When:  Friday, Dec 2, 2022 (12:30-1:30 PM)
     Where:  Hans Rosling Center Room 101 & Online Zoom Here

Sign ups for 1-0n-1 talks with Dr. Luo are here

Please join us as CSDE hosts Dr. Liying Luo for a discussion on the “Gendered Effects of Intergenerational Mobility” based on evidence from the General Social Survey.

Sociologists have long been interested in understanding the implications of intergenerational social mobility for individuals’ behaviors and well-being. However, for empirical and historical reasons, most prior research either focused on one subpopulation or assumed a uniform effect of social mobility across demographic groups. Such focus/assumption is too limiting because experiences of and responses to social mobility likely differ depending on individuals’ social and demographic characteristics.

As the holiday season is upon us all, CSDE staff, faculty and staff want to take this opportunity to send all members of our community best wishes. There is much to be grateful for and we are especially grateful to the CSDE community for your support and your hard work towards advancing population research and to improve population health.

CSDE Affiliate Heather Hill and Co-authors recently published a paper in JAMA entitled “Cumulative Payments Through the Earned Income Tax Credit Program in Childhood and Criminal Conviction During Adolescence in the US“. The authors assess whether cumulative EITC payments received during childhood are associated with the risk of criminal conviction during adolescence. Utilizing the 1979 NLSY the authors find each additional $1000 of EITC received during childhood was associated with an 11% reduction in self-reported criminal conviction during adolescents,

CSDE Trainee Callie Freitag and a distinguished team of co-authors, including CSDE Affiliates Clara Berridge and Scott W. Allard published “Meeting Older Adults’ Food Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons And Challenges from Washington State” in the Journal of Aging and Social Policy. This mixed methods study provides key organizational practices that should inform future emergency food assistance planning for older adults.

CSDE Affiliate Paula Nurius and co-authors have recently published an article entitled “I Just Wanted to Triple Check… They Were All Vaccinated: Supporting Risk Negotiation in the Context of COVID-19” in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. This paper uses qualitative methods to explore how young adults plan in-person meetups over computer-mediated communication in the context of the pandemic. The authors identify strategies for risk negotiation, social complexities that impede risk negotiation, and emotional consequences of risk negotiation.

CSDE Trainee Delaney Glass recently published a paper entitled “Weathering within war: Somatic health complaints among Vietnamese older adults exposed to bombing and violence as adolescents in the American war” in the Journal of Psychosomatic Health. Glass and co-authors investigate whether wartime stress exposures in adolescents and early childhood affect weathering in late adulthood utilizing the Vietnamese Health and Aging Study. Their findings suggest that the age of exposure to armed conflict is a critical determinant of weathering across the life course.

The University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) has a full time Computational Demographer position located at the Seattle Campus. The CSDE fosters cutting-edge population research and is partnering with the UW’s eScience Institute to support the increasing demand for computational demographers across our organizations and the UW. This position will provide methodological support to faculty and graduate students studying demographic processes and their connections to population health dynamics, as well as leadership on innovative new projects consistent with the scientific emphases of CSDE and eScience.

The U.S. Census Bureau will be hosting Dr. Nicolas L. Ziebarth on November 20th @1pm ET on the United States federal government policies surrounding wage controls through the National War Labor Board. During World War II, The US government instituted an explicit policy of wage controls with the aim of controlling inflation and discouraging labor mobility. These wage controls, which differed by industry, occupation, and geographic region, specified maximum allowable raises for those earning less than a certain level and froze wages greater than that level.

The Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) will be having its meeting from 3pm-4pm on Wednesday Nov 30th. This meeting is available for anyone interested in or doing computational demographic research, for more information look here!

The UW Behavioral Research Center for HIV will be hosting a webinar on December 1st, 2022 from 7am-8am PST.

Dr. Pamela Collins, Co-Director of BIRCH Integrated Care Core will serve as moderator as we host psychologists Jhanille Brooks and Belinda White alongside Gloira Gonese of Zim-TTECH, James Sale of United for Global Mental Health, and fellow BIRCH ICC Co-Director Dr. Lydia Chwastiak.

Zoom registration is required!

The University of Minnesota’s IPUMS has added the 2021 1-Year Summary File from the American Community Survey (ACS). Over 1,300 new tables are now available for geographic areas with 65,000 or more residents. NHGIS also completed over 1,400 updates in the “context fields” for selected summary datasets, including area measures, geographic coordinates, data suppression flags, and geographic class codes (e.g., incorporated vs. unincorporated places).