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Impact of early childhood health interventions in Bangladesh felt by future generations

March 11, 2024

Tania Barham, associate professor of economics, along with coauthors Brachel Champion, Gisella Kagy and Jena Hamadani, published a new paper examining the effects of the Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning Programme (MCH-FP) implemented in Bangladesh. Results showed children who experienced MCH-FP had greater height and improved cognition. Remarkably, these benefits spanned generations. The

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Women’s History Month Feature: Angela “Angie” Branson

March 8, 2024

Happy International Women’s Day from IBS! In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re interviewing some of our amazing IBS staff. Up first is Senior Program Manager, Angela Branson! Branson joined IBS in September 2022 and helps manage the Health and Society Program, the Population Program, the Program on International Development and the CU Population Center.

New study coauthored by David Pyrooz correlates police pull back with crime increase

February 28, 2024

A new study shows crime accelerates when police pull back. The study, published in Criminology on February 9, found property and violent crime reports increased 27.1% and 14.3% respectively in the city and county of Denver after police scaled back their presence during the COVID-19 pandemic and following the murder of George Floyd. Read more

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Daniel Simon, Ryan Masters new study shows institutional failures increased suicide rates

February 19, 2024

A new CU Boulder study sheds light on the national upward trend of suicide rates. Authors Daniel Simon, doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology and IBS research affiliate, and Ryan Masters, associate sociology professor and director of the Population Program, examined suicide data from 1997 to 2017. They found two institutional bodies contributing to suicide

Participants from the workshop. Left - Right, first row: Jane Menken, Christina Misunas, Julie Skeldon, Amanda Stevenson, Zoe Bergman, Abby Humphreys, Sara Yeatman, Lindsay Cannon Left - Right, second row: Austin Fitzgerald, Katie Massey Combs, Hoeyun Kwon, Paige Schoonover, Raeven Chandler, Leslie Root, Asha Hassan, Selena Anjur-Dietrich, Leah Koenig, Anna Crawford, Brooke Whitfield On screen: Zoom participants

Success of abortion research methods workshop reflects shift in demography, fertility research

February 15, 2024

Abortion research grapples with more questions than answers. And that’s no surprise. Fertility research as a whole inhabits only a small niche in demography and population studies and received limited attention after the “population bomb” panic in the mid-20th century. However, after the 2022 Dobbs decision, interest in abortion has grown significantly. Assistant Research Professor at

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Pamela Buckley and Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development Cited as Top Clearinghouse Research

February 13, 2024

Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development was cited in a Lund Report article as one of the top clearinghouses in prevention research. The article features Principal Investigator of Blueprints, Pamela Buckley. Buckley shares how complicated it can be in determining which prevention programs work, but that clearinghouses like Blueprints help translate the evidence to support users in

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Karl Hill consulted on drug prevention solutions for Roaring Fork School District

February 8, 2024

Roaring Fork School District parents, staff and community members are working together to address growing incidences of youth overdose deaths. A variety of drug prevention strategies have been proposed, including the use of more science-backed, community-based methods like Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development. Karl G. Hill, director of the Prevention Science Program at the Institute of Behavioral

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Twelfth CONVERGE training module released, Natural Hazards Center hosting demonstration webinar

February 2, 2024

The Natural Hazards Center has released the twelfth training module in the CONVERGE series: Indigenous Sovereignty in Disasters. This free online course is part of a series of foundational and advanced training modules sponsored by the National Science Foundation and designed to enhance valuable knowledge and skills among students and other emerging researchers and practitioners. The Natural

Takeaways from annual political climate survey of Colorado

February 1, 2024

Researchers at The American Politics Research Lab (APRL) at CU Boulder and the polling company YouGov have released their annual political climate survey. Anand Sokhey, director of the APRL and an Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) fellow, co-authored the new survey and expands on its findings in CU Boulder Today with science writer Daniel Strain. Read

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Natural Hazards, NOAA report provides direction for open data mandate

January 29, 2024

Researchers who receive federal funds are now asked to make their research publicly available as soon as possible, according to a mandate from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The Natural Hazards Center at the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Program Office convened