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SUMMARY:Workshop: CCPR Computing Resources Overview
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Matt Lahmann\nInstructor: Mike Tzen \nThis workshop has two halves. In the first half\, we will dive into the 3 main computing resources that CCPR offers to affiliates\, including it’s remote and on campus offerings. At the end of the first half\, we’ll get participants signed up for hoffman2 and TS2. Once signed up\, you’ll have state of the art hardware resources and most software you’ll ever need for demographic research. In the second half\, we’ll walk through how to use these computing resources\, identifying what resource is better to use for different computing project scenarios.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-workshop-statcomp-spring22/
LOCATION:Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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SUMMARY:Stephen Machin\, London School of Economics
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Stephen Machin is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy\, has been President of the European Association of Labour Economists\, is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and was an independent member of the UK Low Pay Commission from 2007-14. His current research interests feature the study of labour market inequality\, social mobility\, education and crime\, and the interactions between them. \n“Real Wage Stagnation and the Brexit Exchange Rate Depreciation” \nRui Costa\, Swati Dhingra and Stephen Machin \nAbstract: Immediately after the UK’s vote to leave the European Union\, the value of sterling plummeted to record its biggest 24 hour depreciation since the collapse of Bretton Woods. This caused an intermediate import cost shock\, not offset by an export revenue gain\, and aggregate real wage growth stalled. Real wages fell more and stagnated for workers employed in industries\, largely in the services sector\, that experienced a bigger cost shock.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/stephen-machin-london-school-of-economics/
LOCATION:Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:CCPR Workshop: Planning for and Writing an NIH grant proposal
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This seminar will describe key issues in planning for and writing a research grant proposal for the National Institutes of Health if you are a demographer\, social scientist\, and/or working on the social determinants of health. The emphasis will be on R01\, R21\, and R03 proposals. Participants are invited to bring their own experiences with NIH grant proposal preparation and questions for discussion. \nThe recording of the workshop may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/ccpr-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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SUMMARY:Goleen Samari\, Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Goleen Samari is an assistant professor and population health demographer in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health and Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Her research considers how racism\, gender inequities\, and migration-based inequities shape reproductive and population health with a particular focus on populations in or from the Middle East and North Africa. She was the first to draw attention to the racialization of religious minorities and Islamophobia as a public health issue. Her research aims to understand and alleviate intersectional structural determinants of health over the life course and bridge some of the gap between research and policy. Dr. Samari is a former doctoral trainee of the California Center for Population Research\, and she earned a Ph.D. in public health\, an MPH in community health sciences\, and an MA in Islamic studies from the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nStructural Xenophobia and Birth Outcomes: The Role of Exclusive Immigration Policies \nAnti-immigrant stigma or xenophobia is increasingly pervasive globally. The epidemiological implications of the recent wave of xenophobic policies are increasingly of interest to population health scientists. This talk will present findings from a study that explores the impact of one such policy\, the 2017 travel ban on individuals from Muslim majority countries\, and birth outcomes among women from those countries residing in the US. We also consider how structural xenophobia can be measured and present a new measure\, the immigration policy climate (IPC) index\, that captures state immigration policy environments from 2009 to 2019. The IPC index includes fourteen inclusionary and exclusionary policies across all US states and Washington\, DC. We will discuss how the IPC index offers opportunities to explore immigrant health and behavioral outcomes including reproductive and maternal health outcomes. \nYou can access the CCPR seminar using this link.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/goleen-samari/
LOCATION:Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Berk Ozler\, World Bank
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Berk Ozler received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Boğaziçi University in 1991\, and his Ph.D in Economics from Cornell University in 2001. After working on poverty and inequality measurement\, poverty mapping\, and the 2006 World Development Report on Equity and Development earlier\, he decided to combine his interest in cash transfer programs and HIV risks facing young women in Africa by designing a large cash transfer experiment in Malawi\, the longer-term evaluation of which is still ongoing. He has since conducted a number of cluster-randomized field experiments. He is currently interested in ways to reduce unintended pregnancies\, especially among adolescent females and young women. He is trialing approaches to increase the take-up of modern contraceptives among this population with an adaptive experiment in Cameroon. He is a co-founder of and a regular contributor to the Development Impact blog. \nCan Improved Counseling Increase Willingness to Pay for Modern Contraceptives  \nAbstract: Long-acting reversible contraceptives are highly effective in preventing unintended pregnancies\, but take-up remains low. This paper analyzes a randomized controlled trial of interventions addressing two barriers to long-acting reversible contraceptive adoption\, credit\, and informational constraints. The study offered discounts to the clients of a women’s hospital in Yaoundé\, Cameroon\, and cross-randomized a counseling strategy that encourages shared decision-making using a tablet-based app that ranks modern methods. Discounts increased uptake by 50 percent\, with larger effects for adolescents. Shared decision-making tripled the share of clients adopting a long-acting reversible contraceptive at full price\, from 11 to 35 percent\, and discounts had no incremental impact in this group. \nYou can access the CCPR seminar using this link. \nA recording of the seminar may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/berk-ozler-world-bank-2/
LOCATION:Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Jack Mountjoy\, University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Biography: Jack Mountjoy is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Robert H. Topel Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research explores the economics and econometrics of education\, labor markets\, and social mobility. Prior to joining Chicago Booth\, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics at Princeton University in the Industrial Relations Section. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Affiliate at the University of Chicago Inclusive Economy Lab\, MIT Blueprint Labs\, and Statistics Norway. \nJack holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago\, where his dissertation work earned a fellowship from the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation. He also holds a post-baccalaureate Certificate in Mathematics from George Washington University and a B.A. in Economics and Politics from Whitman College. \n\n\nThe Returns to College(s): Relative Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education\n\nAbstract: Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of relative value-added across colleges within student choice sets in producing these outcome disparities. Linking administrative high school records\, college applications\, admissions decisions\, enrollment spells\, degree completions\, and quarterly earnings spanning the Texas population\, we identify relative college value-added by comparing the outcomes of students who apply to and are admitted by the same set of institutions\, as this approach strikingly balances observable student potential across college treatments and renders our extensive set of covariates irrelevant as controls. Methodologically\, we develop a framework for identifying and interpreting value-added under varying assumptions about match effects and sorting gains\, generalizing the constant treatment effects assumption typically employed in the value-added literature. Empirically\, we estimate a relatively tight\, though non-degenerate\, distribution of relative value-added across the wide diversity of Texas public universities. Selectivity poorly predicts value-added within student choice sets: a fleeting selectivity earnings premium fades to zero after a few years in the labor market\, and more selective colleges tend to have lower value-added on STEM degree completion. Non-peer college inputs like instructional spending more strongly predict value-added\, especially conditional on selectivity. Educational impacts predict labor market impacts: colleges with larger earnings value-added also tend to be colleges that boost persistence\, BA completion\, and STEM degrees along the way. Finally\, we probe the potential for (mis)match effects by allowing each college’s relative value-added to vary flexibly by student characteristics. At first glance\, Black students appear to face small negative returns to choosing more selective colleges\, but this pattern of modest “mismatch” is entirely driven by the availability of two large historically Black universities with low selectivity but above-average value-added. Across the non-HBCUs\, Black students face similar returns to selectivity\, and indistinguishable value-added schedules more generally\, compared to their peers from other backgrounds.\n\nYou can access the CCPR seminar using this link.\nA recording of the seminar may be accessed here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jack-mountjoy-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Zoom seminar. Please contact ccpradmin@ccpr.ucla.edu for Zoom link.
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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