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SUMMARY:Goleen Samari\, Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Goleen Samari is an assistant professor and population health demographer in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health and Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Her research considers how racism\, gender inequities\, and migration-based inequities shape reproductive and population health with a particular focus on populations in or from the Middle East and North Africa. She was the first to draw attention to the racialization of religious minorities and Islamophobia as a public health issue. Her research aims to understand and alleviate intersectional structural determinants of health over the life course and bridge some of the gap between research and policy. Dr. Samari is a former doctoral trainee of the California Center for Population Research\, and she earned a Ph.D. in public health\, an MPH in community health sciences\, and an MA in Islamic studies from the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nStructural Xenophobia and Birth Outcomes: The Role of Exclusive Immigration Policies \nAnti-immigrant stigma or xenophobia is increasingly pervasive globally. The epidemiological implications of the recent wave of xenophobic policies are increasingly of interest to population health scientists. This talk will present findings from a study that explores the impact of one such policy\, the 2017 travel ban on individuals from Muslim majority countries\, and birth outcomes among women from those countries residing in the US. We also consider how structural xenophobia can be measured and present a new measure\, the immigration policy climate (IPC) index\, that captures state immigration policy environments from 2009 to 2019. The IPC index includes fourteen inclusionary and exclusionary policies across all US states and Washington\, DC. We will discuss how the IPC index offers opportunities to explore immigrant health and behavioral outcomes including reproductive and maternal health outcomes. \nYou can access the CCPR seminar using this link.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/goleen-samari/
LOCATION:Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220223T120000
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SUMMARY:Berk Ozler\, World Bank
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Berk Ozler received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Boğaziçi University in 1991\, and his Ph.D in Economics from Cornell University in 2001. After working on poverty and inequality measurement\, poverty mapping\, and the 2006 World Development Report on Equity and Development earlier\, he decided to combine his interest in cash transfer programs and HIV risks facing young women in Africa by designing a large cash transfer experiment in Malawi\, the longer-term evaluation of which is still ongoing. He has since conducted a number of cluster-randomized field experiments. He is currently interested in ways to reduce unintended pregnancies\, especially among adolescent females and young women. He is trialing approaches to increase the take-up of modern contraceptives among this population with an adaptive experiment in Cameroon. He is a co-founder of and a regular contributor to the Development Impact blog. \nCan Improved Counseling Increase Willingness to Pay for Modern Contraceptives  \nAbstract: Long-acting reversible contraceptives are highly effective in preventing unintended pregnancies\, but take-up remains low. This paper analyzes a randomized controlled trial of interventions addressing two barriers to long-acting reversible contraceptive adoption\, credit\, and informational constraints. The study offered discounts to the clients of a women’s hospital in Yaoundé\, Cameroon\, and cross-randomized a counseling strategy that encourages shared decision-making using a tablet-based app that ranks modern methods. Discounts increased uptake by 50 percent\, with larger effects for adolescents. Shared decision-making tripled the share of clients adopting a long-acting reversible contraceptive at full price\, from 11 to 35 percent\, and discounts had no incremental impact in this group. \nYou can access the CCPR seminar using this link. \nA recording of the seminar may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/berk-ozler-world-bank-2/
LOCATION:Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T133000
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SUMMARY:Jack Mountjoy\, University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Jack Mountjoy is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Robert H. Topel Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research explores the economics and econometrics of education\, labor markets\, and social mobility. Prior to joining Chicago Booth\, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics at Princeton University in the Industrial Relations Section. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Affiliate at the University of Chicago Inclusive Economy Lab\, MIT Blueprint Labs\, and Statistics Norway. \nJack holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago\, where his dissertation work earned a fellowship from the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation. He also holds a post-baccalaureate Certificate in Mathematics from George Washington University and a B.A. in Economics and Politics from Whitman College. \n\n\nThe Returns to College(s): Relative Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education\n\nAbstract: Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of relative value-added across colleges within student choice sets in producing these outcome disparities. Linking administrative high school records\, college applications\, admissions decisions\, enrollment spells\, degree completions\, and quarterly earnings spanning the Texas population\, we identify relative college value-added by comparing the outcomes of students who apply to and are admitted by the same set of institutions\, as this approach strikingly balances observable student potential across college treatments and renders our extensive set of covariates irrelevant as controls. Methodologically\, we develop a framework for identifying and interpreting value-added under varying assumptions about match effects and sorting gains\, generalizing the constant treatment effects assumption typically employed in the value-added literature. Empirically\, we estimate a relatively tight\, though non-degenerate\, distribution of relative value-added across the wide diversity of Texas public universities. Selectivity poorly predicts value-added within student choice sets: a fleeting selectivity earnings premium fades to zero after a few years in the labor market\, and more selective colleges tend to have lower value-added on STEM degree completion. Non-peer college inputs like instructional spending more strongly predict value-added\, especially conditional on selectivity. Educational impacts predict labor market impacts: colleges with larger earnings value-added also tend to be colleges that boost persistence\, BA completion\, and STEM degrees along the way. Finally\, we probe the potential for (mis)match effects by allowing each college’s relative value-added to vary flexibly by student characteristics. At first glance\, Black students appear to face small negative returns to choosing more selective colleges\, but this pattern of modest “mismatch” is entirely driven by the availability of two large historically Black universities with low selectivity but above-average value-added. Across the non-HBCUs\, Black students face similar returns to selectivity\, and indistinguishable value-added schedules more generally\, compared to their peers from other backgrounds.\n\nYou can access the CCPR seminar using this link.\nA recording of the seminar may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jack-mountjoy-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Taylor Hargrove\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Dr. Hargrove is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and a faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Her program of research examines how and why social inequalities in health unfold across the life course\, focusing on inequalities by race/ethnicity\, skin color\, gender\, and socioeconomic status. Her current program of research integrates biomedical perspectives into the study of health inequality in the US by exploring linkages among socio-geographic contexts\, individual-level characteristics\, and biological measures of health in early adulthood. The goal of this work is to elucidate how macro-level environments shape the consequences of social statuses on more proximate causes of poor health. Hargrove plans to continue this line of research in efforts to help elucidate the pathways through which social factors ‘get under our skin’ to shape health and undergird social stratification. \nMental Health across the Early life Course at the Intersections of Race\, Skin Tone\, and School Context \nAbstract: Considerable research documents higher levels of depressive symptoms among Black Americans relative to whites. Yet\, we know little about the role of other dimensions of race (e.g.\, skin tone) and early life contexts (e.g.\, childhood racial contexts) in shaping trajectories of depressive symptoms across adolescence and adulthood. This study asks: 1) to what extent do self-identified race and skin tone shape disparities in depressive symptoms between Black and white adults across ages 12-42? 2) Do the relationships between race/skin tone and depressive symptoms depend on school racial context\, as measured by the racial composition of middle and high schools? This study uses five waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and employs growth curve models to address these questions. Overall\, results suggest that trajectories of depressive symptoms across ages 12-42 vary by race and skin tone among Black adults. Further\, racial and skin tone disparities in depressive symptom trajectories are contingent on school racial context\, highlighting competing advantages and disadvantages of navigating majority spaces in early life for Black adults of different skin tones. Findings and implications will be discussed in more detail. \nYou can access the CCPR seminar using this link.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/taylor-hargrove-university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220202T120000
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SUMMARY:CCPR Workshop: Analyzing Sample Survey Data
DESCRIPTION: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 the survey data provider. We will use R but also reference equivalent Stata routines. \nslides \nThe recording may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-sample-survey/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T133000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Wrigley-Field\, University of Minnesota
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Sociology and the Minnesota Population Center. She specializes in racial inequality in mortality and historical infectious disease and co-leads (with J.P. Leider) an ongoing project on COVID-19 mortality in Minnesota. She is also a quantitative methodologist\, developing models designed to clarify relationships between micro and macro perspectives on demographic relationships. \n“Racial Disparities in 1918 Flu Mortality: What Drove Them and What Can We Learn for Today?” \nAbstract: The 1918 influenza pandemic stands out because of the extent and unusual age pattern of high mortality. In the United States\, another feature merits scientific scrutiny: against a historical backdrop of extreme racial health inequality\, the pandemic produced strikingly small ratios of nonwhite to white influenza and pneumonia mortality. We provide the most complete account to date of these racial disparities in 1918\, showing that\, across U.S. cities\, they were almost uniformly small. We examine four potential explanations for this unexpected result\, including socio-demographic factors like segregation\, city-level implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)\, exposure to the milder spring 1918 “herald wave\,” and early-life exposures to other influenza strains resulting in differential immunological vulnerability to the 1918 flu. While we find little evidence for 1-3\, we offer suggestive evidence that racial variation in early-life exposure to the 1889-1892 influenza pandemic shrunk racial disparities during the 1918 pandemic. We also raise the possibility that differential behavioral responses to the herald wave may have protected nonwhite urban populations. By providing a comprehensive description and careful examination of the potential drivers of racial inequality in mortality during the 1918 pandemic\, our study provides a framework to consider interactions between the natural history of particular microbial agents and the social histories of the populations they infect. \nYou can access the CCPR seminar using this link. \nThe recording of the seminar may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/elizabeth-wrigley-field-university-of-minnesota/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220112T133000
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SUMMARY:Noreen Goldman\, Princeton University
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Noreen Goldman\, D.Sc.\, is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and a Faculty Associate at the Office of Population Research\, Princeton University. A specialist in demography and social epidemiology\, Goldman’s research examines the impact of social and economic factors\, as well as stressful experience\, on health\, and the physiological pathways through which these factors operate. She has designed several large-scale surveys in Latin America and Asia. Her current research examines racial and ethnic disparities in health in the US. She has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation\, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, and a visiting professor at UCLA and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She is the author of more than 200 articles in population\, epidemiology\, sociology and statistics journals and various book chapters and monographs. \n The Impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy in the US and Brazil: Disparities and Dependencies \nAbstract: The US and Brazil have highest recorded number of COVID-19 deaths in the world: approximately 770\,000 and 615\,000 deaths respectively as of the end of November\, 2021. The mortality impacts have been extraordinary\, with the values of recent life expectancy setting some groups or geographic areas back to levels observed as far as two decades ago.  In this talk\, we explore some of the social and racial/ethnic disparities within each country. We also consider differences in estimates of life expectancy decline within the US and Brazil that result from the untenable assumption that COVID-19 is an “independent” cause of death. \nYou can access the CCPR seminar using this link. \nThe recording of the seminar may be accessed here. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/noreen-goldman-princeton-university/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211201T133000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T182915Z
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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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LAST-MODIFIED:20211112T184531Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211103T133000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211020T133000
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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
DTSTAMP:20260502T143215
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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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SUMMARY:Welcome Introduction
DESCRIPTION:
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
DTSTAMP:20260502T143215
CREATED:20210910T063804Z
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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:20210730T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210730T120000
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SUMMARY:DemSemX: Later-Stage Career Choices
DESCRIPTION:DemSemX \nWithin 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 will discuss midlife in academia and how they have approached choices within their careers. \nOur speakers include Adam Gamoran (William T. Grant Foundation)\, Jennifer Glass (UT-Austin)\, and  Zhenchao Qian (Brown).
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/demsemx-later-stage-career-choices/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210723T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210723T120000
DTSTAMP:20260502T143215
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SUMMARY:DemSemX: Life after Tenure
DESCRIPTION:Hiram Beltran-Sanchez (UCLA)\, Jennie Brand (UCLA)\, and Rob Warren (UMN) will discuss life after tenure during their presentation.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/demsemx-life-after-tenure/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210602T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210602T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T143215
CREATED:20210521T000020Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260502T143215
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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
DTSTAMP:20260502T143215
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210517T170742Z
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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;VALUE=DATE:20210505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210506
DTSTAMP:20260502T143215
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SUMMARY:PAA Conference
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URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/paa-conference-2/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T133000
DTSTAMP:20260502T143215
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SUMMARY:PAA Student Practice Talks
DESCRIPTION:12:00 – 12:30 Nathan Hoffmann\, presentation title: “A ‘Win-Win Exercise’? Eastern European Children in Western Europe” \n  \n12:30 – 1:00 Brett McCully\, presentation title: “Immigration\, Legal Status\, and Illegal Trade” \nAbstract: Nearly $2 trillion worth of illegal goods are trafficked across international borders every year\, generating violence and other social costs along the way. Some have controversially linked illegal trafficking to immigrants\, yet an appropriate immigration policy response is unclear. In this paper\, I use novel data on nearly 10\,000 confiscations of illegal drugs in Spain to study how immigrants and immigration policy affect the pattern and scale of illegal drug trafficking. To identify the causal effect of immigrants on trafficking\, I construct an instrumental variable that interacts variation in total immigrant inflows into Spain by origin country with the fraction of immigrants inflowing into a province. I find that a 10% increase in the population of immigrants from a given origin country relative to the mean raises the value of drugs trafficked from the origin country confiscated in a given province by 12%. Moreover\, this relationship is driven entirely by immigrants without legal status. To better understand the role of legal status\, I exploit an extraordinary regularization of nearly half a million immigrants in 2005. Event study estimates suggest that granting immigrants legal status results in a long-run decline in drug trafficking\, corresponding to the acquisition of citizenship by the immigrants. \n1:00 – 1:30 Angela Clague\, presentation title: “The Mediating Effects of Household Resources in Orphan Disadvantage in Cambodia” \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/paa-conference/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T143215
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SUMMARY:CCPR Census Workshop Series Part 2: Editing\, Imputing\, and Maintaining Privacy
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Mike Tzen \nIn 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 likely find the need for (or to deal with) imputation in their own research projects. \nPart 1 and its slides can be viewed below\nhttps://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-census-workshop-part-1-your-research-2020-census/ \nPart 2 slides are below\nhttps://ucla.app.box.com/v/slides-cens-pt2-eip
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-census-workshop-part-2-edit-impute-privacy/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210414T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210414T133000
DTSTAMP:20260502T143215
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T030342Z
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SUMMARY:PAA Student Practice Talks
DESCRIPTION:12:00 – 12:40 Shuchi Goyal\, presentation title:”A Practical Revealed Preference Model for Separating Preferences and Availability Effects in Marriage Formation” \nMany problems in demography require models for partnership formation that separate latent preferences for partners from the availability of partners. We consider a model for matchings within a bipartite population where individuals have utility for people based on known and unknown characteristics. People can form a partnership or remain unpartnered. The model represents both the availability of potential partners of different types and preferences of individuals for such people. We develop Menzel’s (2015) framework to estimate preference parameters based on sample survey data on partnerships and population composition.\nWe conduct simulation studies based on new marriages observed in the Survey for Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to show that\, for realistic population sizes\, the model recovers preference parameters that are invariant under different population availabilities. We also develop confidence intervals that have correct coverage. This model can be applied in family demography to understand individual preferences given different availabilities. \n12:40-1:20 Bernard Koch\, presentation title: “Deep Learning of Potential Outcomes”
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/paa-workshop/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210408T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210408T143000
DTSTAMP:20260502T143215
CREATED:20210401T214025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T020048Z
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SUMMARY:SSCERT Workshop: Practical Web Technologies for Social Scientists
DESCRIPTION:Practical Web Technologies for Social Scientists\nDate: Thursday\, April 8\, 2021\nTime: 1:00pm – 2:30pm\nInstructor: Neal Fultz \nThis workshop will introduce the alphabet soup of technologies powering the modern web; TCP/IP\, HTTP\, HTML\, XML\, JSON\, REST APIs\, OAUTH\, SSL\, AWS\, among others. Attendees will build up enough background knowledge to begin scraping data from the web. R/Python/JS will be demonstrated\, but the concepts are reasonably generic. \nRegistration: https://calendar.library.ucla.edu/event/7594317
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sscert-workshop-practical-web-technologies-for-social-scientists/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210407T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T143215
CREATED:20210324T063134Z
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SUMMARY:CCPR Workshop: Computing Resources for Demographers - What's Available\, How to Access Them\, and When to Use Them
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.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/computing-workshop/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210331T133000
DTSTAMP:20260502T143215
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210402T160943Z
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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.
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