2024 | CESR in the News

We have been asking questions to LA County Residents for five years now, learning as preferences about transportation and happiness with neighborhoods, homelessness, and climate change along the way.

The LA Barometer team got great coverage from our media release on homelessness last Thursday. Their LA Times article was a top featured article on their site and was in the California section of the printed paper.

 They also got coverage from LAist, KCRW, KNX, KFI, an NYT reporter reached out for info on our survey for a story she’s doing on encampment sweeps, and Spectrum News and the LA Daily News are planning to cover the story this week.

Science and the New York Times featured Tadeja Gracner’s work on British data shows that children conceived and born during a post-war period of sugar rationing were less likely to develop diabetes or high blood pressure later in life.

A new report on student mental health impacts has led to a few news outlets picking up their work.  First, their Conversation piece is live!

EdSource story features them as well.

Dornsife News: $59 million boost enhances USC Dornsife’s Understanding America Study and nationwide research.

National Institute on Aging grants increase study participant diversity, add new data sources and fund new research on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia.

Zachary Wagner co-wrote an opinion piece in the LA Times.

Soeren Mattke’s work on the National Health Service preparing for their future dementia patients makes the front page of The Guardian.

Steve Lopez quoted Dr. Margy Gatz in the Los Angeles Times on Aging and Memory.

Lila Rabinovich and Francisco Perez-Arce’s work exploring effects of Social Security claiming for partial retirees in the UAS was picked up by Apple News, finding that lost benefits for returning to work are not always anticipated.

Lila Rabinovich was featured in The Conversation on her work funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation looking at women and fiancial literacy; struggling particularly at older ages.

USC Dornsife put out a press release announcing a new NIH study led by CESR Researchers Soeren Mattke and Ying Liu on the importance of diagnosing early cognitive impairment.  The study was quickly picked up and featured in TIME Magazine.

The Understanding America Study is referenced in this article in the Washington Post about the end of paper checks and the near death of cash. The Atlanta Fed has been collecting annual payment preference data in the UAS for many years and had noted these trends along with other growing trends in app based payments and bitcoin ownership.

Another study using the UAS was in the news this month, Kayla de la Haye’s work with the Dornsife Public Exchange on Food insecurity.  After the Dornsife Press Release went out, there was an Interview with KTLA also picked up by LAist and Yahoo news.

Jeremy Burke was featured in an article on Wallet Hub discussing credit cards and credit history for students.

Kyla Thomas was interviewed by the New York Times on the LAUSD school workers strike and the cost of living in Los Angeles.

New release on findings in LA county on food insecurity, using the Understanding America Study.  Throughout 2022, 37% of low-income residents of Los Angeles County lacked access to sufficient food for an active, healthy life. That’s 10 points more than in 2018, before the pandemic struck, according to research published by USC Dornsife’s Public Exchange.

Understanding Coronavirus in America longitudinal poll looking at Covid-19 related behavior and outcomes was references in the Wall Street Journal in China’s Useful Covid Lesson.

The Understanding America Study was featured in Dornsife News on our Covid Tracking poll, Understanding Coronavirus in America and other timely survey features we can offer to USC and the world!