California Center for Population Research

Workshop: Preproducibility: what we may not, with advantage, omit
2023-04-19 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 4240A Public Affairs Bldg
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 the University of California, Berkeley. He holds an AB in Philosophy from Princeton University and a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include philosophy of science and foundations of probability and statistics, active transportation, cosmology, elections, earthquakes, gender bias, lottery fraud, nonparametric statistics, physics, regenerative agriculture, simulation, uncertainty quantification, and wild food in urban ecosystems. Methods he invented for auditing elections are in law in about ten states. He has served as an expert witness or consultant for many Fortune 500 companies; the U.S. departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, and Veterans Affairs; and numerous state agencies. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
Workshop: Preproducibility: what we may not, with advantage, omit
Workshop Description: Karl Popper (1992) wrote: “Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.” Communicating a scientific result requires enumerating, recording and reporting those things that cannot with advantage be omitted. At the dawn of the Enlightenment, chemist Robert Boyle (1660) wrote The New Experiments so “that the person I addressed them to might, without mistake, and with as little trouble as possible, be able to repeat such unusual experiments.” An experiment or analysis is preproducibleif it has been described in adequate detail for others to repeat it. Most current published science is not preproducible. We need to fix that.
Moderator:
Patrick Heuveline is a Professor of Sociology at UCLA. He is also the Associate Director of the UCLA California Center for Population Research.
Panelists:
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.
Irene Bloemraad (Remote) (Ph.D. Harvard; M.A. McGill) is the Class of 1951 Professor of Sociology. She also serves as the Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies at Berkeley, is the founding Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, and co-directs the Boundaries, Membership and Belonging program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.In 2014-15, she was a member of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences committee reporting on the integration of immigrants into American society.
Randall Kuhn is a demographer and sociologist focused on the social determinants of health among vulnerable populations. He is an expert in survey design, longitudinal analysis and counterfactual research design. In the field of migration and health, Kuhn has designed new approaches to estimating the impact of migration on health. In global health, Kuhn leads a 35-year longitudinal study of the impact of health and development programs in Bangladesh. In the area of homelessness, Kuhn conducted some of the earliest quantitative research on health and substance use risks among chronically homeless adults. He co-authored recent reports on homelessness and the coronavirus outbreak for the National Alliance to End Homelessness and on health and homelessness in Los Angeles.

2023 PAA Conference
2023-04-12 08:00 - 2023-04-15 17:00
CCPR at PAA 2023 Conference schedule may be accessed here.

PAA Student Practice Talks
2023-04-05 12:00 - 13:00 | 4240A Public Affairs Bldg
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. We use five waves of Chinese Family Panel Study (CFPS) data to address the link between educational pairing and second childbirths. We hypothesize that (1) hypergamous couples are more likely to have a second child than hypogamous and homogamous couples, (2) among homogamous couples, a U-shape for the likelihood of second childbirth exists along levels of education: highly educated and lower educated couples have higher likelihoods of transitioning to the second child than couples with medium education level.
Assimilating or Diverging? Generational Differences in Time Use of Asian American and Hispanic Immigrant Youth
Kristin Liao, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract: Sociologists studying international migration have rarely examined how immigrants allocate their time to daily activities. Yet, immigrants’ time use can be seen as a measure of assimilation. Using data from the 2003-2019 American Time Use Survey, this study explores how foreign-born, second-generation, and third-plus-generation Asian American and Hispanic youth differ in the patterns of daily time use relative to their third-plus generation White peers. I find patterns of generational convergence and ethnoracial divergence. Foreign-born and second-generation immigrant youth invest substantially more time in education than third-plus-generation White youth, while no significant differences were found among third-plus-generation immigrant youth. Asian American youth show steep changes across immigrant generations in their time use pattern which increasingly resembles that of third-plus generation Whites, whereas time use among Hispanic youth neither varies much across immigrant generations nor increasingly resembles the pattern of native Whites.

Yotam Shem-Tov, UCLA
2023-03-15 12:00 - 13:30
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?
Abstract: This paper studies the long-run consequences of losing a low-wage job using linked employer-employee wage records and household surveys. For full-time workers earning $15 per hour or less, job loss due to an idiosyncratic, firm-wide contraction generates a 13% reduction in earnings 4-6 years later and more than $40,000 cumulative lost earnings. Most of this long-run decrease stems from reductions in employment and hours as opposed to wage rates: job losers are twice as likely to report being unemployed and looking for work, and annual weeks worked are reduced by 10%. By contrast, workers initially earning more than $15 per hour see comparable long-run earnings losses driven primarily by reductions in hourly wages. We interpret these effects through a dynamic job-ladder model, which implies that the flow rents from holding a full-time $15 per hour job relative to unemployment are 3.1% of earnings.
You may access the recording here.

Workshop: From preprints to tweets: The professional benefits and potential perils of online presence
2023-03-08 12:00 - 13:20 | 4240A Public Affairs Bldg
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 of cognitive decline, dementia, and stroke in late life. Her research program has both applied and methodological themes. She focuses on describing and identifying mechanisms contributing to disparities in late-life cognitive and brain health and also leads work addressing methodological challenges in longitudinal studies of stroke, cognitive aging, and dementia risk. Her long-term research goals are to: (1) identify effective population-level strategies to prevent dementia and eliminate disparities in dementia and (2) develop research tools to strengthen causal inference in dementia research and lifecourse epidemiology.
Juliana Londoño-Vélez is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her work primarily focuses on inequality and redistributive tax and transfer policies, with a special interest in developing countries.
Patrick Heuveline is a Professor of Sociology at UCLA. He is also the Associate Director of the UCLA California Center for Population Research.
Workshop Description: Our panelists will discuss how to advertise yourself and your work online. Should you have your own website and, if so, what should be included (or not)? Should you post unpublished work as preprints and, if so, at what stage of development? Should you be active on social media and, if so, how much is too much?

Sonalde Desai, University of Maryland (IN-PERSON EVENT ONLY)
2023-03-01 12:00 - 13:20 | 4240A Public Affairs Bldg
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 the lives of individuals with a focus on education, employment, gender, and maternal and child health. She leads the India Human Development Survey of over 40,000 households, one of the few national panel surveys in India providing a rich and free public resource for studying the transformation of Indian society in the 21st Century. Since April 2020, Desai and her colleagues at NDIC have carried out telephone surveys around COVID-related experiences in Delhi National Capital Region. She received a Ph.D. from Stanford University and post-doctoral training at the University of Chicago and RAND Corporation. Desai was elected President of the Population Association of America for 2022. She is a frequent contributor to Indian newspapers and has published extensively in Indian and international journals.
The Global Aspirational Class and Its Demographic Fortunes
Abstract: Global educational expansion and growth in middle-income households in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) have brought worldwide attention to the social transformation underway in many countries. Yet, simultaneously, income inequalities within LMICs have also grown sharply, and employment opportunities have lagged behind the aspirational shifts. This seminar will examine the changes in education and employment opportunities in LMICs over the past three decades and explore changes in marriage, fertility, and investments in children that have accompanied these economic changes.

Chris Blattman, University of Chicago
2023-02-22 12:00 - 13:20 | 4240A Public Affairs Bldg
Biography: Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute and Harris School of Public Policy. He is an economist and political scientist, and his work on violence, crime, and poverty has been widely covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, Forbes, Slate, Vox, and NPR. His most recent book is Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace.
Dr. Blattman was previously faculty at Columbia and Yale Universities, and holds a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley and a Master’s in Public Administration and International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School. He co-leads the Development Economics Center at the University of Chicago, the Peace & Recovery sector at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), the Crime, Violence and Conflict initiative at MIT’s Poverty Action Lab (JPAL).
Much of Dr. Blattman’s work designs and tests solutions to violence and poverty, and he has worked mainly in Colombia, Liberia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mexico, and Chicago.
Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago
Abstract: Gun violence is the most pressing public safety problem in American cities. We report results from a randomized controlled trial (N = 2, 456) of a community-researcher partnership—the Rapid Employment and Development Initiative (READI Chicago)—which provided 18 months of a supported job alongside cognitive behavioral therapy and other social supports. Algorithmic and human referral methods identified men with strikingly high scope for gun violence reduction: for every 100 people in the control group, there were over 11 shooting and homicide victimizations during the 20-month outcome period. Take-up and retention rates were comparable to programs for people facing far lower mortality risk. There is no statistically significant change in an index combining three measures of serious violence, the study’s primary outcome. But one component, shooting and homicide arrests, shows a suggestive decline of 64 percent (p = 0.15). Because shootings are so costly, READI generates social savings between $174,000 and $858,000 per participant, implying a benefit-cost ratio between 3.8 and 18.8 to 1. Moreover, participants referred by outreach workers—a pre-specified subgroup—show enormous declines in both arrests and victimizations for shootings and homicides that remain statistically significant even after multiple testing adjustments. These declines are concentrated among outreach referrals with high predicted risk, suggesting that human and algorithmic targeting may work better together.
The recording may be accessed here.

Juliana Londoño-Vélez, UCLA
2023-02-15 12:00 - 13:20 | 4240A Public Affairs Bldg
Biography: Juliana Londoño-Vélez is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, an NBER Faculty Research Fellow, a J-PAL Affiliate, and a Faculty Affiliate at CCPR and CEGA. Juliana works on inequality and redistributive tax and transfer policies, with a particular interest in developing countries.
Title: “Financial Aid and Social Mobility: Evidence from Colombia’s Ser Pilo Paga.”
Abstract: “We study the effects of financial aid on human capital and social mobility. In 2014, Colombia implemented a nationwide financial aid program covering the tuition of four-year undergraduate programs at 33 “high-quality” universities. We estimate effects on educational and labor market outcomes realized seven years after high school completion. We leverage the program’s discontinuous assignment rules based on test scores and household poverty using a regression discontinuity design and identify effects away from these discontinuities using difference-in-differences. First, financial aid has a long-lasting expansion of college access and quality, exposing students to colleges with high learning and earnings productivity. Moreover, it boosts social mobility by expanding college attainment, learning, and earnings and slashes the wealth gaps in attainment, learning, and earnings among equally-achieving students. Crucially, these sizable benefits are not offset by corresponding losses for nonrecipients. As a result, financial aid improves both equity and efficiency. Thanks to financial aid, colleges act as “engines of social mobility” rather than as “bastions of privilege.”

The recording may be accessed here.

Robert Hummer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2023-02-08 12:00 - 13:20 | 4240A Public Affairs Bldg
Biography: Robert A. Hummer is the Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). He moved to UNC-CH in 2015 after spending 19 years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as Director of their NICHD-supported Population Research Center, PI of their NICHD-supported Training Program in Population Studies, and Chairperson of their Department of Sociology. He recently served as the 2021 President of the Population Association of America and is currently a member of the Committee on Population of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. His research focuses on the accurate documentation and more complete understanding of health and mortality disparities in the United States. He is currently Director and Principal Investigator of the long-running National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), which is now funded by the National Institute on Aging and five co-funding institutes/offices (NICHD, NIMHD, NIDA, OBSSR, ODP). Now in its sixth wave, Add Health is one of the most innovative and well-utilized nationally representative cohort studies of Americans ever undertaken and provides data for thousands of researchers to more fully understand the multi-level (biological, survey, contextual) life course factors that contribute to health and health disparities in US adolescents and adults.
Title: Assessing Cognitive Functioning and Health Disparities in Early Midlife: A Sneak Peek at Wave VI of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)
Abstract: For over 25 years, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) project has provided the scientific community with innovative data to understand the health and social life of a nationally representative cohort of Americans who were in grades 7-12 in 1994-95. The Add Health cohort is now in their 40s. Recently funded primarily by the National Institute on Aging, Wave VI of Add Health is currently in the field and is focused on providing the scientific community with novel data on the cognitive and sensory/physical functioning, social life, health, and health behavior of the cohort. This presentation by the principal investigator and director of Add Health will focus on findings from some of the Wave VI pilot data, which tested innovative methods for assessing the cognitive, physical, and sensory functioning of this early midlife cohort. The presentation will also provide an overview of the innovative design of Wave VI, information on some of the new measures that have been added to the survey and biological data collection, and a timeline of the fieldwork and data dissemination plan.
The recording of Dr. Hummer’s talk may be accessed here.

Graeme Blair, UCLA
2023-02-01 12:00 - 13:20 | 4240A Public Affairs Bldg
Biography: Graeme Blair is an associate professor of political science at UCLA and serves as Co-Director of Training and Methods of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). Graeme uses experiments, field research, and statistics to study how to reduce violence and how to improve social science research. He works primarily in Nigeria, often in partnership with government, civil society, or international organizations. His work is published in journals including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Advances, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Political Analysis. His book on community policing is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press Studies in Comparative Politics and his book on research design is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. He is the recipient of the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science, the Society for Political Methodology best statistical software award, and the Pi Sigma Alpha best paper award.
Better research planning through simulation
Abstract: The talk introduces a new way of thinking about research designs in the social sciences, with the aim of making it easier to develop and to share strong research designs. At the heart of our approach is the MIDA framework, in which a research design is characterized by four elements: a model, an inquiry, a data strategy, and an answer strategy. We have to understand each of the four on their own and also how they interrelate. The design encodes your beliefs about the world, it describes your questions, and it lays out how you go about answering those questions, both in terms of what data you collect and how you analyze it. In strong designs, choices made in the model and inquiry are reflected in the data and answer strategies, and vice-versa. This way of thinking pays dividends at multiple points in the research design lifecycle: planning the design, implementing it, and integrating the results into the broader research literature. The declaration, diagnosis, and redesign process informs choices made from the beginning to the end of a research project. These ideas will appear in Research Design in the Social Sciences: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign, forthcoming in the fall with Princeton University Press.
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Charlie Branas, Columbia University
2023-01-25 12:00 - 13:20 | 4240A Public Affairs Bldg
Biography: Dr. Charles Branas is currently Department Chair and Gelman Endowed Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Branas has conducted research that extends from urban and rural areas in the US to communities across the globe, incorporating place-based interventions and human geography. He has led win-win science that generates new knowledge while simultaneously creating positive, real-world changes and providing health-enhancing resources for local communities. His pioneering work on geographic access to medical care has changed the healthcare landscape, leading to the designation of new hospitals and a series of national scientific replications in the US and other countries for many conditions: trauma, cancer, stroke, etc. His research on the geography and factors underpinning gun violence has been cited by landmark Supreme Court decisions, Congress, and the NIH Director. With community partners, Dr. Branas led the first citywide randomized controlled trials to transform vacant lots and abandoned buildings as sustainable solutions to improving health and safety, including reductions in gun violence. He has worked internationally on four continents and led multi-national efforts, producing extensive cohorts of developing nation scientists, national health metrics, and worldwide press coverage.
Guns, Places, and Public Health
Abstract: There are many competing influences in terms of why we have seen record levels of gun violence in the US this past year and why gun violence is now the leading cause of death in US children. While we should continue to focus on gun laws and law enforcement as possible solutions, both these approaches have their limitations. As a complementary series of solutions now supported by multiple large-scale scientific studies, addressing the basic structures and places that generate gun violence in the first place may offer scalable and more sustainable benefits to US communities long-suffering from the tragedy of gun violence.
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National Bureau of Economic Research Cohort Studies Meeting
2023-01-20 08:00 - 2023-01-21 17:00 | UCLA
The program for the National Bureau of Economic Research Cohort Studies Meeting may be accessed here.

Computing Resource Overview Workshop
2023-01-18 12:00 - 13:20 | 4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CCPR Workshop: Computing Resources Overview
Jan 18, 2022, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Presenters: Matt Lahmann
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, you’ll have state of the art hardware resources and most software you’ll ever need for demographic research. In the second half, we’ll walk through how to use these computing resources, identifying what resource is better to use for different computing project scenarios.

Benjamin R. Karney, UCLA
2023-01-11 12:00 - 13:20 | 4240A Public Affairs Bldg
Biography: Benjamin Karney is a Professor and Chair of Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an adjunct behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. His research examines intimate relationships, especially marriage, and focuses on how relationships are facilitated or constrained by the contexts in which they take place. Currently, he leads the Los Angeles Project on Newlywed Development (LAPOND), a longitudinal study of low-income couples, and co-directs (with Thomas Bradbury) the UCLA Marriage and Close Relationships Lab. He has twice received the National Council on Family Relation’s Reuben Hill Research and Theory Award for outstanding family science.
Title: Public policies and private lives: How socioeconomic status affects intimacy
Abstract: lthough the desire for a stable, healthy intimate partnership is nearly a human universal, the likelihood of achieving this goal varies widely across levels of socioeconomic status. Compared to their more affluent peers, individuals at lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder far less likely to marry, and once married far more likely to divorce. What happens to intimacy under conditions of financial strain and limited access to resources? In this talk, I describe a program of research exploring answers to this question through longitudinal and observational studies of recently first-married couples recruited from lower-income neighborhoods in Los Angeles, CA and Harris County, TX. The results of this work highlight new directions for policies aimed at supporting and strengthening lower-income families.

Professional Development Series: The Stark Realities and Ethical Challenges of Transparent and Reproducible Population Research (CANCELLED)
2022-11-30 12:00 - 13:30 | In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
Panelists:
Cecilia Menjivar holds the Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. She specializes in immigration, gender, family dynamics, social networks, religious institutions, and broad conceptualizations of violence. She focuses on two main areas: the impacts of the immigration regime and laws on immigrants and the effects of living in contexts of multisided violence on individuals, especially women. Her work on immigration concerns mainly the United States, where she focuses on Central American immigrants, whereas her work on violence is centered on Latin America, mostly Central America. Menjívar is interested in how state power manifests itself through legal regimes and formal institutions and bureaucracies to shape microprocesses in everyday life.
Randall Kuhn is a demographer and sociologist focused on the social determinants of health among vulnerable populations. He is an expert in survey design, longitudinal analysis and counterfactual research design. In the field of migration and health, Kuhn has designed new approaches to estimating the impact of migration on health. In global health, Kuhn leads a 35-year longitudinal study of the impact of health and development programs in Bangladesh. In the area of homelessness, Kuhn conducted some of the earliest quantitative research on health and substance use risks among chronically homeless adults. He co-authored recent reports on homelessness and the coronavirus outbreak for the National Alliance to End Homelessness and on health and homelessness in Los Angeles.
Felipe Goncalves is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. His research applies tools from labor and public economics to understand issues in policing, crime, and education. He received a BA in economics-mathematics from Columbia University and a PhD in economics from Princeton University. Prior to joining UCLA, he worked at the New York Crime Lab as a postdoctoral fellow.

Zack W. Almquist, University of Washington (CANCELLED)
2022-11-16 12:00 - 13:00 | In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
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 of Sociology and Statistics at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Almquist is a recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Methodology’s Leo Goodman Award. He is also a recipient of the NSF’s CAREER Award and the ARO’s Young Investigator Program Award. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology. His research centers on the development and application of mathematical, computational and statistical methodology to problems and theory of social networks, demography, homelessness, and environmental action and governance.
A Qualitative and Quantitative PIT Count using Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS): Understanding and Counting Unsheltered Homelessness in King County
Abstract: Traditionally, unsheltered Point in Time (PIT) Counts are the result of volunteers conducting an in-person head-count of individuals experiencing homelessness on a single night. This resource-intensive method is widely understood to be an undercount. It also fails to capture essential qualitative data about what people living unsheltered experience and need.
This past spring, the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (RHA), in coordination with Professor Zack W. Almquist (University of Washington) and Lived Experience Coalition (LEC), took a novel approach to the PIT. The RHA conducted the 2022 unsheltered PIT count as a combined qualitative interview process and quantitative survey over the course of a month. The respondent selection for both the qualitative and quantitative surveys followed a Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) protocol. RDS provides a sampling strategy for estimating size and percentages of hard-to-reach populations that lack an administrative sampling frame.
During this seminar, I will provide an overview of the RHA partnership effort, and how we executed this novel approach to the PIT. I will review the history of RDS as a means of sampling vulnerable populations, and I will cover the implementation of the sampling and estimation strategies based on the RHA RDS sample. Finally, I will review the demographics provided to HUD, and what we learned from conducting the RDS sample for the PIT count, and how it can and should affect future PIT counts going forwards.

Amanda Glassman, Center for Global Development
2022-11-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Venue: Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.
Biography: Amanda Glassman is executive vice president and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and also serves as chief executive officer of CGD Europe. Her research focuses on priority-setting, resource allocation and value for money in global health, as well as data for development. Prior to her current position, she served as director for global health policy at the Center from 2010 to 2016, and has more than 25 years of experience working on health and social protection policy and programs in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world.
Prior to joining CGD, Glassman was principal technical lead for health at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she led policy dialogue with member countries, designed the results-based grant program Salud Mesoamerica 2015 and served as team leader for conditional cash transfer programs such as Mexico’s Oportunidades and Colombia’s Familias en Accion. From 2005-2007, Glassman was deputy director of the Global Health Financing Initiative at Brookings and carried out policy research on aid effectiveness and domestic financing issues in the health sector in low-income countries. Before joining the Brookings Institution, Glassman designed, supervised and evaluated health and social protection loans at the Inter-American Development Bank and worked as a Population Reference Bureau Fellow at the US Agency for International Development.
Glassman holds a MSc from the Harvard School of Public Health and a BA from Brown University, has published on a wide range of health and social protection finance and policy topics, and is editor and coauthor of the books What’s In, What’s Out: Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage (Center for Global Development, 2017), Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health (Center for Global Development 2016), From Few to Many: A Decade of Health Insurance Expansion in Colombia (IDB and Brookings 2010), and The Health of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (World Bank 2001).
Title: Breakthrough to Policy Use: Reinvigorating Impact Evaluation for Global Development
Description: Better use of evidence in policymaking could improve lives and save hundreds of millions of dollars in public and aid spending each year. There has been tremendous progress in harnessing better evidence to inform public policy decision making, especially from impact evaluations of programs in low- and middle-income countries. Yet only a fraction of all development programs are evaluated, and far too often, policymakers lack the solid, policy-relevant research they could use to make better decisions. Given the potential real-world benefits, why have decision makers within governments, aid agencies, multilateral organizations, and NGOs not yet fully harnessed the value of evidence—including from impact evaluations—for better public policies? Looking ahead, how can the development community renew momentum and broaden bases of support for rigorous evaluations and the evidence agenda? And how can researchers foster stronger partnerships with policymakers and generate more timely and useful findings to inform policy decisions?
In response to these questions and building on progress to date, CGD launched the Working Group on New Evidence Tools for Policy Impact from 2020 to 2022, bringing together 40 policymakers and experts from 20 countries with collective experience at over 100 organizations to review progress, identify challenges, and propose recommendations to enhance the policy value and use of data and evidence for global development. The final report highlights how far the field has come in addressing persistent critiques about the scale, generalizability, and policy utility of impact evaluation methods. It also examines the importance shifting research agenda-setting power and resources to those who best specific policy contexts and decision making needs. This seminar will explore progress, challenges, and recommendations for better research funding and practice in detail, including the application of the agenda to specific target audiences such as philanthropies.

Cecilia Menjivar and Panel
2022-11-02 12:00 - 13:20
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 that include, exclude, and neglect. She proposes adopting a critical perspective when using state-created and formalized categories in our research, which would acknowledge the constructed nature of those categories, their naturalization through everyday practices, and their misalignments with lived experiences. This lens can reveal the systemic structures that create both state classification systems and enduring patterns of inequality. This approach can reframe questions about the people sorted into the categories we use in our work.
Panelists:
Dr. Cecilia Menjivar holds the Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. She specializes in immigration, gender, family dynamics, social networks, religious institutions, and broad conceptualizations of violence. She focuses on two main areas: the impacts of the immigration regime and laws on immigrants and the effects of living in contexts of multisided violence on individuals, especially women. Her work on immigration concerns mainly the United States, where she focuses on Central American immigrants, whereas her work on violence is centered on Latin America, mostly Central America. Menjívar is interested in how state power manifests itself through legal regimes and formal institutions and bureaucracies to shape microprocesses in everyday life.
Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, International Migration Review, Ethnic & Racial Studies, among other journals. Her most recent publications include the edited volume, Constructing Immigrant Illegality: Critiques, Experiences, and Responses (Cambridge, 2014), the book, Immigrant Families (Polity 2016), and the edited volume The Oxford Handbook of Immigration Crises (Oxford, 2019).
Dr. Cecilia Menjívar co-authored an amicus brief in the consolidated DACA cases before the U.S. Supreme Court along with a dozen other prominent empirical scholars who study DACA and its effects. One of her many prominent publications includes “Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America” (California, 2000), which was the winner of the William J. Goode Outstanding book award from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association, Honorable Mention from the International Migration Section, and a Choice Outstanding Title. Other publications include “Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala” (California, 2011). She is co-editor of Constructing Immigrant “Illegality”: Critiques, Experiences, and Responses (Cambridge, 2014), Latinos/as in the United States: Changing the Face of América (Springer 2008), and When States Kill: Latin America, the US, and Technologies of Terror (Texas, 2005).
Dr. Randall Kuhn (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999) is a demographer and sociologist focused on the social determinants of health among vulnerable populations. He is an expert in survey design, longitudinal analysis and counterfactual research design. In the field of migration and health, Kuhn has designed new approaches to estimating the impact of migration on health. In global health, Kuhn leads a 35-year longitudinal study of the impact of health and development programs in Bangladesh. In the area of homelessness, Kuhn conducted some of the earliest quantitative research on health and substance use risks among chronically homeless adults. He co-authored recent reports on homelessness and the coronavirus outbreak for the National Alliance to End Homelessness and on health and homelessness in Los Angeles. He currently leads or co-leads new studies that use mobile phones to measure the well-being of unhoused and recently-housed populations. To learn more, visit: https://www.homelessresearch.akidolabs.com/.
Kuhn is a fellow of the California Center for Population Research, where he serves as Chair of the Executive Committee. He also serves on the advisory boards of the UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Kuhn previously chaired the Population Sciences Subcommittee of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. For 10 years Kuhn was Director of the Global Health Affairs Program at the University of Denver, where he developed an innovative curriculum, tripled enrollments, and built a programmatic emphasis on the health and human rights of disabled, LGBTQ, indigenous, and migrant populations as an essential component of achieving global health justice and equity. Kuhn founded the Goal 18 campaign for inclusive UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Dr. Desi Small-Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has partnered with Indigenous communities in the U.S. and internationally as a researcher and data advocate for more than ten years.
Desi’s research examines the intersection of race, indigeneity, data, and inequality. With a focus on Indigenous futures, her current research explores the racialization of Indigenous identity and group boundary making, Indigenous population statistics, and data for health and economic justice on Indian Reservations.
Desi directs the Data Warriors Lab, an Indigenous social science laboratory. She is the Co-Founder of the U.S. Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network, which helps ensure that data for and about Indigenous nations and peoples in the U.S. (American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians) are utilized to advance Indigenous aspirations for collective and individual wellbeing. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Database. She is a proud alumna of the University of Arizona (Ph.D. Sociology), University of Waikato (Ph.D. Demography), Stanford University (B.A. and M.A.).
Faculty host:
Abel Valenzuela Jr. is a professor of Urban Planning and Chicana/o Studies and the former director of UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. As of 2022, Professor Valenzuela serves as interim dean for UCLA’s Division of Social Sciences. Professor Valenzuela is one of the leading national experts on day labor and has published numerous articles and technical reports on the subject. His research interests include precarious labor markets, worker centers, immigrant workers, and Los Angeles. His academic base is urban sociology, planning, and labor studies. In addition to the topic of day labor, he has published numerous articles on immigrant settlement, labor market outcomes, urban poverty and inequality, including co-editing (with Lawrence Bobo, Melvin Oliver, and Jim Johnson) Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2000, Immigration and Crime: Race, Ethnicity, and Violence (with Ramiro Martinez Jr.). He has also published in American Behavioral Scientist, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Annual Review of Sociology, New England Journal of Public Policy, Working USA: a Journal of Labor and Society, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, and Regional Studies. Dr. Valenzuela earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.C.P. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born and raised in Los Angeles and currently lives in Venice Beach with his wife and three sons.

Ray Lovett, Australian National University
2022-10-28 12:00 - 13:20 | In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
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 form of settler-colonialism which at a minimum has the potential to be ineffective and at worst is harmful to Indigenous Peoples. This presentation will highlight how Indigenous community driven processes in Australia were applied to develop a national level cohort study and community-based census, and how these are being used to influence Australian policy. We will also highlight how, at a community level, these data tools can be used for community development aspirations.
Biographies:
Dr. Raymond Lovett BN, RN, BHSc, MAE, PhD is a Senior Research Fellow with the Epidemiology for Policy and Practice group at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University. He also holds an adjunct Fellowship at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in the Indigenous Social and Cultural Wellbeing group. Ray is an Aboriginal (Ngiyampaa/Wongaibon) epidemiologist with extensive experience in health services research, large scale data analysis for public health policy development and evaluation.
Jan Chapman, BPubPol is Aboriginal (Taungurung) from Australia. She graduated from the University of Tasmania with a degree in Public Policy and Social Ecology. Jan is the Mayi Kuwayu Study Manager in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program at the Australian National University. She has extensive Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy experience across Indigenous Chronic Disease and for the last ten years she has managed all Mayi Kuwayu data development and data collection, including through the extensive community networks. Together with Nadine, Jan is currently assisting one community to embed their own data systems and processes aligned with their community development agenda.
Makayla-May Brinckley is a Wiradjuri woman with family ties to Cootamundra, NSW. After graduating from Psychology Honours from the ANU in 2019, she worked as a research assistant in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program in the Research School of Population Health. Makayla is now an Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program, with much of her work based within Mayi Kuwayu: the National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing. Makayla is passionate about holistic health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and taking a strengths-based and decolonial approach to health and wellbeing.
Nadine Hunt is an Iamalaig and Kaanju woman and a Community Researcher, based in Cairns with travel throughout Far North Queensland. Nadine has spent the last six years working with the Indigenous Marathon Foundation in Canberra, developing a national grassroots running program in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities. Nadine continues her volunteer work as a running coach with the Cairns Deadly Runners, and has recently begun a Bachelor of Business degree through James Cook University.

Kareem Haggag, UCLA
2022-10-26 12:00 - 13:30
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 biases in the contexts of consumer choice, finance, education, voting, and labor markets.
The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Historical Railroad Placements (with Eric Chyn and Bryan Stuart)
Abstract: This paper provides new evidence on the causal impacts of city-wide racial segregation on intergenerational mobility. We use an instrumental variable approach that relies on plausibly exogenous variation in segregation due to the arrangement of railroad tracks in the nineteenth century (Ananat 2011). Our analysis finds that greater segregation reduces upward mobility for Black children from households across the income distribution and White children from low-income households. Moreover, segregation lowers academic achievement while increasing incarceration rates and teenage birth rates. An analysis of mechanisms shows that segregation reduces government spending, weakens support for anti-poverty policies, and increases racially conservative attitudes among White residents.

Workshop: CCPR Computing Resources Overview
2022-10-19 12:00 - 13:00 | In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
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 and TS2. Once signed up, you’ll have state of the art hardware resources and most software you’ll ever need for demographic research. In the second half, we’ll walk through how to use these computing resources, identifying what resource is better to use for different computing project scenarios.

Alexandra Killewald, Harvard University
2022-10-12 12:00 - 13:30 | In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
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 racial wealth gap.
Killewald’s research has been published in journals including American Sociological Review, Demography, Social Forces, and Journal of Marriage and Family. She is the recipient of the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility and has received article awards from the ASA Section on Family and the ASA Section on Sociology of Population.
Killewald received her PhD in Public Policy and Sociology from the University of Michigan in 2011. Prior to her appointment at Harvard, she was a researcher at Mathematica.
Title: Can Changing Family Demographics Help Explain the Narrowing Gender Wage Gap?
Abstract: We argue that changing family demography can help explain the narrowing gender pay gap in the United States since 1980. To understand this, we introduce the concept of “wedge characteristics” — characteristics differently associated with wages for women compared to men. While prior analyses often spotlight how convergence in men’s and women’s human capital can narrow the gender pay gap, wedge characteristics imply that changes in the family-demographic composition of the labor force can also alter the gender pay gap. Gender pay gaps are larger among the married than the unmarried and among parents than the childless, suggesting that declines in marriage and fertility since 1980 can help explain gender pay convergence. We find that changes 1980-2018 in marriage and fertility alone explain about a quarter of the gender convergence in pay among full-time employees and explain 14 percent net of changes in human capital. We further show that these results are largely driven by compositional change and do not require gender convergence in family-demographic traits. Our results also reveal that the pace of family-demographic change was fastest in the 1980s and subsequently slowed, which, in conjunction with persistent wage wedges, helps explain stalled progress toward gender pay parity.

Feinian Chen, Johns Hopkins University
2022-10-05 12:00 - 13:30 | In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
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 demography, family sociology, gender, aging, and quantitative methodology. Her main research interests include women’s work and family, intergenerational relations, population aging and health. Her work has been published in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Demography, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Sociological Methods and Research. Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Hewlett Foundation. She is actively engaged in research in family transitions, gender dynamics, and their health implications in the diverse contexts of China, India, the Philippines, and the U.S.
Reconfiguring Social Disconnectedness and Its Link to Psychological Well-being among Older Adults in Rural China
Abstract: Using data from 2015 and 2018 waves of the Longitudinal Study of Older Adults in Anhui Province, China, we investigated associations between different forms of social disconnectedness (social isolation, loneliness, living alone) and psychological well-being of older adults longitudinally. The results showed that social isolation and loneliness were independently associated with psychological well-being, whereas living alone was not. Different forms of social disconnectedness had additive and interactive effects on psychological well-being of older adults. Those who were exposed to all three forms of social disconnectedness suffered from the lowest level of psychological well-being. Moreover, the adverse effects of social disconnectedness on psychological well-being were found to be stronger for older women than for older men. The results underscore the necessity to consider multiple forms of social disconnectedness as well as their different combinations in explaining psychological well-being in later life.

CCPR Welcome at the Sculpture Garden
2022-09-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Sculpture Garden Coral Tree Walk
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.

Fifth Annual Robert Mare Student Lecture: Fernanda Rojas, PhD (c), Economics, UCLA
2022-06-01 12:00 - 13:30
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 the city. Second, she investigates gender issues in the public finance literature, such as maternity leave and unemployment benefits, with a special interest in developing countries. In her research, she collects and digitize historical data that she combines with administrative sources, with the purpose of following individuals for long periods of time. In her dissertation, she studies the long-term effects of moving to a high-poverty neighborhood on earnings and schooling using evidence from a slum clearance program implemented in Santiago, Chile, between 1979 and 1985. Fernanda is from Chile, where she earned her BA and Master’s degree in Economics from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC Chile). Beginning in Summer 2022, Fernanda will be a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and in January 2024 she will join the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant Professor.
Sent Away: The Long-Term Effects of Slum Clearance on Children and Families
Abstract: We study the long-term effects of moving to a high-poverty neighborhood on earnings and schooling using evidence from a slum clearance program implemented in Santiago, Chile, between 1979 and 1985. During the country’s dictatorship, the government mandated the eviction of entire slums and their relocation to public housing in low-income areas: Two-thirds of slums were relocated to new housing projects on the periphery of the city, and the rest received housing at their initial location. To estimate a displacement effect, we compare the outcomes of displaced and non-displaced children 20 to 40 years after the end of the policy. We show that displacement is unrelated to families’ demographics or neighborhood attributes prior to eviction. We construct a novel data set that combines archival records with administrative data containing 19,852 homeowners matched to 55,343 children. We find negative effects on children and families: Displaced children have 10% lower earnings and 0.5 fewer years of education as adults than non-displaced. Moreover, displaced children are more likely to work in informal jobs and their parents are more likely to die after the intervention. Destination characteristics mediate our results: Lower social cohesion in destination projects reduces children’s schooling, and their earnings are also affected by worse labor market access.

Ping Qin, University of Oslo
2022-05-25 12:00 - 13:30 | In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
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 data from longitudinal registries, previously in Denmark and since 2012 in Norway. Her main focus of research has been quantitative investigation on contextual influence of multifactorial exposures on risk for suicidal behavior and follow-up care for people with deliberate self-harm. She has led a number of international collaboration projects. She is the co-chair of 2021 IASR/AFSP International Summit on Suicide Reseach, a founding co-chair of the Special Interest Group on Suicide and Self-harm in Middle-aged Adults, and past Vice-President of International Association for Suicide Prevention.
More information about Dr. Qin may be accessed here.
Suicide Prevention Research: Searching Evidence from Real-life Data in Routine Registers
Abstract: Routine population registries offer extensive opportunities for research because the data is recorded uniformly, precisely and longitudinally, and often covers a large population. The registries allow research on children as well as adults, enable follow-up of individual subjects beyond the limited time span, and ensure cost-efficient and easy access to data of both common and rare exposures. Starting from the Nordic countries and increasingly more from other parts of the world, a range of studies have used this valuable source of data to search for meaningful evidence on factors contributing to suicide and suicide prevention. The studies have been able to include a great variety of social and health-related factors to study their contextual effect on risk for suicide and deliberate self-harm, to disentangle contributing effects of specific exposures, to examine interactive effects of multiple exposures, and to assess the effect of clinical treatments and inventions. In this lecture I will discuss strengths and limitations in utilizing register data for suicide research, and present important findings from our group. Emphases will go to investigation on temporal, contextual and interactive effects of socioeconomic disadvantages, adverse experiences and psychiatric and physical illnesses, and on what follow-up psychiatric care was delivered to patients presenting to hospitals with deliberate self-harm and what effect it had on the patients’ health prospectively.

Kari White, The University of Texas at Austin
2022-05-18 12:00 - 13:30 | In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
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 lead investigator of the Texas Policy Evaluation Project – a multidisciplinary group of researchers who have been evaluating the impact of Texas’ legislation and policies related to contraception and abortion for 10 years. Her other recent projects include studies examining factors influencing vasectomy use and people’s access to abortion care in the Deep South. She co-led amicus briefs submitted to the US Supreme Court in June Medical Services v Russo and Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, summarizing extensive research on the adverse effects of abortion restrictions to challenge laws in Louisiana and Mississippi, respectively.
More information about Dr. White may be accessed here.
“Assessing the impact of abortion restrictions in Texas”
This presentation will provide an overview of how Dr. White and colleagues have assessed the impact of abortion restrictions in Texas over nearly 10 years. This will include a review of the diverse data and methodological approaches used to assess changes in abortions provided in Texas, out of state and pregnant people’s experiences accessing abortion care, as well as rapid response data collection activities.
A recording of Dr. White’s talk may be accessed here.

Katie Genadek, University of Colorado, Boulder & U.S. Census Bureau
2022-05-11 12:00 - 13:30 | In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
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 a demographer and economist, and her research is focused on the relationship between policy, work, family, and time use.
More information about Dr. Genadek may be accessed here.
Motherhood Wage Penalties over the Life-Course in the United States: Results from Administrative Data
Abstract: Women with children are shown to experience a motherhood wage penalty, and it is often assumed leaving the labor force for long periods results in the growth of this penalty. However, there has been limited investigations into the relationship between the length of time out of the labor force and the wage penalties related to it. This study uses administrative data linked to survey data to investigate is the relationship between time out of employment and over the life course for mothers. This unique dataset includes yearly earnings data from 1950s-the present from the Social Security Administration (SSA) for respondents in the Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement data from 2001-present. By linking these two data sets, along with information on births from SSA, this longitudinal dataset is one of the most comprehensive panels of women’s fertility, employment, and wage trajectories ever created for the United States. We find non-linear impacts of years out of employment on wages for mothers over the life course and will investigate demographic and socio-economic variation in life-cycle wages by years spent out of the labor force.

Rasmus Landerso, Institute of Labor Economics
2022-05-04 12:00 - 13:30 | In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
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 Human Capital, and he is also an associate member of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD) and the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) working group, a Research Associate at Center for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), and Research Affiliate at IZA. Rasmus’ research interests include labor economics, the economics of education, the economics of crime, and applied microeconometrics. His research covers both studies of intergenerational mobility, inequality, welfare policies, and spillovers in criminal behavior.
More information about Dr. Landerso may be accessed here.
The Consequences of Cutting Welfare Benefits for Refugees
A key concern when introducing welfare reforms to incentivize employment and self-sufficiency is how disincentives from more generous welfare programs, on the one hand, should be balanced against the potential adverse consequences of lower income and exposure to poverty for vulnerable groups, on the other hand. With Europe standing on the verge of an immense humanitarian crisis with large refugee flows, information on how welfare policies affect refugees’ lives is critical. This presentation will be based on two papers where we study the intended and unintended effects of Denmark’s Start Aid welfare reform from 2002 using administrative register data tracking individuals for up to two decades after the reform’s implementation. While the reform led to substantial short run increases in employment, the effects quickly faded with local demand being an important mediating factor. In addition, we document numerous adverse consequences for families that manifest in different outcomes and with different timing according to the age when individuals were first exposed to the large reduction in disposable income induced by the reform. These include increases to crime for adults and adolescents as well as reductions to completed schooling and lower GPA for refugees who were children when they arrived in Denmark.
The recording of Dr. Landerso’s talk may be accessed here.

Workshop: CCPR Computing Resources Overview
2022-04-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.
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, you’ll have state of the art hardware resources and most software you’ll ever need for demographic research. In the second half, we’ll walk through how to use these computing resources, identifying what resource is better to use for different computing project scenarios.
