• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Population Dynamics Research CentersPopulation Dynamics Research Centers

  • About
  • Research Highlights
  • Publications
  • Tools & Training
    • Introduction to Using Twitter for Social Science
    • Expanding the Reach of Your Research: Best Practices for Communicating with Policymakers and the Media
    • New Tools and Best Practices in Communicating Research Results to Media and Policy Audiences
    • Communicating With Media Audiences
    • Communicating With Policy Audiences
  • Coronavirus
  • News
Home > Centers > Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Marcia (Marcy) J. Carlson, Director

The Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) is a multidisciplinary cooperative for social scientific demographic research and graduate training at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. CDE affiliates produce demographic research and data in the center’s five research areas: fertility, families, and households; health and the life course; the demography of inequality; biodemography; and spatial and environmental demography.

Visit their website

Related Highlights

This Mother’s Day, Family Life Is More Complicated Than Ever—and Coronavirus Is Making It Worse

As Mother’s Day 2020 fast approaches, the coronavirus pandemic—coupled with ongoing demographic trends—is making family life even more complicated for Americans. Millions of families are at increased risk of falling into poverty due to pandemic-related job losses, and social distancing protocols are separating some children from their parents who live in a different household. American…

Read More

It’s Nature and Nurture: How Our Genes and Our Friends Shape the Way We Live Our Lives

Scientists have long debated the importance of nature versus nurture—genes versus the environment—in shaping the choices people make and the paths their lives take. Two decades of research make it increasingly clear that both nature and nurture always play a role—that is, the extent to which genetic factors affect behavior depends on the social environment…

Read More
See More Highlights

Related News

Center for Demography and Ecology, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

This list includes articles in PubMed as of January 6, 2021 with a PubMed entry date between October 1, 2019 and December 31, 2020 that reference P2C, R24, or T32 grant support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and oversight by Population Dynamics Branch Program Officials. Recent Articles…

Read More

Recent Journal Articles by NICHD-Funded Population Centers Show Breadth of Research on Emerging Health Issues

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) recently published a new Strategic Plan focused on the Institute’s research and training efforts to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all. PRB created a list of illustrative grants and recently…

Read More
See More News

Primary Sidebar

Search University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center

Explore the Research Centers

  • Bowling Green State University
  • Brown University
  • Columbia University
  • Duke University
  • Guttmacher Institute
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Ohio State University
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Population Reference Bureau
  • Princeton University
  • The University at Albany, SUNY
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Minnesota
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • University of Washington
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

Search All Centers

Conduct a custom search across the Population Dynamics Research Centers. Up to 100 results.

Footer

  • Contact
  • Centers
  • Twitter

News and Publications

Receive our monthly email listing newly published articles and new grants at each of the Centers.

This website was prepared by the Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR) at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) for the Population Dynamics Research Centers. This website is made possible by the generous support of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).