Jennie Brand in the Los Angeles Times

Dear All, Professor Brand’s research on the effects of single mother’s job loss on their children’s educational achievement and psychological well-being has been picked up by the media, including the LA Times. The study is forthcoming…

Steven P. Wallace is quoted in Los Angeles Times.

Our affiliate Steven Wallace was quoted in this article. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-adults-in-parents-home-20140421,0,2293806.story#axzz2zUZSQwfI

Congratulations, NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Awardees!

Several sociology graduate students have been awarded highly prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation: Richard Hong, Carla Salazar Gonzalez, and Amber Villalobos. A select few students with outstanding…

Gary Gates quoted about changing demographics in West Hollywood

Gates, CCPR affiliate and senior research fellow at the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, was quoted Thursday in a Los Angeles Times article about changing demographics in West Hollywood, long considered a gay neighborhood.

Michael Stoll interviewed on growing gap between rich and poor

Michael Stoll, CCPR affiliate, professor of public policy and urban planning, and chair of the public policy department at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, was interviewed Wednesday on Fusion's "Open Source" about the growing income gap…

Congratulations to Judith Seltzer and Cameron Campbell for PAA nominations!

PAA 2014 NOMINEE SLATE The PAA Nominations Committee – Susan Short, James Raymo, and Robert Hummer (Chair) – proposes the following slate of candidates for the 2014 election (terms begin in 2015, except for the Nominations Committee which…

Congratulations to Jacqueline Torres for RWJ Fellowship!

Congratulations to Jacqueline Torres who has just accepted a position as a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Fellow at UCSF/Berkeley!

Prof. Chandra Ford selected for the Kaiser Permanente Burch Minority Leadership Development Program

Chandra Ford, assistant professor of community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was recently selected by the Institute for Alternative Futures as one of six awardees of the Kaiser Permanente Burch Minority Leadership…

Bloomberg cites Matthew Kahn, Dora Costa research on educated couples and big cities

A Wednesday Bloomberg column about the growing tendency of individuals to marry those with the same economic and educational backgrounds cited research by two CCPR affiliates: Matthew Kahn, a professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment…

Gary Gates’ work on the changing American family is cited

An article in Saturday's Houston Chronicle about changing family demographics in America cited research by Gary Gates, CCPR affiliate and senior research fellow at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, indicating that roughly 90,000…