Andrew Penner, University of California, Irvine, “The Academic and Socioemotional Effects of Advanced Mathematics Coursetaking”

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Biography Andrew Penner is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Penner's research examines how society creates categories and sorts people into them, and focuses on the consequences of these categorization processes for inequality. At UCI, Penner serves as […]

Jeffrey Weaver, University of Southern California

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Biography: Jeff Weaver is an Assistant Professor in the department of economics at USC. He is an applied microeconomist working on a range of topics in development economics, political economy, and labor economics. His past work has examined topics such as public service delivery in India, the evolution of cultural institutions, and crime and low wage labor markets in […]

Christopher Walters, University of California, Berkeley (STC Workshop), Title: Empirical Bayes and large-scale inference.

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Biography: Christopher Walters is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Walters joined the faculty at Berkeley after completing his PhD in economics at MIT in 2013. He is also a Research Associate in the NBER programs on education and labor studies, an IZA Research […]

All UC Demography Conference

The California Center for Population Research (CCPR) will host a second All-UC Demography Conference on UCLA campus on May 16-17, 2024. This event is open to all University of California faculty and graduate students as well as all researchers affiliated with UC population and poverty centers: The Berkeley Population Center (UC Berkeley) The Broom Center for […]

Peter Hull, Brown University, “Formula Instruments” (STC Workshop)

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Biography: Peter Hull is a Professor of Economics at Brown University, a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER Labor Studies, Education, and Health Care programs in Labor Studies, and the econometrics editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research spans a variety of topics in applied econometrics, education, health care, discrimination, and criminal […]

The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) 2024

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From June 24 to July 3, 2024 the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Division of Social Sciences and the California Center for Population Research will sponsor the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, to be held at the University of California Los Angeles. The Organizing Committee Jennie Brand, Professor, Sociology and Statistics Dora Costa, […]