The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) and the Labor Market Information (LMI) Institute, welcomes Corina Graif as she presents results from a project in collaboration with Megan Evans and Stephan Mathews, titled “Spatial Network Links to Maternal and Child’s Health: New Insight for Linking Census Data with Vital Record Statistics.”

In this presentation, Graif examines how commuting ties are associated with neighborhood maternal and child health problems by using the U.S. Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) data set. Graif’s research investigates how neighborhoods affect many health risk behaviors and outcomes, such as poverty affects, mental health, or victimization.