Signature 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 integrating health research, embodied in the 1st theme [...More...
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, Polsky,1 Smetters, Volpp).More...
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 PARC’s themes—“the many facets of networks.ʺ...More...
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 collecting activity measures of three biologic systems:...More...
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 imperfections, but other approaches assume the availability...More...