This month's new research from IPR faculty covers nutrition in pregnancy, women’s empowerment and child nutrition, effects of grade-retention policies, polarization and democratic norms, the ...
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Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
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March 17, 2020
IPR sociologist Simone Ispa-Landa found that anger and optimism for the future helped those with a criminal record resist stigma.
An estimated 77 million Americans, or as many as 1 in 3, h...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
IPR sociologist Simone Ispa-Landa finds that anger and optimism for the future helps those with a criminal record resist stigma.
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February 28, 2020
Climate change has implications for everything from immigration to agricultural policy, but its most immediate impact is on the daily lives of people experiencing its effects. In a recent working...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2020 |
IPR sociologist Julia Behrman examines how extreme weather affects marriage, births in Malawi
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February 28, 2020
Below is this month's new research from IPR faculty.
Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy
How Anger in Protest Movements Can Backfire
The past decade of American life ha...
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Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2020 |
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February 27, 2020
IPR faculty Cynthia Coburn and Kirabo Jackson were elected to the National Academy of Education in February.
IPR faculty experts Kirabo Jackson and Cynthia Coburn were two of 15 prominent...
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Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2020 |
Jackson and Coburn join more than 200 prominent scholars, including eight IPR faculty
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February 25, 2020
IPR economist Molly Schnell studies healthcare access, physician incentives, and mental health.
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2020 |
IPR economist studies healthcare access, physician incentives, and mental health
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February 24, 2020
IPR sociologist Beth Redbird presented her research on what drives Native American poverty on Jan. 29.
Across the United States, 1 in 3 Native Americans are living in poverty, with a media...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2020 |
Sociologist Beth Redbird’s research points to job loss, not education, as a key driver
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January 23, 2020
Northwestern's football team takes the field at their opening home game on September 14.
Many of the players in this year’s Super Bowl were, at one point, college football stars. Top-divis...
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2020 |
IPR’s James Druckman shows how reforms within the NCAA can illuminate U.S. policymaking
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January 22, 2020
In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, IPR economist Charles Manski and his colleagues apply econometric analysis to improve prediction of transplant success. Similar analysis could also benefit other types of organ transplants.
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2020 |
IPR’s Charles Manski brings econometric analysis to the field of transplant prediction
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January 21, 2020
Below is this month's new research from IPR faculty. Click on the study to read more.
The Evolution of Human Trafficking Messaging in the United States
by Tabitha Bonilla and C...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2020 |
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January 21, 2020
Below is this month's new research from IPR faculty.
Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy
The Evolution of Human Trafficking Messaging in the United States
Human traff...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy
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2020 |
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January 21, 2020
In 2019, IPR’s most-read articles reflected a year of celebration, as IPR marked its 50th anniversary, and of commitment, as studies tackled many of the persistent problems that society has faced since IPR’s founding in 1968.
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy
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2020 |
IPR’s top-read articles of 2019 highlight interdisciplinary policy research
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December 23, 2019
In a conversation hosted by IPR’s Statistics and Evidence-Based Policy and Practice (STEPP) Center, IPR associate Cynthia Coburn and Paul Goren, both of the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP), discussed the effort needed on all sides to help research work its way into the classroom.
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2019 |
A researcher and a practitioner explore how school districts use evidence
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December 16, 2019
In 2005, Congress passed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) after heated debate. The new law was designed to deter people from pursuing bankruptcy by making fili...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
IPR economist Matthew Notowidigdo uncovers costs and benefits
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December 16, 2019
Below is this month's new research from IPR faculty.
Social Disparities and Health
How Culture and Identity Affect Risk-Taking Behavior
Different cultures have different attitudes ...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2019 |
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December 16, 2019
IPR associate Sylvia Perry researches how attitudes and bias form and influence behavior looking at bias awareness, stereotypes of biracial Americans, and bias in medicine.
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
IPR associate researches how attitudes and bias form and influence behavior
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December 12, 2019
Janet Currie lectured on the importance of child health to long-term academic and labor outcomes.
If the Oxford Dictionary defines capital as “a valuable resource of a particular kind,...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
Princeton’s Janet Currie explains how public health insurance improves lives
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November 20, 2019
How does women’s fear of rape influence their behavior? Why did the ERA fail? What changes are women in the labor market making and how does their involvement affect them as mothers? IPR researchers studied these women’s issues, among many, in the first two decades.
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
IPR researchers have pioneered vital research on women’s issues and gender roles
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November 20, 2019
From sexism in the workplace and gender attitudes to understanding women’s fear of rape and why the Equal Rights Amendment failed, IPR faculty have pioneered vital research on women’s...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
IPR researchers have pioneered vital research on women’s issues and gender roles
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November 19, 2019
Below is this month's new research from IPR faculty.
Social Disparities and Health
Female Disadvantage in Under-Five Mortality in India
In Indian family life infant sons are preferred to d...
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Performance Measurement and Rewards; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2019 |
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November 18, 2019
Ana Arjona presenting at a November 11 IPR colloquium.
Having spent her career studying the local dynamics of conflict zones, political scientist and IPR associate Ana Arjona is now turning to i...
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2019 |
IPR’s Ana Arjona examines how tendency to focus on violence can warp perceptions
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November 15, 2019
Jordan Gans-Morse at the Marshall Center’s 2017 Black Sea-Eurasia Region Countering Corruption Seminar. (Marshall Center photo by Christine June)
The last time Ukraine dominated the global...
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2019 |
Discovering the causes of—and solutions to—corruption in government
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November 05, 2019
High school guidance counselors can have a significant impact on whether young people pursue higher education. IPR researchers find adding resources to a high school counseling office can boost c...
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Education Policy
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2019 |
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October 30, 2019
In a media environment where comedians like Trevor Noah host late-night talk shows highlighting news headlines and combative pundits like Tucker Carlson provide commentary while discussing curren...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
IPR associate Stephanie Edgerly examines how audiences assess what constitutes news
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October 29, 2019
The STEPP Center believes in “a scientific approach to transform the social world and a practice-driven approach to advance science,” and says its goal is to “improve lives through methodological innovation in research.” IPR statistician and co-founder Elizabeth Tipton says interdisciplinary cooperation will be key to STEPP’s overall contribution to the policy sphere.
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2019 |
With new STEPP Center, IPR’s top statistical minds aim to boost policymaking
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October 24, 2019
IPR sociologist Julia Behrman got hooked on Africa when she conducted research in Senegal as an undergraduate looking at reproductive health services in 2005. The continent’s rich history a...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2019 |
Taking a Global Perspective on the Family
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October 21, 2019
Image from Creative Commons.
Pollsters blanket the country every two years, if not more, with the mission of taking American voters’ temperature on issues from healthcare to climate change...
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Performance Measurement and Rewards; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
IPR’s John Bullock examines how voters respond to survey questions
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October 21, 2019
Below is this month's new research from IPR faculty.
Social Disparities and Health
The Consequences of Foster Care Versus Institutional Care in Early Childhood on Adolescent Cardiometabolic...
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Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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October 08, 2019
A new Northwestern University study finds that despite human’s close genetic relationship to apes, the human gut microbiome is more similar to that of Old World monkeys like baboons than to that of apes like chimpanzees.
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Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
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September 30, 2019
The HWISE Scale could be transformative for understanding water insecurity.
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September 30, 2019
IPR fellow Celeste Watkins-Hayes will discuss her new book "Remaking a Life" on October 2.
Steven Thrasher, the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair of social justice in reporting and an assi...
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Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
Celeste Watkins-Hayes to speak with Medill's Steven Thrasher in October
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September 24, 2019
Below is this month's new research from IPR faculty.
Social Disparities and Health
Supportive Parenting Protects Developing Brains from Poverty
In the United States, 40 percent of ch...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development; Education Policy
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September 24, 2019
From left: Tabitha Bonilla, Sally Nuamah, and Molly Schnell.
Three new fellows are joining the Institute for Policy Research in September, adding their expertise in political sci...
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Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2019 |
Researchers bring expertise in economics, education, and public opinion
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September 24, 2019
Northwestern student Mary Okematti (left) discusses a project with IPR psychologist Sandra Waxman (right), who mentored Okematti during the SURA program over the summer.
Since 1998, the Inst...
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Performance Measurement and Rewards; Urban Policy and Community Development; Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
24 undergraduates worked with IPR faculty over the summer
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September 24, 2019
IPR fellow Tabitha Bonilla studies public opinion and how communication influences voters and policies.
As a first-generation college student, IPR social policy expert Tabitha Bonilla t...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
IPR social policy expert studies public opinion and the everyday consumption of politics
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September 10, 2019
IPR econometrician Charles F. Manski applies the tools of economics to medical decision making, showing how uncertainty influences every stage, from risk analysis to treatment, and how this ca...
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Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2019 |
In his new book, IPR's Charles F. Manski examines how cutting-edge economics can improve decision making methods for doctors
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September 09, 2019
Image courtesy of Felton Davis, Flickr.
The proliferation of calls to boycott companies from Amazon and CVS to Chick-fil-A and Nike has continued unabated in recent years, fueled in part by soci...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
IPR’s James Druckman explores the effects of ‘private politics’ on a democratic society
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September 04, 2019
Graduate Student Makeda Austin explains how to use a blood pressure machine during the SIBASS workshop.
Two IPR faculty-led trainings over the summer allowed more than 50 researchers from ac...
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Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
IPR-led workshops provide unique opportunity to improve research capacity
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August 22, 2019
Each summer since 1998, the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) has run the Summer Undergraduate Research Assistants (SURA) program, which gives undergraduate students first-hand experience in...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
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August 21, 2019
Former IPR graduate research assistant Mollie McQuillan (standing), who worked with scholars in various disciplines while at the Institute, teaches an undergraduate class on gender identity,...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy
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2019 |
Former graduate RAs apply interdisciplinary lessons from IPR to their research, careers
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August 19, 2019
IPR's Andrew Papachristos and George Wood show how leveraging the power of networks could help reduce gun violence in areas typically marked by high crime rates.
A new Northwestern University st...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2019 |
Study shows how "call-in meetings" reduced rates of victimization
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August 19, 2019
Research may lay the foundation for group-based biases.
If you were to meet two new people, and others seem to be more friendly toward one of those individuals, would that lead you to like that ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
Study has implications for how people make sense of the nonverbal messages they are exposed to in everyday life
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August 19, 2019
IPR econometrician Charles F. Manski's work is deeply rooted in methodology, but inexorably tied to policy and motivated by real-world problems.
A body of nearly 150 peer-reviewed articles and e...
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2019 |
‘Unlearning and discovery’ to improve public policy
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August 19, 2019
Northwestern's Sociology Department is home to the Problem-Solving Sociology Dissertation Proposal Development Workshop founded by IPR's Monica Prasad.
Doctoral students in sociology from across t...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
IPR-led workshop helps PhD students develop dissertations to solve real-world issues
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August 14, 2019
Rebellion, Love, Betrayal
John Heinz, Owen L. Coon Professor Emeritus of Law and IPR faculty emeritus, has a new title to add to his many other distinguished honors: novelist.
Since his...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
Retired IPR faculty researcher explores key issues through fiction
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August 07, 2019
IPR's Elizabeth Tipton worked on a study looking at the academic benefits of an online program designed to help students develop a growth mindset.
A groundbreaking study of more than 12,000 nin...
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Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2019 |
Intervention studied by IPR faculty is first to show national applicability, breaks new methodological ground
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August 01, 2019
IPR's Andrew Papachristos and his fellow researchers examined the records of more than 8,000 Chicago police officers named in multiple complaints from 2007 to 2015 to determine the role soci...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
Study by IPR faculty is one of the first to analyze police officers’ networks to determine how misconduct may be socially transmitted
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July 19, 2019
IPR's Edith Chen finds a link between strong family relationships and better asthma outcomes for children living in violent neighborhoods.
Positive family relationships might help you...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
A study by IPR's Edith Chen looks at the impact of positive family relationships on health
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July 18, 2019
Researchers investigated how gender stereotypes in the U.S. have evolved over seven decades.
Good news for women—they are no longer regarded as less competent than men on average, accordin...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
Research by IPR's Alice Eagly looks at how stereotypes of women have changed since 1946
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July 17, 2019
For its 50th anniversary, IPR decided to look forward rather than back.
Held over June 6–7, the six panels of “IPR@50: The Next 50 Years of Research” investigated governmen...
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2019 |
Conference explores how IPR research is set to tackle 21st-century policy challenges
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July 17, 2019
From left: Greg Miller investigates the impact of social and biological environments on health outcomes with Christopher Kuzawa, Edith Chen, and Thomas McDade.
IPR health psychologist Greg M...
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Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
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July 17, 2019
Moderator Paul Goren (pictured below) pursued big-picture questions on community partnerships with, from left, Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Penny Sebring, Lori Beaman, and David Figlio.
&...
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Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
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July 16, 2019
From left: Peter Slevin dug into the ailments of American democracy, and possible fixes, with with Rachel Davis Mersey, Laurel Harbridge-Yong, James Druckman, and Jennifer Richeson.
Subs...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
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July 16, 2019
From left: Sarah Karp dissected government spending on key social policies with Kirabo Jackson, Monica Prasad, and Matthew Notowidigdo.
What do we know about U.S. government spending on key ...
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Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
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July 16, 2019
From left: Odette Yousef asks panelists Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Jonathan Guryan, and Andrew Papachristos about the impact of unequal neighborhoods on their residents.
How much impact does env...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2019 |
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July 16, 2019
Neighborhood Inequality: What Does the Research Tell Us?
Inequality is pervasive and persistent, intersecting with issues of race, education, housing, and social status—to name but a fe...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2019 |
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July 16, 2019
Matthew Desmond described how soaring housing costs and stagnant incomes are linked to a rise in U.S. evictions.
Many Americans believe that the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis was the last ma...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
Matthew Desmond challenges researchers to publicize data and rethink poverty research
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July 12, 2019
From left: IPR Director Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach discussed the “arduous work” of policy measurement with Burton Weisbrod, Emma Adam, Bruce Spencer, and Sera Young.
“Poli...
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Social Disparities and Health; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2019 |
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July 11, 2019
IPR sociologist and African American studies researcher Celeste Watkins-Hayes looks at more than 100 women living with HIV/AIDS in her new book.
“If it weren’t for HIV...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
'Remaking a Life' draws upon the personal stories of more than 100 women living with HIV/AIDS in Chicago
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July 11, 2019
A new Northwestern University study has found evidence that there are some stereotypes that seem to be universally applied to biracial groups in the U.S.
Stereotypes often guid...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
A study by IPR's Sylvia Perry suggests biracial people may be thought of as their own racial group
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July 11, 2019
IPR political scientist Chloe Thurston studies the intersection of politics and the economy through historical analysis.
Chloe Thurston never intended to study politics. As an undergrad...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2019 |
IPR political scientist explores the role government and interest groups play in public policy
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July 01, 2019
IPR's Larry Hedges was named a Yidan Prize winner in 2018 and co-hosted the Yidan Prize Conference at Northwestern University on May 23–24.
IPR education researcher and statistician La...
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Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2019 |
IPR's Larry Hedges will launch center within IPR for education statistics, policy, and practice
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June 28, 2019
Poverty leaves a mark on nearly 10 percent of the genes in the genome, finds IPR anthropologist Thomas McDade.
A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of gene...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
Study’s findings challenge understandings of genes as fixed features of our biology
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June 19, 2019
A working paper by IPR's Hannes Schwandt finds "cheating" diesel car emissions are linked to lower birth weights for more than 38,600 newborns and to an increase in acute asthma in infants and ...
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Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2019 |
Study finds lower birth weights and acute asthma across the socioeconomic spectrum
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June 18, 2019
Do some countries discriminate against racial minorities in the hiring process more than others?
A new meta-analysis on hiring discrimination by IPR sociologist Lincoln Quillian and his ...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
IPR sociologist Lincoln Quillian explores racial discrimination in labor markets
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June 17, 2019
Variation in brain energy expenditure during childhood could be linked to obesity risk, finds IPR biological anthropologist Christopher Kuzawa.
Weight gain occurs when an individual’s energy...
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Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2019 |
New study by IPR's Christopher Kuzawa proposes that variation in brain energy expenditure during childhood could be linked to obesity risk
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June 03, 2019
Below is this month's new research from IPR faculty.
Education Policy
The Impact of Refugees on Classmates’ Schooling
The world today faces the largest refugee crisis since the end o...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy
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2019 |
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June 03, 2019
Below is this month's new research from IPR faculty.
Performance Measurement and Rewards
Overcoming Barriers to Safety Net Sign-Ups
Why do people fail to sign up for social safety net programs l...
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Performance Measurement and Rewards; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2019 |
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June 01, 2019
Cells to Society (C2S) launched in 2005 to understand how experiences shape biology. C2S also trains researchers in how to use biomarkers in studies (above the attendees and organizers of the 2011 ...
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Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
New directions, new methods, and new centers
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Social Disparities and Health; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy
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2019 |
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May 16, 2019
IPR faculty researchers are making progress in understanding mental health issues and potential policy implications.
In a given year in the United States, 43.8 million people experience a mental h...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
IPR researchers making progress in mental health research
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May 16, 2019
IPR associate Annette D'Onofrio studies how language defines our perceptions.
Growing up in Minnesota, linguistics scholar and IPR associate Annette D’Onofrio was always attuned to the...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2019 |
Linguistics scholar examines how speech defines our perceptions
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2019 |
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May 13, 2019
IPR researchers continued the study of persistent poverty in America.
This is the third of a five-part series that will examine how IPR has grown and evolved in each decade. IPR Director Diane Wh...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
Identity and Ambitions
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May 13, 2019
While the U.S. Supreme Court deliberates whether to allow a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau continues to prepare for its launch on April 1. In a recent working paper, sta...
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Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2019 |
IPR statisticians consider the potential losses for states due to an inaccurate count
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May 10, 2019
IPR political scientist James Druckman, who organizes the annual workshop, welcomed the 2019 CAB participants.
More than 100 scholars and graduate students from the Midwest gathered on Northwester...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
Long-running workshop launches collaborations and discussions
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May 03, 2019
Below is this month's new research from IPR faculty.
Social Disparities and Health (Cells to Society)
College Graduation Helps and Hurts Disadvantaged Minorities’ Health
College graduates ...
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Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
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May 01, 2019
IPR faculty Christopher Kuzawa, Lincoln Quillian, and Sera Young each received recognition for their excellence in research.
Three IPR fellows—anthropologists Christopher Kuzawa and Se...
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2019 |
Major academic accolades underscore research talent
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May 01, 2019
Pregnancy complications increased in Illinois between 2010 and 2015, find Feinberg researchers.
Severe maternal morbidity remained stable in Illinois between 2010 and 2015, while more women ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
Study by IPR and Feinberg faculty finds severe maternal morbidity remained stable, while other pregnancy complications increased
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May 01, 2019
IPR's Sera Young spoke on the importance of water security at an HWISE event in February.
Over the past three years, a tightknit team of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners devel...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2019 |
Research network partners with Gallup, UNESCO to expand global survey
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May 01, 2019
Fewer women than men participate in the labor force, and the ones who do earn less on average than their male coworkers. But do these labor-market and wage gaps still hold in the gig economy?
Thro...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2019 |
IPR associate Elizabeth Gerber finds women bill less than men in the gig economy
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April 23, 2019
IPR anthropologist Sera Young was named to the fifth class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows.
IPR anthropologist Sera Young is among the fifth class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows, comprising ...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2019 |
IPR anthropologist named to fifth class of 32 scholars in the social sciences, humanities
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April 11, 2019
IPR faculty have studied the history and effects of immigration in the United States.
Faculty researchers at the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) have long studied issues related to immigrant...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
IPR faculty researchers detail effects on U.S. population, jobs, and economy
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2019 |
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April 10, 2019
Stateway Gardens, one of the Chicago Housing Authority’s high-rise public housing complexes, housed nearly 7,000 people in 1973. In 1976, the landmark public housing discrimination case, Hill...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2019 |
Neighborhoods and New Methods
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2019 |
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March 20, 2019
Protests and riots broke out across the nation in spring 1968 following Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.
This is the first of a five-part series that will examine how IPR has gro...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2019 |
Innovation and Continuity
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March 19, 2019
Women who shared their mother’s womb with a male twin are less likely to graduate from high school or college, have earned less by their early 30s, and have lower fertility and marriage rat...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
First nation-level study to suggest fetal testosterone transfer from a male twin impacts education, income, fertility rates in females
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March 18, 2019
Since joining his first news chatroom in 1996, IPR associate Pablo Boczkowski’s research has followed the transformation of online journalism—from the early days of news websites in the 1990’s to social media’s influence on today’s news consumption.
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
Comparative media scholar says creating space for dialogue is key to the media’s future
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March 11, 2019
Students of color who attend schools with a culture that emphasizes the value of diversity—schools whose mission statements mention goals such as serving a diverse student body and appreciati...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health
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2019 |
IPR researchers find that emphasizing diversity in schools is linked to better health among students of color
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March 06, 2019
IPR sociologist Monica Prasad examines how Republicans became the party of tax cuts in 'Starving the Beast.'
What led Republicans to make tax cuts a defining policy of the modern conservative par...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
Monica Prasad examines how tax cuts became a dominant policy issue in the Republican Party
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March 05, 2019
In a new Northwestern University study, researchers show that people are more willing to sacrifice for a collaborator than for someone working just as hard but working independently. &#...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
IPR's Mary McGrath finds people more willing to sacrifice for collaborators
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March 05, 2019
IPR fellow Beth Tipton studies statistics and explores how they can be used for social good across disciplines.
IPR statistician Beth Tipton spent the first three years of her career living and...
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Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2019 |
IPR statistician finds her calling in “social statistics”
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March 04, 2019
Jocelyn Samuels spoke at Northwestern about the challenges and opportunities for LGBT rights.
More than 14 million people—roughly 4.5 percent of the U.S. population—identify as lesbian...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
Williams Institute’s Samuels points to how research is key to informing LGBT issues
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March 04, 2019
IPR developmental psychologist Terri Sabol was named a Rising Star by the Association forPsychological Science.
The Association for Psychological Science (APS) recently named IPR developmenta...
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Education Policy
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2019 |
IPR developmental psychologist honored for her early-career contributions
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March 04, 2019
IPR Director Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach is the 10th Northwestern faculty member to be elected to the National Academy of Education.
IPR Director and economist Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach has...
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Education Policy
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2019 |
IPR director recognized for outstanding contributions to education research
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy
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2019 |
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February 11, 2019
A working paper examined the connection between race and politics in college admissions.
Do college admissions offices respond differently to students who email them for information, dependi...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
Study finds politically engaged African Americans receive fewer responses from admissions offices
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February 04, 2019
IPR developmental psychologist Terri Sabol studies childhood development through classrooms, families, and neighborhoods.
As a first-grade teacher in Chicago’s Lavizzo Elementary School,...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy
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2019 |
IPR developmental psychologist rethinks early childhood education
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February 01, 2019
Despite a scientific consensus, citizens are divided when it comes to climate change, often along political lines, and scholars want to better understand why.
“We were interested in unders...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
IPR's James Druckman, Mary McGrath seek to understand partisan divide
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January 24, 2019
A study highlights the importance of addressing bias in a child's first years of life.
A Northwestern University study provides strong and consistent evidence of bias at the intersection of ...
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Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2019 |
Study by IPR's Sandra Waxman and Danielle Perszyk examines social bias
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January 23, 2019
IPR education sociologist Simone Ispa-Landa is currently studying racial disparities at a large urban high school.
Schools are increasingly turning to peace circles, peer juries, and other restora...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy
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2019 |
IPR’s Simone Ispa-Landa examines disparities in school discipline
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January 15, 2019
IPR social psychologist Mesmin Destin received the 2019 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology.
IPR social psychologist Mesmin Destin, whose resea...
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Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2019 |
IPR social psychologist Mesmin Destin received the 2019 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology.
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January 09, 2019
From left: Greg Miller, Paola Sapienza, and David Cella
Three IPR faculty were recently named 2018 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science.
IPR health psyc...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2019 |
Miller, Sapienza, and Cella among top 1 percent of citations
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December 20, 2018
Amid the nonstop news cycle of 2018, IPR faculty research has provided a rigorous, evidence-based foundation for dialogue on pivotal policy issues.
Many of IPR’s most-read articles reflect w...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2018 |
Most-read news and research articles reflect wider policy concerns
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December 20, 2018
Click on the image above to see a larger version of the infographic.
Five states now require that Medicaid recipients work, which has cut benefits for tens of thousands of people. As another 11 st...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2018 |
IPR director finds 80 percent of safety net spending has shifted to families with earnings
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December 20, 2018
Why does second-hand experience of neighborhood violence affect some youth but not others?
Neighborhood violence has been associated with adverse health effects on youth, including sleep los...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health
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2018 |
A new study by IPR faculty explores why a second-hand experience with neighborhood violence affects some youth but not others
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Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2018 |
Hedges, a first-generation college student, is a preeminent scholar in education research
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December 12, 2018
Elizabeth (Liz) Gerber set out to make innovative toys, not get a PhD. Yet as she experimented with new ways for children to share their likes and dislikes, she realized she was more intereste...
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2018 |
IPR associate explores how a collaborative design process might address social ills
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December 11, 2018
IPR sociologist Andrew Papachristos finds the inequality in crime in Chicago's neighborhoods increased by 10 percent in recent years.
The United States has experienced an unprecedented decline i...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2018 |
Study by IPR sociologist reveals inequality between safest and most dangerous neighborhoods increased by 10 percent
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December 11, 2018
Rachel Davis Mersey, right, was one of three panelists discussing the implications from the 2018 midterms.
The 2018 midterm election broke several records: 133 million people—48 percen...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
Northwestern researchers discuss implications for politics, media, and the economy
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December 10, 2018
Sarah Kliff, left, spoke with Medill professor Abigail Foerstner about the future of healthcare following the midterms.
As the dust settles from the midterms, the Affordable Care Act will remain...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2018 |
Vox’s Sarah Kliff discusses what midterms mean for the Affordable Care Act
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December 10, 2018
The United States is experiencing a “national crisis” because of extreme polarization, according to Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Arthur...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
AEI president discusses how to mend our political discourse
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December 04, 2018
Andrew Papachristos launched the N3 Initiative this fall, continuing his work in neighborhood network science.
This fall, IPR sociologist Andrew Papachristos launched the Northwestern Neighb...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2018 |
IPR sociologist describes how network thinking can improve neighborhoods, lower crime
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November 28, 2018
IPR labor and education economist Kirabo Jackston finds that a teacher's ability to cultivate non-cognitive skills is a better indicator of a student's long-term success than test scores...
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Education Policy
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2018 |
A new study by IPR labor and education economist Kirabo Jackson finds other indicators of long-term student success
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November 20, 2018
IPR education sociologist Simone Ispa-Landa calls for a more sustained effort on shifting how we view girls.
The midterm elections demonstrated a shift for women in politics and a move to ge...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy
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2018 |
IPR education sociologist calls for shift in how girls are viewed
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November 16, 2018
IPR economist Jonathan Guryan cofounded and codirects Education Lab, which designs and evaluates evidence-based programs in partnership with organizations such as Chicago Public Schools.
A...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2018 |
IPR economist Jonathan Guryan codirects lab that conducts groundbreaking research
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November 02, 2018
From left, clockwise: Economist Rebecca Blank in the 1990s, now Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; political scientist Lou Masotti, IPR's second director, in Chicago in the 1970s; I...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Education Policy
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2018 |
Institute to highlight innovative research directions at spring conference
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November 01, 2018
To many, the 1918 flu pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the world is a distant chapter of history. To economist and IPR associate Joseph Ferrie, this historical event offers a...
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Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
IPR associate Joseph Ferrie mines historical data for contemporary policy insights
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October 11, 2018
Sheridan Fuller focuses on how families' interactions with the social safety net influence the direction of their lives.
IPR graduate research assistant Sheridan Fuller is one of 40 stude...
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Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2018 |
IPR graduate research assistant will seek to advance “culture of health”
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October 04, 2018
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When police officer Jason Van Dyke shot Laquan McDonald in 2014, he already had more than 20 civilian allegations lodged against him for police misconduct, dating back to...
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Urban Policy and Community Development
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2018 |
Study finds civilian allegations can act as early warning system for serious police misconduct
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September 27, 2018
In the 10 years since the Lehman Brothers collapse that signaled the start of the Great Recession, the United States has recovered much, if not all, of the ground it lost in terms of jobs, ...
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Social Disparities and Health; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2018 |
IPR faculty research shows America still recovering from economic downturn
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September 18, 2018
Statement from Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach:
The Yidan prize honors a researcher who has made outstanding accomplishments in education research, with an ultimate goal of creating long-lasting impac...
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Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
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2018 |
IPR Director pays tribute to Larry Hedges, 2018 Yidan Prize Recipient
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September 18, 2018
IPR education researcher and statistician Larry Hedges, a preeminent scholar and global heavyweight in education research, has been awarded the 2018 Yidan Prize, the world’s largest prize in ...
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Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Education Policy
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2018 |
World’s largest prize for education research honors first-generation college student
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September 18, 2018
About 12 million Americans use payday loans each year, but new research shows these short-term loans could be making borrowers sick.
In SSM - Population Health, IPR biological anthropologists Chri...
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Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2018 |
IPR anthropologists find short-term lending is associated with risk factors for poor health
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September 17, 2018
IPR economist Matthew Notowidigdo presents his research at a Fay Lomax Cook Monday Colloquium.
Millions of Americans rely on social safety net programs like unemployment insurance, ho...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2018 |
Pennsylvania experiment tests outreach to those unenrolled
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September 14, 2018
Only 10–15 percent of the American public watches partisan news outlets such as MSNBC and Fox News, but their polarizing impact reaches beyond the viewers of their broadcasts, according to ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
New research analyzes impact of partisan news outlets
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September 07, 2018
Onnie Rogers
New Northwestern University research analyzing the ways children’s gender narratives reinforce or disrupt gender inequality found that older children—and gir...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2018 |
New research analyzes children's gender narratives
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August 29, 2018
IPR anthropologist Sera Young recently presented on pica, or the eating of earth.
Walking into an art installation of edible clay by artist Masha Ru, some visitors popped bits in their mouth...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2018 |
IPR anthropologist bridges science and art at Amsterdam workshop
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August 29, 2018
Clockwise from left: Robin Nusslock, Hannes Schwandt, Beth Tipton, Terri Sabol, Chloe Thurston, and Julia Behrman.
Five new fellows are joining the Institute for Policy Research in September...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Quantitative Methods for Policy Research; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2018 |
Researchers add expertise in diverse areas
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August 29, 2018
Each summer since 1998, the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) has run the Summer Undergraduate Research Assistants (SURA) program, which gives undergraduate students first-hand experience in...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2018 |
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August 27, 2018
While U.S. women’s job and life prospects have changed dramatically over the last 50 years, a new study finds the amount of sexism in the state where a woman was born can take a toll on her e...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
New working paper reveals impact of sexism on women's career and life outcomes
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August 23, 2018
A new study by IPR economist Hannes Schwandt reveals income inequality and inequality in mortality are not necessarily linked.
Income inequality and health inequality are not necessarily conne...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2018 |
Mortality study shows how policy can break the link between poverty and poor health
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August 15, 2018
Once considered a Great Compromise in and of itself, the U.S. Congress now seems a place of extraordinary inaction.
Though ideological polarization is often to blame for today&...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
Why some politicians still resist consensus
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July 31, 2018
IPR political scientist Chloe Thurston discussed how government policies have affected homeownership in the United States at the 2017 Chicago Political and Social Behavior Workshop.
Tracin...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2018 |
IPR associate Chloe Thurston explains how government has helped/hurt homeownership
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July 31, 2018
From the impact of millions of refugees on host countries to the effects of rising global trade on domestic workers, the 2018 Northwestern University Workshop on Globalization focused on the effect...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health
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2018 |
Workshop explores social, economic, and political effects
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July 27, 2018
IPR sociologist Andrew Papachristos studies network science to understand the spread of crime and violence.
Growing up at the height of Chicago’s homicide epidemic, IPR sociologist ...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2018 |
For IPR sociologist, networks matter in understanding crime and violence
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July 11, 2018
IPR political scientist Rachel Beatty Riedl credits a yearabroad in Senegal with developing her interest in Africa.
Northwestern University has appointed IPR political scientist Rachel Be...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2018 |
Will head influential program that has spurred seven decades of scholarship
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June 27, 2018
Since May, more than a dozen IPR faculty have received noteworthy awards from a handful of prominent national academies, scholarly bodies, and universities.
Charles F. Manski (center) accepts his ...
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Education Policy; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2018 |
Awards recognize impact in research and service
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May 30, 2018
IPR political scientist Jamie Druckman, left, welcomes participants to 12th annual Chicago Area Political and Social Behavior Workshop.
More than 110 scholars and graduate students from...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
Workshop blends scholarly presentations with mentoring
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May 30, 2018
Fay Lomax Cook, assistant director of the National Science Foundation, discussed how technology will change the future of work. (Photo: Jason Brown)
With the rise of artificial intelligence, machi...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
Former IPR director returns to discuss NSF’s ‘Big Ideas’
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May 30, 2018
IPR economist Ofer Malamud examines whether different college systems have an impact on career choice.
A global outlook on decision making comes naturally to IPR economist Ofer Malamud. Born i...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy
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2018 |
An international perspective on education
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May 30, 2018
IPR anthropologist Christopher Kuzawa
IPR anthropologist Christopher Kuzawa has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
Membership in the academy is one of th...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2018 |
IPR anthropologist given one of the highest honors for a scientist in the United States
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May 29, 2018
More than 110 scholars and graduate students from the Midwest and beyond gathered at Northwestern University’s Evanston Campus on May 4 for the 12th annual Chicago Area Political and Social...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
Workshop blends scholarly presentations with mentoring
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May 29, 2018
More students report carrying guns in Chicago than in New York or Los Angeles, a new Northwestern Medicine study shows. The findings provide historical background for Chicago’s 2016 spike i...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2018 |
Findings may help explain Chicago’s 2016 spike in gun violence
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May 28, 2018
“We are gathered today to discuss what is perhaps one of the most pressing topics facing the city of Chicago today: crime and violence,” said Northwestern University sociologist and IPR...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2018 |
IPR experts offer insights and potential solutions to city's violent crime
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May 24, 2018
Christopher Skovron presents findings from the National Candidate Study at a recent lecture.
With the 2018 midterms approaching and candidates seeking to appeal to voters, do politicians r...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
Study reveals both Democrats, Republicans overestimate conservatism in their constituents
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May 24, 2018
Robert Rubin and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach discuss challenges facing America, decision making, and working in the public versus the private sector. (Photo: Jason Brown)
As an economic adviso...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
Former Treasury Secretary Rubin discusses current U.S. challenges, public service
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May 18, 2018
Young men who have sex with men have some of the highest rates of new HIV infections. But LGBTQ youth’s experiences with healthcare providers could be a barrier to receiving prevention inform...
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Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2018 |
IPR associate Brian Mustanski finds LGBTQ youth lack trust in healthcare providers
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May 02, 2018
IPR biological anthropologist Thomas McDade
Poverty, discrimination, and other social and economic inequalities have serious consequences for physical and mental well-being. Recently, so...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health
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2018 |
New studies examine how social environment affects health outcomes
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April 25, 2018
IPR anthropologist Sera Young focuses on maternal and child health, examining the causes and consequences offood and water insecurity.
Whether attending an international high school in Wales o...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Performance Measurement and Rewards; Social Disparities and Health
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2018 |
IPR anthropologist zeroes in on the first 1,000 days of life
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April 24, 2018
Schoenfeld examines how the politics of crime evolved.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate of any industrialized nation, with about 1 in 100 American adults currently behind b...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
IPR's Heather Schoenfeld reframes the story of mass incarceration
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April 24, 2018
Can poverty affect health across generations? In Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, IPR health psychologist Greg Miller and his colleagues find that a mother’s economic hardship during childhood ...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2018 |
IPR-led study suggests a mother's childhood disadvantage might be transmitted to her baby in utero
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April 20, 2018
IPR education sociologist Simone Ispa-Landa will examine how different disciplinary approaches shape the experiences of students of different races.
IPR education sociologist Simone Ispa-Landa...
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Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2018 |
IPR education sociologist will investigate racial inequality in school discipline
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April 02, 2018
Healthcare providers in the United States rate African American patients as less likely to improve and adhere to recommended treatments than white patients.
When an overweight, middle-aged patie...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2018 |
U.S. health care providers see black patients as less ‘personally responsible’ for their health
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March 23, 2018
Strobe Talbott, left, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach discussed the role of academia in public policy at a recent special lecture co-hosted by IPR and the Buffett Institute for Global Studi...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
Strobe Talbott, former head of Brookings, tackles how to merge scholarship and real-world policy
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March 23, 2018
Which word has more letters, Clinton or Trump?
The answer may seem obvious: Seven is greater than five, so Clinton is the longer word. Yet in 2017 when conservatives faced a similar question tha...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
Partisan views can erode facts, IPR political scientist John Bullock finds
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March 21, 2018
Robert Vargas discusses his findings on violence in the Little Village neighborhood with IPR psychobiologist Emma Adam (left) and Nicole Nguyen of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Ch...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2018 |
Robert Vargas outlines how fights for control create crime hot spots
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March 20, 2018
The NRA has created a political identity for its members, politically mobilizing them.
After every mass shooting, including the recent Parkland, Florida, school shooting, the Nationa...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
IPR graduate research assistant reveals how the NRA creates identity for its members
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March 12, 2018
Less than a month after Hurricane Harvey poured 51 inches of rain over Texas and Louisiana, Chicago residents were sweltering in six consecutive days of record-setting September heat.IPR associate ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
David Dana blurs the boundaries of law and psychology to explore environmental policy
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February 28, 2018
As a college student gathering evidence for her debate team on development assistance in Africa, IPR economist Cynthia Kinnan found fraught claims about what did and did not work.
Throughout her...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
Adding rigor to poverty research
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February 28, 2018
Polysomnography equipment is attached to a participant in thein-home sleep study. (Photo: Kristen Knutson)
Previous research has already linked chronic inadequate sleep—defined as fewer ...
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Social Disparities and Health; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2018 |
Northwestern researcher finds African Americans at higher risk for insufficient sleep
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February 28, 2018
By showing babies patterns of images on a screen, IPR's Sandra Waxman discovers that babies are able to abstract rules in the visual domain.
Three-month-old babies cannot sit up or roll over, ye...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2018 |
Study is first to show that 3-month-olds can learn abstract rules
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February 27, 2018
The #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, and LGBTQIA movements, among others, have raised awareness about the stubborn persistence of various kinds of discrimination that people from all walks of life...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development; Education Policy
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2018 |
IPR researchers provide multidisciplinary insights to help address issues
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February 19, 2018
IPR associate Benjamin Page and his co-author argue that ordinary citizens have little or no independent influence on government policy.
In their new book, Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wr...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
Benjamin Page argues ordinary citizens are not being represented
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February 19, 2018
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Visualizing a successful future can help anxious college students manage challenges and stress, according to a Northwestern University-led study published in the jou...
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Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2018 |
For college students, visualizing success can boost confidence and manage stress
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February 16, 2018
A partner can provide critical support during tough times, according to IPR associate Brian Mustanski.
Lesbian and gay youth showed significantly less psychological distress and were buffered ag...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2018 |
IPR associate Brian Mustanski finds same-sex couples are buffered from psychological distress
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January 30, 2018
Since NFL player Colin Kaepernick first kneeled during the national anthem in the 2016 season, political protests have become a major topic of discussion in sports. Many athletes have st...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2018 |
IPR political scientist finds that African American coaches are more supportive of protests
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January 30, 2018
A woman collects water as part of a "go-along" interview near Rongo, Kenya. IPR anthropologist Sera Young is using interviews and other techniques to discover how water insecurity affects live...
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Performance Measurement and Rewards; Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2018 |
Dilemma leads Sera Young to create first cross-culturally validated household-level water insecurity scale
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January 29, 2018
In conjunction with the book's publication, IPR Director Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach participated in a forum exploring public policies to promote women's economic opportunity.
Over the cour...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2018 |
New book highlights women’s role in labor market and policies to improve it
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January 29, 2018
Food companies are using "advergames" to market unhealthy choices to children online, IPR associate Ellen Wartella finds.
Food companies are marketing less to children online—which advocat...
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Social Disparities and Health; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2018 |
IPR associate Ellen Wartella examines use of 'advergames'
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January 26, 2018
Last year saw a new administration settle into office, with policy debates spilling over from Capitol Hill and the White House into state legislatures, courts, town halls, and the streets. Man...
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Performance Measurement and Rewards; Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Social Disparities and Health; Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2018 |
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January 26, 2018
IPR health psychologists Edith Chen and Greg Miller were honored for their research, teaching, and mentoring.
Internationally renowned IPR health psychologists Edith Chen and Greg...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2018 |
Chen and Miller discuss their distinguished career trajectories at ceremony
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January 25, 2018
Chicago is IPR associate Mary Pattillo’s home and also her research subject. A sociologist and African American studies researcher, she found a city where she could investigate questions that...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2018 |
Race and inequalities in the city
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January 17, 2018
Numerous studies have shown a relationship between high-crime communities and the academic performance of children who live within them.
Now, recent Northwestern University research published ...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Education Policy; Social Disparities and Health
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2018 |
IPR's Jenni Heissel and Emma Adam find proximity to crime disrupts sleep patterns
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January 04, 2018
Cynthia (CC) DuBois (PhD ’17), an emerging, award-winning scholar in Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy (SESP), died as a result of brain cancer on Jan. 2 i...
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Education Policy
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2018 |
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December 21, 2017
IPR associate Robin Nusslock is examining the brain's relationship with mental and physical well-being.
A chance encounter with the Dalai Lama set psychologist and IPR associate Robin Nusslock&#...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2017 |
Probing the edges of the mind
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October 24, 2017
Political scientist Mary McGrath investigates how regular citizens make political decisions.
“Some of the most important decisions that we make as members of the public are political decisio...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2017 |
Examining political decision making
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September 13, 2017
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The jobless rate for African-Americans persists regardless of their level of educational attainment, when compared with whit...
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Urban Policy and Community Development
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2017 |
IPR sociologist finds hiring discrimination in the United States has not declined over time
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August 23, 2017
IPR associate Joe Feinglass studies health inequities and tracks the effects of the Affordable Care Act.
The “power of data to inform the public” is what research professor of medicine...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2017 |
IPR associate uses science to fight health inequities
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July 28, 2017
IPR sociologist Beth Redbird examines diverse aspects of inequality.
Beth Redbird caught the research bug while working to promote affordable housing in Columbus, Ohio, after contacting an Ohio ...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Poverty, Race and Inequality; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2017 |
Pursuing new viewpoints in the study of inequality
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July 05, 2017
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New research, led by IPR scholars, underscores how environmental conditions early in development can cause inflammation in ad...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2017 |
IPR anthropologist Thomas McDade shows how bodies 'remember' experiences
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June 26, 2017
IPR's Teresa Woodruff has developed a miniature female reproductive tract and a functional biosynthetic ovary.
Oncofertility specialist and IPR associate Teresa Woodruff is making great gains i...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Social Disparities and Health
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2017 |
IPR associate Teresa Woodruff achieves scientific firsts in the field of women’s health
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May 31, 2017
A report from the American Enterprise Institute and The Hamilton Project supports investing in federal data.
According to a recent bipartisan report between the American Enterprise Institute an...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2017 |
Hamilton/AEI report calls for continued investment in federal data collection
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May 02, 2017
IPR researchers have captured the short- and long-term cognitive effects of prenatal exposure to Superfund sites.
Children who live near hazardous waste sites can benefit from environmental cle...
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Education Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2017 |
Research traces the cognitive effects of pre-natal exposure to hazardous waste sites
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May 01, 2017
IPR sociologist/legal scholar Heather Schoenfeld studies mass incarceration and criminal justice policy.
A few years out of college, IPR sociologist and legal scholar Heather Schoenfeld went to wo...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2017 |
IPR sociologist/legal scholar brings historical perspective to studies of criminal punishment
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March 29, 2017
IPR economist Burton Weisbrod has conducted pioneering research into the role of nonprofit organizations.
From his early studies in chemical engineering, IPR economist Burton Weisbrod found th...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Education Policy; Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2017 |
A pioneer of the nonprofit economy
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March 29, 2017
Kathryn Edin recounts the day-to-day struggles of the extreme poor, who live on less than $2 a day.
It was opening a refrigerator in a bare, rundown apartment and seeing nothing but a milk car...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2017 |
Johns Hopkins sociologist recounts how 'death of welfare' led to rise in extreme poverty
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March 29, 2017
IPR associate Brayden King finds that media attention, more than petition signatures, make boycotts effective.
Kellogg’s, Pepsi, Uber, L.L. Bean. In recent months, a number of high-profil...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2017 |
IPR associate finds boycotts threaten reputation more than revenue
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March 24, 2017
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Many researchers have tried to understand why school shootings are a uniquely American phenomenon, but past studies have pre...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2017 |
Sociologist and IPR associate John Hagan ties gun violence to economic uncertainty
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March 02, 2017
IPR economist Seema Jayachandran studies issues like gender inequality in developing countries.
IPR economist Seema Jayachandran set out to study engineering and physics, but two years into her Ph...
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Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2017 |
IPR economist stays 'grounded in the real world'
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January 27, 2017
Claudia Haase, developmental psychologist and IPR associate, studies how humans develop across their lives.
Growing up in East Germany, “We had no freedom of speech, no freedom of the pres...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2017 |
IPR associate captures human development across the life span
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December 08, 2016
IPR health psychologist Greg Miller investigates how socioeconomic status relates to health.
As a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, IPR health psychologist Greg Mill...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2016 |
Examining the link between socioeconomic status and health
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November 21, 2016
IPR developmental psychologist Onnie Rogers examines how stereotypes affect youth identity.
As an undergraduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, and as the only African-Amer...
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Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2016 |
IPR developmental psychologist examines how children form their identities
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October 28, 2016
IPR political scientist Wesley Skogan studies police-community interactions, with a particular focus on Chicago.
As a pioneering expert in policing, IPR political scientist Wesley G. Skogan has ...
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Urban Policy and Community Development
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2016 |
IPR political scientist studies interface between police and communities
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September 23, 2016
IPR political scientist James Druckman investigates what affects, and changes, our opinions.
Purple pride flows strongly through James Druckman’s veins: His father, Daniel, graduated from ...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2016 |
A scholar of political science and purple pride
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July 20, 2016
In an IPR working paper, political scientist and policing expert Wesley G. Skogan examines the consequences of such a policy in Chicago, focusing on how police encounters affect public trust in police. His major finding? “Stop and frisk” policies can serve to lower the public’s trust in the police. For his study, Skogan conducted a representative in-person survey of 1,450 Chicagoans in 2015, nearly 30 percent of whom reported being stopped by police in the previous 12 months.
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development
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2016 |
IPR political scientist Wesley G. Skogan examines Chicagoans' police encounters and trust in police
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June 23, 2016
IPR political scientist Rachel Beatty Riedl discusses a research experiment on religious messaging in Nairobi, Kenya.
Beginning in the late 1980s, pro-democracy forces across Africa toppled some...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2016 |
IPR political scientist studies African politics through a comparative lens
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June 20, 2016
IPR education sociologist Simone Ispa-Landa forges ahead in the study of "subtle" inequality.
From observing how individuals cope with having a visible criminal record, to how white students and...
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Education Policy; Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2016 |
Pinning down social inequality and exclusion
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April 26, 2016
IPR statistician Bruce Spencer is one of the world’s leading experts in statistical accuracy.
A discarded pamphlet on a New York subway train is what pushed IPR fellow Bruce Spencer to ...
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Performance Measurement and Rewards
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2016 |
IPR statistician shows how accurate figures can be a force for good
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March 24, 2016
Obesity in America remains a serious public health problem—one that disproportionately affects low-income Americans and minorities—and in particular, Hispanics/Latinos in the United States, the fastest-growing and largest ethnic minority group in the country. More than 40 percent of Latino men and women are obese, compared with 32 percent of non-Hispanic, white Americans. Professor of medical social sciences and IPR associate Frank Penedo and a team of investigators supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute seek to understand what might be driving these racial and ethnic disparities in obesity rates.
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Social Disparities and Health
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2016 |
Stress management techniques might boost weight loss, suggests IPR associate Frank Penedo
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March 16, 2016
IPR economist Matthew Notowidigdo examines how different policies might affect a host of employment, health, and financial outcomes.
IPR labor economist Matthew Notowidigdo often kicks off his...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2016 |
IPR labor economist scrutinizes “overlooked” niches in economics
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March 08, 2016
Alice Eagly (center) discusses the obstacles women leaders must overcome to negotiate the "labyrinth" of gender inequality with panelists Brigham Young political scientist Christopher Karpowi...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2016 |
IPR briefing examines potential and challenges for women leaders
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February 29, 2016
A minority at elite institutions, first-generation students suffer academically and psychologically on campus, surrounded by “continuing-generation” peers and faculty who often lack understanding of their situation.
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Education Policy
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2016 |
Understanding the importance of personal backgrounds can help students thrive in stressful college situations
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February 16, 2016
Christine Percheski presents her research on economic inequality at an IPR colloquium.
“I didn’t think I was going to be an academic—I thought I’d go into law or maybe pol...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Urban Policy and Community Development; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies
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2016 |
Sociological focus draws from strong social justice roots
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October 14, 2015
Participants confer at the ABCD conference in Blackpool, England.
Not long ago, when community organizers and social workers wanted to improve disadvantaged neighborhoods, they began by chronicli...
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Urban Policy and Community Development
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2015 |
IPR talks with co-founder John McKnight about its past and future
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August 25, 2015
People form stereotypes based on inferences about groups' social roles—like high school dropouts in the fast-food industry.
Picture a high-school dropout. Now, think about what occupation t...
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2015 |
IPR psychologist Alice Eagly finds change is possible
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June 13, 2015
Mass incarceration, Harvard sociologist Bruce Western argues, has contributed to growing inequality in the U.S.
Today, about 1.6 million people are serving time in a state or federal prison in t...
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Social Disparities and Health
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2015 |
Harvard's Bruce Western discusses damaging effects of incarceration
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May 16, 2015
Social psychologist Claude Steele gives a lecture on his book, Whistling Vivaldi, at Northwestern University, Feb. 4.
In looking at graphs of University of Michigan undergraduate grades brok...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality
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2015 |
"Whistling Vivaldi" author, IPR scholars define effects, interventions
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January 09, 2015
IPR political scientist Laurel Harbridge (at right) poses with former Republican Senator Olympia Snowe during a conference on the ethics of political dysfunction held at the University of Missouri...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2015 |
IPR scholars explore phenomenon of growing polarization and partisanship
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January 24, 2014
Low-income neighborhoods in Paris (left) and New York City, two of the cities compared in the study.
A new working paper by IPR sociologist Lincoln Quillian and his colleague Hugues Lagrange of ...
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Urban Policy and Community Development
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2014 |
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January 23, 2014
Foreclosure signs around the nation continue to illustrate to the lingering effects of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
While the U.S. economy is predicted to take of...
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Poverty, Race and Inequality; Child, Adolescent and Family Studies; Urban Policy and Community Development; Social Disparities and Health
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2014 |
IPR researchers document ongoing effects
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October 21, 2013
Recently, sociologist and IPR associate Mary Pattillo released the second edition of her ground-breaking book Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class—one of only a few ethnographic studies of a black middle-class neighborhood. In the 2013 edition, she revisited the same topics discussed in the 1999 original—namely the economy, crime, and housing—and put them in context with the economic downturn and the foreclosure crisis.
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2013 |
Second edition of book continues to further research on the black middle class
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May 13, 2013
Cecilia Rouse, Woodrow Wilson dean and Princeton professor, recalls the art of balancing work in the White House and family life with IPR Director David Figlio.
How does one advise the presiden...
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Politics, Institutions and Public Policy
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2013 |
Princeton’s Rouse recalls policymaking and parenting in the White House
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December 21, 2012
Does being in an all-male or all-female school lead to better education outcomes? Proponents of single-sex education argue that it does because boys and girls learn differently and thus benefit ...
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2012 |
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