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SUMMARY:CCPR Demographic Computing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Matt Lahmann\nInstructor: Mike Tzen \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. \nAt 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. \nIn the second half\, we’ll show you how to use these computing resources\, identifying what resource is better to use for different computing project scenarios. \n\nYou can access a recording of the workshop here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/computing-workshop-2021/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T133000
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SUMMARY:Diana Greene Foster\, University of California\, San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Diana Greene Foster\, PhD\, is a demographer who uses quantitative models and analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of family planning policies and the effect of unwanted pregnancy on women’s lives. She is a professor at the University of California\, San Francisco and Director of Research at the UCSF ANSIRH Program. She led the Turnaway Study\, a nationwide longitudinal prospective study of the health and well-being of women who seek abortion including both women who do and do not receive the abortion in the United States. She is currently collaborating with scientists on an NIH-funded Turnaway Study in Nepal. Dr. Foster received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley\, her MA and PhD in Demography and Public Policy from Princeton University. She is the author of the 2020 book\, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years\, a Thousand Women and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion. She is the recipient of the 2021 Harriet B. Presser Award for the study of gender and demography from the Population Association of America. \nConsequences of receiving versus being denied a wanted abortion in the United States \nAbstract: Diana Greene Foster will discuss the context and findings of The Turnaway Study. The Turnaway Study answers the question\, Does abortion hurt women? and the converse\, What are the harms when women are unable to get a wanted abortion? Dr. Foster will review the challenges of studying abortion and what has happened in the absence of rigorous data. She will describe the study design of the Turnaway Study and present its major findings about women’s mental health\, physical health and the wellbeing of their children. She will describe the reasons people give for seeking to end an unwanted pregnancy and what that tells us about whether one can trust women’s decision-making abilities around pregnancy. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/diana-green-foster-university-of-california-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211110T133000
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SUMMARY:Ian Lundberg\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:Prediction in Social Science: A Tool to Study Inequality in Populations \nBiography: Ian Lundberg is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Sociology and California Center for Population Research at UCLA. His research develops statistical and machine learning methods to answer new questions about inequality in America. Past work is published or forthcoming in PNAS\, the American Sociological Review\, Demography\, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management\, Sociological Methodology\, Sociological Methods and Research\, and Socius. This academic year\, Ian is working on an NSF-funded postdoctoral project developing computational methods to study income mobility. In 2022\, he will begin as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University. You can read more at ianlundberg.org.\n \nAbstract: Predictive algorithms could transform methodology in social science\, yet the mapping between prediction and scientific knowledge is not always clear. This talk will address three uses of prediction: (1) predicting outcomes for individual people\, (2) predicting unobserved factual outcomes to describe populations\, and (3) predicting counterfactual outcomes for causal claims. I will argue that prediction of individual-level outcomes is often difficult in social science\, yet predictive algorithms which are imperfect for individuals (1) can nonetheless be useful in support of population-level claims (2 and 3). This framework for the use of prediction is well-suited to the integration of perspectives from social science (defining the population-level quantity to be estimated) and data science (building a predictive model to estimate that quantity). \nYou can access a recording of the presentation here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ian-lundberg-ucla/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211103T120000
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SUMMARY:Martha J. Bailey\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Dr. Martha J. Bailey is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California Los Angeles. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on issues in labor economics\, demography and health in the United States\, within the long-run perspective of economic history. Dr. Bailey’s work has examined the implications of the diffusion of modern contraception for women’s childbearing\, career decisions\, and the convergence in the gender gap. \nHow Subsidies Affect Contraceptive Use among Low-Income Women in the U.S.: A Randomized Control Trial \n\n\n\n\nThis paper examines how subsidies affect the use of contraceptives among low-income women seeking reproductive health care in the U.S. Study participants were randomized to receive vouchers for contraception\, covering up to 50% or 100% of the lowest-cost\, available long-acting\, reversible contraceptive method (LARC). Women’s choice of method is highly sensitive to price\, with the elasticity of LARC take-up ranging from -2.3 to -3.4. The findings imply that a U.S. policy eliminating out-of-pocket costs for Title X women would reduce pregnancies by 5.4%\, birth rates by 3.5%\, and abortions by 8.1% and save $2.48 billion annually in public expenditures. \n\nThe complete text may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/martha-bailey-ucla/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211027T133000
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SUMMARY:Christy Erving\, Vanderbilt University
DESCRIPTION:Intersectional Stressors and Black Women’s Health in Established Adulthood \nHealth disparities research confirms relatively poor physical health of Black women vis-à-vis other race-gender groups. Though some research has sought to identify the extent to which social factors explain disparities between Black women and other race-gender groups\, the possibility of race-gender specific social mechanisms undergirding these disparities remain underexplored. Moreover\, in life span development research\, the age range of 30 years to 45 years has recently been identified as a critical life course period referred to as established adulthood (Mehta et al. 2020). This stage is characterized by deep engagement with familial and work roles which could potentially elicit stress for individuals who also hold multiple marginalized statuses. Using data from a cohort of Black women\, in this talk\, I will explore how two recently developed gendered-racialized stress measures influence Black women’s health during established adulthood. Social mechanisms that may mitigate the influence of intersectional stressors on Black women’s health will also be discussed. Last\, I will describe the implications of this work for health disparities research as well as empirical studies that adopt social stress and intersectional theoretical orientations. \nA recording of Dr. Erving’s talk may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/christy-erving-vanderbilt-university/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211020T120000
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SUMMARY:CCPR Census Workshop Series Part 3: Getting the 2020 PL94 Then Using It
DESCRIPTION:Instructors:\nMike Tzen\nNeal Fultz \nIn this CCPR Census Workshop (part 3/3)\, we will get the newly released 2020 Census Bureau PL94 data using the statistical programming language R. Along the way\, we will point out recent criticisms of the data and highlight uses of the PL94. If time permits\, we will post-stratify your special dataset using 2020 PL94 data as the reference ‘population control’. Attendees are encouraged to bring in a dataset they are interested in (not from the Census Bureau) where the data has the key demographic variables: Race\, Age\, and Hispanic Origin. Otherwise\, we’ll poststratify a reddit survey about the NBA or a survey about the anime One Piece onto the PL94. \n  \nSlides to Part 3 are below \nhttps://ucla.box.com/v/slides-cens-pt3-getusepl94 \n  \nParts 1 and 2 of the past CCPR Census Workshops can be viewed below \n\nCCPR Census Workshop Series Part 2: Editing\, Imputing\, and Maintaining Privacy
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-census-workshop-part-3-using-pl94/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T133000
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SUMMARY:Steven Ruggles\, University of Minnesota
DESCRIPTION:Decomposing Race Differentials in First Marriage Rates: United States\, 1960-2019 \nI assess Wilson’s (1987) argument that the race differential in the frequency of marriage results from a shortage of marriageable men in the African-American community. Many previous investigators have approached this problem by measuring the local availability of eligible male marriage partners for Black women. These studies have found a significant impact of the availability of marriageable Black men on Black women’s marriage rates\, but conclude that only a minority of the race difference in marriage can be ascribed to race differences in the availability of marriageable men. \nMy analysis simplifies the problem by evaluating the effects of economic characteristics of Black and White men on their own marriage behavior since 1960. I use novel measures of marriage rates derived from microdata together with Kitagawa/Das Gupta decomposition methods to assess the impact of income\, occupation\, employment status\, and institutional residence on race differences in first marriage rates among men. The results show that from 1960 to 1980\, race differences in economic composition can fully account for race differences in marriage rates. Indeed\, in 1960 and 1970\, marriage rates were substantially higher among Black men once compositional factors are controlled. In the 21stcentury the effects of male economic circumstances on race differences in marriage rates have diminished but remain substantial. The importance of male economic characteristics for marriage rates has diminished over the past six decades; this probably reflects the decline of male-breadwinner family and the rising importance of women’s economic resources. \n  \nThe recording of Dr. Ruggles’ presentation may be access here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/steven-ruggles-university-of-minnesota/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211006T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211006T133000
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SUMMARY:Welcome Introduction
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URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/welcome-introduction/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210929T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210929T130000
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SUMMARY:CCPR Welcome at the UCLA Sculpture Garden
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URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-welcome-at-the-ucla-sculpture-garden/
LOCATION:Sculpture Garden
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210602T120000
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SUMMARY:Fourth Annual Robert Mare Student Lecture: Marta Bornstein\, PhD (c) Community Health Sciences\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:“Perceptions and experiences of (in)fertility\, contraception\, and reproductive health outcomes: A mixed methods study among women and men in Malawi” \n\nBio: Marta Bornstein recently defended her dissertation in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at UCLA. Her research focuses on reproductive health and justice of under-served populations in the U.S. and globally. In her dissertation research\, Marta collaboratively conducted a mixed-methods study in Malawi to examine the relationship between infertility and reproductive health outcomes\, contributing to a growing body of work on infertility as a public health issue. In her time at UCLA\, Marta has published on infertility-related stigma and contraceptive preferences and use in Malawi\, as well as additional research focused on the reproductive health needs of women in methadone treatment in Los Angeles. Prior to Marta’s doctoral studies\, she worked in the private\, non-profit\, and government sectors\, most recently at the CDC in the Department of STD Prevention. Marta earned her BA from Beloit College and MPH from Tulane University. Beginning in Fall 2021\, Marta will be a President’s Postdoctoral Scholar at The Ohio State University\, where she will collaborate with faculty in the College of Public Health and the Population Research Center on a research agenda focused on perceived and experienced infertility. \n\n\n\nAbstract: Infertility and unintended pregnancy are dual burdens in Malawi\, where approximately 40% of pregnancies are unintended and 20% of women report that they have experienced infertility or sub-fecundity. While public health has focused intently on promoting contraceptive use to prevent unintended pregnancy\, infertility remains largely unaddressed in public health. The studies that form this dissertation fills a gap in the public health literature by examining the intersections of unintended fertility and infertility under a holistic reproductive life-course model. This hybrid explanatory-exploratory mixed methods dissertation uses in-depth interview\, cross-sectional\, and longitudinal data from the Umoyo Wa Thanzi (UTHA) cohort in Malawi (2014-2019). \nFindings from the dissertation studies suggest that women’s perceptions and experiences of fertility influenced not only whether they used contraception or not\, but how they used contraception as a way to manage their fertility (i.e.\, their ability to prevent and achieve pregnancies when desired). Additionally\, findings suggest that both perceptions and experiences around fertility and fecundity have a role in contraceptive use/decision making\, such that women who had experienced infertility (AOR: 0.56; p<0.01) or perceived themselves to be subfecund (AOR: 0.30; p<0.05) were less likely to be using contraception. In longitudinal analyses\, however\, women who had experienced infertility were just as likely as women who had not experienced infertility to experience a subsequent planned or unplanned pregnancy. \n\n\n\nThe studies in this dissertation provide one of the first assessments of how perceptions and experiences of fecundity (ability to become pregnant) and infertility (not conceiving a pregnancy after two or more years of trying)\, influenced if and how women used contraception\, as well as subsequent pregnancy experiences. Findings suggest that experiencing a period of infertility or subfecundity in this population influences contraceptive use. However\, findings also suggest that infertility or subfecundity may be episodic and not necessarily indicative of future fecundity. Research and interventions in public health must focus on fertility broadly – both experiences and perceptions – to ensure women can achieve their reproductive goals.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/fourth-annual-robert-mare-student-lectureship-marta-bornstein-phd-c-community-health-sciences-ucla/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T133000
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SUMMARY:"Demographic perspectives on COVID-19: one year later\," Jennifer Beam Dowd\, University of Oxford
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Beam Dowd\, University of Oxford\nAbstract: While epidemiology is certainly having a moment\, demography has been key to understanding COVID-19 data since the early days of the pandemic. This talk will take stock of demographic insights into COVID a year on ranging from the intersection of population age structure and mortality to estimates of excess mortality and optimal vaccination priority strategies. Dr. Dowd will also discuss the role of academics in science communication during this time and her experiences with the COVID-19 science communication effort Dear Pandemic. \nBiography: Dr. Jenn Dowd is currently Associate Professor of Demography and Population Health and Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science\,  Department of Sociology\, University of Oxford\, and Associate Member\, Nuffield College.  Dr. Dowd is a quantitative health and social scientist with interdisciplinary training in demography\, epidemiology\, economics\, and infectious disease. Her research focuses on how social and biological processes interact over the life course and specifically how social factors “get under the skin” to impact health. She has examined the social determinants of infections and immune function and links between infections and chronic disease. \nMore on Prof. Beam Dowd \nDr. Beam Dowd’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jennifer-beam-dowd-university-of-oxford/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210519T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210519T133000
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SUMMARY:"Prevalences\, Penalties\, and the Small Impact of Single Motherhood on America's High Child Poverty\," David Brady\, UC Riverside
DESCRIPTION:David Brady\, UC Riverside\nAbstract: Many claim high U.S. child poverty results from a high prevalence of single motherhood\, and reducing single motherhood would substantially reduce child poverty. To scrutinize these arguments\, we apply the “prevalences and penalties” framework to Luxembourg Income Study data across 30 rich democracies and over time within the U.S. 1979–2016. The descriptive patterns fail to support these claims. Although the U.S. has a moderately high prevalence of single motherhood\, a fairly high prevalence is typical cross-nationally and in recent U.S. history. Single motherhood is the most common risk of the four major risks in the U.S.\, but this is because low education\, young headship\, and unemployment have declined. The U.S. has the highest penalty for single motherhood\, however single motherhood has the smallest penalty of the four major risks in the U.S. and cross-nationally. A wide variety of counterfactual simulations demonstrate that reducing single motherhood would not substantially reduce child poverty. Even with zero single motherhood\, U.S. child poverty would only move from the third to fourth highest among 30 rich democracies (from 21.3% to 18.8%). Ultimately\, we demonstrate that the U.S. has systemically high child poverty for all family structures\, and extremely high child poverty for racial/ethnic minorities regardless of single motherhood. Reducing the penalty attached to single motherhood and reducing America’s systemically high child poverty across all families would be far more effective than reducing the prevalence of single motherhood. \nBiography: David Brady is a Professor in the School of Public Policy\, and Director of the Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty at the University of California\, Riverside. At UCR\, he teaches classes on poverty\, public policy analysis\, and statistics. \nMore on Prof. Brady \nYou can find a recording of Dr. Brady’s presentation here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/david-brady-uc-riverside/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T133000
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SUMMARY:"A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh\," Erica Field\, Duke University
DESCRIPTION:Erica Field\, Duke University\nSeminar Co-Sponsor: Luskin Public Policy \nAbstract: Child marriage remains common in many settings even where schooling and\nlabor market opportunities have grown considerably. To explain this phenomenon\,\nwe introduce a marriage market signaling model in which bride type is not per-\nfectly observed but preferred brides have lower benefits of delaying marriage.\nThis gives preferred brides an incentive to reveal their type by marrying young\,\nshifting the market towards early marriage even when everyone benefits from\ndelay. In this setting\, a small incentive that shifts preferred brides towards later\nmarriage can delay marriage of all types through spillovers. We test this predic-\ntion by evaluating the impact of a financial incentive to delay marriage among\n15\,576 adolescent girls in Bangladesh. Consistent with the theory\, girls eligible\nfor the incentive for two years were 21% less likely to marry before 18\, and\ngirls who were ineligible for the incentive but lived near treatment communities\nalso delayed marriage. \nA recording of Dr. Field’s presentation may be accessed here. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/erica-field-duke-university/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210331T133000
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SUMMARY:"Including Males: Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health for Female Adolescents\," Manisha Shah\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:Manisha Shah\, UCLA\nAbstract: Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of unplanned pregnancy and intimate partner violence across the globe. We implement a randomized controlled trial offering females free access to contraceptives\, behavior change programming to male partners through soccer\, and a goal-setting activity around staying healthy in order to improve female adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes in Tanzania. We find that offering male partners a soccer intervention\, which educates and inspires young men to make better SRH choices\, reduces female reports of intimate partner violence (IPV). In addition\, we find that female adolescents who participate in the goal-setting activity also report decreases in intimate partner violence. Impacts are larger among females who were already sexually active at baseline. Supply side factors such as access to free contraceptives have no significant impact on adolescent SRH outcomes.  \nBio: Manisha Shah is Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Shah also serves as Director of the Global Lab for Research in Action. Shah is also a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, a Faculty Affiliate at UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action\,  The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab\, and The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development\, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor. \nMore on Prof. Shah \nA recording of Dr. Shah’s presentation is available here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/manisha-shah-ucla/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210310T133000
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SUMMARY:"Migration and the Labor Market Impact of COVID-19\," Mushfiq Mobarak\, Yale University
DESCRIPTION:“Migration and the Labor Market Impact of COVID-19” \nMushfiq Mobarak\, Yale University \nIn this talk\, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak will present the findings from a series of recent studies related to the consequences of COVID-19. The studies analyze the impact of the pandemic on outcomes such as employment\, income\, food security\, including on vulnerable groups such as refugees and migration-dependent households. They also assess attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination and interventions to promote mask use. The findings have important policy implications on providing emergency support while reforming social protection programs and creating income-generating opportunities to build the resilience of poor households. They will also inform the global effort to promote preventive health behavior and vaccine uptake. \nPaper 1: “Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries” \nAbstract \nDespite numerous journalistic accounts\, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries\, partly due to limitations of official economic statistics in environments with large informal sectors and subsistence agriculture. We assemble evidence from over 30\,000 respondents in 16 original household surveys from nine countries in Africa (Burkina Faso\, Ghana\, Kenya\, Rwanda\, Sierra Leone)\, Asia (Bangladesh\, Nepal\, Philippines)\, and Latin America (Colombia). We document declines in employment and income in all settings beginning March 2020. The share of households experiencing an income drop ranges from 8 to 87% (median\, 68%). Household coping strategies and government assistance were insufficient to sustain precrisis living standards\, resulting in widespread food insecurity and dire economic conditions even 3 months into the crisis. We discuss promising policy responses and speculate about the risk of persistent adverse effects\, especially among children and other vulnerable groups. This paper may be accessed here. \nPaper 2: “Migration and the Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19”  \nAbstract \nWe report the excess economic vulnerabilities of migration-dependent households during the COVID-19 pandemic using detailed microdata from Bangladesh and Nepal. Leveraging experimental and observa tional variation in prior migration status\, we observe 25% greater declines in earnings and fourfold greater prevalence of food insecurity among migrant households since April 2020. Causes evident in the data include lower mobility\, less remittance income\, and greater health risk and stigma regarding migrants car rying COVID. We document the global scope of this problem by compiling a large set of secondary data to show that labor migration is extremely prevalent in less developed countries\, and that the causal economic return to such migration is large. We conclude with suggestions for policy to alleviate the challenges faced by migrants during the pandemic. New mobility restrictions imposed to limit contagion may lead the vulnerabilities to persist for a prolonged period\, and this population requires special policy attention.  \nPaper 3: “Community-Wide Mask Promotion: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Rural Bangladesh” \nAbstract \nBackground: A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that face masks can slow the\nspread of COVID-19 and save lives. \nMethods: We conducted a cluster-randomized trial of community-level mask promotion in\nrural Bangladesh involving 341\,830 adults in 600 villages. Villages were paired and one in\neach pair was randomly assigned to intervention or control. In intervention villages\, with the\nactive support of local leaders\, we distributed masks (surgical or cloth) to every household and\nemployed various interventions to promote mask use at mosques\, markets\, and other public\nplaces multiple times per week. There were no intervention activities in the control villages.\nThe objective was to assess the degree to which the intervention and cross-randomizations\ncould increase proper (covering nose and mouth) wearing of face masks. This analysis is part\nof larger study evaluating the effect of mask-wearing on transmission of SARS-CoV-2. In this\npaper the primary outcome was the prevalence of proper mask-wearing. It was not possible to\nblind participants or surveillance staff to the intervention. \nResults: There were 64\,937 households in the intervention group and 64\,183 households in\nthe control group; study recruitment has ended. In the control group\, proper mask-wearing\nis practiced by 13% of those observed. Our intervention increased proper mask-wearing by\n28.6 percentage points (95% CI: 26.1%-31.1%) over the 2-10 week length of the intervention.\nPhysical distancing\, measured as the fraction of individuals at least one arm’s length apart\,\nalso increased by 6 percentage points (95% CI: 4.9%-7.6%). Mask type (surgical or cloth)\,\ntext reminders\, public signage commitments\, monetary or non-monetary incentives\, altruistic\nmessaging or verbal commitments had no additional effect on people’s propensity to wear\nmasks. Blue surgical masks were more likely to be worn than green\, and purple cloth masks\nwere more likely to be worn than red. We observe larger increases in mask-wearing among\nmen and in villages where mask-wearing was initially low. No adverse events were reported\nduring the study period. \nConclusions: Our intervention demonstrates a scalable and cost-effective method to promote\nmask adoption and save lives. Our cross-randomizations suggest this increase can be achieved\nwithout incentives that require costly monitoring\, that aesthetic design choices and colors can\ninfluence mask-wearing\, and that surgical masks with greater filtration efficiency can be a\ncost-effective alternative to cloth masks (1/3 the cost) and equally likely to be worn. Implementing\nthese interventions – including distribution of free masks\, information campaign\, reminders\,\nencouragement – costs $2.30-$3.75 per villager\, or between $8 and $13 per person adopting\na mask. Combined with existing estimates of the efficacy of masks in preventing COVID-19\ndeaths\, this implies that the intervention cost $28\,000-$66\,000 per life saved. Beyond reducing\nthe transmission of COVID-19\, mask distribution is likely to be a cost-effective strategy to\nprevent future respiratory disease outbreaks. \nBiography: Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Professor of Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. Mobarak is the founder and faculty director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). He holds other appointments at Innovations for Poverty Action\, the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT\, the International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE. \nMore on Prof. Mobarak \nA recording of Dr. Mobarak’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/mushfiq-mobarak-yale-university/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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SUMMARY:"Stress\, happiness\, and maternity leave at childbirth\," Mauricio Avendano Pabon\, King's College London
DESCRIPTION:“Stress\, happiness\, and maternity leave at childbirth” \nMauricio Avendano Pabon\, King’s College London \nAbstract: This study examines the impact of childbirth on both stress and happiness. We use unique data from the Survey of Health\, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)\, which collects full retrospective life histories for women aged 50 years and older in 12 European countries. Using an instrumental variable fixed effect approach\, we show that the first two years after childbirth lead to a significant increase in the risk of severe stress\, while simultaneously increasing the probability of reporting a distinct period of happiness. We show that longer maternity leave entitlements leading to longer job interruptions significantly decrease the risk of stress: A period of eight weeks of maternity leave is sufficient to counterbalance the effect of childbirth on stress. Our results highlight the critical impact of maternity leave policies on the experience of childbirth and the wellbeing of working mothers. \nBiography: Mauricio Avendano Pabon is a Professor of Public Policy and Global Health and Director of the Institute of Gerontology at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Harvard University. Before joining King’s\, Mauricio was Associate Professorial Research Fellow and Deputy Director of LSE Health at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2011-2015). He has been David Bell Fellow at Harvard University (2008-2010)\, and Assistant Professor at the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands (2006-2010). He is also a network associate of the McArthur Foundation Research Network on an Ageing Society. \nFor more information about Dr. Avendano Pabon click here.  \nThe seminar recording may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/stress-happiness-and-maternity-leave-at-childbirth-mauricio-avendano-pabon-kings-college-london/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210224T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210224T133000
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SUMMARY:"Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets\," Jishnu Das\, Georgetown University
DESCRIPTION:“Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets” \nJishnu Das\, Georgetown University \nAbstract: Working with the Kenyan Cabinet and Ministry of Health\, we experimentally evaluated the market-level impacts of healthcare regulation in settings with public and private providers. We randomly allocated 273 markets with 1258 facilities to treatment and control arms and in treatment arms\, facilities were inspected to assess compliance with minimum patient safety standards with the potential for closure. To accurately capture how regulation functions in low-capacity environments\, inspections and facility closures were carried out by the government using their own staff. \nThe intervention (a) increased compliance with the patient safety checklist in both public and private clinics (more so in the latter); (b) increased closures of clinics without licenses and (c) reallocated patients from private to public clinics\, primarily in markets with a facility closure. A decomposition approach shows that 93% of the increase in compliance with patient safety measures was due to improvements within facilities\, rather than exits or changes in market shares. The intervention had no impact on patients’ out-of-pocket payments\, and we find no evidence of declines in facility use\, either in the aggregate or for poorer patients. \nWe then examine three classes of mechanisms: An information channel\, a compliance channel and a vertical differentiation channel due to Ronen (1991). We do not find evidence for the information channel and weak evidence for the compliance channel. Quantile treatment effects suggest that\, consistent with Ronen (1991)\, there were quality improvements across the quality spectrum. \nOur study thus brings the regulatory function of the state under the ambit of experimental methods and shows that even in low-capacity settings\, regulations and inspections can improve the quality of care\, as measured by compliance with patient safety measures. \nBiography: Jishnu Das is a professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Jishnu’s work focuses on health and education in low and middle-income countries\, with an emphasis on social markets\, or common\, but complex\, conflagrations of public and private education and health providers operating in a small geographical space. \nA recording of the seminar can be accessed here.  \nMore on Prof. Das
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jishnu-das-georgetown-university/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210210T133000
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SUMMARY:"Banks\, alternative institutions\, and the spatial-temporal ecology of racial inequality\," Mario Luis Small\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:Mario Luis Small\, Harvard University\nResearch has made clear that racial inequality is affected by neighborhood conditions.  One important condition is the accessibility of financial establishments. We examine how living in minority neighborhoods affects ease of access to conventional banks vs. to alternative financial institutions (AFIs) such as check cashers and payday lenders\, which are often more expensive and have at times been called predatory. Based on more than 6 million queries\, we compute the difference in the time required to walk\, drive\, or take public transit to the nearest bank vs. the nearest AFI from the middle of every block in each of 19 of the nation’s largest cities.  Results suggest that race is strikingly more important than class: even after numerous economic\, demographic\, and structural conditions are accounted for\, the AFI is more often closer than the bank in well-off minority neighborhoods than in poo rwhite ones.  Results are driven by not the absence of banks but the prevalence of AFIs in minority areas.  Documented differences are so large that accounting for them on the basis of preferences—of differences in demand for AFIs by race—would be inconsistent with available evidence and highly unlikely.  Additional survey data on preferences is consistent with these findings. \nBiography: Pro. Small is the author of award-winning books and articles on networks\, poverty\, organizations\, culture\, methods\, neighborhoods\, institutions\, and other topics. He is currently using large-scale administrative data to understand isolation in cities\, studying how people use their networks to meet their needs\, and exploring the epistemological foundations of qualitative research. His latest book is Someone To Talk To (Oxford). A study of how people decide whom to approach when seeking support\, the book is an inquiry into human nature\, a critique of network analysis\, and a discourse on the role of qualitative research in the big-data era. \nMore on Prof. Small  \n  \nThe seminar recording may be accessed here. 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/mario-luis-small-harvard-university/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T133000
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SUMMARY:Job Market Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Job Market Workshop \nWednesday\, February 3\, 2021 \n12:00pm to 1:00pm \nCorrina Moucheraud is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. She is a global health policy and systems researcher\, focused on the question: how can we deliver high-quality\, efficient\, equitable\, sustainable health services in low-resource\, system-constrained settings? She conducts both quantitative and qualitative research\, including with primary data (surveys\, interviews\, focus groups\, clinical observation) and secondary data\, as well as economic evaluation research such as cost-effectiveness analyses. Main topic areas include HIV\, maternal health\, and non-communicable diseases\, and she primarily conducts research in sub-Saharan Africa. \nTo learn more about Dr. Moucheraud click here. \nMichael Gaddis is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA whose research focuses on racial discrimination\, educational inequality\, and mental health. He often uses experiments to examine  levels of discrimination in employment and housing as well as the conditions under which racial discrimination occurs. In other research\, he investigates differences in mental health conditions\, stigma\, and use of formal and informal mental health treatment on college campuses. Overall\, his research provides evidence of inequality in the U.S. related to race\, social class\, and education. \nTo learn more about Dr. Gaddis click here.  \nRodrigo Pinto an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of California\, Los Angeles. Pinto has a series of papers on the economics of human capital accumulation of early childhood interventions and policy evaluations. His research focuses on modeling\, inference\, cost-benefit analysis\, external validity and treatment effect estimation of social experiments. Among the experiments he has analyzed are the Perry Pre-school Intervention\, High/Scope Comparison Study\, Abecedarian Project\, Nurse-Family Partnership\, Moving to Opportunity\, and Primeira Infancia Melhor (in Brazil). Pinto also studies the use causality and the use of revealed preference analysis to identify treatment effects in choice model with multiple choices and heterogeneous agents. His work has been published in the American Economic Review\, Econometrica and Science. \nTo learn more about Dr. Pinto click here.  \nThe recording of the workshop may be accessed here. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/job-market-workshop/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T133000
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SUMMARY:"Models of Social Change: Principles and Methods of Age-Period-Cohort Analysis\," Ethan Fosse\, University of Toronto and Christopher Winship\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:Ethan Fosse\, University of Toronto and Christopher Winship\, Harvard University \n“Models of Social Change: Principles and Methods of Age-Period-Cohort Analysis” \nAge-period-cohort (APC) analysis has a long\, controversial history in sociology and demography. Despite nearly a century of research\, there is little agreement on how to adequately analyze APC data. In this talk we discuss techniques for improving APC analysis. We begin with a brief overview of APC models\, showing how one can interpret APC effects in a causal way. We then outline techniques that entail point identification using measured causes\, such as mechanism-based models. Next\, we discuss a general framework for APC analysis grounded in partial identification using bounds and sensitivity analyses of mechanism-based models. We conclude with future directions for research. \nBiography: Ethan Fosse is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto where he currently teaches courses on quantitative methods\, social change\, and computational social science. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University in the Department of Sociology and Department of Politics\, where he designed and implemented a series of open-source statistical programming workshops. \nMore on Professor Fosse \nBiography: Christopher Winship is the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University and a member of the senior faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a faculty associate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science\, the Program in Criminal Justice\, the Ph.D. Program in Organizational Behavior\, the Center for Public Leadership\, the Safra Center for Ethics\, and the Program in Social Inequality. He is past chair of both the Departments of Sociology at Harvard and Northwestern University. Prior to coming to Harvard in 1992\, he was a Professor of Sociology\, Statistics\, and Economics at Northwestern. He has also been the Director of the Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences at Northwestern and interim Director of the Economic Research Center at the University of Chicago. He has a BA in Sociology and Mathematics from Dartmouth College (1972) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University (1977). \nMore on Professor Winship  \nA recording of the seminar can be accessed here. \nDrs. Winship and Fosse’s challenge may be accessed here. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/models-of-social-change-principles-and-methods-of-age-period-cohort-analysis-ethan-fosse-university-of-toronto-and-christopher-winship-harvard-university/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T133000
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SUMMARY:"Interviewing Immigrants in Different Contexts\," Cecilia Menjívar\, UC Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:“Interviewing Immigrants in Different Contexts”\n\nCecilia Menjívar\, UCLA \nIn-depth\, qualitative interviews often generate understandings of study participants’ lives that permit building explanations and expanding theorizing. Though the number of study participants included in studies that use this approach tend to be small and usually are selected non-randomly\, the depth and richness of the data are believed to compensate for the small number of participants and their non-representative nature. This workshop will discuss the use of in-depth interviews in the study of immigration and immigrant communities\, focusing on the variation of this method as it is used in different geographic and spatial settings and across broader political and structural contexts. It will rely on examples of studies in Central American immigrant communities in the United States. \nBio: Prof. Menjívar is a Professor and Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair\, her research focuses on the structural roots of inequalities and on how individuals’ social locations shape their responses to such conditions. \nMore on Prof. Menjívar  \nA recording of the presentation can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/cecilia-menjivar-uc-los-angeles/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201209T140000
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SUMMARY:Population-Based Modeling and Measurement of COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:“Population-Based Modeling and Measurement of COVID-19”\nThe recording of the event is available here. \nPanelists: \nChristina Ramirez\, Prof. of Biostatistics UCLA\nMark Handcock\, Prof. of Statistics UCLA\nPatrick Heuveline\, Prof. of Sociology UCLA\nHiram Beltrán-Sánchez\, Prof. of Community Health Sciences \nFor more information on panelists’ research\, see: \n\nPatrick Heuveline.  Covid-19 will reduce US life expectancy at birth by more than one year in 2020. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.03.20243717v1 \n  \nMark Handcock and colleagues. Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic Transmission of 2019 Nover Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection:  An Estimation from a Cluster of Confirmed Cases in Ho Chi Minh City\, Vietnam. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3630119 \n  \nWatson and colleagues. Fusing a Bayesian Case Velocity Model with Random Forest for Predicting COVID-19 in the U.S. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3594606 \n  \nDi Xiong and colleagues. Pseudo-likelihood based logistic regression for estimating COVID-19 infection and case fatality rates by gender\, race\, and age in California.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436520300396?via%3Dihub 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/population-based-modeling-and-measurement-of-covid-19/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201202T133000
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SUMMARY:"Voting after Shelby: Did pre-clearance matter?" Ariel White\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DESCRIPTION:“Voting after Shelby: Did pre-clearance matter?”\nAriel White\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \n(co-authored with Mayya Komisarchik) \nAbstract: Nearly five decades after the passage of the Voting Rights Act\, the law was dramatically changed by the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder. The court effectively removed the “preclearance” process that had required places with a history of racial discrimination to get Justice Department approval before changing their voting procedures. Dissenting justices and voting-rights advocates feared that this decision could lead to massive changes to election administration and ultimately to lower rates of voter participation in minority communities. In this paper\, we evaluate the impact of this decision on election practices and on Black and Hispanic voter registration and turnout. We use a combination of administrative data on registration and voting\, survey data on mobilization and local election administration\, and state legislative records to examine different facets of the voting rights landscape after the Court’s decision. \nBio: Prof. White research focuses on voting and voting rights\, race\, the criminal justice system\, and bureaucratic behavior. Prof. White’s work uses large datasets to measure individual-level experiences\, and to shed light on people’s everyday interactions with government. \nMore on Prof. White
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ariel-white-massachusetts-institute-of-technology/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T133000
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SUMMARY:"Integrating Refugees: The Role of Language Training and Work Incentives\," Giovanni Peri\, UC Davis
DESCRIPTION:“Integrating Refugees: The Role of Language Training and Work Incentives”\nGiovanni Peri\, UC Davis\nAbstract: Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal success and to producing positive effects in the host country. We evaluate the effects of a reform that substantially expanded language training for immigrants who obtained refugee status in Denmark on or after January 1\, 1999. The same reform also temporarily decreased welfare benefits for a subgroup of them. Using a regression discontinuity design around the cutoff date we find positive and significant employment and earnings effects on the treated group\, relative to the untreated group. Employment increased by 23 percent (4 percentage points) and yearly earnings increased by 34 percent (USD 2\,500) when measured eighteen years after the start of the language program. We do not find any labor market effect of the reduction of welfare benefits. We find\, however\, evidence of temporarily higher property crimes for the group subject to lower benefits. The labor market effects are much stronger for individuals with Arabic/Dari mother language\, consistently with a more crucial role of language training for speakers of languages that are very different from Danish. Finally\, male children of treated refugees were more likely to complete lower secondary school and less likely to commit crime. \nBio: Giovanni Peri has expertise in labor economics\, urban economics and the economics of international migrations. In addition to his appointment in the Department of Economics\, he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and the founding director of the UC Davis Migration Research Cluster. \nMore on Prof. Peri  \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/giovanni-peri-uc-davis/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T133000
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SUMMARY:"How Deep is the COVID-19 Recession? Evidence from Kenya and Beyond" Edward Miguel\, UC Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:“How Deep is the COVID-19 Recession? Evidence from Kenya and Beyond”\nEdward Miguel\, UC Berkeley\nAbstract: Despite numerous journalistic accounts\, systematic quantitative evidence on the evolution of economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic remains scarce for most low and middle income countries\, in part due to the limitations of official economic statistics in environments with large informal sectors and subsistence agriculture. I will focus on novel evidence from a detailed and large-scale panel data collection effort in rural Kenya\, documenting the evolution of living standards over time as well as the effects of an earlier cash transfer program. I also discuss results from over 30\,000 respondents in an ensemble of 16 original household survey samples collected in nine countries in Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America. The data documents declines in employment and income across socioeconomic strata beginning in March 2020\, resulting in widespread food insecurity and the risk of persistent adverse effects\, especially among children and other vulnerable groups. \nBio: Prof. Miguel’s research focus is African economic development\, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action; interactions between health\, education\, environment\, and productivity for the poor; and methods for transparent social science research. \nMore on Prof. Miguel
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/edward-miguel-uc-berkeley/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T133000
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SUMMARY:"Challenges with Using Simulation Models to Plan and Refine COVID Testing for High-risk Populations" Sanjay Basu\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:“Challenges with Using Simulation Models to Plan and Refine COVID Testing for High-risk Populations”\nSanjay Basu\, Harvard University\nAbstract: Simulations models are frequently used during infectious disease outbreaks to guide policy and practice. This talk will discuss the use and refinement of COVID simulation models to help develop a testing network\, define testing plans and refine them for high-risk populations–including homeless shelters\, nursing homes\, meat-packing plants\, and similar congregate worksites–and address limitations and uncertainties presented by those models that were informed by implementation of their results. \nBio: Sanjay Basu\, MD\, PhD\, is a primary care physician at Tenderloin Health Services—an integrated primary care\, behavioral health\, and substance use treatment clinic in San Francisco—and Director of Research at Collective Health. \nMore on Prof. Basu
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sanjay-basu-stanford-university/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T133000
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SUMMARY:"The political context and infant health in the United States" Florencia Torche\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“The political context and infant health in the United States”\nFlorencia Torche\, Stanford University \nAbstract: Political factors could have substantial consequences for the health and wellbeing of populations. In the United States\, an important political factor is the party of the president. The two main parties differ in their ideologies and policy agendas\, and these differences have sharpened since the 1960s. We examine the effect of prenatal exposure to the political party in office at the national level (president’s party) and the state level (governor’s party) on infant health between 1971 and 2018\, considering the heterogeneity and timing of these effects. Fixed effects models show a beneficial effect of a Democratic president but no effect of a Democratic governor on birth outcomes. The benefit of in-utero exposure to a Democratic president is much stronger for Black infants than White infants. The effect of the president’s party does not materialize immediately after the inauguration. Rather\, it takes approximately two years to fully emerge\, and it remains elevated until the end of the party’s tenure in office. The effect is robust across specifications and only partially mediated by a battery of measurable social policies. Our findings suggest that the party in power is an important determinant of infant health\, particularly among vulnerable populations. \nBio: Florencia Torche is a social scientist with substantive interests in social demography\, stratification\, and education. Professor Torche’s scholarship encompasses two related areas. A longer-term area of research studies inequality dynamics — the dynamics that result in persistence of inequality across generations — with a particular focus on educational attainment\, assortative mating (who marries who)\, and the intergenerational transmission of wealth. \nMore on Prof. Torche
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/florencia-torche-stanford-university/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201009T133000
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SUMMARY:Race and Inequality: A Collaborative UCPop Event
DESCRIPTION:The Population Centers of the University of California – newly dubbed UCPop – is pleased to announce its inaugural (remote) meeting\, “Race and Inequality: A Collaborative UCPop Event.” \n\nHosted by: UC Berkeley\, UC Irvine\, UC Los Angeles\, UC Santa Barbara.\n\n\n\n\nKeynote speaker: Tukufu Zuberi\, “Demography of Race: The Propaganda of Demography”  \n\nLasry Family Professor of Race Relations\, and Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies\, University of Pennsylvania
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/race-and-inequality-a-collaborative-ucpop-event/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201007T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T063858
CREATED:20200821T184237Z
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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 2020-2021 CCPR Seminar Series. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/2020-21-seminar-series-welcome-and-introductions/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200821T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200821T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T063858
CREATED:20200715T185738Z
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SUMMARY:A Cross-Center Collaboration DemSemX
DESCRIPTION:The DemSemX is a new cross-center collaborative effort that will virtually bring together faculty and students from 9 U.S. population research centers (Bowling Green\, Cornell\, Michigan\, Minnesota\, Penn State\, Texas\, UCLA\, UW-Madison\, and Brown) to enhance scholarly interaction and graduate training across institutions. Leaders/senior faculty of these centers are all alumni of UW-Madison\, where the weekly Demography Seminar (‘DemSem’) has for decades been a key feature of the intellectual community there\, much as is our center’s regular seminar here. Together\, we aim to take advantage of new virtual technologies and economies of scale to provide opportunities for scholarly interaction and training across our 9 centers. \nMarta Bornstein\, UCLA CCPR\n“Infertility and Perceived Infertility in Malawi”\n\nNick DiRago\, UCLA CCPR\n“Spatial and Demographic Dynamics of the Diffusion of Land Banks and Relationship to Neighborhood Inequality”\nBreakout rooms links and information available here: DemSemX Aug2020 Breakouts_corrected links
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/demsemx/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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