Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2026
Bringing together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty for 2 weeks of intensive study and interdisciplinary research
20 events found.
Mare Student Lecture, Taylor Mobley, “Estimating long-term health effects of housing instability in the US using a lifecourse framework”
Biography: Taylor Mobley is a PhD candidate in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA. His research interests lie at the intersection of housing and health, social and lifecourse epidemiology, longitudinal data analysis, and the application of causal inference methods in social epidemiology. He is a recipient of the 2025-2026 UCLA Dissertation Year Award. Work […]
Michael Lens, UCLA, “Where the Hood At? Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods”
Biography: Michael Lens is Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Chair of the Luskin Undergraduate Programs, and Associate Faculty Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. Professor Lens’ research and teaching explore the potential of public policy to address housing market inequities that lead to negative outcomes for low-income families and communities […]
Dave Kirk, University of Pennsylvania, “The Rideshare Revolution and Racial Disparities in Police Stops”
Biography: Dave Kirk is Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Criminology and Research Associate of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago and previously served on the faculties at the University of Oxford, the University of Texas at Austin, […]
Student Practice Talks (PAA)
If you are presenting at PAA and would like to give a practice talk at CCPR, please complete the PAA 2026 Practice Talks form by Friday, April 3. The session will be held on Wednesday, April 29, from 12:00–1:15 PM. This will be a great opportunity to rehearse your presentation and receive feedback before the meeting. After […]
Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University, “Birth Centers and Maternal and Infant Health”
Biography: Maya Rossin-Slater is an Associate Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research (SIEPR), a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). She […]
Course Release and Seed Grant Talks
"Immigration Enforcement in the First Nine Months of the Second Trump Administration" Seed Grant Recipient: Graeme Blair Professor of Political Science Biography: Graeme Blair is a professor of political science at UCLA and faculty affiliate in statistics and the California Center for Population Research. Blair is Co-Director of the Deportation Data Project. He studies […]
Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA, “The Impact of Medicare’s Introduction on Life Expectancy”
Biography: Adriana Lleras-Muney is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and was an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University before moving to UCLA. She is an associated editor for the Journal of Health Economics, and she serves on the […]
Laurence Baker, Stanford University, “Does the form of medical practice affect health care utilization and costs?”
Biography: Laurence Baker, Ph.D. is Professor of Health Policy and Knowles Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University. He is a health economist who uses applies economic and statistical analysis to study challenges facing the health care system. Professor Baker has published widely and served as an advisor to the public and private sectors […]
Patrick Ishizuka, Washington University St Louis, “The Stalled Gender Housework Revolution in the United States”
Biography: Patrick Ishizuka is a sociologist and demographer who uses quantitative and experimental methods to understand gender and socioeconomic inequality in the workplace and in family life. His recent projects examine trends in gender housework inequality, the shifting economic foundations of marriage among cohabiting couples, and parenting attitudes toward adolescents who transgress norms relating to […]
Developmental Seminar: Conducting Research with Vulnerable Populations
This multidisciplinary panel will address practical and ethical issues that arise when conducting research with vulnerable populations. Panelists will include CCPR affiliates Faith Deckard, Elizabeth Kim, Randall Kuhn, and Meredith Phillips. A recording of this event can be found here.
Amy Finkelstein, MIT, “Trading Goods for Lives: The Effect of NAFTA on Mortality”
(with Matthew Notowidigdo and Steven Shi) Biography: Amy Finkelstein is the John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-founder and co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America, a research center at MIT that encourages and facilitates randomized evaluations of important domestic policy issues. She is […]
Jonathan Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley, “Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive capacity, decision making and medical diagnosis”
Biography: Jonathan Kolstad is a professor at the Haas School of Business, where he holds the Henry J. Kaiser Chair, and in the Economics Department at UC Berkeley. He is also a core faculty member in the Computational Precision Health Graduate Group at UC Berkeley and UCSF, the founding director of the Center for […]
David Grusky, Stanford University, “Why is Evidence-Based Policy Still So Elusive? The Case of U.S. Homelessness Policy”
Biography: David B. Grusky is Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. His research examines the structure of social mobility and inequality, new ways to improve the country’s infrastructure for monitoring mobility and inequality, and […]
The Challenges and Promise of Population Research: Insights from CCPR’s Junior Population Scientists
CCPR’s Junior Population Scientists are distinguished population scholars and CCPR affiliates from other California universities. Join us in welcoming the inaugural cohort as they briefly introduce their research and insights into the challenges and promises of population research. A Q&A session and reception will follow. Household decision-making under the microscope: evidence from experiments with Kenyan […]
Workshop: Matias Cattaneo, Princeton University, “Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Practice”
Biography: Matias D. Cattaneo is a Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) at Princeton University. He is also an Associated Faculty in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), the Department of Economics, and the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS), and an Affiliated Faculty in the Data-Driven Social Science (DDSS) initiative, the AI at Princeton initiative, and the Center for Statistics and Machine […]
Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland, “Research Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar”
Biography: Philip N. Cohen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His latest book, Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (Columbia University Press 2025), addresses the role of intellectuals in public life and offers guidance for a career in social science. His other research concerns demographic trends, family structure, […]
Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia, “Development Mismatch?: Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa”
Biography: Nathan Nunn is a Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in cultural economics. His research examines the historical and dynamic process of economic development, focusing on the evolution of culture, norms, and institutions across societies. He has published dozens of articles aimed at improving […]
Manasi Deshpande, The University of Chicago, “Explaining the Historical Rise and Recent Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment”
Biography: Manasi Deshpande is an associate professor of economics with tenure at the University of Chicago Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests include the optimal design of social safety net programs, their interaction with labor markets, and their effects on […]
Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University, “Colleges that obviously don’t have what you need”: Risk, Social Mobility and the Postsecondary Decisions of Low-Income Students”
Biography: Stefanie DeLuca is the James Coleman Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University, Director of the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab, and Research Principal at Opportunity Insights at Harvard University. She co-authored Coming of Age in the Other America (with Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin), which was named an Outstanding […]