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Research Topics for SIP Cohorts
2008
  • Factors Related to Role and Emotional Functioning of Air Force Personnel
  • Money Resource Allocation & Child Quality
  • Retirement and Factors Leading to Premature Retirement
  • How We Age: Examining Psychological Profiles in Midlife and Old Age
  • Why Study Chronic Illness Across the Life Span
  • Who Are We Calling?: Examining Demographics of Attrited and On-Time Respondents


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2007
  • Patterns of Risk Aversion in the Health & Retirement Stud.
  • Military Retention in a Time of War
  • Community Context and Prisoner Reentry
  • Gender Differences in Relationship Quality with Mothers across Adulthood
  • The Economic Causes & Effects of Overweight & Obesity Among U.S. Adults
  • The “Animated Agent” in Ann Arbor: Exploration, Action, and Reflection (The “EAR” Approach)


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2006
  • Air Force Study
  • Tailoring Treatments to Individual Patients
  • Jail Recidivism
  • Health Insurance Trends Among the Near Elderly: 1998-2004
  • Sibling Rivalry After All These Years
  • Family Transitions Following the Birth of a Sibling


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2005
  • The determinants of stock market participation
  • Type A personality as a predictor of social relationships and well-being
  • The Study of religiosity and education using Monitoring the Future Data
  • Ypsilanti Everyday Stress and Health study
  • The quest for 100% response rate
  • Exploratory Multivariate Models


  • Download Interns' Summer Internship Symposium:  Adobe PDF / PowerPoint
2004
  • Gender differences in perceptions of close social relationships
  • Confidentiality issues related to the DAS, the use of SAS and census bureau data in the study, and how the incident involving Dr. Ossian Sweet in the 1920’s set a historical context for the beginning of Detroit’s housing/neighborhood segregation problems
  • The future of social security, work conducted at the MRRC, and how information is disseminated through the conference sponsored by the Center each year
  • The difficulties and challenges in establishing and documenting guidelines for Computer Assisted Interviewing Instruments
  • HIV/AIDS and attitudes and preventative behaviors in South Africa


  • Download Interns' Summer Internship Symposium:  Adobe PDF / PowerPoint
2003
  • The US Social Security system and the impact of research programs in improving the system
  • Script preparation for interviewers for requesting Summary Plan Descriptions of pension plans
  • Quality of Life Survey in SE Michigan; An analysis of Qualitative Data from the 2001 Detroit Area Study
  • The results of the Ypsilanti Everyday Stress and Health Study (including the process of coding the stories from respondents)
  • Race and Gender effects from the 2001 Pitt County data