This week, we will be joined by CSDE Research Affiliate, Ruoniu (Vince) Wang from the Runstad Department of Real Estate at UW. Dr. Wang will present his talk “Community Land Trust and Shared Equity Homeownership Programs in the U.S”. As communities experience unprecedented housing unaffordability and resident displacement, they are increasingly turning to the community land trust (CLT). CLTs are a unique model for the provision of affordable housing because they aspire to ensure housing remains affordable in perpetuity and that land in trust is community controlled.

On October 4, 2023 (12:30pm), CSDE Affiliate Adrian Raftery (Sociology & Statistics) will be giving a talk titled “Very Long-Term Probablistic Population Projections for Assessing the Social Cost of Carbon” to the UW’s Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences.  Raftery will be addressing how population forecasts are used by governments and the private sector for planning, with horizons up to about three generations (around 2100) for different purposes. 

Scott W. Allard, CSDE Affiliate and Evans School Professor of Social Policy will be presenting “Washington State Ballots Project: Understanding Rejections and Cures,” at the Evans Research Seminar.

CSDE and the South Asia Center are co-sponsoring a workshop on “Migration and Health: Perspectives from South Asia” on October 12 & 13, where CSDE Affiliates Nathalie Williams and Sarfraz Khan will be hosting. Events on October 12 will be held in 337 HUB and events on October 13 will be held in 360 Parrington. Participants can join by zoom, as well. Details here.

CSDE Affiliates Rachel Heath (Economics) and Melissa Knox (Economics), received a grant from the Social Science Research Council this week! Retaining women students who express interest in economics classes is an important first step in fixing the “leaky pipeline” of women out of economics at every stage, from introductory economics to full professor. This project will assess whether an intervention that introduces gender-related material into economics courses improves women students’ sense of relevance and belonging, test scores, and continuation in further economics and mathematics classes.

CSDE Affiliate Dan Brown (College of the Environment) recently published a co-authored article in PNAS, titled “Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local farmland inequalities in Tanzania”. Land inequality stalls economic development, entrenches poverty, and is associated with environmental degradation. The authors’ paper studies inequalities in land assets, specifically landholdings and farm size, to derive insights into the distributional outcomes of LSLAs. 

Delaney Glass, Ph.D. candidate and NIH T32 Fellow at CSDE was awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant over the summer for her dissertation research “Effects of Extreme Stressors in Adolescence”. This dissertation grant funding is in addition to a Wenner-Gren grant awarded earlier this year. Based in the CSDE Biodemography Lab, her project will examine the embodiment of displacement and poverty-derived psychosocial stressors through the assessment of relationships between pubertal and metabolic hormones among Jordanian non-refugee and Syrian refugee adolescents.

CSDE Affiliates Monica Keith (Anthropology) and Melanie Martin (Anthropology) recently published a paper in Women’s Health Issues, titled the “Social Determinant Pathways to Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Among Nulliparous U.S. Women“. The article is a write-up of their winning solution for the NICHD DASH Data Challenge, which was supported by CSDE. 

CSDE Affiliate Sameer Shah (Environmental and Forest Sciences) has just published a co-authored paper in Environmental Research Communications that details the challenges and opportunities in linking environmental and social sciences data to address climate change.  They argue that the integration of physical and social science data can enable novel frameworks, methodologies, and innovative solutions important for addressing complex socio-environmental problems. 

CSDE Affiliates, Melissa Knox (Economics), Jessica Jones-Smith (Public Health), and co-authors published their article “Seattle’s sweetened beverage tax implementation and changes in interior marketing displays” in the Journal of Public Health Policy, where they assessed changes in interior marketing displays within large food stores before and after the implementation of Seattle’s SSB tax. 

CSDE Affiliate Steven Goodreau (Anthropology) and co-authors recently published their article “Changes in Sexual Behaviors with Opposite-Sex Partners and Sexually Transmitted Infection Outcomes Among Females and Males Ages 15–44 Years in the USA: National Survey of Family Growth, 2008–2019” in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior. Rates of reported gonorrhea and chlamydial infections have increased substantially over the past decade in the USA and disparities persist across age and race/ethnicity.

CSDE Affiliate Betty Bekemeier (Psychosocial & Community Health) and co-authors published their article “Strategies for enacting health policy codesign: a scoping review and direction for research” in the journal Health Science. Strategies for supporting evidence-informed health policy are a recognized but understudied area of policy dissemination and implementation science. Codesign describes a set of strategies potentially well suited to address the complexity presented by policy formation and implementation.

CSDE Affiliate Emily Williams (Health Services) and co-authors recently published their work “Impact of an intervention to implement provision of opioid use disorder medication among patients with and without co-occurring substance use disorders” in the Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment. Co-occurring substance use disorders (SUDs) are common among people with opioid use disorder (OUD) and known to hinder receipt of medications for OUD (MOUD). 

CSDE Affiliate Grace John-Stewart (Global Health) and co-authors published their research “Implementation determinants and strategies in integration of PrEP into maternal and child health and family planning services: experiences of frontline healthcare workers in Kenya” in Frontiers in Reproductive Health, where they conducted focus group discussions (FGDs) with healthcare workers (HCWs) in maternal and child health (MCH) and family planning (FP) clinics offering PrEP in a large implementation project in Kenya.

Isabelle Cohen, CSDE Affiliate and Evans Professor of Public Policy gave a talk entitled, “Pathways to Choice: Delaying Marriage and Increasing Education via Safe Spaces,” last Friday at the Advances with Field Experiments conference at the University of Chicago. Great to see Isabelle’s work connecting across a growing field of study!

On October 2 (11am) Lindsey Novak (Reed College) will be sharing their research on the economics of abduction marriage to the JSDE seminar. In several Asian and African countries, a sizable share of marriages are initiated by the man abducting the woman he wishes to wed. In this paper, we use quantitative and qualitative methods to characterize the practice of abduction marriage. We first use Demographic and Health Survey data along with ethnographic data to characterize women and ethnic groups affected by this practice in Ethiopia.

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is hosting a webinar with state and local-level survey programs to discuss experiences in multimode health and nutrition data collection. Multimode data collection can include interviews, physical assessments, and biospecimen collection. The webinar will address topics such as innovative data collection, including novel survey measurements and meaningful community engagement. The collaborative discussions will generate ideas to improve survey participant experience, response rates, efficiency, and outreach. There will be presentations by State and local programs followed by panel discussion and a Q&A.

CSDE Affiliate Karen Chen will present her work, “Urban Form and Mental Health”. Her recent research is focusing on urban environmental change and its related issues: 1) environmental health, mental health; 2) sustainable development in mountainous regions; and 3) open data and science for the Global South. Dr. Chen’s talk is part of the ENV H 580 seminar series and is open to faculty, staff, and the public.

The Department of Anthropology and CSDE are co-sponsoring the Sam Dubal Memorial Lecture.  This year’s lecture will be given by Dr. Natali Valdez.  Dr. Valdez’s talk is entitled “Weighing the Future: Race, Science and Pregnancy Trials in a Postgenomic Era.”  The talk is on Oct. 13 from 1:30-2:50pm and will be online via zoom.  Registration information can be found here.

The Dissertation Research Grants program supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research that addresses questions relevant to any of RSF’s priority areas: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. 

The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) will be recognizing its 25th anniversary this academic year. In addition to highlighting special themes during the seminar series, CSSS will hold a celebratory event on campus on May 16th & 17th, 2024 that will bring alums, friends, and campus partners together with workshops, poster sessions, scientific sessions, and ample opportunities for socializing. Please note these dates in your calendar and keep your eyes posted for more details.