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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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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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SUMMARY:Student PAA Practice Talk (Development Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Details TBA
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/development-workshop-student-paa/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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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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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/
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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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