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“Migration and the Labor Market Impact of COVID-19,” Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University

Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University

Bio: Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Professor of Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. Mobarak is the founder and faculty director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). He holds other appointments at Innovations for Poverty Action, the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, the International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE.

“Including Males: Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health for Female Adolescents,” Manisha Shah, UCLA

Manisha Shah, UCLA Abstract: Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of unplanned pregnancy and intimate partner violence across the globe. We implement a randomized controlled trial offering females free access to contraceptives, behavior change programming to male partners through soccer, and a goal-setting activity around staying healthy in order to improve […]

SSCERT Workshop: Practical Web Technologies for Social Scientists

Practical Web Technologies for Social Scientists Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021 Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Instructor: Neal Fultz This workshop will introduce the alphabet soup of technologies powering the modern web; TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, XML, JSON, REST APIs, OAUTH, SSL, AWS, among others. Attendees will build up enough background knowledge to begin scraping data from […]

PAA Student Practice Talks

12:00 - 12:40 Shuchi Goyal, presentation title:"A Practical Revealed Preference Model for Separating Preferences and Availability Effects in Marriage Formation" Many problems in demography require models for partnership formation that separate latent preferences for partners from the availability of partners. We consider a model for matchings within a bipartite population where individuals have utility for […]

CCPR Census Workshop Series Part 2: Editing, Imputing, and Maintaining Privacy

Instructor: Mike Tzen In this 2nd CCPR Census Workshop (2 of 3), we'll take a look at some of the ways the US Census Bureau, edits, imputes, and maintains privacy of the 2020 decennial census data before releasing it to the public. For practical reasons, we'll spend more time on imputation, as attendees will most […]

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. […]