University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: November 2023

Wisconsin Longitudinal Study featured on Madison.com

The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) helps researchers understand aging in Wisconsin. Local news source Madison.com recently published an article about the WLS. Read the full article here. The WLS is a long-term study of a random sample of 10,317 people who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957, providing an opportunity to study the life …

What’s in a name? Place misrepresentation and neighbourhood stigma in the online rental market by Ariela Schachter, John Kuk, Max Besbris, & Lydia Ho (2023)

Urban Studies: Special Issue- Digitalization, Neighborhood Change and Urban Social Processes Abstract:  In this article we examine how the online rental housing market reflects the desirability of different neighbourhoods in St. Louis, MO, a metropolitan area with long-standing high levels of Black–White residential segregation. Using a large digital corpus of advertisements for rental housing, we …

Child fostering in a changing climate: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa by Sara R. Ronnkvist, Brian C. Thiede & Emma Barber (2023)

Population and Environment Abstract An extensive social science literature has examined the effects of climate change on human migration. Prior studies have focused largely on the out-migration of working age adults or entire households, with less attention to migration and other forms of geographic mobility among other age groups, including youth. In this study, we focus …