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SUMMARY:Coffee and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels\, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. \nCoffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. \nThis week’s session will be hosted by the CCPR Directors\, who will be there to guide the conversation\, share insights\, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/coffee-and-conversation-9/
LOCATION:CCPR Break Room
CATEGORIES:CCPR Events
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SUMMARY:Coffee and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels\, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. \nCoffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. \nThis week’s session will be hosted by Professor Adriana Lleras-Muney\, who will be there to guide the conversation\, share insights\, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/coffee-and-conversation-10/
LOCATION:CCPR Break Room
CATEGORIES:CCPR Events
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SUMMARY:Philip N. Cohen\, University of Maryland\, "Research Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar"
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nBiography: Philip N. Cohen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland\, College Park. His latest book\, Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (Columbia University Press 2025)\, addresses the role of intellectuals in public life and offers guidance for a career in social science. His other research concerns demographic trends\, family structure\, the division of labor\, health disparities\, and open science. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResearch Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar\nAbstract: What is the role of professional scholars in civic life? How and why should academics seek to reach audiences beyond their disciplines and institutions? Must there be tension between advancing along an academic career path and taking part in public conversations\, or can these goals reinforce each other? Drawing from personal experience and in-depth research\, this talk features straightforward advice that acknowledges professional risks as well as rewards. Cohen embraces the reciprocal relationship between professional scholarship and active citizenship\, arguing that aligning personal and vocational identities can enhance both public and academic contributions. He explores intellectual work on social media\, science communication\, political activism\, and how to build trust while developing a public intellectual identity (and his experience suing President Trump for blocking him on Twitter – and winning). \n  \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/philip-n-cohen-university-of-maryland-research-is-not-enough-public-engagement-and-the-citizen-scholar/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Events,CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260114T180000
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SUMMARY:Michael Geruso\, UT Austin\, Book Talk on "After the Spike: Population\, Progress\, and the Case for People"
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nBiography: Dr. Michael Geruso is coauthor of After the Spike: Population\, Progress\, and the Case for People. Geruso is an economic demographer\, public economist\, and associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2023 to 2024\, he served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers\, where he advised on issues of health and population. He holds bachelor’s degrees in engineering\, political science\, and philosophy. He earned his PhD in economics from Princeton and completed postdoctoral work at Harvard prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. His work has been published in top peer-reviewed outlets including the American Economic Review\, the Journal of Political Economy\, and Demography\, and has been featured in The New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, NPR\, the Atlantic\, the Economist\, and more. \n  \n\n\n\nAfter the Spike: Population\, Progress\, and the Case for People\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDescription: Most people on Earth today live in a country where birth rates already are too low to stabilize the population: fewer than two children for every two adults. In After the Spike\, economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso sound a wakeup call\, explaining why global depopulation is coming\, why it matters\, and what to do now. It would be easy to think that fewer people would be better—better for the planet\, better for the people who remain. This book invites us all to think again. Spears and Geruso investigate what depopulation would mean for the climate\, for living standards\, for equity\, for progress\, for freedom\, for humanity’s general welfare. And what it would mean if\, instead\, people came together to share the work of caregiving\, making parenting better\, and stabilizing our numbers. After the Spike asks what future we should want for our planet\, for our children\, and for one another.\n\n\nEvent Recap: Michael Geruso\, economic demographer\, public economist\, and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin\, and co-author of After the Spike: Population\, Progress\, and the Case for People\, delivered a compelling book talk on the global decline in birth rates. He argued that depopulation poses a serious challenge\, emphasizing that larger populations have historically fueled innovation\, economic growth\, and our ability to solve complex global problems. Challenging the belief that smaller populations necessarily produce greater prosperity or environmental gains\, Geruso calls for efforts to support those who wish to have children while safeguarding gender equity and reproductive freedom to stabilize the population. The event sparked meaningful discussion and lively dialogue among attendees.\n\n\n\n\n\nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/michael-geruso-ut-austin-tbd/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Room 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\,\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Matias Cattaneo\, Princeton University\, "Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Practice"
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nBiography: Matias D. Cattaneo is a Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) at Princeton University. He is also an Associated Faculty in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA)\, the Department of Economics\, and the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS)\, and an Affiliated Faculty in the Data-Driven Social Science (DDSS) initiative\, the AI at Princeton initiative\, and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML). Beyond academia\, he serves as an Amazon Scholar\, and has advised a wide range of organizations worldwide. Matias is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association\, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics\, and the International Association for Applied Econometrics\, and an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. His research interests are interdisciplinary\, motivated by quantitative challenges arising in the social\, behavioral\, and biomedical sciences. He integrates econometrics\, statistics\, applied mathematics\, data science\, and decision science\, with applications to program evaluation and causal inference. \nBoundary Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Practice\nAbstract: We review the literature on boundary discontinuity (BD) designs\, a powerful nonexperimental research methodology that identifies causal effects by exploiting a thresholding treatment assignment rule based on a bivariate score and a boundary curve. This methodology generalizes standard regression discontinuity designs based on a univariate score and scalar cutoff\, and has specific challenges and features related to its multi-dimensional nature. We synthesize the empirical literature by systematically reviewing over 80 empirical papers\, tracing the method’s application from its formative uses to its implementation in modern research. In addition to the empirical survey\, we overview the latest methodological results on identification\, estimation and inference for the analysis of BD designs\, and offer recommendations for practice. \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/matias-cattaneo-princeton-university-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
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SUMMARY:Coffee and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels\, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. \nCoffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. \nThis week’s session will be hosted by Professor Andres Villarreal\, who will be there to guide the conversation\, share insights\, and connect with attendees in an informal setting.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/coffee-and-conversation-11/
LOCATION:CCPR Break Room
CATEGORIES:CCPR Events
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SUMMARY:The Challenges and Promise of Population Research: Insights from CCPR’s Junior Population Scientists
DESCRIPTION:CCPR’s Junior Population Scientists are distinguished population scholars and CCPR affiliates from other California universities. Join us in welcoming the inaugural cohort as they briefly introduce their research and insights into the challenges and promises of population research. A Q&A session and reception will follow.\n\n\nHousehold decision-making under the microscope: evidence from experiments with Kenyan households\nPrachi Jain is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Loyola Marymount University. Her research uses experimental methods to explore topics in behavioral economics\, gender economics\, and economic development.  Her interests are expansive\, for example exploring the role of social networks in informal insurance\, the underrepresentation of women in labor markets\, financial privacy in couples\, and the effects of stress on economic decision-making. She is a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action and an external affiliate with the California Center for Population Research. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. She previously was a Postdoctoral Associate at Princeton University and completed her B.A. degree in Economics at the University of California\, Berkeley. Presented Paper here. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\nLooking Within Families: Differences Among Adult Children and Implications for Support to Older Parents and Their Health\n\n\n\n \nLuoman Bao is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University\, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on aging\, health\, and family\, with a particular attention to aging experiences and intergenerational dynamics in diverse social contexts\, as well as their implications for the health and well-being of older adults. Her work also examines how gender\, racial/ethnic\, and socioeconomic inequalities shape family experiences and individual health across the aging process. Presented Paper here. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMeasuring the population health impacts of immigration policy\n \nDr. Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young is an immigrant health scholar whose research seeks to understand the impact of the US immigration system on the well-being of immigrants and their families. She has established new frameworks and measures to understand the relationships between immigration policies\, citizenship/legal status\, and health\, and has conducted some of the first empirical studies showing that immigration policy is associated with health inequities. A guiding principle in her work is to partner with immigrants and community members as active contributors in the design and interpretation of research. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and published in a wide range of public health\, health policy\, and sociological journals\, including American Journal of Public Health\, The Milbank Quarterly\, International Migration Review\, and Social Science and Medicine. She received her PhD in community health sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and her MPH with an emphasis in maternal and child health from UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Presented Paper here. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nFood insecurity on campus: barriers to food assistance use among college students\nTabashir Nobari\, PhD\, MPH\, is an affiliate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an associate professor in the Department of Public Health at California State University\, Fullerton. Nobari’s longstanding interest is preventing socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health inequities among young children and college students by addressing health equity barriers through social programs and policies. Her research focuses on the social determinants of health\, particularly food insecurity\, housing insecurity\, homelessness\, and adverse childhood experiences. Nobari uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods to understand the impact of policies and programs on college students’ basic needs and early childhood obesity. She focuses on preventing inequities in obesity and food insecurity among young children and college students by addressing health equity barriers (housing insecurity and poverty) through food assistance programs (CalFresh\, WIC) and policies.  Nobari is a co-investigator on a USDA-funded study to examine the policies\, systems\, and environments related to access to food at Minority-Serving Institutions. She is co-PI on an NSF-funded study to develop smart technologies for previously unhoused residents of Permanent Supportive Housing in Orange County. She is also a member of the board of directors for Nourish California\, an advocacy group working to ensure that all Californians with low income can access the food they need and want. Nobari earned her doctorate in community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and her master’s in public health in international epidemiology at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She completed her postdoc with PHFE-WIC\, the largest local agency in the nation for the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women\, Infants and Children.  Presented Paper Here. \n  \n  \n  \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/junior-population-fellow-talk/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
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