Workshop: CCPR Computing Resources Overview

In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)

Workshop: CCPR Computing Resources Overview Instructor: Matt Lahmann Instructor: Mike Tzen This workshop has two halves. In the first half, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates, including it’s remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half, we’ll get participants signed up for hoffman2 […]

Kareem Haggag, UCLA

Biography: Kareem Haggag is an Assistant Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management in the Behavioral Decision Making area. He is also a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Haggag studies topics at the intersections of economics, political science, and psychology. Much of his research examines the roots and consequences of […]

Ray Lovett, Australian National University

In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)

Title: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Development in Australia: Supporting Our Nation(s) Agenda. Author(s) and presenters: Ray  Lovett (Wongaibon/Ngiyampaa), Jan Chapman (Taungurung), Makayla Brinckley (Wiradjuri), Nadine Hunt (Iamalaig and Kaanju). Indigenous Peoples worldwide lack opportunity to develop and implement their community development agendas from their cultural framework. Instead, governments and others impose what they conceive as development. This constitutes a modern […]

Cecilia Menjivar and Panel

State-created Categories, Displacements and Possibilities from the Margins: A conversation with demography Abstract: This panel discussion is based on Menjívar’s ASA presidential address. She argues for the importance of state-created categories and classification systems that determine eligibility for tangible and intangible resources. Through classification systems based on rules and regulations, bureaucracies maintain entrenched inequality systems […]

Amanda Glassman, Center for Global Development

Venue: Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.

Biography: Amanda Glassman is executive vice president and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and also serves as chief executive officer of CGD Europe. Her research focuses on priority-setting, resource allocation and value for money in global health, as well as data for development. Prior to her current position, she served as director for global health policy […]

Zack W. Almquist, University of Washington (CANCELLED)

In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)

Biography: Zack W. Almquist is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics, and Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. Before coming to UW in 2020, Prof. Almquist held positions as a Research Scientist at Facebook, Inc and as an Assistant Professor […]

Professional Development Series: The Stark Realities and Ethical Challenges of Transparent and Reproducible Population Research (CANCELLED)

In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)

Panelists: Cecilia Menjivar holds the Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. She specializes in immigration, gender, family dynamics, social networks, religious institutions, and broad conceptualizations of violence. She focuses on two main areas: the impacts of the immigration regime and laws on immigrants and the effects of […]

Benjamin R. Karney, UCLA

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Biography: Benjamin Karney is a Professor and Chair of Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an adjunct behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation.  His research examines intimate relationships, especially marriage, and focuses on how relationships are facilitated or constrained by the contexts in which they take place. Currently, he leads the […]

Computing Resource Overview Workshop

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CCPR Workshop: Computing Resources Overview Jan 18, 2022, 12:00pm-1:30pm Presenters: Matt Lahmann This workshop has two halves. In the first half, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates, including it’s remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half, we’ll get participants signed up for […]

Charlie Branas, Columbia University

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Biography: Dr. Charles Branas is currently Department Chair and Gelman Endowed Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Branas has conducted research that extends from urban and rural areas in the US to communities across the globe, incorporating place-based interventions and human geography. He has led win-win science that generates new […]

Graeme Blair, UCLA

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Biography: Graeme Blair is an associate professor of political science at UCLA and serves as Co-Director of Training and Methods of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). Graeme uses experiments, field research, and statistics to study how to reduce violence and how to improve social science research. He works primarily in Nigeria, often in partnership […]

Robert Hummer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Biography: Robert A. Hummer is the Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). He moved to UNC-CH in 2015 after spending 19 years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as Director of their NICHD-supported […]

Juliana Londoño-Vélez, UCLA

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Biography: Juliana Londoño-Vélez is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, an NBER Faculty Research Fellow, a J-PAL Affiliate, and a Faculty Affiliate at CCPR and CEGA. Juliana works on inequality and redistributive tax and transfer policies, with a particular interest in developing countries. Title: "Financial Aid and Social Mobility: […]

Chris Blattman, University of Chicago

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Biography: Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute and Harris School of Public Policy. He is an economist and political scientist, and his work on violence, crime, and poverty has been widely covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial […]

Sonalde Desai, University of Maryland (IN-PERSON EVENT ONLY)

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Please note that this is an in-person event only. The talk will not be live streamed or recorded.  Biography: Sonalde Desai (Distinguished University Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland and Professor and Centre Director, NCAER-National Data Innovation Center, New Delhi) is a demographer whose work deals primarily with social transformation and its impact on […]

Workshop: From preprints to tweets: The professional benefits and potential perils of online presence

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From preprints to tweets: the professional benefits and potential perils of online presence Panelists: Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (Epi) and Julian Londoño-Vélez (Econ) Moderator: Patrick Heuveline (Soc) Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Mayeda's research focuses on identifying modifiable determinants […]

Yotam Shem-Tov, UCLA

Biography: Yotam Shem-Tov is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. His research primarily focuses on Labor and Public Economics with a special interest in the U.S. criminal justice system. He received a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Tel-Aviv University and a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley. How Replaceable is a Low-Wage Job? […]

PAA Student Practice Talks

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Who Is Having the Second Baby? Educational Assortative Mating and Transition to the Second Child in China  Iris Zhao, Acton Jiashi Feng (equal authorship) Abstract: China continues to experience low fertility despite the lifting of the one-child policy. Most explanations focus on limited resources and ignore the role of educational assortative mating and couple dynamics. […]

2023 PAA Conference

CCPR at PAA 2023 Conference schedule may be accessed here.