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Andrew Penner, University of California, Irvine, “The Academic and Socioemotional Effects of Advanced Mathematics Coursetaking”

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Biography Andrew Penner is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Penner's research examines how society creates categories and sorts people into them, and focuses on the consequences of these categorization processes for inequality. At UCI, Penner serves as […]

Jeffrey Weaver, University of Southern California

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Biography: Jeff Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the department of economics at USC. He is an applied microeconomist working on a range of topics in development economics, political economy, and labor economics. His past work has examined topics such as public service delivery in India, the evolution of cultural institutions, and crime and low wage labor markets in […]

Christopher Walters, University of California, Berkeley (STC Workshop), Title: Empirical Bayes and large-scale inference.

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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 […]

Peter Hull, Brown University, “Formula Instruments” (STC Workshop)

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Biography: Peter 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 […]

Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biography: Parag A. Pathak is the Class of 1922 Professor of Economics at MIT, found­ing co-director of the NBER Working Group on Market Design, and founder of MIT's Blueprint Labs.  His research is on education and market design.  He is currently a co-editor of Econometrica and the recipient of the 2018 John Bates Clark Medal. […]

The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) 2024

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From June 24 to July 3, 2024 the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Division of Social Sciences and the California Center for Population Research will sponsor the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, to be held at the University of California Los Angeles. The Organizing Committee Jennie Brand, Professor, Sociology and Statistics Dora Costa, […]

Anne Karing, University of Chicago, “Incentives and Motivation Crowd-Out: Experimental Evidence from Childhood Immunization”

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Biography: Anne Karing’s research focuses on the economics of healthcare delivery and health-seeking behaviors in low-income countries, applying insights from psychology. Her core work examines how social signaling motives can change behaviors, in ways that benefit individual health and society. She has implemented large-scale field experiments that examine the effectiveness of social signaling incentives in […]

Reflections on Graduate Training at CCPR/UCLA: A Panel to Honor Judith Seltzer

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Join us for a panel to honor Prof. Judith Seltzer's career and graduate training with CCPR and UCLA! Prof. Judith Seltzer is a founding member and former director of CCPR. She received the Sara McLanahan award from the Population Association of America. Panelists include former UCLA / CCPR graduate students Esther Friedman (Research Associate Professor, […]

Dan Thompson, University of California, Los Angeles, “How Much Does Health Affect Voter Participation?”

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Biography: Dan Thompson is an assistant professor of political science at UCLA studying American politics and political methodology. He studies how the rules governing elections affect who participates, who wins, and ultimately the policies governments choose. He collects new data on elections and electoral institutions which he combinse with large administrative datasets on government behavior. […]

Susan Cassels, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Patterns of Sexual Minority Men’s Lifestyle and Healthcare Related Activity Spaces in Los Angeles”

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Biography: Dr. Susan Cassels is a Professor in the Department of Geography at UCSB, and the Director of the Broom Center for Demography. She studies and teaches topics related to health geography, demography, and infectious disease epidemiology. The central focus of her research is on geographic mobility, sexual health, and HIV prevention. Her current research […]

Lisa Dettling, Federal Reserve Board, “Did the Modern Mortgage Set the Stage for the Baby Boom?”

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Biography: Lisa Dettling is a Principal Economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board, where she is part of the team that forecasts the economic effects of fiscal policy (taxes, transfers, and government spending). She is currently on leave from the Board and visiting CCPR this fall. Lisa's academic research […]

Sarah Miller, University of Michigan, “Does Income Affect Health? Evidence from the OpenResearch Unconditional Income Study”

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Biography: Sarah Miller is an associate professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. Dr. Miller's research interests are in health economics and, in particular, the short-term and long-term effects of public policies that expand health […]

Marissa Thompson, Columbia University “They have Black in their blood: Exploring how genetic ancestry tests affect racial appraisals and classifications”

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Biography: Marissa Thompson is an assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of racial and socioeconomic inequality, with an emphasis on understanding the role of education in shaping disparate outcomes over the life-course. Marissa’s current research investigates, for example, parental preferences regarding school segregation, the causal effects […]

Sherry Glied, New York University Wagner School, “Who Really Pays for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance? General Reflections and New Evidence from the ACA Dependent Coverage Mandate”

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Biography: Sherry Glied, an economist, is Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. From 2010-2012, Glied served as the Senate-confirmed Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services. She served as Senior Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in […]

Robert Fairlie, University of California, Los Angeles, “Affirmative Action, Faculty Productivity and Caste Interactions: Evidence from Engineering Colleges in India”

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Biography: Fairlie is a Distinguished Professor at UCLA. He is an Economist and Chair of the Department of Public Policy. He is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He studies a wide range of topics including entrepreneurship, education, labor, racial, gender and caste inequality, information technology, immigration, health, and development. […]

Sarah Brayne, Stanford University, “Living and Dying in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration”

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Biography: Sarah Brayne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. In her work, she uses qualitative and quantitative methods to understand whether and how data-intensive surveillance shapes individual trajectories and population-level disparities. Her first book, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing, draws on ethnographic research within the Los Angeles […]

Eliana La Ferrara, Harvard Kennedy School, “Changing Harmful Norms through Information and Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Somalia”

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Biography: Eliana La Ferrara is Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She received a PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1999. Prior to joining HKS, she was the Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University, Milan, where she founded and directed the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies (LEAP). She is a Past […]