Data Sharing Workshop

NIH has a policy regarding data sharing, and requires all proposals for more than $500,000 in annual direct costs to include a data sharing plan.  The UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library will be holding a workshop on August 28, 12-1 pm,…

Stata 13 Available at CCPR

Stata 13 SE/MP now available for usage on the CCPR Windows Terminal Server (TS1) starting July 9th. New features and additions can be found on the Stata site here: http://www.stata.com/stata13/ CCPR Windows Domain Account requests, click here.

Gilbert Gee named editor, Journal of Health & Social Behavior

Gilbert Gee named editor, Journal of Health & Social Behavior Gilbert Gee, a faculty associate in the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and associate professor of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health,…

New Data Source on US Census Tract Boundaries

The US2010 Project supported by Russell Sage Foundation has developed a method to allow researchers to analyze census tract data with constant boundaries for the period 1970-2010.  This method is advantageous especially for studies of change…

Recent CCPR Graduate on WNYC!

Iddo Tavory, a graduate of our program and now an assistant professor at the New School for Social Research, was in today's morning radio in WYNC on social ties among Hassidic Jews, together with Colin Jerolmack from NYU! Visit the following…

Congratulations Yool Choi, Lianna Hartmour, and Jaeeun Kim!

Yool Choi has received an American Educational Research Association (AERA) dissertation grant. More information about this program is available at: http://www.aera.net/ProfessionalOpportunitiesFunding/FundingOpportunities/AERAGrantsProgram/DissertationGrants/tabid/12812/Default.aspx Lianna…

Congratulations to Annie Fehrenbacher!

Annie Fehrenbacher has just won the Elizabeth Blackwell, MD Award from the Center for the Study of Women for her paper ?The Evolution of a Gendered Politics of Trauma: Challenging the Depiction of Rape: A Fate Worse Than Death? Great Work …

New resources on Spatial Analysis

Announcing a new journal - Spatial Demography - http://spatialdemography.org/  A new website on Advanced Spatial Analysis - http://gispopsci.org/. This website includes an array of resources on advanced spatial analysis in the population…

Congrats, Jennie E. Brand and Juli Simon Thomas!

Jennie E. Brand and Juli Simon Thomas have a chapter "Causal Effect Heterogeneity" in the volume called the Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research (Stephen L. Morgan ed., Springer Series.), which will be released sometime in May 2013. Congratulations…

Congrats to Danielle Wondra!

Danielle Wondra won an outstanding poster award for her recent presentation at the Population Association of America (PAA) annual meetings, held last week in New Orleans. Danielle’s poster was titled “Understanding Men’s Fertility Preferences…