Seminar: Daniel McFadden-Affordable Care Act

“Sick Insurance: On the Functioning of the Health Insurance Exchanges under the Affordable Care Act”     Daniel McFadden Professor, University of California, Berkeley Presidential Professor of Health Economics at USC Nobel Laureate…

Program Officer Vacancy at NIH/NIA/BSR

The Individual Behavioral Processes Branch (IBP) in the Division of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR) of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) is recruiting a dynamic and experienced psychological or behavioral scientist with academic training…

Webinar available online: Economic and Social Consequences of Job Loss and Unemployment.

Title: The Economic and Social Consequences of Job Loss and Unemployment Webinar was held on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 View the webinar online: click here In this webinar, Jennie E. Brand, Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate…

Data Release: Mexican Migration Project

MMP143 – August 2013 The Mexican Migration Project is pleased to make available to the public its new database corresponding to MMP143.  The MMP143 database has 143 communities, which includes the original 134 communities (MMP134) plus 9…

Data Sharing Workshop

NIH has a policy regarding data sharing, and requires all proposals for more than $500,000 in annual direct costs to include a data sharing plan.  The UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library will be holding a workshop on August 28, 12-1 pm,…

New Data Source on US Census Tract Boundaries

The US2010 Project supported by Russell Sage Foundation has developed a method to allow researchers to analyze census tract data with constant boundaries for the period 1970-2010.  This method is advantageous especially for studies of change…

New resources on Spatial Analysis

Announcing a new journal - Spatial Demography - http://spatialdemography.org/  A new website on Advanced Spatial Analysis - http://gispopsci.org/. This website includes an array of resources on advanced spatial analysis in the population…

NICHD Announces the Creation of Two New Branches and Updating of Other Branch Names and Functional Statements

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Announces the Creation of Two New Branches to Better Facilitate NICHD Research Priorities Notice Number: NOT-HD-12-035 Key Dates Release Date:…

New IPUMS and other Minnesota Population Center Data

New IPUMS and other Minnesota Population Center Data The IPUMS-USA project released the 2011 American Community Survey (ACS) microdata (www.usa.ipums.org). The IPUMS-CPS project now has March 2012 data, Supplemental Poverty variables, and…

Aging and the Macroeconomy: Long-Term Implications of an Older Population

This Congressionally mandated report from the Committee on Population and the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications describes a major demographic shift currently under way in the United States.  In the coming decades, people…