Prof. Chandra Ford selected for the Kaiser Permanente Burch Minority Leadership Development Program
NewsChandra 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
NewsA 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
NewsAn 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…
Gabriel Rossman’s and Oliver Schilke’s study of movies’ Oscar appeal cited.
NewsUCLA Sociology Professor Gabriel Rossman and graduate student Oliver Schilke’s study of a film’s “Oscar appeal” has been cited in the Washington Post, Slate, and the Toronto Star.
Chris Dunkel Schetter report on parental stress is published.
NewsChronic stress driven by concerns ranging from finances to parenting to discrimination disproportionately affects poor mothers and fathers, according to a comprehensive multi-state study conducted by Chris Dunkel Schetter.
The study's first…
Chicago Sun-Times cites Gary Gates’ LGBT work.
NewsAn article in the Chicago Sun-Times about the difficulty of accurately measuring the number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals in the U.S. cited demographic research on LGBT Americans by Gary Gates, senior research fellow…
Till von Wachter’s work on college graduation during a recession is cited.
NewsTill's work published in the paper, "The Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession" has been cited recently in the Washington Post, Financial Times, and on NPR's Marketplace.
Leah Boustan’s work on decline of metropolitan populations is published in Demography.
News"Population Trends as a Counterweight to Central City Decline," cowritten with Allison Shertzer, was published in Demography (2013).
Congratulations Thomas Soehl!!
NewsThomas Soehl’s article, “Inheriting the Homeland? Intergenerational Transmission of Cross-Border Ties in Migrant Families,” co-authored with UCLA professor Roger Waldinger and originally published in the November 2012 issue of American…
Till von Wachter is quoted in Britain’s Daily Telegraph.
NewsVon Wachter's research highlighted in the November 22 Daily Telegraph shows a rise in student debt and drop in recent-graduate earnings when compared to college graduates of five years ago.