The mission of the University of Michigan’s Population Studies Center is to foster and support innovative interdisciplinary research and training in demography; to help energize and diversify the field of population studies; and to enhance insight and policy on population issues via broad dissemination of research findings.
Anti-poverty tax credits provide more than financial relief for families living on tight budgets—they also appear to help prevent trauma, violence, and crime among children and youth, three studies from the University of Washington (UW) show. And these credits may cut child poverty without affecting parents’ workforce participation, other new studies show. Researchers with the…
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Births to U.S. teenagers have been declining for a dozen years and reached another record low in 2020. But birth rates are far higher among U.S. teenagers ages 15 to 19 (15.3 per 1,000 females) than their peers in Canada (eight per 1,000 females), Sweden (five per 1,000 females), and many other high-income countries. New…
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