Robert Mare Receives the 2016 Robert M. Hauser Distinguished Scholar Award
NewsRobert Mare is this year’s winner of the Robert M. Hauser Distinguished Scholar award from the ASA section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility. The award will be presented at the IPM reception at the ASA meetings.
Robert Mare featured in the Atlantic
NewsRobert Mare is quoted in an article regarding how couples who marry across classes have unique tensions:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/tension-couples-marry-across-classes/476742/?utm_source=SFFB
CCPR @ PAA 2016 Meeting Washington, D.C.
Announcements, NewsLooking to catch your favorite CCPR/UCLA affiliate at PAA Washington D.C. this week?
Here is a link and program list of CCPR @ PAA
Enjoy the conference!
https://ucla.app.box.com/CCPRatPAA2016
Chris Dunkel-Schetter’s research is feautured in the UCLA Newsroom
Announcements, NewsChris Dunkel-Schetter's research is feautured in the UCLA Newsroom
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/women-with-impaired-stress-hormone-before-pregnancy-have-lower-birthweight-babies
Rob Mare featured in the New York Times
NewsRobert Mare's research on assortative mating and inequality was cited this past weekend in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/upshot/rise-in-marriages-of-equals-and-in-division-by-class.html
Robert Mare featured in NY Times
NewsProfessor Robert Mare highlights the fact that the sharp increase in assortative marriage mirrors income inequality in the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/upshot/rise-in-marriages-of-equals-and-in-division-by-class.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0
Leonardo Bursztyn receives prestigious award
NewsLeonardo Bursztyn received a 2016 Sloan Fellowship, an award given to early career scholars “whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders,” from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/3-ucla-faculty-members-earn-2016-sloan-fellowships
Leah Boustan received funding from the Russell Sage Foundation
NewsLeah Boustan received funding from the Russell Sage Foundation to investigate the pace of cultural assimilation among European immigrants to the United States in the Age of Mass Migration, 1850-1920.
http://www.russellsage.org/awarded-project/cultural-assimilation-during-age-mass-migration
Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez is featured in New York Times
NewsReverberations From a Rise in Mexico's Murder Rate
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/science/mexico-murder-rate-life-expectancy.html?_r=1