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SUMMARY:Romain Wacziarg\, University of California\, Los Angeles: "Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Romain Wacziarg is at the UCLA Anderson School of Management\, where he holds the Hans Hufschmid Chair in Management. His research deals with a broad range of topics in political economy\, including the interaction between demographic factors and long-run economic development\, the links between democracy and growth\, the effect of geographic and cultural barriers on the global spread of technologies and behaviors\, and the measurement of cultural heterogeneity. His research was published in the American Economic Review\, the Quarterly Journal of Economics\, the Economic Journal\, the Review of Economics and Statistics\, and numerous field journals. He is the Managing Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA). Prior to joining UCLA\, he was at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He holds a PhD from Harvard University (1998) \nAbstract: We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest of Europe in the late 19th century. Employing novel data on French immigration from other European regions from 1850 to 1930\, we find that higher immigration to France translated into lower fertility in the region of origin after a few decades – both in cross-region regressions for various periods\, and in a panel setting with region fixed-effects. These results are robust to the inclusion of a variety of controls\, and across multiple specifications. We also find that immigrants who themselves became French citizens achieved lower fertility\, particularly those who moved to French regions with the lowest fertility levels. We interpret these findings in terms of cultural remittances\, consistent with insights from a theoretical framework where migrants act as vectors of cultural diffusion\, spreading new information\, social norms and preferences pertaining to modern fertility to their regions of origin.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/romain-wacziarg-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
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SUMMARY:Development workshop\, 2/13 at 3pm  “Scientific Accountability and Data Production”
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion about open science\, ethical risks\, and potential drawbacks for certain forms of knowledge production with Irene Bloemraad (1)\, Cecilia Menjivar (2)\, Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld (3)\, and Jennifer Wagman (4)/ \n(1) UC Berkeley Sociology\, (2) UCLA Sociology\, (3) UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\, (4) UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/development-workshop-2-13-at-3pm-scientific-accountability-and-data-production/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,CSS Events
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SUMMARY:Giovanna Merli\, Duke University\, "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on network dynamics and the well-being of Chinese immigrants"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nM. Giovanna Merli is Professor of Public Policy\, Sociology and Global Health at Duke University where she is also the director of the Duke Population Research Institute. Her research straddles demography\, social networks and health with recent work on the evaluation of innovative network-based sampling approaches to recruit samples of rare populations of immigrants. \nThe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on network dynamics and the well-being of Chinese immigrants\nAbstract:\nIn this talk I will illustrate the application of a novel network sampling strategy used to recruit population-representative samples of Chinese immigrants in the US and France and present findings from three studies on the heterogeneous impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of Chinese immigrants and implications for their networks dynamics. These studies are co-authored with Ted Mouw (UNC)\, Allison Stolte (UCI)\, and Isabelle Attané and Yahan Chuang (INED\, France)
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/giovanna-merli-duke-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T120000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Jens Ludwig\, University of Chicago\, "Machine learning as a tool for hypothesis generation"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nJens Ludwig is Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago\, Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab\, co-director of the Education Lab\, and co-director of the NBER’s working group on the economics of crime. He is on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. \n“Machine learning as a tool for hypothesis generation”\nAbstract:\nWhile hypothesis testing is a highly formalized activity\, hypothesis generation remains largely informal. We propose a systematic procedure to generate novel hypotheses about human behavior\, which uses the capacity of machine learning algorithms to notice patterns people might not. We illustrate the procedure with a concrete application: judge decisions about who to jail. We begin with a striking fact: The defendant’s face alone matters greatly for the judge’s jailing decision. In fact\, an algorithm given only the pixels in the defendant’s mugshot accounts for up to half of the predictable variation. We develop a procedure that allows human subjects to interact with this black-box algorithm to produce hypotheses about what in the face influences judge decisions. The procedure generates hypotheses that are both interpretable and novel: They are not explained by demographics (e.g. race) or existing psychology research; nor are they already known (even if tacitly) to people or even experts. Though these results are specific\, our procedure is general. It provides a way to produce novel\, interpretable hypotheses from any high dimensional dataset (e.g. cell phones\, satellites\, online behavior\, news headlines\, corporate filings\, and high-frequency time series). A central tenet of our paper is that hypothesis generation is in and of itself a valuable activity\, and hope this encourages future work in this largely “prescientific” stage of science.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jens-ludwig-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Dr. Florencia Torche “Doing Gender and the Surname Choices of Married Women”
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URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dr-florencia-torche/
LOCATION:279 Haines Hall
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T084500
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SUMMARY:Los Angeles' Replication Games
DESCRIPTION:We are looking for researchers\, post-docs\, and PhD students\ninterested in a one-day replication challenge.\nParticipants will be granted co-authorship on a meta-paper\ncombining the reproductions and replications\, and will have the\nopportunity to publish their work. Participants will be matched based\non field\, and a study from a leading social science journal will be\nassigned to each team based on interests.\nThe event will take place at the University of California\, Los Angeles.\nVirtual participants are also welcome. The event is sponsored by the\nCalifornia Center for Population Research.\nInterested researchers and/or teams should send their field\nof study and preferred statistical software to: \nABEL BRODEUR\nabrodeur@uottawa.ca \nPre-games virtual meeting slides/recording can be found here. \nMore information about the event can be found here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/los-angeles-replication-games/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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