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SUMMARY:Peter Hull\, Brown University\, "Formula Instruments" (STC Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nPeter Hull is a Professor of Economics at Brown University\, a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER Labor Studies\, Education\, and Health Care programs in Labor Studies\, and the econometrics editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research spans a variety of topics in applied econometrics\, education\, health care\, discrimination\, and criminal justice. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2023 in recognition of this work. \nFormula Instruments\nAbstract:\nMany studies in economics use instruments or treatments which combine a set of exogenous shocks with other predetermined variables by a known formula. Examples include shift-share instruments\, measures of social or spatial spillovers\, and treatments capturing eligibility for a public policy. This workshop reviews recent econometric tools for this setting\, which leverage the assignment process of the exogenous shocks and the structure of the formula for identification. Practical insights will be illustrated with two empirical applications and a coding lab.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/peter-hull-brown-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240515T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240515T160000
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
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SUMMARY:Christopher Walters\, University of California\, Berkeley (STC Workshop)\, Title: Empirical Bayes and large-scale inference.
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Christopher Walters is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California\, Berkeley. Dr. Walters joined the faculty at Berkeley after completing his PhD in economics at MIT in 2013. He is also a Research Associate in the NBER programs on education and labor studies\, an IZA Research Fellow and an affiliate of JPAL-North America and MIT’s Blueprint Labs. His academic research focuses on topics in labor economics\, the economics of education\, and applied econometrics\, including work on school choice\, early childhood programs\, methods for evaluating school quality\, experimental measurement of labor market discrimination\, causal inference\, and empirical Bayes methods. \nAbstract: This workshop will cover empirical Bayes methods for studying heterogeneity\, estimating individual effects\, and making decisions in settings with many unit-specific parameters. Examples include studies of school\, teacher\, and physician quality; neighborhood effects on economic mobility; firm effects on wages; employer-specific labor market discrimination; and individualized treatment effect predictions and policy recommendations. Topics will include methods for quantifying variation in effects\, empirical Bayes shrinkage\, connections to machine learning methods\, and large-scale inference tools for multiple testing and decision-making. The lecture will be accompanied by coding examples. \nA recording of this event can be found here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/christopher-walters-university-of-california-berkeley/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240421
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20231005T190614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T190759Z
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SUMMARY:PAA 2024 Annual Meeting at Columbus\, Ohio
DESCRIPTION:Details to be added later.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/paa-2024-annual-meeting-at-columbus-ohio/
LOCATION:Columbus\, Ohio Hyatt Regency Columbus\, Hyatt Regency Columbus\, Columbus\, OH\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240410T131500
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20231005T003539Z
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SUMMARY:Student PAA Practice Talk (Development Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Details TBA
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/development-workshop-student-paa/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T131500
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
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SUMMARY:Sameera Nayak\, University of Maryland\, Baltimore County: "Health in the Turbulent U.S. Sociopolitical Climate: Mental Health\, Abortion Attitudes\, & Immigration"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDr. Sameera S. Nayak (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County. She uses social epidemiologic and qualitative methods to investigate associations between social conditions and health inequities around the world. She has conducted research globally in the East African region as well as domestically in the U.S. Her research streams intersect around three main themes: (1) immigrant health\, immigration policy\, and legal status stratification\, (2) political determinants of health\, such as partisan polarization and abortion access\, and (3) equitable health system program development and evaluation. Her cross-cutting research bridges siloed work in public health\, sociology\, and political science. Some of her recent projects include identifying structural and legal barriers to help-seeking for immigrants who have experienced gender-based violence\, assessing the adverse health impacts of perceived political polarization\, mapping state-level alignment between abortion legislation and public attitudes\, and examining how the spectrum of legal statuses at the micro-level impact the well-being of non-naturalized immigrants in the U.S. Dr. Nayak earned her Ph.D. in Population Health from Northeastern University in 2022. She holds an undergraduate degree from UCLA and a master’s degree from Columbia University. \nHealth in the Turbulent U.S. Sociopolitical Climate: Mental Health\, Abortion Attitudes\, & Immigration\nAbstract: \nThe sociopolitical landscape of the United States (U.S.)\, including laws\, policies\, and societal values\, creates conditions that differentially enhance or diminish population health. This talk will describe a program of research examining how polarization and hostility shape people’s lives\, health\, and behaviors across multiple levels of influence and domains of health in the U.S. How do perceptions of growing polarization in American society affect the onset of health conditions such as anxiety and depressive disorders? To what extent does polarized legislation at the state level align with public attitudes toward abortion access and legality? How are immigrant domestic violence survivors’ lives shaped by an increasingly hostile political climate? To answer these questions\, I draw on three observational studies that leverage data from primary surveys\, focus groups\, the 2020 Cooperative Congressional Election Study\, and the Guttmacher Institute’s 2020 rating of state abortion policies. Results highlight the adverse mental health effects of deepening perceived political polarization\, the disconnect between multifaceted public attitudes and polarized reproductive health legislation\, and the detrimental individual-level impacts of dehumanizing immigration policy. Population health implications\, structural interventions\, and policy recommendations will be discussed.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sameera-nayak-university-of-maryland-baltimore-county/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T131500
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
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SUMMARY:Dowell Myers\, University of Southern California\, “Talking Demographics: Audience Reactions and Communication about Projections of Change”
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDowell Myers is a professor of policy\, planning\, and demography in the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. His Ph.D. is from M.I.T. (urban planning). He has been an advisor to the Bureau of the Census and authored the widely referenced work on census analysis\, Analysis with Local Census Data: Portraits of Change (Academic Press\, 1992). His demographic work has included substantial emphasis on immigration\, and his 2007 book Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America is widely recognized. Myers also served on the National Academy of Sciences study panel on the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Immigration (2013-16). Research projects have focused on public narratives about immigration\, aging\, and taxation\, projections of generational change\, and the upward mobility of immigrants the longer they reside in the U.S. Most recently\, he has concentrated on reasons for the mounting housing shortages that plague recent cohorts and raise the cost of living for all. This also includes public perceptions and reactions to demographic change as part of the problem analysis \n“Talking Demographics: Immigration\, Audience\, and Narratives”\nAbstract:\nDemographic narratives express interpretations and conclusions drawn from quantitative analysis of demographic change. Whereas professional demographers focus on estimation of change and statistical explanation\, the matter of public explanation and extraction of meaning is often left to others\, traditionally journalists in the news media\, but increasingly expanded to popular or political activists using social media. Reasons why professional demographers should take more responsibility and care for their public facing interpretations are demonstrated through two case examples. The first asks why it might appear from net changes that immigrants are “taking all the jobs” and “replacing” white Americans (while gross flows tell different stories). The second recounts difficulties the Census Bureau has encountered with their narratives in reports and press releases that accompany their population projections\, which include racial changes and trends in future immigration. How might stronger awareness of audience and purpose lead to less misleading and more constructive demographic narratives?\ \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dowell-myers-university-of-southern-california/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240117T131500
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SUMMARY:Philip Massey\, University of California\, Los Angeles "Social Media as a Tool for Public Health Communication"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDr. Philip M. Massey\, PhD\, MPH\, is an Associate Professor in Community Health Sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. His health communication scholarship focuses on media and technology in the U.S. and globally\, on topics ranging from social media\, vaccine communication\, health literacy\, entertainment education\, and ethics in social media research. His work takes a mixed-methods approach focusing on health and media literacy in the context of multiple media environments. He has examined patterns and shifts in public opinion toward HPV vaccination on Twitter and Instagram\, focusing on what types of messages are shared and how content is related to reach and impact. He has also developed and tested cancer prevention messages on social media to engage parents about the HPV vaccine\, leveraging the power of narrative engagement and storytelling\, and more recently extended this work to alcohol recovery. His global health work has examined the impact of media effects on health knowledge and attitudes\, specifically related to storytelling and narrative engagement among a West African population\, utilizing digital and social media. \n“Social Media as a Tool for Public Health Communication”\nAbstract:\nThe use of social media in public health has advanced the field dramatically over the last two decades. Traditional public health methods in surveillance and outbreak investigation\, approaches in health education and promotion\, and strategies in policy\, advocacy and community organizing have all been applied\, refined\, and adapted for the social media environment. This talk will focus on social media as a tool for public health communication and will cover various examples from applied research on the HPV vaccine and global health. Ethical considerations will also be discussed as guidelines when using social media for public health research must also expand alongside these increasing capabilities and uses.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/philip-massey-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T131500
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
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SUMMARY:Emily Weisburst\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nEmily Weisburst is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Weisburst’s work focuses on topics in labor economics\, including criminal justice\, education and immigration. Her research interests include understanding factors that impact police decision-making and public trust in police\, as well as how interactions with the criminal justice system affect individuals\, families and communities. Weisburst earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. While in graduate school\, she worked as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President and as a research associate for the RAND Corporation on joint projects with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Weisburst’s work has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation\, the Carnegie Foundation\, and the National Academy of Education\, as well as by several UCLA organizations\, including the UCLA Racial and Social Justice Grants Program\, the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy\, the Ziman Center for Real Estate\, the California Center for Population Research\, and the California Policy Lab. \n“Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety”\nAbstract:\nHow does immigration enforcement affect public safety? While heightened enforcement could decrease crime by incapacitating offenders\, public safety could suffer if victims become less willing to report crimes. We examine the implementation of the federal Secure Communities program\, which significantly increased the volume of detentions and deportations of unauthorized immigrants. Using survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau\, we find that Hispanic victims are less likely to report crimes to the police and Hispanic individuals are more likely to become victims of a crime after the program’s introduction. These two opposing effects lead to a null impact on reported crimes. We provide evidence that the decline in Hispanic reporting is a key channel driving their increased victimization. Our findings underscore the importance of directly measuring victim reporting for understanding the impact of criminal justice policies. \nA recording of this event can be found here. \nTo learn more about Professor Emily Weisburst\, visit her department homepage here: \nEmily Weisburst | Luskin School of Public Affairs | Public Policy
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/emily-weisburst-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231206T131500
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20230928T225436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231202T010215Z
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SUMMARY:Alex Bell\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "The Long-Term Impacts of Mentors: Evidence from Experimental and Administrative Data"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nAlex Bell is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Policy Lab at UCLA. Dr. Bell’s research seeks to document the unequal experiences of workers in the labor market and the implications of these inequalities for society as a whole. He is also interested in the intersection of labor market inequality with innovation. He often collaborates with government and non-profit partners to leverage large-scale administrative datasets that allow him to combine academic research with policy impact. Prior to joining CPL\, Dr. Bell earned a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. At CPL\, Dr. Bell is part of a team focused on labor and employment. In this role\, he leads economic analyses and authors academic papers and policy briefs. \nThe Long-Term Impacts of Mentors: Evidence from Experimental and Administrative Data\nAbstract:\nHow do mentors shape kids’ identities and later-life outcomes? To evaluate this question\, we leverage program administrative records and microdata from a 1991 RCT that randomized disadvantaged children’s eligibility for a popular mentoring program. Our re-analysis of the multitude of outcomes collected by the original short-run survey suggests that kids’ behaviors improved during the time they were with mentors. A linkage to later-life administrative tax records shows that treated youth were 10 percentage points more likely to attend college and also showed positive (though less significant) effects on teen birth and marriage. RCT estimates of earnings effects are imprecise. However\, using a larger dataset of program administrative records\, we develop a supplementary research design comparing matched versus unmatched applicants that replicates key findings from the RCT\, and also reveals significant long-term positive earnings gains from program participation on the order of 20%. Through the lens of a model in which adults of differing socioeconomic status influence kids’ decision-making\, we estimate that mentors may have the potential to mitigate on the order of 2/3 of the disadvantage that ordinarily hampers low-income childrens’ socioeconomic trajectories in adulthood. Although our estimates suggest that mentoring programs will not fully equalize economic opportunities for disadvantaged youth\, the program’s relatively low costs and substantial benefits may place it among the most cost-effective interventions of its type to be evaluated. \nTo learn more about Dr. Alex Bell\, visit his department homepage here: \nAlex Bell | California Policy Lab
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/alex-bell-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231129T131500
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20231005T182434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T232735Z
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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
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T131500
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20230928T224855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T195504Z
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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/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231108T131500
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20230928T224644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T163700Z
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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:20231101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231101T131500
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20231005T181444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T231705Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T131500
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20230928T224409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T233033Z
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SUMMARY:Julia Strasser\, George Washington University\, "Who is Providing Contraception & Abortion Care in the US? Using Claims Data to Study the Reproductive Health Workforce"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nJulia Strasser\, DrPH\, MPH\, is the Director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health and an Assistant Research Professor of Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University. Dr. Strasser’s research focuses on contraception\, abortion\, and access to care for underserved populations. She has worked in healthcare\, focusing on policy and research\, for over 15 years\, including previous positions at the National Cancer Institute\, the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association\, and Planned Parenthood of Western Washington. She holds a DrPH in Health Policy from The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health\, an MPH from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a concentration in women’s and reproductive health\, and a BA in History from Yale University. \nWho is Providing Contraception & Abortion Care in the US? Using Claims Data to Study the Reproductive Health Workforce\nAbstract:\nThe clinical workforce providing contraception and abortion care in the US is a critical determinant of access to care. However\, a series of data limitations has made it difficult to study this workforce at the national level. Using national-level medical and prescription claims datasets\, we have constructed a first-of-its-kind database and analyzed various aspects of this workforce\, including its composition by specialty\, distribution by state and county\, and shifts over time. This presentation will discuss: 1. Differences in provision of contraceptive services by physician specialty and advanced practice clinician type 2. Changes to the contraception and abortion care workforce during Covid-19\, and 3. Association between residency training for family medicine physicians and provision of reproductive health services to Medicaid beneficiaries. \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/julia-strasser-george-washington-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T131500
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
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SUMMARY:Pauline Rossi\, Ecole Polytechnique-CREST\, "Drivers of Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (joint with Pascaline Dupas\, Seema Jayachandran and Adriana Lleras-Muney)"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nPauline Rossi is an Associate Professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique-CREST and a Research Affiliate at CEPR. Her fields of research are Applied Microeconomics\, Development Economics and Family Economics. She is the PI of the ERC Starting Grant “Peers and Possible Partners: Exploring the Origins of Population Long-term Equilibria” (P3OPLE). She is visiting CCPR in October-November 2023. \nDrivers of Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (joint with Pascaline Dupas\, Seema Jayachandran and Adriana Lleras-Muney)\nAbstract:\nWe conducted a study among 14\,545 households in rural Burkina Faso to test some of the leading explanations for persistently high fertility rates in West Africa. First\, we reject the oft-cited explanation of limited access to contraception. Women in communities randomly assigned to have free access to medical contraception for three years did not have lower birth rates. Second\, we cross-randomized additional interventions to test whether high desired fertility stems from incorrect or sticky beliefs and norms\, specifically mis-perceptions about the child mortality rate\, limited exposure to opposing views\, and social pressure. None of these interventions\, or combinations of them\, had any detectable effect on realized fertility\, desired fertility\, or contraceptive use. Our results are consistent with couples personally benefiting from having a large family size and suggest that policies aimed at reducing fertility through family planning interventions may have only limited impact in such contexts.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/pauline-rossi-ecole-polytechnique-crest/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T131500
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20230928T211314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T185613Z
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SUMMARY:Gary Solon\, University of Michigan\, "What Are We Weighting For?" (STC Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nGary Solon is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Michigan. He was Eller Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona during 2015-2018 and Professor of Economics at Michigan State University during 2007-2015. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists\, and a member of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth. His research includes studies of family and community background effects on socioeconomic status\, earnings dynamics over the life cycle\, cyclical fluctuations in the labor market\, and microeconometric methods. \nWhat Are We Weighting For?\nAbstract:\nThe purpose of this paper is to help empirical economists think through when and how to weight the data used in estimation. We start by distinguishing two purposes of estimation: to estimate population descriptive statistics and to estimate causal effects. In the former type of research\, weighting is called for when it is needed to make the analysis sample representative of the target population. In the latter type\, the weighting issue is more nuanced. We discuss three distinct potential motives for weighting when estimating causal effects: (1) to achieve precise estimates by correcting for heteroskedasticity\, (2) to achieve consistent estimates by correcting for endogenous sampling\, and (3) to identify average partial effects in the presence of unmodeled heterogeneity of effects. In each case\, we find that the motive sometimes does not apply in situations where practitioners often assume it does. We recommend diagnostics for assessing the advisability of weighting\, and we suggest methods for appropriate inference.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/gary-solon-university-of-michigan/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231004T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
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SUMMARY:Seminar Series: Welcome and Introduction
DESCRIPTION:California Center for Population Research Seminar Series \nWelcome and Introductions \nWednesday\, October 4\, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm 4240A Public Affairs Building \n(Lunch will be provided) \nThis will be the kick-off event for the start of the upcoming 2023-24 CCPR Seminar Series. Please join us to learn all about CCPR as we welcome new affiliates and reconnect in person.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/seminar-series-welcome-and-introduction/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210519T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210519T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20200831T231401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210520T201839Z
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SUMMARY:"Prevalences\, Penalties\, and the Small Impact of Single Motherhood on America's High Child Poverty\," David Brady\, UC Riverside
DESCRIPTION:David Brady\, UC Riverside\nAbstract: Many claim high U.S. child poverty results from a high prevalence of single motherhood\, and reducing single motherhood would substantially reduce child poverty. To scrutinize these arguments\, we apply the “prevalences and penalties” framework to Luxembourg Income Study data across 30 rich democracies and over time within the U.S. 1979–2016. The descriptive patterns fail to support these claims. Although the U.S. has a moderately high prevalence of single motherhood\, a fairly high prevalence is typical cross-nationally and in recent U.S. history. Single motherhood is the most common risk of the four major risks in the U.S.\, but this is because low education\, young headship\, and unemployment have declined. The U.S. has the highest penalty for single motherhood\, however single motherhood has the smallest penalty of the four major risks in the U.S. and cross-nationally. A wide variety of counterfactual simulations demonstrate that reducing single motherhood would not substantially reduce child poverty. Even with zero single motherhood\, U.S. child poverty would only move from the third to fourth highest among 30 rich democracies (from 21.3% to 18.8%). Ultimately\, we demonstrate that the U.S. has systemically high child poverty for all family structures\, and extremely high child poverty for racial/ethnic minorities regardless of single motherhood. Reducing the penalty attached to single motherhood and reducing America’s systemically high child poverty across all families would be far more effective than reducing the prevalence of single motherhood. \nBiography: David Brady is a Professor in the School of Public Policy\, and Director of the Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty at the University of California\, Riverside. At UCR\, he teaches classes on poverty\, public policy analysis\, and statistics. \nMore on Prof. Brady \nYou can find a recording of Dr. Brady’s presentation here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/david-brady-uc-riverside/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20200831T230815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210517T170742Z
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SUMMARY:"A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh\," Erica Field\, Duke University
DESCRIPTION:Erica Field\, Duke University\nSeminar Co-Sponsor: Luskin Public Policy \nAbstract: Child marriage remains common in many settings even where schooling and\nlabor market opportunities have grown considerably. To explain this phenomenon\,\nwe introduce a marriage market signaling model in which bride type is not per-\nfectly observed but preferred brides have lower benefits of delaying marriage.\nThis gives preferred brides an incentive to reveal their type by marrying young\,\nshifting the market towards early marriage even when everyone benefits from\ndelay. In this setting\, a small incentive that shifts preferred brides towards later\nmarriage can delay marriage of all types through spillovers. We test this predic-\ntion by evaluating the impact of a financial incentive to delay marriage among\n15\,576 adolescent girls in Bangladesh. Consistent with the theory\, girls eligible\nfor the incentive for two years were 21% less likely to marry before 18\, and\ngirls who were ineligible for the incentive but lived near treatment communities\nalso delayed marriage. \nA recording of Dr. Field’s presentation may be accessed here. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/erica-field-duke-university/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210310T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20200831T225751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210311T032409Z
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SUMMARY:"Migration and the Labor Market Impact of COVID-19\," Mushfiq Mobarak\, Yale University
DESCRIPTION:“Migration and the Labor Market Impact of COVID-19” \nMushfiq Mobarak\, Yale University \nIn this talk\, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak will present the findings from a series of recent studies related to the consequences of COVID-19. The studies analyze the impact of the pandemic on outcomes such as employment\, income\, food security\, including on vulnerable groups such as refugees and migration-dependent households. They also assess attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination and interventions to promote mask use. The findings have important policy implications on providing emergency support while reforming social protection programs and creating income-generating opportunities to build the resilience of poor households. They will also inform the global effort to promote preventive health behavior and vaccine uptake. \nPaper 1: “Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries” \nAbstract \nDespite numerous journalistic accounts\, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries\, partly due to limitations of official economic statistics in environments with large informal sectors and subsistence agriculture. We assemble evidence from over 30\,000 respondents in 16 original household surveys from nine countries in Africa (Burkina Faso\, Ghana\, Kenya\, Rwanda\, Sierra Leone)\, Asia (Bangladesh\, Nepal\, Philippines)\, and Latin America (Colombia). We document declines in employment and income in all settings beginning March 2020. The share of households experiencing an income drop ranges from 8 to 87% (median\, 68%). Household coping strategies and government assistance were insufficient to sustain precrisis living standards\, resulting in widespread food insecurity and dire economic conditions even 3 months into the crisis. We discuss promising policy responses and speculate about the risk of persistent adverse effects\, especially among children and other vulnerable groups. This paper may be accessed here. \nPaper 2: “Migration and the Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19”  \nAbstract \nWe report the excess economic vulnerabilities of migration-dependent households during the COVID-19 pandemic using detailed microdata from Bangladesh and Nepal. Leveraging experimental and observa tional variation in prior migration status\, we observe 25% greater declines in earnings and fourfold greater prevalence of food insecurity among migrant households since April 2020. Causes evident in the data include lower mobility\, less remittance income\, and greater health risk and stigma regarding migrants car rying COVID. We document the global scope of this problem by compiling a large set of secondary data to show that labor migration is extremely prevalent in less developed countries\, and that the causal economic return to such migration is large. We conclude with suggestions for policy to alleviate the challenges faced by migrants during the pandemic. New mobility restrictions imposed to limit contagion may lead the vulnerabilities to persist for a prolonged period\, and this population requires special policy attention.  \nPaper 3: “Community-Wide Mask Promotion: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Rural Bangladesh” \nAbstract \nBackground: A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that face masks can slow the\nspread of COVID-19 and save lives. \nMethods: We conducted a cluster-randomized trial of community-level mask promotion in\nrural Bangladesh involving 341\,830 adults in 600 villages. Villages were paired and one in\neach pair was randomly assigned to intervention or control. In intervention villages\, with the\nactive support of local leaders\, we distributed masks (surgical or cloth) to every household and\nemployed various interventions to promote mask use at mosques\, markets\, and other public\nplaces multiple times per week. There were no intervention activities in the control villages.\nThe objective was to assess the degree to which the intervention and cross-randomizations\ncould increase proper (covering nose and mouth) wearing of face masks. This analysis is part\nof larger study evaluating the effect of mask-wearing on transmission of SARS-CoV-2. In this\npaper the primary outcome was the prevalence of proper mask-wearing. It was not possible to\nblind participants or surveillance staff to the intervention. \nResults: There were 64\,937 households in the intervention group and 64\,183 households in\nthe control group; study recruitment has ended. In the control group\, proper mask-wearing\nis practiced by 13% of those observed. Our intervention increased proper mask-wearing by\n28.6 percentage points (95% CI: 26.1%-31.1%) over the 2-10 week length of the intervention.\nPhysical distancing\, measured as the fraction of individuals at least one arm’s length apart\,\nalso increased by 6 percentage points (95% CI: 4.9%-7.6%). Mask type (surgical or cloth)\,\ntext reminders\, public signage commitments\, monetary or non-monetary incentives\, altruistic\nmessaging or verbal commitments had no additional effect on people’s propensity to wear\nmasks. Blue surgical masks were more likely to be worn than green\, and purple cloth masks\nwere more likely to be worn than red. We observe larger increases in mask-wearing among\nmen and in villages where mask-wearing was initially low. No adverse events were reported\nduring the study period. \nConclusions: Our intervention demonstrates a scalable and cost-effective method to promote\nmask adoption and save lives. Our cross-randomizations suggest this increase can be achieved\nwithout incentives that require costly monitoring\, that aesthetic design choices and colors can\ninfluence mask-wearing\, and that surgical masks with greater filtration efficiency can be a\ncost-effective alternative to cloth masks (1/3 the cost) and equally likely to be worn. Implementing\nthese interventions – including distribution of free masks\, information campaign\, reminders\,\nencouragement – costs $2.30-$3.75 per villager\, or between $8 and $13 per person adopting\na mask. Combined with existing estimates of the efficacy of masks in preventing COVID-19\ndeaths\, this implies that the intervention cost $28\,000-$66\,000 per life saved. Beyond reducing\nthe transmission of COVID-19\, mask distribution is likely to be a cost-effective strategy to\nprevent future respiratory disease outbreaks. \nBiography: Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Professor of Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. Mobarak is the founder and faculty director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). He holds other appointments at Innovations for Poverty Action\, the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT\, the International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE. \nMore on Prof. Mobarak \nA recording of Dr. Mobarak’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/mushfiq-mobarak-yale-university/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210224T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210224T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20200831T225123Z
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SUMMARY:"Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets\," Jishnu Das\, Georgetown University
DESCRIPTION:“Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets” \nJishnu Das\, Georgetown University \nAbstract: Working with the Kenyan Cabinet and Ministry of Health\, we experimentally evaluated the market-level impacts of healthcare regulation in settings with public and private providers. We randomly allocated 273 markets with 1258 facilities to treatment and control arms and in treatment arms\, facilities were inspected to assess compliance with minimum patient safety standards with the potential for closure. To accurately capture how regulation functions in low-capacity environments\, inspections and facility closures were carried out by the government using their own staff. \nThe intervention (a) increased compliance with the patient safety checklist in both public and private clinics (more so in the latter); (b) increased closures of clinics without licenses and (c) reallocated patients from private to public clinics\, primarily in markets with a facility closure. A decomposition approach shows that 93% of the increase in compliance with patient safety measures was due to improvements within facilities\, rather than exits or changes in market shares. The intervention had no impact on patients’ out-of-pocket payments\, and we find no evidence of declines in facility use\, either in the aggregate or for poorer patients. \nWe then examine three classes of mechanisms: An information channel\, a compliance channel and a vertical differentiation channel due to Ronen (1991). We do not find evidence for the information channel and weak evidence for the compliance channel. Quantile treatment effects suggest that\, consistent with Ronen (1991)\, there were quality improvements across the quality spectrum. \nOur study thus brings the regulatory function of the state under the ambit of experimental methods and shows that even in low-capacity settings\, regulations and inspections can improve the quality of care\, as measured by compliance with patient safety measures. \nBiography: Jishnu Das is a professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Jishnu’s work focuses on health and education in low and middle-income countries\, with an emphasis on social markets\, or common\, but complex\, conflagrations of public and private education and health providers operating in a small geographical space. \nA recording of the seminar can be accessed here.  \nMore on Prof. Das
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jishnu-das-georgetown-university/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210210T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20200821T224859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210211T044817Z
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SUMMARY:"Banks\, alternative institutions\, and the spatial-temporal ecology of racial inequality\," Mario Luis Small\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:Mario Luis Small\, Harvard University\nResearch has made clear that racial inequality is affected by neighborhood conditions.  One important condition is the accessibility of financial establishments. We examine how living in minority neighborhoods affects ease of access to conventional banks vs. to alternative financial institutions (AFIs) such as check cashers and payday lenders\, which are often more expensive and have at times been called predatory. Based on more than 6 million queries\, we compute the difference in the time required to walk\, drive\, or take public transit to the nearest bank vs. the nearest AFI from the middle of every block in each of 19 of the nation’s largest cities.  Results suggest that race is strikingly more important than class: even after numerous economic\, demographic\, and structural conditions are accounted for\, the AFI is more often closer than the bank in well-off minority neighborhoods than in poo rwhite ones.  Results are driven by not the absence of banks but the prevalence of AFIs in minority areas.  Documented differences are so large that accounting for them on the basis of preferences—of differences in demand for AFIs by race—would be inconsistent with available evidence and highly unlikely.  Additional survey data on preferences is consistent with these findings. \nBiography: Pro. Small is the author of award-winning books and articles on networks\, poverty\, organizations\, culture\, methods\, neighborhoods\, institutions\, and other topics. He is currently using large-scale administrative data to understand isolation in cities\, studying how people use their networks to meet their needs\, and exploring the epistemological foundations of qualitative research. His latest book is Someone To Talk To (Oxford). A study of how people decide whom to approach when seeking support\, the book is an inquiry into human nature\, a critique of network analysis\, and a discourse on the role of qualitative research in the big-data era. \nMore on Prof. Small  \n  \nThe seminar recording may be accessed here. 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/mario-luis-small-harvard-university/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20200821T223930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210123T024530Z
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SUMMARY:"Interviewing Immigrants in Different Contexts\," Cecilia Menjívar\, UC Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:“Interviewing Immigrants in Different Contexts”\n\nCecilia Menjívar\, UCLA \nIn-depth\, qualitative interviews often generate understandings of study participants’ lives that permit building explanations and expanding theorizing. Though the number of study participants included in studies that use this approach tend to be small and usually are selected non-randomly\, the depth and richness of the data are believed to compensate for the small number of participants and their non-representative nature. This workshop will discuss the use of in-depth interviews in the study of immigration and immigrant communities\, focusing on the variation of this method as it is used in different geographic and spatial settings and across broader political and structural contexts. It will rely on examples of studies in Central American immigrant communities in the United States. \nBio: Prof. Menjívar is a Professor and Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair\, her research focuses on the structural roots of inequalities and on how individuals’ social locations shape their responses to such conditions. \nMore on Prof. Menjívar  \nA recording of the presentation can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/cecilia-menjivar-uc-los-angeles/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201209T140000
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CREATED:20200928T212259Z
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SUMMARY:Population-Based Modeling and Measurement of COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:“Population-Based Modeling and Measurement of COVID-19”\nThe recording of the event is available here. \nPanelists: \nChristina Ramirez\, Prof. of Biostatistics UCLA\nMark Handcock\, Prof. of Statistics UCLA\nPatrick Heuveline\, Prof. of Sociology UCLA\nHiram Beltrán-Sánchez\, Prof. of Community Health Sciences \nFor more information on panelists’ research\, see: \n\nPatrick Heuveline.  Covid-19 will reduce US life expectancy at birth by more than one year in 2020. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.03.20243717v1 \n  \nMark Handcock and colleagues. Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic Transmission of 2019 Nover Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection:  An Estimation from a Cluster of Confirmed Cases in Ho Chi Minh City\, Vietnam. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3630119 \n  \nWatson and colleagues. Fusing a Bayesian Case Velocity Model with Random Forest for Predicting COVID-19 in the U.S. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3594606 \n  \nDi Xiong and colleagues. Pseudo-likelihood based logistic regression for estimating COVID-19 infection and case fatality rates by gender\, race\, and age in California.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436520300396?via%3Dihub 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/population-based-modeling-and-measurement-of-covid-19/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201202T133000
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SUMMARY:"Voting after Shelby: Did pre-clearance matter?" Ariel White\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DESCRIPTION:“Voting after Shelby: Did pre-clearance matter?”\nAriel White\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \n(co-authored with Mayya Komisarchik) \nAbstract: Nearly five decades after the passage of the Voting Rights Act\, the law was dramatically changed by the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder. The court effectively removed the “preclearance” process that had required places with a history of racial discrimination to get Justice Department approval before changing their voting procedures. Dissenting justices and voting-rights advocates feared that this decision could lead to massive changes to election administration and ultimately to lower rates of voter participation in minority communities. In this paper\, we evaluate the impact of this decision on election practices and on Black and Hispanic voter registration and turnout. We use a combination of administrative data on registration and voting\, survey data on mobilization and local election administration\, and state legislative records to examine different facets of the voting rights landscape after the Court’s decision. \nBio: Prof. White research focuses on voting and voting rights\, race\, the criminal justice system\, and bureaucratic behavior. Prof. White’s work uses large datasets to measure individual-level experiences\, and to shed light on people’s everyday interactions with government. \nMore on Prof. White
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ariel-white-massachusetts-institute-of-technology/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T133000
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SUMMARY:"Integrating Refugees: The Role of Language Training and Work Incentives\," Giovanni Peri\, UC Davis
DESCRIPTION:“Integrating Refugees: The Role of Language Training and Work Incentives”\nGiovanni Peri\, UC Davis\nAbstract: Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal success and to producing positive effects in the host country. We evaluate the effects of a reform that substantially expanded language training for immigrants who obtained refugee status in Denmark on or after January 1\, 1999. The same reform also temporarily decreased welfare benefits for a subgroup of them. Using a regression discontinuity design around the cutoff date we find positive and significant employment and earnings effects on the treated group\, relative to the untreated group. Employment increased by 23 percent (4 percentage points) and yearly earnings increased by 34 percent (USD 2\,500) when measured eighteen years after the start of the language program. We do not find any labor market effect of the reduction of welfare benefits. We find\, however\, evidence of temporarily higher property crimes for the group subject to lower benefits. The labor market effects are much stronger for individuals with Arabic/Dari mother language\, consistently with a more crucial role of language training for speakers of languages that are very different from Danish. Finally\, male children of treated refugees were more likely to complete lower secondary school and less likely to commit crime. \nBio: Giovanni Peri has expertise in labor economics\, urban economics and the economics of international migrations. In addition to his appointment in the Department of Economics\, he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and the founding director of the UC Davis Migration Research Cluster. \nMore on Prof. Peri  \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/giovanni-peri-uc-davis/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T133000
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SUMMARY:"How Deep is the COVID-19 Recession? Evidence from Kenya and Beyond" Edward Miguel\, UC Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:“How Deep is the COVID-19 Recession? Evidence from Kenya and Beyond”\nEdward Miguel\, UC Berkeley\nAbstract: Despite numerous journalistic accounts\, systematic quantitative evidence on the evolution of economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic remains scarce for most low and middle income countries\, in part due to the limitations of official economic statistics in environments with large informal sectors and subsistence agriculture. I will focus on novel evidence from a detailed and large-scale panel data collection effort in rural Kenya\, documenting the evolution of living standards over time as well as the effects of an earlier cash transfer program. I also discuss results from over 30\,000 respondents in an ensemble of 16 original household survey samples collected in nine countries in Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America. The data documents declines in employment and income across socioeconomic strata beginning in March 2020\, resulting in widespread food insecurity and the risk of persistent adverse effects\, especially among children and other vulnerable groups. \nBio: Prof. Miguel’s research focus is African economic development\, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action; interactions between health\, education\, environment\, and productivity for the poor; and methods for transparent social science research. \nMore on Prof. Miguel
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/edward-miguel-uc-berkeley/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T133000
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CREATED:20200821T185530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T214142Z
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SUMMARY:"Challenges with Using Simulation Models to Plan and Refine COVID Testing for High-risk Populations" Sanjay Basu\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:“Challenges with Using Simulation Models to Plan and Refine COVID Testing for High-risk Populations”\nSanjay Basu\, Harvard University\nAbstract: Simulations models are frequently used during infectious disease outbreaks to guide policy and practice. This talk will discuss the use and refinement of COVID simulation models to help develop a testing network\, define testing plans and refine them for high-risk populations–including homeless shelters\, nursing homes\, meat-packing plants\, and similar congregate worksites–and address limitations and uncertainties presented by those models that were informed by implementation of their results. \nBio: Sanjay Basu\, MD\, PhD\, is a primary care physician at Tenderloin Health Services—an integrated primary care\, behavioral health\, and substance use treatment clinic in San Francisco—and Director of Research at Collective Health. \nMore on Prof. Basu
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sanjay-basu-stanford-university/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20200821T184913Z
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SUMMARY:"The political context and infant health in the United States" Florencia Torche\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“The political context and infant health in the United States”\nFlorencia Torche\, Stanford University \nAbstract: Political factors could have substantial consequences for the health and wellbeing of populations. In the United States\, an important political factor is the party of the president. The two main parties differ in their ideologies and policy agendas\, and these differences have sharpened since the 1960s. We examine the effect of prenatal exposure to the political party in office at the national level (president’s party) and the state level (governor’s party) on infant health between 1971 and 2018\, considering the heterogeneity and timing of these effects. Fixed effects models show a beneficial effect of a Democratic president but no effect of a Democratic governor on birth outcomes. The benefit of in-utero exposure to a Democratic president is much stronger for Black infants than White infants. The effect of the president’s party does not materialize immediately after the inauguration. Rather\, it takes approximately two years to fully emerge\, and it remains elevated until the end of the party’s tenure in office. The effect is robust across specifications and only partially mediated by a battery of measurable social policies. Our findings suggest that the party in power is an important determinant of infant health\, particularly among vulnerable populations. \nBio: Florencia Torche is a social scientist with substantive interests in social demography\, stratification\, and education. Professor Torche’s scholarship encompasses two related areas. A longer-term area of research studies inequality dynamics — the dynamics that result in persistence of inequality across generations — with a particular focus on educational attainment\, assortative mating (who marries who)\, and the intergenerational transmission of wealth. \nMore on Prof. Torche
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/florencia-torche-stanford-university/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201009T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201009T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T100121
CREATED:20200831T165634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210630T180300Z
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SUMMARY:Race and Inequality: A Collaborative UCPop Event
DESCRIPTION:The Population Centers of the University of California – newly dubbed UCPop – is pleased to announce its inaugural (remote) meeting\, “Race and Inequality: A Collaborative UCPop Event.” \n\nHosted by: UC Berkeley\, UC Irvine\, UC Los Angeles\, UC Santa Barbara.\n\n\n\n\nKeynote speaker: Tukufu Zuberi\, “Demography of Race: The Propaganda of Demography”  \n\nLasry Family Professor of Race Relations\, and Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies\, University of Pennsylvania
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/race-and-inequality-a-collaborative-ucpop-event/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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