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How the Social Environment Gets Under the Skin

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The impact of the social environment on human health and development is a common theme among demographers and population dynamics researchers. Less clear are the paths and mechanisms through which the social environment ‘gets under the skin.’ This special issue of Population Research and Policy Review presents five papers that address current scientific thinking on these paths and mechanisms.

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Acknowledgements

We thank NICHD, RCUK, ESRC, and NSF staff for creating and supporting this series of meetings, particularly Suzanne Austin (formerly of RCUK), Rosalina Bray (formerly of NICHD), Vanessa Cuthill (formerly of ESRC), Rebecca Clark (NICHD), Layla Esposito (NICHD), Rebecca Ferrell (NSF), and Lisa Freund (NICHD). We thank all the meeting participants for their energy and thoughtful scientific input. We also thank the Editors of PRPR and the anonymous reviewers for their guidance and comments. Participants in the “How the Social Environment Gets Under the Skin” meeting (many of whom are manuscript authors and/or reviewers): Anne Case, Pamela Davis-Keane, Andrew Fuligni, Joseph Grzywacz, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Yvonne Kelly, Anne McMunn, and Seth Sanders (Mentors); Achyuta Adhvaryu, David Bann, Laia Becares, Aprile Benner, Maria Bleil, Jennifer Buher Kane, Apostolos Davillas, Helen Frances Dodd, Bridget Goosby, Sarah Halligan, Camelia Hostinar, Jessica Jones-Smith, Katherine King, Michael Kramer, Rebecca Lacey, Claire Margerison-Zilko, Eric Schneider, Amanda Thompson, Naomi Priest, Kammi Schmeer, Julia Steinberg, and Afshin Zilanawala (Rising Scholars).

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King, R.B., Bures, R.M. How the Social Environment Gets Under the Skin. Popul Res Policy Rev 36, 631–637 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-017-9447-z

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