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Winter 2018

Student Research: Income Mobility, Health, and Mortality

Posted on July 26, 2018

Graduate student Sebastian Daza is interested in social complexity, networks, and health. At CDHA, Daza has focused his research on the magnitude and variability of the association between income mobility, health, and mortality in the United States. …

Posted in Newsletter, Winter 2018Tagged Feb/March 2018

New Study on Work, Parenting, and Work-Home Spillover

Posted on July 26, 2018

New research from 2015–17 NIA postdoc Katherine Lin, now an assistant professor at Dartmouth, explores the relationship between work, parenting, and work-home spillover. Using a life course perspective, Lin and co-author Sarah Burgard (Michigan) examined …

Posted in Newsletter, Winter 2018Tagged Feb/March 2018

NIA Postdoc Receives Alzheimer’s Association Funding

Posted on July 26, 2018

Megan Zuelsdorff joined CDHA as a National Institute on Aging postdoctoral trainee in September 2017 and has worked on several research projects related to social determinants of cognitive aging processes and socioenvironmental contributors to well-established …

Posted in Newsletter, Winter 2018Tagged Feb/March 2018

Health Surveys Can Reveal Supplementary Health Information, Research Shows

Posted on July 26, 2018

In face-to-face-interviews on personal health, respondents often self-report measures of their physical and mental capabilities by answering a series of questions. In some cases, interviewers conducting the surveys also rate respondents’ health by answering questions …

Posted in Newsletter, Winter 2018Tagged Feb/March 2018

25 Genetic Markers Linked to Longevity

Posted on July 26, 2018

Scholars have long wondered what enables some people to live to very old ages while others do not. Research has shown that a number of inherited genetic variants are linked to overall and longer lifespan. …

Posted in Newsletter, Winter 2018Tagged Feb/March 2018

Pilot Project Investigates Effects of Sibling Death

Posted on July 26, 2018

Each year, CDHA provides pilot grants to affiliates engaged in innovative research that is likely to lead to support from external funders. During the academic year 2014–15, PIs Barbara Wolfe (public affairs, economics, population health …

Posted in Newsletter, Winter 2018Tagged Feb/March 2018

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