PAA Student Practice Talks

12:00 - 12:30 Nathan Hoffmann, presentation title: "A 'Win-Win Exercise'? Eastern European Children in Western Europe"   12:30 - 1:00 Brett McCully, presentation title: "Immigration, Legal Status, and Illegal Trade" Abstract: Nearly $2 trillion worth of illegal goods are trafficked across international borders every year, generating violence and other social costs along the way. Some […]

“A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh,” Erica Field, Duke University

Erica Field, Duke University

Bio: Erica Field is a Professor of Economics and Global Health at Duke University specializing in the fields of Development Economics, Health Economics and Economic Demography. She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research affiliate of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, and a member of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT.

Fourth Annual Robert Mare Student Lecture: Marta Bornstein, PhD (c) Community Health Sciences, UCLA

"Perceptions and experiences of (in)fertility, contraception, and reproductive health outcomes: A mixed methods study among women and men in Malawi" Bio: Marta Bornstein recently defended her dissertation in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at UCLA. Her research focuses on reproductive health and justice of under-served populations in the U.S. and […]

DemSemX: Life after Tenure

Hiram Beltran-Sanchez (UCLA), Jennie Brand (UCLA), and Rob Warren (UMN) will discuss life after tenure during their presentation.

DemSemX: Later-Stage Career Choices

DemSemX Within academia, there is a lot of focus and advice around getting tenure—understandably, as it represents a singular evaluation hurdle within tenure-granting institutions. Yet, academic careers can be long, and there are many decisions to be made after tenure about how to invest one’s time and energy. In this pair of sessions, six scholars […]

Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota

Virtual

Decomposing Race Differentials in First Marriage Rates: United States, 1960-2019 I assess Wilson’s (1987) argument that the race differential in the frequency of marriage results from a shortage of marriageable men in the African-American community. Many previous investigators have approached this problem by measuring the local availability of eligible male marriage partners for Black women. […]

CCPR Census Workshop Series Part 3: Getting the 2020 PL94 Then Using It

Instructors: Mike Tzen Neal Fultz In this CCPR Census Workshop (part 3/3), we will get the newly released 2020 Census Bureau PL94 data using the statistical programming language R. Along the way, we will point out recent criticisms of the data and highlight uses of the PL94. If time permits, we will post-stratify your special […]

Christy Erving, Vanderbilt University

Virtual

Intersectional Stressors and Black Women's Health in Established Adulthood Health disparities research confirms relatively poor physical health of Black women vis-à-vis other race-gender groups. Though some research has sought to identify the extent to which social factors explain disparities between Black women and other race-gender groups, the possibility of race-gender specific social mechanisms undergirding these […]

Martha J. Bailey, UCLA

Biography: Dr. Martha J. Bailey is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California Los Angeles. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on issues in labor economics, demography and health in the United States, within the long-run perspective of economic history. […]

Ian Lundberg, UCLA

Prediction in Social Science: A Tool to Study Inequality in Populations Biography: Ian Lundberg is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Sociology and California Center for Population Research at UCLA. His research develops statistical and machine learning methods to answer new questions about inequality in America. Past work is published or forthcoming in PNAS, the American […]

Diana Greene Foster, University of California, San Francisco

Virtual

Biography: Diana Greene Foster, PhD, is a demographer who uses quantitative models and analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of family planning policies and the effect of unwanted pregnancy on women’s lives. She is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco and Director of Research at the UCSF ANSIRH Program. She led the Turnaway […]

CCPR Demographic Computing Workshop

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 and TS2. Once signed up, […]

Noreen Goldman, Princeton University

Biography: Noreen Goldman, D.Sc., is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and a Faculty Associate at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University. A specialist in demography and social epidemiology, Goldman’s research examines the impact of social and economic factors, as well as stressful […]

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Minnesota

Biography: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Sociology and the Minnesota Population Center. She specializes in racial inequality in mortality and historical infectious disease and co-leads (with J.P. Leider) an ongoing project on COVID-19 mortality in Minnesota. She is also a quantitative methodologist, developing models designed […]

CCPR Workshop: Analyzing Sample Survey Data

In this workshop, attendees will learn how to analyze survey data while accounting for its complex survey design. 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 […]