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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20170724T202655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171215T171940Z
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20170724T202504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T023053Z
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20170830T161018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180103T180301Z
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180119
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20180409T182654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T184432Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180110T133000
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CREATED:20170724T202034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180116T184805Z
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T133000
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
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
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
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
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20170719T203405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171017T230356Z
UID:10000569-1508328000-1508333400@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:David Chae\, Auburn University
DESCRIPTION:“Getting Under the Skin: Socio-Psychobiological Pathways and Racial Disparities in Health.“ \nAbstract: Racism is physically embodied through social\, behavioral\, and psychobiological mechanisms. In this talk\, David H. Chae\, will discuss the utility of a social-ecological and developmental lens to examine how racism is biologically embedded. He will discuss his research on multiple levels of racism and the channels through which they compromise health throughout the lifecourse. \nMore on Prof. Chae
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/david-chae-auburn/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20170719T202008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T193058Z
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SUMMARY:Roland Rau\, University of Rostock
DESCRIPTION:“Title: The challenges of estimating mortality in small areas — using German counties as a case study” \nAbstract:  \nWe develop and analyze Bayesian models that produce good estimates of complete mortality schedules for small areas\, even when the expected number of deaths is very small. The models also provide estimates of uncertainty about local mortality schedules. The TOPALS relational model is the primary building block\, used to model age-specific mortality rates within each small area. TOPALS models produce estimates for single-year ages from a small number of local parameters. We experiment with Bayesian models for smoothing and ‘borrowing’ mortality information across space\, using two alternative specifications. First we test a Bayesian model with conditional autoregressive (CAR) priors for TOPALS parameters. CAR priors assign higher probability to parameters that are similar across adjacent areas\, thus emphasizing spatial smoothness in estimated rates. Second\, we test a hierarchical Bayesian model\, which assigns higher probability to parameters that are similar for locations that are close in terms of political geography. \nMore on Prof. Rau \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/roland-rau-university-rostock/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20170719T180734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T170714Z
UID:10000565-1507118400-1507123800@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:2017-2018 CCPR Welcome and Introductions
DESCRIPTION:Please come join us to learn all about the California Center for Population Research! \nProfessors Judith Seltzer\, Till von Wachter\, and Jennie Brand will be presenting. \nThis will be the kick-off event for the start of the upcoming 2017-2018 CCPR Seminar Series.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/2017-2018-ccpr-welcome-introductions/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20170329T174927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170605T163748Z
UID:10000553-1496836800-1496842200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Randall Akee\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:“Reservation Employer Establishments: Data from the U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Data Set” \nAbstract: The presence of employers and jobs on American Indian reservations has been difficult to analyze due to limited data. We are the first to geocode confidential data on employer establishments from the U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) to identify location on or off American Indian reservations. We identify the per-capita establishment count and jobs in reservation-based employer establishments for most federally recognized reservations. Comparisons to nearby non-reservation areas in the lower 48 states across 18 industries\, reveal that reservations have a similar sectoral distribution of employer establishments but have significantly fewer of them in nearly all sectors\, especially when the area population is below 15\,000 (as it is on the vast majority of reservations and for the majority of the reservation population). By contrast\, total jobs provided by reservation establishments are\, on average\, at par with or somewhat higher than in nearby county areas but are concentrated among casino-related and government employers. An implication is that average employment  per establishment are higher in these sectors on reservations\, including those with populations below 15\,000\, while the rest of the economy is sparser in reservations (in firm count and jobs per capita) Geographic and demographic factors such as population density and per capita income statistically account for some but not all of these differences. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/randall-akee-ucla-2/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20170504T213904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T024800Z
UID:10000562-1496404800-1496419200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Fragile Families Challenge: Getting Started Workshop
DESCRIPTION:“Fragile Families Challenge: Getting Started Workshop” \nIan Lundberg  \nPh.D. Student\, Sociology and Social Policy\,  Princeton University \nThe Fragile Families Challenge is a scientific mass collaboration that combines predictive modeling\, causal inference\, and in-depth interviews in order to learn more about the lives of disadvantaged children. Fragile Families Challenge builds on the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study that has been running for about 20 years. The Fragile Families research team has been following about 5\,000 families—-collecting information about them and their environment at regular intervals—in order to understand how to improve the lives of disadvantaged children in the US. \n *Co-Sponsored with the Center for Social Statistics\, UCLA  \nRegister now @ fragilefamilieschallenge.org\, please specify you plan to attend the UCLA workshop
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/fragile-families-challenge-getting-started-workshop/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop,CSS Events
ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20170418T221321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T162237Z
UID:10000561-1496232000-1496237400@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Research Ethics: The Use of Big Data
DESCRIPTION:The use of big data has become increasingly common in social and health research\, raising a series of new and difficult questions about research ethics.  In this informal workshop\, a panel of investigators using big data for their research will describe issues that they have faced and other potential problems.  As background to this workshop\, you may want to read: \n\nhttp://bdes.datasociety.net/council-output/perspectives-on-big-data-ethics-and-society/\nKramer ADI\, Guillory JE and Hancock JT (2014) Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(24): 8788–8790.\nhttp://www.michaelzimmer.org/2016/06/03/okcupid-and-the-ethics-of-big-data-research/\nZimmer\, M. Ethics Inf Technol (2010) 12: 313. doi:10.1007/s10676-010-9227-5\n\nPanelists: \n\nChristina Palmer\, CGC\, PhD\n\nProfessor\, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences\, and Genetics\, UCLA \n\nIrene PasquettoPh.D. Candidate\, Department of Information Studies\, UCLAGraduate Student Researcher\, UCLA Center for Knowledge Infrastructures\nSean Young\, PhD\n\n  \nAssociate Professor \nExecutive Director \nUniversity of California Institute for Prediction Technology (UCIPT) \nDepartment of Family Medicine\, UCLA
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/research-ethics-use-big-data/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20161110T001637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170418T182826Z
UID:10000447-1495713600-1495719000@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Maggie R. Jones\, United States Census Bureau
DESCRIPTION:“Refund Anticipation Products and the Improper Payment of the EITC” \n*Co-Sponsored with Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar Series UCLA \nMore on Dr. Jones 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/maggie-r-jones-united-states-census-bureau/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20161110T001132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T204014Z
UID:10000446-1495022400-1495027800@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Marcella Alsan\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men” \nAbstract: For forty years\, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively monitored hundreds of adult black males with syphilis despite the availability of effective treatment. The study’s methods have become synonymous with exploitation and mistreatment by the medical community. We find that the historical disclosure of the study in 1972 is correlated with increases in medical mistrust and mortality and decreases in both outpatient and inpatient physician interactions for older black men. Our estimates imply life expectancy at age 45 for black men fell by up to 1.4 years in response to the disclosure\, accounting for approximately 35% of the 1980 life expectancy gap between black and white men. \nMore on Prof. Alsan  \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/marcella-alsan-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20161110T000823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T203921Z
UID:10000445-1494417600-1494423000@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Jere R. Behrman\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Applied Group in the Department of Economics \n“Early-Life Undernourishment in Developing Countries:  Prevalence\, Impacts over the Life Cycle and Determinants” \nAbstract: \nEarly-life undernourishment is a widespread phenomenon in many developing countries\, with an estimated 170 million children under 5 years of age stunted\, the standard indicator of chronic malnutrition.  This presentation summarizes an ongoing work program on this topic\, with reference to the prevalence\, impacts and determinants of such undernutrition. \n  \nMore on Prof. Behrman \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jere-r-behrman-university-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20161110T000345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T203529Z
UID:10000444-1493812800-1493818200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Mark Duggan\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“To Work for Yourself\, for Others\, or Not at All? How Disability Benefits Affect The Employment Decisions of Older Veterans“ \nAbstract: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation (DC) program provides disability benefits to nearly one in five military veterans in the US and its annual expenditures exceed $60 billion. We examine how the receipt of DC benefits affects the employment decisions of older veterans. We make use of variation in program eligibility resulting from a 2001 policy change that increased access to the program for Vietnam veterans who served with “boots on the ground” in the Vietnam theater but not for other veterans of that same era. We find that the policy-induced increase in program enrollment decreased labor force participation and induced a substantially larger switch from wage employment to self-employment. This latter finding suggests that an exogenous increase in income spurred many older veterans to start their own businesses. Additionally\, we estimate that one in four veterans who entered the DC program due to this policy change left the labor force\, estimates in the same range as those from recent studies of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. \nMore on Prof. Duggan  \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/mark-duggan-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170412T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20161110T000054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170314T201735Z
UID:10000443-1491998400-1492003800@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Siwan Anderson\, University of British Columbia\, Vancouver
DESCRIPTION:  \n“Legal Origins and Female HIV “ \nMore than half of all people living with HIV are women and 80% of all HIV positive women in the world live in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper demonstrates that the legal origins of these formally colonized countries significantly determines current day female HIV rates. In particular\, female HIV rates are significantly higher in common law Sub-Saharan African countries compared to Civil law ones. This paper explains this relationship by focusing on differences in female property rights under the two codes of law. In Sub-Saharan Africa\, common law is associated with weaker female marital property laws. As a result\, women in these common law countries have lower bargaining power within the household and are less able to negotiate safer sex and are thus more vulnerable to HIV\, compared to their civil law counterparts. Exploiting the fact that some ethnic groups in Sub-Saharan Africa cross country borders with different legal systems\, we are able to include ethnicity fixed effects into a regression discontinuity approach. This allows us to control for a large set of cultural\, geographical\, and environmental factors that could be confounding the estimates. The results of this paper are consistent with gender inequality (the ‘feminization of AIDS’) explaining much of its prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa. \nMore on Prof. Anderson
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/siwan-anderson-university-british-columbia-vancouver/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170322T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170322T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20161109T234158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T223926Z
UID:10000552-1490184000-1490189400@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Jeremy Freese\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“The Problem of Causal Mutualisms\, The Promise of Polygenic Scores\, and The Pervasive Divergence of Life Outcomes” \nAbstract: \nCasual mutualisms are sets of properties that have substantial reciprocal influence on one another.  This may sound abstruse\, but various big constructs in behavioral science\, including “heritability\,” “SES”\, “health”\, and “achievement\,” exhibit clear signs of instantiating massive mutualisms and yet many implications of their doing so remain largely unpursued.  The talk will describe the problem and several routes into it by reference to a series of phenomena that might otherwise appear unrelated\, on intellectual achievement\, educational attainment\, and health disparities. Together these examples are used to argue for a more strongly integrative and developmental social science\, as well as the potential value of predictive scores based on genomic information for helping reckon with mutualisms. \n  \nMore on Prof. Freese
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jeremy-freese-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20161109T234011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170303T184046Z
UID:10000551-1489579200-1489584600@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Julia Lane\, New York University
DESCRIPTION:“Research Funding and the Foreign Born” \nThere has been a resurgence of interest in the link between immigration and economic activity. The evidence suggests that US education plays an important role in both attracting and retaining high-quality foreign-born students. This is particularly true in the case of doctorates trained in science\, technology\, engineering and mathematics (STEM)\, a workforce that is disproportionately foreign born and likely to contribute to long-term economic growth. Because of this\, much effort is given toward attracting talented students and retaining them in the US workforce after they complete their studies. However\, little is known about how that attraction and retention works.  In this paper we use new data to examine the role of an important policy lever-research funding—in keeping both domestic and foreign-born workers in the US labor market. \n  \nMore on Prof. Julia Lane
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/julia-lane-new-york-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20161109T233703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170209T221826Z
UID:10000550-1488974400-1488979800@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Shripad Tuljapurkar\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“New Thoughts on Old Age” \nAbstract: I will discuss late-age career transitions and retirement incentive plans\, the annuity puzzle\, and financial issues that are faced by the aging population. My discussion aims to stimulate new thoughts and argument about aging and retirement. \n  \nMore on Prof. Tuljapurkar
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/shripad-tuljapurkar-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20161109T222536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170112T204911Z
UID:10000549-1487764800-1487770200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Damon Centola\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:Diffusion in Social Networks:  New Theory and Experiments\nAbstract: The strength of weak ties is that they tend to be long – they connect socially distant locations. Research on “small worlds” shows that these long ties can dramatically reduce the “degrees of separation” of a social network\, thereby allowing ideas and behaviors to rapidly diffuse. However\, I show that the opposite can also be true.  Increasing the frequency of long ties in a clustered social network can also inhibit the diffusion of collective behavior across a population.  For health related behaviors that require strong social reinforcement\, such as dieting\, exercising\, smoking cessation\, or even condom use\, successful diffusion may depend primarily on the width of bridges between otherwise distant locations\, not just their length.  I present formal and computational results that demonstrate these findings\, and then present an experimental test of the effects of social network topology on the diffusion of health behavior. \nMore on Prof. Centola 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/damon-centola-university-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20170117T222200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T163012Z
UID:10000452-1485950400-1485955800@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Devesh Kapur\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:“The Other One Percent: Indians in America” \nAbstract: \nPeople of Indian origin—whether they are Indian-born or American-born—make up about 1% of the U.S. population. While there are several anecdotal accounts of Indians in America as well as scholarly studies on specific sub-groups\, The Other One Percent is the first data-driven comprehensive account of the community. The book focuses on three major issues: Selection—the processes by which people from a low-income country have become the highest-income and most-educated group in the U.S; Assimilation—the multiple pathways and challenges of integration while maintaining some aspects of their distinctive identities; and Entrepreneurship—from motels to medicine and finance to technology. Drawing from different academic disciplines\, the book examines the entire community\, from its successful to its marginal members. The Other One Percent is a follow-up to Kapur’s prior book\, Diaspora\, Democracy and Development: The Impact of International Migration From India on India\, for which he earned a 2012 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award of the International Studies Association. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/devesh-kapur-university-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20161109T202852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170112T204643Z
UID:10000548-1485345600-1485351000@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Naomi Sugie\, University of California\, Irvine
DESCRIPTION:“Utilizing Smartphones to Study Disadvantaged and Hard-to-Reach Groups: The Newark Smartphone Reentry Project” \nAbstract: In this talk\, I discuss the use of smartphones to collect real-time information on the experiences of men recently released from prison and on parole in Newark\, New Jersey. Mobile technologies\, specifically smartphones\, offer social scientists a potentially powerful approach to examine the social world. They enable researchers to collect information that was previously unobservable or difficult to measure\, expanding the realm of empirical investigation. For research that concerns resource-poor and hard-to-reach groups\, such as men recently released from prison\, smartphones may be particularly advantageous by lessening sample selection and attrition and by improving measurement quality of irregular and unstable experiences. The first part of this talk describes the project and the smartphone application. I then present findings from one working paper\, which uses GPS estimates to assess neighborhood-level daytime exposure by men on parole and the association between exposure and crime rates.   \nMore on Prof. Sugie 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/naomi-sugie-university-california-irvine/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170118T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20161109T200947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170308T192233Z
UID:10000547-1484740800-1484746200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Ilan Meyer\, University of California\, Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:“Minority  Stress and the Health of Sexual and Gender Minorities: Challenges and Innovations in Population Studies”  \nABSTRACT  \nIn several highly cited papers\, Dr. Meyer has developed a model of minority stress that describes the role of prejudice and stigma in promoting social stressors that bring about adverse health outcomes for LGBT people. The model has guided his and other investigators’ population research on LGBT health disparities by identifying the mechanisms by which social stressors impact health and describing the harm to LGBT people from prejudice and stigma. In this talk\, Dr. Meyer will describe minority stress research findings and current challenges to the study of LGBT health. He will describe two new NIH-funded research projects that take advantage of methodological innovations. In these projects\, Dr. Meyer and co-investigators assess the role of historical context and the social environment in understanding how social changes impact the study of minority stress to help understand health and well-being of LGBT people. \nWatch Podcast Here \nMore on Prof. Ilan Meyer
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ilan-meyer-university-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170111T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170111T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20161108T235121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170104T182757Z
UID:10000545-1484136000-1484141400@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Jenna Nobles\, University of Wisconsin
DESCRIPTION:“Characterizing Cohort Loss Before Birth” \nAbstract: Answers to many central questions in the social sciences depend upon the assumption that cohort loss before birth is ignorable. Evidence from inferential population studies and small-scale cohort studies increasingly suggests otherwise. Up to 70% of human pregnancies terminate before birth; these losses appear to be non-random. In this research we consider the implications of prenatal cohort loss for a few key demographic questions\, including the effects of early-life exposures on later-life health and the effects of child traits on parent outcomes. In so doing\, we extend a long history of demographic research on cohort selection to the prenatal period. We conclude with a discussion of new\, big data approaches to learn more about how prenatal exposures shape population traits.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jenna-nobles-university-wisconsin/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161207T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T135124
CREATED:20160912T220246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170308T204223Z
UID:10000541-1481112000-1481117400@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Jennifer Van Hook\, Penn State
DESCRIPTION:“Exposure to the United States and Healthy Eating Among U.S. Immigrants: \nA Life Course Perspective on Immigrant Health” \nABSTRACT \nThe negative acculturation perspective predicts that immigrants’ health advantages erode with increasing exposure to the U.S. due to the adoption of the unhealthy default American lifestyle. Focusing on diet\, we argue that this perspective underestimates immigrants’ abilities to maintain healthy eating patterns\, especially among adult immigrant arrivals\, and fails to account for how migration during childhood can disrupt important developmental processes. We advance an alternative “life course perspective on immigrant health” and present evidence for it by examining the associations of age at arrival and duration of residence with healthy eating among adult immigrants. Our results suggest that earlier age at arrival is negatively associated with healthy eating and that duration of residence has a weak but positive association with healthy eating\, especially among those who arrived as adults. The results call into question notions that emphasize a steady erosion of healthy eating with time and acculturation. Instead\, they support the life course perspective and point to the importance of early childhood exposures for understanding how living in the U.S. influences healthy eating among immigrants. \nWatch Podcast Here \nWebsite \nIf you are interested in meeting with or joining the speaker for lunch\, please send email to Seminars AT ccpr.ucla.edu
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jennifer-van-hook-penn-state/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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