Mapping populations in the DRC using satellite-derived building footprints
Gianluca Boo, Edith Darin, and our own LCDS Doug Leasure together with colleagues from WorldPop, Columbia University, UCLA, and the DRC Census Bureau used building footprints from high resolution satellite imagery to produce up-to-date population estimates broken down by age and sex across thousands of 100m grid squares—not much larger than a football pitch—throughout five provinces of the DRC.
Family Demographic Processes and In-Work Poverty: A Systematic Review
In a new study, published in Advances in Life Course Research, Nuffield College and LCDS DPhil student Antonino Polizzi, Emanuela Struffolino, and Nuffield College associate member Zachary Van Winkle systematically review 86 analyses on the associations between family demographic processes and in-work poverty in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and European Union (EU) countries.
What was the impact of the London congestion charge on air pollution & school attendance?
In their recent paper published in Population and Environment, Risto Conte Keivabu and Nuffield College and LCDS affiliated postdoctoral researcher Tobias Rüttenauer investigate the effect of stricter Congestion Charge rules on air pollution and school absences in London.
Control over the built environment allows communities to reduce crime
A recent article in Criminology by LCDS and CSI Nuffield College researcher Chuck Lanfear reveals that while collective efficacy enables neighbourhoods to reduce crime directly, it also empowers them to reduce crime indirectly by preventing or removing features of the built environment that provide opportunities for crime.
What is the effect of mass education on women's autonomy in Latin America?
What is the effect of mass schooling on women's autonomy? In a new article in Demography, LCDS postdoctoral researcher Daniela Urbina addresses this question by focusing on the case of Latin American countries that implemented compulsory schooling laws in the 90.
Do Black Lives Matter to Employers?
Did Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer yield tangible benefits to racial progress and reduce discriminatory practices in the US? New experimental research by LCDS researchers, Dave Kirk and Marti Rovira reveals that at least temporarily, levels of employment discrimination against Black applicants to entry-level jobs declined in the aftermath of the 2020 protests.