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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T133000
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SUMMARY:Rocio Titiunik\, University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Internal vs. external validity in studies with incomplete populations \nAbstract:  Researchers working with administrative data rarely have access to the entire universe of units they need to estimate effects and make statistical inferences. Examples are varied and come from different disciplines. In social program evaluation\, it is common to have data on all households who received the program\, but only partial information on the universe of households who applied or could have applied for the program. In studies of voter turnout\, information on the total number of citizens who voted is usually complete\, but data on the total number of voting-eligible citizens is unavailable at low levels of aggregation. In criminology\, information on arrests by race is available\, but the overall population that could have potentially been arrested is typically unavailable. And in studies of drug overdose deaths\, we lack complete information about the full population of drug users. \nIn all these cases\, a reasonable strategy is to study treatment effects and descriptive statistics using the information that is available. This strategy may lack the generality of a full-population study\, but may nonetheless yield valuable information for the included units if it has sufficient internal validity. However\, the distinction between internal and external validity is complex when the subpopulation of units for which information is available is not defined according to a reproducible criterion and/or when this subpopulation itself is defined by the treatment of interest. When this happens\, a useful approach is to consider the full range of conclusions that would be obtained under different possible scenarios regarding the missing information. I discuss a general strategy based on partial identification ideas that may be helpful to assess sensitivity of the partial-population study under weak (non-parametric) assumptions\, when information about the outcome variable is known with certainty for a subset of the units. I discuss extensions such as the inclusion of covariates in the estimation model and different strategies for statistical inference. \nCo-sponsored with the Political Science Department\, Statistics Department and the Center for Social Statistics \nMore on Prof. Titiunik
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/rocio-titiunik-university-of-michigan/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190123T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190123T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20180828T011625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190118T194253Z
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SUMMARY:Kosuke Imai\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Section Data \nAbstract:  Matching methods aim to improve the validity of causal inference in observational studies by reducing model dependence and offering intuitive diagnostics. While they have become a part of standard tool kit for empirical researchers across disciplines\, matching methods are rarely used when analyzing time-series cross-section (TSCS) data\, which consist of a relatively large number of repeated measurements on the same units. We develop a methodological framework that enables the application of matching methods to TSCS data. In the proposed approach\, we first match each treated observation with control observations from other units in the same time period that have an identical treatment history up to the pre-specified number of lags. We use standard matching and weighting methods to further refine this matched set so that the treated observation has outcome and covariate histories similar to those of its matched control observations. Assessing the quality of matches is done by examining covariate balance. After the refinement\, we estimate both short-term and long-term average treatment effects using the difference-in-differences estimator\, accounting for a time trend. We also show that the proposed matching estimator can be written as a weighted linear regression estimator with unit and time fixed effects\, providing model-based standard errors. We illustrate the proposed methodology by estimating the causal effects of democracy on economic growth\, as well as the impact of inter-state war on inheritance tax. The open-source software is available for implementing the proposed matching methods. \nCo-sponsored with the Political Science Department\, Statistics Department and the Center for Social Statistics \nMore on Prof. Imai
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/kosuke-imai-harvard/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20180828T012035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T173339Z
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SUMMARY:Ushma Upadhyay\, UC San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Measuring Reproductive Autonomy: Are the questions different for Adolescents and Young Adults? \nAbstract:  Ushma Upadhyay\, PhD\, MPH will discuss her previous work developing the Reproductive Autonomy Scale\, which has been mainly used among adults.  Her current work focuses on understanding reproductive empowerment among young people\, and the development of a new psychometric measure of Sexual Health and Reproductive Empowerment for Young Adults (The SHREYA Scale).     \nCo-sponsored with The Bixby Center \nMore on Prof. Upadhyay
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ushma-upadhyay-uc-san-francisco/
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:20190213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190213T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20181005T043528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T221353Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Bearman\, Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Neural mechanisms lie behind the emergence of dyadic affective reciprocity and transitive closure in human groups \nAbstract:  This talk considers a set of findings from socializing cognitive social neuroscience that captures neural and social network data at multiple time points for a group of students who volunteered to organize workers in very difficult social situations on the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer\, in the Summer of Respect project. We identify a neural mechanism for the emergence of affective reciprocity\, the building block of social solidarity. We show that we can predict from neural signatures who group members will like five months in the future. We extend this work to a discussion of transitivity\, or balance. Time permitting\, we discuss how a neural signature of self-enhancement (narcissism) predicts becoming peripheral in small groups\, supporting the idea that there is “no I in team”.   \nCo-sponsored by the Sociology Department \nMore on Prof. Bearman
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/peter-bearman-columbia-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20181005T044242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190219T173607Z
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SUMMARY:Jan Van Bavel\, University of Leuven
DESCRIPTION:Title:  The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education and Family Dynamics in Europe \nAbstract:  Although men tended to receive more education than women in the past\, the gender gap in education has reversed in recent decades in most Western and many non-Western countries. In this talk\, I will discuss the main results of a major research project that aimed to investigate the implications of the reversal of the gender gap in advanced education for family life across European countries. I highlight the results about union formation and assortative mating\, discuss our findings about union stability as well as about husbands’ and wives’ relative earnings. Finally\, I present some first results from research about implications for fertility behavior. To conclude\, I will reflect on implications for conventional theories used in family sociology and demography. \nCo-sponsored by the Family Working Group \nMore on Prof. Bavel
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jan-van-bavel-university-of-leuven/
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:20190227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20181126T180922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T212704Z
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SUMMARY:Fernando Riosmena\, CU Boulder
DESCRIPTION:Title: Individual and Neighborhood Vulnerability over the Latin American Immigrant Health Experience \nAbstract: The state of Latino health seemingly defies the way in which the historical disadvantages faced by people of color in the United States get under the skin\, and how place matters in reflecting or further reproducing these disparities. Hispanics –especially foreign-born individuals with lower socioeconomic statuses– have more favorable health than other race/ethnic groups –notably\, U.S.-born non-Hispanic whites– in a limited but very important set of health outcomes such as cardiovascular function\, some cancers and mortality across much of the life course. \nIn this talk\, I discuss the mechanisms/phenomena driving the Hispanic immigrant health advantage\, which is likely tied to processes of self-selection as well as to protection and resilience likely operating particularly well in heavily-concentrated Latino neighborhoods and enclaves. Throughout\, I present my empirical research aimed at disentangling self-selection processes from the protection that immigrants might draw from fellow neighborhood and/or community members. I further discuss these findings in the context of how immigrants adapt in the longer term: these advantages and resilience eventually erode as immigrants spend more time in the United States –as well as across immigrant generations– through a series of processes by which immigrant and Latino vulnerability become somatized. \nI conclude by speculating on the likely future of Latino and immigrant health\, discussing how the resilience and vulnerability of Latino immigrants might evolve given recent major shifts U.S. immigration and social policies and practices\, and due to important changes in the dynamics of migration between Mesoamerica and the United States. \nMore on Prof. Riosmena
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/fernando-riosmena-university-of-colorado/
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:20190305T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190305T163000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190131T171533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T182129Z
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SUMMARY:Andrés Villarreal\, University of Maryland
DESCRIPTION:Title: Immigrants’ Economic Assimilation: Evidence from Matched Administrative Records \nAbstract: Immigrants’ ability to succeed in the labor market and achieve economic parity with natives has significant long-term implications for their well-being and that of their children. In this talk I will present findings from two studies examining immigrants’ economic assimilation using a dataset that links respondents of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to their individual tax records. The first study examines the lifetime earnings trajectories of immigrants and measures the extent and speed with which they are able to reduce the earnings gap with natives. Findings from this study address key debates regarding ethnoracial and cohort differences in immigrants’ earnings trajectories. First\, we find a racially differentiated pattern of earnings assimilation: black and Hispanic immigrants are less able to catch up with native whites’ earnings compared to white and Asian immigrants\, but they are almost able to reach earnings parity with natives of their same race and ethnicity. Second\, contrary to previous studies we find no evidence that recent immigrant cohorts are experiencing lower earnings growth. The second study examines immigrants’ job instability. We find that foreign-born men\, particularly those who are undocumented\, were at higher risk of losing their job and becoming involuntarily underemployed during the Great Recession even after controlling for demographic factors and job characteristics. \nMore on Prof. Villarreal
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/andres-villarreal-university-of-maryland-2/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20180828T013701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T185622Z
UID:10000636-1551873600-1551879000@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Matt Harding\, UC Irvine
DESCRIPTION:Title: Small steps with Big Data: Using Machine Learning in Resource Economics \nAbstract: This talk looks at how recent developments in Big Data and Machine Learning are being used in conjunction with randomized controlled trials and large population level program evaluations to design\, implement and measure efforts to change consumer behavior. We will explore the role played by very detailed consumption data (often at 15 minute intervals)\, as well as recent techniques such as deep learning to help us better understand individual and population behaviors\, and which insights from behavioral sciences are effective at changing behaviors in areas such as energy conservation and efficiency. \nMore on Prof. Harding 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/matt-harding-uc-irvine/
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:20190313T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20180828T013953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190204T185508Z
UID:10000637-1552478400-1552483800@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Alan Murray\, UC Santa Barbara
DESCRIPTION:Title: Population Vulnerability and Spatial Analytics \nAbstract: There has been a transition from population studies that were relatively data poor to the present day where digital data is plentiful on many fronts. The “Smart City” is fed by sources of information coming from all directions\, where sensors observe things about the movement of vehicles and people\, infrastructure conditions\, air quality\, weather\, etc. The challenge is to make use of this digital data\, and this is precisely the value added offered by a range of big data spatial analytics. This paper examines aspects of population vulnerability\, focusing on particular types of risks and hazards in urban areas. \nMore on Prof. Murray
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/alan-murray-uc-santa-barbara/
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:20190320T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190320T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20181126T182037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T181535Z
UID:10000522-1553083200-1553088600@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Martha Bailey\, University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Title: Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency \nAbstract: This paper evaluates the long-run effects of Head Start using large-scale\, restricted 2000-2013 Census-ACS data linked to date and place of birth in the SSA’s Numident file. Using the county-level rollout of Head Start between 1965 and 1980 and state age-eligibility cutoffs for school entry\, we find that participation in Head Start is associated with increases in adult human capital and economic self-sufficiency\, including a 0.29-year increase in schooling\, a 2.1-percent increase in high-school completion\, an 8.7-percent increase in college enrollment\, and a 19-percent increase in college completion. These estimates imply sizable\, longterm returns to investing in large-scale preschool programs. \nMore on Prof. Bailey
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/martha-bailey-university-of-michigan/
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:20190403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190403T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190131T172807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T164006Z
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SUMMARY:Leticia Marteleto\, UT Austin
DESCRIPTION:Title: Live Births and Fertility amidst the Zika Virus Epidemic in Brazil \nAbstract: In late 2015\, the Brazilian Ministry of Health classified the increase in congenital malformations associated with the Zika Virus (ZIKV) a public health emergency. The risk of ZIKV-related congenital syndrome posed an exogenous threat to reproductive outcomes that could result in declining numbers of live births and potentially fertility. Using 2014-2016 monthly microdata on live births from the Brazilian Information System on Live Births\, in this talk I examine live births and fertility trends amidst the ZIKV epidemic in Brazil. Findings suggest a decline in live births that is stratified across socioeconomic status and geographic lines\, especially nine months after the call for pregnancy postponement. While declines in total fertility rates were small\, fertility trends estimated by age and socioeconomic status suggest important differences in how Zika might have impacted Brazil’s fertility structure. Further findings using monthly data by municipality suggest that the epidemic resulted in a significant decline in fertility even when controlling for characteristics of the municipality. The findings highlight the importance of understanding how exposure to the risk of a health threat directed at fetuses has led to declines in fertility. \nMore on Prof. Marteleto
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/leticia-marteleto-university-of-texas-at-austin/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190403T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190403T153000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190321T170203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T170203Z
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SUMMARY:CCPR 2019 PAA Practice Session
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to hear our residents interesting research and give feedback for their upcoming PAA presentations. \nPresenters: \n\nAmanda Gonzalez\, “Do You Need to Pay for Quality Care? Exploring Associations Between Bribes and Out-of-Pocket Expenditures on Quality of Labor and Delivery Care in High Volume Public Health Facilities in Uttar Pradesh\, India”\nMary Robbins\, “A Development Dud: Is Microcredit in Bangladesh Actually Improving Women’s Lives? A Case Study in Matlab”\nJacob Thomas\, “Which Nationalities Have Been Coming the United States Less Since the 2016 Election?”\nAmber Villalobos\, “The Differential Impact of College on Becoming a Single Parent “\n Maria Lucia Yanguas\, “One Laptop per Child: Long-Run Evidence From Uruguay”
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-2019-paa-practice-session/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190325T170533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190521T184457Z
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SUMMARY:Yingchun Ji\, Shanghai University
DESCRIPTION:Title: Understanding China’s Low Fertility in a Gender and Development Approach \nAbstract: Without a surge of new born babies after the Chinese government relaxed the 40-year-long strict one-child family planning policy in 2013 and 2015\, the focus of debates regarding China’s declining fertility has shifted from policy to economic and social forces. Different from the mainstream demographers in China\, we propose a gender and development approach to understand low fertility in post-reform China. During China’s transition from the socialist planned economy to market economy\, the old danwei system collapsed and the public and private spheres are increasingly separating\, resulting in women’s intensified work-family conflicts. Emphasizing on women’s dual roles regarding material production and social reproduction\, we argue that sustainable fertility\, gender equality and economic development can either create a virtuous circle or be trapped in a vicious circle. With a certain degree of gender equality in both the labor market and the private families\, adult women can fully exert their talents at work which can both contribute to economic growth\, and also empower them at home. This can help them realize their fertility desires. With unsatisfying or uneven gender equality in the two spheres\, either some Chinese women can be pushed out of the labor market to have a second child\, or young women may choose to focus on personal development\, and postpone or forgo marriage/fertility. We also propose a multi-party-participation social mechanism to address the long term low fertility in China\, encouraging individual men and women\, family\, business and government to all share the duty of social reproduction. \nPodcast Recording \nMore on Prof. Ji
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/yingchun-ji-shanghai-university/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190311T163138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190521T184411Z
UID:10000669-1556107200-1556112600@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Jennifer Ahern\, UC Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Title: Leveraging big data to assess health effects of changes in physical and social environments\, and policy and program implementation \nAbstract: In the era of big data there are opportunities to answer policy-relevant health questions in ways that are timely and cost-efficient. This talk will describe coordination of health data resources for health monitoring and to address questions about the health effects of policies in California. Examples of health effect assessments\, including those related to gun shows and the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA)\, will be presented. \nDr. Jennifer Ahern\, PhD MPH\, is Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Epidemiology at University of California\, Berkeley\, School of Public Health. She examines the effects of the social and physical environment\, and programs and policies that alter the social and physical environment\, on many aspects of health (e.g.\, violence\, substance use\, mental health\, and gestational health). Dr. Ahern has a methodological focus to her work\, including application of causal inference methods and semi-parametric estimation approaches\, aimed at improving the rigor of observational research\, and optimizing public health intervention planning. Her research has been supported by a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)\, Office of the Director. \nPodcast Recording \nMore on Prof. Ahern
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jennifer-ahern-uc-berkeley/
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:20190501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190501T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20180828T015320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T165951Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Athey\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:Title: Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Optimal Treatment Assignment Policies \nAbstract: This talk will review recently developed methods for estimating conditional average treatment effects and optimal treatment assignment policies in experimental and observational studies\, including settings with unconfoundedness or instrumental variables.  Multi-armed bandits for learning treatment assignment policies will also be considered. \nCo-sponsored with the Center for Social Statistics \nMore on Prof. Athey \n  \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/susan-athey-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20180828T015938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190506T170218Z
UID:10000639-1557316800-1557322200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Brandon Stewart\, Princeton University
DESCRIPTION:Title: How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts \nAbstract: Texts are increasingly used to make causal inferences: either with the document serving as the treatment or the outcome. We introduce a new conceptual framework to understand all text-based causal inferences\, demonstrate fundamental problems that arise when using manual or computational approaches applied to text for causal inference\, and provide solutions to the problems we raise.  We demonstrate that all text-based causal inferences depend upon a latent representation of the text and we provide a framework to learn the latent representation. \nEstimating this latent representation\, however\, creates new risks: we may unintentionally create a dependency across observations or create opportunities to fish for large effects.  To address these risks\, we introduce a train/test split framework and apply it to estimate causal effects from an experiment on immigration attitudes and a study on bureaucratic responsiveness.  Our work provides a rigorous foundation for text-based causal inferences\, connecting two previously disparate literatures. (Joint Work with Egami\, Fong\, Grimmer and Roberts) \nCo-sponsored with the Center for Social Statistics \nMore on Prof. Stewart
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/brandon-stewart-princeton-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190423T153546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190506T164918Z
UID:10000676-1557921600-1557927000@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Tomas Jimenez\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:Title: The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants are Changing American Life \nAbstract: The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americans—those whose families have been in the country for multiple generations? The Other Side of Assimilation shows that assimilation is not a one-way street. Jiménez explains how established Americans undergo their own assimilation in response to profound immigration-driven ethnic\, racial\, political\, economic\, and cultural shifts. \nCo-sponsored with the Center for the Study of International Migration and the Race and Ethnicity Sociology Working Group \nMore on Prof. Jimenez \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/tomas-jimenez-stanford-university/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190225T190232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T192441Z
UID:10000661-1558612800-1558618200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pascaline Dupas\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:Title: The Incidence of Public Subsidies to Private Hospitals under Weak Governance: Evidence from India (joint with Radhika Jain) \nAbstract: Expanding public health insurance and enlisting private agents for service delivery are common policy strategies to meet the goals of universal health coverage\, but there is limited evidence from developing countries to inform their design. This paper\, joint with Radhika Jain from Harvard School of Public Health\, provides quantitative evidence on how insurance design affects program performance and incidence in the context of a government-funded health insurance program that aims to provide free care to 46 million people in Rajasthan\, India. We exploit a policy-induced natural experiment\, and use administrative claims linked to patient surveys\, to provide the first large-scale evidence of private hospital behavior under public health insurance.  \nMore on Prof. Dupas
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/13868/
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:20190605T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190605T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190423T171235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190522T213013Z
UID:10000677-1559736000-1559741400@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Second Annual Robert Mare Student Lectureship: Carolina Arteaga\, PhD (c) Economics\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:Title: Essays in Education and Crime in Colombia \nAbstract: This dissertation contains three essays in applied microeconomics. In the first chapter paper I test whether the return to college education is the result of human capital accumulation or instead reflects the fact that attending college signals higher ability to employers.  The second chapter provides evidence that parental incarceration increases children’s educational attainment. Finally\, in the third chapter I derive a new expression that extends the Local Average Treatment Effect concept\, to a setting with two sources of unobserved treatment heterogeneity.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/first-annual-robert-mare-student-lectureship-2/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190629
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20220425T155902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T185311Z
UID:10000772-1560729600-1561766399@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
DESCRIPTION:The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students\, postdoctoral researchers\, and early career faculty interested in computational social science. The Summer Institute is open to both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived).
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/summer-institute-in-computational-social-science/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190621T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190621T180000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190612T172854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T185150Z
UID:10000532-1561125600-1561140000@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Panel Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Panel Presentation \nLuskin Conference Center Laureate Room \n\n2:00pm – 3:15pm Digital Demography\n\nProf. Dennis Feehan\, UC Berkeley and Prof. Ka-Yuet Liu\, UCLA \n\n3:30pm – 4:45pm Computational Causal Inference \n\nProf. Judea Pearl\, UCLA and Prof. Sam Pimentel\, UC Berkeley \nReception 5:00pm – 6:00pm
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/summer-institute-in-computational-social-science-panel-presentation/
LOCATION:Luskin Conference Center Laureate Room
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190801T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190801T180000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190715T164442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T185250Z
UID:10000534-1564664400-1564682400@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Big Data for Big Social Issues
DESCRIPTION:Big Data for Big Social Issues \nSummer Institute in Computational Social Science Panel: 1:00pm – 2:45pm \nProf. John Friedman\, Brown University: “Income Inequality and Social Mobility: What Can We Learn from Big Data?” 3:00pm-5:00pm \nReception 5:00-6:00pm \nClick here to view a recording of the talk  \nA defining feature of the American Dream is upward income mobility — the ideal that children have equal opportunities to succeed in life\, regardless of the circumstances of their birth. Prof. Friedman will discuss his research using large administrative datasets to uncover where opportunity lacks in America\, and what policymakers and civic leaders can do about it to revive the American Dream for future generations.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/big-data-for-social-issues-panel/
LOCATION:UCLA Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (NRB 132)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191002T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191002T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190819T215402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190819T215517Z
UID:10000536-1570017600-1570023000@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Welcome and Introductions
DESCRIPTION:Please come join us to learn all about the California Center for Population Research! \nThis will be the kick-off event for the start of the upcoming 2019-2020 CCPR Seminar Series.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/welcome-and-introductions-2/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190827T225436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191127T185905Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Daw\, Penn State University
DESCRIPTION:Title: Renal Relationships: Understanding Living Kidney Donor Relationship Patterns \nAbstract: Who do we turn to in times of need? Traditionally\, social support research has shown a strong preference to rely on strong ties in these scenarios – often\, even when weak ties might be better positioned to help. However\, this conclusion has recently been challenged by Small (2017)\, who argues that people often rely on weak ties for emotional support in stressful times\, preferring to avoid more complicated strong ties. This suggests that the types of ties we activate in times of need varies by the situation. In this study\, we apply this framework to the study of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT)\, effectively asking: How does this behavior differ when the stakes are potentially life and death? Using a variety of primary and secondary datasets\, we compare the distribution of LDKT ties to the distribution of ties who would be likely able to help\, then seek to explain these relative utilization patterns as a function of medical fundamentals\, social/spatial relationships\, and qualitative reasoning invoked by survey respondents. Our preliminary findings show that LDKT patterns are primarily driven by social relationship quality\, and far less by medical fundamentals such as the potential donors’ health or genetic relationship to the patient. \nVideo  \nMore on Prof. Daw
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jonathan-daw-penn-state-university/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190827T230254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191014T161714Z
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SUMMARY:Adriana Lleras-Muney\, UC Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:Title:”Can Labor Market Discrimination Explain Racial Disparities in Schooling? Evidence from WWII” \nAbstract: Can the racial gap in labor market earnings explain black-white disparities in the schooling of the next generation?  To answer this\, we exploit the large increase in labor demand in markets that received WWII defense industry contracts.  This increase in labor demand combined with a policy that prohibited discrimination by race and ethnicity in the defense industries resulted in significant increases in African American earnings and declines in the racial gap in earnings between 1940 and 1950.  This was achieved largely via occupational upgrading among African Americans into semi-skilled professions.  In contrast with women\, whose progress in the labor market was largely reversed in short order\, this occupational upgrading persisted for African Americans.  We argue that this persistence is consistent with declines in statistical discrimination.  Moreover\, we find that in these same labor markets\, the next generation of African Americans invested relatively more in their human capital\, as measured by greater years of schooling and a decline in the black-white schooling gap. We explore three reasons why reductions in the black white earnings gap might lead to reductions in the black white schooling gap of the next generation.  First\, this would relax the financial constraint faced by many African American families\, allowing their children to remain in school longer.  Second\, occupational upgrading might have increased the returns to human capital among African Americans.  Finally\, there may be political responses that result in changes in public funding and provision of schooling and other public goods that affect the human capital accumulation of the next generation of African Americans.  We find evidence consistent with the first explanation only. We conclude that efforts to further reduce the racial gap in schooling might consider labor market interventions
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/laura-lindberg-guttmacher-institute/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190827T230745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T170219Z
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SUMMARY:Michelle Jackson\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:Title: A Century of Educational Inequality in the United States \nAbstract: The “income inequality hypothesis” holds that rising income inequality affects the distribution of a wide range of social and economic outcomes. Research highlighting the sharp increase in educational inequality in recent decades has fuelled concerns that rising income inequality has had damaging consequences for equality of educational opportunity\, even while other researchers have provided descriptive evidence at odds with the income inequality hypothesis. In this paper we track long-term trends in family income inequalities in college enrollment (“enrollment inequality”) using all available nationally representative datasets for cohorts born between 1908 and 1995. We show that the trend in enrollment inequality moved in lockstep with the trend in income inequality over the past century. There is one exception to this general finding: for cohorts at risk of serving in the Vietnam War\, enrollment inequality was high while income inequality was low. During this period\, enrollment inequality was significantly higher for men than for women. Aside from this singular confounding event\, evidence on a century of enrollment inequality establishes a strong association between income inequality and enrollment inequality\, providing support for the view that rising income inequality is fundamentally changing the distribution of life chances. \nCo-sponsored with the Social Stratification\, Inequality and Mobility Working Group \nMore on Prof. Jackson 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/michelle-jackson-stanford-university/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190827T231407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190918T192448Z
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SUMMARY:Stefan Wager\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:Title: Machine Learning for Causal Inference \nAbstract: Given advances in machine learning over the past decades\, it is now possible to accurately solve difficult non-parametric prediction problems in a way that is routine and reproducible. In this talk\, I’ll discuss how these machine learning tools can be rigorously integrated into observational study analyses\, and how they interact with classical ideas around randomization\, semiparametric modeling\, double robustness\, etc. When deployed carefully\, machine learning enables us to develop statistical estimators that reflect the study design more closely than basic linear regression based methods. \n  \nMore on Prof. Wager
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/stefan-wager-stanford-university/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190827T233103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191022T215357Z
UID:10000546-1573646400-1573651800@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Courtney Cogburn\, Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:Title: Race\, Culture and Health: Conceptual and Methodological Innovations \nAbstract: Building a culture of health and achieving health equity requires that we engage cultural processes in a more meaningful way. Cultural processes and systems are commonly referenced in health inequity scholarship but empirical research generally lags behind this conceptual emphasis. I argue that employing a transdisciplinary approach to examining intersections of culture\, structure and racism is a valuable analytical tool for understanding the production of social and racial inequities in health. In this talk\, I’ll discuss conceptual work advancing the concept of “cultural racism” in relation to racial inequities in health and will also provide an overview of related empirical projects: 1) a laboratory experiment examining the effects of media-based racism on physiological\, psychological and behavioral stress responses\, 2) a data science project exploring ways to assess chronic exposure to media-based racism and possible links to population health and 3) the use of virtual reality to promote structural competence regarding the structural and cultural roots of racism. In lieu of a deep dive on a single project or paper\, the presentation seeks to support a rich conversation about the need for conceptual and methodological innovation in service of better understanding and addressing racial inequities in health. \nMore on Prof. Cogburn 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/courtney-cogburn-columbia-university/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20191107T170231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T170231Z
UID:10000700-1573734600-1573738200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CEGA-EASST & BRAC Fellow Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The Luskin School of Public Affairs and the California Center for Population Research invites you for a Lunch Seminar with CEGA-EASST & BRAC Fellows next Thursday\, November 14 from 12:30-1:30 pm in the CCPR Seminar Room. Lunch will be served\, please RSVP here. \nRonald Mulebeke (EASST fellow)\, Research Fellow at Makerere School of Public Health \n“Impact of Supportive Supervision and Behavior Change Communication to improve the quality of malaria care and data management in Uganda” \nIn Uganda\, malaria contributes between 30 and 50% of outpatient visits\, 15–20% of hospital admissions and 20% of hospital deaths\, with most of this burden borne by children under 5 years and pregnant women. Most of these are seen in the private sector where approximately 60% of the population seek for malaria care at first need. There is growing evidence that supportive supervision (SS) is a sustainable intervention to achieve higher adherence to guidelines and overall improvement of quality of care. In this study\, I propose a cluster randomized controlled trial to test the hypothesis that SS provided to private health facilities in combination with behavioral change communication (BCC) provided to the community improves the quality of malaria care. I will also determine the quality of data management as well as determine the cost-effectiveness of the intervention which will turn out to have an impact on quality of malaria care \nChristina Fille (EASST fellow)\, Lecturer at the Institute of Social Work in Tanzania \n“The Impact of Secondary School Certificate on Income\, Teen Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance in Tanzania” \nStudents in Tanzania go through secondary school education which is four years and at the end they complete a national examination which is called the Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (CSEE). CSEE is an achievement test offered to candidates who have completed four years of secondary education. The objectives of this examination are to assess students’ skills and knowledge achieved in different subjects at secondary school and measure the extent to which the student can use the skills gained to meet the social\, political\, economic and technological challenges for the individual and the national development at large. This study will investigate if passing this examination and getting a certificate increases individual’s income in the sense of providing the individuals with formal employment versus low skill self-employment\, if it improves the fertility and health outcomes of the individuals\, and also if it improves the skills\, knowledge and experience possessed by an individual. This study is going to react by investigate if passing the examination and getting a certificate is a signal in the labour market or do these candidates really possess the skills. Therefore\, this will be a signaling versus skills debate paper using the Regression Discontinuity Design. \nEsau Tugume (BRAC fellow)\, Research Associate at BRAC Uganda  \n“Effects of Vocational Education Training on labour productivity: an RCT in Northern Uganda” \nPrivate sector in Uganda is largely affected by poor productivity resulting from poor managerial practices\, low technology adoption\, limited productive labour supply and finances to fund firm mechanization. The enrolment of students into vocational training programs to provide the productive labour has always been low recorded at 63\,265 in 2016 and the quality of skills acquired has been insufficient to match the job market requirement. Ugandan government started implementing the “Skilling Uganda strategic plan” in 2011 that aimed to improve on supply of employable skills\, competencies relevant in the labour market and overcome unproductive labour force achieve increase in productivity and growth in economy. Despite these efforts\, unproductive and poor skilled labour force still exist in skill intensive sectors like carpentry\, metal fabrication and grain milling\, where technical skills are essential to increase firm productivity (Danish Report\, 2016). This study proposes a randomized control trial experiment to enrol one group of trainees into vocational education training and the control group will attend firm training for six months respectively. The effect of the treatment on trainee productivity will be measured by time taken to complete a two panel door of particular quality.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/cega-easst-brac-fellow-seminar/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T133000
DTSTAMP:20260922T145418
CREATED:20190827T233436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T165541Z
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SUMMARY:René D. Flores\, The University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Title: Diversity\, Immigration\, and Public Opinion in the U.S. \nAbstract: What factors animate public opinion towards immigrants? A substantial literature has tested the impact of individual objective traits like education and job market status on immigration attitudes. In addition\, researchers have explored the role of subjective factors like immigrants’ perceived impact on society. However\, prior quantitative research has generally overlooked a key aspect: natives’ impressions of who immigrants are. Immigrants in the U.S. are increasingly diverse and evidence suggests that natives prefer certain types of immigrants. Yet\, survey questions gauging immigration attitudes often refer to “immigrants” as if they were a single\, homogenous group\, which makes it hard to interpret survey takers’ answers. To fill this gap\, we explore heterogeneity in subjective perceptions of immigrants and assess their attitudinal impacts. We systematically uncover these perceptions by using a Latent Class Analysis approach on a new set of survey items we developed. We find the presence of four different immigrant “archetypes” or multidimensional constellations of immigrant traits. These archetypes are shared across regions\, social classes\, and partisan lines and more powerfully predict immigration attitudes than typical independent variables used in extant research. Last\, we discuss the theoretical and methodological implications of our findings. \nMore on Prof. Flores
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/rene-d-flores-the-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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