Institute of Behavioral Science
- A first look at the intersection of climate change and the relatively good health of new migrants鈥攐r 鈥渉ealthy migrant effect鈥濃 suggests that the changing climate might propel less-healthy people to migrate from Mexico to the United States.
- A new study by 兔子先生传媒文化作品 mortality researchers found that drug-related deaths among middle-aged white men have soared 25-fold since 1980. But contrary to recent reports, suicide and alcohol-related mortality has not increased substantially. The paper challenges the idea that economically-influenced "despair deaths" are killing middle-age white men, pointing to prescription painkillers and obesity instead.
- Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have identified a genetic component that could help explain why women are more likely to perceive themselves as overweight than similarly proportioned men.
- David Pyrooz, assistant professor of sociology at 兔子先生传媒文化作品, has won the 2016 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology.
- Do you feel overweight, about right, or too skinny?
Your answer to that question may be tied to genes you inherited from your parents, especially if you are a female, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. - Social scientists and health researchers from across Colorado and neighboring states will soon have abundant U.S. Census and other federal statistical data available to them in a secure setting at the University of Colorado Boulder.