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UCSD/UCLA/CIFAR Conference on Development Economics, Political Economy, and Culture

UCSD, PEB 721 University of California, San Diego Dean's Office, School of Social Sciences 9500 Gilman Drive, # 0502, La Jolla, CA, United States

The development groups at UCSD and UCLA are organizing a one-day workshop for advanced graduate students (e.g., those going on the market soon) and junior faculty in the Southern California area to present work related to Economic Development, Preference Formation, Political Economy, and Culture. The workshop will be held at UCSD on Saturday September 30, […]

Seminar Series: Welcome and Introduction

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California Center for Population Research Seminar Series Welcome and Introductions Wednesday, October 4, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 4240A Public Affairs Building (Lunch will be provided) This will be the kick-off event for the start of the upcoming 2023-24 CCPR Seminar Series. Please join us to learn all about CCPR as we welcome new […]

Gary Solon, University of Michigan, “What Are We Weighting For?” (STC Workshop)

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Biography: Gary Solon is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Michigan. He was Eller Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona during 2015-2018 and Professor of Economics at Michigan State University during 2007-2015. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow of the Society of Labor […]

Pauline Rossi, Ecole Polytechnique-CREST, “Drivers of Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (joint with Pascaline Dupas, Seema Jayachandran and Adriana Lleras-Muney)”

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Biography: Pauline Rossi is an Associate Professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique-CREST and a Research Affiliate at CEPR. Her fields of research are Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics and Family Economics. She is the PI of the ERC Starting Grant "Peers and Possible Partners: Exploring the Origins of Population Long-term Equilibria" (P3OPLE). She is visiting CCPR […]

Julia Strasser, George Washington University, “Who is Providing Contraception & Abortion Care in the US? Using Claims Data to Study the Reproductive Health Workforce”

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Biography: Julia Strasser, DrPH, MPH, is the Director of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health and an Assistant Research Professor of Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University. Dr. Strasser's research focuses on contraception, abortion, and access to care for underserved populations. She has worked in healthcare, focusing on policy and research, for […]

Computing Orientation Workshop with Neal Fultz (STC workshop)

Computing Orientation Workshop with Neal Fultz Instructor: Neal Fultz 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 and TS2. […]

Cesi Cruz, University of California, Los Angeles, “Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy in Polarized Societies”

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Biography: Cesi Cruz is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She works on topics at the intersection of political science and economics, including elections, misinformation, gender and inclusive development. Her research is based on fieldwork in Cambodia and the […]

Bryce Steinberg, Brown University, “Family Planning, Now and Later: Infertility Fear and Contraception Take-Up”

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Biography: Bryce Millett Steinberg is a development economist who studies how households make decisions about investing in education and health, and how market forces and government programs can affect those decisions. Her work is primarily focused in India and Zambia. She is currently the IJC Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and received her Ph.D. from […]

Clémence Tricaud, University of California, Los Angeles, “Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Crisis Response”

Bio: Clémence Tricaud is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. She is also a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an affiliate member of the CESifo. She received her Ph.D in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique and CREST in 2020. Her research lies at the […]

CU Workshop Announcement: Advancing social science research on abortion

Advancing social science research on abortion: demographic methods and perspectives - CU Population Center (colorado.edu) Dates: December 6-8, 2023 Steering Committee: Leslie Root, Amanda Stevenson, Jane Menken, Sara Yeatman, Stefanie Mollborn, and Katie Genadek Location: Hybrid, online and in-person at CU Population Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder Since the Supreme Court […]

Alex Bell, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Long-Term Impacts of Mentors: Evidence from Experimental and Administrative Data”

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Biography: Alex Bell is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Policy Lab at UCLA. Dr. Bell's research seeks to document the unequal experiences of workers in the labor market and the implications of these inequalities for society as a whole. He is also interested in the intersection of labor market inequality with innovation. He often […]

Emily Weisburst, University of California, Los Angeles, “Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety”

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Biography: Emily Weisburst is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. Weisburst's work focuses on topics in labor economics, including criminal justice, education and immigration. Her research interests include understanding factors that impact police decision-making and public trust in police, as well […]

Philip Massey, University of California, Los Angeles “Social Media as a Tool for Public Health Communication”

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Biography: Dr. Philip M. Massey, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in Community Health Sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. His health communication scholarship focuses on media and technology in the U.S. and globally, on topics ranging from social media, vaccine communication, health literacy, entertainment education, and ethics in social media research. His work takes a mixed-methods […]

Dowell Myers, University of Southern California, “Talking Demographics: Audience Reactions and Communication about Projections of Change”

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Biography: Dowell Myers is a professor of policy, planning, and demography in the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. His Ph.D. is from M.I.T. (urban planning). He has been an advisor to the Bureau of the Census and authored the widely referenced work on census analysis, Analysis with Local Census Data: Portraits of Change […]

Sameera Nayak, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: “Health in the Turbulent U.S. Sociopolitical Climate: Mental Health, Abortion Attitudes, & Immigration”

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Biography: Dr. Sameera S. Nayak (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She uses social epidemiologic and qualitative methods to investigate associations between social conditions and health inequities around the world. She has conducted research globally in the East African region as well as domestically in the […]

Romain Wacziarg, University of California, Los Angeles: “Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility”

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Biography: Romain Wacziarg is at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he holds the Hans Hufschmid Chair in Management. His research deals with a broad range of topics in political economy, including the interaction between demographic factors and long-run economic development, the links between democracy and growth, the effect of geographic and cultural barriers […]

Development workshop, 2/13 at 3pm “Scientific Accountability and Data Production”

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A panel discussion about open science, ethical risks, and potential drawbacks for certain forms of knowledge production with Irene Bloemraad (1), Cecilia Menjivar (2), Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld (3), and Jennifer Wagman (4)/ (1) UC Berkeley Sociology, (2) UCLA Sociology, (3) UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, (4) UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Giovanna Merli, Duke University, “The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on network dynamics and the well-being of Chinese immigrants”

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Biography: M. Giovanna Merli is Professor of Public Policy, Sociology and Global Health at Duke University where she is also the director of the Duke Population Research Institute. Her research straddles demography, social networks and health with recent work on the evaluation of innovative network-based sampling approaches to recruit samples of rare populations of immigrants. […]

Canceled CANCELLED: Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago, “Machine learning as a tool for hypothesis generation”

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Biography: Jens Ludwig is Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, co-director of the Education Lab, and co-director of the NBER’s working group on the economics of crime. He is on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and […]