The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College announces the 2020 Sandell Grant and Dissertation Fellowship Programs, funded by the U.S. Social Security Administration. The submission deadline for both programs is January 31, 2020. Sandell Grants provide the opportunity for junior or non-tenured scholars to pursue research on retirement or disability policy. Up to three …
The 27th Annual RAND Summer Institute will be help July 6-9, 2020 in Santa Monica, California. The Institute will consist of two sessions: The Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists on July 6–7, and the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging conference on July 8–9, 2020. The deadline for applications is March 16, 2020. https://www.rand.org/well-being/social-and-behavioral-policy/centers/aging/rsi.html
RAND Corporation is accepting applications for its Postdoctoral Training Program in the Study of Aging. This program is open to new scholars and junior scholars in the field of demographic and aging research. RAND Fellows can sharpen their analytic skills, learn to communicate research results effectively, and advance their research agenda as they participate in …
The 27th annual RAND Summer Institute (RSI) will take place in Santa Monica, CA, July 6-9, 2020. The RSI consists of two conferences, each addressing critical issues facing our aging population: a Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists (July 6-7) and a workshop on the Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging (July 8-9). The Workshop …
The overall divorce rate in the U.S. has declined since 1990. Yet among those aged 50 and older it has roughly doubled according to a report from the National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR) in Bowling Green State University. Data for this report comes from the 1990 U.S. Vital Statistics Report and the …
All FOAs from NIA in the future will require a data sharing plan. Investigators can write expected costs of sharing into the competing budget. There are five elements: 1. where the data will be placed for sharing; 2. describe and justify a timetable for data release; 3. explain and justify restrictions on sharing; 4. studies …
Systems for Action (S4A) is a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that helps to build the evidence base for a Culture of Health. Studies funded under the S4A program must test mechanisms for aligning systems that involve all three sectors: medical care, public health, and social services. Action program will …
The Wisconsin Federal Statistical Research Data Center (WiscRDC) is hosting the annual Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) conference September 5 and 6 in the Pyle Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The conference will feature more than 30 presentations by researchers from across the country. The keynote speaker is Bruce Weinberg, professor of economics …
The North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) 2019 will take place in Ottawa, Canada from April 24 to April 26. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences. The conference theme is “Benefits of …
The Center for Demography of Health and Aging invites interested investigators to submit proposals for pilot funding for 2019–20. For more information, please review our request for proposals.