“How to do Differences-in-Differences” Workshop

CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United States

CCPR will host an in-person workshop, "How to do Difference-in-Differences," with Pedro Sant'Anna.  Difference-in-Differences (DiD) is among the most popular strategies to identify causal effects in observational studies. The workshop will update you on this fast-moving literature and best practices with hands-on practice in R and Stata.   For Ph.D. students, post-docs, faculty (or anyone […]

Difference-In-Difference Panel Discussion and Mini Conference

4240A Public Affairs Bldg

Differences-in-differences Mini-conference May 24, 2023  UCLA, California Center for Population Research 9-11:30am Speakers hold for meetings 12-1:30pm Panel discussion: What’s new with differences-in-differences?  Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank), Alyssa Bilinski (Brown), Jon Roth (Brown), Pedro Sant’Anna (Vanderbilt), Jeff Wooldridge (MSU)  SHORT LUNCH BREAK & ROOM SET UP 2:15-3:00pm Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank), […]

UC Carpentries Fall Workshop Series: Coding and Data Management (virtual)

Attend as many or as few sessions as you wish This 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. Time: 8:30 - 12:30 PDT via Zoom Week 1 Sept. 11 / Day 1: The Unix […]

UCSD/UCLA/CIFAR Conference on Development Economics, Political Economy, and Culture

UCSD, PEB 721 University of California, San Diego Dean's Office, School of Social Sciences 9500 Gilman Drive, # 0502, La Jolla, CA, United States

The development groups at UCSD and UCLA are organizing a one-day workshop for advanced graduate students (e.g., those going on the market soon) and junior faculty in the Southern California area to present work related to Economic Development, Preference Formation, Political Economy, and Culture. The workshop will be held at UCSD on Saturday September 30, […]

Gary Solon, University of Michigan, “What Are We Weighting For?” (STC Workshop)

4240A Public Affairs Bldg

Biography: Gary 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 […]

Computing Orientation Workshop with Neal Fultz (STC workshop)

Computing Orientation Workshop with Neal Fultz Instructor: Neal Fultz This 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. […]

Clémence Tricaud, University of California, Los Angeles, “Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response”

Bio: Clémence 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 […]

CU Workshop Announcement: Advancing social science research on abortion

Advancing social science research on abortion: demographic methods and perspectives - CU Population Center (colorado.edu) Dates: December 6-8, 2023 Steering Committee: Leslie Root, Amanda Stevenson, Jane Menken, Sara Yeatman, Stefanie Mollborn, and Katie Genadek Location: Hybrid, online and in-person at CU Population Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder Since the Supreme Court […]

Development workshop, 2/13 at 3pm “Scientific Accountability and Data Production”

4240A Public Affairs Bldg

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)/ (1) UC Berkeley Sociology, (2) UCLA Sociology, (3) UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, (4) UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Los Angeles’ Replication Games

Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

We are looking for researchers, post-docs, and PhD students interested in a one-day replication challenge. Participants will be granted co-authorship on a meta-paper combining the reproductions and replications, and will have the opportunity to publish their work. Participants will be matched based on field, and a study from a leading social science journal will be […]

F31 Predoctoral NIH Funding Panel

Join us on Thursday, March 14 from noon- 1 pm Please RSVP and submit questions for the panelist beforehand using this form. Location: UCLA CCPR seminar room (4240A Public Affairs)  The 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 […]

The Digital Migrant Health Record: DR. Maria Elena Ramos Tovar

YRL, Room 23167

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 […]

Christopher Walters, University of California, Berkeley (STC Workshop), Title: Empirical Bayes and large-scale inference.

4240A Public Affairs Bldg

Biography: Christopher Walters is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Walters joined the faculty at Berkeley after completing his PhD in economics at MIT in 2013. He is also a Research Associate in the NBER programs on education and labor studies, an IZA Research […]

Peter Hull, Brown University, “Formula Instruments” (STC Workshop)

4240A Public Affairs Bldg

Biography: Peter Hull is a Professor of Economics at Brown University, a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER Labor Studies, Education, and Health Care programs in Labor Studies, and the econometrics editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research spans a variety of topics in applied econometrics, education, health care, discrimination, and criminal […]

Workshop: CCPR Computing Orientation

4240A Public Affairs Bldg

A recording of Roger Silanoe’s presentation may be accessed here. The slides of the presentation may be accessed here.

Workshop: Jake Anderson, University of California, Los Angeles, “Transitioning to Industry: Tech Pathways for Academics”

4240A Public Affairs Bldg

Description: Join us for a session on navigating the transition from academia to industry, specifically in tech roles. Led by Jake Anderson, a CCPR trainee from the Economics department who has worked as a Data Science Manager and Senior Data Scientist in San Francisco, this workshop will guide you through reframing academic projects and experience […]

Workshop: Grant Writing

4240A Public Affairs Bldg

Featuring Martha Bailey, Gilbert Gee, Naomi Sugie, and Janet Stein