Despite having lower income and education levels, U.S. Hispanics tend to outlive non-Hispanic whites by several years (see table). Demographers call this the “Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox.” And for nearly three decades, they have puzzled over why Hispanics’ socioeconomic disadvantages are not linked to shorter lives, as they are for other racial and ethnic groups. “Infant…

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In rural Nicaragua where malnutrition is widespread, improved nutrition and health care during a boy’s first 1,000 days (from the beginning of his mother’s pregnancy to about age 2) has a lasting positive impact on cognitive development and learning, new research finds. “The timing of the intervention was critical,” said Tania Barham of the University…

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In early 2011, Pietronella van den Oever, PRB visiting scholar, visited the Malian staff and villagers she worked with in a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) rural training project in the mid-1970s. As part of PRB’s 2011-2012 Policy Seminar series, she discussed her recent research on the project’s results, which continue to be economically and…

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View webcast (Time: 45 min) The most disadvantaged U.S. parents are also most likely to have children with more than one partner, creating complex family relationships and potentially exacerbating poverty, according to Marcia Carlson, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. As part of PRB’s 2010-2011 Policy Seminar series, Carlson examined the magnitude…

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