On April 15, 2025, CFP team member Tara Streng-Schroeter successfully defended her sociology dissertation, entitled “Building Support for Survivors: Development and Evaluation of an Intervention to Enhance Social Support After Sexual Assault”. For her dissertation, Tara designed and implemented an intervention training sorority members in supporting peers who disclose that they have experienced sexual violence.
As the tenor of the public conversation about declining birth rates grows increasingly feverish, CFP team members Leslie Root and Amanda Stevenson, along with colleague Leigh Senderowicz (University of Wisconsin-Madison), led a webinar for the press and general public on pronatalism – the political ideology that seeks to raise birth rates – and what demography
The CFP team, led by Principal Investigator Amanda Stevenson, has been awarded a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) R01 grant for a project entitled “Life Course Impacts of Reduced Access to Contraception.” In 2011, the state of Texas decreased its grant-based contraceptive funding program by two thirds and deprioritized
CFP team member Sara Yeatman and Christie Sennott (Purdue University) were awarded an Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) R21 grant for their project “Reproductive Healthcare Deserts and Inequalities in Maternal and Infant Health.” They plan to create an interactive dashboard of county-level access to abortion, contraception, and maternity care
April 21, 2024 CFP team members presented some of the project’s findings during oral presentations at the 2024 Annual Meeting for the Population Association of America (PAA) (April 17-20, 2024) in Columbus, Ohio. Leslie Root, Abigail Humphreys, Amanda Stevenson, Katie Genadek, Stef Mollborn, and Jane Menken presented work in the presentations: “Access to Family Planning
CFP team member Abigail Humphreys has published a paper entitled Changes in contraceptive method mix following the Colorado Family Planning Initiative in the journal Contraception. CFPI is often described as a “LARC (long-acting reversible contraceptive) intervention,” although its increased funding for Title X family planning clinics actually increased access to all types of contraception. This
CFP team member James Flynn has published a paper entitled Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes? in the Journal of Human Resources. He found that the Colorado Family Planning Initiative reduced the rates of extremely preterm births and infant mortality, by at least 1.1 extremely preterm births and 0.9 infant deaths per
CFP team member Abigail Humphreys has successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Three Essays on Contraceptive and Hospital Policy” to receive her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Denver’s Department of Economics. Congrats Abby!
CFP members Katie Genadek, Joshua Sanders, and Amanda Stevenson’s publication in Demographic Research, “Measuring US fertility using administrative data from the Census Bureau”, received the honor of the “Editor’s Choice” designation in Demographic Research’s Volume 47. The article was selected by Demographic Research’s editorial board as one of the very best published papers in the
Once again, the opinion of Postdoc Leslie Root has drawn interest from the Washington Post as they publish her second Op-Ed “Why we shouldn’t worry about falling birthrates.” “Birthrates have been causing a lot of angst lately…To illustrate our depopulated future, the media invokes empty bassinets, abandoned houses and lonely elders. It’s time we all take a collective breath. Reports of our demise are
