An AP-KFF poll finds that rural voters are divided on whether President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration crackdown has benefited or harmed their communities.

Our programs are designed to assist when women want to restrict their childbearing but offer no support when women want to have children.

This paper shows that the classic augmented Mundlak regression yields the between estimator for time-invariant variables. It is well known that the estimates of the time varying variables yield the f...

Primary nesting season (PNS) dates under the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) span the peak breeding of most grassland bird species, but some initiate breeding before and some continue after PNS, i...

Nonprofit organizations depend on donations to fulfill their missions, but donors choosing among 1.8 million U.S. public charities often lack the time or capacity to evaluate which organizations are a...

Five Syracuse faculty share findings on food policy, AI, architecture, political science and marine biology on the nationally broadcast program "Academic Minute."

Childbirth is a life event that often disrupts maternal employment and household earnings just as family expenses increase. In the United States, families do not have access to a national paid parenta...

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern’s ‘Will Work for Food’ Wins ASFS Book Award

The USDA said improper SNAP payments - both under and over payments - accumulated to more than $10 billion nationwide in fiscal year 2025.

Universities are dropping programs in translation and foreign languages while adding degrees in embodied intelligence, AI, and robotics.

The Maxwell sociologist recently began his term leading the international organization focused on the study of food, agriculture and health.

Policy Points Reimposing work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—by removing temporary, location-based waivers—causes a decline in food assistance participation among ...

A federal poverty-fighting program focused on reducing unintended pregnancies is about to undergo a major overhaul. Reproductive health clinics use Title X federal grant money to provide birth control...

Local governments in oil and gas-producing regions took on significant municipal debt during the U.S. shale boom to build schools, water systems, and other infrastructure to accommodate rapid populati...

Recently, while I was having dinner with friends, one asked me about the topic of the book I was writing at the time. I explained that I was focusing on the inequities in our current family-planning p...

A deadly Ebola outbreak is continuing to spread across the Democratic Republic of the Congo with global health officials warning "we're still behind."

Maxwell Sociologist Named Visiting Scholar at Russell Sage Foundation

The American Sociological Association (ASA) has appointed Jennifer Karas Montez, professor of sociology at Syracuse University, as the next editor of the

A spate of hantavirus cases on an Arctic cruise has left the public scrambling for information on the rare but deadly virus.

A.I. did not center in Trump-Xi talks as much as some observers expected, but it nevertheless remains an undercurrent in key geopolitical issues between the U.S. and China.

New findings have wide-ranging implications for improvements in the detection and monitoring of a host of communicable diseases. 

The assistant professor of geography and the environment will speak at the Maxwell School Graduate Convocation on Friday, May 8.

The number of food-stamp recipients is dropping sharply as states start implementing new Trump administration rules on who qualifies for SNAP benefits.

The states with the greatest increases in 988 crisis hotline use since 2022 experienced the greatest decrease in suicide mortality, but the hotline alone may not explain the drop

Background: Anecdotal evidence suggests that an increasing number of people are turning to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools or artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted chatbots to discuss...

Evaluating insurance coverage at the individual level abstracts away from the family-level decision-making behind healthcare utilization. While tradit…

Differences in COVID-19 infection and clinical outcomes between adults with and without ADHD are well documented. Less is known about disparities in t…

Home births that happen without planning or medical support (i.e., unintended home births) carry a higher likelihood of adverse outcomes, such as low birth weight, preterm birth, and hypothermia. This...

This paper collects in one place some of the consequences of using two special spatial weight matrices in the spatial econometrics literature. The two…

The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) promises billions in new farm subsidies, but most of that money won’t go to the farmers who need it most. This brief describes how the OBBB’s changes to agricultural ...