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SUMMARY:Maya Rossin-Slater\, Stanford University\, "Birth Centers and Maternal and Infant Health"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Maya Rossin-Slater is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research (SIEPR)\, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University\, and her BA in Economics and Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley. Rossin-Slater’s research includes work in health\, public\, and labor economics. She focuses on issues in maternal\, child\, and family well-being\, health disparities\, and public policies and other factors affecting disadvantaged populations in the United States and other developed countries. She is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Elaine Bennett Research Prize (awarded to recognize outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman not more than ten years beyond her PhD). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBirth Centers and Maternal and Infant Health\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: The number of births at birth centers–freestanding medical facilities equipped to perform low-risk vaginal deliveries–has more than doubled over the past decade in the US. Interest in their usage increased during the COVID-19 pandemic\, and has continued to grow since. Moreover\, the large racial disparities in maternal health outcomes have prompted advocates to encourage Black women in particular to consider birth centers for their perinatal care. To date\, however\, there is limited evidence on the causal impacts of access to birth centers on maternal and infant health outcomes\, or disparities within them. We provide novel evidence on the impact of access to birth centers on maternal and infant health outcomes. We collect new data on birth centers from several industry organizations as well as the National Plan & Provider Enumeration System of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services\, and use nearly two decades of restricted-use individual-level birth records data from the National Vital Statistics System to study these questions. We examine the impacts of county-level access to birth centers on pregnancy\, delivery\, and infant health outcomes\, as well as on differences in who uses them between mothers from different racial and educational groups.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/maya-rossin-slater-stanford-university-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Dave Kirk\, University of Pennsylvania\, "The Rideshare Revolution and Racial Disparities in Police Stops"
DESCRIPTION:  \nBiography: Dave Kirk is Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Criminology and Research Associate of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago and previously served on the faculties at the University of Oxford\, the University of Texas at Austin\, and the University of Maryland. Kirk’s research agenda is primarily organized around three interrelated themes: the causes and consequences of cynicism and distrust of the police and the law\, solutions to criminal recidivism\, and the causes and consequences of gun violence. He is also interested in the implications of the rise of the sharing economy for crime and public safety. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of Criminology. \n  \n\n\n\nThe Rideshare Revolution and Racial Disparities in Police Stops\n\n\n\nAbstract: Racial disparities in police stops remain a central concern in social science research. While prior explanations emphasize differences by race in driving exposure\, behavior\, and vehicle characteristics as well as variation in the deployment of police and potential racial bias\, one overlooked factor is the rapid expansion of ridesharing. Because ridesharing substitutes for private vehicle trips\, its growth may alter the risk set of individuals exposed to discretionary traffic enforcement. This study combines administrative records of traffic stops by the Chicago Police Department\, use-of-force reports\, and comprehensive rideshare trip data from 2019–2024. I construct district–month panels of police stops and use of force incidents by race and estimate negative binomial models with district and month fixed effects to assess whether increases in rideshare activity are associated with differential changes in police contact across racial groups. Preliminary results suggest that increases in rideshare activity are associated with a narrowing of Black-White disparities in police stops. Use of force analyses show similar patterns. These findings suggest that rideshare expansion may narrow racial disparities in police contact and uses of force by altering the risk set of drivers exposed to traffic enforcement.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dave-kirk-university-of-pennsylvania-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Bussarawan “Puk” Teerawichitchainan\, National University of Singapore (NUS) [HOLD]
DESCRIPTION:The Southeast Asian Studies Center (CSEAS) has invited Bussarawan “Puk” Teerawichitchainan to give a talk at UCLA on Monday\, May 18. Puk is a demographer at the National University of Singapore (NUS) spending this academic year at the CASBS in Stanford: \n\n\nhttps://casbs.stanford.edu/people/bussarawan-teerawichitchainan \n\n\nHer talk will be about her project on aging in Singapore and Thailand.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/bussarawan-puk-teerawichitchainan-national-university-of-singapore-nus-hold/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events
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SUMMARY:Michael Lens\, UCLA\, "Where the Hood At? Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Michael Lens is Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy\, Chair of the Luskin Undergraduate Programs\, and Associate Faculty Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. Professor Lens’ research and teaching explore the potential of public policy to address housing market inequities that lead to negative outcomes for low-income families and communities of color. This research involves zoning and land use\, segregation\, housing subsidies\, and eviction. Professor Lens regularly publishes this work in leading academic journals and his research has won awards from the Journal of the American Planning Association and Housing Policy Debate. His book Where the Hood At: Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods\, was published in November 2024 by the Russell Sage Foundation. (Amazon) (Russell Sage – use promo code Lens for 20% off). In ongoing research\, Professor Lens is using microdata to study housing mobility\, whether and how accessory dwelling units are affecting housing costs\, and how planning reforms in California are achieving fair housing outcomes. \n  \n\n\n\nWhere the Hood At? Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: Substantial gaps exist between Black Americans and other racial and ethnic groups in the U.S.\, most glaringly Whites\, across virtually all quality-of-life indicators. Despite strong evidence that neighborhood residence affects life outcomes\, we lack a comprehensive picture of Black neighborhood conditions and how they have changed over time. In Where the Hood At? urban planning and public policy scholar Michael C. Lens examines the characteristics and trajectories of Black neighborhoods across the U.S. over the fifty years since the Fair Housing Act. Hip hop music was born out of Black neighborhoods in the 1970s and has evolved alongside them. In Where the Hood At? Lens uses rap’s growth and influence across the country to frame discussions about the development and conditions of Black neighborhoods. Lens finds that social and economic improvement in Black neighborhoods since the 1970s has been slow. However\, how well Black neighborhoods are doing varies substantially by region. Overall\, Black neighborhoods in the South are doing well and growing quickly. Black neighborhoods in the Midwest and the Rust Belt\, on the other hand\, are particularly disadvantaged. The welfare of Black neighborhoods is related not only to factors within neighborhoods\, such as the unemployment rate\, but also to characteristics of the larger metropolitan area\, such as overall income inequality. Lens finds that while gentrification is increasingly prevalent\, it is growing slowly\, and is not as pressing an issue as public discourse would make it seem. Instead\, concentrated disadvantage is by far the most common and pressing problem in Black neighborhoods.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/michael-lens-ucla/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
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