2016 Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory

CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United States

2016 Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory November 4-5, 2016, 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM 4240 Public Affairs Building This symposium brings together students, professors, and researchers from Southern California who use game theory to analyze, design, and assess the performance of networks. We hope to highlight connections between research areas and […]

UCLA Faculty-to-Faculty Forum: After the 2016 Election: Separation of Powers, Institutions, Social Movements, and the Media

4240 Public Affairs Bldg

This forum is an opportunity for UCLA faculty to discuss the potential consequences of the 2016 presidential and congressional election for key elements of the American political and legal system, in an informal setting. Please bring your own lunch. Light refreshments will be served. Due to anticipated demand and space constraints, this forum is limited […]

NBER Cohort Studies Meeting 2017

CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United States

CCPR is hosting the annual NBER Cohort Studies meeting which brings together researchers from different fields interested in aging related issues or in methodologies applicable to aging and has set the seeds for synergistic relationships between economists, sociologists, demographers, psychologists, epidemiologists, and MDs. The meeting is funded in part by an NIH conference grant through […]

The Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar (PPASS), Amy Finkelstein

CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar (PPASS) series invites leading scholars from both UCLA and universities across the nation to present new research on a wide variety of important issues, including crime, labor markets, human capital and education, inequality and poverty, the environment, public finance, political economy, urban economics, health care reform, and […]

West Coast Experiments Conference, UCLA 2017

Covel Commons UCLA

The tenth annual West Coast Experiments Conference will be held at UCLA on Monday, April 24 and Tuesday, April 25, 2017, preceded by in-depth methods training workshops on Sunday, April 23. The conference registration webpage is wce2017ucla.eventbrite.com. The WCE is an annual conference that brings together leading scholars and graduate students in economics, political science and other social sciences who […]

Political Sociology and the Global South Student Conference: Interdisciplinary Insights from the Global South

CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Political Sociology Working Group, UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Student Conference: Interdisciplinary Insights from the Global South May 5th, 2017 4240 Public Affairs Building The UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group in collaboration with the Institute on Inequality and Democracy invites abstract submissions for an interdisciplinary graduate student conference. We […]

Research Ethics: The Use of Big Data

CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The use of big data has become increasingly common in social and health research, raising a series of new and difficult questions about research ethics.  In this informal workshop, a panel of investigators using big data for their research will describe issues that they have faced and other potential problems.  As background to this workshop, […]

UCLA – HKUST International Symposium on Segregation & Neighborhood Effects

UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

UCLA – HKUST International Symposium on Segregation & Neighborhood Effects June 6th 2017, 9:00 AM – 5:15 PM UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate Symposium Agenda: 1) Segregation in the United States and its Global Impact. Discussant: Michael Lens, UCLA. 2) New Measures and New Impacts: Segregation in the United States. Discussant: Anne Pebley, UCLA. […]

2017 Federal Statistical Research Data Center Annual Conference

4240 Public Affairs Bldg

The California Census Research Data Center (CCRDC) at University of California Los Angeles invites proposals to present papers and posters at the 2017 Federal Statistical Research Data Center Annual Conference. We also will consider proposals for workshops and panel discussions.

Homelessness Workshop

4240 Public Affairs Bldg

Homelessness Workshop Organizers: Randall Kuhn and Till von Wachter May 21-24, 2018 4240 Public Affairs Building In Los Angeles County, homelessness is a crisis affecting productivity, safety and health, including that of UCLA students and staff. While individual research groups at UCLA are addressing this crisis, UCLA lacks a coordinated response in terms of research […]

Partnership UCLA Russian Delegation

4240 Public Affairs Bldg

Organizers: Dora Costa, Economics Department June 5-7, 2018 4240 Public Affairs Building Through mutually beneficial partnerships-with our alumni and friends in the professional world, government agencies, and community organizations-the College of Letters & Science has long paved the way for continued leadership, impact and excellence. We have successfully consolidated and strengthened these partnerships, through Partnership […]

California Center for Population Research 20th Anniversary Research Symposium

Covel Commons UCLA

October 12th, 2018 Covel Commons, UCLA The California Center for Population Research (CCPR) at UCLA was founded in 1998, and thus celebrates its 20-year anniversary in 2018. This is a full day conference covering various topics related to population studies. CCPR Alumna from all over the country will present their current work.

Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar

4240 Public Affairs Bldg

The Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar is part of a conference series that brings together Japanese and U.S. economics scholars. The idea is to foster trans-pacific exchange and collaboration, and usually half of the participants are from Japan and half are U.S. based. The conference is co-sponsored by the International Institute, the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, […]

Introducing the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brasil)

CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Fabíola Bof de Andrade, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Pesquisas René Rachou, Brazil & James Macinko, UCLA This seminar will provide an introduction to the newest study in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) family, the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging. The speakers will describe the overall study design and the main topics covered, highlight […]

CEGA-EASST Scholars from East Africa

4240 Public Affairs Bldg

Organizers: Manisha Shah and Daniel Posner November 26, 2018 4240 Public Affairs Building EASST invites East African researchers to apply for a 4-month fellowship at UC Berkeley to build skills in rigorous social science research and impact evaluation–these are the fellows who won this fellowship. Each scholar will present on the following topics; Apollo Maima: […]

Workshop: Information Session – Census Data & German Data

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Information session on data available at the Census Research Data Center (RDC) at UCLA and how to access it: Data availability of five types of confidential government data available in the RDC Business Data (Economic Census, Annual Survey of Manufactures, Longitudinal Foreign Trade Transactions Database, Commodity Flow Survey, Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey) […]