CCPR Seminars 2011-2012 Academic Year
The California Population Research Seminar Series, sponsored by the California Center for Population Research generally meets every Wednesday from 12:00 - 1:30 PM. See each listing below for specific time and room details. Any missing details will be posted as soon as they are finalized. If you would like to meet with the speaker during the day and/or join us for lunch or dinner, please CLICK on Speaker's name below to retrieve Speaker's Schedule. Please email all meeting requests to the speaker's CCPR Host with Cc: to Director@ccpr.ucla.edu and Yvette Villarreal-Ponce (yvette@ccpr.ucla.edu). Also, if you would like to suggest speakers or topics, please send email to Director@ccpr.ucla.edu.
Fall 2011 Winter 2012 Spring 2012
FALL QUARTER, 2011
Wednesday, September 28,
2011. 12:00pm to1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Andreas Wimmer (UCLA)
Wednesday, October 5, 2011.
12:00pm to1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Bruce Meyer (University of
Chicago)
"Saving Teens: Using
a Policy Discontinuity to Estimate the Effects of Public Health
Coverage"
Wednesday, October 12, 2011.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
4240 Public Affairs Building
Felix Elwert (University of
Wisconsin-Madison)
"The Effects of
Long-Term Residential Disadvantage on Child Outcomes"
Wednesday, October 19, 2011.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs
Building
Larry Morton (Fidelity
Retirement Counselor)
"UC Retirement System and Getting on the Right
Path."
Friday, October 21, 2011. 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Friday, October 21, 2011. 12:00pm to 1:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Sarah Reber
(UCLA)
"Federal Aid and Equality of
Educational Opportunity: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in
the South"
Wednesday, October 26, 2011.
12:00pm to 1:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Till von Wachter (Columbia
University)
"
The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle:
Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates Over Twenty Years"
Wednesday, November 2,
2011. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Daniel Schneider (Princeton
University)
"Wealth and the
Marital Divide: Evidence and Implications"
Wednesday, November 9,
2011. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Grant Miller (Stanford
University)
"A Cluster
Randomized Trial of Provider Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural
China"
Wednesday, November 16, 2011.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Alexandra Achen Killewald
(Mathematica Policy Research)
"A Reconsideration of the Fatherhood Premium:
Marriage, Residence, Biology, and the Wages of Fathers"
Wednesday, November 30, 2011.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Tod Hamilton
(Harvard University)
"Selection, Assimiliation, and the Earnings
and Health of Black Immigrants in the United States"
Wednesday, December 7, 2011.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
WINTER QUARTER, 2012
Tal Gross (Columbia University)
“"Liquidity
Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tax Rebates."
Wednesday,
January 11, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public
Affairs Building
Jeffrey Eaton (Imperial College London)
“Emerging Issues and
Opportunities for HIV prevention in Southern Africa"
Thursday,
January 19, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public
Affairs Building
Cristobal
Young (Stanford University)
"Partial Information and the Marketization of Medicine:
The Problem of Patients-as-Consumers in US Hospitals"
Wednesday, February 01, 2012.
"Partial Information and the Marketization of Medicine:
The Problem of Patients-as-Consumers in US Hospitals"
Wednesday, February 01, 2012.
4240 Public Affairs Building
William “Sandy” Darity (Duke
University)
"Stratification Economics: What Can We Learn
About Intergroup Disparity?" ”
Monday, February 06, 2012.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
4240 Public Affairs Building
Arturo
Bustamante (UCLA)
"Building a Natural
Experiment of Chronic Illness Care Costs in the Safety
Net"
Wednesday, February 08, 2012.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Jennifer Van Hook
(Pennsylvania State University)
"Obesity among the children of immigrants: selection, adaptation, and assimilation". Co-sponsored with the Dept of Sociology Migration Group
Friday, February 17, 2012. 12:00-pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Teresa Janevic (Yale University)
"Obesity among the children of immigrants: selection, adaptation, and assimilation". Co-sponsored with the Dept of Sociology Migration Group
Friday, February 17, 2012. 12:00-pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Teresa Janevic (Yale University)
"Racism and Access to Maternal Health Care
Among Romani Women in the Balkans."
Wednesday, February 22, 2012.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Jennifer Barber (University of Michigan)
“The Dynamics of Intimate Partner Conflict and the Risk of Pregnancy.” Co-sponsored with the Dept of Sociology Family Working Group
Jennifer Barber (University of Michigan)
“The Dynamics of Intimate Partner Conflict and the Risk of Pregnancy.” Co-sponsored with the Dept of Sociology Family Working Group
Monday, March 05, 2012.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
4240 Public Affairs Building
Narayan Sastry
(University of Michigan)
Hector Rodriguez (UCLA)**CANCELLED**
"Local Public Health Systems and the Health of Older Adults"
Wednesday, March 14, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
“Studying Overall Self-Rated Health Using
Vignettes: New Data and Results from the Los Angeles Family and
Neighborhood Survey”
Wednesday, March 07, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Hector Rodriguez (UCLA)**CANCELLED**
"Local Public Health Systems and the Health of Older Adults"
Wednesday, March 14, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
SPRING QUARTER, 2012
Rob Boyd (UCLA)
"Why Relatedness Is Not Enough to Predict
Social Evolution"
Wednesday, April 04, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Jay Kaufman (McGill University)
“Nature versus Nurture in the Explanations for Racial/Ethnic Health
Disparities”. Co-sponsored with the Dept of Epidemiology.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Friday, April 20, 2012.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Wednesday, April 25, 2012.
12:00pm to 2:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
The Tod Spieker Colloquium
Mark
Ellis (University of Washington)
"Geographies of Racial Mixing"
Friday, April 27, 2012.
3:00-4:00pm
1261 Bunche Hall
Elizabeth
Thomson (University of
Wisconsin-Madison)
"Childbearing across Partnerships."
Co-sponsored with the Dept of Sociology Family Working Group
Monday, April 30, 2012.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Mikko Myrskyla
(Max Planck Institute)
“Is later better or worse? Advanced parental
age and adult health, IQ and mortality of the offspring”
Monday, May 07, 2012. 12:00pm
to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Caroline Hoxby (Stanford University)
"The Missing “One-Offs”: The Hidden Supply of
High-Achieving, Low-Income Students" & "The Effects of
Informational Interventions on College Choices: Big Decisions and
Low Costs." Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Economics
Wednesday, May 09, 2012.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Sander
Greenland (UCLA)
“Causal Inference: Much More than Just
Statistics”
Wednesday, May 16, 2012.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Irma Elo (University
of Pennsylvania)
“Early- and Later Life Family and
Socioeconomic Conditions and Cause-Specific Mortality in Finland"
Wednesday, May 23, 2012.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Miguel Urquiola (Columbia
University)**Cancelled**
Wednesday, May 30, 2012.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Mel Stephens
(University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
“Employment, Wages and Voter Turnout”
Wednesday, June 06, 2012.
12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
