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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T120000
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SUMMARY:David Chae\, Auburn University
DESCRIPTION:“Getting Under the Skin: Socio-Psychobiological Pathways and Racial Disparities in Health.“ \nAbstract: Racism is physically embodied through social\, behavioral\, and psychobiological mechanisms. In this talk\, David H. Chae\, will discuss the utility of a social-ecological and developmental lens to examine how racism is biologically embedded. He will discuss his research on multiple levels of racism and the channels through which they compromise health throughout the lifecourse. \nMore on Prof. Chae
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/david-chae-auburn/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171019
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20180409T181031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T020922Z
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SUMMARY:CCPR Grant Writing Workshop Session II: The NIH application review – What to expect? What to plan for?
DESCRIPTION:The workshop will include an overview of the review process\, Center for Scientific Review\, identifying a peer review “study section”\, and the peer review process.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-grant-writing-workshop-session-ii-the-nih-application-review-what-to-expect-what-to-plan-for/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171017T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171017T140000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20210424T023721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T204502Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Benjamin\, USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Department of Statistics and the Center for Social Statistics presents:\nRedefine Statistical Significance\nDaniel Benjamin will discuss his paper (written by him and 71 other authors)\, “Redefine Statistical Significance”. The paper proposes that the default p-value threshold should be changed from 0.05 to 0.005. \nThe paper is available at this link. \nSpeaker:\nDaniel Benjamin\, Associate Professor\, USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/james-robins-harvard-university-2/
CATEGORIES:CSS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171013T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171013T130000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20170925T170336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T023146Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Useful R 4 Stata Users Brown Bag
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Michael Tzen \n\n\n\nThis workshop is a brown bag forum. Participants are encouraged to bring in tangible questions they wish to explore using R. To serve as a background road map\, the instructor will provide an abbreviated sample of what he thinks are the most useful features of R. However\, the goal is to have participants ask questions that the collective group can figure out using R. Any R question is fair game\, for example: questions about fundamental R concepts or even questions about how to run Stata-equivalent R commands. Participants will be provided access to Rstudio\, so please bring a laptop. \nThis CCPR brown-bag is intended to be an open forum that complements the 3 great resources below. Please see the resources\, especially the first one. \n1) 10 minute demo: interactive call–response slideshow of R basics\nhttp://tryr.codeschool.com/ \n2) Worked out examples from a UCLA IDRE workshop on R concepts\nhttps://stats.idre.ucla.edu/r/seminars/intro/ \n3) R 4 Data Science e-book\nhttp://r4ds.had.co.nz/ \n\n\n\nRVSP Here  \n  \nslides
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-r-4-stata-users-brownbag/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20170719T202008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T193058Z
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SUMMARY:Roland Rau\, University of Rostock
DESCRIPTION:“Title: The challenges of estimating mortality in small areas — using German counties as a case study” \nAbstract:  \nWe develop and analyze Bayesian models that produce good estimates of complete mortality schedules for small areas\, even when the expected number of deaths is very small. The models also provide estimates of uncertainty about local mortality schedules. The TOPALS relational model is the primary building block\, used to model age-specific mortality rates within each small area. TOPALS models produce estimates for single-year ages from a small number of local parameters. We experiment with Bayesian models for smoothing and ‘borrowing’ mortality information across space\, using two alternative specifications. First we test a Bayesian model with conditional autoregressive (CAR) priors for TOPALS parameters. CAR priors assign higher probability to parameters that are similar across adjacent areas\, thus emphasizing spatial smoothness in estimated rates. Second\, we test a hierarchical Bayesian model\, which assigns higher probability to parameters that are similar for locations that are close in terms of political geography. \nMore on Prof. Rau \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/roland-rau-university-rostock/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171012
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20180409T180650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T020932Z
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SUMMARY:CCPR Grant Writing Workshop Session I: Planning an NIH grant proposal
DESCRIPTION:Grant Writing Workshop Series: \nThe workshop will include an overview of the basics\, including NIH funding mechanisms\, types of grant programs (we will focus on the R series with some discussion of K series)\, finding a funding opportunity (FOA): Parent Announcements\, Program Announcements (PAs) vs. Request for Applications (RFAs) Administrative and other supplements Roles on a grant (PI\, Co-PI\, Co-Investigator\, others)\, the process of preparing NIH proposals\, identifying NIH institute (NIH matchmaker)\, working with NIH staff\, due dates and the application to funding timeline\, applications & resubmissions.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-grant-writing-workshop-session-i-planning-an-nih-grant-proposal/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20170719T180734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T170714Z
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SUMMARY:2017-2018 CCPR Welcome and Introductions
DESCRIPTION:Please come join us to learn all about the California Center for Population Research! \nProfessors Judith Seltzer\, Till von Wachter\, and Jennie Brand will be presenting. \nThis will be the kick-off event for the start of the upcoming 2017-2018 CCPR Seminar Series.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/2017-2018-ccpr-welcome-introductions/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170913T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170914T170000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20180409T180101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T162655Z
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SUMMARY:2017 Federal Statistical Research Data Center Annual Conference
DESCRIPTION:The California Census Research Data Center (CCRDC) at University of California Los Angeles invites proposals to present papers and posters at the 2017 Federal Statistical Research Data Center Annual Conference. We also will consider proposals for workshops and panel discussions.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/2017-federal-statistical-research-data-center-annual-conference/
LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,Other Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170609T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170609T130000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20170530T220912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170530T220912Z
UID:10000563-1497009600-1497013200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:James Robins\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Departments of Epidemiology\, Biostatistics\, Statistics and the Center for Social Statistics presents:\nCausal Methods in Epidemiology: Where has it got us and what can we expect in the future?\nThe principal focus of Dr. Robins’ research has been the development of analytic methods appropriate for drawing causal inferences from complex observational and randomized studies with time-varying exposures or treatments. The new methods are to a large extent based on the estimation of the parameters of a new class of causal models – the structural nested models – using a new class of estimators – the G estimators.\nPlease RSVP: https://goo.gl/wScewQ \nSpeaker:\nJames Robins\, Mitchell L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology\, Harvard University\nhttps://www.hsph.harvard.edu/james-robins/
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/james-robins-harvard-university/
LOCATION:Room 33-105 CHS Building\, 650 Charles E Young Drive South\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095 \, United States
CATEGORIES:CSS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20170329T174927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170605T163748Z
UID:10000553-1496836800-1496842200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Randall Akee\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:“Reservation Employer Establishments: Data from the U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Data Set” \nAbstract: The presence of employers and jobs on American Indian reservations has been difficult to analyze due to limited data. We are the first to geocode confidential data on employer establishments from the U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) to identify location on or off American Indian reservations. We identify the per-capita establishment count and jobs in reservation-based employer establishments for most federally recognized reservations. Comparisons to nearby non-reservation areas in the lower 48 states across 18 industries\, reveal that reservations have a similar sectoral distribution of employer establishments but have significantly fewer of them in nearly all sectors\, especially when the area population is below 15\,000 (as it is on the vast majority of reservations and for the majority of the reservation population). By contrast\, total jobs provided by reservation establishments are\, on average\, at par with or somewhat higher than in nearby county areas but are concentrated among casino-related and government employers. An implication is that average employment  per establishment are higher in these sectors on reservations\, including those with populations below 15\,000\, while the rest of the economy is sparser in reservations (in firm count and jobs per capita) Geographic and demographic factors such as population density and per capita income statistically account for some but not all of these differences. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/randall-akee-ucla-2/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170606T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170606T171500
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20220415T204309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T162325Z
UID:10000762-1496739600-1496769300@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA – HKUST International Symposium on Segregation & Neighborhood Effects
DESCRIPTION:UCLA – HKUST International Symposium on Segregation & Neighborhood Effects\nJune 6th 2017\, 9:00 AM – 5:15 PM\nUCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate \nSymposium Agenda:\n1) Segregation in the United States and its Global Impact. Discussant: Michael Lens\, UCLA.\n2) New Measures and New Impacts: Segregation in the United States. Discussant: Anne Pebley\, UCLA.\n3) International Experiences. Discussant: Min Zhou\, UCLA
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ucla-hkust-international-symposium-on-segregation-neighborhood-effects/
LOCATION:UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate\, 110 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,Other Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T160000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20170504T213904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T024800Z
UID:10000562-1496404800-1496419200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Fragile Families Challenge: Getting Started Workshop
DESCRIPTION:“Fragile Families Challenge: Getting Started Workshop” \nIan Lundberg  \nPh.D. Student\, Sociology and Social Policy\,  Princeton University \nThe Fragile Families Challenge is a scientific mass collaboration that combines predictive modeling\, causal inference\, and in-depth interviews in order to learn more about the lives of disadvantaged children. Fragile Families Challenge builds on the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study that has been running for about 20 years. The Fragile Families research team has been following about 5\,000 families—-collecting information about them and their environment at regular intervals—in order to understand how to improve the lives of disadvantaged children in the US. \n *Co-Sponsored with the Center for Social Statistics\, UCLA  \nRegister now @ fragilefamilieschallenge.org\, please specify you plan to attend the UCLA workshop
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/fragile-families-challenge-getting-started-workshop/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop,CSS Events
ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20170418T221321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T162237Z
UID:10000561-1496232000-1496237400@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Research Ethics: The Use of Big Data
DESCRIPTION:The use of big data has become increasingly common in social and health research\, raising a series of new and difficult questions about research ethics.  In this informal workshop\, a panel of investigators using big data for their research will describe issues that they have faced and other potential problems.  As background to this workshop\, you may want to read: \n\nhttp://bdes.datasociety.net/council-output/perspectives-on-big-data-ethics-and-society/\nKramer ADI\, Guillory JE and Hancock JT (2014) Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(24): 8788–8790.\nhttp://www.michaelzimmer.org/2016/06/03/okcupid-and-the-ethics-of-big-data-research/\nZimmer\, M. Ethics Inf Technol (2010) 12: 313. doi:10.1007/s10676-010-9227-5\n\nPanelists: \n\nChristina Palmer\, CGC\, PhD\n\nProfessor\, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences\, and Genetics\, UCLA \n\nIrene PasquettoPh.D. Candidate\, Department of Information Studies\, UCLAGraduate Student Researcher\, UCLA Center for Knowledge Infrastructures\nSean Young\, PhD\n\n  \nAssociate Professor \nExecutive Director \nUniversity of California Institute for Prediction Technology (UCIPT) \nDepartment of Family Medicine\, UCLA
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/research-ethics-use-big-data/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20161110T001637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170418T182826Z
UID:10000447-1495713600-1495719000@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Maggie R. Jones\, United States Census Bureau
DESCRIPTION:“Refund Anticipation Products and the Improper Payment of the EITC” \n*Co-Sponsored with Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar Series UCLA \nMore on Dr. Jones 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/maggie-r-jones-united-states-census-bureau/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20170410T210610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T205311Z
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SUMMARY:Shahryar Minhas\, Duke University
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Social Statistics Presents:\nPredicting the Evolution of Intrastate Conflict: Evidence from Nigeria\nurl: http://css.stat.ucla.edu/event/shahryar-minhas/\n\nThe endogenous nature of civil conflict has limited scholars’ abilities to draw clear inferences about the drivers of conflict evolution. We argue that three primary features characterize the complexity of intrastate conflict: (1) the interdependent relationships of conflict between actors; (2) the impact of armed groups on violence as they enter or exit the conflict network; and (3) the ability of civilians to influence the strategic interactions of armed groups. Using ACLED event data on Nigeria\, we apply a novel network-based approach to predict the evolution of intrastate conflict dynamics. Our network approach yields insights about the effects of civilian victimization and key actors entering the conflict. Attacks against civilians lead groups to both be more violent\, and to become the targets of attacks in subsequent periods. Boko Haram’s entrance into the civil war leads to an increase in violence even in unrelated dyads. Further\, our approach significantly outperforms more traditional dyad-group approaches at predicting the incidence of conflict.\n\nSpeaker: \nShahryar Minha\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Duke University\nAssistant Professor\, Michigan State University\nDepartment of Political Science and the Social Science Data Analytics Program (SSDA) \nhttp://s7minhas.com/
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/shahryar-minhas-duke-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20170403T154736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T023033Z
UID:10000554-1495195200-1495200600@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Analysis of Complex Surveys using R and Stata
DESCRIPTION:Instructors: \nMichael Tzen\, CCPR UCLA \nAndy Lin\, IDRE UCLA \nLocation: \nMay 19\, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm \n4240 Public Affairs Building \nAbstract: \nIn this workshop\, attendees will learn how to analyze survey data while accounting for its complex survey design. Using both the R and Stata software packages\, 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. \nNote: \nPlease bring your own laptop.\nFor R\, we will use instantaneous Jupyter notebooks (no install required)\nFor Stata\, please have a TS1 account or your own copy of Stata\n(for software assistance\, contact emoss@ccpr.ucla.edu)\n\nslides ipynb do \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/analysis-complex-surveys-using-r-stata/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20161110T001132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T204014Z
UID:10000446-1495022400-1495027800@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Marcella Alsan\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men” \nAbstract: For forty years\, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively monitored hundreds of adult black males with syphilis despite the availability of effective treatment. The study’s methods have become synonymous with exploitation and mistreatment by the medical community. We find that the historical disclosure of the study in 1972 is correlated with increases in medical mistrust and mortality and decreases in both outpatient and inpatient physician interactions for older black men. Our estimates imply life expectancy at age 45 for black men fell by up to 1.4 years in response to the disclosure\, accounting for approximately 35% of the 1980 life expectancy gap between black and white men. \nMore on Prof. Alsan  \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/marcella-alsan-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20161110T000823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T203921Z
UID:10000445-1494417600-1494423000@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Jere R. Behrman\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Applied Group in the Department of Economics \n“Early-Life Undernourishment in Developing Countries:  Prevalence\, Impacts over the Life Cycle and Determinants” \nAbstract: \nEarly-life undernourishment is a widespread phenomenon in many developing countries\, with an estimated 170 million children under 5 years of age stunted\, the standard indicator of chronic malnutrition.  This presentation summarizes an ongoing work program on this topic\, with reference to the prevalence\, impacts and determinants of such undernutrition. \n  \nMore on Prof. Behrman \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jere-r-behrman-university-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T170000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20170403T155446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T162150Z
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SUMMARY:Political Sociology and the Global South Student Conference: Interdisciplinary Insights from the Global South
DESCRIPTION:Political Sociology Working Group\, UCLA  \nPolitical Sociology and the Global South Student Conference: Interdisciplinary Insights from the Global South \nMay 5th\, 2017 \n4240 Public Affairs Building \nThe UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group in collaboration with the Institute on Inequality and Democracy invites abstract submissions for an interdisciplinary graduate student conference. We welcome submissions from graduate students across the UCLA campus.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/political-sociology-global-south-student-conference-interdisciplinary-insights-global-south/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,Other Conferences
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20161110T000345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T203529Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Duggan\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“To Work for Yourself\, for Others\, or Not at All? How Disability Benefits Affect The Employment Decisions of Older Veterans“ \nAbstract: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation (DC) program provides disability benefits to nearly one in five military veterans in the US and its annual expenditures exceed $60 billion. We examine how the receipt of DC benefits affects the employment decisions of older veterans. We make use of variation in program eligibility resulting from a 2001 policy change that increased access to the program for Vietnam veterans who served with “boots on the ground” in the Vietnam theater but not for other veterans of that same era. We find that the policy-induced increase in program enrollment decreased labor force participation and induced a substantially larger switch from wage employment to self-employment. This latter finding suggests that an exogenous increase in income spurred many older veterans to start their own businesses. Additionally\, we estimate that one in four veterans who entered the DC program due to this policy change left the labor force\, estimates in the same range as those from recent studies of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. \nMore on Prof. Duggan  \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/mark-duggan-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170423T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T170000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20170403T155701Z
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SUMMARY:West Coast Experiments Conference\, UCLA 2017
DESCRIPTION:The tenth annual West Coast Experiments Conference will be held at UCLA on Monday\, April 24 and Tuesday\, April 25\, 2017\, preceded by in-depth methods training workshops on Sunday\, April 23. \nThe conference registration webpage is wce2017ucla.eventbrite.com. \nThe WCE is an annual conference that brings together leading scholars and graduate students in economics\, political science and other social sciences who share an interest in causal identification broadly speaking.  Now in its tenth year\, the WCE is a venue for methodological instruction and debate over design-based and observational methods for causal inference\, both theory and applications. \nThe speakers are Judea Pearl\, Rosa Matzkin\, Niall Cardin\, Angus Deaton\, Chris Auld\, Jeff Wooldridge\, Ed Leamer\, Karim Chalak\, Rodrigo Pinto\, Clark Glymour\, Elias Barenboim\, Adam Glynn\, and Karthika Mohan. \nRegistration is free\, but you must register at wce2017ucla.eventbrite.com to get a ticket for each day you plan to attend. Registration is first-come-first-served.  The deadline to register is April 18\, 2017 at 8:00 AM PDT. \nWe also will host free in-depth methods training workshops on the afternoon of Sunday\, April 23.  We are currently planning these workshops so please watch this space for upcoming details.  The topics will include causal graphs and big data.  You can register for these workshops when you register for the conference. \nThis conference is funded by a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and sponsored by the UCLA Department of Political Science\, UCR School of Public Policy\, California Center for Population Research and the Center for Social Statistics. \nThe organizing committee this year is Chad Hazlett\, Judea Pearl\, Rodrigo Pinto\, and Manisha Shah.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/west-coast-experiments-conference-ucla-2017/
LOCATION:Covel Commons UCLA
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Workshop,CSS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20170403T155336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T162102Z
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SUMMARY:The Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar (PPASS)\, Amy Finkelstein
DESCRIPTION:The Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar (PPASS) series invites leading scholars from both UCLA and universities across the nation to present new research on a wide variety of important issues\, including crime\, labor markets\, human capital and education\, inequality and poverty\, the environment\, public finance\, political economy\, urban economics\, health care reform\, and economic development. Featured research typically employ strong empirical analyses to address issues of deep policy relevance that are of interest to applied social science faculty and students on campus. \nAmy Finkelstein  \nThe Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar (PPASS) \nApril 20\, 2017\, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM \n4240 Public Affairs Building
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/public-policy-applied-social-science-seminar-ppass-amy-finkelstein/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,Other Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170415T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170416T170000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20170403T155159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T203513Z
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SUMMARY:NBER Cohort Studies Meeting 2017
DESCRIPTION:CCPR is hosting the annual NBER Cohort Studies meeting which brings together researchers from different fields interested in aging related issues or in methodologies applicable to aging and has set the seeds for synergistic relationships between economists\, sociologists\, demographers\, psychologists\, epidemiologists\, and MDs. The meeting is funded in part by an NIH conference grant through NBER. \nApril 15-16\, 2017 8:00 am – 5:00 pm \n4240 Public Affairs Building \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/nber-cohort-studies-meeting-2017/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,Other Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20161110T000054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170314T201735Z
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SUMMARY:Siwan Anderson\, University of British Columbia\, Vancouver
DESCRIPTION:  \n“Legal Origins and Female HIV “ \nMore than half of all people living with HIV are women and 80% of all HIV positive women in the world live in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper demonstrates that the legal origins of these formally colonized countries significantly determines current day female HIV rates. In particular\, female HIV rates are significantly higher in common law Sub-Saharan African countries compared to Civil law ones. This paper explains this relationship by focusing on differences in female property rights under the two codes of law. In Sub-Saharan Africa\, common law is associated with weaker female marital property laws. As a result\, women in these common law countries have lower bargaining power within the household and are less able to negotiate safer sex and are thus more vulnerable to HIV\, compared to their civil law counterparts. Exploiting the fact that some ethnic groups in Sub-Saharan Africa cross country borders with different legal systems\, we are able to include ethnicity fixed effects into a regression discontinuity approach. This allows us to control for a large set of cultural\, geographical\, and environmental factors that could be confounding the estimates. The results of this paper are consistent with gender inequality (the ‘feminization of AIDS’) explaining much of its prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa. \nMore on Prof. Anderson
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/siwan-anderson-university-british-columbia-vancouver/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20161201T222138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T203755Z
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SUMMARY:Kayla de la Haye\, University of Southern California
DESCRIPTION:Harnessing Social Networks and Social Systems for Obesity Prevention \nABSTRACT \nOur health and social networks are closely intertwined. In this talk\, I describe how the complex web of family\, friend\, and peer relationships in which we are embedded—i.e.\, our social networks– influence eating\, physical activity\, and obesity\, and how the dynamics of our evolving behaviors and social networks shape population obesity rates. I will outline intervention and policy strategies that have the potential to activate\, harness\, or alter social networks and broader social-ecological systems\, so that these social contexts play a more supportive role in the prevention and treatment of obesity. \nMore on Prof. de la Haye \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/kayla-de-la-haye-university-southern-california/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170322T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170322T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20161109T234158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T223926Z
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SUMMARY:Jeremy Freese\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“The Problem of Causal Mutualisms\, The Promise of Polygenic Scores\, and The Pervasive Divergence of Life Outcomes” \nAbstract: \nCasual mutualisms are sets of properties that have substantial reciprocal influence on one another.  This may sound abstruse\, but various big constructs in behavioral science\, including “heritability\,” “SES”\, “health”\, and “achievement\,” exhibit clear signs of instantiating massive mutualisms and yet many implications of their doing so remain largely unpursued.  The talk will describe the problem and several routes into it by reference to a series of phenomena that might otherwise appear unrelated\, on intellectual achievement\, educational attainment\, and health disparities. Together these examples are used to argue for a more strongly integrative and developmental social science\, as well as the potential value of predictive scores based on genomic information for helping reckon with mutualisms. \n  \nMore on Prof. Freese
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jeremy-freese-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20161109T234011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170303T184046Z
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SUMMARY:Julia Lane\, New York University
DESCRIPTION:“Research Funding and the Foreign Born” \nThere has been a resurgence of interest in the link between immigration and economic activity. The evidence suggests that US education plays an important role in both attracting and retaining high-quality foreign-born students. This is particularly true in the case of doctorates trained in science\, technology\, engineering and mathematics (STEM)\, a workforce that is disproportionately foreign born and likely to contribute to long-term economic growth. Because of this\, much effort is given toward attracting talented students and retaining them in the US workforce after they complete their studies. However\, little is known about how that attraction and retention works.  In this paper we use new data to examine the role of an important policy lever-research funding—in keeping both domestic and foreign-born workers in the US labor market. \n  \nMore on Prof. Julia Lane
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/julia-lane-new-york-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20161109T233703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T221826Z
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SUMMARY:Shripad Tuljapurkar\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“New Thoughts on Old Age” \nAbstract: I will discuss late-age career transitions and retirement incentive plans\, the annuity puzzle\, and financial issues that are faced by the aging population. My discussion aims to stimulate new thoughts and argument about aging and retirement. \n  \nMore on Prof. Tuljapurkar
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/shripad-tuljapurkar-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20161109T222536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170112T204911Z
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SUMMARY:Damon Centola\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:Diffusion in Social Networks:  New Theory and Experiments\nAbstract: The strength of weak ties is that they tend to be long – they connect socially distant locations. Research on “small worlds” shows that these long ties can dramatically reduce the “degrees of separation” of a social network\, thereby allowing ideas and behaviors to rapidly diffuse. However\, I show that the opposite can also be true.  Increasing the frequency of long ties in a clustered social network can also inhibit the diffusion of collective behavior across a population.  For health related behaviors that require strong social reinforcement\, such as dieting\, exercising\, smoking cessation\, or even condom use\, successful diffusion may depend primarily on the width of bridges between otherwise distant locations\, not just their length.  I present formal and computational results that demonstrate these findings\, and then present an experimental test of the effects of social network topology on the diffusion of health behavior. \nMore on Prof. Centola 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/damon-centola-university-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T145412
CREATED:20161221T182736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T022911Z
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SUMMARY:High Performance Computing for Demographers
DESCRIPTION:Presenters: \nEdward Moss   \nAssistant Director for Computing Services \nCalifornia Center for Population Research \nMike Tzen   \nAssistant Director for Statistics and Methods Services \nCalifornia Center for Population Research \n   \nData analysis of large and highly complex datasets is extremely resource intensive\, and inadequate computing resources can cause data analysis to slow to a crawl if it’s even able to be performed at all. Remotely accessing a high performance computing platform provides access to analysis resources that likely far exceed those of your personal computer. CCPR currently recommends two options for remote high performance computing \n\nTS1 – CCPR managed Windows based system including Stata\, SAS\, and ArcGIS\nHoffman2 – Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) managed Linux based system including Rstudio\, Stata and MATLAB\n\nWe will provide background descriptions\, access walkthrough\, and analysis demonstration for each service. \nBefore attending the workshop\, please make sure you have an account on hoffman2 and CCPR’s TS1. Contact emoss @ ccpr.ucla.edu if you need assistance. \n  \nslides
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/high-performance-computing-demographers/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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