Population Aging Research Center

The Population Aging Research Center (PARC) at the University of Pennsylvania was established in 1994 with a P30 grant from the National Institute on Aging, which fosters research on the demography and economics of health and aging. PARC research associates come from four schools, 16 academic departments, and three centers/institutes across the university, including Sociology, Economics, Anthropology, Business, Nursing, Medicine, etc. PARC also sponsors an annual pilot proposal competition and a weekly seminar series in conjunction with the Population Studies Center.

Themes

Health, disease, and mortality risks at older ages

Our collective research is increasingly grounded in biologic processes that are expressed as agespecific symptoms, conditions, and ultimately cause‐specific mortality risks, which points us to...
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Domestic/International perspectives on well being at older ages

An organic cluster of health economists with appointments in Wharton, the School of Medicine, and the Leonard Davis Institute (LDI) of Health Economics has emerged (Chao, Doshi, Pagán, Pauly,...
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Networks as mechanisms of diffusion, vectors of disease risk, systems of resource distribution

H-P Kohler, Behrman, and Watkins pioneered the collection and analysis of network data in their Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP). This and related work substantiate the 3rd of...
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Social, economic, environmental, and behavioral aspects of HIV and chronic diseases

Soldo has organized an effort to collect select biomarkers in two studies involving other PARC Associates. In H‐P Kohler’s Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH), Soldo is...
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Innovative analytic methodologies for collecting and analyzing biomarkers and genetic materials

Data and methods are closely interlinked in demography and economics and give rise to our last theme, Innovative methods and materials. Some methodologies improve inferences given data...
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