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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190128T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190128T163000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
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SUMMARY:Lars Vilhuber\, Cornell University
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Lars Vilhuber\, Cornell University “Replication and Reproducibility in Social Sciences and Statistics: Context\, Concerns\, and Concrete Measures” \nAbstract: Replicability is at the core of the scientific enterprise. In the past 30 years\, recurring concerns about the extent of replicability  (or lack thereof) of the research in various disciplines have surfaced\, including in economics. In this talk\, I describe the context in which the current discussion in the social science is occurring: what are the definitions of replicability and reproducibility\, what is failing\, and to what extent. I discuss the currents state in economics as an example: to what extent is this a problem\, what are the approaches that are being considered\, and what are the possible broader implications of those approaches. Finally\, I discuss the concrete measures that are being implemented under my guidance at the American Economic Association\, and that are being discussed in the broader social science community. The solutions to these problems will change the way research will be taught and conducted\, in economics in particular\, and in the social sciences more broadly. The implications affect undergraduate and graduate teaching\, research infrastructure\, and habits. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/lars-vilhuber-cornell-university/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish,Other Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190123T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190123T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190118T194253Z
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SUMMARY:Kosuke Imai\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Data \nAbstract:  Matching methods aim to improve the validity of causal inference in observational studies by reducing model dependence and offering intuitive diagnostics. While they have become a part of standard tool kit for empirical researchers across disciplines\, matching methods are rarely used when analyzing time-series cross-section (TSCS) data\, which consist of a relatively large number of repeated measurements on the same units. We develop a methodological framework that enables the application of matching methods to TSCS data. In the proposed approach\, we first match each treated observation with control observations from other units in the same time period that have an identical treatment history up to the pre-specified number of lags. We use standard matching and weighting methods to further refine this matched set so that the treated observation has outcome and covariate histories similar to those of its matched control observations. Assessing the quality of matches is done by examining covariate balance. After the refinement\, we estimate both short-term and long-term average treatment effects using the difference-in-differences estimator\, accounting for a time trend. We also show that the proposed matching estimator can be written as a weighted linear regression estimator with unit and time fixed effects\, providing model-based standard errors. We illustrate the proposed methodology by estimating the causal effects of democracy on economic growth\, as well as the impact of inter-state war on inheritance tax. The open-source software is available for implementing the proposed matching methods. \nCo-sponsored with the Political Science Department\, Statistics Department and the Center for Social Statistics \nMore on Prof. Imai
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/kosuke-imai-harvard/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180828T011011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190118T194235Z
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SUMMARY:Rocio Titiunik\, University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Internal vs. external validity in studies with incomplete populations \nAbstract:  Researchers working with administrative data rarely have access to the entire universe of units they need to estimate effects and make statistical inferences. Examples are varied and come from different disciplines. In social program evaluation\, it is common to have data on all households who received the program\, but only partial information on the universe of households who applied or could have applied for the program. In studies of voter turnout\, information on the total number of citizens who voted is usually complete\, but data on the total number of voting-eligible citizens is unavailable at low levels of aggregation. In criminology\, information on arrests by race is available\, but the overall population that could have potentially been arrested is typically unavailable. And in studies of drug overdose deaths\, we lack complete information about the full population of drug users. \nIn all these cases\, a reasonable strategy is to study treatment effects and descriptive statistics using the information that is available. This strategy may lack the generality of a full-population study\, but may nonetheless yield valuable information for the included units if it has sufficient internal validity. However\, the distinction between internal and external validity is complex when the subpopulation of units for which information is available is not defined according to a reproducible criterion and/or when this subpopulation itself is defined by the treatment of interest. When this happens\, a useful approach is to consider the full range of conclusions that would be obtained under different possible scenarios regarding the missing information. I discuss a general strategy based on partial identification ideas that may be helpful to assess sensitivity of the partial-population study under weak (non-parametric) assumptions\, when information about the outcome variable is known with certainty for a subset of the units. I discuss extensions such as the inclusion of covariates in the estimation model and different strategies for statistical inference. \nCo-sponsored with the Political Science Department\, Statistics Department and the Center for Social Statistics \nMore on Prof. Titiunik
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/rocio-titiunik-university-of-michigan/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180828T010650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181105T182525Z
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SUMMARY:Alison Norris\, The Ohio State University
DESCRIPTION:Title: Abortion utilization in Ohio’s changing legislative context \nAbstract: Changes in Ohio\, most notably legislation and policy changes since 2011\, likely have impacted women’s access to abortion. Many abortion clinics in Ohio have closed in the past seven years\, and several others are currently engaged in litigation and are at risk of closure.  Clinic closures influence the distance that women travel when seeking abortion. Coupled with the impact of an Ohio law that mandates a 24-hour waiting period after a woman’s initial abortion consultation\, loss of a nearby clinic may put abortion out of reach for many women. Other legislation limits where abortions can and cannot be performed and to what gestational stage abortions are performed. This presentation will provide preliminary findings about population-level shifts in abortion utilization\, with special attention to change over time\, geographic variation\, and groups of women who may be underserved. \nCo-sponsored with The Bixby Center  \nMore on Prof. Norris
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/alison-norris-ohio-state-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T133000
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SUMMARY:Michael Clemens\, Center for Global Development
DESCRIPTION:Title: Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion \nAbstract: An important class of active labor market policy has received little impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to raise wages and employment by shrinking labor supply. Theories of endogenous technical advance raise the possibility of limited or even perverse impact. We study a natural policy experiment: the exclusion of almost half a million Mexican bracero farm workers from the United States to improve farm labor market conditions. With novel labor market data we measure state-level exposure to exclusion and model the absent changes in technology or crop mix. We fail to reject zero labor market impact\, inconsistent with this model. \n*Co-sponsored with the Public Policy and Applied Social Sciences Seminar \nMore on Prof. Clemens 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/michael-clemens-center-for-global-development/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T133000
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CREATED:20180828T003331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T023141Z
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SUMMARY:Adrian Raftery\, University of Washington
DESCRIPTION:Title: Bayesian Population Projections with Migration Uncertainty \nAbstract: The United Nations recently issued official probabilistic population projections for all countries for the first time\, using a Bayesian hierarchical modeling framework developed by our group at the University of Washington. These take account of uncertainty about future fertility and mortality\, but not international migration. We propose a Bayesian hierarchical autoregressive model for obtaining joint probabilistic projections of migration rates for all countries\, broken down by age and sex. Joint trajectories for all countries are constrained to satisfy the requirement of zero global net migration. We evaluate our model using out-of-sample validation and compare point projections to the projected migration rates from a persistence model similar to the UN’s current method for projecting migration\, and also to a state of the art gravity model. We also resolve an apparently paradoxical discrepancy between growth trends in the proportion of the world population migrating and the average absolute migration rate across countries. This is joint work with Jonathan Azose and Hana Ševčíková. \nCo-sponsored with the Center for Social Statistics \nMore on Prof. Raftery
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/adrian-raftery-university-of-washington/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20181102T193806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190123T195523Z
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SUMMARY:Chad Hazlett\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Making Sense of Sensitivity: Extending Omitted Variable Bias \nAbstract:We extend the omitted variable bias framework with a suite of tools for sensitivity analysis in regression models that: (i) does not require assumptions about the treatment assignment nor the nature of confounders; (ii) naturally handles multiple confounders\, possibly acting non-linearly; (iii) exploits expert knowledge to bound sensitivity parameters; and\, (iv) can be easily computed using only standard regression results. In particular\, we introduce two novel sensitivity measures suited for routine reporting. The robustness value describes the minimum strength of association unobserved confounding would need to have\, both with the treatment and the outcome\, to change the research conclusions. The partial R2 of the treatment with the outcome shows how strongly confounders explaining all the residual outcome variation would have to be associated with the treatment to eliminate the estimated effect. Next\, we offer graphical tools for elaborating on problematic confounders\, examining the sensitivity of point estimates\, t-values\, as well as “extreme scenarios”. Finally\, we describe problems with a common “benchmarking” practice and introduce a novel procedure to instead formally bound the strength of confounders based on comparison to observed covariates. We apply these methods to a running example that estimates the effect of exposure to violence on attitudes toward peace. \nPodcast Recording  \nMore info on Chad Hazlett
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/chad-hazlett-ucla/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T143000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20181031T172859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T154303Z
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SUMMARY:Introducing the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brasil)
DESCRIPTION:Fabíola Bof de Andrade\, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz\, Instituto de Pesquisas René Rachou\, Brazil & James Macinko\, UCLA \nThis 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 results from the baseline survey\, and discuss how to obtain and use the survey data. All interested faculty\, staff and students are welcome to attend. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/introducing-the-brazilian-longitudinal-study-of-aging-elsi-brasil/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180828T000130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181023T221710Z
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SUMMARY:Dalton Conley\, Princeton University
DESCRIPTION:Title: Social Science in the Age of Genomics \nAbstract: The cost of genetic information has been dropping at a rate faster than that of Moore’s law in microcomputing.  As a result\, the science of genetic prediction has improved by leaps and bounds in recent years\, and with it has emerged a novel field: sociogenomics.  Sociogenomics seeks to integrate genetic and environmental information to obtain a more robust\, complete picture of the causes of human behavior.  This talk will highlight some recent examples of sociogenomic research\, touching upon issues such as adolescent peer effects\, racial discrimination\, assortative mating\, and fertility patterns.  The talk will conclude by discussing the social and policy implications of genetic prediction. \n*Co-Sponsored with the Institute for Society and Genetics\, the Luskin for Innovation and the Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar  \nMore on Prof. Conley \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dalton-conley-princeton-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T134500
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180821T223502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181009T230635Z
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SUMMARY:Berk Ozler\, World Bank
DESCRIPTION:Title: Increasing the uptake of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs) among adolescent females and young women in Cameroon \nAbstract: In sub-Saharan Africa\, 25% of teenagers have started childbearing (ICF\, 2015). While young women describe many of these births as planned and intentional\, women under the age of 20 also have the greatest percentage of mistimed/unintended pregnancies compared to all other age groups. For example\, in Cameroon\, more than 30% of the births to this group were unwanted or wanted later (DHS 2011). Low age at first birth has a significant impact on the spacing of births and timing of future pregnancies. It may also reduce accumulation of human capital for both the mother and the child. \nDespite the desire to delay childbearing\, only a minority of sexually active unmarried women in most low-income countries uses any modern method of contraception (ICF\, 2015). The shares of women using reliable short-acting methods of contraception (injectables and pills) are even smaller\, with very few unmarried or nulliparous women using LARCs (IUDs or implants). For example\, 41% of sexually active unmarried women in Cameroon report using male condoms\, with 6% using SARCs and less than 1% using LARCs (DHS 2011). Given meaningful differences in the typical-use effectiveness of these different methods\, it is important to understand why most women don’t use any modern methods of contraceptives\, and why\, among users\, women favor the short-acting (but\, less reliable) methods over the long-acting (but almost 100% effective) ones. \nIn this talk\, Berk Özler will describe their multi-disciplinary team’s ongoing work in Cameroon that is attempting to identify the barriers to the uptake of LARCs and testing interventions to overcome them. They will briefly summarize the formative qualitative work to identify the supply- and demand-side barriers; describe a tablet-based decision-support tool they developed for nurses to counsel young women on modern contraceptive methods\, and describe the design of two randomized-controlled trials that test some of the interventions designed with the government of Cameroon. \nPlease RSVP for lunch \nCo-sponsored with the UCLA Luskin Senior Fellows Speaker Series \nMore on Prof. Ozler \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/berk-ozler-world-bank/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20181001T192236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T201210Z
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SUMMARY:Erin Hartman\, University of California Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:Title: Covariate Selection for Generalizing Experimental Results \nAbstract: Researchers are often interested in generalizing the average treatment effect (ATE) estimated in a randomized experiment to non-experimental target populations. Researchers can estimate the population ATE without bias if they adjust for a set of variables affecting both selection into the experiment and treatment heterogeneity. Although this separating set has simple mathematical representation\, it is often unclear how to select this set in applied contexts. In this paper\, we propose a data-driven method to estimate a separating set. Our approach has two advantages. First\, our algorithm relies only on the experimental data. As long as researchers can collect a rich set of covariates on experimental samples\, the proposed method can inform which variables they should adjust for. Second\, we can incorporate researcher-specific data constraints. When researchers know certain variables are unmeasurable in the target population\, our method can select a separating set subject to such constraints\, if one is feasible. We validate our proposed method using simulations\, including naturalistic simulations based on real-world data. \nCo-Sponsored with The Center for Social Statistics \nMore on Prof. Hartman
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/erin-hartman-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181003T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181003T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180808T215124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180808T215422Z
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SUMMARY:2018-2019 CCPR Welcome and Introductions
DESCRIPTION:Please come join us to learn all about the California Center for Population Research! \nProfessors Jennie Brand\, Patrick Heuveline and Hiram Beltran-Sanchez will be presenting. \nThis will be the kick-off event for the start of the upcoming 2018-2019 CCPR Seminar Series.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-welcome-and-introductions-2018-2019/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180919T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180919T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180912T184827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T184938Z
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SUMMARY:"The Trouble with Pink and Blue\, Gender expression\, stigma\, and health among U.S. children and adolescents"
DESCRIPTION:“The Trouble with Pink and Blue\, Gender expression\, stigma\, and health among U.S. children and adolescents” \nAllegra Gordon\, SCD\, MPH \nResearch Scientist\, Boston Children’s Hospital \nInstructor\, Department of Pediatrics\, Harvard Medical School \nDr. Gordon will offer a conceptual model for understanding gender expression and health and illustrate this model with examples from recent research on gender nonconformity\, school-based violence and bullying\, and selected health outcomes in samples of U.S. high school students and young adults. \nLunch will be provided \nSponsored by The Williams Institute\, The California Center for Population Research\, and The California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Centers
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/the-trouble-with-pink-and-blue-gender-expression-stigma-and-health-among-u-s-children-and-adolescents/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180618T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180618T160000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180612T163913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220906T222457Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Henry F. Raymond\, Rutgers University & UC San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:“Sampling Hidden Populations: Respondent Driven Sampling” \nDr. Henry F. Raymond\nAssociate Prof. of Epidemiology\, Rutgers University & Associate Prof. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics\, UC San Francisco\nJune 18th\, 2018\n4240 Public Affairs Building \nAbstract: Dr. Raymond will discuss the background and implementation of Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) studies which is wide use among hidden populations the world over. He will review the theoretical basis of RDS including what biases RDS analysis corrects for. Dr. Raymond will share some examples of RDS analysis using RDS Analyst.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dr-henry-f-raymond-rutgers-university-uc-san-francisco/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20171103T182159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180607T172952Z
UID:10000483-1527681600-1527687000@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:V. Joseph Hotz\, Duke University
DESCRIPTION:“The Role of Parental Wealth & Income in Financing Children’s College Attendance & Its Consequences” \nAbstract: This paper examines the influence of parental wealth and income on their children’s college attendance and parents’ financial support for it and whether the latter affects the subsequent levels of indebtedness of parents and their children. We use data from the PSID\, especially data in the 2013 Rosters and Transfers Module on the incidence and amounts of parents’ financial support for their children’s college. To instrument for the potential endogeneity of parental housing wealth and income on these decisions\, we use changes in parents’ local housing and labor market conditions. We find that increases in both parents’ housing wealth and income increase the likelihood of their children attending college through the effect of parents’ financial support. This parental financing of college leads to parents carrying more debt\, but their children having no greater student loan debt after graduation. We also find that parental financing of their child’s college education significantly increases the probability that the child actually graduates from college. \nAccess Podcast Here \nMore on Prof. Hotz
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/v-joseph-hotz-duke-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180131T225139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T221803Z
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SUMMARY:Dennis Culhane\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:“The Promise of Integrated Data Systems for Social Science Research” \nAbstract: Integrated Data Systems (IDS) linking administrative\, public agency data hold great promise for rapid and low-cost implementation and evaluation of homeless initiatives. Culhane will review the legal\, ethical\, scientific and economic challenges of interagency data sharing\, as well as systematic efforts including policy reform and inter-agency collaboration to overcome these challenges. Finally\, he will review important new IDS initiatives in LA County and California. \nMore on Prof. Culhane
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dennis-culhane-university-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180521T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180511T154607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180511T154950Z
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SUMMARY:Meeting the Challenge of Homelessness
DESCRIPTION:UCLA & Homelessness: See. Study. Solve \nPublic Lecture:\nMeeting the Challenge of Homelessness\nUCLA NPI Auditorium CHS C8-183 \nEnding homelessness and serving the needs of our most vulnerable individuals and families is possible\, but it requires sustained effort. Culhane will kick off the week by reviewing the national situation\, including progress and continued hurdles. He will also describe unique challenges for cities like LA where many homeless are unsheltered. \nDennis P. Culhane PhD \nHosted by Fielding School of Public Health Dean Jody Heymann \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/meeting-the-challenge-of-homelessness/
LOCATION:UCLA NPI Auditorium CHS C8-183
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T143000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180502T191443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T191443Z
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SUMMARY:Ethnic/Racial Characteristics and Inequality of Opportunity in Mexico
DESCRIPTION:More Information: http://www.international.ucla.edu/lai/event/13239#.WuoL1C7waUl \nHousehold surveys in Mexico include only limited information on race and ethnicity. The identification of racial and ethnic characteristics beyond membership to indigenous populations has been historically a difficult topic\, in part because it defies the “mestizo” ideology\, that is\, the image of Mexico as a racially integrated society through the mix of ancient indigenous and European populations. In 2016\, the National Institute of Statistics of Mexico (INEGI) executed a national survey on social mobility (MMSI). In this presentation\, I will talk about the process that led to the inclusion of racial/ethnic characteristics in this survey\, the media and academic debate that emerged after its publication\, and the main results of the survey\, which suggest that the effects of ethnic and racial characteristics on social inequality in Mexico extend well beyond the dichotomous indigenous/non-indigenous divide. \nPatricio Solís is Professor-Researcher at the Center for Sociological Studies of El Colegio de México (2004-present) and Editor in Chief of the journal Estudios Sociológicos (2016-present). He obtained a PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin (2002)\, and a MD in Population Studies from FLACSO-México (1995). His research interests are social stratification\, intergenerational social mobility\, and educational inequality. He was the principal academic advisor of the Intergenerational Social Mobility Module (MMSI) 2016\, a national survey carried out by the National Institute of Statistic and Geography of Mexico (INEGI). Two of his most recent publications are the books “Discriminación estructural y desigualdad social” (2017\, Consejo Nacional para Prevenir la Discriminación-CEPAL) and “Desigualdad\, movilidad social y curso de vida en la Ciudad de México” (2017\, El Colegio de México). \nLight refreshments will be served. RSVP to Jennifer Laínez. \nCost: Free & Open to the Public \nFor more information please contact\nJennifer Lainez\njlainez@international.ucla.edu \nDownload File: Solis_Flyer-55-uub.pdf \nSponsor(s): Center for Mexican Studies\, California Center for Population Research\, Race & Ethnicity Working Group
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ethnic-racial-characteristics-and-inequality-of-opportunity-in-mexico/
LOCATION:Haines 279
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20170724T212734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180607T173933Z
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SUMMARY:Sarah Baird\, George Washington University
DESCRIPTION:“When the Money Runs Out: Do Cash Transfers Have Sustained Effects on Human Capital Accumulation?” \nAbstract: The five-year evaluation of a cash transfer program targeted to young women points to both the promise and limitations of cash transfers for persistent welfare gains. Conditional cash transfers produced sustained improvements in education and fertility for initially out-of-school females\, but caused no gains in other outcomes. Significant declines in HIV prevalence\, pregnancy and early marriage observed during the program among recipients of unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) evaporated quickly after the cessation of support. However\, children born to UCT beneficiaries during the program had significantly higher height-for-age z-scores at follow-up pointing to the potential importance of cash during critical periods. \nAccess Podcast Here \nMore on Prof. Baird
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sarah-baird-george-washington-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180514T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180514T163000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180402T175901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180405T185221Z
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SUMMARY:Fabian Pfeffer\, University of Michigan: Multigenerational Cycles of Poverty?
DESCRIPTION:Fabian Pfeffer\, University of Michigan\nMultigenerational Cycles of Poverty?\nMonday May 14th\, 3:00 pm- 4:30pm\, Haines 279\n*co-sponsored with the Stratification\, Inequality and Mobility Working Group and the Family Working Group
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/fabian-pfeffer-university-of-michigan-multigenerational-cycles-of-poverty/
LOCATION:Haines 279
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20170724T212113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180607T173721Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Cassels\, UC Santa Barbara
DESCRIPTION:“Self-selection or enabling environments: What predicts the association between short-term mobility and sexual behavior?” \nAbstract: Short-term mobility is often associated with increased risk behavior. For example\, mobile individuals often have higher rates of sexual risk behavior compared to non-mobile individuals\, but the reasons why are not clear. Using monthly retrospective panel data from Ghana\, we test whether short-term mobility is associated with differences in total and unprotected sex acts\, and whether the association is due to enabling\, selection\, or influential reasons. In other words\, do mobile individuals express higher levels of risk due to an environment that enables that risk? Alternatively\, mobile individuals may be selected on some trait that predicts less aversion to risk. Men who were mobile in a given month had more sex acts compared to non-mobile men. Regardless of short-term mobility in a given month\, both men and women who were mobile in future months had more sex acts compared to individuals not mobile in future months. Our findings support the hypothesis that both men and women who are mobile are positively selected on sexual risk behavior. The enabling hypothesis\, that the act of being mobile enables sexual risk behavior\, was only supported for men. \nAccess Podcast Here \nMore on Prof. Cassels
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/susan-cassels-uc-santa-barbara/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180202T003528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180412T210346Z
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SUMMARY:Bruce Western\, Harvard University and Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:“Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison” \nAbstract: This talk will address my new book\, Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison. The book  tells the stories of the men and women I met through the Boston Reentry Study\, a series of interviews my research team and I conducted with people leaving prison for neighborhoods around Boston. We were trying to understand what happens when people return to a community\, and the challenges faced by them and their families. How did they look for work and housing? How did they manage their addictions or mental illness\, and why did some return to incarceration? In trying to answer these questions\, I hoped to bear witness to the lives held captive in America’s experiment with mass incarceration. The research showed that imprisonment is followed by deep poverty\, in which unemployment is widespread and survival is assisted only by government programs and family support. While earlier studies have focused on the stigma of a criminal record\, the men and women of Boston also struggled greatly with human frailty — mental illness\, addiction\, and physical disability — that threatened success after incarceration and impaired the effectiveness of programs. They had experienced serious violence\, often as perpetrators\, but just as frequently as victims and witnesses\, and often since early childhood. Under these conditions\, freedom after prison was not a status granted by release\, but something attained gradually. Becoming free was a process of social integration where one had to find one’s place with kin and community. \nMore on Prof. Western \n*Co-sponsored with the California Policy Lab
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/bruce-western-columbia-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180418T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180418T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180405T162514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180416T162557Z
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SUMMARY:CCPR 2018 PAA Practice Session
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to hear our residents interesting research and give feedback for their upcoming PAA presentations. \nPresenters: \n\nElior Cohen\, “The impact of skilled immigration on innovation in the Age of Mass Migration”\nSara Johnsen\, “Continuity and Change in Contraceptive Female Sterilization in the United States\, 1982 – 2015”\nWookun Kim\, “Does Pro-Natalist Cash Transfer Work? Evidence from Local Programs in South Korea”\nRavaris Moore\, “The Effects of Exposure to Community Gun-Violence on the High School Dropout Rates of California Public School Students”
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-2018-paa-practice-session/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180403T170543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T023512Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Bayesian Concepts for Data Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Michael Tzen \nContent:\nThis 1 hour workshop will provide a sampling of introductory concepts for bayesian analysis. We will use Bayes Rule (and its implications) to think about data analysis. When used as a framework to model phenomenon\, the analyst gets to work with 4 useful distributions: the prior\, posterior\, prior predictive\, & posterior predictive. We will predict what clothing size 2Chainz wears. We’ll also look at the Gompertz Rule from demography. In both examples\, the bayesian framework allows us to clearly express the estimand\, information from data\, information from prior knowledge\, and the estimator. \nThis workshop is the first of a two part series. The first workshop is conceptual while the second workshop will focus on software. The date for the second workshop is TBD. \nPlease RSVP Here: \nhttps://goo.gl/forms/CF4wuaobfqpug9Js1 \nslides
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-bayesian-concepts-for-data-analysis/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20170724T211319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T224906Z
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SUMMARY:Emmanuel Saez\, UC Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:“Inequality around the World: Evidence and Implications” \nAbstract: The lecture will present new evidence on global inequality and growth since 1980 using the World and Wealth Income Database. We combine data across countries in a homogeneous way to analyze world inequality. Global inequality has increased since 1980 in spite of fast growth in large emerging countries. We plot the curve of cumulated growth from 1980 to 2016 for each percentile of the global distribution of income per adult. This curve has an elephant shape as growth rates have been particularly high around the median (due to growth in China and India)\, growth rates have been low for the middle classes of advanced economies\, and growth rates have been explosive for the global top income earners. We estimate the future evolution of global inequality between now and 2050 combining projected macro growth rates and within country inequality evolution based on past trends. \nPodcast Here \nMore on Prof. Saez \n*Co-sponsored with the Department of Economics and Anderson School of Management and Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar (PPASS)
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/emmanuel-saez-uc-berkeley/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180404T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180404T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20170724T210930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T225720Z
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SUMMARY:Andrew Oswald\, University of Warwick
DESCRIPTION:“The Midlife Crisis in Humans and Other Animals” \nAbstract: The talk will discuss the concept of the midlife crisis.  It will examine international evidence on happiness\, mental health\, suicide\, antidepressant consumption\, sleep\, and so on.  Not all the data will be on human beings.  The talk will say something about where we are scientifically\, and what we need to understand next.  Plenty of time will be left for open discussion. \nAccess Podcast Here \nMore on Prof. Oswald \n*Co-Sponsored with Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar (PPASS)
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/andrew-oswald-university-warwick/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180316T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180316T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180307T204540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T163848Z
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SUMMARY:CEGA-EASST Scholars Visit from East Africa
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, March 16\,  UCLA is hosting three CEGA-EASST scholars from East Africa. 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 from 12:00-1:30PM in Public Affairs building room 4240. Lunch will be served.  They will be visiting all day so let us know if you would like to meet with any of them individually. Hope you can join us. Register Here\n  \n\nSamuel Muhula: Monitoring\, Evaluation and Research Manager at Amref Health Africa\, from Kenya \n“Social Dynamics and HIV Treatment Retention: Can Non-monetary Incentives and Facility-Based Psychosocial Support Improve Patients’ Retention in the Early Stages of HIV Care?”\nSuboptimal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment retention has profound impacts on morbidity and mortality among HIV positive participants. Monetary incentives and psychosocial support have been shown to be effective in various aspects of HIV control and may improve retention of participants in the early stages of HIV continuum of care. This two-armed randomized control trial evaluates the effectiveness of social dynamics involving non-monetary incentives and facility-based psychosocial support for HIV treatment on retention in the first six months of antiretroviral therapy (ART). The control group will receive standard care while the intervention group will receive standard care and the treatment which includes non-monetary incentives and participants enrolled into psychosocial support groups. The study will be implemented in Kibera informal settlement in Nairobi\, Kenya.\n  \n\nDanish Us Salam: Senior Research Associate at BRAC Uganda\, from Pakistan \n“Play & Learn – Using Intramural Sports to tackle Health and Educational Outcomes in Sierra Leone”\nPolitical and economic pressures on education systems to improve standardized test scores have had the unintended consequence of reducing or eliminating physical education curricula and thus students’ opportunities for physical activity. Extensive scientific evidence demonstrates that regular physical activity promotes growth and development in youth and has multiple benefits for physical\, mental and cognitive health whereas the lack of it can be detrimental to optimizing child health and development. I propose an experiment to test whether introducing a sport’s curriculum in under-resourced schools can drive health and educational outcomes among primary and secondary school students. More specifically\, I’m interested in the impact of supervised sports participation and school-sport performance-linked cash benefits in curbing teacher absenteeism\, teacher effort and improving student health and educational status across gender\, class level and socio-economic status.\n  \n\nPatrick Okello: Research Fellow at BRAC Uganda\, from Uganda \n“The Unemployment Problem and the Informal Economy: Can Evaluative Conditioning increase Labor Market Engagement?”\nYouth unemployment presents a major challenge in Uganda and is estimated to be as high as 64%. Only 30% of the labor force is engaged in the formal sector as it cannot absorb the large numbers entering the labor market annually. The informal sector\, however\, contributes considerably to the national GDP. There is anecdotical evidence that the reluctance to engage in the informal sector is attitudinal rather than structural\, partly as a result of asymmetrical information flows between the informal sector and job seekers. Therefore\, job seekers delay employment in expectation of a higher reservation wage attainable from a job in the formal sector. By exposing different groups to stimuli to reshape their negative opinions about self-employment\, we query whether this could be a cost-effective way to promote labor force participation rates.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/cega-easst-scholars-visit-from-east-africa/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180314T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180314T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20170724T210102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T225622Z
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SUMMARY:David Card\, UC Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:“The Health Effects of Cesarean Delivery for Low-Risk First Births” \nAbstract: Cesarean delivery for low-risk pregnancies is generally associated with worse health outcomes for infants and mothers. The interpretation of this correlation\, however\, is confounded by potential selectivity in the choice of birth mode. We use birth records from California\, merged with hospital and emergency department (ED) visits for infants and mothers in the year after birth\, to study the casual health effects of cesarean delivery for low-risk first births. Building on McClellan\, McNeil\, and Newhouse (1994)\, we use the relative distance from a mother’s home to hospitals with high and low c-section rates as an instrument for c-section.  We show that relative distance is a strong predictor of c-section but is orthogonal to many observed risk factors\, including birth weight and indicators of prenatal care.  Our IV estimates imply that cesarean delivery causes a relatively large increase in ED visits of the infant\, mainly due to acute respiratory conditions. We find no significant effects on mothers’ hospitalizations or ED use after birth\, or on subsequent fertility\, but we find a ripple effect on second birth outcomes arising from the high likelihood of repeat c-section. Offsetting these morbidity effects\, we find that delivery at a high c-section hospital leads to a significant reduction in infant mortality\, driven by lower death rates for newborns with high rates of pre-determined risk factors. \nAccess Podcast Here \nMore on Prof. Card
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/david-card-uc-berkeley/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180313T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180313T151500
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20180312T172714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180312T172714Z
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SUMMARY:Jake Bowers\, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Department of Statistics and the Center for Social Statistics presents:\nRules of Engagement in Evidence-Informed Policy: Practices and Norms of Statistical Science in Government\n\nCollaboration between statistical scientists (data scientists\, behavioral and social scientists\, statisticians) and policy makers promises to improve government and the lives of the public. And the data and design challenges arising from governments offer academics new chances to improve our understanding of both extant methods and behavioral and social science theory. However\, the practices that ensure the integrity of statistical work in the academy — such as transparent sharing of data and code — do not translate neatly or directly into work with governmental data and for policy ends. This paper proposes a set of practices and norms that academics and practitioners can agree on before launching a partnership so that science can advance and the public can be protected while policy can be improved. This work is at an early stage. The aim is a checklist or statement of principles or memo of understanding that can be a template for the wide variety of ways that statistical scientists collaborate with governmental actors. \n\nSpeaker:\nJake Bowers\, Associate Professor at University of Illinois and Fellow of the Office of Evaluation Sciences
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jake-bowers-university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign/
LOCATION:Franz Hall 2258A
CATEGORIES:CSS Events,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T152954
CREATED:20170830T161541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T225501Z
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SUMMARY:Fernando Riosmena\, University of Colorado
DESCRIPTION:“A re-appraisal of thinking on and the empirical evaluation of migration theories” \nAbstract: Over the last quarter Century\, there has been considerable efforts to systematize knowledge on and empirically test the drivers of population mobility around a set of eight theories that either explain the initiation or continuation of international labor migration flows. In this presentation\, I provide a reflection aimed at furthering theoretical development and empirical testing of these theories. I do so by: (1) providing more specific guidance on how the different theories’ overlapping scales of influence interrelate more specifically than examined in prior work; (2) arguing for a more complete formulation of some of these theories to better explain contemporary immigration flows; and (3) discussing whether/how these theories can help bridge the understanding of the “drivers” of internal vs. international migration\, and of labor vs. other kinds of mobility\, including some forms of forced displacement. Throughout\, I also discuss how the quantitative testing of these theories has fallen into pitfalls of both thinking measurement\, which have likely led to a misattribution of the relative importance of some theories\, suggesting some refinements on the empirical validation of and the more general use of these theories in guiding empirical analysis going forward. \nAccess Podcast Here \nCo-sponsored with the Center for the Study of International Migration and the Center for Mexican Studies \nMore on Prof. Riosmena
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/fernando-riosmena-university-colorado/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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