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This World is Exhausting, don’t Let it Exhaust You: Setting Emotional Boundaries to Prevent Fatigue

Mary Katherine A. Lee

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.

June 9, 2020

Protecting your Mental Health during COVID-19

Ashley Van Slyke

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.

June 8, 2020

Aging-in-Place Organizations are Key to Building Disaster Resilience for Older Adults

Claire Pendergrast

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?

June 5, 2020

Gender Disparities in Caretaking during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Danielle Rhubart

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.

June 4, 2020

Breaking Isolation: Self Care for When Coronavirus Quarantine Ends

Dessa Bergen-Cico

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.

June 3, 2020

Intellectual and developmental disability and COVID-19 case-fatality trends: TriNetX analysis

Margaret A. Turk, Scott D. Landes, Margaret K. Formica & Katherine D. Gross
COVID-19 appears to present a greater risk to people with IDD, especially at younger ages.
June 1, 2020

COVID-19 Mortality Rates are Higher among People with Intellectual and Developmental Disability

Scott D. Landes

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.

June 1, 2020

Nonparametric Tests of Tail Behavior in Stochastic Frontier Models

William C. Horrace & Yulong Wang
May 31, 2020

Labor Market Policies in a Roy-Rosen Bargaining Economy

Hugo Jales & Zhengfei Yu
May 31, 2020

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Why Monitoring your Media Consumption during COVID-19 is Important

Dessa Bergen-Cico

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.

May 28, 2020

A Public Health Side Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Screen Time-Related Eye Strain and Eye Fatigue

Mary E. Helander, Stephanie A. Cushman, Shannon M. Monnat

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.

May 26, 2020

Let Them Eat Lunch: The Impact of Universal Free Meals on Student Performance

Amy Ellen Schwartz , Michah W. Rothbart

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.

May 12, 2020

Employment Density and Agglomeration Economies in Tall Buildings

Crocker H. Liu, Stuart S. Rosenthal & William C. Strange
May 10, 2020

Making Meaning during Coronavirus

Mary Katherine A. Lee

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.

May 4, 2020

The Material Hardships of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States: Evidence from SIPP 1996-2008

Claire Altman, Colleen Heflin, Chaegyung Jun & James Bachmeier
May 2, 2020

Grandmothers at Work during Coronavirus

Madonna Harrington Meyer

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.

May 1, 2020

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