Congratulations to CCPR 2025 Graduates on Their New Positions

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Congratulations to CCPR Graduates on Their New Positions

The California Center for Population Research (CCPR) proudly congratulates our 2025 graduating affiliates! We celebrate their achievements and look forward to seeing the impact they will make in academia, research, and industry.

  • Jessie Chien (Community Health Sciences) –  Research Analyst (Randall Kuhn, CCPR)

Dissertation: Contested geographies of health: A mixed methods examination into the health consequences of anti-homeless practices on the unhoused community in Los Angeles

Committee: Gilbert Gee and Randall Kuhn

  • Carla Salazar Gonzalez (Sociology) – Postdoc Fellow at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California San Diego

Dissertation: “We have rights to nothing” Central American Mothers Seek Asylum in the U.S. and Expel to Mexico

Committee: Vilma Ortiz (Advisor), Leisy Abrego, Lauren Duquette-Rury, Ruben Hernandez-Leon

  • David Henning (Economics) – Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford

Job Market Paper: Tax Audits and Their Distortionary Effects

Committee: Natalie Bau and Adriana Lleras-Muney (Co-Chairs), Manisha Shah (Berkeley) and Juliana Londono-Velez

  • Andrew Hess (Economics) – Associate, Cornerstone Research (New York)

Job Market Paper:  Analyzing the Effectiveness of Connected Center-Based Child Care: Evidence from Early Head Start

Committee: Martha Bailey (Chair), Adriana Lleras-Muney, Felipe Goncalves, and Emily Weisburst

  • Nathan Hoffman (Sociology) – Assistant Professor (Department of Sociology) at Emory University

Dissertation: Essays on Young Migrants’ Academic Performance

Committee:  Roger Waldinger (Chair), Jennie E. Brand, Chad Hazlett, and Andres Villarreal

  • Bowei Hu (Sociology) – Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University

Dissertation: Households in the Red: How Banking Organizations Drive Their Debt

Committee: Jennie Brand (Co-Chair), Olav Sorenson (Co-Chair), David Brady (USC), Kevan Harris, Edward Walker

  • Eunhee V Park (Community Health Sciences) – Postdoc at the T32 Primary Care Research Training Program, George Washington University

Dissertation: Barriers to Prenatal Care in the Context of Maternal Methamphetamine Use and Congenital Syphilis in Los Angeles County, 2011-2020

Committee: Jennifer Wagma (Chair), Jessica Gipson, May Sudhinaraset, Sung-Jae Lee, Sonali Kulkarni (Los Angeles Department of Public Health)

  • Benjamin Pirie (Economics) – Economist, Amazon

Dissertation: Essays in Urban Economics

Committee: Adriana Lleras Muney (Advisor), Gregor Schubert, Jonathan Vogel, and Bernardo Silveira

  • Chandni Raja (Economics) –  External Affiliate at CCPR, Position TBA

Dissertation: Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization: The Regulation of Hospitals and Production of Healthcare

Committee: John Asker (Chair), Martin Hackmann, Will Rafey

  • Iris Y Guzman-Ruiz (Community Health Sciences) – Postdoctoral Scientist at Cedars Sinai’s Cancer Research Center for Health Equity

Dissertation: Discrimination in the Workplace and by Law Enforcement: Impacts on Health and Healthcare Utilization Among Asian and Latino Immigrants in California, 2018–2020

Committee: Anne R. Pebley (Chair), Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, May Sudhinaraset, Rodger Waldinger

  • Victoria Wang (Economics) – Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU Furman Center; Assistant Professor, Wellesley College

Job Market Paper:  Adaptive Migration in the Face of Wildfires: Financial Constraints and the Role of Government Aid

Committee: Adriana Lleras-Muney (Chair), Daniel Haanwinckel, Gregor Schubert, and Martha Bailey

  • Rebecca C. Woofter (Community Health Sciences) – Postdoctoral Research Associate at Rutgers University School of Public Health

Dissertation: A Multi-Method Examination of Perinatal Mental Health Screening and Postpartum Care Use at an Academic Health System in Southern California

Committee: May Sudhinaraset (Chair), Jessica Gipson, Courtney Thomas Tobin, Dana Garfin, and Rashmi Rao (OBGYN Professor)

  • Huihuang Zhu (Economics) – Associate, Cornerstone Research (Los Angeles)

Job Market Paper:  On the Right Track? Evaluating the Achievement and Inequality Effects of Academic Tracking

Committee: Martha Bailey (Chair), Natalie Bau, Felipe Gonçalves, Maurizio Mazzocco