William Clark comments on “Is California Too Big?”

Sure—and why stop at two? Not that it’ll solve anything. About 60 percent of the countries that make up the United Nations are smaller than Los Angeles County, yet many of these nations would prefer to split themselves into even smaller…

CDL Data Management Planning Tool

Hello all, Recently UCoP or the California Digital Library announced an online data management planning tool. "The University of California and several other major research institutions have partnered to develop the DMPTool, a flexible online…

Update on the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study (MRRS)

Update on the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study (MRRS) The MRRS is a panel study designed to better understand how the recession has affected the well-being of workers and families.   Data collection for Wave 2 was completed in August…

Mexican Migration Project 134 Database Now Available to Public!

MMP134 – October 2011 The Mexican Migration Project is pleased to make available to the public its new database: MMP134.  The MMP134 database has 134 communities, which includes the original 128 communities (MMP128) plus 6 new additional…

Prof. Alison Buttenheim comments on immunizations for children in California

Prof. Alison Buttenheim (Princeton University) and Malia Jones (UCLA) are sited by the media for their work on children vaccination: "Many Parents Skipping Kids' Shots, Putting Other Kids at Risk" Wall Street Journal: http://onespot.wsj.com/health/2011/10/31/bbb6c/many-parents-skipping-kids-shots-putting MSNBC: http://health.msn.com/health-topics/autism/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100281500 USNEWS: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/articles/2011/10/31/many-parents-skipping-kids-shots-putting-other-kids-at-risk ABC-Good…