"Population-Based Modeling and Measurement of COVID-19"
Christina Ramirez, Prof. of Biostatistics UCLA
Mark Handcock, Prof. of Statistics UCLA
Patrick Heuveline, Prof. of Sociology UCLA
Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Prof. of Community Health Sciences
Cecilia Menjívar, UC Los Angeles
Bio: Prof. Menjívar is a Professor and Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair, her research focuses on the structural roots of inequalities and on how individuals’ social locations shape their responses to such conditions.
Ethan Fosse, University of Toronto and Christopher Winship, Harvard University "Models of Social Change: Principles and Methods of Age-Period-Cohort Analysis" Age-period-cohort (APC) analysis has a long, controversial history in sociology and […]
Job Market Workshop Wednesday, February 3, 2021 12:00pm to 1:00pm Corrina Moucheraud is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. She is a global health policy and […]
Mario Luis Small, Harvard University
Bio: Pro. Small is the author of award-winning books and articles on networks, poverty, organizations, culture, methods, neighborhoods, institutions, and other topics. He is currently using large-scale administrative data to understand isolation in cities, studying how people use their networks to meet their needs, and exploring the epistemological foundations of qualitative research. His latest book is Someone To Talk To (Oxford). A study of how people decide whom to approach when seeking support, the book is an inquiry into human nature, a critique of network analysis, and a discourse on the role of qualitative research in the big-data era.
Jishnu Das, Georgetown University
Bio: Jishnu Das is a professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Jishnu’s work focuses on health and education in low and middle-income countries, with an emphasis on social markets, or common, but complex, conflagrations of public and private education and health providers operating in a small geographical space.
"Stress, happiness, and maternity leave at childbirth" Mauricio Avendano Pabon, King's College London Abstract: This study examines the impact of childbirth on both stress and happiness. We use unique data […]
Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University
Bio: Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Professor of Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. Mobarak is the founder and faculty director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). He holds other appointments at Innovations for Poverty Action, the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, the International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE.
Manisha Shah, UCLA Abstract: Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of unplanned pregnancy and intimate partner violence across the globe. We implement a randomized controlled trial […]
Erica Field, Duke University
Bio: Erica Field is a Professor of Economics and Global Health at Duke University specializing in the fields of Development Economics, Health Economics and Economic Demography. She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research affiliate of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, and a member of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT.
David Brady, UC Riverside
Bio: David Brady is a Professor in the School of Public Policy, and Director of the Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty at the University of California, Riverside. At UCR, he teaches classes on poverty, public policy analysis, and statistics.
Jennifer Beam Dowd, University of Oxford Abstract: While epidemiology is certainly having a moment, demography has been key to understanding COVID-19 data since the early days of the pandemic. This […]
"Perceptions and experiences of (in)fertility, contraception, and reproductive health outcomes: A mixed methods study among women and men in Malawi" Bio: Marta Bornstein recently defended her dissertation in the Department of Community […]
Decomposing Race Differentials in First Marriage Rates: United States, 1960-2019 I assess Wilson’s (1987) argument that the race differential in the frequency of marriage results from a shortage of marriageable […]
Instructors: Mike Tzen Neal Fultz In this CCPR Census Workshop (part 3/3), we will get the newly released 2020 Census Bureau PL94 data using the statistical programming language R. Along […]
Intersectional Stressors and Black Women's Health in Established Adulthood Health disparities research confirms relatively poor physical health of Black women vis-à-vis other race-gender groups. Though some research has sought to […]
Biography: Dr. Martha J. Bailey is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California Los Angeles. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau […]
Prediction in Social Science: A Tool to Study Inequality in Populations Biography: Ian Lundberg is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Sociology and California Center for Population Research at UCLA. His […]
