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  • Julia Strasser, George Washington University, “Who is Providing Contraception & Abortion Care in the US? Using Claims Data to Study the Reproductive Health Workforce”

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    Biography: Julia 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 […]

  • Pauline Rossi, Ecole Polytechnique-CREST, “Drivers of Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (joint with Pascaline Dupas, Seema Jayachandran and Adriana Lleras-Muney)”

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    Biography: Pauline 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 […]

  • Gary Solon, University of Michigan, “What Are We Weighting For?” (STC Workshop)

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    Biography: Gary 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 […]

  • Seminar Series: Welcome and Introduction

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    California Center for Population Research Seminar Series Welcome and Introductions Wednesday, October 4, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 4240A Public Affairs Building (Lunch will be provided) This 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 […]

  • Robert Mare Student Lecture

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    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 […]

  • Difference-In-Difference Panel Discussion and Mini Conference

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    Differences-in-differences Mini-conference May 24, 2023  UCLA, California Center for Population Research 9-11:30am Speakers hold for meetings 12-1:30pm Panel discussion: What’s new with differences-in-differences?  Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank), Alyssa Bilinski (Brown), Jon Roth (Brown), Pedro Sant’Anna (Vanderbilt), Jeff Wooldridge (MSU)  SHORT LUNCH BREAK & ROOM SET UP 2:15-3:00pm Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank), […]

  • Steven Stillman, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

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    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 […]

  • Itzik Fadlon, University of California San Diego

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    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 […]

  • Zack Almquist, University of Washington

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    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 […]

  • Marcella Alsan, Harvard University

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    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 […]

  • Workshop: Preproducibility: what we may not, with advantage, omit

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    Workshop: Preproducibility: what we may not, with advantage, omit Please note that there will be no remote attendance for this event. All attendees must attend the workshop in person.  Panelists: Philip B. Stark (Remote), Yotam Shem-Tov, Irene Bloemraad (Remote), and Randall Kuhn Moderator: Patrick Heuveline Presenter:  Philip B. Stark is Distinguished Professor of Statistics at […]

  • PAA Student Practice Talks

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    Who Is Having the Second Baby? Educational Assortative Mating and Transition to the Second Child in China  Iris Zhao, Acton Jiashi Feng (equal authorship) Abstract: China continues to experience low fertility despite the lifting of the one-child policy. Most explanations focus on limited resources and ignore the role of educational assortative mating and couple dynamics. […]

  • Workshop: From preprints to tweets: The professional benefits and potential perils of online presence

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    From preprints to tweets: the professional benefits and potential perils of online presence Panelists: Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (Epi) and Julian Londoño-Vélez (Econ) Moderator: Patrick Heuveline (Soc) Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Mayeda's research focuses on identifying modifiable determinants […]

  • Sonalde Desai, University of Maryland (IN-PERSON EVENT ONLY)

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    Please note that this is an in-person event only. The talk will not be live streamed or recorded.  Biography: Sonalde Desai (Distinguished University Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland and Professor and Centre Director, NCAER-National Data Innovation Center, New Delhi) is a demographer whose work deals primarily with social transformation and its impact on […]

  • Chris Blattman, University of Chicago

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    Biography: Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute and Harris School of Public Policy. He is an economist and political scientist, and his work on violence, crime, and poverty has been widely covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Financial […]

  • Juliana Londoño-Vélez, UCLA

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    Biography: Juliana Londoño-Vélez is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, an NBER Faculty Research Fellow, a J-PAL Affiliate, and a Faculty Affiliate at CCPR and CEGA. Juliana works on inequality and redistributive tax and transfer policies, with a particular interest in developing countries. Title: "Financial Aid and Social Mobility: […]

  • Robert Hummer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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    Biography: Robert A. Hummer is the Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). He moved to UNC-CH in 2015 after spending 19 years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as Director of their NICHD-supported […]

  • Graeme Blair, UCLA

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    Biography: Graeme Blair is an associate professor of political science at UCLA and serves as Co-Director of Training and Methods of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). Graeme uses experiments, field research, and statistics to study how to reduce violence and how to improve social science research. He works primarily in Nigeria, often in partnership […]

  • Charlie Branas, Columbia University

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    Biography: Dr. Charles Branas is currently Department Chair and Gelman Endowed Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Branas has conducted research that extends from urban and rural areas in the US to communities across the globe, incorporating place-based interventions and human geography. He has led win-win science that generates new […]

  • Computing Resource Overview Workshop

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    CCPR Workshop: Computing Resources Overview Jan 18, 2022, 12:00pm-1:30pm Presenters: Matt Lahmann This workshop has two halves. In the first half, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates, including it’s remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half, we’ll get participants signed up for […]

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