In a new study out in Science Advances, we estimated that 19% more COVID-19 deaths than those officially reported occurred in the United States between March 2020 and December 2021. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #demography #epidemiology #COVID-19

Please join us for our next Population Studies Colloquium with Sneha Kumar on Monday, April 13, 2026 from 12-1 pm in the PSC Commons, McNeil 403 “Spousal Migration, Social Ties, and Loneliness Among Married Adults 'Left Behind' in Indonesia” https://bit.ly/3OoyU7W

TODAY Tuesday, April 7, 2026 | 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk Behind Bars, Beyond Health: Equity and Incarceration in America w/ Jason Schnittker, Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration, moderator Rachel M. Werner share.hsforms.com/1L8rVBlfZSBS...

TODAY, Monday, April 6th, from 12-1 pm: “The Growing Issue of Homelessness/Housing Insecurity and Aging” (PARC AGING CHATS) – HYBRID EVENT PSC Commons, McNeil 403 & Zoom with Rebecca T. Brown & Dennis P. Culhane

Please join us on Monday, April 6th, from 12-1 pm for: “The Growing Issue of Homelessness/Housing Insecurity and Aging” (PARC AGING CHATS) – HYBRID EVENT PSC Commons, McNeil 403 & Zoom (ID: 985 8602 2194 & Code: 055266) with Rebecca T. Brown & Dennis P. Culhane

There are more than 100 working papers by @pennpsc.bsky.social and @pennaging.bsky.social researchers in the Population Center Working Papers Series! TAKE A LOOK: https://www.pop.upenn.edu/working-papers-v2

Infant Mortality Fell for Decades. Why Did That Stop? @atheendar.bsky.social is quoted in this @nytimes.com article https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/headway/infant-mortality-fell-for-decades-why-did-that-stop.html

Please join us for the next Population Studies Colloquium on Monday, 3/30 12-1pm in PSC Commons (McNeil 403) 📌 “Rags or Riches? Predicting Life Outcomes from the Birth Lottery Across Five High-Income Countries” ➡️ with Orestes “Pat” Hastings https://bit.ly/4swxxTq

Please join us for the next Population Studies Colloquium on Monday, 3/30 12-1pm in PSC Commons (McNeil 403) 📌 “Rags or Riches? Predicting Life Outcomes from the Birth Lottery Across Five High-Income Countries” ➡️ with Orestes “Pat” Hastings https://bit.ly/4swxxTq

📐 What is design thinking, and how can research teams use it? Dr. Alison Buttenheim (PSC Associate) discusses what design thinking is & how it can support investigators in carrying out design-informed activities within research projects. @PennCHIBE https://bit.ly/4ssqj2Q

The James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies (co-sponsored by the PSC) is pleased to host the Global Korea Agenda Roundtable, “Fertility in Korea and Beyond,” on April 10, 2026. RSVP by March 27th to attend: https://bit.ly/4rTgZ75 See details: https://bit.ly/3NYZT9V

TODAY PENN POPULATION STUDIES COLLOQUIUM 3/23 | 12 - 1PM | PSC Commons (McNeil 403) Mao-Mei Liu of @UCBerkeley presents Nurturing Diversity in Science as Resistance READ MORE: https://bit.ly/4rUc1b8

Last chance to apply! ⏰ LSE Health is recruiting a Senior Policy Fellow (Unit Director) to lead global research on sustainable & resilient health systems through PHSSR. Deadline: Wednesday 25th March 2026 Don’t miss out! Apply now 👉 bit.ly/4rGFbue

🚨PhDs in demography, sociology, public health, biomedical science.... Check out this exciting postdoc opportunity to work in the new and growing area of "medical demography" with Dr. Marcus Ebeling! www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

Read about all Dream Lab courses and register (while early bird pricing is still on!) here 🌩️

On Friday, April 17, @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social will deliver a talk that considers the status of writing in the present moment not from the qualitative question of whether AI can write better than humans, but from the stance of political economy.

Tues. March 31: @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social leads another session in The Digital Humanist's Helpdesk series! This hybrid workshop will introduce users to GitHub, a platform that can help you to 1) code collaboratively, 2) share your code with an online community, or 3) create your own website.

Next week at the Price Lab: a GIS Workshop 🗺️ Join us March 20 from 4pm-6pm in Williams 616 to learn the basics of georeferencing, the first step in extracting historical spatial data. Register now: forms.gle/JuA5cMixshv7tC6k7

Next Monday, March 23, our Critical Approaches to AI Working Group will meet at 12pm on Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/CritAIwrkgrp ) and in Williams 623. Join us!

Find the PSC on LinkedIn! www.linkedin.com/company/popu...

🥳Congratulations to LDI Fellow Linda Aiken of Penn Nursing! She is the recipient of the 2026 President’s Award from @americannurses.bsky.social Aiken is being honored for her work that has radically transformed international nursing standards. Read more: https://bit.ly/4ur6ri8

New @forbes.com article includes insights from Prof. Damon Centola's research on how information-exchange networks can reduce medical errors and decrease bias among clinicians: www.forbes.com/sites/spence...

Don't miss Monday's PENN POPULATION STUDIES COLLOQUIUM! MON | 3/16 | 12 - 1PM | McNeil 403 Leigh Senderowicz (@lsenderowicz.bsky.social ) U of Wisconsin-Madison and @feministdemography.bsky.social Taking the Population Control Out of Reproductive Health Measurement https://bit.ly/4rgLQdB

Don't miss Monday's PENN POPULATION STUDIES COLLOQUIUM! MON | 3/16 | 12 - 1PM | McNeil 403 Leigh Senderowicz (@lsenderowicz.bsky.social ) U of Wisconsin-Madison and @feministdemography.bsky.social Taking the Population Control Out of Reproductive Health Measurement https://bit.ly/4rgLQdB

Public long-term care insurance (LTCI) is here. Research emphasizes the difficulty of relying on voluntary LTCI coverage to shift long-term care risk. LDI Director of Research Norma Coe breaks down the LTCI market and what this public model could change: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

NEW: Adopting more of the Magnet framework was linked to lower nurse burnout & improved patient safety in European hospitals. LDI Fellow Linda Aiken and Penn CHOPR's Gary Rettberg explain what the Magnet4Europe evaluation means for health system workforce reform: https://bit.ly/4kS9k74

While Black immigrants to the U.S. have a lower risk of preterm birth than native Black birthing people, new research by LDI Fellow Diana Montoya-Williams based on national data from 2011-2018 shows that this advantage may depend on where immigrants live. https://bit.ly/4kSF8Zy

Why does cash save lives in Tanzania but barely move the needle in Texas? Aaron Richterman and @hthirumurthy.bsky.social offer a road map for what effective cash assistance can look like in this country, if we choose to build on it. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

NEW: In @theatlantic.com, LDI Fellows Aaron Richterman (@draaron.bsky.social) and Harsha Thirumurthy (@hthirumurthy.bsky.social) share four ways to design cash transfer programs that can reduce poverty and improve health in the U.S. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

Prof. Sarah Tishkoff’s lab has found that prehistoric mating preferences is a likely explanation for why modern humans have so little Neanderthal DNA on their X chromosomes, challenging the idea that human evolution was driven solely by survival of the fittest. https://bit.ly/4kZsAzv @upenn.edu

Do nursing home staffing mandates hurt profits? 💡 New evidence from LDI Exec Director @rachelwerner.bsky.social & Fellow Norma Coe in Health Affairs finds staffing mandates boost care without reducing profits, supporting the case to restore federal minimum staffing standards https://bit.ly/4aMqkZd

NEW: Our latest brief covers research from LDI Senior Fellows @draaron.bsky.social @hthirumurthy.bsky.social and Jere Behrman that provides the first population-level evidence that cash transfer programs substantially reduce mortality. Read more here: https://bit.ly/47gpGkl

A new study from PIK Prof. Sarah Tishkoff of Biology is featured in the @washingtonpost.com and proposes that interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals was based on a strong sex bias: preferential mating between Neanderthal males and human females. @upenn.edu

“Why does cash save lives in Tanzania but barely move the needle in Texas?” In @theatlantic.com, LDI Fellows @draaron.bsky.social and @hthirumurthy.bsky.social outline the conditions that make cash transfer programs work. https://bit.ly/3N63t1t

Spring Independent Research Grants for @upenn.edu undergrads in all schools pursuing an independent or semi-independent research project with Penn faculty. Apply by Monday, March 16: curf.upenn.edu/undergraduat...

There are more than 100 working papers by @pennpsc.bsky.social and @pennaging.bsky.social researchers in the Population Center Working Papers Series! TAKE A LOOK: https://www.pop.upenn.edu/working-papers-v2

RESCHEDULED! Van de Walle prize winner Emily Curran presents “Parenthood Penalties in Same-Sex Couples: How Parental Status Shapes Paid Work Specialization in American Couples” Monday, February 23, 2026 12 – 1PM | PSC Commons | McNeil 403 LEARN MORE: https://bit.ly/4aRreCk

RESCHEDULED! Van de Walle prize winner Emily Curran presents “Parenthood Penalties in Same-Sex Couples: How Parental Status Shapes Paid Work Specialization in American Couples” Monday, February 23, 2026 12 – 1PM | PSC Commons | McNeil 403 LEARN MORE: https://bit.ly/4aRreCk

Watching the Winter #Olympics? CHIBE Director Dr. Kevin Volpp spoke to us about the psychology and behavioral economics elements at play for Olympians. chibe.upenn.edu/blog/the-oly...

How does a brain stay healthy? "There are a lot of linkages between our brains and what we eat that are influenced by your gut microbiome that affect cognition and mood," Dr. Kevin Volpp says. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

Dolores Albarracín, the Amy Gutmann Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, has long studied how to curb disease and improve health.

TOMORROW! @pennpsc.bsky.social & @pennaging.bsky.social researcher @leticiamarteleto.bsky.social (2/25 @ 1PM) Living the Hard Promise: International Scholarship at a Crossroads Mark Devlin, C. Brian Rose, Rodolfo Altamirano MORE INFO www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/... @sas.upenn.edu

Profs. Sophia Rosenfeld, Emma Hart, and Duncan Watts, shared insights into Thomas Paine’s influential written work, "Common Sense", 250 years after its publication at a recent panel discussion. @upenn.edu

In 1776, an anonymous pamphlet published in Philadelphia had an outsize effect on American independence. 250 years after Thomas Paine first released Common Sense, Emma Hart, Sophia Rosenfeld, and Duncan Watts discuss its continued influence. @upenn.edu @sas.upenn.edu

Dorothy Roberts’ new memoir, ‘The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family,’ is "an exploration of race, identity, and family in America."

“Parenthood Penalties in Same-Sex Couples: How Parental Status Shapes Paid Work Specialization in American Couples” Emily Curran, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology & Demography Van de Wall Prize Winner for Best Paper in Demography Monday, February 23, 2026 12 – 1:00 pm: PSC Commons, McNeil 403

Congrats to VAN DE WALLE PRIZE WINNER Emily Curran! See her present her paper at the next PENN POPULATION STUDIES COLLOQUIUM 2/23 | 12PM | PSC Commons (McNeil 403) READ MORE: https://bit.ly/4aqR4OR

New paper in the Population Center Working Papers (PSC/PARC) series! Parenthood Penalties in Same-Sex Couples: How Parental Status Shapes Paid Work Specialization in American Couples by Emily Curran READ IT HERE: https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/62251

Missed our keynote conversation with Emily Oster? The Q&A, co-hosted by @katymilkman.bsky.social and @alison-buttenheim.bsky.social, explored best practices for communicating about science. Watch the recording: youtu.be/owqZ6BCBAr4

Prof. Dorothy E. Roberts' new memoir, The Mixed Marriage Project, intertwines her family's story with her father's research on interracial couples in Chicago. An exploration of love, race, and identity in America. Watch Prof. Roberts discuss her new memoir. https://penncareylaw.news/4kikGkA