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SUMMARY:David Chae\, Auburn University
DESCRIPTION:“Getting Under the Skin: Socio-Psychobiological Pathways and Racial Disparities in Health.“ \nAbstract: Racism is physically embodied through social\, behavioral\, and psychobiological mechanisms. In this talk\, David H. Chae\, will discuss the utility of a social-ecological and developmental lens to examine how racism is biologically embedded. He will discuss his research on multiple levels of racism and the channels through which they compromise health throughout the lifecourse. \nMore on Prof. Chae
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/david-chae-auburn/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20170719T202008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T193058Z
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SUMMARY:Roland Rau\, University of Rostock
DESCRIPTION:“Title: The challenges of estimating mortality in small areas — using German counties as a case study” \nAbstract:  \nWe develop and analyze Bayesian models that produce good estimates of complete mortality schedules for small areas\, even when the expected number of deaths is very small. The models also provide estimates of uncertainty about local mortality schedules. The TOPALS relational model is the primary building block\, used to model age-specific mortality rates within each small area. TOPALS models produce estimates for single-year ages from a small number of local parameters. We experiment with Bayesian models for smoothing and ‘borrowing’ mortality information across space\, using two alternative specifications. First we test a Bayesian model with conditional autoregressive (CAR) priors for TOPALS parameters. CAR priors assign higher probability to parameters that are similar across adjacent areas\, thus emphasizing spatial smoothness in estimated rates. Second\, we test a hierarchical Bayesian model\, which assigns higher probability to parameters that are similar for locations that are close in terms of political geography. \nMore on Prof. Rau \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/roland-rau-university-rostock/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20170719T180734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T170714Z
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SUMMARY:2017-2018 CCPR Welcome and Introductions
DESCRIPTION:Please come join us to learn all about the California Center for Population Research! \nProfessors Judith Seltzer\, Till von Wachter\, and Jennie Brand will be presenting. \nThis will be the kick-off event for the start of the upcoming 2017-2018 CCPR Seminar Series.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/2017-2018-ccpr-welcome-introductions/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20170329T174927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170605T163748Z
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SUMMARY:Randall Akee\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:“Reservation Employer Establishments: Data from the U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Data Set” \nAbstract: The presence of employers and jobs on American Indian reservations has been difficult to analyze due to limited data. We are the first to geocode confidential data on employer establishments from the U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) to identify location on or off American Indian reservations. We identify the per-capita establishment count and jobs in reservation-based employer establishments for most federally recognized reservations. Comparisons to nearby non-reservation areas in the lower 48 states across 18 industries\, reveal that reservations have a similar sectoral distribution of employer establishments but have significantly fewer of them in nearly all sectors\, especially when the area population is below 15\,000 (as it is on the vast majority of reservations and for the majority of the reservation population). By contrast\, total jobs provided by reservation establishments are\, on average\, at par with or somewhat higher than in nearby county areas but are concentrated among casino-related and government employers. An implication is that average employment  per establishment are higher in these sectors on reservations\, including those with populations below 15\,000\, while the rest of the economy is sparser in reservations (in firm count and jobs per capita) Geographic and demographic factors such as population density and per capita income statistically account for some but not all of these differences. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/randall-akee-ucla-2/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20170418T221321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T162237Z
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SUMMARY:Research Ethics: The Use of Big Data
DESCRIPTION:The use of big data has become increasingly common in social and health research\, raising a series of new and difficult questions about research ethics.  In this informal workshop\, a panel of investigators using big data for their research will describe issues that they have faced and other potential problems.  As background to this workshop\, you may want to read: \n\nhttp://bdes.datasociety.net/council-output/perspectives-on-big-data-ethics-and-society/\nKramer ADI\, Guillory JE and Hancock JT (2014) Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(24): 8788–8790.\nhttp://www.michaelzimmer.org/2016/06/03/okcupid-and-the-ethics-of-big-data-research/\nZimmer\, M. Ethics Inf Technol (2010) 12: 313. doi:10.1007/s10676-010-9227-5\n\nPanelists: \n\nChristina Palmer\, CGC\, PhD\n\nProfessor\, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences\, and Genetics\, UCLA \n\nIrene PasquettoPh.D. Candidate\, Department of Information Studies\, UCLAGraduate Student Researcher\, UCLA Center for Knowledge Infrastructures\nSean Young\, PhD\n\n  \nAssociate Professor \nExecutive Director \nUniversity of California Institute for Prediction Technology (UCIPT) \nDepartment of Family Medicine\, UCLA
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/research-ethics-use-big-data/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T120000
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CREATED:20161110T001637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170418T182826Z
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SUMMARY:Maggie R. Jones\, United States Census Bureau
DESCRIPTION:“Refund Anticipation Products and the Improper Payment of the EITC” \n*Co-Sponsored with Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar Series UCLA \nMore on Dr. Jones 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/maggie-r-jones-united-states-census-bureau/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T133000
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CREATED:20170410T210610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T205311Z
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SUMMARY:Shahryar Minhas\, Duke University
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Social Statistics Presents:\nPredicting the Evolution of Intrastate Conflict: Evidence from Nigeria\nurl: http://css.stat.ucla.edu/event/shahryar-minhas/\n\nThe endogenous nature of civil conflict has limited scholars’ abilities to draw clear inferences about the drivers of conflict evolution. We argue that three primary features characterize the complexity of intrastate conflict: (1) the interdependent relationships of conflict between actors; (2) the impact of armed groups on violence as they enter or exit the conflict network; and (3) the ability of civilians to influence the strategic interactions of armed groups. Using ACLED event data on Nigeria\, we apply a novel network-based approach to predict the evolution of intrastate conflict dynamics. Our network approach yields insights about the effects of civilian victimization and key actors entering the conflict. Attacks against civilians lead groups to both be more violent\, and to become the targets of attacks in subsequent periods. Boko Haram’s entrance into the civil war leads to an increase in violence even in unrelated dyads. Further\, our approach significantly outperforms more traditional dyad-group approaches at predicting the incidence of conflict.\n\nSpeaker: \nShahryar Minha\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Duke University\nAssistant Professor\, Michigan State University\nDepartment of Political Science and the Social Science Data Analytics Program (SSDA) \nhttp://s7minhas.com/
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/shahryar-minhas-duke-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T133000
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CREATED:20161110T001132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T204014Z
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SUMMARY:Marcella Alsan\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men” \nAbstract: For forty years\, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively monitored hundreds of adult black males with syphilis despite the availability of effective treatment. The study’s methods have become synonymous with exploitation and mistreatment by the medical community. We find that the historical disclosure of the study in 1972 is correlated with increases in medical mistrust and mortality and decreases in both outpatient and inpatient physician interactions for older black men. Our estimates imply life expectancy at age 45 for black men fell by up to 1.4 years in response to the disclosure\, accounting for approximately 35% of the 1980 life expectancy gap between black and white men. \nMore on Prof. Alsan  \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/marcella-alsan-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T133000
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CREATED:20161110T000823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T203921Z
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SUMMARY:Jere R. Behrman\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Applied Group in the Department of Economics \n“Early-Life Undernourishment in Developing Countries:  Prevalence\, Impacts over the Life Cycle and Determinants” \nAbstract: \nEarly-life undernourishment is a widespread phenomenon in many developing countries\, with an estimated 170 million children under 5 years of age stunted\, the standard indicator of chronic malnutrition.  This presentation summarizes an ongoing work program on this topic\, with reference to the prevalence\, impacts and determinants of such undernutrition. \n  \nMore on Prof. Behrman \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jere-r-behrman-university-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T133000
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CREATED:20161110T000345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T203529Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Duggan\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“To Work for Yourself\, for Others\, or Not at All? How Disability Benefits Affect The Employment Decisions of Older Veterans“ \nAbstract: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation (DC) program provides disability benefits to nearly one in five military veterans in the US and its annual expenditures exceed $60 billion. We examine how the receipt of DC benefits affects the employment decisions of older veterans. We make use of variation in program eligibility resulting from a 2001 policy change that increased access to the program for Vietnam veterans who served with “boots on the ground” in the Vietnam theater but not for other veterans of that same era. We find that the policy-induced increase in program enrollment decreased labor force participation and induced a substantially larger switch from wage employment to self-employment. This latter finding suggests that an exogenous increase in income spurred many older veterans to start their own businesses. Additionally\, we estimate that one in four veterans who entered the DC program due to this policy change left the labor force\, estimates in the same range as those from recent studies of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. \nMore on Prof. Duggan  \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/mark-duggan-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20161110T000054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170314T201735Z
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SUMMARY:Siwan Anderson\, University of British Columbia\, Vancouver
DESCRIPTION:  \n“Legal Origins and Female HIV “ \nMore than half of all people living with HIV are women and 80% of all HIV positive women in the world live in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper demonstrates that the legal origins of these formally colonized countries significantly determines current day female HIV rates. In particular\, female HIV rates are significantly higher in common law Sub-Saharan African countries compared to Civil law ones. This paper explains this relationship by focusing on differences in female property rights under the two codes of law. In Sub-Saharan Africa\, common law is associated with weaker female marital property laws. As a result\, women in these common law countries have lower bargaining power within the household and are less able to negotiate safer sex and are thus more vulnerable to HIV\, compared to their civil law counterparts. Exploiting the fact that some ethnic groups in Sub-Saharan Africa cross country borders with different legal systems\, we are able to include ethnicity fixed effects into a regression discontinuity approach. This allows us to control for a large set of cultural\, geographical\, and environmental factors that could be confounding the estimates. The results of this paper are consistent with gender inequality (the ‘feminization of AIDS’) explaining much of its prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa. \nMore on Prof. Anderson
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/siwan-anderson-university-british-columbia-vancouver/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20161201T222138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T203755Z
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SUMMARY:Kayla de la Haye\, University of Southern California
DESCRIPTION:Harnessing Social Networks and Social Systems for Obesity Prevention \nABSTRACT \nOur health and social networks are closely intertwined. In this talk\, I describe how the complex web of family\, friend\, and peer relationships in which we are embedded—i.e.\, our social networks– influence eating\, physical activity\, and obesity\, and how the dynamics of our evolving behaviors and social networks shape population obesity rates. I will outline intervention and policy strategies that have the potential to activate\, harness\, or alter social networks and broader social-ecological systems\, so that these social contexts play a more supportive role in the prevention and treatment of obesity. \nMore on Prof. de la Haye \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/kayla-de-la-haye-university-southern-california/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170322T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170322T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20161109T234158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T223926Z
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SUMMARY:Jeremy Freese\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“The Problem of Causal Mutualisms\, The Promise of Polygenic Scores\, and The Pervasive Divergence of Life Outcomes” \nAbstract: \nCasual mutualisms are sets of properties that have substantial reciprocal influence on one another.  This may sound abstruse\, but various big constructs in behavioral science\, including “heritability\,” “SES”\, “health”\, and “achievement\,” exhibit clear signs of instantiating massive mutualisms and yet many implications of their doing so remain largely unpursued.  The talk will describe the problem and several routes into it by reference to a series of phenomena that might otherwise appear unrelated\, on intellectual achievement\, educational attainment\, and health disparities. Together these examples are used to argue for a more strongly integrative and developmental social science\, as well as the potential value of predictive scores based on genomic information for helping reckon with mutualisms. \n  \nMore on Prof. Freese
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jeremy-freese-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20161109T234011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170303T184046Z
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SUMMARY:Julia Lane\, New York University
DESCRIPTION:“Research Funding and the Foreign Born” \nThere has been a resurgence of interest in the link between immigration and economic activity. The evidence suggests that US education plays an important role in both attracting and retaining high-quality foreign-born students. This is particularly true in the case of doctorates trained in science\, technology\, engineering and mathematics (STEM)\, a workforce that is disproportionately foreign born and likely to contribute to long-term economic growth. Because of this\, much effort is given toward attracting talented students and retaining them in the US workforce after they complete their studies. However\, little is known about how that attraction and retention works.  In this paper we use new data to examine the role of an important policy lever-research funding—in keeping both domestic and foreign-born workers in the US labor market. \n  \nMore on Prof. Julia Lane
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/julia-lane-new-york-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20161109T233703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T221826Z
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SUMMARY:Shripad Tuljapurkar\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“New Thoughts on Old Age” \nAbstract: I will discuss late-age career transitions and retirement incentive plans\, the annuity puzzle\, and financial issues that are faced by the aging population. My discussion aims to stimulate new thoughts and argument about aging and retirement. \n  \nMore on Prof. Tuljapurkar
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/shripad-tuljapurkar-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20161109T222536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170112T204911Z
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SUMMARY:Damon Centola\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:Diffusion in Social Networks:  New Theory and Experiments\nAbstract: The strength of weak ties is that they tend to be long – they connect socially distant locations. Research on “small worlds” shows that these long ties can dramatically reduce the “degrees of separation” of a social network\, thereby allowing ideas and behaviors to rapidly diffuse. However\, I show that the opposite can also be true.  Increasing the frequency of long ties in a clustered social network can also inhibit the diffusion of collective behavior across a population.  For health related behaviors that require strong social reinforcement\, such as dieting\, exercising\, smoking cessation\, or even condom use\, successful diffusion may depend primarily on the width of bridges between otherwise distant locations\, not just their length.  I present formal and computational results that demonstrate these findings\, and then present an experimental test of the effects of social network topology on the diffusion of health behavior. \nMore on Prof. Centola 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/damon-centola-university-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20170117T222200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T163012Z
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SUMMARY:Devesh Kapur\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:“The Other One Percent: Indians in America” \nAbstract: \nPeople of Indian origin—whether they are Indian-born or American-born—make up about 1% of the U.S. population. While there are several anecdotal accounts of Indians in America as well as scholarly studies on specific sub-groups\, The Other One Percent is the first data-driven comprehensive account of the community. The book focuses on three major issues: Selection—the processes by which people from a low-income country have become the highest-income and most-educated group in the U.S; Assimilation—the multiple pathways and challenges of integration while maintaining some aspects of their distinctive identities; and Entrepreneurship—from motels to medicine and finance to technology. Drawing from different academic disciplines\, the book examines the entire community\, from its successful to its marginal members. The Other One Percent is a follow-up to Kapur’s prior book\, Diaspora\, Democracy and Development: The Impact of International Migration From India on India\, for which he earned a 2012 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award of the International Studies Association. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/devesh-kapur-university-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20161109T202852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170112T204643Z
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SUMMARY:Naomi Sugie\, University of California\, Irvine
DESCRIPTION:“Utilizing Smartphones to Study Disadvantaged and Hard-to-Reach Groups: The Newark Smartphone Reentry Project” \nAbstract: In this talk\, I discuss the use of smartphones to collect real-time information on the experiences of men recently released from prison and on parole in Newark\, New Jersey. Mobile technologies\, specifically smartphones\, offer social scientists a potentially powerful approach to examine the social world. They enable researchers to collect information that was previously unobservable or difficult to measure\, expanding the realm of empirical investigation. For research that concerns resource-poor and hard-to-reach groups\, such as men recently released from prison\, smartphones may be particularly advantageous by lessening sample selection and attrition and by improving measurement quality of irregular and unstable experiences. The first part of this talk describes the project and the smartphone application. I then present findings from one working paper\, which uses GPS estimates to assess neighborhood-level daytime exposure by men on parole and the association between exposure and crime rates.   \nMore on Prof. Sugie 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/naomi-sugie-university-california-irvine/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170118T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20161109T200947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170308T192233Z
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SUMMARY:Ilan Meyer\, University of California\, Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:“Minority  Stress and the Health of Sexual and Gender Minorities: Challenges and Innovations in Population Studies”  \nABSTRACT  \nIn several highly cited papers\, Dr. Meyer has developed a model of minority stress that describes the role of prejudice and stigma in promoting social stressors that bring about adverse health outcomes for LGBT people. The model has guided his and other investigators’ population research on LGBT health disparities by identifying the mechanisms by which social stressors impact health and describing the harm to LGBT people from prejudice and stigma. In this talk\, Dr. Meyer will describe minority stress research findings and current challenges to the study of LGBT health. He will describe two new NIH-funded research projects that take advantage of methodological innovations. In these projects\, Dr. Meyer and co-investigators assess the role of historical context and the social environment in understanding how social changes impact the study of minority stress to help understand health and well-being of LGBT people. \nWatch Podcast Here \nMore on Prof. Ilan Meyer
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ilan-meyer-university-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170111T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170111T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20161108T235121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170104T182757Z
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SUMMARY:Jenna Nobles\, University of Wisconsin
DESCRIPTION:“Characterizing Cohort Loss Before Birth” \nAbstract: Answers to many central questions in the social sciences depend upon the assumption that cohort loss before birth is ignorable. Evidence from inferential population studies and small-scale cohort studies increasingly suggests otherwise. Up to 70% of human pregnancies terminate before birth; these losses appear to be non-random. In this research we consider the implications of prenatal cohort loss for a few key demographic questions\, including the effects of early-life exposures on later-life health and the effects of child traits on parent outcomes. In so doing\, we extend a long history of demographic research on cohort selection to the prenatal period. We conclude with a discussion of new\, big data approaches to learn more about how prenatal exposures shape population traits.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jenna-nobles-university-wisconsin/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161207T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20160912T220246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170308T204223Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Van Hook\, Penn State
DESCRIPTION:“Exposure to the United States and Healthy Eating Among U.S. Immigrants: \nA Life Course Perspective on Immigrant Health” \nABSTRACT \nThe negative acculturation perspective predicts that immigrants’ health advantages erode with increasing exposure to the U.S. due to the adoption of the unhealthy default American lifestyle. Focusing on diet\, we argue that this perspective underestimates immigrants’ abilities to maintain healthy eating patterns\, especially among adult immigrant arrivals\, and fails to account for how migration during childhood can disrupt important developmental processes. We advance an alternative “life course perspective on immigrant health” and present evidence for it by examining the associations of age at arrival and duration of residence with healthy eating among adult immigrants. Our results suggest that earlier age at arrival is negatively associated with healthy eating and that duration of residence has a weak but positive association with healthy eating\, especially among those who arrived as adults. The results call into question notions that emphasize a steady erosion of healthy eating with time and acculturation. Instead\, they support the life course perspective and point to the importance of early childhood exposures for understanding how living in the U.S. influences healthy eating among immigrants. \nWatch Podcast Here \nWebsite \nIf you are interested in meeting with or joining the speaker for lunch\, please send email to Seminars AT ccpr.ucla.edu
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jennifer-van-hook-penn-state/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20160912T220206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161128T202210Z
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SUMMARY:Tyler McCormick\, University of Washington
DESCRIPTION:“Probabilistic Cause-of-Death Assignment using Verbal Autopsies” \nABSTRACT \nIn areas without complete-coverage civil registration and vital statistics systems there is uncertainty about even the most basic demographic indicators.  In such areas the majority of deaths occur outside hospitals and are not recorded.  Worldwide\, fewer than one-third of deaths are assigned a cause\, with the least information available from the most impoverished nations.  In populations like this\, verbal autopsy (VA) is a commonly used tool to assess cause of death and estimate cause-specific mortality rates and the distribution of deaths by cause.  VA uses an interview with caregivers of the decedent to elicit data describing the signs and symptoms leading up to the death.  This talk describes a new statistical method to classify cause of death using information acquired through VA.  Unlike current approaches\, our method shares uncertainty between cause of death assignments for specific individuals and the distribution of deaths by cause across the population.  We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method using side-by-side comparisons with both observed and simulated data. \nWebsite \nIf you are interested in meeting with or joining the speaker for lunch\, please send email to Seminars AT ccpr.ucla.edu
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/tyler-mccormick-university-washington/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161109T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20160912T215903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T160140Z
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SUMMARY:Enrico Moretti\, UC Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:The Effect of State Taxes on the Geographical Location of Top Earners: Evidence from Star Scientists \nAbstract \nIn the U.S.\, personal and business taxes vary enormously from state to state. While these differences have the potential to affect the geographical location of highly skilled workers and employers across the country\, evidence on their effects is limited. We uncover large\, stable\, and precisely estimated effects of personal and corporate taxes on star scientists’ migration patterns. The long run elasticity of mobility relative to taxes is 1.8 for personal income taxes and 1.9 for state corporate income tax. While there are other factors that drive when innovative individual and innovative companies decide to locate\, there are enough firms and workers on the margin that state taxes matter. \nWebsite \nEnrico Moretti is the Michael Peevy and Donald Vial Professor of Economics at the University of California\, Berkeley. He serves as the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Perspectives and is a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He is also Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge)\, Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn). \nCo-sponsored with Department of Economics \nIf you are interested in meeting with or joining the speaker for lunch\, please send email to Seminars AT ccpr.ucla.edu
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/enrico-moretti-uc-berkeley/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161102T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20160912T215748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161101T162854Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Hayward\, University of Texas at Austin
DESCRIPTION:“Do Recent Declines in U.S. Life Expectancy Mean Bad News for Healthy Life Expectancy?“ \nABSTRACT \nLife expectancy for non-Hispanic white (henceforth white) Americans with less than high school education has fallen in recent years—particularly for women – while life expectancy has increased substantially for the college educated population.  However\, the extent to which the declines/increases in life expectancy translate into healthy life expectancy remains unclear. \nMethods: We combine data from the Health and Retirement Study and U.S. Vital Statistics\, using the Sullivan method\, to decompose the change in total life expectancy (TLE) to healthy life expectancy (HLE) and disabled life expectancy (DLE) between 2000 and 2010\, specific to gender and education groups. We measured disabled life expectancy using both severe (ADL) and less severe (IADL) disability prevalence. \nResults: Consistent with previous research\, we find a modest downward/stable TLE change in the US is concentrated at the bottom end of the education distribution for whites and at ages prior to age 65. Although there was little change in TLE\, substantial gains in DLE and losses in HLE were observed\, due to the increased rates of disability (especially ADL disability) before age 70. Among the college educated\, TLE increased substantially during the decade\, especially among males. HLE also increased over the decade\, with much of the increase from declining mortality after age 70. Much of the improvement in HLE from mortality was offset by a rise in IADL disability. \nConclusions: The demographic factors influencing HLE shifted from younger ages to advanced ages with higher levels of educational attainment. The findings show that focusing exclusively on the declines in life expectancy\, and external causes of death\, obfuscates a more dynamic decline in health among whites with low levels of education and significant improvements in health among highly educated persons. \nWebsite \nIf you are interested in meeting with or joining the speaker for lunch\, please send email to Seminars AT ccpr.ucla.edu \n830-9am: Prof. Dora Costa- 4284J Public Affairs Building \n9am-930am: Prof. Teresa Seeman-  4284J Public Affairs Building \n930am-10am: Prof. Dawn Upchurch- 4284J Public Affairs Building \n10am-1030am: Prof. Kathleen McGarry- 4284J Public Affairs Building \n1030am-11am: Heeju Sohn\, Postdoc- 4284J Public Affairs Building \n12-130pm: Seminar Talk- 4240 Public Affairs Building \n130-230pm: Proseminar Lunch- 4240 Public Affairs Building
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/mark-hayward-university-texas-austin/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20160912T215624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161021T171818Z
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SUMMARY:Pauline Rossi\, Paris
DESCRIPTION:“Strategic Choices in Polygamous Households: Theory and Evidence from Senegal” \nABSTRACT \nThis paper proposes a strategic framework to account for fertility choices in polygamous households.  A theoretical model specifies the main drivers of fertility in the African context and describes how the fertility of one wife might impact the behavior of her co-wives. It generates predictions to test for strategic interactions. Exploiting original data from a household survey and the Demographic and Health Surveys in Senegal\, empirical tests show that children are strategic complements. One wife raises her fertility in response to an increase by the other wife\, because children are the best claim to resources controlled by the husband. This result is the first quantitative evidence of a reproductive rivalry between co-wives. It suggests that the sustained high level of fertility in Africa does not merely reflect women’s lack of control over births\, as is often argued\, but also their incentives to have many children. This paper also contributes to the literature on household behavior as one of the few attempts to open the black box of non-nuclear families. \nWebsite \nIf you are interested in meeting with or joining the speaker for lunch\, please send email to Seminars AT ccpr.ucla.edu
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/pauline-rossi-paris/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161019T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20161004T154919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T022522Z
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SUMMARY:[Workshop] Accessing & Safeguarding Administrative Data at the CCPR: The Census RDC & German Data Center
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Professor Till von Wachter \nPlease join us at this workshop to learn more about the Census Research Data Center and German Data Center. Learn more about how to access and safeguard data stored at these secured data centers. \nPowerpoint Presentation
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccrdc-workshop/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161012T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20160912T214205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161006T230352Z
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SUMMARY:Till von Wachter\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:“Firming Up Inequality” \nABSTRACT \nWe use a massive\, new\, matched employer-employee database for the United States to analyze the contribution of firms to the rise in earnings inequality from 1978 to 2013. We find that two thirds of the rise in the variance of earnings is associated with workers’ employers\, whereas one third occurs within firms. The employer-related rise in the variance can be decomposed into two roughly equally important forces – a rise in the assortative matching of high-wage workers to high-wage firms and a rise in segregation of similar workers between firms. In contrast\, we do not find a rise in the variance of firm-specific pay once we control for worker composition. The rise in the employer-related inequality was particularly strong in smaller and medium-sized firms (explaining 84% for firms with fewer than 10\,000 employees)\, driven by worker sorting and segregation. In contrast\, in the very largest firms with 10\,000+ employees\, almost half of the increase in the variance of earnings took place within firms\, driven by both declines in earnings for employees below the median and a substantial rise in earnings for the 10% best-paid employees. We also find that for the very top earners\, who experienced particularly large earnings gains over the last decades\, a larger share of earnings growth occurred within firms. However\, the contribution of these top earners to the overall increase in earnings inequality is small. \nSpeaker Website \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/till-von-wachter-ucla/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161005T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161005T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20160826T215348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160826T215504Z
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SUMMARY:2016-2017 CCPR Welcome and Introductions
DESCRIPTION:Please come join us to learn all about the California Center for Population Research! \nProfessors Judith Seltzer\, Dora Costa and Till von Wachter will be presenting. \nThis will be the kick-off event for the start of the upcoming 2016-2017 CCPR Seminar Series.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/2016-2017-ccpr-welcome-introductions/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160601T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160601T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20151020T192525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160531T225253Z
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SUMMARY:Jere Behrman\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:“Early-Life Undernourishment in Developing Countries: Prevalence\, Associations/Impacts over the Life Cycle and Determinants” \nAbstract:  This presentation first summarizes the prevalence of undernutrition among children in developing countries.  It then summarizes impacts and associations over the life cycle using the Guatemalan INCAP longitudinal data (to estimate the impacts of both a protein-rich nutritional supplements allocated randomly among a small number of villages and of height-for-age z scores at 24-36 months) and the Young Lives longitudinal data from Ethiopia\, India\, Peru and Vietnam to investigate whether the critical window for nutrition ends in infancy.   Finally it summarizes estimates using longitudinal data from Guatemala and Cebu in the Philippines of the impact of protein and non-protein energy on early childhood height and weight. \nIf you are interested in meeting with or joining the speaker for lunch\, please send email to Seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu \n9:00 am – 9:30 am: Prof. Judith Seltzer \n10:00 am – 10:30 am: Prof. Dora Costa \n12:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Seminar \n1:30 pm – 2:30 pm: Proseminar Lunch: \n3:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Mieke Eeckhaut \n4:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Prof. Manisha Shah
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jere-behrman-university-of-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160527T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160527T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140252
CREATED:20160309T013131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220906T223634Z
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SUMMARY:Ilan H. Meyer & Mark S. Handcock\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:“Innovative Sampling Approaches for Hard to Reach Populations: Design of a National Probability Study of Lesbians\, Gay Men\, Bisexuals\, and Transgender Peoples and  Network Sampling of Hard to Reach Populations” \nSpeakers: \nIlan H. Meyer\, Williams Distinguished Senior Scholar for Public Policy at the Williams Institute \nMark S. Handcock\, Professor of Statistics at UCLA and Director of the Center for Social Statistics \nDescription: \nCome for the exciting seminar then stay for the free lunch and discussion. A seminar led by Ilan H. Meyer followed immediately by a Brown Bag Lunch led by Mark S. Handcock. \nDr. Meyer is Principal Investigator of the Generations and TransPop Surveys. Generations is a survey of a nationally representative sample of 3 generations of lesbians\, gay men\, and bisexuals. TransPop is the first national probability sample survey of transgender individuals in the United States. Both studies attempt to obtain large nationally representative samples of hard to reach populations. Dr. Meyer will review sampling issues with LGBT populations and speak on the importance of measuring population health of LGBTs and the underlying aspects in designing a national probability survey. \nFrom a contrasting perspective\, the field of Survey Methodology is facing many challenges. The general trend of declining response rates is making it harder for survey researchers to reach their intended population of interest using classical survey sampling methods. \nIn the followup Brown Bag Lunch\, led by Mark S. Handcock\, participants will discuss statistical challenges and approaches to sampling hard to reach populations. Transgenders\, for example\, are a rare and stigmatized population. If the transgender community exhibits networked social behavior\, then network sampling methods may be useful approaches that compliment classical survey methods.\nParticipants are encouraged to speak on ideas of statistical methods for surveys.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ilan-mark-css-ucla/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,CSS Events
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