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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
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. […]
CCPR at PAA 2023 Conference schedule may be accessed here.
Workshop: Preproducibility: what we may not, with advantage, omit Please note that there will be no remote attendance for this event. All attendees must attend the workshop in person. Panelists: Philip B. Stark (Remote), Yotam Shem-Tov, Irene Bloemraad (Remote), and Randall Kuhn Moderator: Patrick Heuveline Presenter: Philip B. Stark is Distinguished Professor of Statistics at […]
Biography: Marcella Alsan is a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Alsan received a BA from Harvard University, a master’s in public health from Harvard School of Public Health, a MD from Loyola University, and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Alsan trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Hiatt Global Health Equity […]
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 […]
All-UC Demography Conference 2023 - Save the date UCI’s Center for Population, Inequality and Policy will invite submissions to present at the inaugural All-UC Demography Conference. This meeting will highlight current demographic research happening within the UC system and provide a venue for making connections across UC campuses, with a keynote talk by Ron Lee, Distinguished Professor […]
Biography: Itzik Fadlon is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego and a Research Associate in the programs on Aging and Public Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His primary fields of interest are public finance, health economics, and labor/family economics. His work studies household behavior and the […]
Biography: Steven Stillman received his PhD in Economics from the University of Washington in 2000. Prior to moving to Italy in 2016, he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Otago in New Zealand. His research focuses on empirical labour economics, specialising in the behaviour of individuals and households, and the interplay between […]
CCPR will host an in-person workshop, "How to do Difference-in-Differences," with Pedro Sant'Anna. Difference-in-Differences (DiD) is among the most popular strategies to identify causal effects in observational studies. The workshop will update you on this fast-moving literature and best practices with hands-on practice in R and Stata. For Ph.D. students, post-docs, faculty (or anyone […]
Differences-in-differences Mini-conference May 24, 2023 UCLA, California Center for Population Research 9-11:30am Speakers hold for meetings 12-1:30pm Panel discussion: What’s new with differences-in-differences? Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank), Alyssa Bilinski (Brown), Jon Roth (Brown), Pedro Sant’Anna (Vanderbilt), Jeff Wooldridge (MSU) SHORT LUNCH BREAK & ROOM SET UP 2:15-3:00pm Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank), […]
Biography: Caitlin is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at UCLA. She is broadly interested in inequality in educational and occupational attainment, the role of education in social stratification processes, and policy approaches to addressing poverty and inequality. She is also interested in applications of causal inference using large-scale survey data. Her dissertation explores the ways […]
From June 19 to June 30, 2023, 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 purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together advanced […]
From June 20 to June 30, 2023, 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. For more information about the event go here: https://sicss.io/2023/ucla/
More events to come beginning Fall 2023.
Attend as many or as few sessions as you wish This free, virtual workshop is designed for researchers and enables non-experts to develop computing skills for research analysis. Registration is open to all UC students, staff, postdocs, and faculty. Time: 8:30 - 12:30 PDT via Zoom Week 1 Sept. 11 / Day 1: The Unix […]
This free, virtual workshop is designed for researchers and enables non-experts to develop computing skills for research analysis. Registration is open to all UC students, staff, postdocs, and faculty.
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, […]
