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New Study on Colorado’s Birth Control Cost Initiative

In 2009, Colorado launched an ambitious initiative that enabled federally-funded Title X clinics to provide a broad array of birth control options for free or at a low cost. A new study, conducted by our research team members Amanda Stevenson, Jane Menken, Stefanie Mollborn, Katie Genadek, and CU Denver affiliate Sara Yeatman, shows the program significantly boosted graduation rates

Research Note Publication in Demography About Using Census-Held Records for Fertility Research

Our team’s paper, authored by Leslie Root, Amanda Stevenson, Katie Genadek, Sara Yeatman, Stefanie Mollborn and Jane Menken, detailing the fertility data set CPF built using restricted-access Census-held data, has been published in the journal Demography. The paper, titled “U.S. Fertility in Life Course Context: A Research Note on Using Census-Held Linked Administrative Records for

Op-Ed: Racist terrorists are obsessed with demographics. Let’s not give them talking points.

“Racist terrorists are obsessed with demographics. Let’s not give them talking points,” is the title of an interesting viewpoint featured in a Washington Post Op-Ed, written by new postdoc Leslie Root, who is on Amanda Stevenson’s fertility research team. “…the truth is that if we want to avoid giving scientific cover to murderous racists, we need to rethink how we talk about