• 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 […]

  • The Challenges and Promise of Population Research: Insights from CCPR’s Junior Population Scientists

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

    CCPR’s Junior Population Scientists are distinguished population scholars and CCPR affiliates from other California universities. Join us in welcoming the inaugural cohort as they briefly introduce their research and insights into the challenges and promises of population research. A Q&A session and reception will follow. Household decision-making under the microscope: evidence from experiments with Kenyan […]

  • 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 […]

  • Reexamining the “Nation of Immigrants”: The Politics of ICE Enforcement

    UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Join us for a keynote and panel exploring new data on immigration enforcement, stronger state protections, and fair, sustainable policy. RSVP HERE With the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arrests and detentions surging, California’s legislative leadership offers critical lessons on safeguarding rights and rebuilding trust. Join us on February 5, 2026 for a keynote […]

  • 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, Berkeley, “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

      (with Matthew Notowidigdo and Steven Shi) 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Developmental Seminar: Conducting Research with Vulnerable Populations

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

       This multidisciplinary panel will address practical and ethical issues that arise when conducting research with vulnerable populations. Panelists will include CCPR affiliates Faith Deckard, Elizabeth Kim, Randall Kuhn, and Meredith Phillips.   A recording of this event can be found here.

  • 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 […]

  • Ann Owens, UCLA, “The Changing Relationship between School and Residential Segregation”

    Biography: Ann Owens is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research centers on the causes and consequences of social inequality, with a focus on neighborhoods, housing, education, and geographic and social mobility. Ann has particular expertise on neighborhood and school segregation, and her research also examines how housing and educational policies […]

  • 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 […]

  • Patrick Ishizuka, Washington University St Louis, “The Stalled Gender Housework Revolution in the United States”

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

    Biography: Patrick Ishizuka is a sociologist and demographer who uses quantitative and experimental methods to understand gender and socioeconomic inequality in the workplace and in family life. His recent projects examine trends in gender housework inequality, the shifting economic foundations of marriage among cohabiting couples, and parenting attitudes toward adolescents who transgress norms relating to […]

  • 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 conversation, share insights, and connect […]

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