2025 | CESR in the News

Jeremy Burke was quoted in Yahoo! Finance report on the attentiveness and understanding of younger individuals on their retirement finances.

ABC News and Dornsife News covered work by Zachary Wagner and his study that finds even storms below hurricane strength significantly increase infant deaths in low- and middle-income countries, and not just for the reasons experts expected.

Dornsife News and Swedish newspaper Jönköpings-Posten featured the work of Deborah Finkel, which concludes that self-reported financial stress in both childhood and adulthood impact trajectories of change in depressive symptoms, anxiety, and loneliness in late adulthood. There is a surprising long-term effect of childhood even when adulthood financial strain is accounted for, and that positive experiences in adulthood can lessen impact of childhood strain.

Dornsife reported on the latest LABarometer survey and the assessment on how recent wildfires like the one in L.A. County’s Altadena neighborhood affected Angelenos based on their housing stability.

The LAist featured LABarometer’s work on the sheltering of wildfire evacuees following the Los Angeles wildfires in January 2025.

The Jerusalem Post 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.

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.

Kyla Thomas was quoted in LAist and KPCC FM on the extensiveness of homelessness in Los Angeles.

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.