UCLA Newsroom highlights CCPR Director Martha Bailey’s M-CARES findings on public health impacts of fully subsidized contraception

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CCPR Director Martha Bailey's study, Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study (M-CARES), examines changes in the choice of contraception and pregnancy outcomes over time for low-income women by removing all contraceptive…

Forbes Covers New UCLA Study Connecting Self-Employment with Lower Heart Disease Risk

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Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a 2025 UCLA study found that self-employed women were 7.4% less likely to be obese, 7% less likely to be physically inactive, and 9.4% less likely to report insufficient…

Reporting outlets use data from Professor Graeme Blair’s Deportation Data Project

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Reporting using data from the Deportation Data Project: Human Rights Watch reports: ICE Abuses in Los Angeles Set Stage for Other Cities The Guardian reports that ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for…

Professor Faith Deckard discusses how commercial bail makes families the hidden workforce of pretrial justice

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Professor Faith Deckard examines how gendered and racialized stereotypes around care, control, and stability shape the bail industry. Her research reveals that bail agents often rely on mothers and grandmothers to leverage their financial and…

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…