Aging-in-Place Organizations are Key to Building Disaster Resilience for Older Adults
COVID-19 has tragically demonstrated the serious threat that pandemics and other disasters pose to older adults’ health, safety, and well-being. What role can senior centers and senior villages play in protecting older adults’ health and building their resilience during COVID-19 and other disasters?
Banks discusses the Insurrection Act with Christian Science Monitor, Military.com
"You want to come to the aid of the states when states can’t take care of themselves," says Professor Emeritus William C. Banks, about President Trump's threat to invoke the Insurrection Act.
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Lambright quoted in Associated Press piece on Trump's claim of saving space program
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Gender Disparities in Caretaking during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Women have consistently been responsible for more child and elder care than men in the U.S. This disparity continues during COVID-19 and is affecting women’s work.
Mass Party Formation: Land, Civil Society, and Party in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Breaking Isolation: Self Care for When Coronavirus Quarantine Ends
This brief describes how prolonged periods of solitude affect our mental health and provides some strategies for how we can protect our mental and emotional health as we reengage with society.
Working-Class Children of Mexican Immigrants in Dallas, Texas
Mitra discusses India's need for an effective rescue plan in Economic Times
"As reviving the economy is not possible without restarting production, there needs to be a phased exit from the lockdown through extensive testing that identifies people who can go back to work with the confidence that they won’t contract the disease from others," says Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.
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Intellectual and developmental disability and COVID-19 case-fatality trends: TriNetX analysis
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COVID-19 Mortality Rates are Higher among People with Intellectual and Developmental Disability
Despite higher risk of severe outcomes from COVID-19 among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), there has been limited reporting of COVID-19 trends for this population. This research brief shows that higher COVID-19 case fatality rates among people with IDD. Risk is especially high among people are younger ages.
Year One
The Scruggs Scholarship is an example of how Maxwell (and Syracuse University) are working hard to make sure that successful freshmen continue.
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Bridging Strengths
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Carrington ’18 (MA) and Strother ’17 (PhD) piece on Confederate statues and free speech published in the Washington Post
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Nonparametric Tests of Tail Behavior in Stochastic Frontier Models
Labor Market Policies in a Roy-Rosen Bargaining Economy
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Growth Empirics: A Bayesian Semiparametric Model with Random Coefficients for a Panel of OECD Countries
Lerner Research Affiliate Scott Landes featured in Forbes article on COVID19 related mortality among those with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Lerner Research Affiliate Scott Landes and his colleagues found that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have a greater chance of dying from COVID-19 than those without IDD.
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Lerner Fellow Xiaoyan Zhang quoted in National Geographic story on raising resilient children during coronavirus
Lerner Fellow Xiaoyan Zhang notes the positive long term outcomes of emotionally resilient children and discusses steps caregivers can take to help strengthen children's coping skills.
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Lovely weighs in on US-China trade deal targets, tensions on NPR
Professor of Economics Mary Lovely says targets for exports of farm goods, factory products, and crude oil were always going to be a stretch, and that the coronavirus pandemic has made things worse.
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