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New Working Paper: Modeling Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality: A Comprehensive Model Life Table Approach for Low- and Middle-Income Countries A new paper by Andrea Verhulst, Julio Romero-Prieto and Michel Guillot was published in the Population Center Working Paper Series. Title: Modeling Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality: A Comprehensive Model Life Table Approach for Low- and Middle-Income Countries Paper Abstract:

Penn at ASA 2025 Here is a list of events that include University of Pennsylvania researchers at the 2025 American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting.

In Memoriam: Douglas C. Ewbank We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Douglas C. Ewbank, Emeritus Research Professor of Sociology and former Associate Director of both the Population Studies Center and the Population Aging Research Center, on July 22, 2025, at the age of 77.

Who Cares? Study Reveals 50 Years of U.S. Caregiving Trends | Pilar Gonalons-Pons " A new study by LDI Senior Fellow Pilar Gonalons‑Pons and Zohra Ansari‑Thomas examines five decades of data to reveal how Americans divide the labor of caregiving–both paid and unpaid–for both children and adults.

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These LA Community College Students are Getting Paid to go to School. Here’s How | Amy Beth Castro 'Amy Beth Castro, lead researcher on the BOOST study said, “These students were saying, ‘I am pursuing higher education to be somebody who has a degree, and I want to learn because it has value for me and dignity to me, and it’s the way that I want to honor my family,"' - CalMatters Castro discusses the research and effects of the BOOST program she has spearheaded.

The Future of Healthy Aging and Retirement | Olivia Mitchell 'Wharton’s Mitchell proposed that the focus must shift from “living longer” to “living better.” That is, the challenge is to find new ways to maximize our “healthspan,” or the number of years we live unencumbered by the chronic diseases of old age.' - Knowledge at Wharton

LDI at 2025 AcademyHealth Poster Displays | Robert Burke PARC researcher Robert Burke pictured at an Academy Health Poster Session. (Photo Credits: Hoag Levins)

New Working Paper: The Association of Spirituality & Memory in Older Black and White U.S. Adults A new paper by Katherine C. Britt, Fanghong Dong, Jill B. Hamilton, Lauren M. Massimo, Nancy A. Hodgson, Shana D. Stites and Dawn Mechanic-Hamilton was published in the Population Center Working Papers Series.

An Expensive Alzheimer’s Lifestyle Plan Offers False Hope, Experts Say | Jason Karlawish "Others have expressed similar unease. In 2020, Dr. Joanna Hellmuth, then a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco, published an article in The Lancet Neurology pointing to a number of “red flags” within Mr. Bredesen’s studies, including “the substantial potential for a placebo effect.” Dr.

Photo Report from the Population Aging Research Center 2025 Retreat: Penn Event Explores the Limits of Chronological Aging and Related Issues

May 12, 2025

By: Hoag Levins

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Sep 08

Deportations and Latino Segregation: The Residential Impacts of Interior Immigration Enforcement

PSC/PARC COLLOQUIUM SERIES FALL 2025

12:00pm - 1:00pm | McNeil 403 - PSC Commons

Matthew Hall

Sep 15

After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People

PSC/PARC COLLOQUIUM SERIES FALL 2025

12:00pm - 1:00pm | McNeil 403 - PSC Commons

Dean Spears

Sep 22

Doubled Up: Shared Households and the Precarious Lives of Families

PSC/PARC COLLOQUIUM SERIES FALL 2025

12:00pm - 1:00pm | McNeil 403 - PSC Commons

Hope Harvey

Sep 29

Title TBD

PSC/PARC COLLOQUIUM SERIES FALL 2025

12:00pm - 1:00pm | McNeil 403 - PSC Commons

Suzanne Bell

Oct 06

Title TBD (PARC Aging Chats)

PSC/PARC COLLOQUIUM SERIES FALL 2025

12:00pm - 1:00pm | McNeil Room 403 - PSC Commons

Tito Michele Boeri

Oct 13

Title TBD

PSC/PARC COLLOQUIUM SERIES FALL 2025

12:00pm - 1:00pm | McNeil 403 - PSC Commons

Amelie Constant

Spotlight

Luca Maria Pesando | GGD Alumni and Former Postdoc

A few weeks ago the library staff met with Luca Maria Pesando about his experience in the GGD program, research projects, and the future.

Collin Payne | GGD Alumni

Recent graduate Collin Payne, faculty member in Demography at the Australian National University, stopped in to talk with us about his current projects and his experience at Penn.