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  • Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia, “Development Mismatch?: Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa”

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

      Biography: Nathan Nunn is a Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in cultural economics. His research examines the historical and dynamic process of economic development, focusing on the evolution of culture, norms, and institutions across societies. He has published dozens of articles aimed at improving […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by the CCPR Directors, who will be there to guide the […]

  • Development Workshop: Mary Jo Mitchell (Director of Gov’t and Public Affairs, PAA), “Engaging Policymakers: Role of PAA/APC and Population Scientists” 

    Zoom

    Biography: Since January 2004, Mary Jo H. Mitchell has been the Director of Government Affairs for the Population Association of America and Association of Population Centers. In addition to representing PAA and APC, Ms. Mitchell has co-directed The Census Project since 2008. Prior to her position with PAA/APC, Ms. Mitchell worked at the National Institutes of Health […]

  • [CANCELLED] CCPR Infrastructure Grant Planning Meeting

    Join us for the CCPR Infrastructure Grant Planning Meeting exclusively for faculty on December 5, 2025. This session will focus on strategizing proposals and collaborative opportunities for the upcoming grant cycle.

  • Holiday Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by the CCPR Directors, who will be there to guide the […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by the CCPR Directors, who will be there to guide the […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Adriana Lleras-Muney, who will be there to guide the […]

  • Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland, “Research Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar”

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

      Biography: Philip N. Cohen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His latest book, Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (Columbia University Press 2025), addresses the role of intellectuals in public life and offers guidance for a career in social science. His other research concerns demographic trends, family structure, […]

  • Michael Geruso, UT Austin, Book Talk on “After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People”

    Royce Hall, Room 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles,, CA

      Biography: Dr. Michael Geruso is coauthor of After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People. Geruso is an economic demographer, public economist, and associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2023 to 2024, he served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, […]

  • Workshop: Matias Cattaneo, Princeton University, “Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Practice”

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

      Biography: Matias D. Cattaneo is a Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) at Princeton University. He is also an Associated Faculty in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), the Department of Economics, and the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS), and an Affiliated Faculty in the Data-Driven Social Science (DDSS) initiative, the AI at Princeton initiative, and the Center for Statistics and Machine […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Andres Villarreal, who will be there to guide the […]

  • Insights from CCPR’s inaugural Junior Population Scientists!

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

    Prachi Jain is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Loyola Marymount University. Her research uses experimental methods to explore topics in behavioral economics, gender economics, and economic development.  Her interests are expansive, for example exploring the role of social networks in informal insurance, the underrepresentation of women in labor markets, financial privacy […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Mark Handcock, who will be there to guide the […]

  • David Grusky, Stanford University, “Why is Evidence-Based Policy Still So Elusive? The Case of U.S. Homelessness Policy”

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

      Biography: David B. Grusky is Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. His research examines the structure of social mobility and inequality, new ways to improve the country’s infrastructure for monitoring mobility and inequality, and […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Randall Kuhn who will be there to guide the […]

  • Jonathan Kolstad, University of California, Berkley, “Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive capacity, decision making and medical diagnosis”

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

      Biography: Jonathan Kolstad is a professor at the Haas School of Business, where he holds the Henry J. Kaiser Chair, and in the Economics Department at UC Berkeley. He is also a core faculty member in the Computational Precision Health Graduate Group at UC Berkeley and UCSF, the founding director of the Center for […]

  • Amy Finkelstein, MIT, “Trading Goods for Lives: The Effect of NAFTA on Mortality”

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

    Biography: Amy Finkelstein is the John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-founder and co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America, a research center at MIT that encourages and facilitates randomized evaluations of important domestic policy issues. She is also the co-Director of the Economics of […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Graeme Blair, who will be there to guide the […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Carlo Medici, who will be there to guide the […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by the CCPR Directors, who will be there to guide the […]

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