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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:20181017T120000
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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:20181024T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T134500
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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:20181031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T133000
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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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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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