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Pandemic Journaling Project Made Accessible to Researchers at New Long-Term Home
March 1, 2024
Researchers studying the COVID-19 pandemic will maintain wide access to this paradigm-shifting historical record at its new placement at Syracuse University
Investigating the Link Between Intra-Occupation Job Variation and Gender Segregation in the Workplace
January 31, 2024
Sociologist Ananda Martin-Caughey is re-examining social survey data to analyze the impacts of job title stratification.
Entrepreneurial Responses to Infrastructure Failures in Nigeria
December 18, 2023
PSTC researcher Daniel Jordan Smith’s 2022 book documents how citizen-government relationships in Nigeria have been impacted by the state’s infrastructural shortcomings.
The Launch of a Project on Mesoamerican Migration
November 16, 2023
Using innovative survey techniques, the project aims to comprehensively document the experiences of migrants to the U.S. from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
A Community-Driven Project to Analyze Local Drug Supply
October 17, 2023
As part of the TestRI research project, PSTC epidemiologist Alexandra B. Collins worked alongside RI community partners to better understand and mitigate local overdose risk.
PSTC Researcher Investigates Social Determinants of Gender Differences in Dementia
September 5, 2023
Assistant Professor of Population Studies Meghan Zacher explores potential link between educational inequality and women’s increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
PSTC Researcher Uncovers Educational Disparities among Africa’s Largest Religious Populations
August 4, 2023
In his recently published paper, PSTC economist Stelios Michalopoulos investigates why Christian populations experience higher rates of educational mobility throughout Africa.
PSTC Economist Explores Link Between World War II Labor Policies and Racial Wage Gap
July 3, 2023
PSTC researcher Anna Aizer and her colleagues identify heightened wartime labor demand as source of increased economic opportunity for Black families.
“Immigrant Student Research Project” Creates Living Record of Immigrant Graduate Student Experience
June 12, 2023
PSTC researchers are creating a new national database to record the triumphs of immigrant graduate students and highlight the remaining barriers to educational equity.
In the News
Annenberg: Providence teacher resignations problematic
March 14, 2024 | Providence Business News | John Papay
In its latest look at teacher staffing in the Providence Public School District, the Annenberg Institute at Brown University says it finds cause “for optimism” in how teachers are being retained in the state’s largest...
America should thank immigrants for the ‘soft landing’
March 6, 2024 | The Hill | Dany Bahar
With numbers for January showing that inflation stands at 3.1 percent down from 9.1 percent inflation peak in mid-2022, the “soft landing” scenario — reducing the post-COVID era inflation without tipping into a recession—...
There was an outcry about ‘practice babies’ on TikTok. It’s not as crazy as it sounds.
March 1, 2024 | USA Today | Jessica Leinaweaver
No perfect parenting method exists. But a number of decades ago, educators thought differently – so much so that they acquired babies from local orphanages for home economics students to "parent."
Disasters Forced 2.5 Million Americans From Their Homes Last Year
February 27, 2024 | The New York Times | Elizabeth Fussell
Many of those displaced also reported food shortages and predatory scams, according to new data from the Census Bureau.
Pandemic Journaling Project makes new home at Syracuse University
February 20, 2024 | Syracuse University News | Kate Mason
The Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) offers insight into people’s lives and experiences from May 2020 to 2022 in 55 countries through nearly 27,000 online journal entries of text, images, and audio.
Mindfulness training proves effective in reducing hypertension and improving diet
February 13, 2024 | WJAR Providence | Eric Loucks
"About half of American adults have hypertension and of them only half of them have it under control," said Dr. Eric Loucks, director of the mindfulness center at Brown, who designed this study.
Kindergarteners who weren’t in school during pandemic struggle too
February 9, 2024 | EdSource | Emily Oster
Compared to students entering kindergarten before the pandemic, current students started school with weaker math and reading skills and were less likely to start school at grade level, according to The Wall Street Journal...
Wealth Inequality and 'Billionaire Supremacy' Have Gotten so Bad That at this Rate, it will Take 230 Years to End Poverty
February 6, 2024 | Business Insider | Oded Galor
Oxfam International published its inequality report this month, detailing a slew of grim predictions about the ever-widening wealth gap.