PRB Discuss Online
PRB Discuss Online: What Is Your ‘Race’? A Question Increasingly Difficult to Answer
Update: View transcript here. The concept of "race" has always been controversial, given ugly associations with slavery, the eugenics movement, and racism. Yet "race" and "racial identity" remain important fundamental aspects of daily life for many Americans and people in other racially diverse societies. In the United States, our understanding of race and how to...
PRB Discuss Online: How Are the Children of Single Mothers Faring? Evidence From the Fragile Families Study
Update: Read transcript here. The percentage of U.S. children born outside marriage has increased dramatically over several decades, growing from 6 percent of all births in 1960 to nearly 40 percent of births today. The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study has been following a cohort of approximately 3,600 children born to unmarried parents at...
PRB Discuss Online: How Is Immigration Changing the United States?
Update: See transcript here. Immigration is a volatile issue for Americans, who must grapple with the tradeoff between the strain of incorporating new populations and the desire for immigrants' labor. The United States receives more immigrants than any other country, and while the annual volume fluctuates with economic and political circumstances, the flow is likely...
PRB Discuss Online: The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Poverty in the United States
Update: Read transcript here. Most poor children achieve less, exhibit more problem behaviors, and are less healthy than children raised in more-affluent families. Looking beyond these well-known correlations between poverty and negative outcomes in childhood, recent studies have assessed the effects of childhood poverty in the United States on later attainment and health. During a...
PRB Discuss Online: The Tsunami, Six Years Later: Results of a Large-Scale Longitudinal Study in Aceh, Indonesia
Update: Read transcript here. Dec. 26, 2010, will mark the sixth anniversary of the earthquake that spawned a tsunami on the coastlines of countries bordering the Indian Ocean. In collaboration with the Indonesian NGO SurveyMETER, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Duncan Thomas, and colleagues designed a survey to study how the disaster affected villagers living in areas heavily...