BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//California Center for Population Research - ECPv6.15.14//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for California Center for Population Research REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190320T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190320T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20181126T182037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T181535Z UID:10000522-1553083200-1553088600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Martha Bailey\, University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Title: Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency \nAbstract: This paper evaluates the long-run effects of Head Start using large-scale\, restricted 2000-2013 Census-ACS data linked to date and place of birth in the SSA’s Numident file. Using the county-level rollout of Head Start between 1965 and 1980 and state age-eligibility cutoffs for school entry\, we find that participation in Head Start is associated with increases in adult human capital and economic self-sufficiency\, including a 0.29-year increase in schooling\, a 2.1-percent increase in high-school completion\, an 8.7-percent increase in college enrollment\, and a 19-percent increase in college completion. These estimates imply sizable\, longterm returns to investing in large-scale preschool programs. \nMore on Prof. Bailey URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/martha-bailey-university-of-michigan/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/image.1542755809319.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20181126T180922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T212704Z UID:10000521-1551268800-1551274200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Fernando Riosmena\, CU Boulder DESCRIPTION:Title: Individual and Neighborhood Vulnerability over the Latin American Immigrant Health Experience \nAbstract: The state of Latino health seemingly defies the way in which the historical disadvantages faced by people of color in the United States get under the skin\, and how place matters in reflecting or further reproducing these disparities. Hispanics –especially foreign-born individuals with lower socioeconomic statuses– have more favorable health than other race/ethnic groups –notably\, U.S.-born non-Hispanic whites– in a limited but very important set of health outcomes such as cardiovascular function\, some cancers and mortality across much of the life course. \nIn this talk\, I discuss the mechanisms/phenomena driving the Hispanic immigrant health advantage\, which is likely tied to processes of self-selection as well as to protection and resilience likely operating particularly well in heavily-concentrated Latino neighborhoods and enclaves. Throughout\, I present my empirical research aimed at disentangling self-selection processes from the protection that immigrants might draw from fellow neighborhood and/or community members. I further discuss these findings in the context of how immigrants adapt in the longer term: these advantages and resilience eventually erode as immigrants spend more time in the United States –as well as across immigrant generations– through a series of processes by which immigrant and Latino vulnerability become somatized. \nI conclude by speculating on the likely future of Latino and immigrant health\, discussing how the resilience and vulnerability of Latino immigrants might evolve given recent major shifts U.S. immigration and social policies and practices\, and due to important changes in the dynamics of migration between Mesoamerica and the United States. \nMore on Prof. Riosmena URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/fernando-riosmena-university-of-colorado/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/0f5dbe60aba4fb11118f4600ef21cb64332df833.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20181005T044242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190219T173607Z UID:10000517-1550664000-1550669400@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Jan Van Bavel\, University of Leuven DESCRIPTION:Title: The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education and Family Dynamics in Europe \nAbstract:  Although men tended to receive more education than women in the past\, the gender gap in education has reversed in recent decades in most Western and many non-Western countries. In this talk\, I will discuss the main results of a major research project that aimed to investigate the implications of the reversal of the gender gap in advanced education for family life across European countries. I highlight the results about union formation and assortative mating\, discuss our findings about union stability as well as about husbands’ and wives’ relative earnings. Finally\, I present some first results from research about implications for fertility behavior. To conclude\, I will reflect on implications for conventional theories used in family sociology and demography. \nCo-sponsored by the Family Working Group \nMore on Prof. Bavel URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jan-van-bavel-university-of-leuven/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1859_1395131493_large.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190213T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20181005T043528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T221353Z UID:10000515-1550059200-1550064600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Peter Bearman\, Columbia University DESCRIPTION:Title:  Neural mechanisms lie behind the emergence of dyadic affective reciprocity and transitive closure in human groups \nAbstract:  This talk considers a set of findings from socializing cognitive social neuroscience that captures neural and social network data at multiple time points for a group of students who volunteered to organize workers in very difficult social situations on the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer\, in the Summer of Respect project. We identify a neural mechanism for the emergence of affective reciprocity\, the building block of social solidarity. We show that we can predict from neural signatures who group members will like five months in the future. We extend this work to a discussion of transitivity\, or balance. Time permitting\, we discuss how a neural signature of self-enhancement (narcissism) predicts becoming peripheral in small groups\, supporting the idea that there is “no I in team”. \nCo-sponsored by the Sociology Department \nMore on Prof. Bearman URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/peter-bearman-columbia-university/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Bearman_Peter.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T134500 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20180821T223502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181009T230635Z UID:10000628-1540383300-1540388700@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Berk Ozler\, World Bank DESCRIPTION:Title: Increasing the uptake of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs) among adolescent females and young women in Cameroon \nAbstract: In sub-Saharan Africa\, 25% of teenagers have started childbearing (ICF\, 2015). While young women describe many of these births as planned and intentional\, women under the age of 20 also have the greatest percentage of mistimed/unintended pregnancies compared to all other age groups. For example\, in Cameroon\, more than 30% of the births to this group were unwanted or wanted later (DHS 2011). Low age at first birth has a significant impact on the spacing of births and timing of future pregnancies. It may also reduce accumulation of human capital for both the mother and the child. \nDespite the desire to delay childbearing\, only a minority of sexually active unmarried women in most low-income countries uses any modern method of contraception (ICF\, 2015). The shares of women using reliable short-acting methods of contraception (injectables and pills) are even smaller\, with very few unmarried or nulliparous women using LARCs (IUDs or implants). For example\, 41% of sexually active unmarried women in Cameroon report using male condoms\, with 6% using SARCs and less than 1% using LARCs (DHS 2011). Given meaningful differences in the typical-use effectiveness of these different methods\, it is important to understand why most women don’t use any modern methods of contraceptives\, and why\, among users\, women favor the short-acting (but\, less reliable) methods over the long-acting (but almost 100% effective) ones. \nIn this talk\, Berk Özler will describe their multi-disciplinary team’s ongoing work in Cameroon that is attempting to identify the barriers to the uptake of LARCs and testing interventions to overcome them. They will briefly summarize the formative qualitative work to identify the supply- and demand-side barriers; describe a tablet-based decision-support tool they developed for nurses to counsel young women on modern contraceptive methods\, and describe the design of two randomized-controlled trials that test some of the interventions designed with the government of Cameroon. \nPlease RSVP for lunch \nCo-sponsored with the UCLA Luskin Senior Fellows Speaker Series \nMore on Prof. Ozler \n  URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/berk-ozler-world-bank/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BOzler.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20181001T192236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T201210Z UID:10000642-1539777600-1539783000@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Erin Hartman\, University of California Los Angeles DESCRIPTION:Title: Covariate Selection for Generalizing Experimental Results \nAbstract: Researchers are often interested in generalizing the average treatment effect (ATE) estimated in a randomized experiment to non-experimental target populations. Researchers can estimate the population ATE without bias if they adjust for a set of variables affecting both selection into the experiment and treatment heterogeneity. Although this separating set has simple mathematical representation\, it is often unclear how to select this set in applied contexts. In this paper\, we propose a data-driven method to estimate a separating set. Our approach has two advantages. First\, our algorithm relies only on the experimental data. As long as researchers can collect a rich set of covariates on experimental samples\, the proposed method can inform which variables they should adjust for. Second\, we can incorporate researcher-specific data constraints. When researchers know certain variables are unmeasurable in the target population\, our method can select a separating set subject to such constraints\, if one is feasible. We validate our proposed method using simulations\, including naturalistic simulations based on real-world data. \nCo-Sponsored with The Center for Social Statistics \nMore on Prof. Hartman URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/erin-hartman-university-of-california-los-angeles/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Hartman_Erin-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20171103T182159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180607T172952Z UID:10000483-1527681600-1527687000@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:V. Joseph Hotz\, Duke University DESCRIPTION:“The Role of Parental Wealth & Income in Financing Children’s College Attendance & Its Consequences” \nAbstract: This paper examines the influence of parental wealth and income on their children’s college attendance and parents’ financial support for it and whether the latter affects the subsequent levels of indebtedness of parents and their children. We use data from the PSID\, especially data in the 2013 Rosters and Transfers Module on the incidence and amounts of parents’ financial support for their children’s college. To instrument for the potential endogeneity of parental housing wealth and income on these decisions\, we use changes in parents’ local housing and labor market conditions. We find that increases in both parents’ housing wealth and income increase the likelihood of their children attending college through the effect of parents’ financial support. This parental financing of college leads to parents carrying more debt\, but their children having no greater student loan debt after graduation. We also find that parental financing of their child’s college education significantly increases the probability that the child actually graduates from college. \nAccess Podcast Here \nMore on Prof. Hotz URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/v-joseph-hotz-duke-university/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/vjhotz.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20180131T225139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T221803Z UID:10000493-1527076800-1527082200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Dennis Culhane\, University of Pennsylvania DESCRIPTION:“The Promise of Integrated Data Systems for Social Science Research” \nAbstract: Integrated Data Systems (IDS) linking administrative\, public agency data hold great promise for rapid and low-cost implementation and evaluation of homeless initiatives. Culhane will review the legal\, ethical\, scientific and economic challenges of interagency data sharing\, as well as systematic efforts including policy reform and inter-agency collaboration to overcome these challenges. Finally\, he will review important new IDS initiatives in LA County and California. \nMore on Prof. Culhane URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dennis-culhane-university-pennsylvania/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Dennis-Culhane.png ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170724T212734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180607T173933Z UID:10000591-1526472000-1526477400@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Sarah Baird\, George Washington University DESCRIPTION:“When the Money Runs Out: Do Cash Transfers Have Sustained Effects on Human Capital Accumulation?” \nAbstract: The five-year evaluation of a cash transfer program targeted to young women points to both the promise and limitations of cash transfers for persistent welfare gains. Conditional cash transfers produced sustained improvements in education and fertility for initially out-of-school females\, but caused no gains in other outcomes. Significant declines in HIV prevalence\, pregnancy and early marriage observed during the program among recipients of unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) evaporated quickly after the cessation of support. However\, children born to UCT beneficiaries during the program had significantly higher height-for-age z-scores at follow-up pointing to the potential importance of cash during critical periods. \nAccess Podcast Here \nMore on Prof. Baird URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sarah-baird-george-washington-university/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Baird_5_23_18.png ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170724T212113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180607T173721Z UID:10000590-1525867200-1525872600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Susan Cassels\, UC Santa Barbara DESCRIPTION:“Self-selection or enabling environments: What predicts the association between short-term mobility and sexual behavior?” \nAbstract: Short-term mobility is often associated with increased risk behavior. For example\, mobile individuals often have higher rates of sexual risk behavior compared to non-mobile individuals\, but the reasons why are not clear. Using monthly retrospective panel data from Ghana\, we test whether short-term mobility is associated with differences in total and unprotected sex acts\, and whether the association is due to enabling\, selection\, or influential reasons. In other words\, do mobile individuals express higher levels of risk due to an environment that enables that risk? Alternatively\, mobile individuals may be selected on some trait that predicts less aversion to risk. Men who were mobile in a given month had more sex acts compared to non-mobile men. Regardless of short-term mobility in a given month\, both men and women who were mobile in future months had more sex acts compared to individuals not mobile in future months. Our findings support the hypothesis that both men and women who are mobile are positively selected on sexual risk behavior. The enabling hypothesis\, that the act of being mobile enables sexual risk behavior\, was only supported for men. \nAccess Podcast Here \nMore on Prof. Cassels URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/susan-cassels-uc-santa-barbara/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Cassels_5_9_18-e1520290560871.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20180202T003528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180412T210346Z UID:10000595-1525262400-1525267800@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bruce Western\, Harvard University and Columbia University DESCRIPTION:“Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison” \nAbstract: This talk will address my new book\, Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison. The book  tells the stories of the men and women I met through the Boston Reentry Study\, a series of interviews my research team and I conducted with people leaving prison for neighborhoods around Boston. We were trying to understand what happens when people return to a community\, and the challenges faced by them and their families. How did they look for work and housing? How did they manage their addictions or mental illness\, and why did some return to incarceration? In trying to answer these questions\, I hoped to bear witness to the lives held captive in America’s experiment with mass incarceration. The research showed that imprisonment is followed by deep poverty\, in which unemployment is widespread and survival is assisted only by government programs and family support. While earlier studies have focused on the stigma of a criminal record\, the men and women of Boston also struggled greatly with human frailty — mental illness\, addiction\, and physical disability — that threatened success after incarceration and impaired the effectiveness of programs. They had experienced serious violence\, often as perpetrators\, but just as frequently as victims and witnesses\, and often since early childhood. Under these conditions\, freedom after prison was not a status granted by release\, but something attained gradually. Becoming free was a process of social integration where one had to find one’s place with kin and community. \nMore on Prof. Western \n*Co-sponsored with the California Policy Lab URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/bruce-western-columbia-university/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Western-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180418T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180418T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20180405T162514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180416T162557Z UID:10000600-1524052800-1524058200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:CCPR 2018 PAA Practice Session DESCRIPTION:Please join us to hear our residents interesting research and give feedback for their upcoming PAA presentations. \nPresenters: \n\nElior Cohen\, “The impact of skilled immigration on innovation in the Age of Mass Migration”\nSara Johnsen\, “Continuity and Change in Contraceptive Female Sterilization in the United States\, 1982 – 2015”\nWookun Kim\, “Does Pro-Natalist Cash Transfer Work? Evidence from Local Programs in South Korea”\nRavaris Moore\, “The Effects of Exposure to Community Gun-Violence on the High School Dropout Rates of California Public School Students” URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-2018-paa-practice-session/ LOCATION:4240 Public Affairs Bldg CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1-845x321.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170724T211319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T224906Z UID:10000589-1523448000-1523453400@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Emmanuel Saez\, UC Berkeley DESCRIPTION:“Inequality around the World: Evidence and Implications” \nAbstract: The lecture will present new evidence on global inequality and growth since 1980 using the World and Wealth Income Database. We combine data across countries in a homogeneous way to analyze world inequality. Global inequality has increased since 1980 in spite of fast growth in large emerging countries. We plot the curve of cumulated growth from 1980 to 2016 for each percentile of the global distribution of income per adult. This curve has an elephant shape as growth rates have been particularly high around the median (due to growth in China and India)\, growth rates have been low for the middle classes of advanced economies\, and growth rates have been explosive for the global top income earners. We estimate the future evolution of global inequality between now and 2050 combining projected macro growth rates and within country inequality evolution based on past trends. \nPodcast Here \nMore on Prof. Saez \n*Co-sponsored with the Department of Economics and Anderson School of Management and Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar (PPASS) URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/emmanuel-saez-uc-berkeley/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Saez_4_11_18.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180404T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180404T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170724T210930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T225720Z UID:10000588-1522843200-1522848600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Andrew Oswald\, University of Warwick DESCRIPTION:“The Midlife Crisis in Humans and Other Animals” \nAbstract: The talk will discuss the concept of the midlife crisis.  It will examine international evidence on happiness\, mental health\, suicide\, antidepressant consumption\, sleep\, and so on.  Not all the data will be on human beings.  The talk will say something about where we are scientifically\, and what we need to understand next.  Plenty of time will be left for open discussion. \nAccess Podcast Here \nMore on Prof. Oswald \n*Co-Sponsored with Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar (PPASS) URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/andrew-oswald-university-warwick/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Oswald_4_4_18.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180314T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170724T210102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T225622Z UID:10000587-1521028800-1521034200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:David Card\, UC Berkeley DESCRIPTION:“The Health Effects of Cesarean Delivery for Low-Risk First Births” \nAbstract: Cesarean delivery for low-risk pregnancies is generally associated with worse health outcomes for infants and mothers. The interpretation of this correlation\, however\, is confounded by potential selectivity in the choice of birth mode. We use birth records from California\, merged with hospital and emergency department (ED) visits for infants and mothers in the year after birth\, to study the casual health effects of cesarean delivery for low-risk first births. Building on McClellan\, McNeil\, and Newhouse (1994)\, we use the relative distance from a mother’s home to hospitals with high and low c-section rates as an instrument for c-section.  We show that relative distance is a strong predictor of c-section but is orthogonal to many observed risk factors\, including birth weight and indicators of prenatal care.  Our IV estimates imply that cesarean delivery causes a relatively large increase in ED visits of the infant\, mainly due to acute respiratory conditions. We find no significant effects on mothers’ hospitalizations or ED use after birth\, or on subsequent fertility\, but we find a ripple effect on second birth outcomes arising from the high likelihood of repeat c-section. Offsetting these morbidity effects\, we find that delivery at a high c-section hospital leads to a significant reduction in infant mortality\, driven by lower death rates for newborns with high rates of pre-determined risk factors. \nAccess Podcast Here \nMore on Prof. Card URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/david-card-uc-berkeley/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Card_3_14_18.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180307T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170830T161541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T225501Z UID:10000475-1520424000-1520429400@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Fernando Riosmena\, University of Colorado DESCRIPTION:“A re-appraisal of thinking on and the empirical evaluation of migration theories” \nAbstract: Over the last quarter Century\, there has been considerable efforts to systematize knowledge on and empirically test the drivers of population mobility around a set of eight theories that either explain the initiation or continuation of international labor migration flows. In this presentation\, I provide a reflection aimed at furthering theoretical development and empirical testing of these theories. I do so by: (1) providing more specific guidance on how the different theories’ overlapping scales of influence interrelate more specifically than examined in prior work; (2) arguing for a more complete formulation of some of these theories to better explain contemporary immigration flows; and (3) discussing whether/how these theories can help bridge the understanding of the “drivers” of internal vs. international migration\, and of labor vs. other kinds of mobility\, including some forms of forced displacement. Throughout\, I also discuss how the quantitative testing of these theories has fallen into pitfalls of both thinking measurement\, which have likely led to a misattribution of the relative importance of some theories\, suggesting some refinements on the empirical validation of and the more general use of these theories in guiding empirical analysis going forward. \nAccess Podcast Here \nCo-sponsored with the Center for the Study of International Migration and the Center for Mexican Studies \nMore on Prof. Riosmena URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/fernando-riosmena-university-colorado/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Riosmena_3_7_18.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180228T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180228T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170724T205507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180118T162939Z UID:10000586-1519819200-1519824600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Wendy Manning\, Bowling Green State University DESCRIPTION:“Boomer and Millennial Young Adulthood Relationships: A Demographic Perspective“ \nAbstract: Baby Boomers were at the forefront of many changes in young adult relationship and family experiences. Today a new cohort\, Millennials\, outnumber Boomers and have redefined young adulthood.  Dr. Manning will contrast the relationship experiences of young adult Boomers and Millennials.  She will share new findings about recent patterns and trends in the formation and stability of young adult relationships. Concluding comments will focus on challenges and opportunities for research on young adults in the United States. \nBio: Wendy D. Manning\, Ph.D.\, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology\, Director of the Center for Family and Demographic Research\, Co-Director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research\, Bowling Green State University \n*Co-sponsored with The Family Working Group at UCLA \nMore on Prof. Manning URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/wendy-manning-bowling-green-state-university/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Manning_2_28_18.png ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180214T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180214T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170724T203215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171220T203906Z UID:10000585-1518609600-1518615000@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Joscha Legewie\, Yale University DESCRIPTION:“Policing and the Educational Performance of Minority Youth” \nAbstract: How does the expansion of police presence in poor urban communities affect educational outcomes? Exploiting a quasi-experimental design from New York City\, we present causal evidence of the impact of aggressive\, zero-tolerance policing on the educational performance of minority youth. Under Operation Impact\, the New York Police Department (NYPD) saturated high crime areas with additional police officers with the mission to engage in aggressive order maintenance policing. We used administrative data from about 680\,000 adolescents aged 10 to 14 and exploited quasi-random variation in the relative timing of police surges and the date of standardized exams among children in the same neighborhood. Exposure to police surges significantly reduced test scores for African-American boys. The size of the effect increases with age but there is no discernible effect for African-American girls and Hispanics. Aggressive policing can thus lower the educational performance of African-American youth and perpetuate the racial achievement gap. \nMore on Prof. Legewie URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/joscha-legewie-yale/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Legewie_2_14_18.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20180119T000901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T225247Z UID:10000489-1518004800-1518010200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Randall Kuhn\, UC Los Angeles DESCRIPTION:“A Large-Scale Survey of International Migrants from Rural Bangladesh: Longitudinal Evidence on Migration Costs\, Earnings and Health” \nAbstract: Popular attention has focused on the harsh conditions facing overseas guest workers from countries such as Bangladesh to the states of the Persian Gulf\, with the assumption of negative health consequences. In contrast\, the global empirical literature on migrant health finds generally positive health outcomes for migrants relative to those left-behind\, due in large part to self-selection. Yet most such studies match separate datasets from sending and destination country rather than using a binational panel survey. Few focus on guest workers or migrants to non-OECD destinations. The Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Survey (MHSS) is a binational panel survey that follows a representative sample of a rural area of Bangladesh from 1996-7 to 2012-4. Between survey rounds\, one quarter of young adult males moved outside the country (most to the Persian Gulf)\, with one-third migrating internally. All out-migrants were followed\, including festival and phone interviews with overseas migrants. MHSS2 achieved a 92% reinterview rate\, including 87% of overseas migrants. This paper provides preliminary assessment of data quality for phone and festival interviews\, and measures the effects of migrant status (international\, internal)\, return migrant and country of destination on livelihoods\, physical health and mental health. Regression estimates account for the potential confounding effects of current and past socioeconomic characteristics of the migrant\, his parents\, family and community using data back to 1974. Propensity score estimates account for the effects of self-selection into migration\, while bounding exercises address the potential effects of differential inter-survey mortality. \nAccess Podcast Here \nMore on Prof. Kuhn  \n  URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/randall-kuhn-uc-los-angeles/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Randall-Kuhn-Ph.D.-10b.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180202T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180202T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20180119T234006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T183607Z UID:10000491-1517572800-1517578200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Amparo González Ferrer\, Spanish Scientific Research Council DESCRIPTION:“Intergenerational Relationships among Latino Immigrant Families in Spain: Conflict and Emotional Intimacy” \n*Co-sponsored with The Center for the Study of International Migration \nAbstract: Relationships with parents have been identified as a major factor in shaping adolescents’ well-being and cognitive development. Compared to adolescents in native families\, immigrant children face multiple stressors associated with international migration that may cause the relationship with their parents to be more conflictive or emotionally distant. In this paper\, we compare the levels of mother-child conflict and emotional intimacy among Latino immigrant and Spanish native families living in Spain. Our analysis shows that Latino adolescents do not describe the relationship with their mothers as more conflictive than natives do. However\, they report more emotional distance with their mothers than native adolescents. This differential with natives cannot be fully attributed to migration-related factors like physical separation from parents due to staggered family migration\, to the lower life satisfaction of Latino mothers’ in their new destination or to an acculturation gap between mother and child. However\, the fact that immigrant mothers spend less time doing activities with their children\, probably due to their harder working conditions\, explains part of the differential in emotional intimacy with native families. Finally\, our analyses clearly establish an equally negative relationship between conflict and emotional intimacy for both native and Latino immigrant families. \n  URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/amparo-gonzalez-ferrer-spanish-scientific-research-council/ LOCATION:Bunche 10383 CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/amparo.gonz_lez-ferrer-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170724T202655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171215T171940Z UID:10000584-1517400000-1517405400@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Cynthia Feliciano\, UC Irvine DESCRIPTION:“How Multiracial Identities and Racial Classification Shape Latinos’ Dating Preferences“ \nAbstract:Understanding how life experiences vary by different dimensions of race may help clarify the growing Latino population’s place in the U.S. racial structure. This study examines how self-identifying with more than one racial group and racial classification relate to racial dating choices among Latinos. Analyses of data from online dating profiles reveal divergent patterns in stated racial preferences among Latinos depending upon whether and how they also identify with other racial groups. Latinos who identify as White express racial preferences that are more similar to Whites than to monoracial Latinos\, while the preferences of Black-identified Latinos are more similar to Blacks\, consistent with Whitening and Black exceptionalism theories. However\, regardless of racial self-identity\, Latino online daters vary in their exclusion of Whites depending upon how they are racially classified by others. These findings suggest that Latinos’ racial preferences are influenced by the existing racial structure and that Latinos contribute to maintaining the racial hierarchy through their dating choices. In addition\, the findings suggest multiple assimilation trajectories within this diverse population. \n*Co-Sponsored with the Center for the Study of International Migration \nMore on Prof. Feliciano URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/cynthia-feliciano-uc-irvine/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Feliciano_1_31_18.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170724T202504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T023053Z UID:10000583-1516795200-1516800600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Rob Warren\, University of Minnesota DESCRIPTION:“When Should Researchers Use Inferential Statistics When Analyzing Data on Full Populations?“ \nAbstract: Many researchers uncritically use inferential statistical procedures (e.g.\, hypothesis tests) when analyzing complete population data—a situation in which inference may seem unnecessary. We begin by reviewing and analyzing the most common rationales for employing inferential procedures when analyzing full population data. Two common rationales—having to do with handling missing data and generalizing results to other times and/or places—either lack merit or amount to analyzing sample (not population) data.  Whether it is appropriate to use inferential procedures depends on whether researchers are analyzing sample or population data and on whether they seek to make causal or descriptive claims. When doing descriptive research\, the distinction between sample and population data is paramount: Inferential statistics should only be used to analyze sample data (to account for sampling variability) and never to analyze population data. When doing causal research\, the distinction between sample data and population data is unimportant: Inferential procedures can and should always be used to distinguish (for example) robust associations from those that may have come about by chance alone. Crucially\, using inferential procedures to analyze population data to make descriptive claims can lead to incorrect substantive conclusions—especially when population sizes and/or effect sizes are small. \n*Co-sponsored with the Center for Social Statistics \nMore on Prof. Warren \nAccess Podcast here URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/rob-warren-university-minnesota/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Warren_1_24_18.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170830T161018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180103T180301Z UID:10000593-1516363200-1516368600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Chenoa Flippen\, University of Pennsylvania DESCRIPTION:“The Uphill Climb: A Transnational Perspective on Wealth Accumulation among Latino Immigrants in Durham\, NC” \nAbstract: Wealth accumulation is a key dimension of ethno-racial stratification\, and\, among immigrants\, an important indicator of incorporation.  Dramatically low assets among immigrant Latinos is thus a pressing concern\, necessitating a better understanding of the social forces that shape wealth assimilation.  Drawing on a survey of Latino immigrants in Durham\, NC\, I argue for the importance of a transnational perspective on wealth for immigrant populations.  Nationally representative surveys designed to assess inequality among the general population generally lack information on wealth held abroad\, which accounts for the lion’s share of assets held by immigrants in our sample.  Likewise\, these data sources rarely have information on factors salient to immigrants\, particularly legal status and informal employment.  Finally\, I show that the socio-demographic characteristics central to life-cycle wealth models operate in different ways for U.S. and foreign assets\, and for men and women.  For instance\, while household earnings and duration of Durham residence are associated with greater U.S. assets among Durham’s Latino migrants\, they fail to predict wealth held abroad.  Likewise\, low educational attainment and informal employment are associated with lower U.S.\, but not foreign\, wealth.  Instead\, the key predictors of wealth abroad relate to family structure.  I further document structural barriers to immigrant Latino wealth accumulation\, such as employment marginality and lack of access to mainstream financial institutions. \n*Co-Sponsored with the Center for the Study of International Migration \nMore on Prof. Flippen URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/chenoa-flippen-university-pennsylvania/ LOCATION:Bunche 10383 CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Flippen_1_19_18.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180118 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180119 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20180409T182654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T184432Z UID:10000616-1516233600-1516319999@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Diversion in the Criminal Justice System: Regression Discontinuity Evidence on Court Deferrals: Kevin Schnepel\, University of Sydney\, School of Economics DESCRIPTION:Kevin Schnepel\, University of Sydney\, School of Economics \nThe historically unprecedented size of the U.S. criminal justice system has necessitated the development of diversion programs to reduce caseloads as a cost containment strategy. Court deferrals\, which allow felony defendants to avoid formal convictions through probation\, are one example. Using two discontinuities in deferral rates in Harris County\, Texas\, separated by 13 years\, we find consistent evidence that diversion reduces reoffending and unemployment among first-time felony defendants. Similar benefits are not observed for repeat offenders suggesting felony record stigma as a key mechanism. Young\, African American men drive the total effect\, a pattern consistent with over-targeting by law enforcement. URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/diversion-in-the-criminal-justice-system-regression-discontinuity-evidence-on-court-deferrals/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180110T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170724T202034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180116T184805Z UID:10000582-1515585600-1515591000@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Doug Massey\, Princeton University DESCRIPTION:“Train Wreck: US Immigration and Border Policy 1965-2010” \nAbstract: Despite the massive increase in border enforcement after 1986\, undocumented population growth did not decrease\, but rose. In this talk I undertake a systematic analysis of border enforcement as a policy for immigration control. Empirical results explain not only why it failed\, but how and why it backfired. In the end\, the militarization of the border did not increase the probability of apprehension at the border or reduce the likelihood of unauthorized entry; but it did dramatically change the geography of border crossing\, increase the costs of undocumented migration\, and elevate the physical risks of border crossing. Ironically\, these trends had no effect on the likelihood of undocumented departure for the United States\, but instead reduced the probability undocumented returns back to Mexico\, thereby  increasing the net volume of undocumented migration and accelerating undocumented population growth. \nAccess Podcast Here \n*Co-Sponsored with; \nThe Center for the Study of International Migration \nThe Social Stratification\, Inequality\, and Mobility Working Group  \nThe Center for Mexican Studies  \nMore on Prof. Massey URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/doug-massey-princeton-university/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Massey_1_10_18.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170719T204821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T193516Z UID:10000580-1511956800-1511962200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Jessica Ho\, USC DESCRIPTION:“Contemporary Trends in American Mortality: International Comparisons and Emerging Challenges” \nAbstract: The decades surrounding the turn of the 21st century have been a challenging period for American mortality. The United States is currently facing a large-scale opioid epidemic\, and life expectancy barely increased between 2010 and 2015. This talk will cover various dimensions of contemporary trends in American mortality including the contribution of drug overdose to educational gradients in life expectancy\, an analysis of the contemporary drug overdose epidemic in international perspective\, and how the U.S.’s recent life expectancy stagnation has impacted its standing in international life expectancy rankings relative to other high-income countries. \nMore on Prof. Ho URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jessica-ho-usc/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Ho_11_29_17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170719T204629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T192204Z UID:10000577-1510747200-1510752600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Skeem\, UC Berkeley DESCRIPTION:“’What works’ for justice-involved people with mental illness” \nAbstract:  Each year\, over 2 million people with serious mental illness are booked into U.S. jails. These people typically stay longer in jail than those without mental illness—and\, upon release\, are more likely to be reincarcerated. Today\, over 300 counties have resolved to “step up” their efforts to reduce the number of people with mental illness in jail. In this presentation\, I highlight research on “what works” to reduce re-offending among justice-involved people with mental illness. Programs must avoid the traditional assumption that mental illness is the direct cause of the problem\, and linkage with psychiatric services is the solution. Evidence-based\, cost-effective programs look beyond psychiatric explanations to address robust risk factors that are shared by people with- and without mental illness. \nMore on Prof. Skeem URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jennifer-skeem-uc-berkerly/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Skeem_11_15_17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170719T204442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T194646Z UID:10000575-1510142400-1510147800@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Victoria Baranov\, University of Melbourne DESCRIPTION:“Mental health and women’s choices. Experimental evidence from a Randomized Control Trial. “ \nAbstract: We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting decisions by exploiting experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial which provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. The trial\, which is the largest psychotherapy trial in the world\, was highly successful at reducing depression rates of mothers. We relocate mothers 6 years after the intervention concluded to evaluate the effects of the intervention on women’s financial empowerment\, parental investments\, fertility\, as well as children development. We find that treating maternal depression increased women’s empowerment\, particularly control over spending\, both in the short-run and in the long-run. Consistent with the reports of increased control over spending\, we find persistent effects of the intervention on both time- and monetary-intensive parental investment. We do not find any detectable effect on children development. The long-run treatment effects are concentrated among girls. \nMore on Prof. Baranov\nPodcast Here URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/victoria-baranov-university-melbourne/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Baranov_11_8_17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170719T204240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T192932Z UID:10000573-1509537600-1509543000@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Rodrigo Soares\, Columbia University DESCRIPTION:“Does Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Maternal and Child Health in Brazil“ \nAbstract: We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage. Using administrative data from multiple sources and an event study approach that exploits the staggered rollout of programmatic changes across municipalities\, we find large reductions in maternal\, foetal\, neonatal and postneonatal mortality\, and fertility. We document increased prenatal care visits\, hospital births and other maternal and child hospitalization\, which suggest that the survival gains were supply-driven. We find no improvement in the quality of births\, which may be explained by endogenous shifts in the composition of births towards higher-risk births. \nMore on Prof. Soares \nPodcast Here URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/rodrigo-soares-columbia-university/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Soares_11_1_17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T124338 CREATED:20170719T203938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170925T164056Z UID:10000571-1508932800-1508938200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Mark Kaplan\, UCLA DESCRIPTION:“Title: The Impact of Socioenvironmental Stressors on Alcohol-Linked Suicides: A Nationwide Postmortem Study” \nAbstract: Not only is suicide a major public health problem\, but also\, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, 8\,179 deaths and 273\,206 years of potential life lost resulted from alcohol attributable suicides in 2006-10 (the latest years available). Since 2011\, Professor Kaplan and his colleagues have worked with the National Violent Death Reporting System Restricted Access Database on two projects funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism\, focusing on acute alcohol use immediately prior to suicide. This presentation will show that nearly a third of suicide decedents nationwide were intoxicated at the time of death. Furthermore\, Prof. Kaplan will describe the effects of the 2008-09 economic contraction and other adverse socioenvironmental conditions on rates of suicide involving acute alcohol intoxication. \nMore on Prof. Kaplan URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/mark-kaplan-ucla/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Kaplan_10_25_17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR