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SUMMARY:Graeme Blair\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Graeme Blair is an associate professor of political science at UCLA and serves as Co-Director of Training and Methods of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). Graeme uses experiments\, field research\, and statistics to study how to reduce violence and how to improve social science research. He works primarily in Nigeria\, often in partnership with government\, civil society\, or international organizations. His work is published in journals including Science\, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\, Science Advances\, American Political Science Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, Journal of Politics\, Journal of the American Statistical Association\, and Political Analysis. His book on community policing is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press Studies in Comparative Politics and his book on research design is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. He is the recipient of the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science\, the Society for Political Methodology best statistical software award\, and the Pi Sigma Alpha best paper award. \nBetter research planning through simulation \nAbstract: The talk introduces a new way of thinking about research designs in the social sciences\, with the aim of making it easier to develop and to share strong research designs. At the heart of our approach is the MIDA framework\, in which a research design is characterized by four elements: a model\, an inquiry\, a data strategy\, and an answer strategy. We have to understand each of the four on their own and also how they interrelate. The design encodes your beliefs about the world\, it describes your questions\, and it lays out how you go about answering those questions\, both in terms of what data you collect and how you analyze it. In strong designs\, choices made in the model and inquiry are reflected in the data and answer strategies\, and vice-versa. This way of thinking pays dividends at multiple points in the research design lifecycle: planning the design\, implementing it\, and integrating the results into the broader research literature. The declaration\, diagnosis\, and redesign process informs choices made from the beginning to the end of a research project. These ideas will appear in Research Design in the Social Sciences: Declaration\, Diagnosis\, and Redesign\, forthcoming in the fall with Princeton University Press. \nTo access the recording please click here.
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SUMMARY:Robert Hummer\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Robert A. Hummer is the Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). He moved to UNC-CH in 2015 after spending 19 years at the University of Texas at Austin\, where he served as Director of their NICHD-supported Population Research Center\, PI of their NICHD-supported Training Program in Population Studies\, and Chairperson of their Department of Sociology. He recently served as the 2021 President of the Population Association of America and is currently a member of the Committee on Population of the National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine. His research focuses on the accurate documentation and more complete understanding of health and mortality disparities in the United States. He is currently Director and Principal Investigator of the long-running National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)\, which is now funded by the National Institute on Aging and five co-funding institutes/offices (NICHD\, NIMHD\, NIDA\, OBSSR\, ODP). Now in its sixth wave\, Add Health is one of the most innovative and well-utilized nationally representative cohort studies of Americans ever undertaken and provides data for thousands of researchers to more fully understand the multi-level (biological\, survey\, contextual) life course factors that contribute to health and health disparities in US adolescents and adults. \nTitle: Assessing Cognitive Functioning and Health Disparities in Early Midlife: A Sneak Peek at Wave VI of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) \nAbstract: For over 25 years\, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) project has provided the scientific community with innovative data to understand the health and social life of a nationally representative cohort of Americans who were in grades 7-12 in 1994-95. The Add Health cohort is now in their 40s. Recently funded primarily by the National Institute on Aging\, Wave VI of Add Health is currently in the field and is focused on providing the scientific community with novel data on the cognitive and sensory/physical functioning\, social life\, health\, and health behavior of the cohort. This presentation by the principal investigator and director of Add Health will focus on findings from some of the Wave VI pilot data\, which tested innovative methods for assessing the cognitive\, physical\, and sensory functioning of this early midlife cohort. The presentation will also provide an overview of the innovative design of Wave VI\, information on some of the new measures that have been added to the survey and biological data collection\, and a timeline of the fieldwork and data dissemination plan. \nThe recording of Dr. Hummer’s talk may be accessed here.
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SUMMARY:Juliana Londoño-Vélez\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Juliana Londoño-Vélez is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, an NBER Faculty Research Fellow\, a J-PAL Affiliate\, and a Faculty Affiliate at CCPR and CEGA. Juliana works on inequality and redistributive tax and transfer policies\, with a particular interest in developing countries. \nTitle: “Financial Aid and Social Mobility: Evidence from Colombia’s Ser Pilo Paga.” \nAbstract: “We study the effects of financial aid on human capital and social mobility. In 2014\, Colombia implemented a nationwide financial aid program covering the tuition of four-year undergraduate programs at 33 “high-quality” universities. We estimate effects on educational and labor market outcomes realized seven years after high school completion. We leverage the program’s discontinuous assignment rules based on test scores and household poverty using a regression discontinuity design and identify effects away from these discontinuities using difference-in-differences. First\, financial aid has a long-lasting expansion of college access and quality\, exposing students to colleges with high learning and earnings productivity. Moreover\, it boosts social mobility by expanding college attainment\, learning\, and earnings and slashes the wealth gaps in attainment\, learning\, and earnings among equally-achieving students. Crucially\, these sizable benefits are not offset by corresponding losses for nonrecipients. As a result\, financial aid improves both equity and efficiency. Thanks to financial aid\, colleges act as “engines of social mobility” rather than as “bastions of privilege.” \n\nThe recording may be accessed here.
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SUMMARY:Chris Blattman\, University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute and Harris School of Public Policy. He is an economist and political scientist\, and his work on violence\, crime\, and poverty has been widely covered by The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, The Economist\, Forbes\, Slate\, Vox\, and NPR. His most recent book is Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace. \nDr. Blattman was previously faculty at Columbia and Yale Universities\, and holds a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley and a Master’s in Public Administration and International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School. He co-leads the Development Economics Center at the University of Chicago\, the Peace & Recovery sector at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)\, the Crime\, Violence and Conflict initiative at MIT’s Poverty Action Lab (JPAL). \nMuch of Dr. Blattman’s work designs and tests solutions to violence and poverty\, and he has worked mainly in Colombia\, Liberia\, Uganda\, Ethiopia\, Mexico\, and Chicago. \nPredicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago  \nAbstract: Gun violence is the most pressing public safety problem in American cities. We report results from a randomized controlled trial (N = 2\, 456) of a community-researcher partnership—the Rapid Employment and Development Initiative (READI Chicago)—which provided 18 months of a supported job alongside cognitive behavioral therapy and other social supports. Algorithmic and human referral methods identified men with strikingly high scope for gun violence reduction: for every 100 people in the control group\, there were over 11 shooting and homicide victimizations during the 20-month outcome period. Take-up and retention rates were comparable to programs for people facing far lower mortality risk. There is no statistically significant change in an index combining three measures of serious violence\, the study’s primary outcome. But one component\, shooting and homicide arrests\, shows a suggestive decline of 64 percent (p = 0.15). Because shootings are so costly\, READI generates social savings between $174\,000 and $858\,000 per participant\, implying a benefit-cost ratio between 3.8 and 18.8 to 1. Moreover\, participants referred by outreach workers—a pre-specified subgroup—show enormous declines in both arrests and victimizations for shootings and homicides that remain statistically significant even after multiple testing adjustments. These declines are concentrated among outreach referrals with high predicted risk\, suggesting that human and algorithmic targeting may work better together. \nThe recording may be accessed here.
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