BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//California Center for Population Research - ECPv6.15.14//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for California Center for Population Research REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240624T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240703T170000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20231213T192723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T185203Z UID:10000843-1719216000-1720026000@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) 2024 DESCRIPTION:From June 24 to July 3\, 2024 the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA) Division of Social Sciences and the California Center for Population Research will sponsor the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science\, to be held at the University of California Los Angeles. \nThe Organizing Committee\nJennie Brand\, Professor\, Sociology and Statistics\nDora Costa\, Professor\, Economics\nPatrick Heuveline\, Professor\, Sociology\, and International Institute\nRandall Kuhn\, Professor\, Community Health Sciences \nFor more information about the event go here: https://sicss.io/2024/ucla/ URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/sicss-conference-2024/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CSS Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T170000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20240226T164618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T161656Z UID:10000851-1684850400-1684861200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:"How to do Differences-in-Differences" Workshop DESCRIPTION:CCPR will host an in-person workshop\, “How to do Difference-in-Differences\,” with Pedro Sant’Anna.  Difference-in-Differences (DiD) is among the most popular strategies to identify causal effects in observational studies. The workshop will update you on this fast-moving literature and best practices with hands-on practice in R and Stata. \n  \nFor Ph.D. students\, post-docs\, faculty (or anyone who would like to attend\, space permitting). \nTopics include: \n\nA deep-dive into canonical DiD methods\nUnderstanding limitations of linear two-way fixed effects regressions\nAllowing for heterogeneous treatment effects when treatment timing varies\nAllowing for covariate-specific trends\n\n  \nA recording of Dr. Sant’Anna’s presentation may be accessed here. URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/how-to-do-differences-in-differences/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20210223T002539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T184642Z UID:10000725-1580731200-1580734800@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Workshop: Homelessness M4H UCLA/VA DESCRIPTION:The goal of this workshop is to share information among a broad group of investigators who are employing mobile technology to study persons who have experienced homelessness. Projects discussed will include studies of homelessness among Veterans and non-Veterans. Presented projects will range from early-stage studies that are in progress to completed studies\, including those that use mobile technology for active survey and assessment as well as studies using passive data collection\, such as GPS. The structure of the workshop will provide ample opportunity for discussion across members of different research teams and agencies. It is hoped that the workshop will lead to sharing research methods and substantive collaborations. \nInstructor: Randall Kuhn and Till von Wachter \nTime: February 3\, 2020 \nLocation: Public Affairs Building CCPR Seminar Room URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-homelessness-m4h-ucla-va/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190617 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190629 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20220425T155902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T185311Z UID:10000772-1560729600-1561766399@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Summer Institute in Computational Social Science DESCRIPTION:The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students\, postdoctoral researchers\, and early career faculty interested in computational social science. The Summer Institute is open to both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived). URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/summer-institute-in-computational-social-science/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop,CSS Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20190225T190232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T192441Z UID:10000661-1558612800-1558618200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Pascaline Dupas\, Stanford University DESCRIPTION:Title: The Incidence of Public Subsidies to Private Hospitals under Weak Governance: Evidence from India (joint with Radhika Jain) \nAbstract: Expanding public health insurance and enlisting private agents for service delivery are common policy strategies to meet the goals of universal health coverage\, but there is limited evidence from developing countries to inform their design. This paper\, joint with Radhika Jain from Harvard School of Public Health\, provides quantitative evidence on how insurance design affects program performance and incidence in the context of a government-funded health insurance program that aims to provide free care to 46 million people in Rajasthan\, India. We exploit a policy-induced natural experiment\, and use administrative claims linked to patient surveys\, to provide the first large-scale evidence of private hospital behavior under public health insurance. \nMore on Prof. Dupas URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/13868/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Dupas_photo-resized-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20190311T163138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190521T184411Z UID:10000669-1556107200-1556112600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Ahern\, UC Berkeley DESCRIPTION:Title: Leveraging big data to assess health effects of changes in physical and social environments\, and policy and program implementation \nAbstract: In the era of big data there are opportunities to answer policy-relevant health questions in ways that are timely and cost-efficient. This talk will describe coordination of health data resources for health monitoring and to address questions about the health effects of policies in California. Examples of health effect assessments\, including those related to gun shows and the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA)\, will be presented. \nDr. Jennifer Ahern\, PhD MPH\, is Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Epidemiology at University of California\, Berkeley\, School of Public Health. She examines the effects of the social and physical environment\, and programs and policies that alter the social and physical environment\, on many aspects of health (e.g.\, violence\, substance use\, mental health\, and gestational health). Dr. Ahern has a methodological focus to her work\, including application of causal inference methods and semi-parametric estimation approaches\, aimed at improving the rigor of observational research\, and optimizing public health intervention planning. Her research has been supported by a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)\, Office of the Director. \nPodcast Recording \nMore on Prof. Ahern URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jennifer-ahern-uc-berkeley/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ahern.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190320T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190320T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20181126T182037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T181535Z UID:10000522-1553083200-1553088600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Martha Bailey\, University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:Title: Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency \nAbstract: This paper evaluates the long-run effects of Head Start using large-scale\, restricted 2000-2013 Census-ACS data linked to date and place of birth in the SSA’s Numident file. Using the county-level rollout of Head Start between 1965 and 1980 and state age-eligibility cutoffs for school entry\, we find that participation in Head Start is associated with increases in adult human capital and economic self-sufficiency\, including a 0.29-year increase in schooling\, a 2.1-percent increase in high-school completion\, an 8.7-percent increase in college enrollment\, and a 19-percent increase in college completion. These estimates imply sizable\, longterm returns to investing in large-scale preschool programs. \nMore on Prof. Bailey URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/martha-bailey-university-of-michigan/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/image.1542755809319.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20181126T180922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T212704Z UID:10000521-1551268800-1551274200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Fernando Riosmena\, CU Boulder DESCRIPTION:Title: Individual and Neighborhood Vulnerability over the Latin American Immigrant Health Experience \nAbstract: The state of Latino health seemingly defies the way in which the historical disadvantages faced by people of color in the United States get under the skin\, and how place matters in reflecting or further reproducing these disparities. Hispanics –especially foreign-born individuals with lower socioeconomic statuses– have more favorable health than other race/ethnic groups –notably\, U.S.-born non-Hispanic whites– in a limited but very important set of health outcomes such as cardiovascular function\, some cancers and mortality across much of the life course. \nIn this talk\, I discuss the mechanisms/phenomena driving the Hispanic immigrant health advantage\, which is likely tied to processes of self-selection as well as to protection and resilience likely operating particularly well in heavily-concentrated Latino neighborhoods and enclaves. Throughout\, I present my empirical research aimed at disentangling self-selection processes from the protection that immigrants might draw from fellow neighborhood and/or community members. I further discuss these findings in the context of how immigrants adapt in the longer term: these advantages and resilience eventually erode as immigrants spend more time in the United States –as well as across immigrant generations– through a series of processes by which immigrant and Latino vulnerability become somatized. \nI conclude by speculating on the likely future of Latino and immigrant health\, discussing how the resilience and vulnerability of Latino immigrants might evolve given recent major shifts U.S. immigration and social policies and practices\, and due to important changes in the dynamics of migration between Mesoamerica and the United States. \nMore on Prof. Riosmena URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/fernando-riosmena-university-of-colorado/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/0f5dbe60aba4fb11118f4600ef21cb64332df833.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20181005T044242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190219T173607Z UID:10000517-1550664000-1550669400@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Jan Van Bavel\, University of Leuven DESCRIPTION:Title: The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education and Family Dynamics in Europe \nAbstract:  Although men tended to receive more education than women in the past\, the gender gap in education has reversed in recent decades in most Western and many non-Western countries. In this talk\, I will discuss the main results of a major research project that aimed to investigate the implications of the reversal of the gender gap in advanced education for family life across European countries. I highlight the results about union formation and assortative mating\, discuss our findings about union stability as well as about husbands’ and wives’ relative earnings. Finally\, I present some first results from research about implications for fertility behavior. To conclude\, I will reflect on implications for conventional theories used in family sociology and demography. \nCo-sponsored by the Family Working Group \nMore on Prof. Bavel URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jan-van-bavel-university-of-leuven/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1859_1395131493_large.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190213T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20181005T043528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T221353Z UID:10000515-1550059200-1550064600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Peter Bearman\, Columbia University DESCRIPTION:Title:  Neural mechanisms lie behind the emergence of dyadic affective reciprocity and transitive closure in human groups \nAbstract:  This talk considers a set of findings from socializing cognitive social neuroscience that captures neural and social network data at multiple time points for a group of students who volunteered to organize workers in very difficult social situations on the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer\, in the Summer of Respect project. We identify a neural mechanism for the emergence of affective reciprocity\, the building block of social solidarity. We show that we can predict from neural signatures who group members will like five months in the future. We extend this work to a discussion of transitivity\, or balance. Time permitting\, we discuss how a neural signature of self-enhancement (narcissism) predicts becoming peripheral in small groups\, supporting the idea that there is “no I in team”. \nCo-sponsored by the Sociology Department \nMore on Prof. Bearman URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/peter-bearman-columbia-university/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Bearman_Peter.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20180828T012035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T173339Z UID:10000635-1548849600-1548855000@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Ushma Upadhyay\, UC San Francisco DESCRIPTION:Title: Measuring Reproductive Autonomy: Are the questions different for Adolescents and Young Adults? \nAbstract: Ushma Upadhyay\, PhD\, MPH will discuss her previous work developing the Reproductive Autonomy Scale\, which has been mainly used among adults. Her current work focuses on understanding reproductive empowerment among young people\, and the development of a new psychometric measure of Sexual Health and Reproductive Empowerment for Young Adults (The SHREYA Scale). \nCo-sponsored with The Bixby Center \nMore on Prof. Upadhyay URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ushma-upadhyay-uc-san-francisco/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Upadhyay_Ushma.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20180828T003331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T023141Z UID:10000630-1542196800-1542202200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Adrian Raftery\, University of Washington DESCRIPTION:Title: Bayesian Population Projections with Migration Uncertainty \nAbstract: The United Nations recently issued official probabilistic population projections for all countries for the first time\, using a Bayesian hierarchical modeling framework developed by our group at the University of Washington. These take account of uncertainty about future fertility and mortality\, but not international migration. We propose a Bayesian hierarchical autoregressive model for obtaining joint probabilistic projections of migration rates for all countries\, broken down by age and sex. Joint trajectories for all countries are constrained to satisfy the requirement of zero global net migration. We evaluate our model using out-of-sample validation and compare point projections to the projected migration rates from a persistence model similar to the UN’s current method for projecting migration\, and also to a state of the art gravity model. We also resolve an apparently paradoxical discrepancy between growth trends in the proportion of the world population migrating and the average absolute migration rate across countries. This is joint work with Jonathan Azose and Hana Ševčíková. \nCo-sponsored with the Center for Social Statistics \nMore on Prof. Raftery URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/adrian-raftery-university-of-washington/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Raftery_Adrian.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T143000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20181031T172859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T154303Z UID:10000518-1540992600-1540996200@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Introducing the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brasil) DESCRIPTION:Fabíola Bof de Andrade\, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz\, Instituto de Pesquisas René Rachou\, Brazil & James Macinko\, UCLA \nThis seminar will provide an introduction to the newest study in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) family\, the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging. The speakers will describe the overall study design and the main topics covered\, highlight results from the baseline survey\, and discuss how to obtain and use the survey data. All interested faculty\, staff and students are welcome to attend. \n  URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/introducing-the-brazilian-longitudinal-study-of-aging-elsi-brasil/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ELSI-Brasil-e1541007274769.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T150000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20181003T174643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T025204Z UID:10000652-1540476000-1540479600@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Workshop: Getting your Computational Tools for Research DESCRIPTION:Instructor:\nMichael Tzen \nTitle:\nGetting your Computational Tools for Research \nLocation:\nOctober 25\, 2018\, 2:00-3:00 PM\n4240 Public Affairs Building\nCCPR Seminar Room \nContent:\nWe’ll get you started on Github\, Rstudio\, Stata\, and accessing Hoffman2 (UCLA’s high performance computing cluster). \nPlease RSVP below \nhttps://goo.gl/forms/W6hkM3bnOjfnYGJw2 \nslides URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-getting-your-computational-tools-for-research/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T055859 CREATED:20181001T192236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181008T201210Z UID:10000642-1539777600-1539783000@ccpr.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Erin Hartman\, University of California Los Angeles DESCRIPTION:Title: Covariate Selection for Generalizing Experimental Results \nAbstract: Researchers are often interested in generalizing the average treatment effect (ATE) estimated in a randomized experiment to non-experimental target populations. Researchers can estimate the population ATE without bias if they adjust for a set of variables affecting both selection into the experiment and treatment heterogeneity. Although this separating set has simple mathematical representation\, it is often unclear how to select this set in applied contexts. In this paper\, we propose a data-driven method to estimate a separating set. Our approach has two advantages. First\, our algorithm relies only on the experimental data. As long as researchers can collect a rich set of covariates on experimental samples\, the proposed method can inform which variables they should adjust for. Second\, we can incorporate researcher-specific data constraints. When researchers know certain variables are unmeasurable in the target population\, our method can select a separating set subject to such constraints\, if one is feasible. We validate our proposed method using simulations\, including naturalistic simulations based on real-world data. \nCo-Sponsored with The Center for Social Statistics \nMore on Prof. Hartman URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/erin-hartman-university-of-california-los-angeles/ LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Hartman_Erin-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR