California Center for Population Research

CCPR Social Hour
2025-11-05 16:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | UCLA Faculty Club
CCPR is hosting a faculty-only Social Hour at the UCLA Faculty Club. There is no formal agenda—think of this as an informal gathering to meet and reconnect with CCPR affiliates. Peter Evans and Grace Bukovsky from UCLA College Development will attend to discuss and answer questions regarding major giving fundraising and foundation support with those interested. Light refreshments will be provided. We look forward to seeing you there!

Tiffany Joseph, Northeastern University, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare"
2025-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
CCIS / CSIM / BIMI / GMC // CCPR book presentation (via zoom) on 11/7/25. This event may be recorded. Please note that the time listed is Pacific Time. Registration link: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/OOns5nFVTzCf139m4hWE0Q
If the link does not work for you, please copy and paste it onto your web browser. The registration link is also available on the CCIS website (ccis.ucsd.edu) here, https://ccis.ucsd.edu/events/index.html
For more information please email w2tam@ucsd.edu.

Biography: Dr. Tiffany Joseph is Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Northeastern University. Her research and teaching interests explore race, ethnicity, and migration in the Americas; immigrants’ health and healthcare access; immigration and health policy; and the experiences of faculty of color in academia. Her most recent book, (Not) All In: Race, Immigration, and Healthcare Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare Uohns Hopkins University Press), explores how documentation status, race, and ethnicity influence the healthcare access of immigrants after comprehensive health reform. She is also the author of Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race (Stanford University Press, 2015) and her work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals and national media outlets.
Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare, Tiffany Joseph
Abstract: Despite progressive policy strides in health care reform, immigrant communities continue to experience stark disparities across the United States. Not All In exposes the insidious contradiction of Massachusetts’ advanced health care system and the exclusionary experiences of its immigrant communities. Joseph illustrates how patients’ race, ethnicity, and legal status determine their access to health coverage and care services, revealing a disturbing paradox where policy advances and individual experiences drastically diverge. Examining Boston’s Brazilian, Dominican, and Salvadoran communities, this book provides an exhaustive analysis spanning nearly a decade to highlight the profound impacts of the Affordable Care Act and subsequent policy shifts on these marginalized groups. Not All In is a critical examination of the systemic barriers that perpetuate health care disparities. Joseph challenges readers to confront the uncomfortable truths about racialized legal status and its profound implications on health care access. This essential book illuminates the complexities of policy implementation and advocates for more inclusive reforms that genuinely cater to all. Urging policymakers, health care providers, and activists to rethink strategies that bridge the gap between legislation and life, this book reminds us that in the realm of health care, being progressive is not synonymous with inclusivity.

On the Move: Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
2025-11-14 12:00
Friday, November 14,2025 | 12:00PM – 1:30PMPacificTime
Will be held via Zoom (This Event May Be Recorded) Register for Zoom Info Here
Book Talk Speakers:
Andrew Selee is President of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a global nonpartisan institution that seeks to improve immigration and integration policies through fact-based research, opportunities for learning and dialogue, and the development of new ideas to address complex policy questions.
Diego Chaves-González is Senior Manager for MPI’s Latin America and Caribbean Initiative, which aims to create dialogue and foster the exchange of innovative policy ideas among Latin American governments and their partners.
Valerie Lacarte is a Senior Policy Analyst with MPI’s U.S. Immigration Policy Program, where she contributes to research design and conducts data analysis on a range of issues, including native-immigrant gaps in socioeconomic outcomes and access to public benefits for vulnerable immigrant and humanitarian populations.
Ariel G. Ruiz Soto is a Senior Policy Analyst at MPI, where he works with the U.S. Immigration Policy Program and the Latin America and Caribbean Initiative
Discussant: Rubén Hernández-León (Director of the UCLA Latin American Institute and Professor of Sociology)
On the Move: Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
In a newly published , On the Move: Migration Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, Migration Policy Institute (MPI) President Andrew Selee and coauthors Valerie Lacarte, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, and Diego Chaves-González offer the first comprehensive look at policy responses by governments in the region and shed light on the lesser-known dynamics of migration in, to, and through the region. Through compelling storytelling and rigorous analysis, the authors uncover how governments and societies in Latin America and the Caribbean are adapting—unevenly, yet innovatively—to an era of unprecedented human mobility

Coffee and Conversation
2025-11-17 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by the CCPR Directors and new UCLA Professor Ann Owens, who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.

Coffee and Conversation
2025-12-01 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-01-05 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-03-09 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by the CCPR Directors, who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.

Development Workshop: Mary Jo Mitchell (Director of Gov’t and Public Affairs, PAA), “Engaging Policymakers: Role of PAA/APC and Population Scientists”
2025-12-03 12:00 - 13:15 | Zoom
Biography: Since January 2004, Mary Jo H. Mitchell has been the Director of Government Affairs for the Population Association of America and Association of Population Centers. In addition to representing PAA and APC, Ms. Mitchell has co-directed The Census Project since 2008. Prior to her position with PAA/APC, Ms. Mitchell worked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for approximately 10 years, as the Legislative Officer at the National Institute on Aging and as the Special Assistant to the Director of the NIH Office of Policy of Extramural Research Administration. Ms. Mitchell held positions on Capitol Hill as a Legislative Assistant for U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro and Legislative Correspondent for former U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman. Ms. Mitchell has a Master of Public Administration from George Washington University and is a former Presidential Management Fellow. Her recent leadership positions include serving as President of the Association of Public Data Users, 2021-2022, and as the Chair of the Associates Board of Directors for the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, 2011-2012. In March 2024, Mary Jo was appointed by the U.S. Census Bureau to serve on the 2030 Census Advisory Committee. In 2024, she was named one of Washington, DC’s Top Lobbyists by the National Institute for Lobbying and Ethics.
“Engaging Policymakers: Role of PAA/APC and Population Scientists”
Abstract: The Population Association of America (PAA) and Association of Population Centers (APC), especially through the work of its Government and Public Affairs Committee and the Director of PAA/APC Government Affairs, Mary Jo Mitchell, educate policymakers about the population sciences and the organizations’ federal policy priorities. Please join us on December 3 for a webinar in which Mary Jo Mitchell will discuss how PAA and APC develop and communicate the organizations’ federal policy priorities and how you can play a role. Mary Jo will share tips on how to successfully establish and maintain good communications and relationships with federal policymakers and their staff.

A recording of this event can be found here.

Holiday Coffee and Conversation
2025-12-08 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room

Coffee and Conversation
2026-01-12 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Adriana Lleras-Muney, who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.

Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland, "Research Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar"
2026-01-14 12:00 - 13:15 | Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095
Biography: Philip N. Cohen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His latest book, Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (Columbia University Press 2025), addresses the role of intellectuals in public life and offers guidance for a career in social science. His other research concerns demographic trends, family structure, the division of labor, health disparities, and open science.

Research Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar
Abstract: What is the role of professional scholars in civic life? How and why should academics seek to reach audiences beyond their disciplines and institutions? Must there be tension between advancing along an academic career path and taking part in public conversations, or can these goals reinforce each other? Drawing from personal experience and in-depth research, this talk features straightforward advice that acknowledges professional risks as well as rewards. Cohen embraces the reciprocal relationship between professional scholarship and active citizenship, arguing that aligning personal and vocational identities can enhance both public and academic contributions. He explores intellectual work on social media, science communication, political activism, and how to build trust while developing a public intellectual identity (and his experience suing President Trump for blocking him on Twitter – and winning).

A recording of this event can be found here.

Coffee and Conversation
2026-01-26 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Andres Villarreal, who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.

The Challenges and Promise of Population Research: Insights from CCPR’s Junior Population Scientists
2026-01-28 12:00 - 13:15 | Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095
CCPR’s Junior Population Scientists are distinguished population scholars and CCPR affiliates from other California universities. Join us in welcoming the inaugural cohort as they briefly introduce their research and insights into the challenges and promises of population research. A Q&A session and reception will follow.

Household decision-making under the microscope: evidence from experiments with Kenyan households
Prachi Jain is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Loyola Marymount University. Her research uses experimental methods to explore topics in behavioral economics, gender economics, and economic development. Her interests are expansive, for example exploring the role of social networks in informal insurance, the underrepresentation of women in labor markets, financial privacy in couples, and the effects of stress on economic decision-making. She is a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action and an external affiliate with the California Center for Population Research. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. She previously was a Postdoctoral Associate at Princeton University and completed her B.A. degree in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Presented Paper here.

Looking Within Families: Differences Among Adult Children and Implications for Support to Older Parents and Their Health

Luoman Bao is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on aging, health, and family, with a particular attention to aging experiences and intergenerational dynamics in diverse social contexts, as well as their implications for the health and well-being of older adults. Her work also examines how gender, racial/ethnic, and socioeconomic inequalities shape family experiences and individual health across the aging process. Presented Paper here.

Measuring the population health impacts of immigration policy

Dr. Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young is an immigrant health scholar whose research seeks to understand the impact of the US immigration system on the well-being of immigrants and their families. She has established new frameworks and measures to understand the relationships between immigration policies, citizenship/legal status, and health, and has conducted some of the first empirical studies showing that immigration policy is associated with health inequities. A guiding principle in her work is to partner with immigrants and community members as active contributors in the design and interpretation of research. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and published in a wide range of public health, health policy, and sociological journals, including American Journal of Public Health, The Milbank Quarterly, International Migration Review, and Social Science and Medicine. She received her PhD in community health sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and her MPH with an emphasis in maternal and child health from UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Presented Paper here.

Food insecurity on campus: barriers to food assistance use among college students
Tabashir Nobari, PhD, MPH, is an affiliate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an associate professor in the Department of Public Health at California State University, Fullerton. Nobari’s longstanding interest is preventing socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health inequities among young children and college students by addressing health equity barriers through social programs and policies. Her research focuses on the social determinants of health, particularly food insecurity, housing insecurity, homelessness, and adverse childhood experiences. Nobari uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods to understand the impact of policies and programs on college students’ basic needs and early childhood obesity. She focuses on preventing inequities in obesity and food insecurity among young children and college students by addressing health equity barriers (housing insecurity and poverty) through food assistance programs (CalFresh, WIC) and policies. Nobari is a co-investigator on a USDA-funded study to examine the policies, systems, and environments related to access to food at Minority-Serving Institutions. She is co-PI on an NSF-funded study to develop smart technologies for previously unhoused residents of Permanent Supportive Housing in Orange County. She is also a member of the board of directors for Nourish California, an advocacy group working to ensure that all Californians with low income can access the food they need and want. Nobari earned her doctorate in community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and her master’s in public health in international epidemiology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She completed her postdoc with PHFE-WIC, the largest local agency in the nation for the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. Presented Paper Here.

A recording of this event can be found here.

Coffee and Conversation
2026-02-02 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Mark Handcock, who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.

Reexamining the “Nation of Immigrants”: The Politics of ICE Enforcement
2026-02-05 18:00 - 19:30 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join us for a keynote and panel exploring new data on immigration enforcement, stronger state protections, and fair, sustainable policy.

RSVP HERE

With the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arrests and detentions surging, California’s legislative leadership offers critical lessons on safeguarding rights and rebuilding trust. Join us on February 5, 2026 for a keynote presentation followed by a panel of policymakers, researchers, and advocates who will discuss what the latest data reveal about enforcement patterns, how to strengthen state protections, and what’s next for fair and sustainable approaches to immigration.

Reception 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Lecture and Panel 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Registration is free and required for all guests. We intentionally oversell tickets to ensure a full venue. Entry and seating are first come, first served and not guaranteed, even with a ticket. We recommend arriving early and join the pre-reception to maximize your chance of entry.

Attorney General Rob Bonta will be the keynote speaker.
Panelists include:

Cielo Castro, Chief Impact Officer, California Community Foundation (moderator)
Ahilan Arulanantham, Professor from Practice, UCLA Law; Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law & Policy
Paul Ong, Director, UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge
Angelica Salas, Executive Director, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA); Luskin Senior Fellow

Briefs can be found here.

TONGVA ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and So. Channel Islands). As a land grant institution, we pay our respects to the Honuukvetam (Ancestors), ‘Ahiihirom (Elders) and ‘Eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.

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Coffee and Conversation
2026-02-09 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Randall Kuhn who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.

Coffee and Conversation
2026-02-23 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Graeme Blair, who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.

Developmental Seminar: Conducting Research with Vulnerable Populations
2026-02-25 12:00 - 13:15 | Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095
This multidisciplinary panel will address practical and ethical issues that arise when conducting research with vulnerable populations. Panelists will include CCPR affiliates Faith Deckard, Elizabeth Kim, Randall Kuhn, and Meredith Phillips.

A recording of this event can be found here.

Ann Owens, UCLA, "The Changing Relationship between School and Residential Segregation"
2026-03-04 12:00 - 13:15
Biography: Ann Owens is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research centers on the causes and consequences of social inequality, with a focus on neighborhoods, housing, education, and geographic and social mobility. Ann has particular expertise on neighborhood and school segregation, and her research also examines how housing and educational policies cause or alleviate social inequalities. Ann received her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.

The Changing Relationship between School and Residential Segregation
Description: Residential and school segregation are key indicators of unequal opportunity and key drivers of unequal outcomes in children’s lives. Reducing segregation, then, is a promising approach for reducing racial/ethnic and economic inequality among children on a range of outcomes. A comprehensive approach to reducing segregation must account for the link between segregation in neighborhoods and segregation in schools. Historically, school segregation was seen as “downstream” of residential segregation—schools were segregated because the neighborhoods zoned to them were segregated. More recently, scholars have framed the relationship between residential and school segregation as cyclical and bidirectional, and changing demographic patterns and school choice regimes have complicated this relationship. This talk examines how closely coupled school and residential segregation are in the US, how this has changed over time, and the demographic, geographic, and policy conditions that influence the extent of their correspondence.

A recording of this event can be found here.

Coffee and Conversation
2026-03-30 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by the CCPR Directors who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.

Coffee and Conversation
2026-04-06 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Felipe Goncalves, who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.

Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA, "The Impact of Medicare’s Introduction on Life Expectancy"
2026-04-08 12:00 - 13:15 | Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095
Biography: Adriana Lleras-Muney is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and was an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University before moving to UCLA. She is an associated editor for the Journal of Health Economics, and she serves on the board editors of the American Economic Review and Demography. She served as a permanent member of the Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section at the National Institute of Health, and was an elected member of the American Economic Association Executive committee. In 2017 Lleras-Muney won the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Lleras-Muney’s research examines the relationships between socioeconomic status and health, with a particular focus on education, income and policy. Her most recent work investigates the long-term impact of government policies on children by analyzing the effects of programs like the Mother’s Pension program and the Civilian Conservation Corps, implemented during the first half of the 20th century. Her work has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, The Review of Economic Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

The Impact of Medicare’s Introduction on Life Expectancy

This paper estimates the causal effects of Medicare on mortality rates and life expectancy among the program’s early recipients. We construct a new dataset of more than 18 million individuals observed in the 1940 census linked to a death record in the FamilyTree database at FamilySearch. We use Medicare’s introduction in 1966 to identify its average treatment effects using three pre-specified approaches: a design based on a simple theoretical model of cohort mortality, an interrupted time-series design, and a staggered difference-in-differences design. All three show that Medicare increases life expectancy at age 65 for men born between 1885 and 1915 by an average of one year. Medicare’s effects on life expectancy at age 65 are larger for cohorts with more potential years of exposure but similar for groups of high and low socio-economic status. The effects for women are not robust across methods and specifications.

Coffee and Conversation
2026-04-13 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Ian Lundberg, who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.

Course Release and Seed Grant Talks
2026-04-15 12:00 - 13:15 | Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095
“Immigration Enforcement in the First Nine Months of the Second Trump Administration”

Seed Grant Recipient: Graeme Blair
Professor of Political Science

Biography: Graeme Blair is a professor of political science at UCLA and faculty affiliate in statistics and the California Center for Population Research. Blair is Co-Director of the Deportation Data Project. He studies state violence and how to make social science more credible, ethical, and useful. Blair’s book Research Design in the Social Sciences was published in 2023 by Princeton University Press and won the best book award from the American Political Science Association Experiments Section. Blair’s second book, Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing, was published in 2024 by Cambridge University Press in the Studies in Comparative Politics series. His articles are published in journals including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Political Analysis. Blair’s statistical software, including DeclareDesign, has been downloaded over a million times. He is the recipient of awards including the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science and the Society for Political Methodology best statistical software award.

Abstract: The number of deportations from within the United States, away from the border, increased by a factor of 4.6 during the first nine months of the second Trump administration (the period for which we have detailed data). That increase reflects the following key trends: First, ICE arrests quadrupled, including both street arrests and transfers from criminal custody to ICE immigration custody. ICE street arrests (i.e. arrests not at jails) went up by over a factor of eleven. Street arrests at this order of magnitude are a new phenomenon. For both types of arrests, ICE was much less likely to target people with criminal convictions. These changes led to over a sevenfold increase in arrests of people without criminal convictions. Second, the quadrupling (4x) of arrests resulted in an even larger rise (4.6x) in deportations because of increased detention space and decreased releases. The administration roughly tripled the number of detention beds used for people arrested within the United States. That capacity increase was a result both of new funding (for new detention centers and more beds in existing detention centers) and of a decrease in arrests at the border. Once arrested, few were released. Release within 60 days of arrest, already rare in the last six months of the Biden administration (16%), became almost nonexistent (3%). The rate of deportation within two months of initial detention rose by about a quarter, from 55% to 69%; the declining release rate accounted for most of that increase. Perhaps because of the lower release rate, voluntary departures (which are rare compared to removals) increased by 21 times.

“The Consequences of Receiving—and of Being Denied—an Abortion on Women’s Physical and Mental Health”

Seed Grant Recipient: Juliana Londono-Velez
Assistant Professor of Economics

Biography: Juliana Londoño-Vélez is an applied microeconomist. Her research focuses on how tax and social policies can reduce poverty and inequality and promote upward mobility in Latin America.

Abstract: This paper estimates the causal effects of being denied an abortion on women’s physical and mental health. We exploit Colombia’s tutela system, which allows women to petition judges to compel insurers and providers to deliver timely abortion care. Linking all abortion-related tutelas to comprehensive administrative health records, we leverage the random assignment of cases to judges with differing leniency in an instrumental-variables design. Abortion denial sharply reduces access to abortion services. Consistent with the importance of timely care, women who seek abortions in the second or third trimester face substantially higher medical risks—including hemorrhage, uterine perforation or damage, and septicemia—than women who seek care in the first trimester. We find no evidence that obtaining an abortion worsens women’s mental health. By contrast, abortion denial causes large and persistent increases in mental-health diagnoses and psychotropic medication use, increases physical morbidity, and leads to sustained growth in health-care utilization, including emergency department visits. Finally, abortion denial reduces subsequent contraceptive use.

“The China Syndrome Shock and Family Dynamics: Investigating Effects on Marriage Rates, Marital Sorting, and Fertility”

Course Release Recipient: Daniel Haanwinckel
Professor of Economics

Biography: Daniel Haanwinckel is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. His research primarily focuses on the determinants of wages, unemployment, underemployment, and worker-firm sorting. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019.

Abstract TBA

USC/UCLA Workshop on Families and Inequality (WFI)
2026-04-17
Led by Professors Megan Sweeney (UCLA) and Daniela Urbina (USC) and co-hosted by the USC Department of Sociology, the UCLA Family Working Group, and the California Center for Population Research (CCPR).

The event is tailored to graduate students conducting research on families and inequality, with the goal of sharing works-in-progress and connecting with fellow researchers and faculty working in these areas. Note that no affiliation with USC/UCLA is required to participate in the event. The deadline for Submissions is Monday, March 2nd, 2026.

All submissions must be made through this Google Form link. Authors are asked to submit an extended abstract of 2-4 pages. Abstracts must be sufficiently detailed to allow the session organizer to judge the merits of the paper, and should consist of a statement of the research question, the data and research methods, and preliminary findings. For further details about the event and submission process, please see the attached flyer. If you have additional questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Megan Sweeney (msweeney@soc.ucla.edu), Hsiu-yu Yang (hsiuyu@ucla.edu), or Maureen Cowhey (mcowhey@g.ucla.edu).

Coffee and Conversation
2026-04-20 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Yotam Shem-Tov who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.

Coffee and Conversation
2026-04-27 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Naomi Sugie, who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.

Student Practice Talks (PAA)
2026-04-29 12:00 - 13:15 | Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095
If you are presenting at PAA and would like to give a practice talk at CCPR, please complete the PAA 2026 Practice Talks form by Friday, April 3. The session will be held on Wednesday, April 29, from 12:00–1:15 PM. This will be a great opportunity to rehearse your presentation and receive feedback before the meeting.
After the form closes, we will follow up with participants regarding scheduling and additional details.

Coffee and Conversation
2026-05-04 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by UCLA Dean and Vice Provost Brian Kite who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.

Coffee and Conversation
2026-05-11 10:00 - 11:00 | CCPR Break Room
Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting.
Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room.
This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Wei-Hsin Yu who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.
