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SUMMARY:Computing Orientation Workshop with Neal Fultz (STC workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Computing Orientation Workshop with Neal Fultz \n \nInstructor: Neal Fultz \nThis workshop has two halves. In the first half\, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates\, including it’s remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half\, we’ll get participants signed up for hoffman2 and TS2. Once signed up\, you’ll have state of the art hardware resources and most software you’ll ever need for demographic research. In the second half\, we’ll walk through how to use these computing resources\, identifying what resource is better to use for different computing project scenarios.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/stc-workshop-computing-orientation-workshop/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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SUMMARY:Cesi Cruz\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy in Polarized Societies"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nCesi Cruz is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She works on topics at the intersection of political science and economics\, including elections\, misinformation\, gender and inclusive development. Her research is based on fieldwork in Cambodia and the Philippines and combines social network analysis\, surveys\, and field experiments. Her work has been published in outlets such as the American Political Science Review\, American Economic Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, Economic Journal\, and Comparative Political Studies. \nCesi is a board member of Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP)\, the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE)\, and Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC). In addition\, she serves on the executive board of Women Also Know Stuff\, an organization to promote women’s scholarship in political science. Her projects and working papers are available on her website: www.cesicruz.com . \nReducing Vaccine Hesitancy In Polarized Societies\nAbstract:\nGovernments attempting to encourage their citizens to take socially beneficial but individ- ually costly actions face strong challenges\, especially in polarized societies. We designed interventions to make citizens reflect on the personal and social benefits of vaccination and implemented a survey experiment on a sample of 1\,900 Filipinos in May 2021\, around the start of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the Philippines. Using data collected a year later\, we find that treated individuals received their first dose earlier. Those effects are large: treated individuals were 5.3 percentage-points more likely to receive their first dose within a month of the first survey\, compared with a control group mean of 2.1 percent. Individuals who were positive about vaccination at baseline respond more strongly to the treatments\, suggesting that the interventions motivated and encouraged individuals to become vaccinated\, rather than persuading people who were against vaccination to become vaccinated. In fact\, these strong positive short term effects mask important negative effects among the sample of individuals who were not planning to be vaccinated at baseline: the treatments had small negative effects on the likelihood of being vaccinated at endline.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/cesi-cruz-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T131500
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SUMMARY:Bryce Steinberg\, Brown University\, "Family Planning\, Now and Later: Infertility Fear and Contraception Take-Up"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nBryce Millett Steinberg is a development economist who studies how households make decisions about investing in education and health\, and how market forces and government programs can affect those decisions. Her work is primarily focused in India and Zambia. She is currently the IJC Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Brown University\, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2015. \nFamily Planning\, Now and Later: Infertility Fear and Contraception Take-Up\nAbstract:\nEarly fertility is believed to be one of the key barriers to female human capital attainment in Sub-Saharan Africa\, yet contraception take-up remains low\, even among highly-educated populations with healthcare access. We study a barrier to contraceptive uptake that has not yet been examined in the literature: the persistent belief that it may cause later infertility\, thus creating a perceived tradeoff between current and future reproductive control. We use a randomized controlled trial with female undergraduates at the flagship university in Zambia – a highly-skilled population where education is likely to have particularly high returns – to test two potential interventions to increase contraception use\, one focused on time costs and one on costs to future fertility. Despite high rates of sexual activity and low rates of condom-use\, only 5% of this population uses hormonal contraception at baseline. Providing a non-coercive conditional cash transfer to visit a local clinic temporarily increases contraceptive use. But\, pairing this transfer with information addressing fears that contraceptives cause infertility permanently increases take-up over 6 months. The latter treatment moves beliefs about the infertility effects of contraceptives and leads to the take-up of longer-lasting contraceptives like injections. Compliers are more likely to cite fear of infertility as the reason for not using contraceptives at baseline. A follow-up experiment provides suggestive evidence that students are more likely to test for STIs when they are told STIs cause infertility. These findings indicate that perceived risks to future fertility are one cost of contraception\, and more generally that future fertility has economic value to women. \nTo learn more about Professor Bryce Steinberg\, visit her department homepage:\nBryce Millett Steinberg | Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs (brown.edu)
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/bryce-steinberg-brown-university/
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SUMMARY:Clémence Tricaud\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response"
DESCRIPTION:Bio:\nClémence Tricaud is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. She is also a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an affiliate member of the CESifo. She received her Ph.D in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique and CREST in 2020. Her research lies at the intersection of political economy and public economics. Her work combines quasi-experimental designs with administrative data to better understand the determinants and consequences of citizen and policymaker behaviors. The first part of her research studies the factors affecting voters’ and candidates’ behavior during elections and the consequences of their choices on electoral outcomes. The second part of her work explores how the identity of policymakers and the level of governance affect the design of local public policies and the provision of public goods. \n“Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response”\nAbstract:\nThis paper provides new evidence on why men and women leaders make different choices. We first illustrate\, using a simple political agency model\, how voters’ gender bias can lead reelection-seeking female politicians to undertake different policies. We then test the predictions of the model by exploring female and male leaders’ responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Assuming that voters expect policies to be less effective if decided by women\, the model predicts that female politicians undertake less containment effort when voters perceive the threat as low – such as at the beginning of the pandemic – while the opposite is true when voters perceive it as serious – once the health consequences have become apparent. Using a close election design in Brazil\, we find that\, in line with the model\, having a female mayor led to more deaths per capita at first\, but to a lower death rate later in the year. Moreover\, using new data on policies\, we show that female mayors were less likely to close non-essential businesses early on\, but then became more likely to do so. Consistent with electoral incentives and voters’ gender bias explaining these effects\, we show that the gender differences we find are driven exclusively by mayors facing reelection and that the effects are stronger in more competitive races and in municipalities with greater gender discrimination. All in all\, our paper shows that gender differences in leaders’ behavior can be explained by leaders’ incentives to adapt their policy choices to voters’ gender biases. \nA recording of this event can be found here. \nTo learn more about Professor Clémence Tricaud\, visit her department homepage here: \nClémence Tricaud | UCLA Anderson School of Management
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/development-workshop/
LOCATION:OH
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