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SUMMARY:Maya Rossin-Slater\, Stanford University\, "Birth Centers and Maternal and Infant Health"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Maya Rossin-Slater is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research (SIEPR)\, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University\, and her BA in Economics and Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley. Rossin-Slater’s research includes work in health\, public\, and labor economics. She focuses on issues in maternal\, child\, and family well-being\, health disparities\, and public policies and other factors affecting disadvantaged populations in the United States and other developed countries. She is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Elaine Bennett Research Prize (awarded to recognize outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman not more than ten years beyond her PhD). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBirth Centers and Maternal and Infant Health\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: The number of births at birth centers–freestanding medical facilities equipped to perform low-risk vaginal deliveries–has more than doubled over the past decade in the US. Interest in their usage increased during the COVID-19 pandemic\, and has continued to grow since. Moreover\, the large racial disparities in maternal health outcomes have prompted advocates to encourage Black women in particular to consider birth centers for their perinatal care. To date\, however\, there is limited evidence on the causal impacts of access to birth centers on maternal and infant health outcomes\, or disparities within them. We provide novel evidence on the impact of access to birth centers on maternal and infant health outcomes. We collect new data on birth centers from several industry organizations as well as the National Plan & Provider Enumeration System of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services\, and use nearly two decades of restricted-use individual-level birth records data from the National Vital Statistics System to study these questions. We examine the impacts of county-level access to birth centers on pregnancy\, delivery\, and infant health outcomes\, as well as on differences in who uses them between mothers from different racial and educational groups.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/maya-rossin-slater-stanford-university-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Course Release and Seed Grant Talks
DESCRIPTION:“Immigration Enforcement in the First Nine Months of the Second Trump Administration”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeed Grant Recipient: Graeme Blair \nProfessor of Political Science \n  \nBiography: Graeme Blair is a professor of political science at UCLA and faculty affiliate in statistics and the California Center for Population Research. Blair is Co-Director of the Deportation Data Project. He studies state violence and how to make social science more credible\, ethical\, and useful. Blair’s book Research Design in the Social Sciences was published in 2023 by Princeton University Press and won the best book award from the American Political Science Association Experiments Section. Blair’s second book\, Crime\, Insecurity\, and Community Policing\, was published in 2024 by Cambridge University Press in the Studies in Comparative Politics series. His articles are published in journals including Science\, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\, American Political Science Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, Journal of Politics\, Journal of the American Statistical Association\, and Political Analysis. Blair’s statistical software\, including DeclareDesign\, has been downloaded over a million times. He is the recipient of awards including the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science and the Society for Political Methodology best statistical software award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: The number of deportations from within the United States\, away from the border\, increased by a factor of 4.6 during the first nine months of the second Trump administration (the period for which we have detailed data). That increase reflects the following key trends: First\, ICE arrests quadrupled\, including both street arrests and transfers from criminal custody to ICE immigration custody. ICE street arrests (i.e. arrests not at jails) went up by over a factor of eleven. Street arrests at this order of magnitude are a new phenomenon. For both types of arrests\, ICE was much less likely to target people with criminal convictions. These changes led to over a sevenfold increase in arrests of people without criminal convictions. Second\, the quadrupling (4x) of arrests resulted in an even larger rise (4.6x) in deportations because of increased detention space and decreased releases. The administration roughly tripled the number of detention beds used for people arrested within the United States. That capacity increase was a result both of new funding (for new detention centers and more beds in existing detention centers) and of a decrease in arrests at the border. Once arrested\, few were released. Release within 60 days of arrest\, already rare in the last six months of the Biden administration (16%)\, became almost nonexistent (3%). The rate of deportation within two months of initial detention rose by about a quarter\, from 55% to 69%; the declining release rate accounted for most of that increase. Perhaps because of the lower release rate\, voluntary departures (which are rare compared to removals) increased by 21 times.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“The Consequences of Receiving—and of Being Denied—an Abortion on Women’s Physical and Mental Health”\n  \nSeed Grant Recipient: Juliana Londono-Velez \nAssistant Professor of Economics \n  \n\n\n\nBiography: Juliana Londoño-Vélez is an applied microeconomist. Her research focuses on how tax and social policies can reduce poverty and inequality and promote upward mobility in Latin America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: This paper estimates the causal effects of being denied an abortion on women’s physical and mental health. We exploit Colombia’s tutela system\, which allows women to petition judges to compel insurers and providers to deliver timely abortion care. Linking all abortion-related tutelas to comprehensive administrative health records\, we leverage the random assignment of cases to judges with differing leniency in an instrumental-variables design. Abortion denial sharply reduces access to abortion services. Consistent with the importance of timely care\, women who seek abortions in the second or third trimester face substantially higher medical risks—including hemorrhage\, uterine perforation or damage\, and septicemia—than women who seek care in the first trimester. We find no evidence that obtaining an abortion worsens women’s mental health. By contrast\, abortion denial causes large and persistent increases in mental-health diagnoses and psychotropic medication use\, increases physical morbidity\, and leads to sustained growth in health-care utilization\, including emergency department visits. Finally\, abortion denial reduces subsequent contraceptive use.\n\n\n\n\n“The China Syndrome Shock and Family Dynamics: Investigating Effects on Marriage Rates\, Marital Sorting\, and Fertility”\n  \nCourse Release Recipient: Daniel Haanwinckel \nProfessor of Economics \n  \n\n\n\nBiography: Daniel Haanwinckel is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. His research primarily focuses on the determinants of wages\, unemployment\, underemployment\, and worker-firm sorting. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California\, Berkeley in 2019.\n\n\n\n\nAbstract TBA
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/course-release-and-seed-grant-talks/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Events,CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Adriana Lleras-Muney\, UCLA\, "The Impact of Medicare’s Introduction on Life Expectancy"
DESCRIPTION:  \nBiography: Adriana Lleras-Muney is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and was an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University before moving to UCLA. She is an associated editor for the Journal of Health Economics\, and she serves on the board editors of the American Economic Review and Demography. She served as a permanent member of the Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section at the National Institute of Health\, and was an elected member of the American Economic Association Executive committee. In 2017 Lleras-Muney won the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Lleras-Muney’s research examines the relationships between socioeconomic status and health\, with a particular focus on education\, income and policy. Her most recent work investigates the long-term impact of government policies on children by analyzing the effects of programs like the Mother’s Pension program and the Civilian Conservation Corps\, implemented during the first half of the 20th century. Her work has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review\, Econometrica\, The Review of Economic Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. \n  \n\n\n\n\nThe Impact of Medicare’s Introduction on Life Expectancy\n\n\n\nThis paper estimates the causal effects of Medicare on mortality rates and life expectancy among the program’s early recipients. We construct a new dataset of more than 18 million individuals observed in the 1940 census linked to a death record in the FamilyTree database at FamilySearch. We use Medicare’s introduction in 1966 to identify its average treatment effects using three pre-specified approaches: a design based on a simple theoretical model of cohort mortality\, an interrupted time-series design\, and a staggered difference-in-differences design. All three show that Medicare increases life expectancy at age 65 for men born between 1885 and 1915 by an average of one year. Medicare’s effects on life expectancy at age 65 are larger for cohorts with more potential years of exposure but similar for groups of high and low socio-economic status. The effects for women are not robust across methods and specifications.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/adriana-lleras-muney-ucla-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Events,CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260401T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260401T131500
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SUMMARY:Laurence Baker\, Stanford University\, "Does the form of medical practice affect health care utilization and costs?"
DESCRIPTION:  \nBiography: Laurence Baker\, Ph.D. is Professor of Health Policy and Knowles Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University. He is a health economist who uses applies economic and statistical analysis to study challenges facing the health care system. Professor Baker has published widely and served as an advisor to the public and private sectors on a range of health care system and financing issues including the effects of financial incentives and provider organizational structure on the delivery of health care and health care spending\, technological change in medicine\, competition in health care markets\, and managed care and insurance plans. Professor Baker also serves as Associate Chair for Education in the Department of Health Policy and holds appointments as Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research\, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge\, MA. Professor Baker directs the Stanford School of Medicine’s Scholarly Concentration and Medical Scholars programs. Professor Baker is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a recipient of the ASHE Medal from the American Society of Health Economists which recognizes the top American health economist under the age of 40. He has also received the Alice S. Hersh Young Investigator Award from AcademyHealth and the National Institute for Health Care Management’s research prize. He is Past President of the American Society of Health Economists\, and previously served on the board of AcademyHealth and the International Health Economics Association. Professor Baker received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1994 and his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Calvin College in 1990. \n  \nDoes the form of medical practice affect health care utilization and costs?\n\n\n\nThe growth of larger multispecialty physician practices prompts questions about the effects of practice organization on health care delivery\, outcomes\, and costs. We use Medicare claims data from 2006-2020 to examine differences in spending\, health care utilization\, and quality for traditional Medicare patients who receive primary care from practices that only have primary care physicians (“PC-only practices) and those who receive primary care in typically larger multispecialty practices that integrate primary care and other specialist physicians. We focus on individuals who move from one HRR to another\, and use changes in practice type associated with the move to identify effects of practice type\, controlling for individual and geographic characteristics\, and time trends. We find that receiving primary care in a PC-only practice is associated with an increase of $341 per year in total spending. This is primarily associated with higher rates of hospitalization and post-acute care use. PC-only practices are also associated with higher rates of AHRQ Prevention Quality Indicators\, suggesting a possibility of lower quality care. Overall\, these results suggest that larger\, multispecialty practices may be able to improve the efficiency\, and lower the overall cost\, of care for Medicare recipients.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/laurence-baker-stanford-university-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Patrick Ishizuka\, Washington University St Louis\, "The Stalled Gender Housework Revolution in the United States"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Patrick Ishizuka is a sociologist and demographer who uses quantitative and experimental methods to understand gender and socioeconomic inequality in the workplace and in family life. His recent projects examine trends in gender housework inequality\, the shifting economic foundations of marriage among cohabiting couples\, and parenting attitudes toward adolescents who transgress norms relating to gender expression\, identity\, and sexuality. His research has been published in Demography\, Social Forces\, and Social Science Research and has been featured in The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, and The Washington Post. Ishizuka’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation\, Mathematica Policy Research\, and Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences. \n  \n\n\n\nThe Stalled Gender Housework Revolution in the United States\nAbstract: Prior studies have documented a declining but persistent gender gap in housework since the 1960s\, with women’s housework time declining more than men’s has increased. Yet gender scholars differ in their assessment of these trends and their significance for understanding the extent and pace of gendered change in families. Using individual-level longitudinal data from the 1976–2019 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics\, this study aims to address a theoretical impasse on the status of the gender revolution by asking whether housework has become fundamentally degendered over time. Using two novel indicators of degendering\, I argue that gendered identities\, cultural frames\, and gender performance remain far more important in determining gender housework inequality than differences in men’s and women’s observed characteristics.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/patrick-ishizuka-washington-university-st-louis-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T131500
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SUMMARY:Ann Owens\, UCLA\, "The Changing Relationship between School and Residential Segregation"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Ann Owens is Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her research centers on the causes and consequences of social inequality\, with a focus on neighborhoods\, housing\, education\, and geographic and social mobility. Ann has particular expertise on neighborhood and school segregation\, and her research also examines how housing and educational policies cause or alleviate social inequalities. Ann received her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. \n\nThe Changing Relationship between School and Residential Segregation\nDescription: Residential and school segregation are key indicators of unequal opportunity and key drivers of unequal outcomes in children’s lives. Reducing segregation\, then\, is a promising approach for reducing racial/ethnic and economic inequality among children on a range of outcomes. A comprehensive approach to reducing segregation must account for the link between segregation in neighborhoods and segregation in schools. Historically\, school segregation was seen as “downstream” of residential segregation—schools were segregated because the neighborhoods zoned to them were segregated. More recently\, scholars have framed the relationship between residential and school segregation as cyclical and bidirectional\, and changing demographic patterns and school choice regimes have complicated this relationship. This talk examines how closely coupled school and residential segregation are in the US\, how this has changed over time\, and the demographic\, geographic\, and policy conditions that influence the extent of their correspondence.\n\nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ann-owens-ucla-the-changing-relationship-between-school-and-residential-segregation/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Events,CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260225T120000
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SUMMARY:Developmental Seminar: Conducting Research with Vulnerable Populations
DESCRIPTION:  \n This multidisciplinary panel will address practical and ethical issues that arise when conducting research with vulnerable populations. Panelists will include CCPR affiliates Faith Deckard\, Elizabeth Kim\, Randall Kuhn\, and Meredith Phillips. \n  \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/developmental-seminar-conducting-research-with-vulnerable-populations/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Events,CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260218T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260218T131500
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SUMMARY:Amy Finkelstein\, MIT\, "Trading Goods for Lives: The Effect of NAFTA on Mortality"
DESCRIPTION:  \n(with Matthew Notowidigdo and Steven Shi) \nBiography: Amy Finkelstein is the John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-founder and co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America\, a research center at MIT that encourages and facilitates randomized evaluations of important domestic policy issues. She is also the co-Director of the Economics of Health Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and was the founding Editor of American Economic Review: Insights. \nTrading Goods for Lives: The Effect of NAFTA on Mortality\nwith Matthew Notowidigdo and Steven Shi \nAbstract:  We leverage spatial variation in exposure to the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to examine its impact on mortality and explore quantitative implications for the welfare effects of NAFTA. Areas more exposed to Mexican import competition by NAFTA experienced larger increases in mortality. In the 14 years post-NAFTA\, an area with average NAFTA exposure experienced an increase in annual\, age adjusted mortality of 0.68 percent (standard error = 0.19). NAFTA-induced mortality increases are particularly pronounced among working-age men\, a demographic that also experienced disproportionate NAFTA-induced employment declines. Comparisons with the mortality effects of other economic contractions suggest that\, unlike declines in the non-manufacturing employment-to-population (EPOP) ratio which reduce mortality\, declines in manufacturing EPOP consistently increase mortality.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/amy-finkelstein-mit-ucla/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260211T120000
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Kolstad\, University of California\, Berkeley\, "Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive capacity\, decision making and medical diagnosis"
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nBiography: Jonathan Kolstad is a professor at the Haas School of Business\, where he holds the Henry J. Kaiser Chair\, and in the Economics Department at UC Berkeley. He is also a core faculty member in the Computational Precision Health Graduate Group at UC Berkeley and UCSF\, the founding director of the Center for Health Care Marketplace Innovation and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests lie at the intersection of health economics\, industrial organization and public economics. He is interested in finding new models and unique data that can account for the complexity of policy relevant markets\, health care in particular. Much of his work applies tools from behavioral economics and machine learning and AI to better understand behavior and market outcomes and to design policy and technology interventions to improve welfare. Kolstad was awarded the ASHEcon Medal in 2018\, given biennially to the economist age 40 or under who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics\, the Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics in 2014 and the NIHCM Foundation Research Award in 2016 and 2018. Kolstad is also active as an entrepreneur and founder in health care and technology and an advisor to governments\, corporations\, and startups. He received his PhD from Harvard University and BA from Stanford University. \n  \n\n\n\nThinking versus Doing: Cognitive capacity\, decision making and medical diagnosis\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: We study how situational fluctuations in cognitive capacity shape behavior in high-stakes\, real-time decision-making. Drawing on recent advances in behavioral economics that revolve around inattention\, cognition and complexity\, we show that cognitive load influences how physicians in emergency departments allocate mental effort\, attention\, and make diagnostic and treatment decisions. We use quasi-random variation in patient-physician pairings\, along with granular electronic medical record and audit-log data from many clinical interactions\, to show that\, under higher cognitive load\, physicians substitute mental deliberation with more numerous but less precise diagnostic actions. Specifically\, we document that higher load (i) increases the total number of orders of diagnostic tests\, (ii) reduces the use of more precise and less common tests (iii) increases the use of common tests and (iv) increases uncertainty in diagnostic beliefs. We show that cognitive load impacts downstream inpatient admission from the emergency department: a physician in the highest cognitive load decile increases admissions by 28\% relative to the same physician in the lowest cognitive load decile\, for the exact same kind of patient. We also explore implications for policy\, including how patient-physician matching might be improved by accounting for cognitive load profiles. These results offer novel field-based evidence on the dynamics of attention and belief formation\, and shed light on how cognitive constraints shape diagnostic behavior in complex\, real-world environments.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jonathan-kolstad-university-of-california-berkeley/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260204T131500
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SUMMARY:David Grusky\, Stanford University\, "Why is Evidence-Based Policy Still So Elusive?  The Case of U.S. Homelessness Policy"
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nBiography: David B. Grusky is Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences\, Professor of Sociology\, and Director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. His research examines the structure of social mobility and inequality\, new ways to improve the country’s infrastructure for monitoring mobility and inequality\, and new policies for increasing mobility and reducing inequality. \n  \nWhy is Evidence-Based Policy Still So Elusive? The Case of U.S. Homelessness Policy\n\n\n\nIn many policy zones\, the available evidence suggests that locally-tailored policy would outperform one-size-fits-all policy\, yet it’s difficult for local policymakers to carry out the local tailoring that’s consistent with that evidence. We use the case of homelessness policy to illustrate how this problem can be overcome across a wide range of policy domains.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/david-grusky-stanford-university-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260114T191500
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SUMMARY:Michael Geruso\, UT Austin\, Book Talk on "After the Spike: Population\, Progress\, and the Case for People"
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nBiography: Dr. Michael Geruso is coauthor of After the Spike: Population\, Progress\, and the Case for People. Geruso is an economic demographer\, public economist\, and associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2023 to 2024\, he served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers\, where he advised on issues of health and population. He holds bachelor’s degrees in engineering\, political science\, and philosophy. He earned his PhD in economics from Princeton and completed postdoctoral work at Harvard prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. His work has been published in top peer-reviewed outlets including the American Economic Review\, the Journal of Political Economy\, and Demography\, and has been featured in The New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, NPR\, the Atlantic\, the Economist\, and more. \n  \n\n\n\nAfter the Spike: Population\, Progress\, and the Case for People\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDescription: Most people on Earth today live in a country where birth rates already are too low to stabilize the population: fewer than two children for every two adults. In After the Spike\, economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso sound a wakeup call\, explaining why global depopulation is coming\, why it matters\, and what to do now. It would be easy to think that fewer people would be better—better for the planet\, better for the people who remain. This book invites us all to think again. Spears and Geruso investigate what depopulation would mean for the climate\, for living standards\, for equity\, for progress\, for freedom\, for humanity’s general welfare. And what it would mean if\, instead\, people came together to share the work of caregiving\, making parenting better\, and stabilizing our numbers. After the Spike asks what future we should want for our planet\, for our children\, and for one another.\n\n\nEvent Recap: Michael Geruso\, economic demographer\, public economist\, and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin\, and co-author of After the Spike: Population\, Progress\, and the Case for People\, delivered a compelling book talk on the global decline in birth rates. He argued that depopulation poses a serious challenge\, emphasizing that larger populations have historically fueled innovation\, economic growth\, and our ability to solve complex global problems. Challenging the belief that smaller populations necessarily produce greater prosperity or environmental gains\, Geruso calls for efforts to support those who wish to have children while safeguarding gender equity and reproductive freedom to stabilize the population. The event sparked meaningful discussion and lively dialogue among attendees.\n\n\n\n\n\nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/michael-geruso-ut-austin-tbd/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Room 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\,\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Philip N. Cohen\, University of Maryland\, "Research Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar"
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nBiography: Philip N. Cohen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland\, College Park. His latest book\, Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (Columbia University Press 2025)\, addresses the role of intellectuals in public life and offers guidance for a career in social science. His other research concerns demographic trends\, family structure\, the division of labor\, health disparities\, and open science. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResearch Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar\nAbstract: What is the role of professional scholars in civic life? How and why should academics seek to reach audiences beyond their disciplines and institutions? Must there be tension between advancing along an academic career path and taking part in public conversations\, or can these goals reinforce each other? Drawing from personal experience and in-depth research\, this talk features straightforward advice that acknowledges professional risks as well as rewards. Cohen embraces the reciprocal relationship between professional scholarship and active citizenship\, arguing that aligning personal and vocational identities can enhance both public and academic contributions. He explores intellectual work on social media\, science communication\, political activism\, and how to build trust while developing a public intellectual identity (and his experience suing President Trump for blocking him on Twitter – and winning). \n  \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/philip-n-cohen-university-of-maryland-research-is-not-enough-public-engagement-and-the-citizen-scholar/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Events,CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Nathan Nunn\, University of British Columbia\, “Development Mismatch?: Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa”
DESCRIPTION:  \nBiography: Nathan Nunn is a Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in cultural economics. His research examines the historical and dynamic process of economic development\, focusing on the evolution of culture\, norms\, and institutions across societies. He has published dozens of articles aimed at improving our understanding of the historical process of factors relevant to economic development\, including distrust\, gender norms\, religiosity\, rule-following\, zero-sum thinking\, honor cultures\, conflict\, immigration\, state formation\, and support for democracy. Another aspect of his research examines the importance of local cultural context for contemporary development policy. \nDevelopment Mismatch?: Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: We study the consequences of a clash between contemporary development initiatives and traditional economic practices in Africa. Crop agriculture has expanded considerably across the continent in recent years. Much of this expansion has occurred in traditionally pastoral areas. This is believed to be a major cause of conflict between pastoral and agricultural ethnic groups. We test this hypothesis using geocoded data on agricultural development projects across Africa from 1995-2014. We find that implementing agricultural projects in traditionally pastoral areas leads to a two-fold increase in the risk of conflict. We find no equivalent effect for agricultural projects implemented in traditionally agricultural areas\, nor for non-agricultural projects implemented in either location. We also find that this mechanism contributes to the spread of extremist-religious conflict in the form of jihadist attacks. The effects are muted when agricultural projects are paired with pastoral projects\, which is more likely to occur when pastoral groups have more political power. Despite these effects on conflict\, we find that crop agriculture projects increase nighttime luminosity in both agricultural and pastoral areas. Evidence from survey data suggest that the gains in pastoral areas are concentrated in on-pastoral households. Our results indicate that “development mismatch” – i.e.\, imposing projects that are misaligned with local communities – can be costly.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/nathan-nunn-university-of-british-columbia-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251112T120000
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UID:10000937-1762948800-1762953300@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Manasi Deshpande\, The University of Chicago\, "Explaining the Historical Rise and Recent Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:  Manasi Deshpande is an associate professor of economics with tenure at the University of Chicago Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests include the optimal design of social safety net programs\, their interaction with labor markets\, and their effects on consumption\, health\, and well-being. She has received the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship\, NSF CAREER award\, and William T. Grant Scholarship. Her dissertation on the long-term effects of disability programs received the 2015 APPAM Dissertation Award\, the 2015 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award\, and the 2016 NASI John Heinz Dissertation Award. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Becker-Friedman Institute.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExplaining the Historical Rise and Recent Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: After substantial growth in the 1990s and 2000s\, enrollment in the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program has been declining since 2013. We use detailed administrative data to quantify the contributions of various factors to trends in SSDI enrollment\, focusing especially on the decline in the 2010s. A statistical decomposition suggests that the vast majority of the decline in SSDI enrollment since 2013 is attributable to declines in application rates and\, to a lesser extent\, award rates\, within demographic groups\, rather than changes over time in demographic characteristics\, eligibility\, or rates of exit from SSDI. The decline in SSDI enrollment rates is disproportionately driven by older low-to-middle-skilled men with relatively severe health conditions who\, over time\, have become less likely to apply for SSDI and more likely to work. Consistent with this descriptive evidence\, we present results from a causal analysis suggesting that improved labor market opportunities for older middle-skilled men could explain the decline in SSDI enrollment. We also present a set of causal estimates that rule out several popular hypotheses for the decline in SSDI applications\, including lower award rates at the appeal level\, a higher administrative burden of applying\, greater generosity of other programs\, and reductions in pollution and smoking.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/manasi-deshpande-the-university-of-chicago-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T120000
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SUMMARY:Stefanie DeLuca\, Johns Hopkins University\, “Colleges that obviously don’t have what you need”: Risk\, Social Mobility and the Postsecondary Decisions of Low-Income Students”
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Stefanie DeLuca is the James Coleman Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University\, Director of the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab\, and Research Principal at Opportunity Insights at Harvard University. She co-authored Coming of Age in the Other America (with Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin)\, which was named an Outstanding Academic Title from the American Library Association and won the William F. Goode Award from the American Sociological Association. Her work has been funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development\, National Science Foundation\, Russell Sage Foundation\, Annie E. Casey Foundation\, Spencer Foundation\, MacArthur Foundation\, Abell Foundation\, Smith Richardson Foundation\, National Academy of Education\, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Department of Education\, among others. She contributes frequently to national and local media\, including The Atlantic\, Baltimore Sun\, The Economist\, The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Washington Post\, and National Public Radio. Stefanie has been invited to share her research to support policy recommendations at the federal level at the Department of Housing and Urban Development\, the Department of Education\, the Department of Health and Human Services\, and has provided briefings and testimony for several state legislatures and in federal court on behalf of the plaintiffs in the Baltimore Thompson v. HUD housing desegregation case. She currently serves on a Federal Research Advisory Commission at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Stefanie’s other awards and honors include the Publicly Engaged Scholar Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association\, Scholar of the Year by the National Alliance of Resident Services in Assisted and Affordable Housing\, William T. Grant Faculty Scholars Award\, Johns Hopkins University Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award\, and election to the Sociological Research Association. \n  \n\n\n\nColleges that obviously don’t have what you need: Risk\, Social Mobility and the Postsecondary Decisions of Low-Income Students\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: While postsecondary education enrollment rates have soared over the last few decades\, dilemmas remain about how to support young adults as they navigate paths after high school. On the one hand\, postsecondary education plays a vital role in promoting intergenerational mobility\, increasing earnings\, and improving job quality. On the other hand\, there are large and growing gaps in college attendance\, college quality\, and college completion rates by family income\, leaving many young adults with only ‘some college’ and a relatively unsupported and sooner-than-expected transition to work. As a policy response\, selective colleges and universities have tried to increase opportunities for low-income students on their campuses\, with some significantly investing in financial aid expansions and other supportive interventions. One example is an experimentally evaluated intervention at the University of Michigan (UM) called the HAIL Scholarship Study\, which tests whether a personalized offer of a guaranteed four-years of financial aid can increase enrollment of students from low-income families. HAIL has been very successful\, more than doubling application and enrollment at UM among Michigan students from low-income families. However\, one-third of the students who received the HAIL offer never applied to UM and one-fifth of those admitted did not attend UM. How do we explain such decisions? We use qualitative interviews with 136 low-income high-achieving high school seniors from the HAIL intervention to understand how they experienced and assessed risk in the college decision-making process. We find that low-income students –even high-performing low-income students with the tuition-guarantee—worry about whether the investment in a four-year degree is worth it. In particular\, we observe a profound fear of failure as students worry that they will not complete their bachelor’s degrees and/or they worry that their college education will not pay off in terms of job or financial stability. The fear of non-completion seems to stem from several sources\, including: the inability to perform well academically while at a selective institution; indecision about major and finding something of interest that will lead to a solid career; being away from social support; and concerns about shocks that might occur to derail them. As a result of this risk assessment\, students enact a number of mitigation strategies to get a better sense of what they want to do\, many resulting in an indefinite delay of their college enrollment.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/stefanie-deluca-johns-hopkins-university-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Marco Tabellini\, Harvard Business School\, Climate Matching in Migration: From the American Frontier to Prehistory
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Marco Tabellini is an assistant professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy unit and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)\, the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)\, RF Berlin\, and IZA. He explores how international and internal migration reshapes politics\, societies\, and the economy. His work investigates when and why immigration stirs political backlash\, what drives successful social integration\, and how migration alters societal boundaries in diverse countries such as the United States. He also examines the economic consequences of immigration\, including its effects on labor markets and growth. Finally\, his research sheds light on the role of climate as a powerful force shaping migration flows across time and place. \n  \nClimate Matching in Migration: From the American Frontier to Prehistory\nAbstract: We examine how climate shapes human migration across both modern history and deep prehistory. Drawing on rich U.S. census and administrative data\, we show that migrants systematically sort into destinations whose climates resemble those of their origins\, a pattern we term climate matching. This pattern holds for both international and internal migration\, across historical (1850–1920) and modern (1970–2020) periods\, and played a central role in shaping the geography of U.S. settlement\, population growth\, and economic activity. We then push these ideas back into prehistory\, using ancient DNA to trace related individuals buried hundreds or thousands of kilometers apart. Linking these inferred migration flows to paleoclimate reconstructions reveals that even prehistoric populations tended to move along ecological corridors and into familiar climatic zones.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/marco-tabellini-harvard-business-school-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Jens Ludwig\, University of Chicago\, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence"
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nBiography: Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago\, co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research working group on the economics of crime\, and Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. He helped found the Crime Lab 16 years ago to serve as a sort of R&D partner to the public sector to help address major social problems like gun violence\, and has led to nationwide efforts to change policing\, community violence intervention\, and social programs for youth violence prevention\, as well as new data-driven decision tools in use across the entire New York City court system. This work has been published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and featured in national news outlets like the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\, NPR and PBS News Hour. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the  National Academy of Science’s Committee on Law and Justice. \nUnforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence\nWhat if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? \nIn 2007\, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen\, and is there anything we can do about it? Almost two decades later\, the answers aren’t what he expected. Unforgiving Places is Ludwig’s revelatory portrait of gun violence in America’s most famously maligned city. \nDisproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people\, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually grow out of a more fleeting source: interpersonal conflict\, especially arguments. By examining why some arguments turn tragic while others don’t\, Ludwig shows gun violence to be more circumstantial—and more solvable—than our traditional approaches lead us to believe. \nDrawing on decades of research and Ludwig’s immersive fieldwork in Chicago\, including “countless hours spent in schools\, parks\, playgrounds\, housing developments\, courtrooms\, jails\, police stations\, police cars\, and lots and lots of McDonald’ses\,” Unforgiving Places is a breakthrough work at the cutting edge of behavioral economics. As Ludwig shows\, progress on gun violence doesn’t require America to solve every other social problem first; it only requires that we find ways to intervene in the places and the ten-minute windows where human behaviors predictably go haywire. \n  \nA recording of Jens Ludwig’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jens-ludwig-university-of-chicago-unforgiving-places-the-unexpected-origins-of-american-gun-violence/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Janet Currie\, Princeton University\, "Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the co-director of Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing.  She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research.  Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development.  Her current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in health and access to health care\, environmental threats to health\, the important role of mental health\, and the long-run impact of health problems in pregnancy and early childhood.  Currie is a member of the National Academy of Sciences\, the National Academy of Medicine\, and of the American Academy of Art and Sciences.  She will be the President of the American Economic Association in 2024 and has served as the President of the American Society of Health Economics\, the Society of Labor Economics\, the Eastern Economic Association\, and the Western Economic Association.  She is the Distinguished CES Fellow in 2023\, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science\, the Society of Labor Economists\, and of the Econometric Society\, and has honorary degrees from the University of Lyon and the University of Zurich.  She was a NOMIS Distinguished Scientist in 2019\, the winner of the 2023 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize\, one of the top 10 women in Economics by the World Economic Forum in July 2015\, and an Alumna of Influence by the University of Toronto in 2012.  She has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science\, as the Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature\, and on the editorial boards of many other journals. \n  \n\n\n\nInvesting in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: The child mental health crisis has been described as the “defining public health crisis of our time.” This article addresses three myths about the crisis: 1) The idea that the crisis is new; 2) The belief that increases in youth suicide mainly reflect deterioration in children’s underlying mental health; 3) The myth that investments in children have little impact on children’s mental health. In fact\, the crisis has existed for decades\, youth suicides vary asynchronously with other mental health measures and are impacted by external factors such as firearms legislation\, and investments can improve child mental health and prevent suicide. \n  \nA recording of Janet Currie’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/janet-currie-princeton-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250430T120000
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SUMMARY:Emma Zang\, Yale University\, "Life-Course Exposure to State Policy Liberalism Contexts and Later-Life Cognitive Health"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Dr. Emma Zang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology\, Biostatistics\, and Global Affairs at Yale University. Zang’s research interests lie at the intersection of health and aging\, marriage and family\, and inequality\, with a particular focus on examining these dynamics in both the United States and China. She is also interested in developing and evaluating methods to model trajectories and life transitions\, aiming to understand the impact of demographic and socioeconomic inequalities on individuals’ health and well-being from a life course perspective. Her work has appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology\, Demography\, PNAS\, JAMA Internal Medicine\, and Nature Human Behavior. Her projects have been funded by the National Institute of Health. Her research has received media coverage from notable outlets in the United States\, China\, South Korea\, India\, and Singapore. She has received awards from the American Sociological Association\, the National Institute on Aging\, the Southern Demographic Association\, and Social Science History Association\, etc. \n\n\n\n“Life-Course Exposure to State Policy Liberalism Contexts and Later-Life Cognitive Health”\n\n\n\nAbstract: Polarization in U.S. state policy has driven geographic disparities in population health\, but most studies focus on concurrent policy contexts rather than cumulative exposure over the life course. A life course perspective is crucial because individuals experience varied policy environments at different stages\, shaping long-term health outcomes\, including cognitive health. Using restricted-access data from the Health and Retirement Study (1998–2020) linked to state policy data (1936–2014)\, this study examines how life-course exposure to state policy liberalism affects later-life cognitive health. We analyze five periods—early childhood (ages 0-5)\, school age (6-12)\, adolescence (13-17)\, transition to adulthood (18-30)\, and adulthood (31-50)—and their impact on cognitive functioning and impairment risk. We test theories around timing\, duration\, and sequence of exposure. Findings show that prolonged exposure to liberal policies\, especially in early childhood and adulthood\, improves cognitive outcomes. Exposure trajectories\, particularly increasing liberal policies over time\, also enhance cognitive health. These findings highlight the lasting impact of public policy on cognitive health and suggest that supportive policy environments during key life stages can mitigate cognitive decline and reduce disparities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nEmma Zang’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/emma-zang-yale-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250423T120000
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SUMMARY:Michael Mueller-Smith\, University of Michigan\, "The Direct and Intergenerational Effects of Criminal History-Based Safety Net Bans in the U.S."
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Mike Mueller-Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Population Studies Center. His research focuses on measuring the scope and prevalence of the criminal justice system in the U.S. as well as its broadly defined impact on the population. He is the Director of the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS)\, a new data infrastructure project joint with the U.S. Census Bureau that seeks to collect and link extensive amounts of criminal justice microdata with social and economic data held at the Census Bureau. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2015\, and completed a NICHD Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Michigan’s Population Studies Center between 2015-2017. \n\n\n\nThe Direct and Intergenerational Effects of Criminal History-Based Safety Net Bans in the U.S.\n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nWe study the lifetime banning\, as introduced by United States Public Law 104-193\, of individuals convicted of felony drug offenses after August 22\, 1996 from ever receiving future SNAP benefits. Using a regression discontinuity design that leverages CJARS criminal history records with federal administrative and survey data\, we estimate the causal impact of safety net assistance bans\, finding significant reductions in SNAP benefit take-up\, which creates unintentional spillovers to spouses and children and persist long after ban revocations occurred. While we observe limited changes to other adult outcomes\, children’s short- and long-run outcomes worsen\, especially those impacted at young ages.\n\n\n\n\nA recording of Michael Mueller-Smith’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/michael-muller-smith-university-of-michigan/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250416T120000
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SUMMARY:Abigail Weitzman\, University of Texas\, Austin "Threat Evasive Migration: A Population Perspective"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Dr. Weitzman is a sociologist and demographer whose research explores two interrelated questions: How do expectations\, desires\, and threats influence the timing and nature of important events in people’s lives\, cumulatively shaping demographic patterns and population dynamics? And\, reciprocally\, how do shifting demographic circumstances influence aspirations\, perceived threats\, and behaviors in ways that determine individuals’ health outcomes and life trajectories? Her most recent work takes up these questions in the context of migration\, considering how individuals and families navigate evolving threats and opportunities in both countries of origin and reception. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThreat Evasive Migration: A Population Perspective\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: Approximately 14 million refugees and other migrants in need of international protection (MNP) live in the Western hemisphere\, approximately 83% of whom reside in Latin America or the Caribbean. Demographers know surprisingly little about this population or about threat evasive migration more generally\, e.g. migration undertaken to escape threats to survival. Moreover\, most research on MNP is concentrated among refugees and asylum-seekers\, which has allowed states’ legal categorization of migrants to dictate whose experiences we understand. Drawing on six years of fieldwork with MNP in Costa Rica\, I highlight the need to move away from conventional sampling approaches; discuss network-based sampling methods as an alternative; and illustrate how broadening the lens beyond asylum-seekers provides new insights into violence-related selection processes.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/abigail-weitzman-university-of-texas-austin/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250305T131500
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SUMMARY:Eliana La Ferrara\, Harvard Kennedy School\, "Changing Harmful Norms through Information and Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Somalia"
DESCRIPTION: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 President of the Econometric Society\, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association\, and International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also NBER Research Associate\, Director of Development Economics at CEPR\, and J-PAL Affiliate. She was president of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) in 2016-2019 and of the European Economic Association in 2018. She is the recipient of the 2020 Birgit Grodal Award. Her research focuses on Development Economics and Political Economics\, particularly on the role of social factors in economic development. She has studied ethnic diversity\, stereotypes\, kin structure and social norms\, and the effects of television on social outcomes. She has also investigated political constraints to development\, with particular focus on violent conflict in Africa. Her work has been published in leading economic journals. \nChanging Harmful Norms through Information and Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Somalia\nAbstract: We study the role of biased beliefs and coordination failures in perpetuating the norm of female genital cutting (FGC) in Somalia\, where 98% of women are cut. We experimentally evaluate three interventions to decrease the prevalence of infibulation\, the most harmful type of FGC: (i) correcting misperceptions about support for the practice; (ii) public declarations of one’s willingness to abandon it; and (iii) a combination of the two. We find that on average community members overestimate others’ support for infibulation. Correcting this misperception reduces the probability of infibulation by 40% two years after the intervention. Over the same time horizon\, this leads to an increase in the `intermediate’ type of FGC (Sunna). When taking into account parents’ future plans for younger\, uncut daughters\, the misperception treatment no longer results in higher Sunna rates\, increasing instead the likelihood that parents plan not to cut. The public declaration treatment does not reduce infibulation\, except in communities where participants had high priors about community support for abandoning the practice. The combined treatment yields similar but insignificant results. Our findings point to the importance of correcting biased beliefs when designing coordination interventions to eradicate harmful norms. \n  \nAn audio recording of Eliana La Ferrara’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/eliana-la-ferrara-harvard-kennedy-school/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T120000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Brayne\, Stanford University\, "Living and Dying in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration"
DESCRIPTION: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 Police Department to understand the social implications of law enforcement’s use of predictive analytics and new surveillance technologies. \nCurrent projects investigate whether and how exposure to the criminal legal system shapes racial and ethnic disparities in health\, aging\, and mortality; how social media data is used in the criminal legal process; and role of surveillance in forced migration. \nPrior to joining the faculty at Stanford\, Professor Brayne taught at the University of Texas at Austin\, where she co-founded the Texas Prison Education Initiative. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of British Columbia\, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University\, and completed a postdoc at Microsoft Research. \n\n\n\nLiving and Dying in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration\n\n\n\nAbstract: In the United States\, racial disparities in life expectancy are well-documented. However\, the role of incarceration is largely absent from this research. This gap is striking\, given the disproportionate exposure to incarceration among Black men. In this talk\, I use administrative and vital statistics data to understand the impact of incarceration on racial disparities in life expectancy. This research highlights the complex interplay between incarceration and health\, ultimately arguing there is a critical need for analyses of data on incarceration in population research.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sarah-brayne-stanford-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T131500
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SUMMARY:Robert Fairlie\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Affirmative Action\, Faculty Productivity and Caste Interactions: Evidence from Engineering Colleges in India"
DESCRIPTION: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. He received a Ph.D. and M.A. from Northwestern University and B.A. with honors from Stanford University\, and has held full-time or visiting positions at UC Santa Cruz\, Stanford University\, Yale University\, UC Berkeley\, and Australian National University. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation\, National Academies\, and Russell Sage Foundation as well as numerous government agencies and foundations\, and has testified in front of the U.S. Senate\, U.S. House of Representatives\, U.S. Department of Treasury\, and the California State Assembly. \nAffirmative Action\, Faculty Productivity and Caste Interactions: Evidence from Engineering Colleges in India\nAbstract: Affirmative action programs are often criticized because of concerns over lower worker productivity. In India\, colleges are required to reserve 50 percent of faculty hires from lower caste groups. We collect and analyze data from Indian engineering colleges\, some of which randomly assign students to classrooms. We find that reservation category faculty have lower education levels\, professorial ranks and experience than general category faculty. Yet\, we find no evidence that reservation category faculty provide lower quality instruction or have lower research or administrative productivity. Examining heterogeneity in instructional quality\, we also find no evidence of positive reservation category “teacher-like-me” effects. \n  \nAn audio recording of Robert Farilie’s presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/robert-fairlie-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T131500
DTSTAMP:20260429T215321
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T170807Z
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SUMMARY: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"
DESCRIPTION: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 1992-1993\, under Presidents Bush and Clinton. In 2016-2017\, she served on the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking. She is currently chairing New York Governor Hochul’s Commission on the Future of Health Care. Glied is a member of the Board of Directors of Geisinger\, the Milbank Fund\, and the Social Science Research Council. She is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine\, the National Bureau of Economic Research\, the National Academy of Social Insurance\, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nWho Really Pays for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance? General Reflections and New Evidence from the ACA Dependent Coverage Mandate\nAbstract: The incidence of employer-provided health insurance within firms is important for the design of the tax treatment of employer-based coverage and for understanding the evolving structure of the US labor market. Economic theory and empirical studies conclude that the cost of voluntary employer-sponsored health insurance falls on employees as a group. However\, the distribution of overall and subsidy incidence and the mechanism through which incidence occurs have not been well-established. \n  \nThis talk will provide new evidence (joint with Hansoo Ko) on incidence by examining the dependent coverage mandate in the ACA\, which mandates that adult children to age 26 may remain on their parents’ policies. We confirm the overall incidence of the mandate and then consider three situations in which the benefits of this new coverage to an employee differ from the costs to an employer. I will then relate this evidence to the broader empirical literature and policy. \n  \nAn audio recording of Sherry Glied’s presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sherry-glied-new-york-university-wagner/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T131500
DTSTAMP:20260429T215321
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250221T185408Z
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SUMMARY:Marissa Thompson\, Columbia University "They have Black in their blood: Exploring how genetic ancestry tests affect racial appraisals and classifications"
DESCRIPTION: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 of first-dollar scholarship policies on college access\, and the role of genetic ancestry tests in racial boundary-making processes. She employs a range of methods in her work\, including quantitative methods\, survey experiments\, and both computational and qualitative analyses of text data. \n\n\n\n\n\n“They have Black in their blood”: Exploring how genetic ancestry tests affect racial appraisals and classifications\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: How do genetic ancestry tests (GATs) affect Black Americans’ beliefs about when others should – or should not – identify as Black? Using two survey experiments that integrate causal inference with computational text analysis\, we disentangle the effects of GAT results\, setting\, and prior identification on racial classifications and evaluations. We find that respondents have an increased likelihood of approving of a person’s decision to identify as Black and of classifying them as Black if that person has higher levels of GAT-measured Sub-Saharan African ancestry. Further\, we identify meaningful gaps between the responses made by respondents themselves and their perception of the typical response made by members of their own racial group; these patterns are consistent with broad pluralistic ignorance towards the social rules governing racial classifications and evaluations. Finally\, free text responses reveal a range of strategies used in evaluations. We find that the aspects that affect approval and evaluations differ from those that affect classifications; respondents selectively integrate different sources of information\, including GAT results\, via a dual classification and evaluation process which we term racial contextualism. \n  \nAn audio recording of Marissa Thompson’s presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/marissa-thompson-columbia-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241204T131500
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SUMMARY:Sarah Miller\, University of Michigan\, "Does Income Affect Health? Evidence from the OpenResearch Unconditional Income Study"
DESCRIPTION: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 insurance coverage\, and in the effects of income and other social program support on health and well-being. In 2022\, Dr. Miller was awarded the ASHEcon Medal\, awarded by the American Society of Health Economists to an economist aged 40 or younger who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics. She is also a co-editor for the Journal of Public Economics. Her work has been published in the American Economic Review\, the Quarterly Journal of Economics\, the New England Journal of Medicine\, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy\, the Journal of Public Economics\, and the Review of Economics and Statistics\, among other journals\, and has been cited in outlets such as the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, and the Economic Report of the President. \nDoes Income Affect Health? Evidence from the OpenResearch Unconditional Income Study\nAbstract: Does income affect health? We randomized 1\,000 low-income adults in the United States to receive $1\,000 per month for three years\, with 2\,000 control participants receiving \$50 per month. The transfer generated large but short-lived improvements in stress and food security\, increased hospital and emergency department use\, and increased medical spending by about $20 per month. However\, we find a precise null effect of the transfer on several measures of health\, including biomarkers derived from blood draws. We also find precise null effects on access to health care\, physical activity\, sleep\, and measures related to preventive care and health behavior. \n  \nA recording of Sarah Miller’s presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sarah-miller-university-of-michigan/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T131500
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CREATED:20240909T212257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T222142Z
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SUMMARY:Lisa Dettling\, Federal Reserve Board\, “Did the Modern Mortgage Set the Stage for the Baby Boom?”
DESCRIPTION: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 is in labor and public economics\, with a focus on domestic policy issues relating to families and household financial well-being. Her work has appeared in leading journals\, such as the American Economic Review and the Review of Economic Studies. Lisa obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland in 2013\, and B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from The Ohio State University in 2007. \n “Did the Modern Mortgage Set the Stage for the Baby Boom?”\nAbstract: This paper proposes that the adoption of the modern US mortgage (i.e.\, low down payment\, long-term\, and fixed-rate)–led by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Veteran’s Administration (VA) loan insurance programs—set the stage for the mid-twentieth century US baby boom by dramatically raising rates of home ownership for young families. Using newly digitized data on FHA- and VA- backed loan issuance and births by state-year\, and a novel instrumental variables strategy that isolates supply-side variation in loan issuance\, we find that the FHA/VA mortgage insurance programs led to 3 million additional births from 1935-1957\, roughly 10 percent of the excess births in the baby boom. Aggregate effects mask differences by group — we find no effects of FHA/VA lending on births for Black women\, consistent with well-documented racial discrimination in these programs. Our results highlight the importance of housing affordability for fertility decisions.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/lisa-dettling-federal-reserve-board/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241106T131500
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CREATED:20240909T212139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T170120Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Cassels\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, "Patterns of Sexual Minority Men's Lifestyle and Healthcare Related Activity Spaces in Los Angeles"
DESCRIPTION: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 is on geo-social determinants of HIV transmission dynamics – or in other words how and why certain people are more susceptible to HIV\, and how\, where\, and why HIV spreads to other people. With colleagues at UCLA\, she has implemented a survey on activity spaces of sexual minority men in LA to examine patterns of geo-spatial exposures\, and whether places of exposure differ by activity. Recently\, she has published a couple of qualitative papers as well. Current qualitative work is aimed to understand how social networks and geographic environments shape substance use behaviors. \nPatterns of Sexual Minority Men’s Lifestyle and Healthcare Related Activity Spaces in Los Angeles\nAbstract: For sexual minority men (SMM)\, geo-social exposures in residential and non-residential places are important to consider for health\, as home\, social\, sexual\, substance use\, and healthcare-related locations may be different. Using data from 219 Black and Hispanic SMM within Los Angeles County\, we identify\, describe\, and assess overlap of both lifestyle and healthcare-related activity space clusters\, or “hotspots.” Lifestyle activity space hotspots are spatially patterned by socio-demographic characteristics\, primarily along race and ethnic categories. Hispanic individuals’ lifestyle locations were less likely to be clustered\, while the opposite was true for Black individuals. Interestingly\, healthcare-related hotspots are not significantly associated with any socio-demographic features. Hotspot congruence was higher than we hypothesized\, as hotspots of residential locations contained the majority of sex hotspots and substance use hotspots. Our work demonstrates a valid method for reliably measuring behaviors of HIV\, sex\, and substance use and identifying spatial patterns in geographic space. \n  \nAn audio recording of Dr. Cassels’ presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/susan-cassels-university-of-california-santa-barbara/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T131500
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T212751Z
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SUMMARY:Dan Thompson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "How Much Does Health Affect Voter Participation?"
DESCRIPTION: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. He then uses modern empirical techniques for causal inference to study how electoral institutions shape election outcomes and public policy. Prior to joining UCLA\, Dr. Thompson received a PhD in political science from Stanford in 2020 and a Master of Public Policy degree from UC Berkeley in 2014. \n\n\n\nHow Much Does Health Affect Voter Participation?\n\n\n\nAbstract: Across elections from 2006 to 2022\, reported turnout rates are over 6 percentage points lower for people with disabilities\, and non-voters cite health as one of the top reasons for failing to cast a ballot. Federal law requires that polling places be accessible to people with disabilities\, and many states have expanded convenience voting options in part to accommodate the needs of people facing health issues and those with disabilities. How much do adverse health events reduce voter participation? To answer these questions\, we link UCLA Health medical records to lists of registered voters in Los Angeles going back to 2016. We compare people diagnosed with cancer or a substantial cardiovascular event in the year before an election to those diagnosed after election day. We find that cancer causes a 3 percentage point drop in turnout. We also present suggestive evidence that the effect is smaller in 2020 after Los Angeles began mailing a ballot to all registered voters. \nAn audio recording of Dr. Thompson’s presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dan-thompson-ucla/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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