Director Martha Bailey on U.S. fertility rates at UCLA’s College Lecture Awards

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CCPR Director Martha Bailey is one of five honored professors who will share their scholarship on October 12 at the inaugural UCLA College Lecture Awards. She will speak about how America's declining birth rates tell a more complicated and more…

Welcome Dr. Ruijia Chen, whose Research Examines Cognitive Aging

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Welcome, Dr. Ruijia Chen     This year, Dr. Ruijia Chen joined UCLA's Department of Community Health Sciences in the Fielding School of Public Health as an assistant professor and also as a CCPR faculty affiliate. As a social epidemiologist,…

Congratulations, Professor Graeme Blair, on a New RSF Grant!

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CCPR congratulates Professor Graeme Blair and his collaborators on their new Russell Sage Foundation research grant for their work on the Deportation Data Project.    

CCPR Director Martha Bailey offers nuanced reading of U.S. fertility data in WSJ

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Martha Bailey, CCPR Director and Professor of Economics, contributed expert commentary to a June 6 Wall Street Journal feature titled "Making Sense of America's Low Fertility Rate", which explores America's declining birth rates and whether…

Dr. Arah receives Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring

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CCPR extends its warmest congratulations to Faculty Fellow Dr. Onyebuchi Arah, Professor of Epidemiology, on receiving UCLA’s 2026 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring. Professor Arah is recognized for his thoughtful…

Professor Alison Gemmill is reappointed to the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group

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Congratulations to CCPR Faculty Fellow Professor Alison Gemmill on her reappointment to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Maternal Mortality and Maternal Cause of Death Estimation. The TAG groups advise…

The complex link between poverty and health

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Poverty is one of the most examined phenomena in economics; nevertheless, its causal relationship with health outcomes remains empirically challenging to disentangle. In a recent podcast episode featured on VoxDev, UCLA Professor of Economics…

Professor Jennie Brand and collaborator receive Russell Sage Foundation Grant

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CCPR Faculty Fellow, Professor Jennie Brand, and  UCLA alumna XI Song (Columbia University) received a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for their project "Occupational Restructuring, Job Displacement, and Worker Mobility."  Their project…

CCPR Director Bailey on declining fertility rates in the New York Times and NPR

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U.S. fertility rates have been declining since 2007, raising questions about long-term demographic, economic, and social consequences. Professor and CCPR Director Martha Bailey is quoted in recent New York Times and NPR Illinois articles on declining…