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SUMMARY:Jens Ludwig\, University of Chicago\, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence"
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nBiography: Jens Ludwig is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago\, co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research working group on the economics of crime\, and Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. He helped found the Crime Lab 16 years ago to serve as a sort of R&D partner to the public sector to help address major social problems like gun violence\, and has led to nationwide efforts to change policing\, community violence intervention\, and social programs for youth violence prevention\, as well as new data-driven decision tools in use across the entire New York City court system. This work has been published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and featured in national news outlets like the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\, NPR and PBS News Hour. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the  National Academy of Science’s Committee on Law and Justice. \nUnforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence\nWhat if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? \nIn 2007\, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen\, and is there anything we can do about it? Almost two decades later\, the answers aren’t what he expected. Unforgiving Places is Ludwig’s revelatory portrait of gun violence in America’s most famously maligned city. \nDisproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people\, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually grow out of a more fleeting source: interpersonal conflict\, especially arguments. By examining why some arguments turn tragic while others don’t\, Ludwig shows gun violence to be more circumstantial—and more solvable—than our traditional approaches lead us to believe. \nDrawing on decades of research and Ludwig’s immersive fieldwork in Chicago\, including “countless hours spent in schools\, parks\, playgrounds\, housing developments\, courtrooms\, jails\, police stations\, police cars\, and lots and lots of McDonald’ses\,” Unforgiving Places is a breakthrough work at the cutting edge of behavioral economics. As Ludwig shows\, progress on gun violence doesn’t require America to solve every other social problem first; it only requires that we find ways to intervene in the places and the ten-minute windows where human behaviors predictably go haywire. \n  \nA recording of Jens Ludwig’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jens-ludwig-university-of-chicago-unforgiving-places-the-unexpected-origins-of-american-gun-violence/
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SUMMARY:Janet Currie\, Princeton University\, "Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the co-director of Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing.  She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research.  Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development.  Her current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in health and access to health care\, environmental threats to health\, the important role of mental health\, and the long-run impact of health problems in pregnancy and early childhood.  Currie is a member of the National Academy of Sciences\, the National Academy of Medicine\, and of the American Academy of Art and Sciences.  She will be the President of the American Economic Association in 2024 and has served as the President of the American Society of Health Economics\, the Society of Labor Economics\, the Eastern Economic Association\, and the Western Economic Association.  She is the Distinguished CES Fellow in 2023\, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science\, the Society of Labor Economists\, and of the Econometric Society\, and has honorary degrees from the University of Lyon and the University of Zurich.  She was a NOMIS Distinguished Scientist in 2019\, the winner of the 2023 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize\, one of the top 10 women in Economics by the World Economic Forum in July 2015\, and an Alumna of Influence by the University of Toronto in 2012.  She has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science\, as the Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature\, and on the editorial boards of many other journals. \n  \n\n\n\nInvesting in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: The child mental health crisis has been described as the “defining public health crisis of our time.” This article addresses three myths about the crisis: 1) The idea that the crisis is new; 2) The belief that increases in youth suicide mainly reflect deterioration in children’s underlying mental health; 3) The myth that investments in children have little impact on children’s mental health. In fact\, the crisis has existed for decades\, youth suicides vary asynchronously with other mental health measures and are impacted by external factors such as firearms legislation\, and investments can improve child mental health and prevent suicide. \n  \nA recording of Janet Currie’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/janet-currie-princeton-university/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250430T120000
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SUMMARY:Emma Zang\, Yale University\, "Life-Course Exposure to State Policy Liberalism Contexts and Later-Life Cognitive Health"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Dr. Emma Zang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology\, Biostatistics\, and Global Affairs at Yale University. Zang’s research interests lie at the intersection of health and aging\, marriage and family\, and inequality\, with a particular focus on examining these dynamics in both the United States and China. She is also interested in developing and evaluating methods to model trajectories and life transitions\, aiming to understand the impact of demographic and socioeconomic inequalities on individuals’ health and well-being from a life course perspective. Her work has appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology\, Demography\, PNAS\, JAMA Internal Medicine\, and Nature Human Behavior. Her projects have been funded by the National Institute of Health. Her research has received media coverage from notable outlets in the United States\, China\, South Korea\, India\, and Singapore. She has received awards from the American Sociological Association\, the National Institute on Aging\, the Southern Demographic Association\, and Social Science History Association\, etc. \n\n\n\n“Life-Course Exposure to State Policy Liberalism Contexts and Later-Life Cognitive Health”\n\n\n\nAbstract: Polarization in U.S. state policy has driven geographic disparities in population health\, but most studies focus on concurrent policy contexts rather than cumulative exposure over the life course. A life course perspective is crucial because individuals experience varied policy environments at different stages\, shaping long-term health outcomes\, including cognitive health. Using restricted-access data from the Health and Retirement Study (1998–2020) linked to state policy data (1936–2014)\, this study examines how life-course exposure to state policy liberalism affects later-life cognitive health. We analyze five periods—early childhood (ages 0-5)\, school age (6-12)\, adolescence (13-17)\, transition to adulthood (18-30)\, and adulthood (31-50)—and their impact on cognitive functioning and impairment risk. We test theories around timing\, duration\, and sequence of exposure. Findings show that prolonged exposure to liberal policies\, especially in early childhood and adulthood\, improves cognitive outcomes. Exposure trajectories\, particularly increasing liberal policies over time\, also enhance cognitive health. These findings highlight the lasting impact of public policy on cognitive health and suggest that supportive policy environments during key life stages can mitigate cognitive decline and reduce disparities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nEmma Zang’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/emma-zang-yale-university/
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SUMMARY:Michael Mueller-Smith\, University of Michigan\, "The Direct and Intergenerational Effects of Criminal History-Based Safety Net Bans in the U.S."
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Mike Mueller-Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Population Studies Center. His research focuses on measuring the scope and prevalence of the criminal justice system in the U.S. as well as its broadly defined impact on the population. He is the Director of the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS)\, a new data infrastructure project joint with the U.S. Census Bureau that seeks to collect and link extensive amounts of criminal justice microdata with social and economic data held at the Census Bureau. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2015\, and completed a NICHD Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Michigan’s Population Studies Center between 2015-2017. \n\n\n\nThe Direct and Intergenerational Effects of Criminal History-Based Safety Net Bans in the U.S.\n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nWe study the lifetime banning\, as introduced by United States Public Law 104-193\, of individuals convicted of felony drug offenses after August 22\, 1996 from ever receiving future SNAP benefits. Using a regression discontinuity design that leverages CJARS criminal history records with federal administrative and survey data\, we estimate the causal impact of safety net assistance bans\, finding significant reductions in SNAP benefit take-up\, which creates unintentional spillovers to spouses and children and persist long after ban revocations occurred. While we observe limited changes to other adult outcomes\, children’s short- and long-run outcomes worsen\, especially those impacted at young ages.\n\n\n\n\nA recording of Michael Mueller-Smith’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/michael-muller-smith-university-of-michigan/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250305T120000
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SUMMARY:Eliana La Ferrara\, Harvard Kennedy School\, "Changing Harmful Norms through Information and Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Somalia"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Eliana La Ferrara is Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She received a PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1999. Prior to joining HKS\, she was the Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University\, Milan\, where she founded and directed the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies (LEAP). She is a Past President of the Econometric Society\, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association\, and International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also NBER Research Associate\, Director of Development Economics at CEPR\, and J-PAL Affiliate. She was president of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) in 2016-2019 and of the European Economic Association in 2018. She is the recipient of the 2020 Birgit Grodal Award. Her research focuses on Development Economics and Political Economics\, particularly on the role of social factors in economic development. She has studied ethnic diversity\, stereotypes\, kin structure and social norms\, and the effects of television on social outcomes. She has also investigated political constraints to development\, with particular focus on violent conflict in Africa. Her work has been published in leading economic journals. \nChanging Harmful Norms through Information and Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Somalia\nAbstract: We study the role of biased beliefs and coordination failures in perpetuating the norm of female genital cutting (FGC) in Somalia\, where 98% of women are cut. We experimentally evaluate three interventions to decrease the prevalence of infibulation\, the most harmful type of FGC: (i) correcting misperceptions about support for the practice; (ii) public declarations of one’s willingness to abandon it; and (iii) a combination of the two. We find that on average community members overestimate others’ support for infibulation. Correcting this misperception reduces the probability of infibulation by 40% two years after the intervention. Over the same time horizon\, this leads to an increase in the `intermediate’ type of FGC (Sunna). When taking into account parents’ future plans for younger\, uncut daughters\, the misperception treatment no longer results in higher Sunna rates\, increasing instead the likelihood that parents plan not to cut. The public declaration treatment does not reduce infibulation\, except in communities where participants had high priors about community support for abandoning the practice. The combined treatment yields similar but insignificant results. Our findings point to the importance of correcting biased beliefs when designing coordination interventions to eradicate harmful norms. \n  \nAn audio recording of Eliana La Ferrara’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/eliana-la-ferrara-harvard-kennedy-school/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T131500
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SUMMARY:Sarah Brayne\, Stanford University\, "Living and Dying in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Sarah Brayne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. In her work\, she uses qualitative and quantitative methods to understand whether and how data-intensive surveillance shapes individual trajectories and population-level disparities. Her first book\, Predict and Surveil: Data\, Discretion\, and the Future of Policing\, draws on ethnographic research within the Los Angeles Police Department to understand the social implications of law enforcement’s use of predictive analytics and new surveillance technologies. \nCurrent projects investigate whether and how exposure to the criminal legal system shapes racial and ethnic disparities in health\, aging\, and mortality; how social media data is used in the criminal legal process; and role of surveillance in forced migration. \nPrior to joining the faculty at Stanford\, Professor Brayne taught at the University of Texas at Austin\, where she co-founded the Texas Prison Education Initiative. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of British Columbia\, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University\, and completed a postdoc at Microsoft Research. \n\n\n\nLiving and Dying in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration\n\n\n\nAbstract: In the United States\, racial disparities in life expectancy are well-documented. However\, the role of incarceration is largely absent from this research. This gap is striking\, given the disproportionate exposure to incarceration among Black men. In this talk\, I use administrative and vital statistics data to understand the impact of incarceration on racial disparities in life expectancy. This research highlights the complex interplay between incarceration and health\, ultimately arguing there is a critical need for analyses of data on incarceration in population research.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sarah-brayne-stanford-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T120000
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SUMMARY:Robert Fairlie\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Affirmative Action\, Faculty Productivity and Caste Interactions: Evidence from Engineering Colleges in India"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Fairlie is a Distinguished Professor at UCLA. He is an Economist and Chair of the Department of Public Policy. He is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He studies a wide range of topics including entrepreneurship\, education\, labor\, racial\, gender and caste inequality\, information technology\, immigration\, health\, and development. He received a Ph.D. and M.A. from Northwestern University and B.A. with honors from Stanford University\, and has held full-time or visiting positions at UC Santa Cruz\, Stanford University\, Yale University\, UC Berkeley\, and Australian National University. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation\, National Academies\, and Russell Sage Foundation as well as numerous government agencies and foundations\, and has testified in front of the U.S. Senate\, U.S. House of Representatives\, U.S. Department of Treasury\, and the California State Assembly. \nAffirmative Action\, Faculty Productivity and Caste Interactions: Evidence from Engineering Colleges in India\nAbstract: Affirmative action programs are often criticized because of concerns over lower worker productivity. In India\, colleges are required to reserve 50 percent of faculty hires from lower caste groups. We collect and analyze data from Indian engineering colleges\, some of which randomly assign students to classrooms. We find that reservation category faculty have lower education levels\, professorial ranks and experience than general category faculty. Yet\, we find no evidence that reservation category faculty provide lower quality instruction or have lower research or administrative productivity. Examining heterogeneity in instructional quality\, we also find no evidence of positive reservation category “teacher-like-me” effects. \n  \nAn audio recording of Robert Farilie’s presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/robert-fairlie-university-of-california-los-angeles/
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CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Yiqing Xu\, Stanford University\, "Factorial Difference-in-Differences"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Dr. Xu’s primary research covers political methodology\, Chinese politics\, and their intersection. He received a PhD in Political Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016)\, an MA in Economics from China Center for Economic Research at Peking University (2010) and a BA in Economics from Fudan University (2007). His work has appeared in leading political science journals\, including American Political Science Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, Journal of Politics\, and Political Analysis. He has won several professional awards\, including the John T. Williams Dissertation Prize from the Society for Political Methodology\, the Best Article Award from American Journal of Political Science in 2016\, and the Miller Prize (2018\, 2020) for the best work appearing in Political Analysis the preceding year. In 2024\, he was honored with the Emerging Scholar Award from the Society of Political Methodology and received an honorable mention for the Becky Morton and Tom Carsey Excellence in Mentoring Award. That same year\, interflex\, R and Stata packages he developed with his team\, won the Society’s Best Statistical Software Award. \nFactorial Difference-in-Differences\nAbstract: In many panel data settings\, researchers apply the difference-in-differences (DID) estimator\, exploiting cross-sectional variation in a baseline factor and temporal variation in exposure to an event affecting all units. However\, the exact estimand is often unspecified and the justification for this method remains unclear. This paper formalizes this empirical approach\, which we term factorial DID (FDID)\, as a research design including its data structure\, estimands\, and identifying assumptions. We frame it as a factorial design with two factors—the baseline factor G and exposure level Z\, and define effect modification and causal moderation as the associative and causal effects of G on the effect of Z\, respectively. We show that under standard assumptions\, including no anticipation and parallel trends\, the DID estimator identifies effect modification but not causal moderation. To identify the latter\, we propose an additional factorial parallel trends assumption. Moreover\, we reconcile canonical DID as a special case of FDID with an additional exclusion restriction and link causal moderation to G’s conditional effect with another exclusion restriction. We extend our framework to conditionally valid assumptions\, clarify regression-based approaches\, and illustrate our findings with an empirical example. We offer practical recommendations for FDID applications.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-yiqing-xu-stanford-university-methods/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T120000
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SUMMARY:Sherry Glied\, New York University Wagner School\, "Who Really Pays for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance? General Reflections and New Evidence from the ACA Dependent Coverage Mandate"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Sherry Glied\, an economist\, is Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. From 2010-2012\, Glied served as the Senate-confirmed Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services. She served as Senior Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1992-1993\, under Presidents Bush and Clinton. In 2016-2017\, she served on the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking. She is currently chairing New York Governor Hochul’s Commission on the Future of Health Care. Glied is a member of the Board of Directors of Geisinger\, the Milbank Fund\, and the Social Science Research Council. She is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine\, the National Bureau of Economic Research\, the National Academy of Social Insurance\, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nWho Really Pays for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance? General Reflections and New Evidence from the ACA Dependent Coverage Mandate\nAbstract: The incidence of employer-provided health insurance within firms is important for the design of the tax treatment of employer-based coverage and for understanding the evolving structure of the US labor market. Economic theory and empirical studies conclude that the cost of voluntary employer-sponsored health insurance falls on employees as a group. However\, the distribution of overall and subsidy incidence and the mechanism through which incidence occurs have not been well-established. \n  \nThis talk will provide new evidence (joint with Hansoo Ko) on incidence by examining the dependent coverage mandate in the ACA\, which mandates that adult children to age 26 may remain on their parents’ policies. We confirm the overall incidence of the mandate and then consider three situations in which the benefits of this new coverage to an employee differ from the costs to an employer. I will then relate this evidence to the broader empirical literature and policy. \n  \nAn audio recording of Sherry Glied’s presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sherry-glied-new-york-university-wagner/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
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SUMMARY:Marissa Thompson\, Columbia University "They have Black in their blood: Exploring how genetic ancestry tests affect racial appraisals and classifications"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Marissa Thompson is an assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of racial and socioeconomic inequality\, with an emphasis on understanding the role of education in shaping disparate outcomes over the life-course. Marissa’s current research investigates\, for example\, parental preferences regarding school segregation\, the causal effects of first-dollar scholarship policies on college access\, and the role of genetic ancestry tests in racial boundary-making processes. She employs a range of methods in her work\, including quantitative methods\, survey experiments\, and both computational and qualitative analyses of text data. \n\n\n\n\n\n“They have Black in their blood”: Exploring how genetic ancestry tests affect racial appraisals and classifications\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: How do genetic ancestry tests (GATs) affect Black Americans’ beliefs about when others should – or should not – identify as Black? Using two survey experiments that integrate causal inference with computational text analysis\, we disentangle the effects of GAT results\, setting\, and prior identification on racial classifications and evaluations. We find that respondents have an increased likelihood of approving of a person’s decision to identify as Black and of classifying them as Black if that person has higher levels of GAT-measured Sub-Saharan African ancestry. Further\, we identify meaningful gaps between the responses made by respondents themselves and their perception of the typical response made by members of their own racial group; these patterns are consistent with broad pluralistic ignorance towards the social rules governing racial classifications and evaluations. Finally\, free text responses reveal a range of strategies used in evaluations. We find that the aspects that affect approval and evaluations differ from those that affect classifications; respondents selectively integrate different sources of information\, including GAT results\, via a dual classification and evaluation process which we term racial contextualism. \n  \nAn audio recording of Marissa Thompson’s presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/marissa-thompson-columbia-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241204T131500
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SUMMARY:Sarah Miller\, University of Michigan\, "Does Income Affect Health? Evidence from the OpenResearch Unconditional Income Study"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Sarah Miller is an associate professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. Dr. Miller’s research interests are in health economics and\, in particular\, the short-term and long-term effects of public policies that expand health insurance coverage\, and in the effects of income and other social program support on health and well-being. In 2022\, Dr. Miller was awarded the ASHEcon Medal\, awarded by the American Society of Health Economists to an economist aged 40 or younger who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics. She is also a co-editor for the Journal of Public Economics. Her work has been published in the American Economic Review\, the Quarterly Journal of Economics\, the New England Journal of Medicine\, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy\, the Journal of Public Economics\, and the Review of Economics and Statistics\, among other journals\, and has been cited in outlets such as the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, and the Economic Report of the President. \nDoes Income Affect Health? Evidence from the OpenResearch Unconditional Income Study\nAbstract: Does income affect health? We randomized 1\,000 low-income adults in the United States to receive $1\,000 per month for three years\, with 2\,000 control participants receiving \$50 per month. The transfer generated large but short-lived improvements in stress and food security\, increased hospital and emergency department use\, and increased medical spending by about $20 per month. However\, we find a precise null effect of the transfer on several measures of health\, including biomarkers derived from blood draws. We also find precise null effects on access to health care\, physical activity\, sleep\, and measures related to preventive care and health behavior. \n  \nA recording of Sarah Miller’s presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sarah-miller-university-of-michigan/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241120T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20240909T212404Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Grant Writing
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Martha Bailey\, Gilbert Gee\, Naomi Sugie\, and Janet Stein \n  \nA recording of this workshop may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-grant-writing/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
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SUMMARY:Lisa Dettling\, Federal Reserve Board\, “Did the Modern Mortgage Set the Stage for the Baby Boom?”
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Lisa Dettling is a Principal Economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board\, where she is part of the team that forecasts the economic effects of fiscal policy (taxes\, transfers\, and government spending). She is currently on leave from the Board and visiting CCPR this fall. Lisa’s academic research is in labor and public economics\, with a focus on domestic policy issues relating to families and household financial well-being. Her work has appeared in leading journals\, such as the American Economic Review and the Review of Economic Studies. Lisa obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland in 2013\, and B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from The Ohio State University in 2007. \n “Did the Modern Mortgage Set the Stage for the Baby Boom?”\nAbstract: This paper proposes that the adoption of the modern US mortgage (i.e.\, low down payment\, long-term\, and fixed-rate)–led by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Veteran’s Administration (VA) loan insurance programs—set the stage for the mid-twentieth century US baby boom by dramatically raising rates of home ownership for young families. Using newly digitized data on FHA- and VA- backed loan issuance and births by state-year\, and a novel instrumental variables strategy that isolates supply-side variation in loan issuance\, we find that the FHA/VA mortgage insurance programs led to 3 million additional births from 1935-1957\, roughly 10 percent of the excess births in the baby boom. Aggregate effects mask differences by group — we find no effects of FHA/VA lending on births for Black women\, consistent with well-documented racial discrimination in these programs. Our results highlight the importance of housing affordability for fertility decisions.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/lisa-dettling-federal-reserve-board/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241106T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20240909T212139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T170120Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Cassels\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, "Patterns of Sexual Minority Men's Lifestyle and Healthcare Related Activity Spaces in Los Angeles"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Dr. Susan Cassels is a Professor in the Department of Geography at UCSB\, and the Director of the Broom Center for Demography. She studies and teaches topics related to health geography\, demography\, and infectious disease epidemiology. The central focus of her research is on geographic mobility\, sexual health\, and HIV prevention. Her current research is on geo-social determinants of HIV transmission dynamics – or in other words how and why certain people are more susceptible to HIV\, and how\, where\, and why HIV spreads to other people. With colleagues at UCLA\, she has implemented a survey on activity spaces of sexual minority men in LA to examine patterns of geo-spatial exposures\, and whether places of exposure differ by activity. Recently\, she has published a couple of qualitative papers as well. Current qualitative work is aimed to understand how social networks and geographic environments shape substance use behaviors. \nPatterns of Sexual Minority Men’s Lifestyle and Healthcare Related Activity Spaces in Los Angeles\nAbstract: For sexual minority men (SMM)\, geo-social exposures in residential and non-residential places are important to consider for health\, as home\, social\, sexual\, substance use\, and healthcare-related locations may be different. Using data from 219 Black and Hispanic SMM within Los Angeles County\, we identify\, describe\, and assess overlap of both lifestyle and healthcare-related activity space clusters\, or “hotspots.” Lifestyle activity space hotspots are spatially patterned by socio-demographic characteristics\, primarily along race and ethnic categories. Hispanic individuals’ lifestyle locations were less likely to be clustered\, while the opposite was true for Black individuals. Interestingly\, healthcare-related hotspots are not significantly associated with any socio-demographic features. Hotspot congruence was higher than we hypothesized\, as hotspots of residential locations contained the majority of sex hotspots and substance use hotspots. Our work demonstrates a valid method for reliably measuring behaviors of HIV\, sex\, and substance use and identifying spatial patterns in geographic space. \n  \nAn audio recording of Dr. Cassels’ presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/susan-cassels-university-of-california-santa-barbara/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20240909T211757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T212751Z
UID:10000862-1730289600-1730294100@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Dan Thompson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "How Much Does Health Affect Voter Participation?"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Dan Thompson is an assistant professor of political science at UCLA studying American politics and political methodology. He studies how the rules governing elections affect who participates\, who wins\, and ultimately the policies governments choose. He collects new data on elections and electoral institutions which he combinse with large administrative datasets on government behavior. He then uses modern empirical techniques for causal inference to study how electoral institutions shape election outcomes and public policy. Prior to joining UCLA\, Dr. Thompson received a PhD in political science from Stanford in 2020 and a Master of Public Policy degree from UC Berkeley in 2014. \n\n\n\nHow Much Does Health Affect Voter Participation?\n\n\n\nAbstract: Across elections from 2006 to 2022\, reported turnout rates are over 6 percentage points lower for people with disabilities\, and non-voters cite health as one of the top reasons for failing to cast a ballot. Federal law requires that polling places be accessible to people with disabilities\, and many states have expanded convenience voting options in part to accommodate the needs of people facing health issues and those with disabilities. How much do adverse health events reduce voter participation? To answer these questions\, we link UCLA Health medical records to lists of registered voters in Los Angeles going back to 2016. We compare people diagnosed with cancer or a substantial cardiovascular event in the year before an election to those diagnosed after election day. We find that cancer causes a 3 percentage point drop in turnout. We also present suggestive evidence that the effect is smaller in 2020 after Los Angeles began mailing a ballot to all registered voters. \nAn audio recording of Dr. Thompson’s presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dan-thompson-ucla/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20240919T160304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241105T165500Z
UID:10000882-1729684800-1729689300@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Reflections on Graduate Training at CCPR/UCLA: A Panel to Honor Judith Seltzer
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel to honor Prof. Judith Seltzer’s career and graduate training with CCPR and UCLA! Prof. Judith Seltzer is a founding member and former director of CCPR. She received the Sara McLanahan award from the Population Association of America. \nPanelists include former UCLA / CCPR graduate students Esther Friedman (Research Associate Professor\, Survey Research Center\, University of Michigan)\, Charles Lau (Chief Research Officer\, GeoPoll)\, Christine Schwartz (Professor of Sociology\, University of Wisconsin-Madison)\, and Emily Wiemers (Associate Professor\, Department of Public Administration and International Affairs\, Syracuse University)\, who will be sharing reflections on their training at CCPR with Prof. Seltzer. \nProfessor Judith Seltzer’s remarkable body of research has studied contemporary shifts in kinship patterns in the U.S. (such as marriage\, cohabitation\, divorce\, and non-married families)\, intergenerational obligations\, relationships between nonresident fathers and children\, and how policies affect family change. She has also contributed to improvements in the quality of survey data on families and family networks\, including a module on kin networks and transfers in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics\, family content in the Add Health Parent Study\, and most recently developing a coding scheme for the Health and Retirement Study questions on who respondents gave or received help from during the COVID-19 pandemic. Judy has also contributed enormously to the development of population research in the profession broadly and at UCLA. She has been an active member of the Population Association of America\, including serving as president in 2016 and as a founding member of the California Center for Population Research (CCPR)\, which has shaped the scholarship and careers of multiple scholars. Judy’s students and colleagues have benefited enormously from her intellectual contributions and her tremendous generosity of spirit. \nAn audio recording of the panel event may be accessed here. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/tribute-to-judith-seltzers-career/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241017T163000
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20241010T171447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T171530Z
UID:10000898-1729177200-1729182600@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop: Jake Anderson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Transitioning to Industry: Tech Pathways for Academics"
DESCRIPTION:Description:\nJoin us for a session on navigating the transition from academia to industry\, specifically in tech roles. Led by Jake Anderson\, a CCPR trainee from the Economics department who has worked as a Data Science Manager and Senior Data Scientist in San Francisco\, this workshop will guide you through reframing academic projects and experience to highlight impact and value. We will discuss the typical tech interview process\, covering recruiter interactions\, technical screens\, and multi-stage interviews. Learn about the distinctions in interview focus across major tech firms like Amazon\, Facebook\, Uber and Google\, and explore the nuances of different roles\, job titles\, and career tracks. Attendees will gain insights into salary negotiations (including stock and bonuses)\, team matching\, and what to expect in the first few years in industry\, including performance evaluations and promotion pathways. This session is a must for those considering a career pivot into tech or looking to better understand the tech hiring landscape! \nOne recent candidate from a top 10 PhD program who got several industry offers wrote: “Marketing yourself effectively is crucial in tech\, yet this is a skill that many economists and other academics lack. Jake brings years of experience and understands how to translate between the academic and industry spaces. My resume got many compliments after Jake overhauled it\, and his guidance was critical for securing interviews and internships that ultimately converted into full-time offers. Jake has abundant knowledge on non-econ science roles that many tech economists are unfamiliar with. I highly recommend working with Jake.”
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-jake-anderson-university-of-california-los-angeles-transitioning-to-industry-tech-pathways-for-academics/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20240909T211556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241016T224548Z
UID:10000861-1729080000-1729084500@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Anne Karing\, University of Chicago\, "Incentives and Motivation Crowd-Out: Experimental Evidence from Childhood Immunization"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Anne Karing’s research focuses on the economics of healthcare delivery and health-seeking behaviors in low-income countries\, applying insights from psychology. Her core work examines how social signaling motives can change behaviors\, in ways that benefit individual health and society. She has implemented large-scale field experiments that examine the effectiveness of social signaling incentives in increasing the demand for childhood immunization and deworming treatment in Sierra Leone and Kenya. As part of this research\, Anne also conducts follow-up surveys with cohorts previously exposed to incentives to assess their potential crowd-out effects on motivation. Other branches of her work include markets of medicines\, including how formal and illegal markets interact\, and the relevance of social preferences and competition in taming market failures among formal providers. Karing earned a BA with honors in Philosophy\, Politics\, and Economics as well as an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. She completed a PhD in Economics at University of California\, Berkeley and a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University. \n\n\n\nIncentives and Motivation Crowd-Out: Experimental Evidence from Childhood Immunization\n\n\n\nAbstract: We investigate the impact of incentives and their withdrawal on parents’ decisions to vaccinate subsequent children. We follow up with parents three years after exposure to a bracelet incentive given to children for timely vaccination in Sierra Leone. Our analysis leverages the design of an experiment in which clinics were randomly assigned to offer incentives or not. Since only parents with a newborn at the time of the experiment were eligible for the incentive\, we can exploit individual variation in exposure within clinics. First\, we find that eligibility for an incentive for an earlier child reduces parents’ motivation to vaccinate their subsequent child on time\, with reductions of 5 to 11 percent in the number of timely visits compared to unexposed parents. There are no effects on vaccination rates by 15 months of age\, suggesting that parents delay vaccination rather than abstaining altogether. Second\, parents living in communities where incentives were offered but who were ineligible for them show no effects\, ruling out the possibility that changes in community norms or clinic practices drive the results. Third\, incentives that signaled being a caring parent do not lead to adverse effects. Using causal forest analysis and testing for differences in knowledge and practices around immunization\, we rule out that negative effects are due to learning from the removal of incentives. Instead\, we conclude that the exposure to incentives crowded out parents’ intrinsic motivation by altering their self-perception or relationship with vaccination. \nAn audio recording of Dr. Karing’s presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/anne-karing-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20240909T211245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T154739Z
UID:10000860-1728475200-1728479700@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop: CCPR Computing Orientation
DESCRIPTION:A recording of Roger Silanoe’s presentation may be accessed here. \nThe slides of the presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-ccpr-computing-orientation/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241002T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241002T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20240909T180704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T211300Z
UID:10000859-1727870400-1727874900@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Welcome Back to CCPR
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/welcome-back-to-ccpr/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240605T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240605T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20230929T010416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T235136Z
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SUMMARY:Rob Mare Student Lecture 2024
DESCRIPTION:A recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/rob-mare-student-lecture-2024/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20230929T005920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240517T220405Z
UID:10000832-1716382800-1716393600@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Peter Hull\, Brown University\, "Formula Instruments" (STC Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nPeter Hull is a Professor of Economics at Brown University\, a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER Labor Studies\, Education\, and Health Care programs in Labor Studies\, and the econometrics editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research spans a variety of topics in applied econometrics\, education\, health care\, discrimination\, and criminal justice. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2023 in recognition of this work. \nFormula Instruments\nAbstract:\nMany studies in economics use instruments or treatments which combine a set of exogenous shocks with other predetermined variables by a known formula. Examples include shift-share instruments\, measures of social or spatial spillovers\, and treatments capturing eligibility for a public policy. This workshop reviews recent econometric tools for this setting\, which leverage the assignment process of the exogenous shocks and the structure of the formula for identification. Practical insights will be illustrated with two empirical applications and a coding lab.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/peter-hull-brown-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240515T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240515T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20230929T005702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T225332Z
UID:10000831-1715778000-1715788800@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Christopher Walters\, University of California\, Berkeley (STC Workshop)\, Title: Empirical Bayes and large-scale inference.
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Christopher Walters is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California\, Berkeley. Dr. Walters joined the faculty at Berkeley after completing his PhD in economics at MIT in 2013. He is also a Research Associate in the NBER programs on education and labor studies\, an IZA Research Fellow and an affiliate of JPAL-North America and MIT’s Blueprint Labs. His academic research focuses on topics in labor economics\, the economics of education\, and applied econometrics\, including work on school choice\, early childhood programs\, methods for evaluating school quality\, experimental measurement of labor market discrimination\, causal inference\, and empirical Bayes methods. \nAbstract: This workshop will cover empirical Bayes methods for studying heterogeneity\, estimating individual effects\, and making decisions in settings with many unit-specific parameters. Examples include studies of school\, teacher\, and physician quality; neighborhood effects on economic mobility; firm effects on wages; employer-specific labor market discrimination; and individualized treatment effect predictions and policy recommendations. Topics will include methods for quantifying variation in effects\, empirical Bayes shrinkage\, connections to machine learning methods\, and large-scale inference tools for multiple testing and decision-making. The lecture will be accompanied by coding examples. \nA recording of this event can be found here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/christopher-walters-university-of-california-berkeley/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240508T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240508T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20230929T004034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T000042Z
UID:10000830-1715169600-1715174100@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Gabriella Conti\, University of College London
DESCRIPTION:Biography: TBA \nAbstract: TBA
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/gabriella-conti-university-of-college-london/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240501T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20230929T002616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T233518Z
UID:10000829-1714564800-1714569300@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Jeff Weaver\, University of Southern California\, Hiring Subsidies for the Disadvantaged: Evidence from the Work Opportunity Tax Credit
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nJeff Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the department of economics at USC. He is an applied microeconomist working on a range of topics in development economics\, political economy\, and labor economics. His past work has examined topics such as public service delivery in India\, the evolution of cultural institutions\, and crime and low wage labor markets in the United States. \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jeffrey-weaver-university-of-southern-california/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240424T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20230929T001952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T182154Z
UID:10000828-1713960000-1713964500@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Andrew Penner\, University of California\, Irvine\, "The Academic and Socioemotional Effects of Advanced Mathematics Coursetaking"
DESCRIPTION:Biography\nAndrew Penner is a professor of sociology at the University of California\, Irvine and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Penner’s research examines how society creates categories and sorts people into them\, and focuses on the consequences of these categorization processes for inequality. At UCI\, Penner serves as the director of the Center for Administrative Data Analysis\, and much of Penner’s ongoing research uses novel administrative data infrastructure to understand how schools do and don’t prepare students to thrive as adults.\nThe Academic and Socioemotional Effects of Advanced Mathematics Coursetaking\nAbstract\nAlthough existing research suggests that students benefit on a range of outcomes when they enroll in early algebra classes\, policy efforts that accelerate algebra enrollment for large numbers of students often have negative effects. We explore this divergence\, providing regression discontinuity evidence on the effects of early algebra placement showing that early algebra boosts subsequent math and English Language Arts (ELA) outcomes. We then investigate how early algebra might affect ELA outcomes. We find no effects of early algebra placement on social and emotional learning outcomes\, and no effects on the characteristics of the ELA teachers students were exposed to. But we do find large and substantively meaningful effects of early algebra placement on students’ peer composition. This finding provides insights into why policies aimed at accelerating algebra broadly may fail\, and why early algebra affects students’ achievement beyond mathematics.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/andrew-penner-university-of-california-irvine/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240403T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20230929T001014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240326T181018Z
UID:10000827-1712145600-1712150100@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Rebecca Dizon-Ross\, University of Chicago\, "Mechanism Design for Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Incentivizing Exercise"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nRebecca Dizon-Ross is a development economist and applied microeconomist with an interest in human capital. Much of her current work is on the demand side\, aiming to understand the determinants of households’ investments in health and education and to evaluate interventions to increase investment. Rebecca is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Before joining Booth\, Dizon-Ross was a Prize Fellow in Economics\, History\, and Politics at Harvard University and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University. \nMechanism Design for Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Incentivizing Exercise\nAbstract:\nPersonalizing policies can theoretically increase their effectiveness. However\, personalization is difficult when individual types are unobservable and the preferences of policymakers and individuals are not aligned\, which could cause individuals to misreport their type. Mechanism design offers a strategy to overcome this issue: offer a menu of policy choices and make it incentive-compatible for participants to choose the “right” variant. Using a field experiment that personalized incentives for exercise among 6\,800 adults with diabetes and hypertension in urban India\, we show that personalizing with an incentive-compatible choice menu substantially improves program performance\, increasing the treatment effect of incentives on exercise by 80% without increasing program costs relative to a one-size-fits-all benchmark. Personalizing with mechanism design also performs well relative to another potential strategy for personalization: assigning policy variants based on observables.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/rebecca-dizon-ross-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20230929T000711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T232427Z
UID:10000825-1710331200-1710335700@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Conrad Miller\, University of California\, Berkeley\, “Class Disparities and Discrimination in Traffic Stops and Searches”
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nConrad Miller is an associate professor at the University of California\, Berkeley in the Haas School of Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a labor economist who studies inequality between social groups. His research pursues three broad research questions: (1) what role do firms play in producing labor market inequality between social groups? (2) what are the consequences of discrimination? and (3) what are the effects of policy responses to discrimination? \n“Class Disparities and Discrimination in Traffic Stops and Searches”\nAbstract: We document class disparities and discrimination in the incidence of police searches. Low-income motorists are more likely to be pursued in pretext stops and to be searched for contraband. Yet searches of low-income motorists are less likely to yield contraband. To isolate class-based discrimination\, we show that motorists stopped in multiple vehicles are more likely to be searched when stopped in a vehicle that signals they are low-income. Overall contraband yield would increase if police did not engage in vehicle-based profiling. We provide suggestive evidence that lower hassle costs associated with arrests of low-income motorists help to explain trooper behavior. \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/conrad-miller-university-of-california-berkeley/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20230929T000524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T181841Z
UID:10000826-1709726400-1709730900@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Brittany Chambers\, University of California\, Davis\, "The Solutions are in the Community: Centering Black Women’s Voices to Advance Birth Equity"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDr. Brittany Chambers Butcher is a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California\, Davis. She is a community health scientist whose program of research merges critical and public health theories to partner with Black women and birthing people to better understand\, operationalize and dismantle racism. Dr. Chambers Butcher uses a community research model in her work to #listentoblackwomen to reconceptualize structural racism and the way it shows up in Black communities to contribute to adverse maternal and infant health outcomes. Building on this work\, Dr. Chambers Butcher received a competitive two-year UCSF-Kaiser Permanente Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) K12 award to collect formative data to co-develop racial equity training for perinatal care providers with Black women and perinatal providers of color. She now was a K01 focused on pilot testing this racial equity training among perinatal providers in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nThe Solutions are in the Community: Centering Black Women’s Voices to Advance Birth Equity\nAbstract:\nStructural racism has been identified as a root cause of maternal and infant health inequities experienced by Black women and birthing people\, and their children. In effort to better understand and dismantle racism\, centering community voice is essential. This presentation will share a community research model used to advance birth equity and example projects implementing this model to: (1) develop a conceptual framework of structural racism from the perspectives of Black women; (2) develop and pilot test a racial equity training for perinatal care providers; and (3) developing a healing toolkit for community researchers.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/brittany-chambers-university-of-california-davis/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T090945
CREATED:20230928T234739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T190715Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Jens Ludwig\, University of Chicago\, "Machine learning as a tool for hypothesis generation"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nJens Ludwig is Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago\, Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab\, co-director of the Education Lab\, and co-director of the NBER’s working group on the economics of crime. He is on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. \n“Machine learning as a tool for hypothesis generation”\nAbstract:\nWhile hypothesis testing is a highly formalized activity\, hypothesis generation remains largely informal. We propose a systematic procedure to generate novel hypotheses about human behavior\, which uses the capacity of machine learning algorithms to notice patterns people might not. We illustrate the procedure with a concrete application: judge decisions about who to jail. We begin with a striking fact: The defendant’s face alone matters greatly for the judge’s jailing decision. In fact\, an algorithm given only the pixels in the defendant’s mugshot accounts for up to half of the predictable variation. We develop a procedure that allows human subjects to interact with this black-box algorithm to produce hypotheses about what in the face influences judge decisions. The procedure generates hypotheses that are both interpretable and novel: They are not explained by demographics (e.g. race) or existing psychology research; nor are they already known (even if tacitly) to people or even experts. Though these results are specific\, our procedure is general. It provides a way to produce novel\, interpretable hypotheses from any high dimensional dataset (e.g. cell phones\, satellites\, online behavior\, news headlines\, corporate filings\, and high-frequency time series). A central tenet of our paper is that hypothesis generation is in and of itself a valuable activity\, and hope this encourages future work in this largely “prescientific” stage of science.
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CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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