Over the summer, 41 students participated in IPR's Summer Undergraduate Research Assistants Program (SURA) and contributed to research projects focusing on important social issues like trends in adolescent depression and anxiety and COVID-19 mortality and how efficient early vaccine rollouts were.
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As faculty director of student access and enrichment, IPR social psychologist Mesmin Destin will leverage his experience as a scholar of inequality and student experiences to help enhance engagement with first-generation and lower-income students at Northwestern.
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In an IPR policy brief, developmental psychologist Onnie Rogers and her co-authors investigate how vicarious racism and vigilance about being a target of racial discrimination affect the mental health of Asian and Black Americans, offering key policy takeaways.
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IPR developmental psychologist Terri Sabol and IPR economist Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach released an IPR rapid research report examining the early care and education market in the 47th Ward on Chicago’s North Side, which covers much of the Lincoln Square and Ravenswood neighborhoods, from 2015–16 to 2021–22.
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New research from IPR faculty examines support for political violence, a two-generation program to improve immigrant parents' English, and a multidisciplinary roadmap for global mental health.
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Faculty Insights
"Exposures to inaccurate information are pervasive and if we're not prepared and thinking deeply about it, we can actually have change in how we think and our decision-making, which is a real problem.”
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Working Papers
IPR has 38 working papers in its series for 2023, covering topics such as the connection between the need for chaos and dehumanizing others and support for politically motivated violence, the language acquisition of early 20th-century refugees, and if non-traditional digital trace data and traditional survey data yield similar estimates of cash transfer program impacts. Our working paper newsletter highlights the newest additions, but you can always view and download all of IPR’s working papers from our website. You can sign up to receive notification of our newest working papers here.
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