Emily Smith-Greenaway (USC) Emily Smith-Greenaway is Dean’s Professor of Sociology and Professor of Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California. Her research seeks to infuse social-psychological perspectives into demography to advance how we quantify and theorize key population processes and how we study them in cause and consequence. Much of her work focuses on […]
The conference will take place at the CCPR (Fourth Floor, Room 4240 Luskin School of Public Affairs, 337 Charles E. Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA 90095). We will strictly enforce time limits. Poster session participants: Jacopo Ballabio (UCLA), Chronos and Kairos: Concepts of Time and Economic Development Tamri Matiashvili (Stanford), Talent, Trust, and […]
9:30 AM - 10:20 AM: Emily Owens (UCI) Does Management Matter? Evidence from Indigent Defense in Texas 10:35 AM - 11:25 AM: Derek Neal (UChicago) The Impacts of Parole Supervision 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM: Felipe Goncalves (UCLA) Selection Bias and Racial Disparities in Police Use of Force 2:35 PM - 3:25 PM: Jeff Grogger […]
Natalia Serna (Stanford University) Biography: Natalia Serna, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University. Her research studies how insurer and provider competition shapes health plan design and patient health outcomes, using tools from industrial organization and causal inference. One strand of her work examines provider network design, insurer-provider contracting, and the government […]
Join us as we kick off the new academic year with a Welcome Back event at CCPR! The event will feature a presentation by Professor Martha Bailey, along with brief remarks from CCPR leadership and staff. A reception will follow, offering a chance to connect with colleagues and new affiliates. All are welcome—we look forward […]
Join us on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at 12:00 PM PST in Room 4240 for our CCPR Resident Orientation & Move-In Day! Pizza will be provided. This is a great opportunity to settle into your space, learn more about CCPR, and meet your fellow residents. We’ll also provide important safety and computing orientations to help you get familiar with CCPR […]
Bringing together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty for 2 weeks of intensive study and interdisciplinary research
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
"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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
