Researchers, policy makers, businesses, and reporters from around the world rely on IPUMS data. The annual IPUMS Research Awards highlight a small sliver of the outstanding research using IPUMS data in 2024. From payday loan usage, population shifts due to droughts, impacts of changing census questions, quality of life changes around highways, housing supply, mortality gaps, link between fertility and weather, crop diversification and children’s diets, adult caregiving, adolescent sleep, and global labor markets, the awards showcase the large range of questions and policies that can be measured, studied, and understood using IPUMS.
The annual awards honor outstanding research using the census and survey data integrated and disseminated by IPUMS at the University of Minnesota. Nominations are collected from all around the world for research from the past year. Each award winner receives $500 to recognize their contributions to our understanding of population health and science.
The recipients of this year’s award are:
IPUMS USA Research Award:
- Paul Starr and Christina Pao for “The Multiracial Complication: The 2020 Census and the Fictitious Multiracial Boom”
- Amy Kim and Carolyn Tsao for “The Effects of Prohibiting Marriage Bars: The Case of U.S. Teachers”
IPUMS CPS Research Award:
- Martha J. Bailey, Thomas Helgerman, and Bryan A. Stuart for “How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay”
- Bowei Hu for “Banking the Unbanked Spurs Payday Loan Usage Among Black Households”
IPUMS International Research Award:
- Roman Hoffmann, Guy Abel, Maurizio Malpede, Raya Muttarak, and Marco Percoco for “Drought and Aridity Influence Internal Migration Worldwide”
- Xinyan Cao for “Unequal Beginnings: Socioeconomic Disparities in Rural Under-Five Survival Rates”
IPUMS Health Surveys Research Award:
- Amy L. Johnson, Christopher Levesque, Neil A. Lewis Jr., and Asad L. Asad for “Deportation Threat Predicts Latino US Citizens and Noncitizens’ Psychological Distress, 2011 to 2018”
- Ishnaa Gulati, Carolin Kilian, Charlotte Buckley, Nina Mulia, and Charlotte Probst for “Socioeconomic Disparities in Healthcare Access and Implications for All-Cause Mortality Among US Adults: A 2000-2019 Record Linkage Study”
- Oluwaseun T. Emoruwa, Gabe H. Miller, Gbenga I. Elufisan, Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde, David Ademule, Hannah M. Lindl, Olusola A. Omisakin, Guizhen Ma, Stephanie M. Hernandez, and Verna M. Keith for “Physical Health Among Black Immigrants by Region of Birth: A Test of the Racial Context Hypothesis”
IPUMS Spatial Research Award:
- Jeffrey Brinkman and Jeffrey Lin for “Freeway Revolts! The Quality of Life Effects of Highways”
- Scott Markley and Steven Holloway for “Underestimating Racism? Decoupling Race and Redlining”
- Laura R. Sullivan for “Testing the Chain of Inclusion: Examining if Upzoning Changes the Housing Supply and Demographics of Places Using National Data”
IPUMS Global Health Research Award:
- Carina Isbell, Daniel Tobin, Brian C. Thiede, Kristal Jones, and Travis Reynolds for “The Association Between Crop Diversity and Children’s Dietary Diversity: Multi-Scalar and Cross-National Comparisons”
- Isabel H. McLoughlin Brooks for “Gender, Climate and Landowning: Sources of Variability in the Weather Pattern Change and Ideal Fertility Relationship in Sahelian West Africa”
IPUMS Time Use Research Award:
- Joan Garcia Roman, Pablo Gracia, and Giulia Zerbini for “Cross-National Differences in Adolescents’ Sleep Patterns: A Time-Use Approach”
- Anna Wiersma Strauss for “The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Time Spent Helping and Caring for Adults”
IPUMS Excellence in Research Award:
- Scott D. Landes, Bonnielin K. Swenor, and Nastassia Vaitsiakhovich for “Counting Disability in the National Health Interview Survey and its Consequence: Comparing the American Community Survey to the Washington Group Disability Measures”
- Ana Kujundzic and Janneke Pieters for “Consistent Segregation Metrics: Addressing Structural Variations in Global Labor Markets”
In collaboration with over 150 different countries, national agencies, archives, organizations, and genealogical groups, IPUMS has created the world’s largest accessible database of census and survey data. Over 300,000 people have registered to use IPUMS data and there are over 28,500 research citations in the IPUMS Bibliography.
"The size and accessibility of the IPUMS database allow scholars to examine novel questions, interrogate research paradigms, and iterate on previous findings. I am always inspired by the range of innovative research from IPUMS data users." says Steve Ruggles, the Director of IPUMS.
To learn more about IPUMS data and the annual research awards competition, visit ipums.org.