New CCPR Affiliate Professor Ann Owens discusses her working paper “The Changing Relationship between School and Residential Segregation” with CCPR

Segregation in the United States remains a persistent and evolving challenge. While conventional wisdom suggests that residential and school segregation move in tandem, recent work by new CCPR Faculty Affiliate Ann Owens, Professor of Sociology…

New Affiliate, Professor Ann Owens discusses her working paper, “The Changing Relationship between School and Residential Segregation” with CCPR

Segregation in the United States remains a persistent and evolving challenge. While conventional wisdom suggests that residential and school segregation move in tandem, recent work by new CCPR Faculty Affiliate Ann Owens, Professor of Sociology…

Prof. Alison Gemmill discusses her recent study “US Abortion Bans and Infant Mortality” with CCPR

Alison Gemmill, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, has joined CCPR as a faculty affiliate, bringing expertise in fertility, maternal and perinatal health, and the structural and political determinants of health in the US. Her recent work examines…

UCLA Professor Till von Wachter and the California Policy Lab awarded a $5.95M grant from Conrad N Hilton Foundation

The Conrad N Hilton Foundation has awarded a $5.95 million grant to Professor Till von Wachter and the California Policy Lab (CPL). The foundation, a long-term supporter of the Lab, approved this landmark, three-year grant in recognition of…

Featured on CBS News, CCPR Director Martha Bailey’s new working paper uses a randomized controlled trial to quantify how funding for reproductive health affects pregnancies and abortions in the US.

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Read the article featured by CBS News at https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reproductive-health-trump-administration-hhs-cuts/ In this new working paper (https://www.nber.org/papers/w34400), Director Bailey finds that subsidizing reproductive health…

CCPR Director, Professor Martha Bailey, discusses the economics of family planning on the Financial Times podcast

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CCPR Director and Economist Professor Martha Bailey discusses the economic effects of family planning in a recent Financial Times podcast with Sarah O’Connor. Bailey explains how access to contraception has shaped the U.S. economy, particularly…

New paper authored by affiliate Antonio P. Ramos and collaborators is accepted for publication in Population Health Metrics

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Affiliate Antonio P. Ramos (Pensi Institute, São Paulo, Brazil) and collaborators, Fabio Caldieraro, Marcus L. Nascimento, Raphael Saldanha, paper ‘Reducing Inequalities Using an Unbiased Machine Learning Approach to Identify Births with…

Student Affiliate Nanum Jeon receives invitation to the Rising Stars in Data Science Workshop at Stanford

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This November, student CCPR Affiliate and Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Nanum Jeon, is invited to participate in the Rising Stars in Data Science workshop at Stanford, co-hosted by Stanford, UC San Diego, and the University of Chicago. The workshop…

Faculty Affiliate Michael Lens releases a new book, ‘Where The Hood At?’

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Faculty Affiliate Professor Michael Lens' new book, 'Where The Hood At?' examines Black neighborhoods in the U.S. over the past fifty years. He frames his analysis through the rise of hip hop and the uneven progress in neighborhood conditions.…

Data from CCPR Faculty Affiliate Graeme Blair’s Deportation Data Project receives coverage from major media outlets

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Faculty Affiliate Prof. Graeme Blair’s Deportation Data Project collects and disseminates anonymous U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets. The project's data has recently been featured in the LA Times, New York Times, CNN, and Gothamist. …