Biography: Berk Ozler received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Boğaziçi University in 1991, and his Ph.D in Economics from Cornell University in 2001. After working on poverty and inequality measurement, poverty mapping, and the 2006 World Development Report on Equity and Development earlier, he decided to combine his interest in cash transfer programs and HIV […]
Biography: Goleen Samari is an assistant professor and population health demographer in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health and Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Her research considers how racism, gender inequities, and migration-based inequities shape reproductive and population health with a particular focus on […]
Abstract: This seminar will describe key issues in planning for and writing a research grant proposal for the National Institutes of Health if you are a demographer, social scientist, and/or working on the social determinants of health. The emphasis will be on R01, R21, and R03 proposals. Participants are invited to bring their own experiences […]
Presenters: Elizabeth Bruch (Michigan), Lauren Gaydosh (UT-Austin), Jayanti Owens (Brown), Alexis Santos (Penn State), Rob Warren (Minnesota) Moderated by: Jenna Nobles, UW–Madison Join via Zoom at https://go.wisc.edu/d4vz8f Co-sponsored by: Center for Family and Demographic Research (BGSU); Population Studies and Training Center (Brown); Cornell Population Center (Cornell); Population Studies Center (Michigan); Minnesota Population Center (UMN); Population […]
Nathan Hoffmann Title: Strangers in the Homeland? The Academic Performance of Children of Return Migrants in Mexico Abstract: The number of return migrants from the U.S. to Mexico has swelled in recent years, and yet we know little about the academic performance of the over 500,000 U.S.-born children who have accompanied them. This paper harnesses PISA test […]
Biography: Sandra E. Black is Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She received her B.A. from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. Since that time, she worked as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and an Assistant, Associate, and ultimately Professor in […]
Biography: Stephen Machin is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, has been President of the European Association of Labour Economists, is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and was an independent member of the […]
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, […]
Biography: Rasmus Landersø is a Research Professor at the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rasmus has received his BA from the University of Copenhagen and his PhD from Aarhus University, and he has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago. Rasmus is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of […]
Biography: Katie R. Genadek is the Director of the Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage (DCDL) project and an Economist working at the U.S. Census Bureau. She is also a faculty associate at the University of Colorado – Boulder. She previously worked at the University of Minnesota where she managed the IPUMS-USA data project. She is […]
Biography: Kari White is an associate professor in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work and Department of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on evaluating the interrelationship between people’s reproductive health behaviors and outcomes and the health services and policies that shape their access to care. She is the […]
Biography: Dr Ping Qin is professor at National Center for Suicide Research and Prevention, University of Oslo in Norway, and head of research group for register-based study on suicide and self-harm. Professor Qin has been dedicated to reseach on suicide prevention and psychiatric epidemiology for more than 25 years, with extensive experience in population studies with […]
Biography: Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at UCLA. Her research focuses on two different topics. First, she studies the welfare consequences of urban policies in developing countries. Specifically, she investigates the long-term impact of public housing programs on families and their children and their consequences on income inequality within […]
CCPR Welcome and Introductions at the Sculpture Garden This will be the kick-off event for the start of the upcoming 2022-23 CCPR Seminar Series. Please join us to learn all about CCPR as we welcome new affiliates and reconnect in person. Lunch boxes will be provided.
Biography: Feinian Chen is Professor of Sociology and faculty affiliate at the Hopkins Population Center at Johns Hopkins University. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 and was trained in social demography at the Carolina Population Center. Her research crosscuts a range of areas in […]
Biography: Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She uses quantitative methods to study inequality in the contemporary United States. In one line of research, Killewald investigates the gendered intersection of work and family. In another, she analyzes how wealth inequality persists across generations and the role of intergenerational processes in the […]
Workshop: CCPR Computing Resources Overview 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 […]
Biography: Kareem Haggag is an Assistant Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management in the Behavioral Decision Making area. He is also a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Haggag studies topics at the intersections of economics, political science, and psychology. Much of his research examines the roots and consequences of […]
Title: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Development in Australia: Supporting Our Nation(s) Agenda. Author(s) and presenters: Ray Lovett (Wongaibon/Ngiyampaa), Jan Chapman (Taungurung), Makayla Brinckley (Wiradjuri), Nadine Hunt (Iamalaig and Kaanju). Indigenous Peoples worldwide lack opportunity to develop and implement their community development agendas from their cultural framework. Instead, governments and others impose what they conceive as development. This constitutes a modern […]
State-created Categories, Displacements and Possibilities from the Margins: A conversation with demography Abstract: This panel discussion is based on Menjívar’s ASA presidential address. She argues for the importance of state-created categories and classification systems that determine eligibility for tangible and intangible resources. Through classification systems based on rules and regulations, bureaucracies maintain entrenched inequality systems […]
