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SUMMARY:Andrew Penner\, University of California\, Irvine\, "The Academic and Socioemotional Effects of Advanced Mathematics Coursetaking"
DESCRIPTION:Biography\nAndrew Penner is a professor of sociology at the University of California\, Irvine and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Penner’s research examines how society creates categories and sorts people into them\, and focuses on the consequences of these categorization processes for inequality. At UCI\, Penner serves as the director of the Center for Administrative Data Analysis\, and much of Penner’s ongoing research uses novel administrative data infrastructure to understand how schools do and don’t prepare students to thrive as adults.\nThe Academic and Socioemotional Effects of Advanced Mathematics Coursetaking\nAbstract\nAlthough existing research suggests that students benefit on a range of outcomes when they enroll in early algebra classes\, policy efforts that accelerate algebra enrollment for large numbers of students often have negative effects. We explore this divergence\, providing regression discontinuity evidence on the effects of early algebra placement showing that early algebra boosts subsequent math and English Language Arts (ELA) outcomes. We then investigate how early algebra might affect ELA outcomes. We find no effects of early algebra placement on social and emotional learning outcomes\, and no effects on the characteristics of the ELA teachers students were exposed to. But we do find large and substantively meaningful effects of early algebra placement on students’ peer composition. This finding provides insights into why policies aimed at accelerating algebra broadly may fail\, and why early algebra affects students’ achievement beyond mathematics.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/andrew-penner-university-of-california-irvine/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240421
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SUMMARY:PAA 2024 Annual Meeting at Columbus\, Ohio
DESCRIPTION:Details to be added later.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/paa-2024-annual-meeting-at-columbus-ohio/
LOCATION:Columbus\, Ohio Hyatt Regency Columbus\, Hyatt Regency Columbus\, Columbus\, OH\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240410T131500
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SUMMARY:Student PAA Practice Talk (Development Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Details TBA
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/development-workshop-student-paa/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240408T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240408T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20240319T212940Z
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SUMMARY:The Digital Migrant Health Record: DR. Maria Elena Ramos Tovar
DESCRIPTION:Electronic patient records (EPRs) have been shown to improve the quality\, safety\, and efficiency of healthcare delivery. While developed countries are ahead in this transition\, with nearly all hospital settings relying on EPRs\, developing countries are still lagging. Without EPRs\, physicians struggle to have a clear medical history of patients; consequently\, healthcare quality and efficiency are compromised. This is particularly true for migrants\, a subset of the population that could benefit from EPRs as cross-border mobility often entails numerous threats to the safety\, integrity\, and health. \nThis presentation will showcase the project “Right and access to health for migrants: Health care trajectories of people on the move through cities in northeastern Mexico and the Texas Valley region\,” or “Migrant Health Trajectories” for short. The first intervention of the project is the creation and implementation of an EPR called “Expediente Digital Migrante” (Migrant Digital Record Home | Trayectoria de Salud Migrante). This instrument is designed to document and monitor the physical and mental health of migrants in transit; it comprises clinical history\, medical notes\, results of physical and clinical examinations\, and depression scales. The EPR can be accessed across different countries and by multiple providers. So far\, the EPR system has been implemented in 7 migrant shelters across the Mexican states of Nuevo Leon (5)\, Coahuila (1)\, and Reynosa (1)\, all in the Northeast region\, and more than 2900 patients have been registered in the system.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/the-digital-migrant-health-record-dr-maria-elena-ramos-tovar/
LOCATION:YRL\, Room 23167
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240403T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230929T001014Z
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Dizon-Ross\, University of Chicago\, "Mechanism Design for Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Incentivizing Exercise"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nRebecca Dizon-Ross is a development economist and applied microeconomist with an interest in human capital. Much of her current work is on the demand side\, aiming to understand the determinants of households’ investments in health and education and to evaluate interventions to increase investment. Rebecca is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Before joining Booth\, Dizon-Ross was a Prize Fellow in Economics\, History\, and Politics at Harvard University and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University. \nMechanism Design for Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Incentivizing Exercise\nAbstract:\nPersonalizing policies can theoretically increase their effectiveness. However\, personalization is difficult when individual types are unobservable and the preferences of policymakers and individuals are not aligned\, which could cause individuals to misreport their type. Mechanism design offers a strategy to overcome this issue: offer a menu of policy choices and make it incentive-compatible for participants to choose the “right” variant. Using a field experiment that personalized incentives for exercise among 6\,800 adults with diabetes and hypertension in urban India\, we show that personalizing with an incentive-compatible choice menu substantially improves program performance\, increasing the treatment effect of incentives on exercise by 80% without increasing program costs relative to a one-size-fits-all benchmark. Personalizing with mechanism design also performs well relative to another potential strategy for personalization: assigning policy variants based on observables.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/rebecca-dizon-ross-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240314T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240314T130000
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SUMMARY:F31 Predoctoral NIH Funding Panel
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, March 14 from noon- 1 pm \nPlease RSVP and submit questions for the panelist beforehand using this form. \nLocation: UCLA CCPR seminar room (4240A Public Affairs)  \nThe panel will kick off with a brief introduction\, setting the stage for a discussion about NIH funding opportunities focused specifically on predoctoral F31 grants. Attendees will gain a comprehensive overview of the funding mechanisms and application procedures\, empowering them to navigate the NIH funding landscape with confidence. \nOur panelists comprise both current applicants and F31 grant recipients: Andrew Hess (Econ)\, Eunhee Park (Community Health Science)\, and Esmeralda Melgoza (Community Health Sciences). They will highlight key considerations for crafting successful grant proposals\, including tips for writing compelling narratives\, addressing reviewer feedback\, and maximizing impact. Whether you’re a seasoned researcher or new to the world of grant writing\, this event promises to equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to secure NIH funding for your research endeavors. \nFollowing the presentations\, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a dynamic Q&A session\, where they can seek clarification and engage directly with our panelists. Don’t miss this chance to gain valuable insights\, connect with fellow researchers\, and take your NIH funding journey to the next level. \nCookies will be provided.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/f31-nih-funding-panel/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T131500
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SUMMARY:Conrad Miller\, University of California\, Berkeley\, “Class Disparities and Discrimination in Traffic Stops and Searches”
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nConrad Miller is an associate professor at the University of California\, Berkeley in the Haas School of Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a labor economist who studies inequality between social groups. His research pursues three broad research questions: (1) what role do firms play in producing labor market inequality between social groups? (2) what are the consequences of discrimination? and (3) what are the effects of policy responses to discrimination? \n“Class Disparities and Discrimination in Traffic Stops and Searches”\nAbstract: We document class disparities and discrimination in the incidence of police searches. Low-income motorists are more likely to be pursued in pretext stops and to be searched for contraband. Yet searches of low-income motorists are less likely to yield contraband. To isolate class-based discrimination\, we show that motorists stopped in multiple vehicles are more likely to be searched when stopped in a vehicle that signals they are low-income. Overall contraband yield would increase if police did not engage in vehicle-based profiling. We provide suggestive evidence that lower hassle costs associated with arrests of low-income motorists help to explain trooper behavior. \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/conrad-miller-university-of-california-berkeley/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T120000
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SUMMARY:Nora Daniels\, Associate Director\, UCLA Corporate and Foundation Relations
DESCRIPTION:Nora Daniels\, Associate Director\, UCLA Corporate and Foundation Relations will join our bagel hour at 11 am on March 13\, 2024. Nora supports faculty across the college by identifying\, cultivating\, soliciting\, and stewarding private foundation prospects for funding their research\, programs\, and initiatives. This support includes (but is not limited to): proposal development and internal approvals (OCGA\, academic leadership)\, RFP applications\, cultivating relationships with foundation program officers\, and foundation strategy development.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/nora-daniels-associate-director-ucla-corporate-and-foundation-relations/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230929T000524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T181841Z
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SUMMARY:Brittany Chambers\, University of California\, Davis\, "The Solutions are in the Community: Centering Black Women’s Voices to Advance Birth Equity"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDr. Brittany Chambers Butcher is a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California\, Davis. She is a community health scientist whose program of research merges critical and public health theories to partner with Black women and birthing people to better understand\, operationalize and dismantle racism. Dr. Chambers Butcher uses a community research model in her work to #listentoblackwomen to reconceptualize structural racism and the way it shows up in Black communities to contribute to adverse maternal and infant health outcomes. Building on this work\, Dr. Chambers Butcher received a competitive two-year UCSF-Kaiser Permanente Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) K12 award to collect formative data to co-develop racial equity training for perinatal care providers with Black women and perinatal providers of color. She now was a K01 focused on pilot testing this racial equity training among perinatal providers in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nThe Solutions are in the Community: Centering Black Women’s Voices to Advance Birth Equity\nAbstract:\nStructural racism has been identified as a root cause of maternal and infant health inequities experienced by Black women and birthing people\, and their children. In effort to better understand and dismantle racism\, centering community voice is essential. This presentation will share a community research model used to advance birth equity and example projects implementing this model to: (1) develop a conceptual framework of structural racism from the perspectives of Black women; (2) develop and pilot test a racial equity training for perinatal care providers; and (3) developing a healing toolkit for community researchers.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/brittany-chambers-university-of-california-davis/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20240123T172054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240301T175412Z
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SUMMARY:Los Angeles' Replication Games
DESCRIPTION:We are looking for researchers\, post-docs\, and PhD students\ninterested in a one-day replication challenge.\nParticipants will be granted co-authorship on a meta-paper\ncombining the reproductions and replications\, and will have the\nopportunity to publish their work. Participants will be matched based\non field\, and a study from a leading social science journal will be\nassigned to each team based on interests.\nThe event will take place at the University of California\, Los Angeles.\nVirtual participants are also welcome. The event is sponsored by the\nCalifornia Center for Population Research.\nInterested researchers and/or teams should send their field\nof study and preferred statistical software to: \nABEL BRODEUR\nabrodeur@uottawa.ca \nPre-games virtual meeting slides/recording can be found here. \nMore information about the event can be found here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/los-angeles-replication-games/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20240216T204329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T204433Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Florencia Torche “Doing Gender and the Surname Choices of Married Women”
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dr-florencia-torche/
LOCATION:279 Haines Hall
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230928T234739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T190715Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Jens Ludwig\, University of Chicago\, "Machine learning as a tool for hypothesis generation"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nJens Ludwig is Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago\, Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab\, co-director of the Education Lab\, and co-director of the NBER’s working group on the economics of crime. He is on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. \n“Machine learning as a tool for hypothesis generation”\nAbstract:\nWhile hypothesis testing is a highly formalized activity\, hypothesis generation remains largely informal. We propose a systematic procedure to generate novel hypotheses about human behavior\, which uses the capacity of machine learning algorithms to notice patterns people might not. We illustrate the procedure with a concrete application: judge decisions about who to jail. We begin with a striking fact: The defendant’s face alone matters greatly for the judge’s jailing decision. In fact\, an algorithm given only the pixels in the defendant’s mugshot accounts for up to half of the predictable variation. We develop a procedure that allows human subjects to interact with this black-box algorithm to produce hypotheses about what in the face influences judge decisions. The procedure generates hypotheses that are both interpretable and novel: They are not explained by demographics (e.g. race) or existing psychology research; nor are they already known (even if tacitly) to people or even experts. Though these results are specific\, our procedure is general. It provides a way to produce novel\, interpretable hypotheses from any high dimensional dataset (e.g. cell phones\, satellites\, online behavior\, news headlines\, corporate filings\, and high-frequency time series). A central tenet of our paper is that hypothesis generation is in and of itself a valuable activity\, and hope this encourages future work in this largely “prescientific” stage of science.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jens-ludwig-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240214T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240207T173249Z
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SUMMARY:Giovanna Merli\, Duke University\, "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on network dynamics and the well-being of Chinese immigrants"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nM. Giovanna Merli is Professor of Public Policy\, Sociology and Global Health at Duke University where she is also the director of the Duke Population Research Institute. Her research straddles demography\, social networks and health with recent work on the evaluation of innovative network-based sampling approaches to recruit samples of rare populations of immigrants. \nThe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on network dynamics and the well-being of Chinese immigrants\nAbstract:\nIn this talk I will illustrate the application of a novel network sampling strategy used to recruit population-representative samples of Chinese immigrants in the US and France and present findings from three studies on the heterogeneous impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of Chinese immigrants and implications for their networks dynamics. These studies are co-authored with Ted Mouw (UNC)\, Allison Stolte (UCI)\, and Isabelle Attané and Yahan Chuang (INED\, France)
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/giovanna-merli-duke-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240123T172935Z
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SUMMARY:Development workshop\, 2/13 at 3pm  “Scientific Accountability and Data Production”
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion about open science\, ethical risks\, and potential drawbacks for certain forms of knowledge production with Irene Bloemraad (1)\, Cecilia Menjivar (2)\, Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld (3)\, and Jennifer Wagman (4)/ \n(1) UC Berkeley Sociology\, (2) UCLA Sociology\, (3) UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\, (4) UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/development-workshop-2-13-at-3pm-scientific-accountability-and-data-production/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,CSS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230928T233436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T173646Z
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SUMMARY:Romain Wacziarg\, University of California\, Los Angeles: "Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Romain Wacziarg is at the UCLA Anderson School of Management\, where he holds the Hans Hufschmid Chair in Management. His research deals with a broad range of topics in political economy\, including the interaction between demographic factors and long-run economic development\, the links between democracy and growth\, the effect of geographic and cultural barriers on the global spread of technologies and behaviors\, and the measurement of cultural heterogeneity. His research was published in the American Economic Review\, the Quarterly Journal of Economics\, the Economic Journal\, the Review of Economics and Statistics\, and numerous field journals. He is the Managing Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA). Prior to joining UCLA\, he was at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He holds a PhD from Harvard University (1998) \nAbstract: We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest of Europe in the late 19th century. Employing novel data on French immigration from other European regions from 1850 to 1930\, we find that higher immigration to France translated into lower fertility in the region of origin after a few decades – both in cross-region regressions for various periods\, and in a panel setting with region fixed-effects. These results are robust to the inclusion of a variety of controls\, and across multiple specifications. We also find that immigrants who themselves became French citizens achieved lower fertility\, particularly those who moved to French regions with the lowest fertility levels. We interpret these findings in terms of cultural remittances\, consistent with insights from a theoretical framework where migrants act as vectors of cultural diffusion\, spreading new information\, social norms and preferences pertaining to modern fertility to their regions of origin.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/romain-wacziarg-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230928T231918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T181027Z
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SUMMARY:Sameera Nayak\, University of Maryland\, Baltimore County: "Health in the Turbulent U.S. Sociopolitical Climate: Mental Health\, Abortion Attitudes\, & Immigration"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDr. Sameera S. Nayak (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County. She uses social epidemiologic and qualitative methods to investigate associations between social conditions and health inequities around the world. She has conducted research globally in the East African region as well as domestically in the U.S. Her research streams intersect around three main themes: (1) immigrant health\, immigration policy\, and legal status stratification\, (2) political determinants of health\, such as partisan polarization and abortion access\, and (3) equitable health system program development and evaluation. Her cross-cutting research bridges siloed work in public health\, sociology\, and political science. Some of her recent projects include identifying structural and legal barriers to help-seeking for immigrants who have experienced gender-based violence\, assessing the adverse health impacts of perceived political polarization\, mapping state-level alignment between abortion legislation and public attitudes\, and examining how the spectrum of legal statuses at the micro-level impact the well-being of non-naturalized immigrants in the U.S. Dr. Nayak earned her Ph.D. in Population Health from Northeastern University in 2022. She holds an undergraduate degree from UCLA and a master’s degree from Columbia University. \nHealth in the Turbulent U.S. Sociopolitical Climate: Mental Health\, Abortion Attitudes\, & Immigration\nAbstract: \nThe sociopolitical landscape of the United States (U.S.)\, including laws\, policies\, and societal values\, creates conditions that differentially enhance or diminish population health. This talk will describe a program of research examining how polarization and hostility shape people’s lives\, health\, and behaviors across multiple levels of influence and domains of health in the U.S. How do perceptions of growing polarization in American society affect the onset of health conditions such as anxiety and depressive disorders? To what extent does polarized legislation at the state level align with public attitudes toward abortion access and legality? How are immigrant domestic violence survivors’ lives shaped by an increasingly hostile political climate? To answer these questions\, I draw on three observational studies that leverage data from primary surveys\, focus groups\, the 2020 Cooperative Congressional Election Study\, and the Guttmacher Institute’s 2020 rating of state abortion policies. Results highlight the adverse mental health effects of deepening perceived political polarization\, the disconnect between multifaceted public attitudes and polarized reproductive health legislation\, and the detrimental individual-level impacts of dehumanizing immigration policy. Population health implications\, structural interventions\, and policy recommendations will be discussed.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sameera-nayak-university-of-maryland-baltimore-county/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
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SUMMARY:Dowell Myers\, University of Southern California\, “Talking Demographics: Audience Reactions and Communication about Projections of Change”
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDowell Myers is a professor of policy\, planning\, and demography in the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. His Ph.D. is from M.I.T. (urban planning). He has been an advisor to the Bureau of the Census and authored the widely referenced work on census analysis\, Analysis with Local Census Data: Portraits of Change (Academic Press\, 1992). His demographic work has included substantial emphasis on immigration\, and his 2007 book Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America is widely recognized. Myers also served on the National Academy of Sciences study panel on the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Immigration (2013-16). Research projects have focused on public narratives about immigration\, aging\, and taxation\, projections of generational change\, and the upward mobility of immigrants the longer they reside in the U.S. Most recently\, he has concentrated on reasons for the mounting housing shortages that plague recent cohorts and raise the cost of living for all. This also includes public perceptions and reactions to demographic change as part of the problem analysis \n“Talking Demographics: Immigration\, Audience\, and Narratives”\nAbstract:\nDemographic narratives express interpretations and conclusions drawn from quantitative analysis of demographic change. Whereas professional demographers focus on estimation of change and statistical explanation\, the matter of public explanation and extraction of meaning is often left to others\, traditionally journalists in the news media\, but increasingly expanded to popular or political activists using social media. Reasons why professional demographers should take more responsibility and care for their public facing interpretations are demonstrated through two case examples. The first asks why it might appear from net changes that immigrants are “taking all the jobs” and “replacing” white Americans (while gross flows tell different stories). The second recounts difficulties the Census Bureau has encountered with their narratives in reports and press releases that accompany their population projections\, which include racial changes and trends in future immigration. How might stronger awareness of audience and purpose lead to less misleading and more constructive demographic narratives?\ \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dowell-myers-university-of-southern-california/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240117T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230928T230347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T221245Z
UID:10000819-1705492800-1705497300@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Philip Massey\, University of California\, Los Angeles "Social Media as a Tool for Public Health Communication"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDr. Philip M. Massey\, PhD\, MPH\, is an Associate Professor in Community Health Sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. His health communication scholarship focuses on media and technology in the U.S. and globally\, on topics ranging from social media\, vaccine communication\, health literacy\, entertainment education\, and ethics in social media research. His work takes a mixed-methods approach focusing on health and media literacy in the context of multiple media environments. He has examined patterns and shifts in public opinion toward HPV vaccination on Twitter and Instagram\, focusing on what types of messages are shared and how content is related to reach and impact. He has also developed and tested cancer prevention messages on social media to engage parents about the HPV vaccine\, leveraging the power of narrative engagement and storytelling\, and more recently extended this work to alcohol recovery. His global health work has examined the impact of media effects on health knowledge and attitudes\, specifically related to storytelling and narrative engagement among a West African population\, utilizing digital and social media. \n“Social Media as a Tool for Public Health Communication”\nAbstract:\nThe use of social media in public health has advanced the field dramatically over the last two decades. Traditional public health methods in surveillance and outbreak investigation\, approaches in health education and promotion\, and strategies in policy\, advocacy and community organizing have all been applied\, refined\, and adapted for the social media environment. This talk will focus on social media as a tool for public health communication and will cover various examples from applied research on the HPV vaccine and global health. Ethical considerations will also be discussed as guidelines when using social media for public health research must also expand alongside these increasing capabilities and uses.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/philip-massey-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230928T225940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T235354Z
UID:10000818-1704888000-1704892500@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Emily Weisburst\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nEmily Weisburst is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Weisburst’s work focuses on topics in labor economics\, including criminal justice\, education and immigration. Her research interests include understanding factors that impact police decision-making and public trust in police\, as well as how interactions with the criminal justice system affect individuals\, families and communities. Weisburst earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. While in graduate school\, she worked as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President and as a research associate for the RAND Corporation on joint projects with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Weisburst’s work has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation\, the Carnegie Foundation\, and the National Academy of Education\, as well as by several UCLA organizations\, including the UCLA Racial and Social Justice Grants Program\, the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy\, the Ziman Center for Real Estate\, the California Center for Population Research\, and the California Policy Lab. \n“Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety”\nAbstract:\nHow does immigration enforcement affect public safety? While heightened enforcement could decrease crime by incapacitating offenders\, public safety could suffer if victims become less willing to report crimes. We examine the implementation of the federal Secure Communities program\, which significantly increased the volume of detentions and deportations of unauthorized immigrants. Using survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau\, we find that Hispanic victims are less likely to report crimes to the police and Hispanic individuals are more likely to become victims of a crime after the program’s introduction. These two opposing effects lead to a null impact on reported crimes. We provide evidence that the decline in Hispanic reporting is a key channel driving their increased victimization. Our findings underscore the importance of directly measuring victim reporting for understanding the impact of criminal justice policies. \nA recording of this event can be found here. \nTo learn more about Professor Emily Weisburst\, visit her department homepage here: \nEmily Weisburst | Luskin School of Public Affairs | Public Policy
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/emily-weisburst-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231206T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230928T225436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231202T010215Z
UID:10000817-1701864000-1701868500@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Alex Bell\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "The Long-Term Impacts of Mentors: Evidence from Experimental and Administrative Data"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nAlex Bell is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Policy Lab at UCLA. Dr. Bell’s research seeks to document the unequal experiences of workers in the labor market and the implications of these inequalities for society as a whole. He is also interested in the intersection of labor market inequality with innovation. He often collaborates with government and non-profit partners to leverage large-scale administrative datasets that allow him to combine academic research with policy impact. Prior to joining CPL\, Dr. Bell earned a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. At CPL\, Dr. Bell is part of a team focused on labor and employment. In this role\, he leads economic analyses and authors academic papers and policy briefs. \nThe Long-Term Impacts of Mentors: Evidence from Experimental and Administrative Data\nAbstract:\nHow do mentors shape kids’ identities and later-life outcomes? To evaluate this question\, we leverage program administrative records and microdata from a 1991 RCT that randomized disadvantaged children’s eligibility for a popular mentoring program. Our re-analysis of the multitude of outcomes collected by the original short-run survey suggests that kids’ behaviors improved during the time they were with mentors. A linkage to later-life administrative tax records shows that treated youth were 10 percentage points more likely to attend college and also showed positive (though less significant) effects on teen birth and marriage. RCT estimates of earnings effects are imprecise. However\, using a larger dataset of program administrative records\, we develop a supplementary research design comparing matched versus unmatched applicants that replicates key findings from the RCT\, and also reveals significant long-term positive earnings gains from program participation on the order of 20%. Through the lens of a model in which adults of differing socioeconomic status influence kids’ decision-making\, we estimate that mentors may have the potential to mitigate on the order of 2/3 of the disadvantage that ordinarily hampers low-income childrens’ socioeconomic trajectories in adulthood. Although our estimates suggest that mentoring programs will not fully equalize economic opportunities for disadvantaged youth\, the program’s relatively low costs and substantial benefits may place it among the most cost-effective interventions of its type to be evaluated. \nTo learn more about Dr. Alex Bell\, visit his department homepage here: \nAlex Bell | California Policy Lab
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/alex-bell-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231129T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20231005T182434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T232735Z
UID:10000839-1701259200-1701263700@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Clémence Tricaud\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response"
DESCRIPTION:Bio:\nClémence Tricaud is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. She is also a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an affiliate member of the CESifo. She received her Ph.D in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique and CREST in 2020. Her research lies at the intersection of political economy and public economics. Her work combines quasi-experimental designs with administrative data to better understand the determinants and consequences of citizen and policymaker behaviors. The first part of her research studies the factors affecting voters’ and candidates’ behavior during elections and the consequences of their choices on electoral outcomes. The second part of her work explores how the identity of policymakers and the level of governance affect the design of local public policies and the provision of public goods. \n“Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response”\nAbstract:\nThis paper provides new evidence on why men and women leaders make different choices. We first illustrate\, using a simple political agency model\, how voters’ gender bias can lead reelection-seeking female politicians to undertake different policies. We then test the predictions of the model by exploring female and male leaders’ responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Assuming that voters expect policies to be less effective if decided by women\, the model predicts that female politicians undertake less containment effort when voters perceive the threat as low – such as at the beginning of the pandemic – while the opposite is true when voters perceive it as serious – once the health consequences have become apparent. Using a close election design in Brazil\, we find that\, in line with the model\, having a female mayor led to more deaths per capita at first\, but to a lower death rate later in the year. Moreover\, using new data on policies\, we show that female mayors were less likely to close non-essential businesses early on\, but then became more likely to do so. Consistent with electoral incentives and voters’ gender bias explaining these effects\, we show that the gender differences we find are driven exclusively by mayors facing reelection and that the effects are stronger in more competitive races and in municipalities with greater gender discrimination. All in all\, our paper shows that gender differences in leaders’ behavior can be explained by leaders’ incentives to adapt their policy choices to voters’ gender biases. \nA recording of this event can be found here. \nTo learn more about Professor Clémence Tricaud\, visit her department homepage here: \nClémence Tricaud | UCLA Anderson School of Management
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/development-workshop/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230928T224855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T195504Z
UID:10000816-1700049600-1700054100@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Bryce Steinberg\, Brown University\, "Family Planning\, Now and Later: Infertility Fear and Contraception Take-Up"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nBryce Millett Steinberg is a development economist who studies how households make decisions about investing in education and health\, and how market forces and government programs can affect those decisions. Her work is primarily focused in India and Zambia. She is currently the IJC Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Brown University\, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2015. \nFamily Planning\, Now and Later: Infertility Fear and Contraception Take-Up\nAbstract:\nEarly fertility is believed to be one of the key barriers to female human capital attainment in Sub-Saharan Africa\, yet contraception take-up remains low\, even among highly-educated populations with healthcare access. We study a barrier to contraceptive uptake that has not yet been examined in the literature: the persistent belief that it may cause later infertility\, thus creating a perceived tradeoff between current and future reproductive control. We use a randomized controlled trial with female undergraduates at the flagship university in Zambia – a highly-skilled population where education is likely to have particularly high returns – to test two potential interventions to increase contraception use\, one focused on time costs and one on costs to future fertility. Despite high rates of sexual activity and low rates of condom-use\, only 5% of this population uses hormonal contraception at baseline. Providing a non-coercive conditional cash transfer to visit a local clinic temporarily increases contraceptive use. But\, pairing this transfer with information addressing fears that contraceptives cause infertility permanently increases take-up over 6 months. The latter treatment moves beliefs about the infertility effects of contraceptives and leads to the take-up of longer-lasting contraceptives like injections. Compliers are more likely to cite fear of infertility as the reason for not using contraceptives at baseline. A follow-up experiment provides suggestive evidence that students are more likely to test for STIs when they are told STIs cause infertility. These findings indicate that perceived risks to future fertility are one cost of contraception\, and more generally that future fertility has economic value to women. \nTo learn more about Professor Bryce Steinberg\, visit her department homepage:\nBryce Millett Steinberg | Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs (brown.edu)
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/bryce-steinberg-brown-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231108T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230928T224644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T163700Z
UID:10000815-1699444800-1699449300@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Cesi Cruz\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy in Polarized Societies"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nCesi Cruz is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She works on topics at the intersection of political science and economics\, including elections\, misinformation\, gender and inclusive development. Her research is based on fieldwork in Cambodia and the Philippines and combines social network analysis\, surveys\, and field experiments. Her work has been published in outlets such as the American Political Science Review\, American Economic Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, Economic Journal\, and Comparative Political Studies. \nCesi is a board member of Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP)\, the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE)\, and Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC). In addition\, she serves on the executive board of Women Also Know Stuff\, an organization to promote women’s scholarship in political science. Her projects and working papers are available on her website: www.cesicruz.com . \nReducing Vaccine Hesitancy In Polarized Societies\nAbstract:\nGovernments attempting to encourage their citizens to take socially beneficial but individ- ually costly actions face strong challenges\, especially in polarized societies. We designed interventions to make citizens reflect on the personal and social benefits of vaccination and implemented a survey experiment on a sample of 1\,900 Filipinos in May 2021\, around the start of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the Philippines. Using data collected a year later\, we find that treated individuals received their first dose earlier. Those effects are large: treated individuals were 5.3 percentage-points more likely to receive their first dose within a month of the first survey\, compared with a control group mean of 2.1 percent. Individuals who were positive about vaccination at baseline respond more strongly to the treatments\, suggesting that the interventions motivated and encouraged individuals to become vaccinated\, rather than persuading people who were against vaccination to become vaccinated. In fact\, these strong positive short term effects mask important negative effects among the sample of individuals who were not planning to be vaccinated at baseline: the treatments had small negative effects on the likelihood of being vaccinated at endline.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/cesi-cruz-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231101T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20231005T181444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T231705Z
UID:10000838-1698840000-1698844500@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Computing Orientation Workshop with Neal Fultz (STC workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Computing Orientation Workshop with Neal Fultz \n \nInstructor: Neal Fultz \nThis workshop has two halves. In the first half\, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates\, including it’s remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half\, we’ll get participants signed up for hoffman2 and TS2. Once signed up\, you’ll have state of the art hardware resources and most software you’ll ever need for demographic research. In the second half\, we’ll walk through how to use these computing resources\, identifying what resource is better to use for different computing project scenarios.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/stc-workshop-computing-orientation-workshop/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230928T224409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T233033Z
UID:10000814-1698235200-1698239700@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Julia Strasser\, George Washington University\, "Who is Providing Contraception & Abortion Care in the US? Using Claims Data to Study the Reproductive Health Workforce"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nJulia Strasser\, DrPH\, MPH\, is the Director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health and an Assistant Research Professor of Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University. Dr. Strasser’s research focuses on contraception\, abortion\, and access to care for underserved populations. She has worked in healthcare\, focusing on policy and research\, for over 15 years\, including previous positions at the National Cancer Institute\, the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association\, and Planned Parenthood of Western Washington. She holds a DrPH in Health Policy from The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health\, an MPH from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a concentration in women’s and reproductive health\, and a BA in History from Yale University. \nWho is Providing Contraception & Abortion Care in the US? Using Claims Data to Study the Reproductive Health Workforce\nAbstract:\nThe clinical workforce providing contraception and abortion care in the US is a critical determinant of access to care. However\, a series of data limitations has made it difficult to study this workforce at the national level. Using national-level medical and prescription claims datasets\, we have constructed a first-of-its-kind database and analyzed various aspects of this workforce\, including its composition by specialty\, distribution by state and county\, and shifts over time. This presentation will discuss: 1. Differences in provision of contraceptive services by physician specialty and advanced practice clinician type 2. Changes to the contraception and abortion care workforce during Covid-19\, and 3. Association between residency training for family medicine physicians and provision of reproductive health services to Medicaid beneficiaries. \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/julia-strasser-george-washington-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230928T223756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231010T213501Z
UID:10000813-1697630400-1697634900@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pauline Rossi\, Ecole Polytechnique-CREST\, "Drivers of Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (joint with Pascaline Dupas\, Seema Jayachandran and Adriana Lleras-Muney)"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nPauline Rossi is an Associate Professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique-CREST and a Research Affiliate at CEPR. Her fields of research are Applied Microeconomics\, Development Economics and Family Economics. She is the PI of the ERC Starting Grant “Peers and Possible Partners: Exploring the Origins of Population Long-term Equilibria” (P3OPLE). She is visiting CCPR in October-November 2023. \nDrivers of Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (joint with Pascaline Dupas\, Seema Jayachandran and Adriana Lleras-Muney)\nAbstract:\nWe conducted a study among 14\,545 households in rural Burkina Faso to test some of the leading explanations for persistently high fertility rates in West Africa. First\, we reject the oft-cited explanation of limited access to contraception. Women in communities randomly assigned to have free access to medical contraception for three years did not have lower birth rates. Second\, we cross-randomized additional interventions to test whether high desired fertility stems from incorrect or sticky beliefs and norms\, specifically mis-perceptions about the child mortality rate\, limited exposure to opposing views\, and social pressure. None of these interventions\, or combinations of them\, had any detectable effect on realized fertility\, desired fertility\, or contraceptive use. Our results are consistent with couples personally benefiting from having a large family size and suggest that policies aimed at reducing fertility through family planning interventions may have only limited impact in such contexts.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/pauline-rossi-ecole-polytechnique-crest/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230928T211314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T185613Z
UID:10000812-1697025600-1697030100@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Gary Solon\, University of Michigan\, "What Are We Weighting For?" (STC Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nGary Solon is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Michigan. He was Eller Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona during 2015-2018 and Professor of Economics at Michigan State University during 2007-2015. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists\, and a member of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth. His research includes studies of family and community background effects on socioeconomic status\, earnings dynamics over the life cycle\, cyclical fluctuations in the labor market\, and microeconometric methods. \nWhat Are We Weighting For?\nAbstract:\nThe purpose of this paper is to help empirical economists think through when and how to weight the data used in estimation. We start by distinguishing two purposes of estimation: to estimate population descriptive statistics and to estimate causal effects. In the former type of research\, weighting is called for when it is needed to make the analysis sample representative of the target population. In the latter type\, the weighting issue is more nuanced. We discuss three distinct potential motives for weighting when estimating causal effects: (1) to achieve precise estimates by correcting for heteroskedasticity\, (2) to achieve consistent estimates by correcting for endogenous sampling\, and (3) to identify average partial effects in the presence of unmodeled heterogeneity of effects. In each case\, we find that the motive sometimes does not apply in situations where practitioners often assume it does. We recommend diagnostics for assessing the advisability of weighting\, and we suggest methods for appropriate inference.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/gary-solon-university-of-michigan/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231004T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20231003T004638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T191203Z
UID:10000835-1696420800-1696424400@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Seminar Series: Welcome and Introduction
DESCRIPTION:California Center for Population Research Seminar Series \nWelcome and Introductions \nWednesday\, October 4\, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm 4240A Public Affairs Building \n(Lunch will be provided) \nThis will be the kick-off event for the start of the upcoming 2023-24 CCPR Seminar Series. Please join us to learn all about CCPR as we welcome new affiliates and reconnect in person.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/seminar-series-welcome-and-introduction/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230823T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230823T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230823T230249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230823T230249Z
UID:10000809-1692777600-1692810000@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UC Carpentries Fall Workshop Series: Coding and Data Management (virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Attend as many or as few sessions as you wish \nThis free\, virtual workshop is designed for researchers and enables non-experts to develop computing skills for research analysis. Registration is open to all UC students\, staff\, postdocs\, and faculty. \nTime: 8:30 – 12:30 PDT via Zoom \nWeek 1 \nSept. 11 / Day 1: The Unix Shell\nSept. 12 / Day 2: Git Version Control\nSept. 13 / Day 3: R (part 1)\nSept. 14 / Day 4: R (part 2) \nWeek 2 \nSept. 18/Day 5: Python (part 1)\nSept. 19/Day 6: Python (part 2)\nSept. 20/Day 7: Tidy Data\nSept. 21/Day 8: SQL \nTo register for this event visit: https://ti.to/ucsd-carpentries/uc-carpentries-fall-workshop-2023 \nWorkshop Details \nWhat is this workshop? \nAn 8-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts\, skills\, and tools for R in RStudio\, Python in Jupyter Notebook\, an introduction to the Unix Shell\, Version Control with Git\, SQL\, and Tidy Data. This workshop is designed for researchers and enables non-experts to develop computing skills for research analysis. This is a free workshop. \nWho can participate? \nThe workshop is open to all University of California students\, staff\, postdocs and faculty. \nCurriculum: \n\nIntroduction to Unix Shell: learn the basics of command line interface and about navigating and working within files and directories\nVersion Control with Git: learn how to manage work\, edit code\, and collaborate on a team project in a repository\nIntroduction to R: learn basic coding\, concepts\, how to access data\, and use functions for data analysis using a RStudio\nIntroduction to Python: learn basic coding\, concepts\, how to access data\, and use functions for data analysis using a web-based application – Jupyter Notebook.\nTidy Data: learn how to use this tool to clean\, transform\, and track changes made to data.\nSQL: learn about relational databases\, how to import data\, and how to run basic SQL queries.\n\nThis workshop is co-hosted and supported by efforts from UC San Diego\, UC Los Angeles\, UC Merced\, UC Riverside\, UC San Francisco\, UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley. \nQuestions? \nContact Elizabeth McAulay\, UCLA Library\, at emcaulay@library.ucla.edu.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/uc-carpentries-fall-workshop-series-coding-and-data-management-virtual/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230701T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230701T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T003418
CREATED:20230601T224842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230601T225000Z
UID:10000808-1688198400-1688230800@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:More events to come beginning Fall 2023
DESCRIPTION:More events to come beginning Fall 2023.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/more-events-to-come-beginning-fall-2023/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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