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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180110T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
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SUMMARY:Doug Massey\, Princeton University
DESCRIPTION:“Train Wreck: US Immigration and Border Policy 1965-2010” \nAbstract: Despite the massive increase in border enforcement after 1986\, undocumented population growth did not decrease\, but rose. In this talk I undertake a systematic analysis of border enforcement as a policy for immigration control. Empirical results explain not only why it failed\, but how and why it backfired. In the end\, the militarization of the border did not increase the probability of apprehension at the border or reduce the likelihood of unauthorized entry; but it did dramatically change the geography of border crossing\, increase the costs of undocumented migration\, and elevate the physical risks of border crossing. Ironically\, these trends had no effect on the likelihood of undocumented departure for the United States\, but instead reduced the probability undocumented returns back to Mexico\, thereby  increasing the net volume of undocumented migration and accelerating undocumented population growth. \nAccess Podcast Here \n*Co-Sponsored with;  \nThe Center for the Study of International Migration \nThe Social Stratification\, Inequality\, and Mobility Working Group  \nThe Center for Mexican Studies  \nMore on Prof. Massey
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/doug-massey-princeton-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171212T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171212T153000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20171201T200948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T184243Z
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SUMMARY:Nathaniel Osgood\, University of Saskatchewan\, "Dynamic modeling for health in the age of big data"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Traditional approaches to public health concerns have conferred great advances in the duration and quality of life. Public health interventions – from improved sanitation efforts\, to vaccination campaigns\, to contact tracing and environmental regulations – have helped reduce common risks to health throughout many areas of the world. Unfortunately\, while traditional methods from the health sciences have proven admirably suited for addressing traditional challenges\, a troubling crop of complex health challenges confront the nation and the world\, and threaten to stop – and even reverse the – rise in length and quality of life that many have taken for granted. Examples include multi-factorial problems such as obesity and obesity-related chronic disease\, the spread of drug-resistant and rapidly mutating pathogens that evade control efforts\, and “syndemics” of mutually reinforcing health conditions (such as Diabetes and TB; substance abuse\, violence and HIV/AIDS; obesity & stress). Such challenges have proven troublingly policy resistant\, with interventions being thwarted by “blowback” from the complex feedbacks involved\, and attendant costs threaten to overwhelm health care systems. In the face of such challenges public health decision makers are increasingly supplementing their toolbox using “system science” techniques. Such methods – also widely known as “complex systems approaches” – provide a way to understand a system’s behavior as a whole and as more than the sum of its parts\, and a means of anticipating and managing the behavior of a system in more judicious and proactive fashion. However\, such approaches offer substantially greater insight and power when combined with rich data sources. Within this talk\, we will highlight the great promise afforded by combining of Systems Science techniques and rich data sources\, particularly emphasizing the role of cross-linking models with “big data” offering high volume\, velocity\, variety and veracity. Examples of such data include fine-grained temporal and spatial information collected by smartphone-based and wearable as well as building and municipal sensors\, data from social media posts and search behavior\, helpline calls\, website accesses and rich cross-linked databases. Decision-oriented models grounded by such novel data sources can allow for articulated theory building regarding difficult-to-observe aspects of human behavior. Such models can also aid in informing evaluation of and judicious selection between sophisticated interventions to lessen the health burden of a wide variety of health conditions. Such models are particularly powerful when complemented by machine learning and computational statistics techniques that permit recurrent model regrounding in the newest evidence\, and which allow a model to knit together holistic portrait of the system as a whole\, and which support grounded investigation of between intervention strategies tradeoffs. \nSponsored by The Department of Community Health Sciences along with the Center for Social Statistics and the California Center for Population Research
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/dynamic-modeling-health-age-big-data/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events,Divisional Publish
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170719T204821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T193516Z
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SUMMARY:Jessica Ho\, USC
DESCRIPTION:“Contemporary Trends in American Mortality: International Comparisons and Emerging Challenges” \nAbstract: The decades surrounding the turn of the 21st century have been a challenging period for American mortality. The United States is currently facing a large-scale opioid epidemic\, and life expectancy barely increased between 2010 and 2015. This talk will cover various dimensions of contemporary trends in American mortality including the contribution of drug overdose to educational gradients in life expectancy\, an analysis of the contemporary drug overdose epidemic in international perspective\, and how the U.S.’s recent life expectancy stagnation has impacted its standing in international life expectancy rankings relative to other high-income countries. \nMore on Prof. Ho
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jessica-ho-usc/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171130
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20180409T182127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T020835Z
UID:10000612-1511913600-1511999999@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CCPR Grant Writing Workshop Session VII: Regulatory Sections/ NIH grant application process at UCLA
DESCRIPTION:The workshop will include an overview of human subjects/UCLA IRB preaward\, data sharing plan\, multiple PI plan and clinical trials\, Office of Contract and Grant Administration (OCGA)\, S2S Grants/Cayuse\, E-pass and electronic submission\, eDGE disclosure\, submission deadlines to OCGA\, and interacting with eRA Commons.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-grant-writing-workshop-session-vii-regulatory-sections-nih-grant-application-process-at-ucla/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170719T204629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T192204Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Skeem\, UC Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:“’What works’ for justice-involved people with mental illness” \nAbstract:  Each year\, over 2 million people with serious mental illness are booked into U.S. jails.  These people typically stay longer in jail than those without mental illness—and\, upon release\, are more likely to be reincarcerated.  Today\, over 300 counties have resolved to “step up” their efforts to reduce the number of people with mental illness in jail.  In this presentation\, I highlight research on “what works” to reduce re-offending among justice-involved people with mental illness.  Programs must avoid the traditional assumption that mental illness is the direct cause of the problem\, and linkage with psychiatric services is the solution.  Evidence-based\, cost-effective programs look beyond psychiatric explanations to address robust risk factors that are shared by people with- and without mental illness. \nMore on Prof. Skeem
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jennifer-skeem-uc-berkerly/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171116
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20180409T182029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T020819Z
UID:10000610-1510704000-1510790399@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CCPR Grant Writing Workshop Session VI: Preparing a Budget
DESCRIPTION:The workshop will include an overview of personnel time on the project\, salaries and benefits\, other than personnel services (OTPS)\, consultants\, equipment\, patient care\, alterations and renovations\, consortium/contractual costs\, budget justification\, direct/modified direct/indirect costs.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-grant-writing-workshop-session-vi-preparing-a-budget/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170719T204442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T194646Z
UID:10000575-1510142400-1510147800@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Victoria Baranov\, University of Melbourne
DESCRIPTION:“Mental health and women’s choices. Experimental evidence from a Randomized Control Trial. “ \nAbstract: We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting decisions by exploiting experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial which provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. The trial\, which is the largest psychotherapy trial in the world\, was highly successful at reducing depression rates of mothers. We relocate mothers 6 years after the intervention concluded to evaluate the effects of the intervention on women’s financial empowerment\, parental investments\, fertility\, as well as children development. We find that treating maternal depression increased women’s empowerment\, particularly control over spending\, both in the short-run and in the long-run. Consistent with the reports of increased control over spending\, we find persistent effects of the intervention on both time- and monetary-intensive parental investment. We do not find any detectable effect on children development. The long-run treatment effects are concentrated among girls. \nMore on Prof. Baranov\nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/victoria-baranov-university-melbourne/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171109
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20180409T181704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T020848Z
UID:10000608-1510099200-1510185599@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CCPR Grant Writing Workshop Session V
DESCRIPTION:The workshop will include an overview of approach (2)\, statistical analysis and power.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-grant-writing-workshop-session-v/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170719T204240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T192932Z
UID:10000573-1509537600-1509543000@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Rodrigo Soares\, Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:“Does Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Maternal and Child Health in Brazil“ \nAbstract: We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage. Using administrative data from multiple sources and an event study approach that exploits the staggered rollout of programmatic changes across municipalities\, we find large reductions in maternal\, foetal\, neonatal and postneonatal mortality\, and fertility. We document increased prenatal care visits\, hospital births and other maternal and child hospitalization\, which suggest that the survival gains were supply-driven. We find no improvement in the quality of births\, which may be explained by endogenous shifts in the composition of births towards higher-risk births. \nMore on Prof. Soares \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/rodrigo-soares-columbia-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171102
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20180409T181606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T020859Z
UID:10000606-1509494400-1509580799@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CCPR Grant Writing Workshop Session IV
DESCRIPTION:The workshop will include an overview of significance vs. innovation and approach.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-grant-writing-workshop-session-iv/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170719T203938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170925T164056Z
UID:10000571-1508932800-1508938200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Mark Kaplan\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:“Title: The Impact of Socioenvironmental Stressors on Alcohol-Linked Suicides: A Nationwide Postmortem Study” \nAbstract: Not only is suicide a major public health problem\, but also\, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, 8\,179 deaths and 273\,206 years of potential life lost resulted from alcohol attributable suicides in 2006-10 (the latest years available). Since 2011\, Professor Kaplan and his colleagues have worked with the National Violent Death Reporting System Restricted Access Database on two projects funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism\, focusing on acute alcohol use immediately prior to suicide. This presentation will show that nearly a third of suicide decedents nationwide were intoxicated at the time of death. Furthermore\, Prof. Kaplan will describe the effects of the 2008-09 economic contraction and other adverse socioenvironmental conditions on rates of suicide involving acute alcohol intoxication. \nMore on Prof. Kaplan
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/mark-kaplan-ucla/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171026
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20180409T181448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T020911Z
UID:10000604-1508889600-1508975999@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CCPR Grant Writing Workshop Session III: Writing the scientific portions with the reviewers in mind
DESCRIPTION:The workshop will include an overview of scored review criteria: Significance\, investigators\, innovation\, approach\, and environment\, abstract\, specific aims\, biosketch/ personal statement\, and environment.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-grant-writing-workshop-session-iii-writing-the-scientific-portions-with-the-reviewers-in-mind/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170927T225035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T023317Z
UID:10000481-1508500800-1508508000@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop: Transparent Data Analysis Workflow
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Michael Tzen \nPLEASE BRING A PERSONAL LAPTOP \nContent: Researchers go through fundamental steps in a data analysis project. This workshop highlights key steps in a data analyst’s workflow and encourages transparency in each of the steps. Throughout this workshop\, we go through hands on exercises that integrate: a transparency engine\, obtaining federal API data\, producing useful intermediate data structures\, and sharing analysis results. We will use Jupyter notebook for literate coding and if time allows demonstrate the Rstudio environment for reproducible development. \nPlease RSVP Here: \nhttps://goo.gl/forms/B7hMBod78Ecau8D22 \n  \nslides ipynb rmd
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-transparent-data-analysis-workflow/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170925T201718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220906T222320Z
UID:10000479-1508338800-1508342400@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Tips on Giving Effective PAA Presentations\, Job Talks\, and the Like
DESCRIPTION:Tips on Giving Effective PAA Presentations\, Job Talks\, and the Like: a Discussion Led by Prof. Donald J. (Don) Treiman \nClick here to download the presentation.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/tips-giving-effective-paa-presentations-job-talks-like/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170719T203405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171017T230356Z
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SUMMARY:David Chae\, Auburn University
DESCRIPTION:“Getting Under the Skin: Socio-Psychobiological Pathways and Racial Disparities in Health.“ \nAbstract: Racism is physically embodied through social\, behavioral\, and psychobiological mechanisms. In this talk\, David H. Chae\, will discuss the utility of a social-ecological and developmental lens to examine how racism is biologically embedded. He will discuss his research on multiple levels of racism and the channels through which they compromise health throughout the lifecourse. \nMore on Prof. Chae
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/david-chae-auburn/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171019
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20180409T181031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T020922Z
UID:10000603-1508284800-1508371199@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CCPR Grant Writing Workshop Session II: The NIH application review – What to expect? What to plan for?
DESCRIPTION:The workshop will include an overview of the review process\, Center for Scientific Review\, identifying a peer review “study section”\, and the peer review process.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-grant-writing-workshop-session-ii-the-nih-application-review-what-to-expect-what-to-plan-for/
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:20171013T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171013T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170925T170336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T023146Z
UID:10000477-1507896000-1507899600@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop: Useful R 4 Stata Users Brown Bag
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Michael Tzen \n\n\n\nThis workshop is a brown bag forum. Participants are encouraged to bring in tangible questions they wish to explore using R. To serve as a background road map\, the instructor will provide an abbreviated sample of what he thinks are the most useful features of R. However\, the goal is to have participants ask questions that the collective group can figure out using R. Any R question is fair game\, for example: questions about fundamental R concepts or even questions about how to run Stata-equivalent R commands. Participants will be provided access to Rstudio\, so please bring a laptop. \nThis CCPR brown-bag is intended to be an open forum that complements the 3 great resources below. Please see the resources\, especially the first one. \n1) 10 minute demo: interactive call–response slideshow of R basics\nhttp://tryr.codeschool.com/ \n2) Worked out examples from a UCLA IDRE workshop on R concepts\nhttps://stats.idre.ucla.edu/r/seminars/intro/ \n3) R 4 Data Science e-book\nhttp://r4ds.had.co.nz/ \n\n\n\nRVSP Here  \n  \nslides
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-r-4-stata-users-brownbag/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop,Divisional Publish
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170719T202008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T193058Z
UID:10000567-1507723200-1507728600@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Roland Rau\, University of Rostock
DESCRIPTION:“Title: The challenges of estimating mortality in small areas — using German counties as a case study” \nAbstract:  \nWe develop and analyze Bayesian models that produce good estimates of complete mortality schedules for small areas\, even when the expected number of deaths is very small. The models also provide estimates of uncertainty about local mortality schedules. The TOPALS relational model is the primary building block\, used to model age-specific mortality rates within each small area. TOPALS models produce estimates for single-year ages from a small number of local parameters. We experiment with Bayesian models for smoothing and ‘borrowing’ mortality information across space\, using two alternative specifications. First we test a Bayesian model with conditional autoregressive (CAR) priors for TOPALS parameters. CAR priors assign higher probability to parameters that are similar across adjacent areas\, thus emphasizing spatial smoothness in estimated rates. Second\, we test a hierarchical Bayesian model\, which assigns higher probability to parameters that are similar for locations that are close in terms of political geography. \nMore on Prof. Rau \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/roland-rau-university-rostock/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171012
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20180409T180650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T020932Z
UID:10000602-1507680000-1507766399@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CCPR Grant Writing Workshop Session I: Planning an NIH grant proposal
DESCRIPTION:Grant Writing Workshop Series: \nThe workshop will include an overview of the basics\, including NIH funding mechanisms\, types of grant programs (we will focus on the R series with some discussion of K series)\, finding a funding opportunity (FOA): Parent Announcements\, Program Announcements (PAs) vs. Request for Applications (RFAs) Administrative and other supplements Roles on a grant (PI\, Co-PI\, Co-Investigator\, others)\, the process of preparing NIH proposals\, identifying NIH institute (NIH matchmaker)\, working with NIH staff\, due dates and the application to funding timeline\, applications & resubmissions.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-grant-writing-workshop-session-i-planning-an-nih-grant-proposal/
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:20171004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170719T180734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T170714Z
UID:10000565-1507118400-1507123800@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:2017-2018 CCPR Welcome and Introductions
DESCRIPTION:Please come join us to learn all about the California Center for Population Research! \nProfessors Judith Seltzer\, Till von Wachter\, and Jennie Brand will be presenting. \nThis will be the kick-off event for the start of the upcoming 2017-2018 CCPR Seminar Series.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/2017-2018-ccpr-welcome-introductions/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170607T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170329T174927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170605T163748Z
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SUMMARY:Randall Akee\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:“Reservation Employer Establishments: Data from the U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Data Set” \nAbstract: The presence of employers and jobs on American Indian reservations has been difficult to analyze due to limited data. We are the first to geocode confidential data on employer establishments from the U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) to identify location on or off American Indian reservations. We identify the per-capita establishment count and jobs in reservation-based employer establishments for most federally recognized reservations. Comparisons to nearby non-reservation areas in the lower 48 states across 18 industries\, reveal that reservations have a similar sectoral distribution of employer establishments but have significantly fewer of them in nearly all sectors\, especially when the area population is below 15\,000 (as it is on the vast majority of reservations and for the majority of the reservation population). By contrast\, total jobs provided by reservation establishments are\, on average\, at par with or somewhat higher than in nearby county areas but are concentrated among casino-related and government employers. An implication is that average employment  per establishment are higher in these sectors on reservations\, including those with populations below 15\,000\, while the rest of the economy is sparser in reservations (in firm count and jobs per capita) Geographic and demographic factors such as population density and per capita income statistically account for some but not all of these differences. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/randall-akee-ucla-2/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170504T213904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T024800Z
UID:10000562-1496404800-1496419200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Fragile Families Challenge: Getting Started Workshop
DESCRIPTION:“Fragile Families Challenge: Getting Started Workshop” \nIan Lundberg  \nPh.D. Student\, Sociology and Social Policy\,  Princeton University \nThe Fragile Families Challenge is a scientific mass collaboration that combines predictive modeling\, causal inference\, and in-depth interviews in order to learn more about the lives of disadvantaged children. Fragile Families Challenge builds on the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study that has been running for about 20 years. The Fragile Families research team has been following about 5\,000 families—-collecting information about them and their environment at regular intervals—in order to understand how to improve the lives of disadvantaged children in the US. \n *Co-Sponsored with the Center for Social Statistics\, UCLA  \nRegister now @ fragilefamilieschallenge.org\, please specify you plan to attend the UCLA workshop
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/fragile-families-challenge-getting-started-workshop/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop,CSS Events
ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170418T221321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T162237Z
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SUMMARY:Research Ethics: The Use of Big Data
DESCRIPTION:The use of big data has become increasingly common in social and health research\, raising a series of new and difficult questions about research ethics.  In this informal workshop\, a panel of investigators using big data for their research will describe issues that they have faced and other potential problems.  As background to this workshop\, you may want to read: \n\nhttp://bdes.datasociety.net/council-output/perspectives-on-big-data-ethics-and-society/\nKramer ADI\, Guillory JE and Hancock JT (2014) Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(24): 8788–8790.\nhttp://www.michaelzimmer.org/2016/06/03/okcupid-and-the-ethics-of-big-data-research/\nZimmer\, M. Ethics Inf Technol (2010) 12: 313. doi:10.1007/s10676-010-9227-5\n\nPanelists: \n\nChristina Palmer\, CGC\, PhD\n\nProfessor\, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences\, and Genetics\, UCLA \n\nIrene PasquettoPh.D. Candidate\, Department of Information Studies\, UCLAGraduate Student Researcher\, UCLA Center for Knowledge Infrastructures\nSean Young\, PhD\n\n  \nAssociate Professor \nExecutive Director \nUniversity of California Institute for Prediction Technology (UCIPT) \nDepartment of Family Medicine\, UCLA
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/research-ethics-use-big-data/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20161110T001637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170418T182826Z
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SUMMARY:Maggie R. Jones\, United States Census Bureau
DESCRIPTION:“Refund Anticipation Products and the Improper Payment of the EITC” \n*Co-Sponsored with Public Policy and Applied Social Science Seminar Series UCLA \nMore on Dr. Jones 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/maggie-r-jones-united-states-census-bureau/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170410T210610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T205311Z
UID:10000560-1495627200-1495632600@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Shahryar Minhas\, Duke University
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Social Statistics Presents:\nPredicting the Evolution of Intrastate Conflict: Evidence from Nigeria\nurl: http://css.stat.ucla.edu/event/shahryar-minhas/\n\nThe endogenous nature of civil conflict has limited scholars’ abilities to draw clear inferences about the drivers of conflict evolution. We argue that three primary features characterize the complexity of intrastate conflict: (1) the interdependent relationships of conflict between actors; (2) the impact of armed groups on violence as they enter or exit the conflict network; and (3) the ability of civilians to influence the strategic interactions of armed groups. Using ACLED event data on Nigeria\, we apply a novel network-based approach to predict the evolution of intrastate conflict dynamics. Our network approach yields insights about the effects of civilian victimization and key actors entering the conflict. Attacks against civilians lead groups to both be more violent\, and to become the targets of attacks in subsequent periods. Boko Haram’s entrance into the civil war leads to an increase in violence even in unrelated dyads. Further\, our approach significantly outperforms more traditional dyad-group approaches at predicting the incidence of conflict.\n\nSpeaker: \nShahryar Minha\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Duke University\nAssistant Professor\, Michigan State University\nDepartment of Political Science and the Social Science Data Analytics Program (SSDA) \nhttp://s7minhas.com/
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/shahryar-minhas-duke-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CSS Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170403T154736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T023033Z
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SUMMARY:Analysis of Complex Surveys using R and Stata
DESCRIPTION:Instructors: \nMichael Tzen\, CCPR UCLA \nAndy Lin\, IDRE UCLA \nLocation: \nMay 19\, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm \n4240 Public Affairs Building \nAbstract: \nIn this workshop\, attendees will learn how to analyze survey data while accounting for its complex survey design. Using both the R and Stata software packages\, we will demonstrate how to specify the survey design\, impute any missing data\, and analyze the survey outcomes of interest. We will discuss how our downstream “analysis” steps are related to initial operational “design” choices made by the survey data provider. \nNote: \nPlease bring your own laptop.\nFor R\, we will use instantaneous Jupyter notebooks (no install required)\nFor Stata\, please have a TS1 account or your own copy of Stata\n(for software assistance\, contact emoss@ccpr.ucla.edu)\n\nslides ipynb do \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/analysis-complex-surveys-using-r-stata/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20161110T001132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T204014Z
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SUMMARY:Marcella Alsan\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men” \nAbstract: For forty years\, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively monitored hundreds of adult black males with syphilis despite the availability of effective treatment. The study’s methods have become synonymous with exploitation and mistreatment by the medical community. We find that the historical disclosure of the study in 1972 is correlated with increases in medical mistrust and mortality and decreases in both outpatient and inpatient physician interactions for older black men. Our estimates imply life expectancy at age 45 for black men fell by up to 1.4 years in response to the disclosure\, accounting for approximately 35% of the 1980 life expectancy gap between black and white men. \nMore on Prof. Alsan  \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/marcella-alsan-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20161110T000823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T203921Z
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SUMMARY:Jere R. Behrman\, University of Pennsylvania
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Applied Group in the Department of Economics \n“Early-Life Undernourishment in Developing Countries:  Prevalence\, Impacts over the Life Cycle and Determinants” \nAbstract: \nEarly-life undernourishment is a widespread phenomenon in many developing countries\, with an estimated 170 million children under 5 years of age stunted\, the standard indicator of chronic malnutrition.  This presentation summarizes an ongoing work program on this topic\, with reference to the prevalence\, impacts and determinants of such undernutrition. \n  \nMore on Prof. Behrman \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jere-r-behrman-university-pennsylvania/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170505T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20170403T155446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T162150Z
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SUMMARY:Political Sociology and the Global South Student Conference: Interdisciplinary Insights from the Global South
DESCRIPTION:Political Sociology Working Group\, UCLA  \nPolitical Sociology and the Global South Student Conference: Interdisciplinary Insights from the Global South \nMay 5th\, 2017 \n4240 Public Affairs Building \nThe UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group in collaboration with the Institute on Inequality and Democracy invites abstract submissions for an interdisciplinary graduate student conference. We welcome submissions from graduate students across the UCLA campus.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/political-sociology-global-south-student-conference-interdisciplinary-insights-global-south/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Conference,Other Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T133000
DTSTAMP:20260430T140630
CREATED:20161110T000345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T203529Z
UID:10000444-1493812800-1493818200@ccpr.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Mark Duggan\, Stanford University
DESCRIPTION:“To Work for Yourself\, for Others\, or Not at All? How Disability Benefits Affect The Employment Decisions of Older Veterans“ \nAbstract: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation (DC) program provides disability benefits to nearly one in five military veterans in the US and its annual expenditures exceed $60 billion. We examine how the receipt of DC benefits affects the employment decisions of older veterans. We make use of variation in program eligibility resulting from a 2001 policy change that increased access to the program for Vietnam veterans who served with “boots on the ground” in the Vietnam theater but not for other veterans of that same era. We find that the policy-induced increase in program enrollment decreased labor force participation and induced a substantially larger switch from wage employment to self-employment. This latter finding suggests that an exogenous increase in income spurred many older veterans to start their own businesses. Additionally\, we estimate that one in four veterans who entered the DC program due to this policy change left the labor force\, estimates in the same range as those from recent studies of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. \nMore on Prof. Duggan  \nPodcast Here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/mark-duggan-stanford-university/
LOCATION:CCPR Seminar Room\, 4240 Public Affairs Building\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="CCPR Seminars":MAILTO:seminars@ccpr.ucla.edu
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