This World is Exhausting, don’t Let it Exhaust You: Setting Emotional Boundaries to Prevent Fatigue
How can you show compassion and empathy without draining your emotional energy? This issue brief provides tips on how to set personal boundaries to prevent emotional exhaustion.
Protecting your Mental Health during COVID-19
COVID-19 has presented an onslaught of change and uncertainty, leaving many people feeling isolated and disconnected. This brief describes strategies we can try to protect our mental health during this uncertain time.
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?
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
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.
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
Why Monitoring your Media Consumption during COVID-19 is Important
This brief explains how too much media consumption (including the news) can affect your psychological and physiological wellbeing and provides strategies for monitoring your media consumption.
A Public Health Side Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Screen Time-Related Eye Strain and Eye Fatigue
While technologies help us stay connected and enable us to get the resources we need, too much screen time can lead to eye strain, headaches, and neck and back pain.
Let Them Eat Lunch: The Impact of Universal Free Meals on Student Performance
Children need healthy and balanced meals to perform well in school. Universal Free Meal programs improve English and Math test scores and may even reduce obesity among middle school students. District and school leaders nationwide should consider adopting this program.
Employment Density and Agglomeration Economies in Tall Buildings
Making Meaning during Coronavirus
This brief discusses why meaning matters and how we might reflect on what we learned about ourselves from the COVID-19 pandemic to make more intentional meaning in our lives.
The Material Hardships of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States: Evidence from SIPP 1996-2008
Let Them Eat Lunch: The Impact of Universal Free Meals on Student Performance
See related: Education, Nutrition, State & Local Government
Grandmothers at Work during Coronavirus
COVID-19 is reshaping the lives of working grandmothers in the U.S. This brief draws on in-depth interviews and grandmothers’ stories to show how the coronavirus is redefining the lives of working grandmothers.