Center for Population, Gender and Social Inequality

描述(申请人提供)：人口、性别和性别研究中心 社会不平等(“中心”)吸引了来自 支持、产生和促进与人口有关的学科的多样性 具有最高科学价值的研究。该中心专注于以下几个方面 领域：(1)工作和家庭(重点是性别)，(2)社会不平等 和经济后果，(3)危险行为的原因和后果 青少年和青壮年，以及(4)生命过程中的健康结果。这个 中心致力于培养年轻学者，并鼓励来自盟国的学者 通过研究支持从事与人口有关的研究的领域， 培训和指导。该中心靠近华盛顿特区，使许多 学者获取未充分利用或限制使用的数据 政府统计机构，以推进他们的研究。这 大学-政府合作伙伴关系使中心教职员工 进行创新的学术研究，同时为改进做出贡献 联邦统计机构的数据收集。该中心的教职员工 对对公共政策至关重要的问题进行研究。一个 该中心的重要目标是提供无党派、科学的 向政策制定者提供与人口相关问题的证据。它毗邻 华盛顿特区强烈支持该中心开展这项活动。 NICHD为人口、性别和社会中心提供的基础设施支持 不平等将被用来加强马里兰大学对 该中心的管理和计算核心。为了方便 人口领域的多学科研究协作和参与 中心的研究，我们请求发展基础设施资金以 支持一个跨学科的研讨会系列和一个小的“种子”资助计划，这将加强教师和研究生的研究。 吸引了新的学者。此外，我们寻求资金，以使我们的 与人口普查局经济研究中心(CES)的关系 并将我们的关系扩展到其他机构。最后，这个应用程序 要求提供资源，以巩固与人口参考组织的伙伴关系 翻译活动局(PRB)，这将使中心研究 政策制定者更容易接触到调查结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center on Population, Gender and Social Inequality ("the Center") draws together leading scholars from a diversity of disciplines to support, produce and promote population-related research of the highest scientific merit. The Center focuses on the following areas: (1) work and family (with emphasis on gender), (2) inequality in social and economic outcomes, (3) the causes and consequences of risky behavior among teens and young adults, and (4) health outcomes over the life-course. The Center strives to develop young scholars and to encourage scholars from allied fields to engage in population-related research through research support, training and mentoring. The Center's proximity to Washington D.C. allows many scholars to gain access to the under-utilized or restricted-use data of government statistical agencies in order to advance their research. This collaborative university-government partnership allows Center faculty members to conduct innovative academic research while contributing to the improvement of data collection at the federal statistical agencies. The Center's faculty conducts research on questions of fundamental importance to public policy. An important objective of the Center is to provide non-partisan, scientific evidence on population-related issues to policy makers. Its proximity to Washington D.C. strongly positions the Center to conduct this activity. NICHD infrastructure support for the Center on Population, Gender and Social Inequality will be used to enhance University of Maryland support for administrative and computing cores of the Center. To facilitate multidisciplinary research collaboration and involvement in population research at the Center, we request developmental infrastructure funding to support an interdisciplinary seminar series and a small "seed" grant program that will enhance the research of both faculty and graduate students as well as attract new scholars. In addition, we seek funds to formalize our relationship with the Center for Economic Studies at the Census Bureau (CES) and to extend our relationship to other agencies. Finally, this application requests resources to solidify a partnership with the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) for translational activities, that will make Center research findings more accessible to policy makers.