CCPR Seminars 1999-2015
CCPR Seminars 2014-2015
FALL QUARTER, 2014
Welcome and Introductions
Wednesday, October 8, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Yu Xie, Univ. of Michigan
“Children of the Cultural Revolution: Multigenerational Effects on Educational Outcomes in China”
Wednesday, October 15, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Vimeo Podcast: Yu Xie (10/15)
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Sociology Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility Group
Robert A. Hummer, UTX-Austin
“Hispanic Older Adult Health and Longevity in the United States: Current Patterns and Concerns for the Future”
Wednesday, October 22, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Robert Hummer (10/22)
Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University
“Decentralization and Targeting of Subsidies: Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi”
Wednesday, October 29, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Pascaline Dupas (10/29)
Kathryn Edin, Johns Hopkins University
“Diverging Destinies of Dads: Growing Inequality’s Impact on the American Family”
Tuesday, November 4, 2014. 12:30pm to 2:00pm
2355 Public Affairs Building
Co-sponsorship: UCLA Luskin and the Center for the Study of Inequality and Dept. of Sociology Family Working Group through the Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series*. The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife.
Noreen Goldman, Princeton University
“Predicting Survival of Older Adults”
Wednesday, November 12, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Noreen Goldman (11/12)
Dan Benjamin, Cornell University
“The Promises and Pitfalls of Genoeconomics”
Wednesday, November 19, 2014. 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Marcella Alsan, Stanford University
“The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development”
Wednesday, December 10, 2014. 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
WINTER QUARTER, 2015
Franco Peracchi, University of Rome
“Growing up in wartime: Evidence from the era of two world wars”
Wednesday, January 7, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Franco Peracchi (1/7/15)
Steven Goodreau, University of Washington
“Using Dynamic Demographic Network Models to Assess The Potential Impact of Individualized Testing Interventions For HIV Among Men Who Have Sex With Men In Southern California”
Wednesday, January 14, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Nancy Potok, US Census Bureau
“Building the Future of Federal Statistics: Update US Census Bureau”
Wednesday, January 21, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Nancy Potok (1/21/15)
Ann Owens, University of Southern California
“Public and Private School Segregation”
Wednesday, January 28, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Ann Owens (1/28/15)
Filiz Garip, Harvard University
“On the Move: The Changing Dynamics of Mexico-US Migration”
Wednesday, February 4, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Vimeo Podcast: Filiz Garip (2/4/15)
Co-sponsored with The Program on International Migration
Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota
“Fragmentation of the Family”
Wednesday, February 11, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Steven Ruggles (2/11/15)
Bastien Chabe-Ferret, University Catholique de Louvain
“Baby Boom or Baby Bust: The Effect of the Great Depression on Fertility”
Wednesday, February 18, 2015. 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Presentation Slides – Presentation Audio
Morgane Laouenan, Sciences Po, Paris
“The Price is (not) right: Ethnic discrimination on an online marketplace of vacation rental”
Wednesday, February 25, 2015. 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Susan Watkins, CCPR
“Fevered Imaginations: The Romance of AIDS Altruism”
Wednesday, March 4, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Susan Watkins (3/14/15)
Paul Niehaus, UC San Diego
“Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India”
Wednesday, March 11, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Paul Niehaus (3/11/15)
SPRING QUARTER, 2015
Jörg Heining, German Federal Employment Agency, Institute for Employment Research
“Accessing German Social Security Data at UCLA”
Wednesday, April 1, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Jörg Heining (4/1/15)
Leah Boustan, UC Los Angeles
“Selection and Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration: New Micro-Evidence”
Wednesday, April 8, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Leah Boustan (4/8/15)
Barbara Lawrence, UC Los Angeles
“Networks of Career Opportunity: A Unique Study of Social Capital Within a Large Organization”
Wednesday, April 15, 2015. 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
PAA Practice Session
Wednesday, April 22, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Francesco Billari, Oxford University
“Islamic Rule, Marriage and Fertility: Causal Evidence from Turkey”
Wednesday, May 6, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Vimeo Podcast: Francesco Billari (5/6/15)
Co-sponsored by Dept. of Sociology: Family Working Group
Meredith Phillips and Sarah Reber, UC Los Angeles
“The Impact of Virtual College Advising on Disadvantaged Students’ College Enrollment: Evidence from a Random Assignment Field Experiment”
Wednesday, May 13, 2015. 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
David Harding, UC Berkeley
“Effects of Incarceration on Employment and Recidivism: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”
Wednesday, May 20, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Vimeo Podcast: David Harding (5/20/15)
Co-sponsored by Dept. of Sociology: Stratification, Inequality and Mobility Working Group
Cameron Campbell, UC Los Angeles
“Bureaucratic Careers During the Qing (1644-1911) Dynasty: Preliminary Results from Analysis of the Jinshenlu Database”
Wednesday, May 27, 2015. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Vimeo Podcast: Cameron Campbell (5/27/15)
Co-sponsored by Dept. of Sociology
Dora Costa, UC Los Angeles
“Death and the Media: Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition”
Wednesday, June 3, 2015. 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Dora Costa (6/3/15)
CCPR Seminars 2013-2014
FALL QUARTER, 2013
“Welcome and Introductions”
Wednesday, October 2, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA
“The Long Term Effects of Means-tested Cash Transfers”
Wednesday, October 9, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Michael Rendall, University of Maryland
“Two Decades of Negative Educational Selectivity of Mexican Migrants”
Wednesday, October 16, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Kate Strully, SUNY-Albany
“Racially Diverse Schools and Adolescent Romantic Relationships”
Wednesday, October 23, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Jason Boardman, University of Colorado Boulder
“Integrating Genome Wide Data into Demographic Analysis”
Wednesday, October 30, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Xiaoyan Lei, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
Kathleen McGarry, CCPR and Economics Dept., UCLA
“Overview and Early Results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS),With Comments on the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS)”
Wednesday, November 6, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Megan Sweeney, UCLA
“Inequality and the U.S. Contraceptive Revolution”
Thursday, November 7, 2013. 4:00 PM
4240 Public Affairs Building
Nathan Hendren, Harvard University
“Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States”
Tuesday, November 12, 2013. 3:30pm to 5:00pm
9383 Bunche Hall
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Economics
Heidi Williams, MIT
“Why is Infant Mortality Higher in the U.S. than in Europe?”
Wednesday, November 20, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Mark Stabile, University of Toronto
“Do Stimulant Medications Improve Educational and Behavioral Outcomes for Children with ADHD?”
Wednesday, December 4, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
WINTER QUARTER, 2014
David Grusky, Stanford University
“Is the President Right that Social Mobility is Declining?”
Wednesday, January 8, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Grusky (1/8/14)
Jessica Metcalf, Oxford/Princeton
“Human Demography Shapes the Dynamics and Burden of Rubella: Implications for Vaccination Policy”
Wednesday, January 15, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Jessica Metcalf (1/15/14)
Sean Reardon, Stanford University
“Inequality, Segregation, and Spatial Variation in Racial Academic Achievement Gaps”
Wednesday, January 22, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Reardon (1/22/14)
Jennifer Beam Dowd, CUNY – Hunter College
“Population Immunology and Health Disparities”
Wednesday, January 29, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Dowd (1/29/14)
Nora Cate Schaeffer, University of Wisconson
“Rapport in Calls to Recruit Survey Participants: The Role of Responsiveness and Engagement”
Monday, February 3, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
279 Haines Hall
Co-sponsored with the Family Working Group and Conversation Analysis Working Group (UCLA Sociology)
(The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife)
Till von Wachter, University of California – Los Angeles
Discussant: Jennie Brand
“The Lifetime Cost of Job Displacement”
Wednesday, February 5, 2014. 12:30pm to 2:00pm
5391 Public Affairs Building
Co-sponsored with the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Jacob Foster, University of California – Los Angeles
“Science as Social Learning.”
Wednesday, February 12, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Andreas Georgiadis, Oxford University
“The Sooner The Better But It’s Never Too Late: The Impact of Child Growth At Different Stages of Infancy and Childhood on Cognitive Development”
Wednesday, February 19, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Georgiadis (2/19/14)
Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania
“The Reproduction of Inequality.”
Meier Lecture – Dept. of Sociology
Wednesday, March 5, 2014. 3pm
279 Haines Hall
Perspectives on Health and Aging – Mini-Conference
Friday, March 7, 2014. 9:00am – 3:20pm
4240 Public Affairs Bldg
Co-sponsored with the Von Gremp Seminar in Entrepreneurial and Economic History
David Card, University of California – Berkeley
“Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment”
Wednesday, March 12, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Franklin Wilson, University of Wisconson-Madison
“Generational Changes in Racial Inequality”
Wednesday, March 14, 2014. 3:00pm to 5:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
SPRING QUARTER, 2014
Alison Buttenheim, University of Pennsylvania
“Who’s Calling the Shots? The Demography of Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal.”
Wednesday, April 2, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Allison Buttenheim (4/2)
Paulina Oliva, University of California – Santa Barbara
“Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City.”
Wednesday, April 9,2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Michael Kremer, Harvard University
“Educational, Labor Market, and Fiscal Impacts of Scholarships for Private Secondary School: Evidence from Colombia”
Tuesday, April 15, 2014. 03:30pm to 05:00pm
9383 Bunche Hall
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Economics
Steven Cole, University of California – Los Angeles
“Social Genomics”
Wednesday, April 16,2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Mieke Eeckhaut, University of California – Los Angeles
“Sterilization Patterns in the United States: A Comparative Perspective.”
Wednesday, April 23,2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
PAA Practice Talk
Friday, April 25, 2014. 12:00pm to 2:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Michael Lens and Paavo Monkkonen, University of California – Los Angeles
“Land Use Regulation and Income Segregation.”
Wednesday, May 7, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Elizabeth Bruch, University of Michigan
“All Things Considered? Cognitively Plausible Models of Neighborhood Choice.”
Wednesday, May 14, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Patrick Sharkey, New York University
“The Effects of Local Violence on Children and the Impact of the Crime Decline.”
Wednesday, May 21, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: Patrick Sharkey (5/21/14)
Jesse Rothstein, University of California – Berkeley
“Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession.”
Wednesday, May 28, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“What Can Biodemography Tell Us about Longevity?”
Wednesday, May 29, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Jenna Nobles, University of Wisconsin – Madison
“The Effects of Mortality on Fertility: Population Dynamics after a Natural Disaster.”
Wednesday, June 4, 2014. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
CCPR Seminars 2012-2013
FALL QUARTER, 2012
“Welcome and Introductions”
Wednesday, October 3, 2012. 12:00pm to1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Maurizio Mazzocco, UCLA
“Cohort Size and The Marriage Market: Explaining Nearly a Century of Changes in U.S. Marriage Rates.”
Wednesday, October 10, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: CCPR Seminar: Maurizio Mazzocco (10/10/12)
David Lam, University of Michigan
“Credit Constraints and the Racial Gap in Post-Secondary Education in South Africa.”
Wednesday, October 17, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: CCPR Seminar: David Lam (10/17/12)
Nico Voigtländer, UCLA
“How the West ‘Invented’ Fertility Restriction.”
Wednesday, October 24, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Ka-Yuet Liu, UCLA
“Focal Points, Endogenous Processes and Exogenous Shocks in the Autism Epidemic.”
Wednesday, October 31, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: CCPR Seminar: Ka-Yuet Liu (10/31/12)
Jennie Brand, UCLA
“Job Displacement Among Single Mothers: Effects on Children’s Outcomes in Young Adulthood.” Co-sponsored with the Dept of Sociology Family Working Group.
Wednesday, November 07, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Beate Ritz, UCLA
“Studies of air pollution, adverse pregnancy outcomes and child development in LA: Overcoming Challenges in Exposure Assessment, Selection Bias, and Confounder Control.”
Wednesday, November 14, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: CCPR Seminar: Beate Ritz (11/14/12)
Marie-Loure Coubes, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
“Recent Trends in the Mexican Migration to the United States: Contributions from the Survey of Migration at the Northern Border of Mexico EMIF-Norte.” Co-sponsored with the Center for Mexican Studies.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
“Bayesian Reconstruction of Past Populations for Developing and Developed Countries.”
Wednesday, December 5, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
WINTER QUARTER, 2013
Tak Wing Chan, University of Oxford
“Intergenerational Exchange of Instrumental Support: Dynamic Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey.”
Wednesday, January 16, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: CCPR Seminar: Tak Wing Chan
-cancelled-
Wednesday, January 23, 2013.
4240 Public Affairs Building
Inaugural Lecture: Cornell Belcher
Pollster for the Obama Reelection Campaign, Obama 2008 Campaign and DNC
President, Brilliant Corners Research & Strategies. Sponsored by UCLA Center for Bridging Research, Innovation, Training and Education for Minority Health Disparities Solutions.
Friday, January 25, 2013. 3-5pm
UCLA Anderson School of Management, Korn Convocation Hall, Rm C314
Jamie Goodwin-White, UCLA
“Is Social Mobility Spatial? Immigrant Destination Choice and Second Generation Outcomes, 1940-1970 and 1970-2000”
Wednesday, January 30, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: CCPR Seminar: Jamie Goodwin-White
open
Wednesday, February 06, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Robert Moffitt, John Hopkins University
“The U.S. Employment-Population Reversal in the 2000s: Facts and Explanations.” Co-sponsored with the Dep’t of Economics.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: CCPR Seminar: Robert Moffitt
Marcia Castro, Harvard
“Infant Mortality Decline in Brazil: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis”
Wednesday, February 20, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: CCPR Seminar: Marcia Castro
Emilio Parrado, University of Pennsylvania
“The Gendered Process of Mexican Migration to the U.S.: The Intersection of Marriage and Mobility.”
Wednesday, February 27, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: CCPR Seminar: Emilio Parrado
Virginia Chang, NYU
“Obesity and Population Health: Mortality and a Potential Paradox”
Wednesday, March 06, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: CCPR Seminar: Virginia Chang
Greg Duncan, UCI
“Increasing Inequality in Parent Incomes and Children’s Completed Schooling: Correlation or Causation?”
Wednesday, March 13, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
SPRING QUARTER, 2013
PAA Practice Session
Wednesday, April 03, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
No Seminar
Wednesday, April 10, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Joyce Manchester, Congressional Budget Office
“The Social Security Disability Insurance Program: Past, Present, and Future.” Co-sponsored with the Dep’t of Economics.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: CCPR Seminar: Joyce Manchester
Tom DiPrete, Columbia University
“High School Environments, STEM Orientations, and the Gender Gap in Science and Engineering Degrees”
Wednesday, April 24, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: CCPR Seminar: Tom DiPrete
Ted Robles, UCLA
“Close Relationships and Physical Health: What do we know? Where should we go?”
Wednesday, May 01, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Vimeo Podcast: CCPR Seminar: Ted Robles
open
Wednesday, May 08, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Sarah Burgard, University of Michigan,
“Changing Gender Differences in Mortality and Morbidity among U.S. Adults.”
Wednesday, May 15, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Robert Willis, University of Michigan
“Financial knowledge, fluid intelligence and investment decisions.”
Co-sponsored with the Dep’t of Economics.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
open
Wednesday, May 29, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Bruce Western, Harvard
“Leaving Prison as a Poverty Transition: The Boston Reentry Study”
Co-sponsored with the Poverty and Inequality Working Group
Wednesday, June 05, 2013. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
CCPR Seminars 2011-2012
FALL QUARTER, 2011
“Welcome and Introductions”
Wednesday, September 28, 2011. 12:00pm to1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Andreas Wimmer (UCLA)
“Nation Building or Ethnic Exclusion? A Global Analysis”
Wednesday, October 5, 2011. 12:00pm to1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago)
“Saving Teens: Using a Policy Discontinuity to Estimate the Effects of Public Health Coverage”
Wednesday, October 12, 2011. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Felix Elwert (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“The Effects of Long-Term Residential Disadvantage on Child Outcomes”
Wednesday, October 19, 2011. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Larry Morton (Fidelity Retirement Counselor)
“UC Retirement System and Getting on the Right Path.”
Friday, October 21, 2011. 12:00pm to 1:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Sarah Reber (UCLA)
“Federal Aid and Equality of Educational Opportunity: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South”
Wednesday, October 26, 2011. 12:00pm to 1:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Till von Wachter (Columbia University)
” The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates Over Twenty Years”
Wednesday, November 2, 2011. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Daniel Schneider (Princeton University)
“Wealth and the Marital Divide: Evidence and Implications”
Wednesday, November 9, 2011. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Grant Miller (Stanford University)
“A Cluster Randomized Trial of Provider Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China”
Wednesday, November 16, 2011. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Alexandra Achen Killewald (Mathematica Policy Research)
“A Reconsideration of the Fatherhood Premium: Marriage, Residence, Biology, and the Wages of Fathers”
Wednesday, November 30, 2011. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Tod Hamilton (Harvard University)
“Selection, Assimiliation, and the Earnings and Health of Black Immigrants in the United States”
Wednesday, December 7, 2011. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
WINTER QUARTER, 2012
Tal Gross (Columbia University)
“”Liquidity Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tax Rebates.”
Wednesday, January 11, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Jeffrey Eaton (Imperial College London)
“Emerging Issues and Opportunities for HIV prevention in Southern Africa”
Thursday, January 19, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Cristobal Young (Stanford University)
“Partial Information and the Marketization of Medicine:
The Problem of Patients-as-Consumers in US Hospitals”
Wednesday, February 01, 2012.
4240 Public Affairs Building
William “Sandy” Darity (Duke University)
“Stratification Economics: What Can We Learn About Intergroup Disparity?” ”
Monday, February 06, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Arturo Bustamante (UCLA)
“Building a Natural Experiment of Chronic Illness Care Costs in the Safety Net”
Wednesday, February 08, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Jennifer Van Hook (Pennsylvania State University)
“Obesity among the children of immigrants: selection, adaptation, and assimilation”. Co-sponsored with the Dept of Sociology Migration Group
Friday, February 17, 2012. 12:00-pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Teresa Janevic (Yale University)
“Racism and Access to Maternal Health Care Among Romani Women in the Balkans.”
Wednesday, February 22, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Jennifer Barber (University of Michigan)
“The Dynamics of Intimate Partner Conflict and the Risk of Pregnancy.” Co-sponsored with the Dept of Sociology Family Working Group
Monday, March 05, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Narayan Sastry (University of Michigan)
“Studying Overall Self-Rated Health Using Vignettes: New Data and Results from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey”
Wednesday, March 07, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Hector Rodriguez (UCLA)**CANCELLED**
“Local Public Health Systems and the Health of Older Adults”
Wednesday, March 14, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
SPRING QUARTER, 2012
Rob Boyd (UCLA)
“Why Relatedness Is Not Enough to Predict Social Evolution”
Wednesday, April 04, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Jay Kaufman (McGill University)
“Nature versus Nurture in the Explanations for Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities”. Co-sponsored with the Dept of Epidemiology.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
PAA Poster Practice Session
“Helpful Hints with PAA Posters”
Friday, April 20, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
PAA Practice Session
Wednesday, April 25, 2012. 12:00pm to 2:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
The Tod Spieker Colloquium
Mark Ellis (University of Washington)
“Geographies of Racial Mixing”
Friday, April 27, 2012. 3:00-4:00pm
1261 Bunche Hall
Elizabeth Thomson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Childbearing across Partnerships.” Co-sponsored with the Dept of Sociology Family Working Group
Monday, April 30, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Mikko Myrskyla (Max Planck Institute)
“Is later better or worse? Advanced parental age and adult health, IQ and mortality of the offspring”
Monday, May 07, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Caroline Hoxby (Stanford University)
“The Missing “One-Offs”: The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students” & “The Effects of Informational Interventions on College Choices: Big Decisions and Low Costs.” Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Economics
Wednesday, May 09, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Sander Greenland (UCLA)
“Causal Inference: Much More than Just Statistics”
Wednesday, May 16, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Irma Elo (University of Pennsylvania)
“Early- and Later Life Family and Socioeconomic Conditions and Cause-Specific Mortality in Finland”
Wednesday, May 23, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Miguel Urquiola (Columbia University)**Cancelled**
Wednesday, May 30, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Mel Stephens (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
“Employment, Wages and Voter Turnout”
Wednesday, June 06, 2012. 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
CCPR Seminars 2010-2011
FALL QUARTER, 2010
“Welcome and Introductions”
October 06, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Robert D. Mare (UCLA)
“The Multigenerational Demography of Social Mobility.”
October 13, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Patrick Heuveline (UCLA)
“The Limits of Genocide: An Attempt at Confidence Intervals on the Khmer-Rouge Death Toll.”
October 20, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)
“Do Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India.”
Co-sponsored with the Dept of Economics Applied Microeconomics Workshop
October 26, 03:30pm-5:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Brooke Scelza (UCLA)
“The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Evolutionary and Demographic Perspective.”
November 03, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Enrico Moretti (UC Berkeley)
“Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction.”
Co-sponsored with the Dept of Economics Applied Microeconomics Workshop
November 09, 3:30pm-5:00pm
9383 Bunche Hall
Mignon R. Moore (UCLA)
“Invisible Families: A Mixed-Methods Study of Gay Identities, Relationships and motherhood among Black Women.”
November 17, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Lisa Berkman (Harvard)
“Rethinking Work: The Impact of Work Family Strain and Worldwide Demographic Transitions.”
December 01, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
WINTER QUARTER, 2011
Thomas S. Weisner (UCLA)
“If You Work in This Country You Should Not Be Poor, and Your Kids Should Be Doing Better”: The Story of New Hope, a Successful Work Support Program.
January 05, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Ka-Yuet Liu (Columbia University)
“Social Influence and the Autism Epidemic.”
Co-sponsored with the Demography Workshop
January 12, 3:00pm-5:00pm
279 Haines
Patrick Simon (INED)
“Beyond Assimilation: The Second Generation in France,”
Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Demography Migration Workshop
January 21, 12:00pm-1:30pm
279 Haines
Bridget Freisthler (UCLA)
“Evaluating Medical Marijuana Dispensary Policies: Spatial Methods for the Study of Geographically-Based Policies.”
January 26, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Jason Beckfield (Harvard)
” The Comparative Sociology of Health Inequalities.”
February 02, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Kathleen Gerson (NYU)
“The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age of a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family.”
Co-sponsored with the Dept of Sociology Family Workgroup and Gender Working Group
February 07, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Genevieve Pham-Kanter (Princeton)
“The Gender Weight Gap: Sons, Daughters, and Maternal Weight.”
February 16, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Nathalie Williams (UNC-Chapel Hill)
“The Social Science of Migration During Armed Conflict: A Risks, Resources, and Responses Framework.”
February 23, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
ChangHwan Kim (KU)
“Investigating the Effects of the Model Minority Myth and the Glass Ceiling on the Earnings of Asian American Men.”
March 02, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Mark S. Handcock (Harvard)
“The Spatial Embeddedness of Neighborhood Effects: Mental Health and Obesity in the Context of Moving to Opportunity.”
March 09, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
SPRING QUARTER, 2011
Eliza Pavalko (Indiana University)
Double Time: Work Hours, Health and Family in the United States
April 06, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Ninez Ponce (UCLA)
Moral Spaces or Market Places? Income Inequality and the Personalized Medicine Landscape in the U.S.
April 13, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
John Heddrson, PhD
Mark Greninger, MA
Vandana Joshi, PhD
Population, Health, Mental Health, and Socio-Demographic Data in Los Angeles County
April 15, 12:00pm-1:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Maria Casanova (UCLA)
Cognitive Ability, Risk Aversion, and Financial Decision Making
April 20, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Duncan Thomas (Duke)
Mortality, the Family and the Indian Ocean Tsunami
April 27, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Jennifer Glick (ASU)
More than Duration of Residence: Immigration in the Family Life Course
Co-sponsored with the Dept of Sociology Migration Workshop & Family Working Group
April 29, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Moore 3027-Video conference room
Lance Gravlee (Univ. of Florida)
Race and Health: Genes, Environment, and the Meaning of Biology
May 04, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Chris Udry (Yale)
Examining Underinvestment and Financial Markets in Agriculture
Co-sponsored with the Dept of Economics Applied Microeconomics Workshop
May 10, 3:30pm-5:00pm
9383 Bunche
Robert Pollak (Washington Univ.)
“Allocating Time: Individuals’ Technologies, Household Technology, Perfect Substitutes, and Specialization”
Co-sponsored with the Dept of Economics Applied Microeconomics Workshop
May 17, 3:30pm-5:00pm
9383 Bunche
Kathleen McGarry (UCLA)
“Dynamic Aspects of Family Transfers”
May 25, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Shelly Lundberg (UCSB)
“Your place or mine? On the residence choice of young couples in Norway”
June 01, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
UCLA/UCB Miniconference on Census Microdata and Applications
June 03, 9:00am-4:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
CCPR Seminars 2009-2010
FALL QUARTER, 2009
“Welcome and Introductions”
September 30, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Timothy Conley (Chicago Booth)
“An Introduction to Spatial Econometrics.”
Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Economics, Econometrics Workshop
October 07, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Robert Jensen (UCLA)
“Economics, Culture, and Gender Bias in Rural India.”
October 14, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Martha Bailey (University of Michigan)
“The Impact of U.S. Family Planning Programs: Evidence From the War on Poverty
and Title X.”
Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Economics Applied Microeconomics
Workshop and VonGremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History
October 20, 03:30pm-5:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Narayan Sastry (University of Michigan)
“Dislocation and Return of New Orleans Residents after Hurricane Katrina.”
October 28, 12:00pm-1:30pm
9383 Bunche Hall
Sam Schulhofer-Wohl (Princeton University)
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Economics Applied Microeconomics Workshop
November 04, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Ted Robles, Dawn Upchurch, Tara McKay, Pascaline Dupas (UCLA)
“Ethical Issues in the Collection and Analysis of Health and Biomarker Data.”
November 12, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Samuel Clark (University of Washington)
“Investigating Population and Health Issues in Africa Using Techniques from
Demography: Microsimulation and Model Life Tables.”
November 18, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Nancy Qian (Yale)
“The Institutional Causes of Famine in China, 1959-61.”
December 01, 3:30pm-5:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Anna Aizer (Brown)
“Education, Knowledge and the Evolution of Disparities in Health.”
December 09, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
WINTER QUARTER, 2010
John Santellini (Columbia University)
“Toward a Multidimensional Measure of Pregnancy Intentions: Evidence
from the United States”
January 06, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Phyllis Moen (University of Minnesota)
“Working Families, Stress, and Wellness: Can an Organizational Time Change
Make a Difference?.”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Sociology Family Working Group and The Center on
the Everyday Lives of Families
January 13, 12:30pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs
Kenneth C. Land (Duke University)
“DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Monthly Time Series Analysis of Executions, Short-Term
Deterrence and Displacement of Homicides in Texas,”
January 20, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4284C Public Affairs
Herbert S. Klein (Stanford University)
“Emigration and Immigration in the Making of Modern Spain.”
January 27, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Paola Giuliano (Global Economics and Management Group at UCLA Anderson School of Management
“The Right Amount of Trust.”
February 03, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Chandra L. Ford (UCLA)
“HIV Conspiracy Beliefs, Medical Distrust and Racism: Implications for HIV
Testing.”
February 010, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Onyebuchi A Arah (UCLA)
“Want to Bed Against Model Misspecification? Consider Multiply Robust Estimation.”
February 17, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Rebeca Wong (The University of Texas Medical Branch)
“Intra-household Overweight and Obesity in Mexico: Multiple Generations, Multiple Roles.”
February 24, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Esther Duflo (MIT)
“Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Economics Applied Microeconomics Workshop
March 03, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Fabian Pfeffer (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Wealth and Opportunity in the United States and Germany.”
March 03, 2:30pm-4:00pm
Co-sponsored with the Dept. of Sociology
4240 Public Affairs Building
Becky Pettit (University of Washington)
“Invisible Men: Prison Growth and the Construction of Social Statistics.”
March 10, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Kenneth Chay (Brown University)
“Medicare, Hospital Utilization and Mortality: Evidence from the Program’s Origins.”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Economics Applied Microeconomics Workshop
March 17, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
PAA Practice Session I
March 31, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
PAA Practice Session II
April 07, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
SPRING QUARTER, 2010
David Weir (University of Michigan)
“Socio-economic Status and Mortality: Perceptions and Outcomes”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Economics Applied Microeconomics Workshop
April 21, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Michelle Hindin (John Hopkins University)
“Global Perspectives on Women’s Empowernebt and Health: Did ICPD Get It Right?”
April 28, 12:00pm-1:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Richard Steckel (Ohio State University)
“The Little Ice Age and Health: Europe from the Early Middle Ages to the Nineteenth
Century”
Co-sponsored with VonGremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History
May 05, 12:00pm-1:00pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Ron Brookmeyer (UCLA)
“Estimating HIV Incidence: Approaches, Challenges and Opportunities”
May 12, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
CCPR Forum: Sharon Friend (Director of UCLA Human Subjects Research)
“Recent Developments and Future Directions in IRB”
May 14, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
David Takeuchi (University of Washington)
CANCELLED
May 19, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Suzanne Bianchi (UCLA)
“Doubling Up When Times Are Tough: A Pilot Study of Obligations to Share a Home
In Response to Economic Hardship”
May 26, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
Jessica Gipson (UCLA)
“Challenges and Contributions of the “Men as Partners” Movement in International Reproductive
Health Research and Programs”
June 02, 12:00pm-1:30pm
4240 Public Affairs Building
CCPR Seminars 2008-2009
FALL QUARTER, 2008
October 1, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
“Welcome and Introductions”
October 6, 3-5 pm**Monday**Room B301 Anderson School of Management**
James Heckman (University of Chicago)
“The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development”
Co-sponsored with Anderson School of Management Jacob Marschak Colloquium
October 8, 2:00 – 3:30 – 9383 Bunche
Dora Costa (UCLA)
“The Rise of Retirement among African Americans: Evidence from Union Army Records”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Economics Applied Microeconomics Workshop and
VonGremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History
October 10, 12:00-1:30**Friday**279 Haines Hall
Katharine Donato (Vanderbilt University)
“Public Service Use and Contributions among Mexican Immigrants”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Sociology Migration Study Group
October 15, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Pascaline Dupas (UCLA)
” Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a randomized malaria prevention experiment in Kenya”
October 22, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Sean Reardon (Stanford University)
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Black-White Test Score Gap”
Related Paper: ” Differential Growth in the Black-White Achievement Gap During Elementary School Among Initially High- and Low-Scoring Students”
October 29, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Shige Song (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
” Social Conditions and Infant Mortality in China: A Test of the Fundamental Cause Perspective”
November 13,**Thursday**12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Hans-Peter Kohler(University of Pennsylvania)
” Advances in Development Reverse Fertility Declines”
Co-sponsored with the Center for European and Eurasian Studies
November 19, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Judith Seltzer, Donald Treiman, Elizabeth Stephenson
“Ethics Forum: Recent Developments in IRB at UCLA”
December 3, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Lincoln Quillian (Northwestern Univ.)
“Racial Segregation and Impoverished Neighborhood Environments: A Population Model”
WINTER QUARTER, 2009
January 7, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Steven Wallace (UCLA)
“Measuring Poverty in the 21st Century – New Approaches for Older Adults”
Related Article: ” Federal Poverty Guideline Underestimates Costs of Living for Older Persons in California”
January 14, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Ted Mouw (University of North Carolina)
” Occupations and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United States, 1980s-2000s”
January 21, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Jon Krosnick (Stanford University)
“The accuracy of online surveys with non-probability samples of people who volunteer to do surveys for money”
January 28, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Jeff Brantingham (UCLA)
“Mechanistic models of crime pattern formation and hotspot policing”
February 4, 12:00-1:30 – 352 Haines**CANCELLED**
Phyllis Moen (University of Minnesota)
“Working Families, Stress, and Wellness: Does Increasing Control over Work Time Matter?”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Sociology Family Working Group and
The Center on the Everyday Lives of Families
February 11, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Tara Gruenewald (UCLA)
“Helping Others Helps Oneself: Perceived Social Usefulness and Health in Later Life”
February 18, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
William Axinn (Univ. of Michigan)
“Social Organization, Population, and Land Use”
February 24, 3:30-5:00 **Tuesday** 9383 Bunche
Heather Royer (UC Santa Barbara)
” Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Economics Applied Microeconomics Workshop
February 26, 1:00-3:00 **Thursday** – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Thomas Gillespie and Michael Shin (UCLA)
” P1: Geospatial Technologies for Population Research”
” P2: Geospatial Technologies for Population Research”
March 4, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Carol Aneshensel, Patrick Heuveline, Rosa Matzkin, Meredith Phillips, and Lucy Shao (UCLA)
“CCPR Forum on Extramural Funding”
March 11, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Jon Skinner (Dartmouth University)
“Technology and Expenditure Growth in Health Care”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Economics Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Related Material: Productivity and Expenditure Growth in Health Care
March 18, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Bill Labate (UCLA)
“Cluster Computing at UCLA”
SPRING QUARTER, 2009
March 30, 1:00-2:30 **Monday**Bunche Hall 9383
Torsten Persson (IIES)
“Weather and Infant Mortality in Africa”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Economics
April 1, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Matthew Kahn (UCLA)
“Cities and Climate Change”
April 8, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Charles Manski (Northwestern University)
” Diversified Treatment under Ambiguity”
April 15, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Stewart Tolnay (University of Washington)
“Was Anyone Safe? Individual and Household Characteristics of Lynch Victims in the American South, 1882-1930”
Co-sponsored with VonGremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History
Related material: Personalized Lynch Victims
April 20, 12:00-1:30 **Monday**- 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Andrew Cherlin (John Hopkins University)
“The Marriage-Go-Round: Causes and Consequences of Multiple Partnerships”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Sociology Family Working Group and
UCLA Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program
April 22, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
PAA Practice Session
April 24, 12:00-1:30 **Friday** 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
PAA Practice Session 2
April 29
PAA – Population Association of America
May 6, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
May Wang (UCLA)
“Child Obesity: When Neighborhoods Matter”
May 20, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg. **CANCELLED**
David Takeuchi (Univ. of Washington)
“The Epidemiology of Discrimination: Findings from the National Latino and Asian American Study”
May 27, 12:00-1:30 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Catherine Cubbin (Univ. of Texas-Austin)
“Developing Feasible Measures of Wealth for Health Research”
June 4, 11:00-5:00 – 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
“Biodemography Mini Conference”
CCPR Seminars 2007-2008
FALL QUARTER, 2007
October 3, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
“Welcome and Introductions”
October 10, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Douglas Almond (Columbia University)
“The Impact of the Food Stamp Program on Infant Outcomes”
October 17, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Guang Guo (Univ. of North Carolina)
“Integrating Genetic Propensities into Social-Control Models of Delinquency”
October 24, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
James Holland Jones (Stanford University)
“Mixture Models for Biodemographic Inference”
November 7, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Arun Karlamangla (UCLA)
“Psychosocial Influences on Physical and Cognitive Aging”
November 14, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Scott M. Lynch (Princeton University)
“The Changing Role of Socioeconomic Status in Explaining Black-White Disparities in Healthy Life Over the Last Three Decades”
November 28, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Yang Yang (Univ. of Chicago)
“Age-Period-Cohort Analysis in Social Research: What’s New?”
December 5, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Grant Miller (Stanford University)
” Women’s Suffrage, Political Responsiveness, and Child Survival in American History”
WINTER QUARTER, 2008
January 9, 12:00-1:30 – **Cancelled** 9383 Bunche
Karl Alexander (John Hopkins Univ.)
“On the Seasonality of Learning: Implications for Educational Stratification”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Sociology Migration Study Group
The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife.
January 11, 12:00-1:30 **Cancelled** 9383 Bunche
Katherine Donato (Vanderbilt Univ.)
“Public Service Use and Contributions among Mexican Immigrants: An Assessment of Post-Reform Shifts”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Sociology Migration Study Group
The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife.
January 16, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Florencia Torche (New York Univ.)
“Educational Assortative mating and Inequality: A Test from a Latin American Perspective”
January 23, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Dora Costa (UCLA)
“Do Social Networks Reduce the Negative Health Effects of Stress”
January 30, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Linda Gage (CA Dept. of Finance)
“The American Community Survey: Replacement for the Decennial Census Long-Form or Multiple ACS Estimates: Pick a Number, Any Number!”
February 6, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Kenneth Bollen (Univ. of North Carolina)
“Fixed and Random Effects Models using Panel data and Structural equation Models”
February 13, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Glenn Firebaugh (Pennsylvania State Univ.)
“Residential Segregation int he United States: New Methods and Findings”
February 20, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Shannon Cavanagh (Univ. of Texas-Austin)
“Family Instability, Selection, and Child Well-Being in Middle Childhood”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Sociology Family Working Group
The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife.
February 27, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Alberto Palloni (Univ. of Wisconsin)
“The Size of Health Selection Effects”
March 5, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Sara Curran (Univ. of Washington)
“Migration, Migrant Social Capital and the Asian Financial Crisis in Thailand”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Sociology Migration Study Group
The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife.
March 6, 2:00-4:00 **Thursday** Bunche 10367
Carlos Ribeiro (Insituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janiero, IUPERJ) and Patricio Solis (El Colegio de Mexico)
“Social Mobility in Latin America”
Co-sponsored with Latin American Institute
SPRING QUARTER, 2008
April 2, 12:00-1:00 – 9383 Bunche
PAA Practice Session 1
April 9, 12:00-1:00 – 9383 Bunche
PAA Practice Session 2
April 18, 12:00-1:30 **Friday** 9383 Bunche
Maurice Crul (Univ. of Amsterdam)
” The Integration of the Second Generation in Europe. The Importance of the National and Local Integration Context”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Sociology Migration Study Group and Center for European and Eurasian Studies
The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife.
April 23, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
I-Fen Lin (Bowling Green State University)
“Disability, Received Support, and Psychological Well-being in Late Life”
May 1, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Murray Feshbach (Georgetown Univ.)
“The Demographic Crisis in Russia”
Co-sponsored with Center for European and Euroasian Studies
May 7, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Arline Geronimus (Univ. of Michigan)
“Dying Old at a Young Age?: A First Foray into Weathering and Black-White Differences in Cellular Aging”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Sociology Migration Study Group
The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife.
May 14, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Jennie Brand, Gilbert Gee, Yao Lu, Kate Choi (UCLA)
“CCPR Training Seminar: Forum on Ethical and Professional Issues in Publication”
May 21, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
David Autor (MIT)
“Distinguishing Income from Substitution Effects in Disability: Preliminary Evidence from the Veterans Disability Compensation Program”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Economics Applied Microeconomics Workshop
May 28, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Marianne Bitler (UC-Irvine)
“Can Subgroup-Specific Mean Treatment Effects Explain Heterogeneity in Welfare Reform?”
CCPR Seminars 2006-2007
FALL QUARTER, 2006
October 3, 2006, 3:30-5:00 – 9383 Bunche
Esther Duflo (MIT)
“Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
October 4, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
“Welcome and Introductions”
October 18, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Edward Laumann (Univ. of Chicago)
“A Network Perspective on Sexual Behavior and Risk Taking”
October 25, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Harry Ganzeboom (Free University Amsterdam)
” On the Cost of Being Crude: Closed and Open Questions about Occupations-Results from the 1987 and 1996-2004 ISSP”
November 1, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Eileen Crimmins (USC)
“Is there a Hispanic Paradox in Biological Risk?”
November 15, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
David Grusky (Stanford)
“Are There Social Classes?”
November 29, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Greg Duncan (Northwestern Univ.)
” School Readiness and Later Achievement” ” Appendices”
December 6, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Jacob Vigdor (Duke Univ.)
” Fifty Million Voters Can’t Be Wrong: Economic Self-Interest and Redistributive Politics”
WINTER QUARTER, 2007
January 10, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Jean Yeung (New York Univ.)
“Family Wealth and Children’s School Achievement”
January 17, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Judith Herschman (CCPR’s bibliographic specialist)
“CCPR Skills Workshop: Strategies for Navigating Bibliographic Data Bases for Demographic Research”
January 19, 12:00-1:30 **Friday** 279 Haines
Gary Gates (UCLA)
” Characteristics and Predictors of Coresidential Stability among Couples”
Co-sponsored by the Sociology of the Family Working Group
January 24, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Andrew Noymer (UCI)
“Tuberculosis in the Union Army during the Civil War”
January 31, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Barry Popkin (Univ. of North Carolina)
“Dynamics of the Global Nutrition Transition”
Co-sponsored by the Global Health Training Program
February 7, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Linda Adair (Univ. of North Carolina)
“Early Life Predictors of Young Adult Health and Educational Attainment: The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey”
February 14, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
CCPR Professional Ethics Seminar
“Professional Issues in the Collection, Sharing and Release of Data”
February 20, 3:30-5:00 **Tuesday**
Alan Krueger (Princeton)
” The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics and RAND
February 21, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Thomas DiPrete (Columbia Univ.)
“Teacher Effects on Academic and Social Outcomes in Elementary School”
February 27, 3:30-5:00 **Tuesday**
Gary Solon (Univ. of Michigan)
” The Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
March 7, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Jim Raymo (Univ. of Wisconsin)
“Recent Trends and Differentials in Japanese Family Behavior: Cohabitation, Pregnancy, Marriage, and Divorce”
Co-sponsored with the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
March 14, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
PAA Practice Session I
March 21, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
PAA Practice Session II
SPRING QUARTER, 2007
April 4, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Robert Boyd (UCLA)
“How Adaptive Models of Social Learning Can Lead to Maladaptive Behavior”
April 11, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Shripad Tuljapurkar(Stanford)
“Demographic Windows: Opportunities, Challenges”
April 20, 10:30-6:00 PM **Friday** Faculty Center (CA Rm)
Mark Rosenzweig (Yale Univ.), Ron Lee (UCB) and Joseph Hotz (UCLA)
“Berkeley/UCLA Workshop in Population”
April 25, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Wendy Manning (Bowling Green State Univ.)
“Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution: Qualitative and Quantitative Based Evidence”
Co-sponsored by the Sociology of the Family Working Group
May 2, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Marta Menendez (Univ. of Paris-Dauphine)
“Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil?”
May 16, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche**CANCELLED**
Alberto Palloni (Univ. of Wisconsin)
“Social Class Health and Mortality Differentials: Are There Important Selection Effects?”
May 30, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Mark Hayward (Univ. of Texas)
“Does the Body Forget? Maybe…Maybe Not”
CCPR Seminars 2005-2006
FALL QUARTER, 2005
October 5, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
“Welcome and Introductions”
October 11,*Tuesday*3:30-5:00 – 9383 Bunche
Hyeok Jeong (USC)
“Theory and Measurement of Modern Transition”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
October 12, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Noreen Goldman (Princeton University and CCPR)
“Biomarkers, Stress, and Health: Findings from the Taiwan Study and Plans for the Second Wave”
Related Articles: 1) Predicting Mortality… and 2) Stress Perceived…
October 19, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Susan Watkins (CCPR and University of Pennsylvania)
“Demography and Ethnography”
October 26, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Eleanor Singer (University of Michigan)
“Confidentiality and Informed Consent: The Psychology of Risk Communication and Risk Perceptions”
Related Articles: 1) Confidentiality, Risks… and 2) Exploring Meaning…
November 9, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
William Clark and Michael Shin
“Are There Measurable Neighborhood Effects? Evidence from LAFANS”
November 16, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Ronald Lee (UCB)
“Intergenerational Transfers and The Evolution of Human Mortality: How Social Arrangements Can Drive Natural Selection”
November 29, *Tuesday*3:30-5:00 – 9383 Bunche
Maurizio Mazzocco (Univ. of Wisconsin)
” Testing Efficiency: Semi-parametric Tests with an Application to Village”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
November 30, 12:00-1:00 – 9383 Bunche
Yasamin Kusunoki, Vida Maralani, Judith Seltzer
Ethics in Scientific Research: “Publishing Your Work: The Submission and R & R Process”
December 7, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche**POSTPONED**
Eileen Crimmins (USC)
“Is there a Hispanic Paradox in Biological Risk?”
December 13,*Tuesday*1:30-3:00 PM – 279 Haines
Herbert Smith (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
“Counterfactual Model of Causality”
Co-sponsored with the Quantitative Research Methods Working Group
December 14, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Herbert Smith (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
“Some Demography of Enrollment Projections for School Districts”
WINTER QUARTER, 2006
January 11, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Devah Pager (Princeton University)
“Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets”
January 18, 12:00-1:30 – Faculty Center
Duncan Thomas (CCPR-Director)
“Faculty Advisory Luncheon”
January 25, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Lynne Casper (USC)
“Complex Connections: A Look at a Multidisciplinary Work, Family, Health and Well-being Research Program”
Co-sponsored with Center on Everyday Lives of Families
February 2, **Thursday**3:30-5:00 PM – 279 Haines
Katherine Newman (Princeton University)
“Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low Wage Labor Market”
Co-sponsored with Ross Lecture Series in Sociology
February 8, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Robert Pynoos (UCLA) and Alan Steinberg (UCLA/Duke University)
“Disasters and Youth: From Biology to Moral Development”
February 15, 12:00-1:15 – 9383 Bunche
Christine Bachrach (NICHD)
“NICHD Funding Opportunities and Mechanisms”
February 22, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Rubén Rumbaut (UCI)
“The ‘Second Generation’ in Early Adulthood”
Related Materials: 1) Turning Points… and 2) Gendered Paths…
March 8, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Thomas Gillespie and Regan Maas
“Methods in Spatial Demography”
March 13, 12:00-1:30 – 279 Haines Hall
Patrick Heuveline (Univ. of Chicago)
” Cambodian History and Social Demography: A Dialog in Three Acts” South East Asian Studies Job Candidate Talk”
March 15, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
V. Joseph Hotz
“Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behaviors, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers”
March 22, 12:00-2:30 – 9383 Bunche
PAA Practice Session 1
March 24, 12:00-2:30 – 279 Haines
PAA Practice Session 2
SPRING QUARTER, 2006
April 4,*Tuesday *12:00-1:30 – 279 Haines Hall
Kathleen Kiernan (University of York)
” Partnership Status Disparities in Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Maternal Depression”
Co-sponsored with the Sociology of Family Working Group
April 5, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
John Hobcraft (University of York)
“The Childhood Origins of Adult Health and Well-Being: Do Gender and Cohort Matter?”
April 12, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Robert Willis (University of Michigan)
” Estimating Knightian Uncertainty from Survival Probability Questions on the HRS”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
April 18, *Tuesday*3:30-5:00 – 9383 Bunche
John Ham (USC)
“Selection Bias, Demographic Effects and Ability Effects in Common Value Auction Experiments”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
April 19, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
M. Belinda Tucker (UCLA)
“Single in the City: Women’s Attitudes Toward Marriage Over Time”
April 25, *Tuesday*12:00-1:30 – 279 Haines
Elizabeth Frankenberg, Donald Treiman, Susan Watkins
Ethics in Scientific Research: “The Complexities of Conducting Sample Surveys in Settings Outside of the United States”
Co-sponsored with the Quantitative Sociology Working Group
April 26, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Jennifer Glick (Arizona State University)
“Academic Performance of Young Children in Immigrant Families: Convergence by Race and Ethnicity”
April 27, *Thursday* 10:00-11:00 AM – 279 Haines
Myron Gutmann and Felicia LeClere (ICPSR)
“Data Sharing for Demographic Research”
May 3, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Liana Sayer (Ohio State University)
“Economic Resources, Marital Bargains, and Marital Quality”
Co-sponsored with the Sociology of Family Working Group
May 9, *Tuesday*3:30-5:00 – 9383 Bunche
H. Elizabeth Peters(Cornell Univ.)
“Cooperation and Relatedness in a Multi-Person Dictator Experiment”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
May 10, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Graciela Teruel (UIA and CCPR)
“Attrition in Progresa Rural Evaluation Survey”
May 17, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
R. Kelly Raley (Univ. of Texas)
“Rating and Dating Revisited: How Social and Formal Organizational Attributes Shape the Formation of Adolescent Romantic Relationships”
Co-sponsored with the UCLA Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program
May 24, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Luis Rubalcava (CIDE and CCPR)
“Longitudinal Evidence of the Effect of Crime Suffered on Individual Health”
May 31, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Paul Schultz (Yale)
“Family Planning as an Investment in Development and Female Human Capital: Evaluating the Long Term Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
June 7, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Emilio Parrado(Duke University)
” Migration and Sexuality: A Comparison of Mexicans in Sending and Receiving Communities”
CCPR Seminars 2004-2005
FALL QUARTER, 2004
October 6, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Judith Seltzer (UCLA)
“Welcome and Introductions”
October 20, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Joseph Hotz, Judith Seltzer, Duncan Thomas (UCLA)
“Explaining Family Variation and Change”
October 27, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
James P. Smith (RAND)
” The Impact of SES on Health over the Life Course”
November 17, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Andrew Fuligni (UCLA)
” Family Obligation and Adolescent Development”
November 30,**Tuesday**3:15-5:15 PM – 9383 Bunche
Mark Rosenzweig (Harvard)
” Agricultural Development, Industrialization and Rural Inequality”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
December 1, 12:00-1:30 – Faculty Center
Duncan Thomas (CCPR-Director)
“Faculty Advisory Luncheon”
December 8,12:00-1:00 – 9383 Bunche
Janet Currie, Robert Mare, and Kelly Musick
Ethics in Scientific Research: “Reviewing Manuscripts and Proposals”
WINTER QUARTER, 2005
January 12, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Ross Stolzenberg (Univ. of Chicago)
“Paid Work, Housework and the Construction of Life Chances”
January 19, 12:00-1:30 – **9383 Bunche**
Kathryn Edin (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
“Why Low Income Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage”
Co-sponsored with Sociology of the Family Working Group and UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations
January 27,*Thursday*1:30-3:00 PM – 279 Haines
Steven Nock (Univ. of Virginia)
“When Private Troubles Become Public Issues: Mapping the Distribution of Obligations”
February 8,*Tuesday*3:15-5:15 PM – 9383 Bunche
Sandra Black and Paul Devereux (UCLA)
“The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Children’s Education”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
February 16, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Seth Sanders and Sarah Bohn (Univ. of Maryland)
“Refining the Estimation of Immigration’s Labor Market Effects”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
February 23,**Workshop**9:00-12:00 PM; 2:00-5:00 PM 2400a Public Policy Building (PPB)
John Fox (McMaster Univ)
“An Introduction to Statistical Computing in R”
Co-sponsored with Statistics Dept.
March 2, 12:00-1:00 – Public Policy 2035B (Computing Lab)
Laura Piersol and Aaron Seligman
“Introduction to the Linux Cluster” Download
March 9, 12:00-1:00 – 9383 Bunche
Donald Treiman and Dawn Upchurch
Ethics in Scientific Research
“UCLA IRBs: Policies, Procedures, and Ethical Issues”
March 15,**Tuesday**3:30-5:00 PM – 9383 Bunche
Shelly Lundberg (Univ. of Washington)
” Decision-Making by the Children of the NLSY”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics and the Institute of Industrial Relations
March 16, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Cameron Campbell (UCLA)
“Village, Descent Group, and Household in Northeast China, 1749-1909”
March 23, 12:00-2:30 – 279 Haines**PAA Student Program**
PAA Practice Session 1
March 24, 12:00-1:30 – 279 Haines**PAA Student Program**
PAA Practice Session 2
SPRING QUARTER, 2005
April 12,*Tuesday*3:30-5:00 PM – 9383 Bunche
Caroline Hoxby (Harvard)
“The Impact of Charter Schools on Student Achievement”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
April 20, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche**CANCELLED**
Alberto Palloni (Univ. of Wisconsin)
“Assessing the Robustness of Conventional Methods for Estimating Durations of Disability”
April 27,12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Seema Jayachandran (UCLA)
“Air Quality and Infant Mortality During Indonesia’s Massive Wildfires in 1997”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
April 29, Faculty Center, (please see agenda for schedule)
Conference Organizers: Janet Currie, Roger Gordon, John Strauss
“SoCal Applied Micro Conference” [Agenda]
Sponsored by the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
May 11, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Steven Ruggles (Univ. of Minnesota)
” The Decline of the Multigenerational Family in the United States, 1850-2000″
Co-sponsored with Sociology of the Family Working Group
May 18, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Elizabeth Frankenberg (UCLA)
“Sometimes It Takes a Village: Collective Efficacy and Children’s Use of Preventive Health Care”
May 25, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
William Dow (UCBerkeley)
“Health and Labor Outcomes in Transition China”
May 31,*Tuesday*3:30-5:00 PM – 9383 Bunche
Thomas MaCurdy (Stanford)
“Influence of Alternative Reporting Regimes on Participation in Food Stamp Programs”
Co-sponsored with the Albert Family Workshop in Applied Economics
June 1, 12:00-1:00 – 9383 Bunche
Laura Piersol (UCLA)
Ethics in Scientific Research: “Problems of Replication: Documentation Procedures and Pitfalls”
June 8, 12:00-1:30 – 9383 Bunche
Susan Short (Brown Univ.)
“The One-Child Policy and Fertility in China”
CCPR Seminars 2003-2004
FALL QUARTER, 2003
October 1, 12:00-1:30 – Faculty Center, Sequoia Rm.
Duncan Thomas (Director-CCPR)
Faculty Advisory Luncheon
October 8, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383 *FIRST REGULAR SESSION*
Judith A. Seltzer (Assoc. Director-CCPR)
Introductions: New and Continuing CCPR Affiliates Introduce Themselves
October 15, 11:45-1:30 – Royce 314 *seminars starts at 12:00* (light lunch served)
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks (UC Berkeley)
” Women In and On the Market: Consumption and the Internet in Urban Cameroon”
November 5, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
Christine Schwartz and Robert Mare (Dept. of Sociology, UCLA)
” The Effects of Marriage, Marital Dissolution, and Educational Upgrading on Educational Assortative Mating”
November 12, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
Thomas McDade (Northwestern Univ.)
“Beyond the Gradient: Models and Methods for Research on Social Status, Stress, and Health”
[Related articles: 1) Epstein-Bar Virus, 2) Status Incongruity]
November 19, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
Mark Ellis (Univ. of Washington)
” Work Together, Live Apart? Geographies of Residential and Workplace Segregation in Los Angeles”
December 3, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
Paula England (Northwestern Univ.)
” Why Are Some Academic Fields Tipping Toward Female?”
December 10, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383 *CANCELLED, WILL RESCHEDULE*
Judith Seltzer, Joseph Hotz and Duncan Thomas (UCLA)
“Designing New Models for Explaining Family Change and Variation”
WINTER QUARTER, 2004
January 13, (TUESDAY)**5:30-7:00**279 Haines
Barbara Entwisle (Univ. of North Carolina)
“Village Settlement and Land Use Change in a Frontier Region: Nang Rong, Thailand”
Related Work: “Workshop on Research on Population, Land Use, and Environment”
January 28, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
Wolfgang Lutz (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria)
“Asia’s Future Population and Human Capital”
February 4, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
S. Philip Morgan (Duke Univ.)
“Do Parents of Girls Really Have a Higher Risk of Divorce? Revisiting Father Involvement and Marital Stability”
February 11, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
Suzanne Bianchi (Univ. of Maryland)
“Gender, Time, and the Changing Rhythms of American Family Life”
Related Work: “Are Parents Investing Less in Children? Trends in Mothers’ and Fathers’ Time with Children” [Tables and Figures]
February 18, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
Kathleen McGarry (Dept. of Economics, UCLA)
“Private Information and Its Effect on Market Equilibrium: New Evidence from Long Term Care Insurance”
March 10, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
Beth Soldo (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
“The Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS)”
Co-sponsored with Applied Economics Workshop
March 17, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
PAA Practice Session I
March 24, 12:00-2:00 – Bunche 9383
PAA Practice Session II
SPRING QUARTER, 2004
April 7, 12:00-1:30 – 279 Haines
Matthijs Kalmijn (Tilburg University)
“Educational Inequality and Extended Family Relationships: Evidence from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Sociology, Ross Colloquium Committee
April 14, 12:00-1:00 – Bunche 9383
Megan Sweeney, Kathleen McGarry, and Don Treiman
“Ethics in Scientific Research: Discussion of “Diversity in Everyday Research Practice:The Case of Data Editing” article by Leahey et al.
April 21, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
Julie Brines (Univ. of Washington)
“Poor Families and Local Justice in a Rich Nation: Parental Investment in Uninsured Children’s Health”
April 28, 12:00-1:00 – Bunche 9383
Anne Pebley (UCLA)
“Ethics in Scientific Research: Creation and Use of Confidential Data”
April 30, 12:00-1:30 – 279 Haines
Ted Gerber (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Union formation and dissolution in Russia, 1985-2001”
Co-sponsored with Dept. of Sociology, Ross Colloquium Committee
April 30, 3:30-5:00**RAND**
Julia Lane (National Institute on Aging)
“New Dataset for Research on Aging”[This is a special workshop for those of you working on aging or interested in aging. If you plan to attend, please email Wendy (wendy@ccpr.ucla.edu) so that we can let RAND know.]
May 5, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
David Plane (Univ. of Arizona-Tucson)
“The Sustainability of Demographic Progress Around the World”
May 19, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
Dowell Myers (USC)
“Immigration Trends, Upward Mobility, and Policy Rhetoric”
Related materials: “California’s Immigrants Turn the Corner”, and ” Accuracy of Data Collected by the Census Question on Immigrants’ Year of Arrival”
June 1, (TUESDAY) 3:30-5:00 – Bunche 9383
Claudia Goldin (Harvard Univ.)
“The Long Road to the Fast Track: Career and Family”
Co-Sponsored with the Von Gremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial
June 9, 12:00-1:00 – Bunche 9383
Moshe Buchinsky, Cameron Campbell, Elizabeth Frankenberg
“Ethics in Scientific Research: Collaborations and Co-Authorship: Who Does What, Who’s on First”
CCPR Seminars 2002-2003
FALL QUARTER, 2002
October 2, 12:00-1:30, Public Policy 4357B
Introductory Session Center
Director Robert Mare will discuss recent developments at the Center.
Center members will introduce themselves and briefly describe their recent work.
October 9, 12:00-1:30, Public Policy 4357B
Matthias Doepke (UCLA)
“Voting with Your Children: A Positive Analysis of Child-Labor Laws”
October 23, 12:00-1:30, Royce 154
Moshe Buchinsky (UCLA)
“Social Security Disability Award Process: How Large are the Classification Errors?”
November 6, 2:00-3:30, Bunche 9383
Joel Ferrie (Northwestern)
“The Rich and the Dead: Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the United States, 1850-1860”
Co-sponsored with the Von Gremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History
November 8, 3:00-5:00, Haines Hall A25
Hans-Peter Kohler (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Emergence of Lowest-Low Fertility in Europe During the 1990s”
November 19, 3:30-5:00, Bunche 9838
Jinyong Hahn (UCLA)
“Identification, Estimation and Inference for the Linear-in-Means Model of Social Interactions”
Co-sponsored with Workshop in Economic Applications
November 21,**THURSDAY**12:00-1:30, Royce 156
Martina Morris (University of Washington)
“Current Trends in Earnings Inequality and Mobility”
December 4, 12:00-1:30, Royce 154
Iliana Kohler (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Effect of Marriage on Mortality: Selection or Protection? Evidence from Danish Twins using Fixed-Effect Survival Models’
WINTER QUARTER, 2003
January 8, 12:00-1:30 – Public Policy 2238
Barbara Okun (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
“Insight into Ethnic Flux: Marriage Patterns among Jews of Mixed Ancestry in Israel”
January 22, 12:00-1:30 – Public Policy 2238
Insan Tunali (KOC University, Turkey)
“Married Women’s Participation Choices and Productivity Differentials: Evidence from Urban Turkey”
February 5, 12:00-1:30 – Public Policy 2238
Michael Rosenfeld (Stanford University)
“Alternative Families and the Independence of Young Adults in the U.S.”
Co-sponsored with Race, Ethnicity, Immigration Working Group
February 14,**FRIDAY**12:00-1:30 – Room TBA
Michel Guillot (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“The Momentum of Mortality Decline’
February 21,**FRIDAY**12:00-1:30 – Haines Hall 279
Yu Xie (University of Michigan)
“Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes”
Co-sponsored with Sociology Department Ross Lecture Series
February 25, ***(TUESDAY) 3:30-5:00 – Bunche 9383
Jere Behrman (University of Pennsylvania)
“TBA”
Co-sponsored with Workshop in Economic Applications
March 5, 12:00-1:30 – Public Policy 2238
Megan Beckett (RAND)
“Does SES Cause Health in Mid-Life or Vice Versa?”
SPRING QUARTER, 2003
April 2, 12:00-1:30 – UCLA Faculty Center, Hacienda Room
John Casterline (Population Council)
“TBA”
April 8,**TUESDAY**3:30-5:00 – Bunche 9383
Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins)
“TBA”
Co-sponsored with Workshop in Economic Applications
April 16, 12:00-1:30 – UCLA Faculty Center, Sierra Room
“TBA”
April 23, 12:00-1:30 – UCLA Faculty Center, Hacienda Room
PAA Practice Session
April 29,**TUESDAY**3:30-5:00 – Bunche 9383
Karl Scholz (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“TBA”
Co-sponsored with Workshop in Economic Applications
May 14, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
Patrick Hueveline (University of Chicago)
“The Mortality-Fertility Link and Population Dynamics in Post-Khmer-Rouge Cambodia”
May 16, 12:00-1:30 – 2343 PUBLIC POLICY
Daniel H. Weinberg (Chief of the Housing and Household, Economic Statistics Division, U.S. Bureau of the Census)
“Alternative Poverty Measures”
Co-sponsored with The Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and Center for the Study of Urban Poverty
Note: talk will begin at approximately 12:30 preceded by a buffet lunch/refreshments
*Please RSVP lunch attendance including name(s) to: lewisctr@sppsr.ucla.edu or via fax to: 310/825-1575.
May 28, 12:00-1:30 – Bunche 9383
Lincoln Quillian (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“Does Urban Economic Segregation Create Winners and Losers? Economic Segregation, Educational Attainment, and Criminal Victimization”
CCPR Seminars 2001-2002
FALL QUARTER, 2001
September 25 (TUESDAY), 3:30 – 5:00PM, 9383 Bunche
David Card (Berkeley) -Joint with RAND Labor and Population-
“Using Eligibility Rules to Measure the Effects of the Medicaid Expansions”
October 3, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
INTRODUCTION
October 10, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Zhenchao Qian (Arizona State)
“Racial Options: Factors Affecting Identification of Biracial Children”
October 17, 12:00-1:30, 4357B Public Policy
Tom MaCurdy (Stanford)
“How Much Does California’s Welfare Policy Explain the Slower Decline of Its Caseload?”
October 24, 1:30-3:00, 9383 Bunche
George Alter (Indiana)
“Early Life Conditions and the Decline of Adult Mortality in the Belgian Ardennes, 1812-1890”
Co-sponsored with von Gremp Group
November 9 (FRIDAY), 12:00-1:30, 279 Haines
Andrew Cherlin (Johns Hopkins) “Welfare Reform, Families, and Children: Findings from a Study of Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio”
Co-sponsored with the Race, Ethnicity, Immigration Working Group and Department of Sociology Ross Lecture
November 28, 12:00-1:30, 4357B Public Policy
Janet Currie (UCLA)
“Networks, Neighborhoods, and the Utilization of Publicly-Funded Prenatal Care in California”
December 5, 12:00-1:30, 4357B Public Policy
Noriko Tsuya (Keio)
“Patterns and Covariates of Migration in 18th and 19th Century Rural Japan: Evidence from Two Northeastern Villages”
WINTER QUARTER, 2002
January 16, 12:00-1:30, 4371B Public Policy
Cameron Campbell (UCLA, Sociology)
“Kinship, Employment and Marriage: The Importance of Kin Networks for Young Adult Males in Qing Liaoning”
January 23, 12:00-1:30, 4371B Public Policy
Christopher ( Sandy) Jencks (Harvard)
“Has the Economic Impact of Family Background Changed In the US Since 1960?”
February 6, 12:00-1:30, Haines 279 (new location)
Frank Furstenberg (University of Pennsylvania)
“How it Takes Thirty Years to Do a Study: Teenage Parenthood in Historical and Longitudinal Perspective”
February 20, 12:00-1:30, 4371B Public Policy
Valerie Oppenheimer (UCLA)
“Cohabiting and Marriage Formation During Young Men’s Career Development Process”
February 27, 4:00-5:30, RAND North Conference Facility (Address: RAND, 1700 Main Street, Santa Monica)
Amy Tsui (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
“Community Influences on Reproductive Health Outcomes in Northern India”
View papers: Community Influences on Reproductive Health Service Utilization in Uttar Pradesh,
India Contextual Influences on Reproductive Wellness in Northern India
Co-Sponsored with RAND Seminars in Aging, Development, and Population
March 6, 12:00-1:30, 4371B Public Policy
Susan Watkins (University of Pennsylvania)
“Strategies for Avoiding AIDS in Rural Malawi”
SPRING QUARTER, 2002
April 3, 12:00-1:30, 4371B Public Policy
Larry Bumpass (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
“Family Boundaries, Couple Relationships, and Union Stability”
April 10, 12:00-1:30, 4371B Public Policy
Bob Willis (University of Michigan)
“How Probabilistic Thinking Affects Economic Behavior” “Tables”
April 17, 12:00-1:30, 4371B Public Policy
Kathleen Mullan-Harris (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“The Americanization of Immigrant Youth: Family and Neighborhood Process”
May 6, 3:00-4:45, Haines 279
PAA Presentation Practice
May 14, 3:30-5:00, **TUESDAY**, Bunche 9383
Esther Duflo (MIT)
“Women and Minority as Policy Makers: Evidence from an Indiawide Randomized Experiment”
May 22, 12:00-1:30, 4371B Public Policy
Elizabeth Frankenberg (UCLA-Sociology)
“Changes in Use of Health Care During Indonesia’s Economic Crisis”
May 29, 12:00-1:30, 4371B Public Policy
Megan Sweeney (UCLA)
“The Relationship of Stepfamilies to Adolescent Health Outcomes”
June 5, 12:00-1:30, 4371B Public Policy
Eduardo Fajnzylber (UCLA)
“A Dynamic Model of Amniocentesis Choice”
CCPR Seminars 2000-2001
FALL QUARTER, 2000
October 4, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Dawn Upchurch (UCLA, Community Health Sciences)
“Neighborhood and Family Influences on the Risk of First Sex”
October 18, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Dean Jamison (UCLA, Educ./Center for Pacific Rim Studies)
“Is Income Growth of Much Importance in Improving Health?”
November 1, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Jacob Klerman and Steven Haider (RAND)
“A Stock-Flow Analysis of the Welfare Caseload: Insights from California Economic Conditions”
November 15, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Kelly Musick (University of Southern California, Sociology)
“Links between Cohabitation, Nonmarital Childbearing, and Marriage”
November 29, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Judith Seltzer (UCLA, Sociology)
“Joint Legal Custody and Child Support Payments: Are There Lasting Custody Effects?”
December 13, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Jeffrey Grogger (UCLA, Public Policy)
“Explaining Recent Declines in Food Stamp Program Participation”
WINTER QUARTER, 2001
January 24, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Michael Stoll (UCLA, Public Policy)
“Why do Black Employers Hire More African Americans than White Employers?”
February 6, 3:30-5:00,**THIS IS A THURSDAY** 9383 Bunche Hall
Robert Pollak (Washington Univ., Arts and Sciences and the John M. Olin School )
“Efficiency in Families”
February 7, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
M. Giovanna Merli (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sociology)”The Social Organization of the Chinese Family Planning System”
February 21, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
J. David Hacker (Cal Tech, Humanities and Social Sciences)
“Rethinking the ‘Early’ Decline of Fertility in the Nineteenth-Century United States: New Evidence from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series”
March 7, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
James P. Smith (RAND)
“Wealth Inequality in the United States and Great Britain” Paper / You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view paper
March 14, 12:00-1:30,**HH1111 (Sociology Conf. Rm.)**
Bill Lavely (Univ. of Washington/UCLA)
“Sex Preference for Children in a Meifu Li Community in Hainan, China”
March 21, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
“Graduate Student PAA Presentation Practice”
SPRING QUARTER, 2001
April 18, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Frank Bean (UC Irvine, Sociology)
“Chilling” Effects, Labor Market Conditions, and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants
May 2, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Freya Sonenstein (The Urban Institute)
“Differential Risk Factors Associated with STD Infections in Young Men”
May 16, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
William Mason (UCLA, Sociology) and Bill Lavely (Univ. of Washington/UCLA)
“Infant Mortality and Sex Ratio at Birth: Explorations of the 1990 Chinese Census”
May 23, 12:00-1:30, 2343 Public Policy
Sylvia Bashevkin (Political Science, U. of Toronto)
“Single Mothers and Welfare Reform in Comparative Perspective (Canada, U.S., UK)”
May 24, 12:00-1:30**THIS IS A THURSDAY**4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Richard Breen (European University Institute and Oxford University)
“A Rational Choice Model of Educational Inequality”
May 30, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Cindy Fan (UCLA, Geography)
“Migration and Division of Labor in China”
June 13, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Andrew Noymer (UC-Berkeley, Sociology)
“Mortality Selection and Mortality Decline: The Case of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic”
CCPR Seminars 1999-2000
FALL QUARTER, 1999
September 28, 3:30-5:00, 9383 Bunche
Peter Kuhn (UC – Santa Barbara)
“Aboriginals as Unwilling Immigrants”
Co-sponsored with RAND/UCLA Labor and Population Workshop
Octobert 6, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy
Timothy Biblarz (Univ. of Southern California)
“Family Structure, Educational Attainment, and Socioeconomic Success: Rethinking thePathology of Matriarchy”
October 20, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Renzo Derosas (Univ. Of Venice)
“Decomposing Infant and Child Mortality: An Example from the Venetian Population Registers, 1850-1869”
October 28, 2:00-3:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.) Note Special Day and Time
Maria Cancian (Univ. of Wisconsin)
“Evaluating Wisconsin Welfare Reform: Initial Findings from the Child Support Demonstration Evaluation”
November 1, 12:00-1:00, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Jeff Evans of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
“New Research Initiatives from the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of NICHD”
November 3, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Nicky Hart and Christopher Paul (UCLA)
“Death, Domesticity and Durkheim – The Contribution of Race Differentials in Marriage to Survival Inequalities in 1990”
November 17, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Nelson Lim (UCLA)
“Employers’ Rankings of Work Related Qualities of Racial and Ethnic Groups”
December 1, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
James Lee (Cal. Institute of Technology)
”One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000″
December 15, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Anne Pebley (UCLA)
“The New Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey”
WINTER QUARTER, 2000
January 13, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Ronald Lee (UC – Berkeley)
“Population Aging and the Future of Social Security”
January 26, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Marlis Buchmann (University of Zurich)
“Leisure as an Element of Lifestyle and a Means of Cultural Distinction 1900-1996: Social Class and Age Differentiations”
February 9, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
William Frey (SUNY-Albany and Milken Institute, Santa Monica)
“Will California Continue to Lose its “Best and Brightest” Retirees?”
February 23, 12:00-1:30, 1648 Hershey Hall (Sociology)
David Harris (University of Michigan)
“Patterns and Determinants of Adolescent Racial Identity” “Tables and Figures”
March 1, 12:00-1:30, Hershey Hall, Room 1111
Confidential Data: Ethical Issues and Practices
Organizer: Judith A. Seltzer (UCLA) Panelists: Joe Hotz (UCLA), Nelson Lim (UCLA), Anne Pebley (UCLA)
March 10, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Qiang Li (People’s University, Beijing-Dept. of Sociology)
“The Problem of Urban Migrants in China”
SPRING QUARTER, 2000
April 5, 12:00-1:30, **Videoconference Center 62-073 CHS**
Valerie Oppenheimer (UCLA, Sociology)
“The Role of Economic Behavior in Marital Instability”
This seminar will also be presented via the UC Videoconference Network to UC-Berkeley
April 12, 12:00-1:30, Hershey Hall Room 1130 (Sociology)
Darren H. Lubotsky (UC – Berkeley)
“How Well Do Immigrants Assimilate into the U.S. Labor Market? A Longitudinal Analysis of Earnings, Self-selection, and the Return to Skills”
April 19, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)Don Treiman (UCLA, Sociology)
“The Lingering Consequences of Political Class Background (Jaiting) in the People’s Republic of China: A Socio-Demographic Analysis”
May 3, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Enrico Marcelli (UCLA, Public Policy)
“The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from Southern California”
May 17, 12:00-1:30, 4355D Public Policy (ISSR Conf. Rm.)
Teresa Seeman (UCLA Medical School and Epidemiology)
“Exploring Biological Mediators of Social and Psychological Effects on Health and Aging”
May 24, 12:00-1:30, 1130 Hershey Hall (Sociology)
Janet Currie (UCLA, Economics)
“Managed Care and Hospital Provision of Charity Care: The Case of California”