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SUMMARY:The Challenges and Promise of Population Research: Insights from CCPR’s Junior Population Scientists
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\n\nHousehold decision-making under the microscope: evidence from experiments with Kenyan households\nPrachi Jain is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Loyola Marymount University. Her research uses experimental methods to explore topics in behavioral economics\, gender economics\, and economic development.  Her interests are expansive\, for example exploring the role of social networks in informal insurance\, the underrepresentation of women in labor markets\, financial privacy in couples\, and the effects of stress on economic decision-making. She is a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action and an external affiliate with the California Center for Population Research. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan. She previously was a Postdoctoral Associate at Princeton University and completed her B.A. degree in Economics at the University of California\, Berkeley. Presented Paper here. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\nLooking Within Families: Differences Among Adult Children and Implications for Support to Older Parents and Their Health\n\n\n\n \nLuoman Bao is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University\, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on aging\, health\, and family\, with a particular attention to aging experiences and intergenerational dynamics in diverse social contexts\, as well as their implications for the health and well-being of older adults. Her work also examines how gender\, racial/ethnic\, and socioeconomic inequalities shape family experiences and individual health across the aging process. Presented Paper here. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMeasuring the population health impacts of immigration policy\n \nDr. Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young is an immigrant health scholar whose research seeks to understand the impact of the US immigration system on the well-being of immigrants and their families. She has established new frameworks and measures to understand the relationships between immigration policies\, citizenship/legal status\, and health\, and has conducted some of the first empirical studies showing that immigration policy is associated with health inequities. A guiding principle in her work is to partner with immigrants and community members as active contributors in the design and interpretation of research. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and published in a wide range of public health\, health policy\, and sociological journals\, including American Journal of Public Health\, The Milbank Quarterly\, International Migration Review\, and Social Science and Medicine. She received her PhD in community health sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and her MPH with an emphasis in maternal and child health from UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Presented Paper here. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nFood insecurity on campus: barriers to food assistance use among college students\nTabashir Nobari\, PhD\, MPH\, is an affiliate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an associate professor in the Department of Public Health at California State University\, Fullerton. Nobari’s longstanding interest is preventing socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health inequities among young children and college students by addressing health equity barriers through social programs and policies. Her research focuses on the social determinants of health\, particularly food insecurity\, housing insecurity\, homelessness\, and adverse childhood experiences. Nobari uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods to understand the impact of policies and programs on college students’ basic needs and early childhood obesity. She focuses on preventing inequities in obesity and food insecurity among young children and college students by addressing health equity barriers (housing insecurity and poverty) through food assistance programs (CalFresh\, WIC) and policies.  Nobari is a co-investigator on a USDA-funded study to examine the policies\, systems\, and environments related to access to food at Minority-Serving Institutions. She is co-PI on an NSF-funded study to develop smart technologies for previously unhoused residents of Permanent Supportive Housing in Orange County. She is also a member of the board of directors for Nourish California\, an advocacy group working to ensure that all Californians with low income can access the food they need and want. Nobari earned her doctorate in community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and her master’s in public health in international epidemiology at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She completed her postdoc with PHFE-WIC\, the largest local agency in the nation for the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women\, Infants and Children.  Presented Paper Here. \n  \n  \n  \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/junior-population-fellow-talk/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260121T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Matias Cattaneo\, Princeton University\, "Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Practice"
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nBiography: 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 Learning (CSML). Beyond academia\, he serves as an Amazon Scholar\, and has advised a wide range of organizations worldwide. Matias is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association\, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics\, and the International Association for Applied Econometrics\, and an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. His research interests are interdisciplinary\, motivated by quantitative challenges arising in the social\, behavioral\, and biomedical sciences. He integrates econometrics\, statistics\, applied mathematics\, data science\, and decision science\, with applications to program evaluation and causal inference. \nBoundary Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Practice\nAbstract: We review the literature on boundary discontinuity (BD) designs\, a powerful nonexperimental research methodology that identifies causal effects by exploiting a thresholding treatment assignment rule based on a bivariate score and a boundary curve. This methodology generalizes standard regression discontinuity designs based on a univariate score and scalar cutoff\, and has specific challenges and features related to its multi-dimensional nature. We synthesize the empirical literature by systematically reviewing over 80 empirical papers\, tracing the method’s application from its formative uses to its implementation in modern research. In addition to the empirical survey\, we overview the latest methodological results on identification\, estimation and inference for the analysis of BD designs\, and offer recommendations for practice. \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/matias-cattaneo-princeton-university-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260114T131500
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SUMMARY:Philip N. Cohen\, University of Maryland\, "Research Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar"
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nBiography: 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\, the division of labor\, health disparities\, and open science. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResearch Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar\nAbstract: What is the role of professional scholars in civic life? How and why should academics seek to reach audiences beyond their disciplines and institutions? Must there be tension between advancing along an academic career path and taking part in public conversations\, or can these goals reinforce each other? Drawing from personal experience and in-depth research\, this talk features straightforward advice that acknowledges professional risks as well as rewards. Cohen embraces the reciprocal relationship between professional scholarship and active citizenship\, arguing that aligning personal and vocational identities can enhance both public and academic contributions. He explores intellectual work on social media\, science communication\, political activism\, and how to build trust while developing a public intellectual identity (and his experience suing President Trump for blocking him on Twitter – and winning). \n  \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/philip-n-cohen-university-of-maryland-research-is-not-enough-public-engagement-and-the-citizen-scholar/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Events,CCPR Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251119T131500
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SUMMARY:Nathan Nunn\, University of British Columbia\, “Development Mismatch?: Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa”
DESCRIPTION:  \nBiography: 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 our understanding of the historical process of factors relevant to economic development\, including distrust\, gender norms\, religiosity\, rule-following\, zero-sum thinking\, honor cultures\, conflict\, immigration\, state formation\, and support for democracy. Another aspect of his research examines the importance of local cultural context for contemporary development policy. \nDevelopment Mismatch?: Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: We study the consequences of a clash between contemporary development initiatives and traditional economic practices in Africa. Crop agriculture has expanded considerably across the continent in recent years. Much of this expansion has occurred in traditionally pastoral areas. This is believed to be a major cause of conflict between pastoral and agricultural ethnic groups. We test this hypothesis using geocoded data on agricultural development projects across Africa from 1995-2014. We find that implementing agricultural projects in traditionally pastoral areas leads to a two-fold increase in the risk of conflict. We find no equivalent effect for agricultural projects implemented in traditionally agricultural areas\, nor for non-agricultural projects implemented in either location. We also find that this mechanism contributes to the spread of extremist-religious conflict in the form of jihadist attacks. The effects are muted when agricultural projects are paired with pastoral projects\, which is more likely to occur when pastoral groups have more political power. Despite these effects on conflict\, we find that crop agriculture projects increase nighttime luminosity in both agricultural and pastoral areas. Evidence from survey data suggest that the gains in pastoral areas are concentrated in on-pastoral households. Our results indicate that “development mismatch” – i.e.\, imposing projects that are misaligned with local communities – can be costly.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/nathan-nunn-university-of-british-columbia-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251112T131500
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SUMMARY:Manasi Deshpande\, The University of Chicago\, "Explaining the Historical Rise and Recent Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment"
DESCRIPTION: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 consumption\, health\, and well-being. She has received the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship\, NSF CAREER award\, and William T. Grant Scholarship. Her dissertation on the long-term effects of disability programs received the 2015 APPAM Dissertation Award\, the 2015 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award\, and the 2016 NASI John Heinz Dissertation Award. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Becker-Friedman Institute.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExplaining the Historical Rise and Recent Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: After substantial growth in the 1990s and 2000s\, enrollment in the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program has been declining since 2013. We use detailed administrative data to quantify the contributions of various factors to trends in SSDI enrollment\, focusing especially on the decline in the 2010s. A statistical decomposition suggests that the vast majority of the decline in SSDI enrollment since 2013 is attributable to declines in application rates and\, to a lesser extent\, award rates\, within demographic groups\, rather than changes over time in demographic characteristics\, eligibility\, or rates of exit from SSDI. The decline in SSDI enrollment rates is disproportionately driven by older low-to-middle-skilled men with relatively severe health conditions who\, over time\, have become less likely to apply for SSDI and more likely to work. Consistent with this descriptive evidence\, we present results from a causal analysis suggesting that improved labor market opportunities for older middle-skilled men could explain the decline in SSDI enrollment. We also present a set of causal estimates that rule out several popular hypotheses for the decline in SSDI applications\, including lower award rates at the appeal level\, a higher administrative burden of applying\, greater generosity of other programs\, and reductions in pollution and smoking.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/manasi-deshpande-the-university-of-chicago-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251105T131500
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SUMMARY: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”
DESCRIPTION: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 Academic Title from the American Library Association and won the William F. Goode Award from the American Sociological Association. Her work has been funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development\, National Science Foundation\, Russell Sage Foundation\, Annie E. Casey Foundation\, Spencer Foundation\, MacArthur Foundation\, Abell Foundation\, Smith Richardson Foundation\, National Academy of Education\, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Department of Education\, among others. She contributes frequently to national and local media\, including The Atlantic\, Baltimore Sun\, The Economist\, The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Washington Post\, and National Public Radio. Stefanie has been invited to share her research to support policy recommendations at the federal level at the Department of Housing and Urban Development\, the Department of Education\, the Department of Health and Human Services\, and has provided briefings and testimony for several state legislatures and in federal court on behalf of the plaintiffs in the Baltimore Thompson v. HUD housing desegregation case. She currently serves on a Federal Research Advisory Commission at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Stefanie’s other awards and honors include the Publicly Engaged Scholar Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association\, Scholar of the Year by the National Alliance of Resident Services in Assisted and Affordable Housing\, William T. Grant Faculty Scholars Award\, Johns Hopkins University Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award\, and election to the Sociological Research Association. \n  \n\n\n\nColleges that obviously don’t have what you need: Risk\, Social Mobility and the Postsecondary Decisions of Low-Income Students\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: While postsecondary education enrollment rates have soared over the last few decades\, dilemmas remain about how to support young adults as they navigate paths after high school. On the one hand\, postsecondary education plays a vital role in promoting intergenerational mobility\, increasing earnings\, and improving job quality. On the other hand\, there are large and growing gaps in college attendance\, college quality\, and college completion rates by family income\, leaving many young adults with only ‘some college’ and a relatively unsupported and sooner-than-expected transition to work. As a policy response\, selective colleges and universities have tried to increase opportunities for low-income students on their campuses\, with some significantly investing in financial aid expansions and other supportive interventions. One example is an experimentally evaluated intervention at the University of Michigan (UM) called the HAIL Scholarship Study\, which tests whether a personalized offer of a guaranteed four-years of financial aid can increase enrollment of students from low-income families. HAIL has been very successful\, more than doubling application and enrollment at UM among Michigan students from low-income families. However\, one-third of the students who received the HAIL offer never applied to UM and one-fifth of those admitted did not attend UM. How do we explain such decisions? We use qualitative interviews with 136 low-income high-achieving high school seniors from the HAIL intervention to understand how they experienced and assessed risk in the college decision-making process. We find that low-income students –even high-performing low-income students with the tuition-guarantee—worry about whether the investment in a four-year degree is worth it. In particular\, we observe a profound fear of failure as students worry that they will not complete their bachelor’s degrees and/or they worry that their college education will not pay off in terms of job or financial stability. The fear of non-completion seems to stem from several sources\, including: the inability to perform well academically while at a selective institution; indecision about major and finding something of interest that will lead to a solid career; being away from social support; and concerns about shocks that might occur to derail them. As a result of this risk assessment\, students enact a number of mitigation strategies to get a better sense of what they want to do\, many resulting in an indefinite delay of their college enrollment.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/stefanie-deluca-johns-hopkins-university-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T131500
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SUMMARY:Marco Tabellini\, Harvard Business School\, Climate Matching in Migration: From the American Frontier to Prehistory
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Marco Tabellini is an assistant professor in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy unit and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)\, the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)\, RF Berlin\, and IZA. He explores how international and internal migration reshapes politics\, societies\, and the economy. His work investigates when and why immigration stirs political backlash\, what drives successful social integration\, and how migration alters societal boundaries in diverse countries such as the United States. He also examines the economic consequences of immigration\, including its effects on labor markets and growth. Finally\, his research sheds light on the role of climate as a powerful force shaping migration flows across time and place. \n  \nClimate Matching in Migration: From the American Frontier to Prehistory\nAbstract: We examine how climate shapes human migration across both modern history and deep prehistory. Drawing on rich U.S. census and administrative data\, we show that migrants systematically sort into destinations whose climates resemble those of their origins\, a pattern we term climate matching. This pattern holds for both international and internal migration\, across historical (1850–1920) and modern (1970–2020) periods\, and played a central role in shaping the geography of U.S. settlement\, population growth\, and economic activity. We then push these ideas back into prehistory\, using ancient DNA to trace related individuals buried hundreds or thousands of kilometers apart. Linking these inferred migration flows to paleoclimate reconstructions reveals that even prehistoric populations tended to move along ecological corridors and into familiar climatic zones.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/marco-tabellini-harvard-business-school-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251015T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251015T150000
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Brandon Stewart\, Princeton University\, "Using Large Language Model Annotations for the Social Sciences: A General Framework of Using Predicted Variables in Statistical Analyses"
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Brandon Stewart is Associate Professor of Sociology at Princeton University where he is also affiliated with the Office of Population Research and numerous other centers on campus. He currently serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Political Analysis and Associate Editor at Sociological Methods & Research. His work spans several areas of computational social science with a focus on text as data and causal inference. \n  \n\n\n\n“Using Large Language Model Annotations for the Social Sciences: A General Framework of Using Predicted Variables in Statistical Analyses”\n\n\n\nAbstract: Social scientists use automated annotation methods\, such as supervised machine learning and\, more recently\, large language models (LLMs)\, that can predict labels and generate text-based variables. While such predicted text-based variables are often analyzed as if they were observed without errors\, we show that ignoring prediction errors in the automated annotation step leads to substantial bias and invalid confidence intervals in downstream analyses\, even if the accuracy of the automated annotations is high\, e.g.\, above 90%. We propose a framework of design-based supervised learning (DSL) that can provide valid statistical estimates\, even when predicted variables contain non-random prediction errors. DSL employs a doubly robust procedure to combine predicted labels and a smaller number of expert annotations. DSL allows scholars to apply advances in LLMs to social science research while maintaining statistical validity. We illustrate its general applicability using two applications where the outcome and independent variables are text-based.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-brandon-stewart-princeton-university-using-large-language-model-annotations-for-the-social-sciences-a-general-framework-of-using-predicted-variables-in-statistical-analyses/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T133000
DTSTAMP:20261020T025824
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SUMMARY:Workshop: CCPR Computing and Data Orientation
DESCRIPTION:Our Computing Orientation provides an overview of the technological resources\, services\, and support available through CCPR to advance affiliates’ research. The session will cover data management planning and security requirements\, guidance on choosing and accessing appropriate computational resources (including individual\, centralized\, and high-performance environments)\, and an introduction to the Secure Data Enclave for projects with heightened security needs. Participants will also learn about available statistical consultation services\, recommended research tools\, and upcoming infrastructure projects.\n\n \nThis orientation is designed for CCPR affiliates seeking to understand the full range of computing resources offered by the center\, as well as best practices for accessing and leveraging them effectively in their research.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/workshop-ccpr-computing-orientation-2/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T120000
DTSTAMP:20261020T025824
CREATED:20250919T205059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T173740Z
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SUMMARY:CCPR Welcome and Orientation for Graduate Students
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URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/resident-welcome-event/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251001T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251001T150000
DTSTAMP:20261020T025824
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Kara Rudolph\, Columbia University\, Causal Mediation Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Kara Rudolph is an epidemiologist interested in developing and applying causal inference methods to better understand the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders. Currently\, she is a Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University. Her current work focuses on developing and applying methods for transportability and mediation to understand mechanisms relevant for drug use disorder prevention and treatment in various target populations. More generally\, her work on generalizing/ transporting findings from study samples to target populations and identifying subpopulations most likely to benefit from interventions contributes to efforts to optimally target available policy and program resources. She has completed a PhD in Epidemiology and an MHS in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar. \nCausal Mediation Workshop\nCausal mediation analysis can provide a mechanistic understanding of how an exposure impacts an outcome\, a central goal in epidemiology and health sciences. However\, rapid methodologic developments coupled with few formal courses presents challenges to implementation. Beginning with an overview of classical direct and indirect effects\, this workshop will present recent advances that overcome limitations of previous methods\, allowing for: (i) continuous exposures\, (ii) multiple\, non-independent mediators\, and (iii) effects identifiable in the presence of intermediate confounders affected by exposure. Emphasis will be placed on flexible\, stochastic and interventional direct and indirect effects\, highlighting how these may be applied to answer substantive epidemiological questions from real-world studies. Multiply robust\, nonparametric estimators of these causal effects\, and free and open source R packages (crumble) for their application\, will be introduced. To aid translation to real-world data analysis\, this workshop will incorporate hands-on R programming exercises to allow participants practice in implementing the statistical tools presented. It is recommended that participants have working knowledge of the basic notions of causal inference\, including counterfactuals and identification (linking the causal effect to a parameter estimable from the observed data distribution). Familiarity with the R programming language is also recommended. \n  \nAn recording of Kara Rudolph’s presentation may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/kara-rudolph-columbia-university-workshop-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T160000
DTSTAMP:20261020T025824
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SUMMARY:Los Angeles' Replication Games
DESCRIPTION:We are looking for researchers\, post-docs\, and PhD students\ninterested in a one-day replication challenge.\nParticipants will be granted co-authorship on a meta-paper\ncombining the reproductions and replications\, and will have the\nopportunity to publish their work. Participants will be matched based\non field\, and a study from a leading social science journal will be\nassigned to each team based on interests.\nThe event will take place at the University of California\, Los Angeles.\nVirtual participants are also welcome. The event is sponsored by the\nCalifornia Center for Population Research.\nInterested researchers and/or teams should send their field\nof study and preferred statistical software to: \nABEL BRODEUR\nabrodeur@uottawa.ca \nPre-games virtual meeting slides/recording can be found here. \nMore information about the event can be found here
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/los-angeles-replication-games/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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