Seminar Series: Welcome and Introduction
California Center for Population Research Seminar Series Welcome and Introductions Wednesday, October 4, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 4240A Public Affairs Building (Lunch will be provided) This will be […]
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Gary Solon, University of Michigan, “What Are We Weighting For?” (STC Workshop)
Biography: Gary Solon is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Michigan. He was Eller Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona during 2015-2018 and Professor of Economics […]
Pauline Rossi, Ecole Polytechnique-CREST, “Drivers of Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (joint with Pascaline Dupas, Seema Jayachandran and Adriana Lleras-Muney)”
Biography: Pauline Rossi is an Associate Professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique-CREST and a Research Affiliate at CEPR. Her fields of research are Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics and Family Economics. […]
Julia Strasser, George Washington University, “Who is Providing Contraception & Abortion Care in the US? Using Claims Data to Study the Reproductive Health Workforce”
Biography: Julia Strasser, DrPH, MPH, is the Director of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health and an Assistant Research Professor of Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University. […]
Computing Orientation Workshop with Neal Fultz (STC workshop)
Computing Orientation Workshop with Neal Fultz Instructor: Neal Fultz This workshop has two halves. In the first half, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers […]
Cesi Cruz, University of California, Los Angeles, “Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy in Polarized Societies”
Biography: Cesi Cruz is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She works on topics […]
Bryce Steinberg, Brown University, “Family Planning, Now and Later: Infertility Fear and Contraception Take-Up”
Biography: Bryce Millett Steinberg is a development economist who studies how households make decisions about investing in education and health, and how market forces and government programs can affect those decisions. Her work is primarily focused […]
Clémence Tricaud, University of California, Los Angeles, “Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response”
Bio: Clémence Tricaud is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. She is also a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) […]
Alex Bell, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Long-Term Impacts of Mentors: Evidence from Experimental and Administrative Data”
Biography: Alex Bell is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Policy Lab at UCLA. Dr. Bell's research seeks to document the unequal experiences of workers in the labor market and […]
Emily Weisburst, University of California, Los Angeles, “Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety”
Biography: Emily Weisburst is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. Weisburst's work focuses on topics in […]
Philip Massey, University of California, Los Angeles “Social Media as a Tool for Public Health Communication”
Biography: Dr. Philip M. Massey, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in Community Health Sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. His health communication scholarship focuses on media and technology in the […]
Dowell Myers, University of Southern California, “Talking Demographics: Audience Reactions and Communication about Projections of Change”
Biography: Dowell Myers is a professor of policy, planning, and demography in the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. His Ph.D. is from M.I.T. (urban planning). He has been […]
Sameera Nayak, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: “Health in the Turbulent U.S. Sociopolitical Climate: Mental Health, Abortion Attitudes, & Immigration”
Biography: Dr. Sameera S. Nayak (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She uses social epidemiologic and qualitative methods to investigate associations […]
Romain Wacziarg, University of California, Los Angeles: “Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility”
Biography: Romain Wacziarg is at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he holds the Hans Hufschmid Chair in Management. His research deals with a broad range of topics in […]
Development workshop, 2/13 at 3pm “Scientific Accountability and Data Production”
A panel discussion about open science, ethical risks, and potential drawbacks for certain forms of knowledge production with Irene Bloemraad (1), Cecilia Menjivar (2), Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld (3), and Jennifer Wagman […]
Giovanna Merli, Duke University, “The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on network dynamics and the well-being of Chinese immigrants”
Biography: M. Giovanna Merli is Professor of Public Policy, Sociology and Global Health at Duke University where she is also the director of the Duke Population Research Institute. Her research […]
Canceled CANCELLED: Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago, “Machine learning as a tool for hypothesis generation”
Biography: Jens Ludwig is Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, co-director of the […]
Los Angeles’ Replication Games
We are looking for researchers, post-docs, and PhD students interested in a one-day replication challenge. Participants will be granted co-authorship on a meta-paper combining the reproductions and replications, and will […]
Brittany Chambers, University of California, Davis, “The Solutions are in the Community: Centering Black Women’s Voices to Advance Birth Equity”
Biography: Dr. Brittany Chambers Butcher is a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis. She is a community health scientist whose […]