Michael Stoll interviewed on growing gap between rich and poor
NewsMichael 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!
NewsPAA 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!
NewsCongratulations 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
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.