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  • Workshop: Brandon Stewart, Princeton University, “Using Large Language Model Annotations for the Social Sciences: A General Framework of Using Predicted Variables in Statistical Analyses”

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

    Biography: Brandon Stewart is Associate Professor of Sociology at Princeton University where he is also affiliated with the Office of Population Research and numerous other centers on campus. He currently serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Political Analysis and Associate Editor at Sociological Methods & Research. His work spans several areas of computational social science with […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Dora Costa, who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and […]

  • Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School, Climate Matching in Migration: From the American Frontier to Prehistory

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

    Biography: Marco Tabellini is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), RF Berlin, and IZA. He explores how international and internal migration reshapes politics, societies, and the economy. His work investigates when and […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by CCPR Alumni Jennifer Flashman and CCPR Director Megan Sweeney, who will be there to […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by the CCPR Directors, who will be there to guide the conversation, share insights, and […]

  • Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University, “Colleges that obviously don’t have what you need”: Risk, Social Mobility and the Postsecondary Decisions of Low-Income Students”

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

    Biography: Stefanie DeLuca is the James Coleman Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University, Director of the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab, and Research Principal at Opportunity Insights at Harvard University. She co-authored Coming of Age in the Other America (with Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin), which was named an Outstanding […]

  • CCPR Social Hour

    UCLA Faculty Club

    CCPR is hosting a faculty-only Social Hour at the UCLA Faculty Club. There is no formal agenda—think of this as an informal gathering to meet and reconnect with CCPR affiliates. Peter Evans and Grace Bukovsky from UCLA College Development will attend to discuss and answer questions regarding major giving fundraising and foundation support with those […]

  • Manasi Deshpande, The University of Chicago, “Explaining the Historical Rise and Recent Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment”

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

    Biography:  Manasi Deshpande is an associate professor of economics with tenure at the University of Chicago Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests include the optimal design of social safety net programs, their interaction with labor markets, and their effects on […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by the CCPR Directors and new UCLA Professor Ann Owens, who will be there to […]

  • Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia, “Development Mismatch?: Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa”

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

      Biography: Nathan Nunn is a Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in cultural economics. His research examines the historical and dynamic process of economic development, focusing on the evolution of culture, norms, and institutions across societies. He has published dozens of articles aimed at improving […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by the CCPR Directors, who will be there to guide the […]

  • Development Workshop: Mary Jo Mitchell (Director of Gov’t and Public Affairs, PAA), “Engaging Policymakers: Role of PAA/APC and Population Scientists” 

    Zoom

    Biography: Since January 2004, Mary Jo H. Mitchell has been the Director of Government Affairs for the Population Association of America and Association of Population Centers. In addition to representing PAA and APC, Ms. Mitchell has co-directed The Census Project since 2008. Prior to her position with PAA/APC, Ms. Mitchell worked at the National Institutes of Health […]

  • Holiday Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by the CCPR Directors, who will be there to guide the […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by the CCPR Directors, who will be there to guide the […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Adriana Lleras-Muney, who will be there to guide the […]

  • Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland, “Research Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar”

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

      Biography: Philip N. Cohen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His latest book, Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (Columbia University Press 2025), addresses the role of intellectuals in public life and offers guidance for a career in social science. His other research concerns demographic trends, family structure, […]

  • Michael Geruso, UT Austin, Book Talk on “After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People”

    Royce Hall, Room 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles,, CA

      Biography: Dr. Michael Geruso is coauthor of After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People. Geruso is an economic demographer, public economist, and associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2023 to 2024, he served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, […]

  • Workshop: Matias Cattaneo, Princeton University, “Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Practice”

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

      Biography: Matias D. Cattaneo is a Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) at Princeton University. He is also an Associated Faculty in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), the Department of Economics, and the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS), and an Affiliated Faculty in the Data-Driven Social Science (DDSS) initiative, the AI at Princeton initiative, and the Center for Statistics and Machine […]

  • Coffee and Conversation

    CCPR Break Room

    Join CCPR affiliates for coffee and bagels from Noah’s Bagels, and take the opportunity to get to know one another in a casual setting. Coffee and Conversation is held Mondays at 10:00 AM in the CCPR Break Room. This week’s session will be hosted by Professor Andres Villarreal, who will be there to guide the […]

  • The Challenges and Promise of Population Research: Insights from CCPR’s Junior Population Scientists

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

    CCPR’s Junior Population Scientists are distinguished population scholars and CCPR affiliates from other California universities. Join us in welcoming the inaugural cohort as they briefly introduce their research and insights into the challenges and promises of population research. A Q&A session and reception will follow. Household decision-making under the microscope: evidence from experiments with Kenyan […]

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