Instructor: Mike Tzen In this 2nd CCPR Census Workshop (2 of 3), we'll take a look at some of the ways the US Census Bureau, edits, imputes, and maintains privacy of the 2020 decennial census data before releasing it to the public. For practical reasons, we'll spend more time on imputation, as attendees will most […]
12:00 - 12:30 Nathan Hoffmann, presentation title: "A 'Win-Win Exercise'? Eastern European Children in Western Europe" 12:30 - 1:00 Brett McCully, presentation title: "Immigration, Legal Status, and Illegal Trade" Abstract: Nearly $2 trillion worth of illegal goods are trafficked across international borders every year, generating violence and other social costs along the way. Some […]
Hiram Beltran-Sanchez (UCLA), Jennie Brand (UCLA), and Rob Warren (UMN) will discuss life after tenure during their presentation.
DemSemX Within academia, there is a lot of focus and advice around getting tenure—understandably, as it represents a singular evaluation hurdle within tenure-granting institutions. Yet, academic careers can be long, and there are many decisions to be made after tenure about how to invest one’s time and energy. In this pair of sessions, six scholars […]
Instructors: Mike Tzen Neal Fultz In 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 […]
Instructor: Matt Lahmann Instructor: Mike Tzen 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. Once signed up, […]
In this workshop, attendees will learn how to analyze survey data while accounting for its complex survey design. We will demonstrate how to specify the survey design, impute any missing data, and analyze the survey outcomes of interest. We will discuss how our downstream “analysis” steps are related to initial operational “design” choices made by […]
Abstract: This seminar will describe key issues in planning for and writing a research grant proposal for the National Institutes of Health if you are a demographer, social scientist, and/or working on the social determinants of health. The emphasis will be on R01, R21, and R03 proposals. Participants are invited to bring their own experiences […]
Instructor: Matt Lahmann Instructor: Mike Tzen 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. Once signed up, […]
Workshop: CCPR Computing Resources Overview Instructor: Matt Lahmann Instructor: Mike Tzen 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 […]
Panelists: Cecilia Menjivar holds the Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. She specializes in immigration, gender, family dynamics, social networks, religious institutions, and broad conceptualizations of violence. She focuses on two main areas: the impacts of the immigration regime and laws on immigrants and the effects of […]
CCPR Workshop: Computing Resources Overview Jan 18, 2022, 12:00pm-1:30pm Presenters: Matt Lahmann 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 […]
From preprints to tweets: the professional benefits and potential perils of online presence Panelists: Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (Epi) and Julian Londoño-Vélez (Econ) Moderator: Patrick Heuveline (Soc) Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Mayeda's research focuses on identifying modifiable determinants […]
Workshop: Preproducibility: what we may not, with advantage, omit Please note that there will be no remote attendance for this event. All attendees must attend the workshop in person. Panelists: Philip B. Stark (Remote), Yotam Shem-Tov, Irene Bloemraad (Remote), and Randall Kuhn Moderator: Patrick Heuveline Presenter: Philip B. Stark is Distinguished Professor of Statistics at […]
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 […]
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), […]
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 […]
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.
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, […]
