I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....

CCPR Workshop, 1/21/2026, Matias D. Cattaneo, (Princeton University), "Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Practice” #CCPR #UCLA Geo#CCPR#UCLA#CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent

I had the opportunity to comment on Spears and Geruso's book After the Spike at an event at @ccpratucla.bsky.social last night, thanks to @marthajbailey.bsky.social. My remarks transcribed:

@mikegeruso.bsky.social, UT Austin, “After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People” CCPR Book Talk today at 6:00 pm in 314 Royce Hall! #CCPR #UCLA @uclacollege.bsky.social #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

@philipncohen.com, University of Maryland, “Research Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar” CCPR Book Talk today at 12:00pm in 4240 Pub Aff! #CCPR #UCLA @uclacollege.bsky.social #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

I need to take a cue from @philipncohen.com and do more to disseminate my academic research on the determinants of fertility. I am looking forward to his book talk on Wednesday at @ccpratucla.bsky.social .

This week CCPR's seminar series will feature @philipncohen.com discussing his book, "Research is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar." Join us on January 14 @12pm in Public Affairs 337.

CCPR is excited to host @mikegeruso.bsky.social to discuss his book, After the Spike, Wednesday, Jan 11 @6pm, in UCLA's 314 Royce Hall. Comments by CCPR Director @marthajbailey.bsky.social & @philipncohen.com. Reception to follow. RSVP here: eventsrsvp.ucla.edu/CCPRLecture2...

UCLA CCPR Faculty Affiliate Professor Graeme Blair, co-director of the Deportation Data Project, highlights new ICE data showing federal crackdowns are arresting mostly immigrants with no criminal record — far more non-offenders than serious criminals. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

CCPR Workshop, 12/3/25, Development Workshop: Mary Jo Mitchell (Director of Gov’t and Public Affairs, PAA), “Engaging Policymakers: Role of PAA/APC and Population Scientists” on Zoom #CCPR #UCLA@UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent

CCPR Seminar, 11/12/25, Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia, “Development Mismatch?: Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa” #CCPR #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #seminar#CampusEvent

CCPR Seminar, 11/12/25, Manasi Deshpande, Johns Hopkins University, “Explaining the Historical Rise and Recent Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment” #CCPR #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvent

The Brown Population Studies & Training Center is accepting applications to our Global Fellows Program. The program is for early- & mid-career demographers. We are especially interested in applications from scholars from low & middle-income countries. Share & apply! pstc.brown.edu/programs-and...

With a new measure to understand causes of maternal mortality, historical demographer George Alter finds infectious disease & nutrition improvements likely impacted falling maternal mortality more than shifting obstetrical practices. Just out in Population Studies: psc.isr.umich.edu/news/new-ins...

Subsidizing contraception has large and persistent effects on the choice of contraceptive method, resulting in significantly fewer pregnancies and abortions in the US, from @marthajbailey.bsky.social, Rebolledo, Gorgulu, Figone, Lang, Prettyman, and Dalton www.nber.org/papers/w34400

The Quiet Collapse of America’s Reproductive Health Safety Net kffhealthnews.org/MjEwNjQwMQ by @celinegounder.com via @kffhealthnews.org CC: @marthajbailey.bsky.social @whitneysrice.bsky.social @rachelfey.bsky.social @bthomas520.bsky.social @megankavanaugh.bsky.social

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Randall Kuhn for his amazing work in UCLA’s Fielding’s Department of Community Health Sciences as a principal investigator; securing a $3.4 million dollar NIH Grant! #CCPR #UCLA #UCLAResearch #Research #ResearchSavesLives

CCPR Seminar 11/05/25, 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” #CCPR #UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvent

CCPR Workshop 10/29/25, Applying for the F31 National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellowship #CCPR #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Workshop

CCPR Workshop 10/22/25: Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School, “Climate Matching in Migration: From the American Frontier to Prehistory” #CCPR #UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Workshop

CCPR Miniconference 10/17: “Fertility and Demographic Change” #CCPR #UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #miniconference

CCPR Workshop 10/15: Brandon Stewart, Princeton University, “Using Large Language Model Annotations for the Social Sciences: A General Framework of Using Predicted Variables in Statistical Analyses” #CCPR #UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Workshop

CCPR Welcome Events 10/8: Welcome and Orientation for Grad Students at 11:00 am; CCPR Welcome Event and Reception at 12:00 pm; Computing and Data Orientation Workshop today at 12:30 pm! #CCPR #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Workshop

Join us this week for CCPR’s Welcome Events and Computing Workshop! #CCPR #UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Welcome

Kara Rudolph, Columbia University, "Causal Mediation Workshop” CCPR Workshop today at 12:00pm! #CCPR #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Workshop

New research brief by CCPR’s Randall Kuhn & Jessie Chien: Over 1/3 of unhoused Angelenos were affected by June 2025 ICE raids, protests & curfews—facing displacement, danger & injury. Outdoor sleepers were 2x more likely to experience negative effects. hpri.usc.edu/homeless_res...

New research briefs by Dr. Paul Ong and Dr. Jonathan Ong that examine political & racial bias. State Variations in ICE Arrests Following the 2024 Election: knowledge.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/07/30/s... The Impact on Asian Communities: www.aasc.ucla.edu/resources/aa...

Mare Student Lecture, Victoria Wang, “Adaptive Migration in the Face of Wildfires: Financial Constraints and the Role of Government Aid” CCPR Seminar today at 12:00pm! #CCPR #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago, “Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence” CCPR Seminar today at 12:00pm! #CCPR #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

UCLA Media Relations Team, “Media Relations 101” CCPR Workshop today at 12:00pm! #CCPR #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

Janet Currie, Princeton University, “Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis” CCPR Seminar today at 12:00pm! #CCPR #JanetCurrie #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

Emma Zang, Yale University, “Life-Course Exposure to State Policy Liberalism Contexts and Later-Life Cognitive Health” CCPR Seminar today at 12:00pm! #CCPR #EmmaZang #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

Applications are open for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science SICSS 2025 at UCLA! Apply by May 2! Free, 2-wk institute in comp social science for grad students, postdocs & early-career faculty. sicss.io/2025/ucla/ @ianlundberg.bsky.social @jenniebrand.bsky.social

Michael Mueller-Smith, University of Michigan, “The Direct and Intergenerational Effects of Criminal History-Based Safety Net Bans in the U.S.” CCPR Seminar today at 12:00pm! #CCPR #MichaelMullerSmith #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

Abigail Weitzman, University of Texas, Austin, “Threat Evasive Migration: A Population Perspective” CCPR Seminar today at 12:00pm! #CCPR #AbigailWeitzman #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

CCPR Affiliates X. Yan, Courtney Thomas Tobin, S Brooks will present “Dual Burdens: Disentangling Depression-Obesity Linkages among Black American Women and Men” today at 12:00 PM EST in Mount Vernon Square! Don’t miss it! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social

CCPR Affiliate Wei-hsin Yu will present “Paradox Between Immigrant Advantages in Morbidity and Mortality: Dynamic Patterns and Tentative Explanations” today at 9:30 AM EST in Magnolia! Don’t miss it! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social

CCPR Affiliates Julian Ponce and Hiram Beltran-Sanchez will present “The Association of Education and Net Worth on Cohort Differences in Cognitive Function in México” today at 9:30 AM EST in Cherry Blossom! Don’t miss it! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social

CCPR Affiliates Megan Sweeney and @patrickhvl.bsky.social will present “Reconsidering the Historical Roots of Cohabitation: A Comparative Perspective on the Role of the Previously Married” tomorrow at 12:00 PM EST in Gallery Place! Don’t miss it! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social

CCPR Affiliate Yanji Du will present her poster tomorrow at the “Data and Methods; Other” session at 10:30 AM EST in the Liberty and Independence Ballrooms! Don’t miss it! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social

CCPR Affiliate Huihuang Zhu and Johnny Huynh will present “Evaluating the Achievement and Inequality Effects of Academic ” tomorrow at 10:30 AM EST in Dogwood! Don’t miss it! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social

CCPR Affiliate H-C Lin will present “Reactive Ethnicity or Mainstream Acculturation? Explaining the Intergenerational Transmission Process of Gender and Sexual Ideologies in the German Migrant Context” tomorrow at 12:00 PM EST in Silver Linden! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social

CCPR Affiliate Jessica Gipson will present “Variation in Preferred Contraceptive Method by Reproductive Life Stage” tomorrow at 9:30 AM EST in Mint! Don’t miss it! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social

CCPR Affiliate Hilary Flowers will present “Emergency Contraception in the Context of Multiple Contraceptive Method Use” tomorrow at 10:30 AM EST in the Eastern Market! Don’t miss it! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social

CCPR Affiliate kristinliao.bsky.social will present “Changing Occupational Segregation Between Immigrant and Native-born Workers in the United States” tomorrow at 10:30 AM EST in Magnolia! Don’t miss it! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social

CCPR Affiliates J Gipson, T Khando, M Sudhinaraset, C Crespi, H Beltran-Sanchez, P Wilson, C Dunkel Schetter, H Flowers, @heeunkim.bsky.social will present their posters at “Fertility, Fam Planning, Sexual Behav, and Reprod Health” tomorrow at 8:30 AM EST in the Lib & Indep Ballrooms. #PAA2025

CCPR Affiliates Nanum Jeon and Acton Feng will present their posters at the “Family Demography” session today at 4:00 PM EST in the Liberty & Independence Ballrooms! Don’t miss it! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social

CCPR Affiliate Antonio Pedro Ramos will present “One Pandemic Is Not Like the Other: Contrasting COVID-19 Against New Pandemics” today at 2:00 PM EST in the Supreme Court! Don’t miss it! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social

CCPR Affiliates S.B Stein, Randall Kuhn, Andrew Hess, J. Inguanzo Gonzalez will present their posters at the “Education, Work, and Economic Inequality” today at 1:45 PM EST in the Liberty & Independence Ballrooms! Don’t miss it! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social

CCPR Affiliates Hsiu-yu Yang and @patrickhvl.bsky.social will present “Childhood Family Experience and Its Impact on Childbearing Behaviors: Structure, Instability, and Siblings” today at 2:00 PM EST in Union Station! Don’t miss it! #PAA #PAA2025 @UCLA @popassocamerica.bsky.social