Join us on Thursday, March 14 from noon- 1 pm Please RSVP and submit questions for the panelist beforehand using this form. Location: UCLA CCPR seminar room (4240A Public Affairs) The panel will kick off with a brief introduction, setting the stage for a discussion about NIH funding opportunities focused specifically on predoctoral F31 grants. Attendees will […]
Biography: Rebecca Dizon-Ross is a development economist and applied microeconomist with an interest in human capital. Much of her current work is on the demand side, aiming to understand the determinants of households’ investments in health and education and to evaluate interventions to increase investment. Rebecca is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago […]
Electronic patient records (EPRs) have been shown to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare delivery. While developed countries are ahead in this transition, with nearly all hospital settings relying on EPRs, developing countries are still lagging. Without EPRs, physicians struggle to have a clear medical history of patients; consequently, healthcare quality and efficiency […]
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Biography Andrew Penner is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Penner's research examines how society creates categories and sorts people into them, and focuses on the consequences of these categorization processes for inequality. At UCI, Penner serves as […]
Biography: Jeff Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the department of economics at USC. He is an applied microeconomist working on a range of topics in development economics, political economy, and labor economics. His past work has examined topics such as public service delivery in India, the evolution of cultural institutions, and crime and low wage labor markets in […]
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Biography: Christopher Walters is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Walters joined the faculty at Berkeley after completing his PhD in economics at MIT in 2013. He is also a Research Associate in the NBER programs on education and labor studies, an IZA Research […]
The California Center for Population Research (CCPR) will host The All-UC Demography Conference on May 16-17, 2024. Let us know if you’ll be attending! Click here to register This event is open to all University of California faculty and graduate students as well as all researchers affiliated with UC population and poverty centers: The Berkeley Population […]
Biography: Peter Hull is a Professor of Economics at Brown University, a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER Labor Studies, Education, and Health Care programs in Labor Studies, and the econometrics editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research spans a variety of topics in applied econometrics, education, health care, discrimination, and criminal […]
Biography: Parag A. Pathak is the Class of 1922 Professor of Economics at MIT, founding co-director of the NBER Working Group on Market Design, and founder of MIT's Blueprint Labs. His research is on education and market design. He is currently a co-editor of Econometrica and the recipient of the 2018 John Bates Clark Medal. […]
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Johnny Huynh is an applied microeconomist specializing in health and labor economics, and his research uses the methods of causal inference to address policy-relevant questions about inequality in health. Johnny will present his paper, “Do Cash Transfers Narrow Health Disparities? Evidence from Veterans with Disabilities.” Johnny will be joining the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy […]
From June 24 to July 3, 2024 the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Division of Social Sciences and the California Center for Population Research will sponsor the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, to be held at the University of California Los Angeles. The Organizing Committee Jennie Brand, Professor, Sociology and Statistics Dora Costa, […]
UCLA will host the 2024 All-California Labor Economics Conference (ACLEC). We define labor broadly and will consider submissions in a broad set of areas in applied microeconomics. The conference will take place at UCLA on Thursday and Friday, September 12-13, 2024. Click here for more details.
Join CCPR affiliates for bagels from Noah's Bagels and get to know one another in a casual setting. Bagels are served in the CCPR Break Room.
Join CCPR affiliates for bagels from Noah's Bagels and get to know one another in a casual setting. Bagels are served in the CCPR Break Room.
A recording of Roger Silanoe’s presentation may be accessed here. The slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
