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SUMMARY:Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
DESCRIPTION: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 Ph.D. students\, postdoctoral researchers\, and faculty interested in computational social science. The Summer Institute is for both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived). \nThe instructional program will involve lectures\, group problem sets\, and participant-led research projects\, with a special emphasis on causal inference. There will also be outside speakers who conduct computational social science research in a variety of settings\, such as academia\, industry\, and government. Topics covered include causal inference with observational data\, text analysis\, network analysis\, survey experiments\, and machine learning. There will be ample opportunities for participants to discuss their ideas and research with the organizers\, other participants\, and visiting speakers. Because we are committed to open and reproducible research\, all materials created by faculty and participants for the Summer Institute will be released open source. \nParticipation is restricted to advanced Ph.D. students\, postdoctoral researchers\, and junior faculty (within 7 years of their Ph.D). We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and fields of study\, especially junior faculty from neighboring institutions near Los Angeles. About 25-30 participants will be invited\, and participants are expected to fully attend and participate in the entire two-week program. \nApplication materials are due April 7\, 2023.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/summer-institute-in-computational-social-science-3/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Robert Mare Student Lecture
DESCRIPTION: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 that initial college enrollment decisions shape the transition to adulthood\, with a focus on the least selective four-year college options. Caitlin is a student affiliate at the California Center for Population Research and a research fellow for the Los Angeles Education Research Institute. In the fall\, she will start a postdoctoral fellowship with Stanford Impact Labs\, where she will be studying the effects of guaranteed income and baby bonds with the Economic Inclusion Project. \nThe Power of a Degree: Examining the Direct and Indirect Effects of Broad-Access College Enrollment on Economic Disadvantage \nAbstract: As the availability of high-quality jobs for less-educated workers has diminished\, college is seen as the surest way to avoid adverse socioeconomic outcomes. Yet\, the benefits to college depend not only on whether an individual enrolls in school but also where. This study uses longitudinal data sources to examine the impact of enrollment in minimally or non-selective four-year colleges on bachelor’s degree completion and economic disadvantage. My findings show positive effects of broad-access four-year college enrollment on bachelor’s degree completion relative to community college enrollment\, but negative effects relative to more-selective college. However\, these differences in degree completion contribute to only modest changes in economic disadvantage in early adulthood. Instead\, not enrolling in any college is associated with greater economic disadvantage than enrolling in a broad-access four-year college. These findings collectively underscore the importance of any college enrollment in preventing economic disadvantage and the pivotal role of bachelor’s degree completion in reaping the economic benefits of attending college. However\, they also highlight the need to address structural inequalities in college access to reduce disparities in educational attainment and emphasize the importance of considering the counterfactual group when evaluating the returns to college selectivity. \nBiography: Pablo Geraldo Bastías is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at UCLA. His research examines how institutions influence inequality in education and the labor market\, with a particular focus in the comparative study of skill formation systems and school-to-work transitions. Methodologically\, he is interested in the intersection of causal inference using graphical models\, machine learning\, and network analysis. After graduating from UCLA\, he will be a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowship in Sociology at Nuffield College\, University of Oxford.  \nSecondary effects of tuition-free college on high school trajectories: Evidence from Chile \nAbstract: The discussion about the costs of college education\, who has to pay for it\, and its implication for social inequality and mobility\, is of primary importance for educational stratification scholars and policy makers. While increasing evidence has accumulated on the impact of access to secure funding in reducing enrollment and completion gaps in higher education\, there is less evidence on how large-scale policy changes on college funding would affect students’ decision earlier in their educational trajectories\, in anticipation of benefiting from such policies in the future. In this study I show how the introduction of tuition-free college in Chile (2016) affected the educational trajectories of high school students. Using administrative data analyzed in an event-study framework\, I provide evidence of the positive effect that increasing access to guaranteed funding for higher education had on secondary students\, lowering grade retention and dropout rates\, especially among the most socially disadvantaged students.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/robert-mare-student-lecture-2/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Difference-In-Difference Panel Discussion and Mini Conference
DESCRIPTION:Differences-in-differences Mini-conference \nMay 24\, 2023  \nUCLA\, California Center for Population Research \n9-11:30am Speakers hold for meetings \n12-1:30pm [CCPR seminar slot] Panel discussion: What’s new with differences-in-differences?  \nAndrew Goodman-Bacon (Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank)\, Alyssa Bilinski (Brown)\, Jon Roth (Brown)\, Pedro Sant’Anna (Vanderbilt)\, Jeff Wooldridge (MSU)  \nSHORT LUNCH BREAK & ROOM SET UP \n2:15-3:00pm Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank)\, Pedro Sant’Anna (Vanderbilt) \n“Difference-in-Differences with a Continuous Treatments” \nThis paper analyzes difference-in-differences setups with a continuous treatment. We show that treatment effect on the treated-type parameters can be identified under a generalized parallel trends assumption that is similar to the binary treatment setup. However\, interpreting differences in these parameters across different values of the treatment can be particularly challenging due to treatment effect heterogeneity. We discuss alternative\, typically stronger\, assumptions that alleviate these challenges. We also provide a variety of treatment effect decomposition results\, highlighting that parameters associated with popular two-way fixed-effect specifications can be hard to interpret\, even when there are only two time periods. We introduce alternative estimation strategies that do not suffer from these drawbacks. Our results also cover cases where (i) there is no available untreated comparison group and (ii) there are multiple periods and variation in treatment timing\, which are both common in empirical work. \n3:00-3:45pm Alyssa Bilinski (Brown) \n“Parallel Trends in an Unparalleled Pandemic: Difference-in-Differences for Infectious Disease Policy Evaluation”  \nOver the course of the COVID-19 pandemic\, researchers have extensively studied the impact of public health interventions\, such as stay-at-home orders and mask policies\, on disease incidence and mortality.  Many policy evaluations employ a difference-in-differences (DiD) design\, which assumes that treatment and non-experimental comparison groups would have moved in parallel in expectation\, absent the intervention (the “parallel trends assumption”).  While researchers have used different specifications to capture potential non-linearities\, the plausibility of these specifications in the context of dynamic infection transmission is less well-understood.  Our work bridges this gap by formalizing epidemiological assumptions required for different DiD specifications\, positing an underlying susceptible\, infectious\, recovered (SIR) model.  We first explore common DiD specifications\, demonstrating that these often imply strict epidemiological assumptions.  For example\, DiD modeling raw cases or deaths as an outcome will be biased unless treatment and comparison groups have the same initial conditions\, susceptible fraction\, and transmission rate (“force of infection”); using a log transformation allows for different initial conditions\, but requires equal transmission rates and and susceptible fractions among groups.  Furthermore\, even if estimates are unbiased\, both specifications are often highly anti-conservative under standard error assumptions of a stochastic agent-based SIR model.  We then present more robust alternatives\, including modeling log difference as the primary outcome and modeling the causal effect of an intervention on the effective reproduction number\, rather than cases or deaths.  We demonstrate the implications of this work reanalyzing prior work on school mask policies. \n3:45pm Coffee break \n4-4:45pm Jeff Woodridge (MSU) \n“Estimating Distributional Treatment Effects with Staggered Interventions for Panel Data” \nI propose simple\, parametric approaches for estimating distributions of potential outcomes in a staggered difference-in-differences setting. The approach relies on versions of no anticipation and parallel trends assumptions. Estimators include imputation estimators or pooled maximum likelihood estimation. The approach can be applied to discrete\, continuous\, and mixed outcomes. A leading application is estimating quantile treatment effects in staggered DiD settings for a continuous outcome. \n4:45-5:30pm Jonathan Roth (Brown) \n“Log-like? Identified ATEs Defined with Zero-valued Outcomes are (Arbitrarily) Scale-Dependent” \nEconomists frequently estimate average treatment effects (ATEs) for transformations of the outcome that are well-defined at zero but behave like logpyq when y is large (e.g.\, logp1 ` yq\, arcsinhpyq). We show that these ATEs depend arbitrarily on the units of the outcome\, and thus should not be interpreted as percentage effects. In line with this result\, we find that estimated treatment effects for arcsinh-transformed outcomes published in the American Economic Review change substantially when we multiply the units of the outcome by 100 (e.g.\, convert dollars to cents). To help delineate alternative approaches\, we prove that when the outcome can equal zero\, there is no average treatment effect of the form EP rgpY p1q\, Y p0qqs that is point-identified and unit-invariant. We conclude by discussing sensible alternative target parameters for settings with zero-valued outcomes that relax at least one of these requirements. \n  \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-4/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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SUMMARY:"How to do Differences-in-Differences" Workshop
DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nFor Ph.D. students\, post-docs\, faculty (or anyone who would like to attend\, space permitting). \nTopics include: \n\nA deep-dive into canonical DiD methods\nUnderstanding limitations of linear two-way fixed effects regressions\nAllowing for heterogeneous treatment effects when treatment timing varies\nAllowing for covariate-specific trends\n\n  \nA recording of Dr. Sant’Anna’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/how-to-do-differences-in-differences/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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SUMMARY:Steven Stillman\, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
DESCRIPTION: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 government policy and human behavior. He has done extensive work examining the impact of migration on immigrants and their families exploiting a lottery used to allocate migrant quota slots. In recent work\, he has also examined voting behavior along a number of dimensions and how individuals have responded to changes in a number of policies\, including minimum wages\, the drinking age and doctor’s fees. \nLearning About Leave: Peer Influences in Maternal Leave Decisions \nAbstract: We examine how the parental leave decisions of mothers are influenced by parental leave decisions made by their work colleagues (peers) using income tax data on the universe of women who gave birth in New Zealand between 2002 and 2018. Maternal leave in New Zealand replaces 100% of mothers’ income up to a fairly low maximum. We use this maximum threshold to implement a regression kink design\, estimating the causal impact of peer leave decisions on mothers’ own leave decisions. We find that for every week that peers shorten their maternity leave in response to this threshold\, mothers reduce their own leave by 0.5 to 0.6 weeks. This effect is larger in smaller firms and in situations where the peer is more likely to influence the decision of the study mother. \nA recording of Dr. Stillman’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/steven-stillman-free-university-of-bozen-bolzano/
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CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Itzik Fadlon\, University of California San Diego
DESCRIPTION: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 effects of government policies\, as well as how these impacts on households’ behavior translate to the optimal design of social policies. His work has been published in leading journals such as American Economic Journal: Applied Economics\, American Economic Review\, Journal of Health Economics\, Journal of Public Economics\, and Review of Economics and Statistics. Itzik received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in May 2015. Before joining UCSD in 2016 as an Assistant Professor\, Itzik spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Disability Policy Research at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, and he spent the academic year of 2019-2020 as a Visiting Scholar in Aging and Health Research at the NBER. \nTitle: “Causal Effects of Early Career Sorting on Labor and Marriage Market Choices: A Foundation for Gender Disparities and Norms” \nAbstract: We study whether and how early labor market choices determine longer-run career versus family outcomes differentially for male and female professionals. We analyze the physician labor market by exploiting a randomized lottery that determines the sorting of Danish physicians into internships across local labor markets. Using administrative data spanning ten years after physicians’ graduations\, we find causal effects of early-career sorting on a range of life cycle outcomes that cascade from labor market choices\, including human capital accumulation and occupational choice\, to marriage market choices\, including matching and fertility. The persistent effects are entirely concentrated among women\, whereas men experience only temporary career disruptions. The evidence points to differential family-career tradeoffs and the mentorship employers provide as channels underlying this gender divergence. Our findings have implications for policies aimed at gender equality in outcomes\, as they reveal how persistent gaps can arise even in institutionally gender-neutral settings with early-stage equality of opportunity. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/itzik-fadlon-university-of-california-san-diego/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:All-UC Demography Conference 2023
DESCRIPTION:All-UC Demography Conference 2023 – Save the date  \n\n\nUCI’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 and founding director of UC Berkeley Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging. \n\n\nThe conference will be held Thursday\, May 4\, and Friday\, May 5 in person at University of California\, Irvine. It will begin at 9am on the 4th and end at noon\, May 5th. We are planning for the keynote talk and faculty paper sessions with discussants. We will also host a graduate poster session and a reception at the end of the Thursday sessions. Lunch will be served on both days\, with boxed lunch available at the conclusion of the Friday morning session. More details are forthcoming. \n\n\nTo receive meeting updates and our call for papers\, please register for our mailing list. \n\n\nConference website: https://www.cpip.uci.edu/conference.php \n\n\nOrganizing Committee: Brittney Morey\, Jade Jenkins\, Paul Hanselman\, Greg Duncan\, Timothy Bruckner \n\n\nThe Center for Population\, Inequality\, and Policy (CPIP) was founded at UCI in 2020 to centralize the efforts of several population-related centers at UCI that were internally funded and operating independently. CPIP is now the sole recipient of university-level resources to support a center for the study of population sciences at UCI. To learn more\, please visit us at https://www.cpip.uci.edu/.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/all-uc-demography-conference-2023/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,Other Conferences
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SUMMARY:Zack Almquist\, University of Washington
DESCRIPTION: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. \nA Qualitative and Quantitative PIT Count using Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS): Understanding and Counting Unsheltered Homelessness in King County \nAbstract: 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. \nThis 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. \nDuring 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. \nYou may access the seminar using this link.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/zack_almquist_washington/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T132000
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SUMMARY:Marcella Alsan\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION: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 Residency Fellowship – then combined the PhD with an Infectious Disease Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to returning to Harvard she was on faculty at Stanford. She is an applied microeconomist studying health inequality. \n“Something Works: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program” \nAbstract: US incarceration policy is often influenced by the longstanding view that “nothing works” when it comes to rehabilitating inmates. We revisit this question with a novel quasi-experimental approach and estimate the misconduct and recidivism effects of IGNITE: an innovative inmate education program in Flint\, Michigan. Individuals whose court hearings are idiosyncratically rescheduled tend to spend more time in the county jail and have worsened outcomes prior to the launch of IGNITE. Afterwards\, individuals who are more exposed to IGNITE via rescheduling see dramatically reduced rates of violent and suicidal incidents in the jail and lowered recidivism post-release.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/marcella-alsan-harvard-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230419T133000
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Preproducibility: what we may not\, with advantage\, omit
DESCRIPTION:Workshop: Preproducibility: what we may not\, with advantage\, omit \nPlease note that there will be no remote attendance for this event. All attendees must attend the workshop in person.  \nPanelists: Philip B. Stark (Remote)\, Yotam Shem-Tov\, Irene Bloemraad (Remote)\, and Randall Kuhn \nModerator: Patrick Heuveline \nPresenter:  \nPhilip 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. \nWorkshop: Preproducibility: what we may not\, with advantage\, omit \nWorkshop 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. \nModerator:  \nPatrick Heuveline is a Professor of Sociology at UCLA. He is also the Associate Director of the UCLA California Center for Population Research. \nPanelists: \nYotam 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. \nIrene 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. \nRandall 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. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/reproducible_research/
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SUMMARY:2023 PAA Conference
DESCRIPTION:CCPR at PAA 2023 Conference schedule may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/2023-paa-conference/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230405T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230405T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T061352Z
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SUMMARY:PAA Student Practice Talks
DESCRIPTION:Who Is Having the Second Baby? Educational Assortative Mating and Transition to the Second Child in China  \n\nIris Zhao\, Acton Jiashi Feng (equal authorship) \nAbstract: 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. \nAssimilating or Diverging? Generational Differences in Time Use of Asian American and Hispanic Immigrant Youth \nKristin Liao\, Department of Sociology\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nAbstract: 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.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/paa-student-practice-talks/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T133000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
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SUMMARY:Yotam Shem-Tov\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION: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. \nHow Replaceable is a Low-Wage Job? \nAbstract: 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. \nYou may access the recording here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/yotam-shem-tov-ucla/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230308T132000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
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SUMMARY:Workshop: From preprints to tweets: The professional benefits and potential perils of online presence
DESCRIPTION:From preprints to tweets: the professional benefits and potential perils of online presence \nPanelists: Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (Epi) and Julian Londoño-Vélez (Econ) \nModerator: Patrick Heuveline (Soc) \nElizabeth 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. \nJuliana 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. \nPatrick Heuveline is a Professor of Sociology at UCLA. He is also the Associate Director of the UCLA California Center for Population Research. \nWorkshop 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?
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-from-preprints-to-tweets-the-professional-benefits-and-potential-perils-of-online-presence/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T132000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
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SUMMARY:Sonalde Desai\, University of Maryland (IN-PERSON EVENT ONLY)
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this is an in-person event only. The talk will not be live streamed or recorded.  \nBiography: 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. \nThe Global Aspirational Class and Its Demographic Fortunes \nAbstract: 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.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sonalde-desai-university-of-maryland/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T132000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
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SUMMARY:Chris Blattman\, University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDr. 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). \nMuch 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. \nPredicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago  \nAbstract: 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. \nThe recording may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/chris-blattman-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T132000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
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SUMMARY:Juliana Londoño-Vélez\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTitle: “Financial Aid and Social Mobility: Evidence from Colombia’s Ser Pilo Paga.” \nAbstract: “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.” \n\nThe recording may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/juliana-londono-velez-ucla/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T132000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
CREATED:20220728T223624Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Hummer\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTitle: 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) \nAbstract: 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. \nThe recording of Dr. Hummer’s talk may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/robert-hummer-university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T132000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
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SUMMARY:Graeme Blair\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION: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. \nBetter research planning through simulation \nAbstract: 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. \nTo access the recording please click here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/graeme-blair-ucla/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230125T132000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
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SUMMARY:Charlie Branas\, Columbia University
DESCRIPTION: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. \nGuns\, Places\, and Public Health \nAbstract: 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. \nTo access the recording please click here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/charlie-branas-columbia-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230120T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230121T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
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SUMMARY:National Bureau of Economic Research Cohort Studies Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The program for the National Bureau of Economic Research Cohort Studies Meeting may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/national-bureau-of-economic-research-cohort-studies-meeting/
LOCATION:UCLA
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230118T132000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
CREATED:20220728T231540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230503T215508Z
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SUMMARY:Computing Resource Overview Workshop
DESCRIPTION:CCPR Workshop: Computing Resources Overview \nJan 18\, 2022\, 12:00pm-1:30pm \nPresenters: Matt Lahmann \nThis 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.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-3/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230111T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230111T132000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230109T224011Z
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SUMMARY:Benjamin R. Karney\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTitle: Public policies and private lives: How socioeconomic status affects intimacy \nAbstract: 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.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/benjamin-r-karney-ucla/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
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SUMMARY:Professional Development Series: The Stark Realities and Ethical Challenges of Transparent and Reproducible Population Research (CANCELLED)
DESCRIPTION:Panelists: \nCecilia 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. \nRandall 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. \nFelipe 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.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-2/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221116T130000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094322
CREATED:20220926T163852Z
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SUMMARY:Zack W. Almquist\, University of Washington (CANCELLED)
DESCRIPTION: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. \nA Qualitative and Quantitative PIT Count using Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS): Understanding and Counting Unsheltered Homelessness in King County \nAbstract: 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. \nThis 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. \nDuring 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. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/zack-w-almquist-university-of-washington/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Amanda Glassman\, Center for Global Development
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPrior 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. \nGlassman 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). \nTitle: Breakthrough to Policy Use: Reinvigorating Impact Evaluation for Global Development \nDescription: 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? \nIn 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.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/amanda-glassman-center-for-global-development/
LOCATION:Venue: Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Cecilia Menjivar and Panel
DESCRIPTION:State-created Categories\, Displacements and Possibilities from the Margins: A conversation with demography \nAbstract: 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. \nPanelists: \nDr. 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. \nHer 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). \nDr. 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). \nDr. 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/. \nKuhn 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. \nDr. 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. \nDesi’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. \nDesi 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.). \nFaculty host: \nAbel 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. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/cecilia-menjivar-and-panel/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Ray Lovett\, Australian National University
DESCRIPTION:Title: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Development in Australia: Supporting Our Nation(s) Agenda. \nAuthor(s) and presenters: Ray  Lovett (Wongaibon/Ngiyampaa)\, Jan Chapman (Taungurung)\, Makayla Brinckley (Wiradjuri)\, Nadine Hunt (Iamalaig and Kaanju). \nIndigenous 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. \nBiographies:  \nDr. 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. \nJan 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. \nMakayla-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. \nNadine 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. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ray-lovett-australian-national-university/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Kareem Haggag\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Historical Railroad Placements (with Eric Chyn and Bryan Stuart) \nAbstract: 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.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/kareem-haggag-ucla/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Workshop: CCPR Computing Resources Overview
DESCRIPTION:Workshop: CCPR Computing Resources Overview \nInstructor: Matt Lahmann\nInstructor: Mike Tzen \nThis 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.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-statcomp-fall22/
LOCATION:In-person seminar: SSCERT lab (Public Affairs Building 2400)
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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