Unplanned Costs and Benefits: Gender and Spousal Spillover Effects of Retirement on Health.

Objective: Our study assesses how women and men's health indicators are shaped by their spouse's retirement.

Background: The retirement process can reshape the health of a retiree, but these effects can also extend onto the health of spouses. Although past research has largely focused on how men's retirement might negatively shape their wife's health outcomes, it is possible that wives' retirement has detrimental effects on their husband's health as well.

The Impact of Public Charge on Immigrants.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, over one million individuals obtain lawful permanent resident (LPR) status each year. However, beginning in February of 2020, LPR applicants became subject to new Public Charge Rules that seek to bar admission to anyone who "is likely at any time to become a public charge" (8 U.S.

Targeted High-Risk Youth in Missouri PREP: Understanding Program Impacts on Youth Sexual Behavior Intentions.

Background: Missouri Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) provides sexual health education programs to youth with goals of reducing unintended teen pregnancies. Theories of change provide that youth improve their sexual health knowledge, intentions, attitudes, and behaviors as a result of program implementation. Program evaluations are needed to assess the degree to which PREP programs are meeting their goals of improving youth outcomes.

Standing on Their Own Two Feet: How the New Public Charge Rules Could Impact Non-European LPR Applicants.

In February 2020, the U.S. government began to implement a new Public Charge rule that greatly expands the definition of "public charge" when determining admissibility for legal permanent residency (LPR).

Leapfrogging the Melting Pot? European Immigrants' Intergenerational Mobility across the Twentieth Century.

During the early twentieth century, industrial-era European immigrants entered the United States with lower levels of education than the U.S. average.