2024 | CESR in the News

A new report has led to a few news outlets picking up their work.  First, their Conversation piece is live! https://theconversation.com/students-with-mental-health-struggles-linked-to-absenteeism-and-lower-grades-showing-clear-need-for-more-in-school-support-235940

EdSource story features them as well:

https://edsource.org/2024/helping-students-with-mental-health-struggles-may-get-them-back-to-school/717528

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

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!