11/27/06
Marcos Rangel
awarded best paper by Economic Journal
Marcos Rangel, a former CCPR student who is now at the Harris
School has been awarded a prize for the best paper in the Economic
Journal in 2006 for his job market paper "Alimony
Rights and Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources".
9/25/06
CCPR Faculty receives award at the Economic History Association
Conference
UCLA did very well at the recent annual meetings of the Economic History
Association. Leah Boustan, a newly appointed assistant professor in Economics
and CCPR affiliate, was awarded the Allan Nevins Prize for the Best Dissertation
in American Economic History. Kenneth Sokoloff, professor of economics and CCPR
affiliate, was awarded the Arthur C. Cole Prize for the best article over the
past year in the Journal of Economic History.
7/5/06
CCPR ANNOUNCES NEW LEADERSHIP
We are very pleased to announce that Don Treiman is the new Director of CCPR
with Cameron Campbell and Kathleen McGarry as Associate Directors.
Don is Distinguished Professor of Sociology whose work in social demography
has had a major impact on the field. Don's research on social inequality from a
cross-national perspective has made both methodological and substantive
contributions to understanding of the measurement and meaning of status in
different social and economic contexts. His on-going research on China examines
the impact of economic transformation on intergenerational social mobility and
life's chances and is an extension of his research in Eastern Europe and South
Africa.
Kathleen is a leading economist working on aging whose work examines the
impact of public and private support on the well-being of the elderly. Her
recent work on insurance and older adults in America is having a substantial
impact on the field.
Cameron, who will lead the CCPR training program, is a sociologist whose work
focuses on how economic, social, and family organization influence the social
and demographic outcomes of individuals and families in pre-twentieth century
China.
Thank you Don, Kathleen and Cameron. We are all very grateful for your
willingness to take on this important leadership role!
6/15/06
CCPR Seed Grants
We received a record number of seed grant applications in this round.
Congratulations to Fred Finan, Anne Pebley and Sarah Reber who have been awarded
CCPR Seed Grants! Fred Finan's project, in collaboration with Wes Yin (Univ. of
Chicago) is entitled "Discrimination in the Credit Market: An Experiment
Approach". Anne Pebley's project in collaboration with Kunchok Gyaltsen is
entitled "Ethnicity and Social Disparities in Health: Socioeconomic Status and
Health in the Tibetan Population in China". Sarah Reber's project, in
collaboration with Seema Jayachandran (Stanford) is entitled "The Health Effects
of Air Pollution: Evidence from Forest Fires".
Congratulations to all!
6/13/06
William Mason wins Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award!!
Congratulations to Bill Mason who has won the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award
for Distinguished Contributions to Sociological Methodology from the
American Sociological Association Section on Methodology.
The award
will be given at the Methodology Section reception at the Montreal meetings on
August 13 at 6:30 p.m.
This is terrific news -- and a well-deserved honor. Well done, Bill!
6/12/06
CCPR welcomes new faculty members!
We are very pleased to
welcome Ana Maria Goldani (Sociology) and David Rigby (Geography) as affiliates
of the Center. Ana Maria works on women, fertility and reproductive health with
a focus on Latin America. David works on economic geography, technology and
spatial statistics. Welcome to CCPR!
5/30/06
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NICHD TRAINEES FOR 2006/7!
Congratulations to Alison Buttenheim (CHS), Vanesa Estrada (Sociology),
Margot Jackson (Sociology) and Yasamin Kusunoki (CHS) who have been awarded
NICHD-funded traineeships for 2006/2007. Alison is working with Anne Pebley,
Vanesa and Margot are working with Rob Mare and Yasamin is working with Dawn
Upchurch. Thanks to the selection committee of Judy Seltzer (Chair), Moshe
Buchinsky, Andrew Fuligni and Anne Pebley.
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Congratulations to Katie Coursolle and Esther Friedman on their appointment as trainees in UCLA's
Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program supported by NSF.
4/6/06
GOOD NEWS ON
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS AT CCPR
We are delighted to welcome Leah Boustan (Harvard), Fred Finan (Berkeley) and
Maurizio Mazzocco (Wisconsin-Madison) to CCPR. They will be joining the
Economics Department as Assistant Professors. Leah is completing her Ph.D. at
Harvard. Fred is completing his Ph.D. at Berkeley. Maurizio completed his Ph.D.
at Chicago and has been an Assistant Professor at Madison. We look forward to
interacting with our new colleagues in the Population Center.
Congratulations to our colleagues who have been promoted this year. They
include Sandy Black (Economics), J.R. DeShazo (Public Policy), Elizabeth
Frankenberg (Sociology) and Megan Sweeney (Sociology) who have been promoted to
Associate Professor with tenure. Meredith Phillips (Public Policy) and Mathias Doepke (Economics) have been voted tenure by their
departments. Cameron Campbell (Sociology) and Andrew Fuligni
(Psychology/Psychiatry) have been promoted to Full Professor. Congratulations!
We are delighted to continue to have such an exceptional group of
young scientists as colleagues and look forward to continued productive
interactions and collaborations.
Welcome to three new affiliates who are members of the CCPR faculty. They are
Bridget Freisthler (Social Welfare) who works on substance abuse and family
well-being; Doug Hollan (Anthropology) who is an expert in the area of
psychologucal and cultural anthropology and whose work focuses on Indonesia;
and Beate Ritz (Epidemiology) who works on the interactions between environment
and health in the population. Please welcome them when you see them and we look
forward to building bridges with our new colleagues that will lead to innovative
and exciting research projects in the future.
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TWO POSTERS WIN AWARDS AT PAA
Congratulations to Esther Friedman, a graduate student in Sociology and NICHD
trainee, whose poster was judged best in her session. Her poster is entitled
"Effects of Support from Kin and Nonkin on the Well-Being of Children in
Single-Parent Households" and is displayed on the CCPR Poster Board.
Congratulations, also, to Cecep Sumantri, Dani Alfah, Mohammad Mulia, Edi
Purwanto, I'ip Rifai, Bondan Sikoki and Wayan Suriastini (all of SurveyMETER),
Elizabeth Frankenberg, Thom Gillespie and Duncan Thomas (CCPR) and Jed Friedman
(World Bank) whose poster "Issues Related to Data Collection in a Disastrous
Area: Lessons from The Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery in
Indonesia" was judged the best poster in their session.
3/9/06
OUTSTANDING PLACEMENTS BY CCPR STUDENTS THIS YEAR
It has been another banner year for CCPR students on the job market with
placements at Madison, Michigan, Penn and George Washington among others.
Congratulations to....
Elizabeth Bruch
-- Robert Wood
Johnson Post Doc at Michigan
-- Assistant
Professor, Sociology, Michigan
Martin Kreidl
-- University of West Bohemia, Pilsen and Senior Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
Vida Maralani
-- Robert Wood Johnson Post Doc, Penn
Doug McKee
-- NIA Post Doc, Pop Studies Center, Penn
Stephanie Riegg
-- Assistant Professor, Policy School, George Washington
Christine Schwartz
-- Assistant Professor, Sociology, Wisconsin
Elizabeth, Vida, Doug and Stephanie were supported by our NICHD T32
Traineeships.
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Congratulations to all CCPR
affiliates presenting papers and posters at PAA. We have 31 paper
presentations and 10 poster presentations this year. 31 papers puts us second
behind Madison in the number of presentations. (Last year we were number 1 with
28 papers.) With 41 papers and posters, we have 20% growth relative to 2005 when
we had 34 paper and poster presentations.
For a list of presentations, please click
here.
