Center for Population, Gender and Social Inequality

描述（由申请人提供）：人口，性别和 社会不平等（“中心”）吸引了来自一个 学科多样性，以支持、产生和促进与人口有关的 最高科学价值的研究。该中心的工作重点如下： （1）工作和家庭（重点是性别），（2）社会不平等 （3）风险行为的原因和后果， 青少年和年轻人，以及（4）生命过程中的健康结果。的 中心致力于培养年轻学者，并鼓励来自联盟的学者 通过研究支持， 培训和指导。该中心靠近华盛顿特区， 学者获得使用不足或限制使用的数据， 政府统计机构，以促进他们的研究。这 大学与政府的合作伙伴关系使中心的教职员工 进行创新的学术研究，同时促进改善 在联邦统计机构收集数据。该中心的教师 研究对公共政策至关重要的问题。一个 该中心的一个重要目标是提供无党派的，科学的 向决策者提供有关人口问题的证据。它靠近 华盛顿特区坚决支持中心开展这项活动。 NICHD为人口、性别和社会问题中心提供基础设施支助 不平等将被用来加强马里兰州大学的支持， 中心的管理和计算核心。以促进 多学科研究合作和参与人口活动 在该中心的研究，我们要求发展基础设施资金， 支持一系列跨学科研讨会和一个小型“种子”赠款计划 这也将促进教师和研究生的研究 吸引新的学者。此外，我们寻求资金来正式化我们的 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 要求提供资源，以巩固与《人口参考》的伙伴关系 局（PRB）的翻译活动，这将使中心的研究 决策者更容易获得调查结果。

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.