Population Research Center

描述(由申请人提供)：此申请是为宾夕法尼亚人口研究中心(PSC)提供的核心支持，该中心自1962年以来一直促进人口研究和培训。PSC的特点是其高质量研究的产出具有显著的连续性，即使其研究伙伴的人口构成发生了变化，他们的研究兴趣也发生了变化。目前的PSC研究助理比我们在1998年更新P30竞赛时更年轻、更多样化、更跨学科，在主要期刊上发表文章和获得主要赠款方面也更有成效。自1998年以来，PSC在主要的一般人口、经济学和社会学期刊上的出版物和NIH研究奖方面一直在所有人口中心中排名第一或第二，这些指标对未来的研究生产力非常有希望。方案支助委员会目前的研究活动集中于七个标志性主题，涉及人口构成的两个方面(天赋、人力资源)和人口三位一体(生育率、死亡率、移徙)和人口构成(方法/数据、时间进程、背景、政策评价、国际)的五个贯穿各领域的方法。对方案支助委员会行政、计算、信息技术和信息传播、发展和公共基础设施的拟议支助反映了对如何最好地利用R24和利用资源为实现方案支助中心的基本科学目标提供基本的、但在某些方面具有创新性的基本支助的前瞻性重新评价。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is for core support for the Penn Population Studies Center (PSC), which has fostered research and training in population since 1962. The PSC is characterized by remarkable continuity in its production of high-quality research even as the composition of its own population of Research Associates has changed and their research interests have evolved. The current PSC Research Associates are younger, more diverse, more interdisciplinary and more productive in terms of publications in major journals and receipt of major grants than those at our last competitive P30 renewal in 1998. Since 1998 the PSC has ranked first or second among all population centers in terms of publications in major general population, economics and sociology journals and NIH research awards, indicators that are very promising for future research productivity. The PSC's current research activities are concentrated on seven signature themes that relate to two aspects of population composition (endowments, human resources) and five crosscutting approaches to the demographic triad (fertility, mortality, migration) and population composition (methods/data, temporal processes, contexts, policy evaluation, international). The proposed support for the PSC Administrative, Computing, Information Technology, and Information Dissemination (CITID), Developmental and Public Infrastructure reflects forward-looking re-evaluations of how best to use R24 and leveraged resources to provide basic, but in some respects innovative, support for the pursuit of the basic PSC central scientific objectives.