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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240515T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240515T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240508T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240508T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240501T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230929T002616Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240424T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230929T001952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T182154Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240403T131500
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230929T000711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T232427Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230929T000524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T181841Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
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.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jens-ludwig-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240214T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230928T234248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240207T173249Z
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SUMMARY:Giovanna Merli\, Duke University\, "The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on network dynamics and the well-being of Chinese immigrants"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nM. Giovanna Merli is Professor of Public Policy\, Sociology and Global Health at Duke University where she is also the director of the Duke Population Research Institute. Her research straddles demography\, social networks and health with recent work on the evaluation of innovative network-based sampling approaches to recruit samples of rare populations of immigrants. \nThe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on network dynamics and the well-being of Chinese immigrants\nAbstract:\nIn this talk I will illustrate the application of a novel network sampling strategy used to recruit population-representative samples of Chinese immigrants in the US and France and present findings from three studies on the heterogeneous impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of Chinese immigrants and implications for their networks dynamics. These studies are co-authored with Ted Mouw (UNC)\, Allison Stolte (UCI)\, and Isabelle Attané and Yahan Chuang (INED\, France)
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/giovanna-merli-duke-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20240117T170419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240123T172935Z
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SUMMARY:Development workshop\, 2/13 at 3pm  “Scientific Accountability and Data Production”
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion about open science\, ethical risks\, and potential drawbacks for certain forms of knowledge production with Irene Bloemraad (1)\, Cecilia Menjivar (2)\, Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld (3)\, and Jennifer Wagman (4)/ \n(1) UC Berkeley Sociology\, (2) UCLA Sociology\, (3) UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\, (4) UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/development-workshop-2-13-at-3pm-scientific-accountability-and-data-production/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,CSS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230928T233436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T173646Z
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SUMMARY:Romain Wacziarg\, University of California\, Los Angeles: "Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Romain Wacziarg is at the UCLA Anderson School of Management\, where he holds the Hans Hufschmid Chair in Management. His research deals with a broad range of topics in political economy\, including the interaction between demographic factors and long-run economic development\, the links between democracy and growth\, the effect of geographic and cultural barriers on the global spread of technologies and behaviors\, and the measurement of cultural heterogeneity. His research was published in the American Economic Review\, the Quarterly Journal of Economics\, the Economic Journal\, the Review of Economics and Statistics\, and numerous field journals. He is the Managing Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA). Prior to joining UCLA\, he was at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He holds a PhD from Harvard University (1998) \nAbstract: We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest of Europe in the late 19th century. Employing novel data on French immigration from other European regions from 1850 to 1930\, we find that higher immigration to France translated into lower fertility in the region of origin after a few decades – both in cross-region regressions for various periods\, and in a panel setting with region fixed-effects. These results are robust to the inclusion of a variety of controls\, and across multiple specifications. We also find that immigrants who themselves became French citizens achieved lower fertility\, particularly those who moved to French regions with the lowest fertility levels. We interpret these findings in terms of cultural remittances\, consistent with insights from a theoretical framework where migrants act as vectors of cultural diffusion\, spreading new information\, social norms and preferences pertaining to modern fertility to their regions of origin.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/romain-wacziarg-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230928T231918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T181027Z
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SUMMARY:Sameera Nayak\, University of Maryland\, Baltimore County: "Health in the Turbulent U.S. Sociopolitical Climate: Mental Health\, Abortion Attitudes\, & Immigration"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDr. Sameera S. Nayak (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County. She uses social epidemiologic and qualitative methods to investigate associations between social conditions and health inequities around the world. She has conducted research globally in the East African region as well as domestically in the U.S. Her research streams intersect around three main themes: (1) immigrant health\, immigration policy\, and legal status stratification\, (2) political determinants of health\, such as partisan polarization and abortion access\, and (3) equitable health system program development and evaluation. Her cross-cutting research bridges siloed work in public health\, sociology\, and political science. Some of her recent projects include identifying structural and legal barriers to help-seeking for immigrants who have experienced gender-based violence\, assessing the adverse health impacts of perceived political polarization\, mapping state-level alignment between abortion legislation and public attitudes\, and examining how the spectrum of legal statuses at the micro-level impact the well-being of non-naturalized immigrants in the U.S. Dr. Nayak earned her Ph.D. in Population Health from Northeastern University in 2022. She holds an undergraduate degree from UCLA and a master’s degree from Columbia University. \nHealth in the Turbulent U.S. Sociopolitical Climate: Mental Health\, Abortion Attitudes\, & Immigration\nAbstract: \nThe sociopolitical landscape of the United States (U.S.)\, including laws\, policies\, and societal values\, creates conditions that differentially enhance or diminish population health. This talk will describe a program of research examining how polarization and hostility shape people’s lives\, health\, and behaviors across multiple levels of influence and domains of health in the U.S. How do perceptions of growing polarization in American society affect the onset of health conditions such as anxiety and depressive disorders? To what extent does polarized legislation at the state level align with public attitudes toward abortion access and legality? How are immigrant domestic violence survivors’ lives shaped by an increasingly hostile political climate? To answer these questions\, I draw on three observational studies that leverage data from primary surveys\, focus groups\, the 2020 Cooperative Congressional Election Study\, and the Guttmacher Institute’s 2020 rating of state abortion policies. Results highlight the adverse mental health effects of deepening perceived political polarization\, the disconnect between multifaceted public attitudes and polarized reproductive health legislation\, and the detrimental individual-level impacts of dehumanizing immigration policy. Population health implications\, structural interventions\, and policy recommendations will be discussed.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sameera-nayak-university-of-maryland-baltimore-county/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230928T231609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T233252Z
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SUMMARY:Dowell Myers\, University of Southern California\, “Talking Demographics: Audience Reactions and Communication about Projections of Change”
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDowell Myers is a professor of policy\, planning\, and demography in the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. His Ph.D. is from M.I.T. (urban planning). He has been an advisor to the Bureau of the Census and authored the widely referenced work on census analysis\, Analysis with Local Census Data: Portraits of Change (Academic Press\, 1992). His demographic work has included substantial emphasis on immigration\, and his 2007 book Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America is widely recognized. Myers also served on the National Academy of Sciences study panel on the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Immigration (2013-16). Research projects have focused on public narratives about immigration\, aging\, and taxation\, projections of generational change\, and the upward mobility of immigrants the longer they reside in the U.S. Most recently\, he has concentrated on reasons for the mounting housing shortages that plague recent cohorts and raise the cost of living for all. This also includes public perceptions and reactions to demographic change as part of the problem analysis \n“Talking Demographics: Immigration\, Audience\, and Narratives”\nAbstract:\nDemographic narratives express interpretations and conclusions drawn from quantitative analysis of demographic change. Whereas professional demographers focus on estimation of change and statistical explanation\, the matter of public explanation and extraction of meaning is often left to others\, traditionally journalists in the news media\, but increasingly expanded to popular or political activists using social media. Reasons why professional demographers should take more responsibility and care for their public facing interpretations are demonstrated through two case examples. The first asks why it might appear from net changes that immigrants are “taking all the jobs” and “replacing” white Americans (while gross flows tell different stories). The second recounts difficulties the Census Bureau has encountered with their narratives in reports and press releases that accompany their population projections\, which include racial changes and trends in future immigration. How might stronger awareness of audience and purpose lead to less misleading and more constructive demographic narratives?\ \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dowell-myers-university-of-southern-california/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240117T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230928T230347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T221245Z
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SUMMARY:Philip Massey\, University of California\, Los Angeles "Social Media as a Tool for Public Health Communication"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nDr. Philip M. Massey\, PhD\, MPH\, is an Associate Professor in Community Health Sciences in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. His health communication scholarship focuses on media and technology in the U.S. and globally\, on topics ranging from social media\, vaccine communication\, health literacy\, entertainment education\, and ethics in social media research. His work takes a mixed-methods approach focusing on health and media literacy in the context of multiple media environments. He has examined patterns and shifts in public opinion toward HPV vaccination on Twitter and Instagram\, focusing on what types of messages are shared and how content is related to reach and impact. He has also developed and tested cancer prevention messages on social media to engage parents about the HPV vaccine\, leveraging the power of narrative engagement and storytelling\, and more recently extended this work to alcohol recovery. His global health work has examined the impact of media effects on health knowledge and attitudes\, specifically related to storytelling and narrative engagement among a West African population\, utilizing digital and social media. \n“Social Media as a Tool for Public Health Communication”\nAbstract:\nThe use of social media in public health has advanced the field dramatically over the last two decades. Traditional public health methods in surveillance and outbreak investigation\, approaches in health education and promotion\, and strategies in policy\, advocacy and community organizing have all been applied\, refined\, and adapted for the social media environment. This talk will focus on social media as a tool for public health communication and will cover various examples from applied research on the HPV vaccine and global health. Ethical considerations will also be discussed as guidelines when using social media for public health research must also expand alongside these increasing capabilities and uses.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/philip-massey-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T235354Z
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SUMMARY:Emily Weisburst\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nEmily Weisburst is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Weisburst’s work focuses on topics in labor economics\, including criminal justice\, education and immigration. Her research interests include understanding factors that impact police decision-making and public trust in police\, as well as how interactions with the criminal justice system affect individuals\, families and communities. Weisburst earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. While in graduate school\, she worked as a Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President and as a research associate for the RAND Corporation on joint projects with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Weisburst’s work has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation\, the Carnegie Foundation\, and the National Academy of Education\, as well as by several UCLA organizations\, including the UCLA Racial and Social Justice Grants Program\, the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy\, the Ziman Center for Real Estate\, the California Center for Population Research\, and the California Policy Lab. \n“Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety”\nAbstract:\nHow does immigration enforcement affect public safety? While heightened enforcement could decrease crime by incapacitating offenders\, public safety could suffer if victims become less willing to report crimes. We examine the implementation of the federal Secure Communities program\, which significantly increased the volume of detentions and deportations of unauthorized immigrants. Using survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau\, we find that Hispanic victims are less likely to report crimes to the police and Hispanic individuals are more likely to become victims of a crime after the program’s introduction. These two opposing effects lead to a null impact on reported crimes. We provide evidence that the decline in Hispanic reporting is a key channel driving their increased victimization. Our findings underscore the importance of directly measuring victim reporting for understanding the impact of criminal justice policies. \nA recording of this event can be found here. \nTo learn more about Professor Emily Weisburst\, visit her department homepage here: \nEmily Weisburst | Luskin School of Public Affairs | Public Policy
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/emily-weisburst-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231206T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230928T225436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231202T010215Z
UID:10000817-1701864000-1701868500@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Alex Bell\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "The Long-Term Impacts of Mentors: Evidence from Experimental and Administrative Data"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nAlex Bell is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Policy Lab at UCLA. Dr. Bell’s research seeks to document the unequal experiences of workers in the labor market and the implications of these inequalities for society as a whole. He is also interested in the intersection of labor market inequality with innovation. He often collaborates with government and non-profit partners to leverage large-scale administrative datasets that allow him to combine academic research with policy impact. Prior to joining CPL\, Dr. Bell earned a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. At CPL\, Dr. Bell is part of a team focused on labor and employment. In this role\, he leads economic analyses and authors academic papers and policy briefs. \nThe Long-Term Impacts of Mentors: Evidence from Experimental and Administrative Data\nAbstract:\nHow do mentors shape kids’ identities and later-life outcomes? To evaluate this question\, we leverage program administrative records and microdata from a 1991 RCT that randomized disadvantaged children’s eligibility for a popular mentoring program. Our re-analysis of the multitude of outcomes collected by the original short-run survey suggests that kids’ behaviors improved during the time they were with mentors. A linkage to later-life administrative tax records shows that treated youth were 10 percentage points more likely to attend college and also showed positive (though less significant) effects on teen birth and marriage. RCT estimates of earnings effects are imprecise. However\, using a larger dataset of program administrative records\, we develop a supplementary research design comparing matched versus unmatched applicants that replicates key findings from the RCT\, and also reveals significant long-term positive earnings gains from program participation on the order of 20%. Through the lens of a model in which adults of differing socioeconomic status influence kids’ decision-making\, we estimate that mentors may have the potential to mitigate on the order of 2/3 of the disadvantage that ordinarily hampers low-income childrens’ socioeconomic trajectories in adulthood. Although our estimates suggest that mentoring programs will not fully equalize economic opportunities for disadvantaged youth\, the program’s relatively low costs and substantial benefits may place it among the most cost-effective interventions of its type to be evaluated. \nTo learn more about Dr. Alex Bell\, visit his department homepage here: \nAlex Bell | California Policy Lab
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/alex-bell-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230928T224855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T195504Z
UID:10000816-1700049600-1700054100@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Bryce Steinberg\, Brown University\, "Family Planning\, Now and Later: Infertility Fear and Contraception Take-Up"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nBryce Millett Steinberg is a development economist who studies how households make decisions about investing in education and health\, and how market forces and government programs can affect those decisions. Her work is primarily focused in India and Zambia. She is currently the IJC Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Brown University\, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2015. \nFamily Planning\, Now and Later: Infertility Fear and Contraception Take-Up\nAbstract:\nEarly fertility is believed to be one of the key barriers to female human capital attainment in Sub-Saharan Africa\, yet contraception take-up remains low\, even among highly-educated populations with healthcare access. We study a barrier to contraceptive uptake that has not yet been examined in the literature: the persistent belief that it may cause later infertility\, thus creating a perceived tradeoff between current and future reproductive control. We use a randomized controlled trial with female undergraduates at the flagship university in Zambia – a highly-skilled population where education is likely to have particularly high returns – to test two potential interventions to increase contraception use\, one focused on time costs and one on costs to future fertility. Despite high rates of sexual activity and low rates of condom-use\, only 5% of this population uses hormonal contraception at baseline. Providing a non-coercive conditional cash transfer to visit a local clinic temporarily increases contraceptive use. But\, pairing this transfer with information addressing fears that contraceptives cause infertility permanently increases take-up over 6 months. The latter treatment moves beliefs about the infertility effects of contraceptives and leads to the take-up of longer-lasting contraceptives like injections. Compliers are more likely to cite fear of infertility as the reason for not using contraceptives at baseline. A follow-up experiment provides suggestive evidence that students are more likely to test for STIs when they are told STIs cause infertility. These findings indicate that perceived risks to future fertility are one cost of contraception\, and more generally that future fertility has economic value to women. \nTo learn more about Professor Bryce Steinberg\, visit her department homepage:\nBryce Millett Steinberg | Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs (brown.edu)
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/bryce-steinberg-brown-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231108T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230928T224644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T163700Z
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SUMMARY:Cesi Cruz\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, "Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy in Polarized Societies"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nCesi Cruz is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She works on topics at the intersection of political science and economics\, including elections\, misinformation\, gender and inclusive development. Her research is based on fieldwork in Cambodia and the Philippines and combines social network analysis\, surveys\, and field experiments. Her work has been published in outlets such as the American Political Science Review\, American Economic Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, Economic Journal\, and Comparative Political Studies. \nCesi is a board member of Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP)\, the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE)\, and Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC). In addition\, she serves on the executive board of Women Also Know Stuff\, an organization to promote women’s scholarship in political science. Her projects and working papers are available on her website: www.cesicruz.com . \nReducing Vaccine Hesitancy In Polarized Societies\nAbstract:\nGovernments attempting to encourage their citizens to take socially beneficial but individ- ually costly actions face strong challenges\, especially in polarized societies. We designed interventions to make citizens reflect on the personal and social benefits of vaccination and implemented a survey experiment on a sample of 1\,900 Filipinos in May 2021\, around the start of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the Philippines. Using data collected a year later\, we find that treated individuals received their first dose earlier. Those effects are large: treated individuals were 5.3 percentage-points more likely to receive their first dose within a month of the first survey\, compared with a control group mean of 2.1 percent. Individuals who were positive about vaccination at baseline respond more strongly to the treatments\, suggesting that the interventions motivated and encouraged individuals to become vaccinated\, rather than persuading people who were against vaccination to become vaccinated. In fact\, these strong positive short term effects mask important negative effects among the sample of individuals who were not planning to be vaccinated at baseline: the treatments had small negative effects on the likelihood of being vaccinated at endline.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/cesi-cruz-university-of-california-los-angeles/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230928T224409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T233033Z
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SUMMARY:Julia Strasser\, George Washington University\, "Who is Providing Contraception & Abortion Care in the US? Using Claims Data to Study the Reproductive Health Workforce"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nJulia Strasser\, DrPH\, MPH\, is the Director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health and an Assistant Research Professor of Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University. Dr. Strasser’s research focuses on contraception\, abortion\, and access to care for underserved populations. She has worked in healthcare\, focusing on policy and research\, for over 15 years\, including previous positions at the National Cancer Institute\, the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association\, and Planned Parenthood of Western Washington. She holds a DrPH in Health Policy from The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health\, an MPH from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a concentration in women’s and reproductive health\, and a BA in History from Yale University. \nWho is Providing Contraception & Abortion Care in the US? Using Claims Data to Study the Reproductive Health Workforce\nAbstract:\nThe clinical workforce providing contraception and abortion care in the US is a critical determinant of access to care. However\, a series of data limitations has made it difficult to study this workforce at the national level. Using national-level medical and prescription claims datasets\, we have constructed a first-of-its-kind database and analyzed various aspects of this workforce\, including its composition by specialty\, distribution by state and county\, and shifts over time. This presentation will discuss: 1. Differences in provision of contraceptive services by physician specialty and advanced practice clinician type 2. Changes to the contraception and abortion care workforce during Covid-19\, and 3. Association between residency training for family medicine physicians and provision of reproductive health services to Medicaid beneficiaries. \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/julia-strasser-george-washington-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230928T223756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231010T213501Z
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SUMMARY:Pauline Rossi\, Ecole Polytechnique-CREST\, "Drivers of Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (joint with Pascaline Dupas\, Seema Jayachandran and Adriana Lleras-Muney)"
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nPauline Rossi is an Associate Professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique-CREST and a Research Affiliate at CEPR. Her fields of research are Applied Microeconomics\, Development Economics and Family Economics. She is the PI of the ERC Starting Grant “Peers and Possible Partners: Exploring the Origins of Population Long-term Equilibria” (P3OPLE). She is visiting CCPR in October-November 2023. \nDrivers of Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (joint with Pascaline Dupas\, Seema Jayachandran and Adriana Lleras-Muney)\nAbstract:\nWe conducted a study among 14\,545 households in rural Burkina Faso to test some of the leading explanations for persistently high fertility rates in West Africa. First\, we reject the oft-cited explanation of limited access to contraception. Women in communities randomly assigned to have free access to medical contraception for three years did not have lower birth rates. Second\, we cross-randomized additional interventions to test whether high desired fertility stems from incorrect or sticky beliefs and norms\, specifically mis-perceptions about the child mortality rate\, limited exposure to opposing views\, and social pressure. None of these interventions\, or combinations of them\, had any detectable effect on realized fertility\, desired fertility\, or contraceptive use. Our results are consistent with couples personally benefiting from having a large family size and suggest that policies aimed at reducing fertility through family planning interventions may have only limited impact in such contexts.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/pauline-rossi-ecole-polytechnique-crest/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231011T131500
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230928T211314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T185613Z
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SUMMARY:Gary Solon\, University of Michigan\, "What Are We Weighting For?" (STC Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Biography:\nGary Solon is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Michigan. He was Eller Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona during 2015-2018 and Professor of Economics at Michigan State University during 2007-2015. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists\, and a member of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth. His research includes studies of family and community background effects on socioeconomic status\, earnings dynamics over the life cycle\, cyclical fluctuations in the labor market\, and microeconometric methods. \nWhat Are We Weighting For?\nAbstract:\nThe purpose of this paper is to help empirical economists think through when and how to weight the data used in estimation. We start by distinguishing two purposes of estimation: to estimate population descriptive statistics and to estimate causal effects. In the former type of research\, weighting is called for when it is needed to make the analysis sample representative of the target population. In the latter type\, the weighting issue is more nuanced. We discuss three distinct potential motives for weighting when estimating causal effects: (1) to achieve precise estimates by correcting for heteroskedasticity\, (2) to achieve consistent estimates by correcting for endogenous sampling\, and (3) to identify average partial effects in the presence of unmodeled heterogeneity of effects. In each case\, we find that the motive sometimes does not apply in situations where practitioners often assume it does. We recommend diagnostics for assessing the advisability of weighting\, and we suggest methods for appropriate inference.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/gary-solon-university-of-michigan/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231004T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20231003T004638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231005T191203Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar Series: Welcome and Introduction
DESCRIPTION:California Center for Population Research Seminar Series \nWelcome and Introductions \nWednesday\, October 4\, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm 4240A Public Affairs Building \n(Lunch will be provided) \nThis will be the kick-off event for the start of the upcoming 2023-24 CCPR Seminar Series. Please join us to learn all about CCPR as we welcome new affiliates and reconnect in person.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/seminar-series-welcome-and-introduction/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230531T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230531T132000
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20220728T231105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230531T165944Z
UID:10000794-1685534400-1685539200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Robert Mare Student Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Caitlin is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at UCLA. She is broadly interested in inequality in educational and occupational attainment\, the role of education in social stratification processes\, and policy approaches to addressing poverty and inequality. She is also interested in applications of causal inference using large-scale survey data. Her dissertation explores the ways that initial college enrollment decisions shape the transition to adulthood\, with a focus on the least selective four-year college options. Caitlin is a student affiliate at the California Center for Population Research and a research fellow for the Los Angeles Education Research Institute. In the fall\, she will start a postdoctoral fellowship with Stanford Impact Labs\, where she will be studying the effects of guaranteed income and baby bonds with the Economic Inclusion Project. \nThe Power of a Degree: Examining the Direct and Indirect Effects of Broad-Access College Enrollment on Economic Disadvantage \nAbstract: As the availability of high-quality jobs for less-educated workers has diminished\, college is seen as the surest way to avoid adverse socioeconomic outcomes. Yet\, the benefits to college depend not only on whether an individual enrolls in school but also where. This study uses longitudinal data sources to examine the impact of enrollment in minimally or non-selective four-year colleges on bachelor’s degree completion and economic disadvantage. My findings show positive effects of broad-access four-year college enrollment on bachelor’s degree completion relative to community college enrollment\, but negative effects relative to more-selective college. However\, these differences in degree completion contribute to only modest changes in economic disadvantage in early adulthood. Instead\, not enrolling in any college is associated with greater economic disadvantage than enrolling in a broad-access four-year college. These findings collectively underscore the importance of any college enrollment in preventing economic disadvantage and the pivotal role of bachelor’s degree completion in reaping the economic benefits of attending college. However\, they also highlight the need to address structural inequalities in college access to reduce disparities in educational attainment and emphasize the importance of considering the counterfactual group when evaluating the returns to college selectivity. \nBiography: Pablo Geraldo Bastías is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at UCLA. His research examines how institutions influence inequality in education and the labor market\, with a particular focus in the comparative study of skill formation systems and school-to-work transitions. Methodologically\, he is interested in the intersection of causal inference using graphical models\, machine learning\, and network analysis. After graduating from UCLA\, he will be a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowship in Sociology at Nuffield College\, University of Oxford.  \nSecondary effects of tuition-free college on high school trajectories: Evidence from Chile \nAbstract: The discussion about the costs of college education\, who has to pay for it\, and its implication for social inequality and mobility\, is of primary importance for educational stratification scholars and policy makers. While increasing evidence has accumulated on the impact of access to secure funding in reducing enrollment and completion gaps in higher education\, there is less evidence on how large-scale policy changes on college funding would affect students’ decision earlier in their educational trajectories\, in anticipation of benefiting from such policies in the future. In this study I show how the introduction of tuition-free college in Chile (2016) affected the educational trajectories of high school students. Using administrative data analyzed in an event-study framework\, I provide evidence of the positive effect that increasing access to guaranteed funding for higher education had on secondary students\, lowering grade retention and dropout rates\, especially among the most socially disadvantaged students.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/robert-mare-student-lecture-2/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230524T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230524T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20220728T231644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230526T000913Z
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SUMMARY:Difference-In-Difference Panel Discussion and Mini Conference
DESCRIPTION:Differences-in-differences Mini-conference \nMay 24\, 2023  \nUCLA\, California Center for Population Research \n9-11:30am Speakers hold for meetings \n12-1:30pm [CCPR seminar slot] Panel discussion: What’s new with differences-in-differences?  \nAndrew Goodman-Bacon (Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank)\, Alyssa Bilinski (Brown)\, Jon Roth (Brown)\, Pedro Sant’Anna (Vanderbilt)\, Jeff Wooldridge (MSU)  \nSHORT LUNCH BREAK & ROOM SET UP \n2:15-3:00pm Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank)\, Pedro Sant’Anna (Vanderbilt) \n“Difference-in-Differences with a Continuous Treatments” \nThis paper analyzes difference-in-differences setups with a continuous treatment. We show that treatment effect on the treated-type parameters can be identified under a generalized parallel trends assumption that is similar to the binary treatment setup. However\, interpreting differences in these parameters across different values of the treatment can be particularly challenging due to treatment effect heterogeneity. We discuss alternative\, typically stronger\, assumptions that alleviate these challenges. We also provide a variety of treatment effect decomposition results\, highlighting that parameters associated with popular two-way fixed-effect specifications can be hard to interpret\, even when there are only two time periods. We introduce alternative estimation strategies that do not suffer from these drawbacks. Our results also cover cases where (i) there is no available untreated comparison group and (ii) there are multiple periods and variation in treatment timing\, which are both common in empirical work. \n3:00-3:45pm Alyssa Bilinski (Brown) \n“Parallel Trends in an Unparalleled Pandemic: Difference-in-Differences for Infectious Disease Policy Evaluation”  \nOver the course of the COVID-19 pandemic\, researchers have extensively studied the impact of public health interventions\, such as stay-at-home orders and mask policies\, on disease incidence and mortality.  Many policy evaluations employ a difference-in-differences (DiD) design\, which assumes that treatment and non-experimental comparison groups would have moved in parallel in expectation\, absent the intervention (the “parallel trends assumption”).  While researchers have used different specifications to capture potential non-linearities\, the plausibility of these specifications in the context of dynamic infection transmission is less well-understood.  Our work bridges this gap by formalizing epidemiological assumptions required for different DiD specifications\, positing an underlying susceptible\, infectious\, recovered (SIR) model.  We first explore common DiD specifications\, demonstrating that these often imply strict epidemiological assumptions.  For example\, DiD modeling raw cases or deaths as an outcome will be biased unless treatment and comparison groups have the same initial conditions\, susceptible fraction\, and transmission rate (“force of infection”); using a log transformation allows for different initial conditions\, but requires equal transmission rates and and susceptible fractions among groups.  Furthermore\, even if estimates are unbiased\, both specifications are often highly anti-conservative under standard error assumptions of a stochastic agent-based SIR model.  We then present more robust alternatives\, including modeling log difference as the primary outcome and modeling the causal effect of an intervention on the effective reproduction number\, rather than cases or deaths.  We demonstrate the implications of this work reanalyzing prior work on school mask policies. \n3:45pm Coffee break \n4-4:45pm Jeff Woodridge (MSU) \n“Estimating Distributional Treatment Effects with Staggered Interventions for Panel Data” \nI propose simple\, parametric approaches for estimating distributions of potential outcomes in a staggered difference-in-differences setting. The approach relies on versions of no anticipation and parallel trends assumptions. Estimators include imputation estimators or pooled maximum likelihood estimation. The approach can be applied to discrete\, continuous\, and mixed outcomes. A leading application is estimating quantile treatment effects in staggered DiD settings for a continuous outcome. \n4:45-5:30pm Jonathan Roth (Brown) \n“Log-like? Identified ATEs Defined with Zero-valued Outcomes are (Arbitrarily) Scale-Dependent” \nEconomists frequently estimate average treatment effects (ATEs) for transformations of the outcome that are well-defined at zero but behave like logpyq when y is large (e.g.\, logp1 ` yq\, arcsinhpyq). We show that these ATEs depend arbitrarily on the units of the outcome\, and thus should not be interpreted as percentage effects. In line with this result\, we find that estimated treatment effects for arcsinh-transformed outcomes published in the American Economic Review change substantially when we multiply the units of the outcome by 100 (e.g.\, convert dollars to cents). To help delineate alternative approaches\, we prove that when the outcome can equal zero\, there is no average treatment effect of the form EP rgpY p1q\, Y p0qqs that is point-identified and unit-invariant. We conclude by discussing sensible alternative target parameters for settings with zero-valued outcomes that relax at least one of these requirements. \n  \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-4/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T132000
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
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SUMMARY:Steven Stillman\, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Steven Stillman received his PhD in Economics from the University of Washington in 2000. Prior to moving to Italy in 2016\, he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Otago in New Zealand. His research focuses on empirical labour economics\, specialising in the behaviour of individuals and households\, and the interplay between government policy and human behavior. He has done extensive work examining the impact of migration on immigrants and their families exploiting a lottery used to allocate migrant quota slots. In recent work\, he has also examined voting behavior along a number of dimensions and how individuals have responded to changes in a number of policies\, including minimum wages\, the drinking age and doctor’s fees. \nLearning About Leave: Peer Influences in Maternal Leave Decisions \nAbstract: We examine how the parental leave decisions of mothers are influenced by parental leave decisions made by their work colleagues (peers) using income tax data on the universe of women who gave birth in New Zealand between 2002 and 2018. Maternal leave in New Zealand replaces 100% of mothers’ income up to a fairly low maximum. We use this maximum threshold to implement a regression kink design\, estimating the causal impact of peer leave decisions on mothers’ own leave decisions. We find that for every week that peers shorten their maternity leave in response to this threshold\, mothers reduce their own leave by 0.5 to 0.6 weeks. This effect is larger in smaller firms and in situations where the peer is more likely to influence the decision of the study mother. \nA recording of Dr. Stillman’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/steven-stillman-free-university-of-bozen-bolzano/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T132000
DTSTAMP:20260430T103617
CREATED:20230501T163218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230508T162707Z
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SUMMARY:Itzik Fadlon\, University of California San Diego
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Itzik Fadlon is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California\, San Diego and a Research Associate in the programs on Aging and Public Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His primary fields of interest are public finance\, health economics\, and labor/family economics. His work studies household behavior and the effects of government policies\, as well as how these impacts on households’ behavior translate to the optimal design of social policies. His work has been published in leading journals such as American Economic Journal: Applied Economics\, American Economic Review\, Journal of Health Economics\, Journal of Public Economics\, and Review of Economics and Statistics. Itzik received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in May 2015. Before joining UCSD in 2016 as an Assistant Professor\, Itzik spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Disability Policy Research at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, and he spent the academic year of 2019-2020 as a Visiting Scholar in Aging and Health Research at the NBER. \nTitle: “Causal Effects of Early Career Sorting on Labor and Marriage Market Choices: A Foundation for Gender Disparities and Norms” \nAbstract: We study whether and how early labor market choices determine longer-run career versus family outcomes differentially for male and female professionals. We analyze the physician labor market by exploiting a randomized lottery that determines the sorting of Danish physicians into internships across local labor markets. Using administrative data spanning ten years after physicians’ graduations\, we find causal effects of early-career sorting on a range of life cycle outcomes that cascade from labor market choices\, including human capital accumulation and occupational choice\, to marriage market choices\, including matching and fertility. The persistent effects are entirely concentrated among women\, whereas men experience only temporary career disruptions. The evidence points to differential family-career tradeoffs and the mentorship employers provide as channels underlying this gender divergence. Our findings have implications for policies aimed at gender equality in outcomes\, as they reveal how persistent gaps can arise even in institutionally gender-neutral settings with early-stage equality of opportunity. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/itzik-fadlon-university-of-california-san-diego/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Zack Almquist\, University of Washington
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Zack W. Almquist is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology\, Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics\, and Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. Before coming to UW in 2020\, Prof. Almquist held positions as a Research Scientist at Facebook\, Inc and as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Almquist is a recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Methodology’s Leo Goodman Award. He is also a recipient of the NSF’s CAREER Award and the ARO’s Young Investigator Program Award. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology. His research centers on the development and application of mathematical\, computational and statistical methodology to problems and theory of social networks\, demography\, homelessness\, and environmental action and governance. \nA Qualitative and Quantitative PIT Count using Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS): Understanding and Counting Unsheltered Homelessness in King County \nAbstract: Traditionally\, unsheltered Point in Time (PIT) Counts are the result of volunteers conducting an in-person head-count of individuals experiencing homelessness on a single night. This resource-intensive method is widely understood to be an undercount. It also fails to capture essential qualitative data about what people living unsheltered experience and need. \nThis past spring\, the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (RHA)\, in coordination with Professor Zack W. Almquist (University of Washington) and Lived Experience Coalition (LEC)\, took a novel approach to the PIT. The RHA conducted the 2022 unsheltered PIT count as a combined qualitative interview process and quantitative survey over the course of a month. The respondent selection for both the qualitative and quantitative surveys followed a Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) protocol. RDS provides a sampling strategy for estimating size and percentages of hard-to-reach populations that lack an administrative sampling frame. \nDuring this seminar\, I will provide an overview of the RHA partnership effort\, and how we executed this novel approach to the PIT. I will review the history of RDS as a means of sampling vulnerable populations\, and I will cover the implementation of the sampling  and estimation strategies based on the RHA RDS sample. Finally\, I will review the demographics provided to HUD\, and what we learned from conducting the RDS sample for the PIT count\, and how it can and should affect future PIT counts going forwards. \nYou may access the seminar using this link.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/zack_almquist_washington/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Marcella Alsan\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Marcella Alsan is a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Alsan received a BA from Harvard University\, a master’s in public health from Harvard School of Public Health\, a MD from Loyola University\, and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Alsan trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Hiatt Global Health Equity Residency Fellowship – then combined the PhD with an Infectious Disease Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to returning to Harvard she was on faculty at Stanford. She is an applied microeconomist studying health inequality. \n“Something Works: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program” \nAbstract: US incarceration policy is often influenced by the longstanding view that “nothing works” when it comes to rehabilitating inmates. We revisit this question with a novel quasi-experimental approach and estimate the misconduct and recidivism effects of IGNITE: an innovative inmate education program in Flint\, Michigan. Individuals whose court hearings are idiosyncratically rescheduled tend to spend more time in the county jail and have worsened outcomes prior to the launch of IGNITE. Afterwards\, individuals who are more exposed to IGNITE via rescheduling see dramatically reduced rates of violent and suicidal incidents in the jail and lowered recidivism post-release.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/marcella-alsan-harvard-university/
LOCATION:4240A Public Affairs Bldg
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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