Join us for a talk from Professor Andrés Villarreal titled “Earnings Assimilation within and across Immigrant Generations: Evidence from Administrative Records.

The systematic study of immigrants’ economic assimilation requires an analysis of both intra- and intergenerational mobility, that is, of the progress made by each immigrant generation over the course of their own lives and relative to their parents. We examine both types of mobility using a unique dataset linking respondents of multiple waves of the Current Population Survey to their longitudinal tax records.

If you would like to meet one-on-one with Dr. Villarreal, you may sign up to do so by including your name in this Google doc by 5pm, Wednesday!

Congratulations to CSDE Executive Committee Member David Takeuchi(Social Work) who has just been awarded the 2022 Carl Taube Lifetime Contributions to Mental Health Services from the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association.

The Carl Taube Award was created in 1990 to honor Carl Taube for his major role in promoting mental health services and policy research and mental health economics and to recognize scholars who have made important lifetime contributions to public mental health.

Hot off the presses, Dr. Steven Ruggles was just announced as a MacArthur Genius Awardee and a member of the class of 2022!  Ruggles was recognized for his extraordinary genius – as the brain, creative vision, energizer, and indefatigable collaborator –  behind the establishment of IPUMS, which now provides the largest spatially and temporally integrated census and social survey data infrastructure for the entire globe. Ruggles is a historical demographer at the University of Minnesota and a recent president of the Population Association of America and the Association of Population Centers.  

CSDE Affiliate Mienah Sharif and CSDE Trainee Taylor Riley have recently published a paper entitled “Abortion Criminalization: A Public Health Crisis Rooted in White Supremacy” in the American Journal of Public Health. In their essay the authors highlight how antiabortion policies uphold White supremacy and offer concrete strategies for addressing abortiona criminalization in structural racism measures and public health research and practice since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

CSDE Affiliate Ann Bostrom was part of a team that published, “Development of a companion questionnaire for ‘Did You Feel It?’: Assessing response in earthquakes where an earthquake early warning may have been received” in Earthquake Spectra. The goal of study is to develop a brief questionnaire, consistent with those already developed, as a supplement to the United States Geological Survey’s “Did You Feel It?” questionnaire that has provided earthquake intensities and information on behavioral response in earthquakes, both domestic and international, since 2004.

CSDE Affiliate Karin Martin co-authored a recent article, “Implicit Racial and Gender Bias About Handguns: A New Implicit Association Test" in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Utilizing a nationally representative survey sample, the researchers measured implicit and explicit racial bias about women and handguns.  The study addresses important perceptions and stereotypes about gun competence and victimization that vary based by race and gender. 

CSDE External Affiliate Jennifer Laird and co-author Diana Hernandez have recently published a paper entitled “Surviving a Shut Off: U.S. Householders at Great Risk of Utility Disconnection and How They Cope” in American Behavioral Scientist. This article is the first known study to estimate household characteristics and coping behaviors associated with utility disconnections in the United States. Utilizing the Residential Energy Consumption Survey, the authors analyze the prevalence of disconnection notices, disconnection services, and related coping strategies, including forgoing necessities, maintaining an unhealthy home temperature, and receiving energy assistance.

In a large collaborationCSDE Affiliates Melanie Martin, Monica Keith, Dan Eisenberg, and Eleanor Brindle (with many other co-authors) recently published a new research in Frontiers in Immunology . The paper entitled “SARS-CoV-2 specific antibody trajectories in mothers and infants over two months following maternal infection” was funded in part with CSDE seed grant money, with work conducted in CSDE Biodemography Lab. Results from the study support previous research demonstrating minimal risks to infants following maternal COVID-19 infection, including for breastfeeding infants.

CSDE Affiliate Emily Williams receives funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to explore patterns of unhealthy alcohol use and HIV prevention among a national VA cohort of gender and sexual minorities and other marginalized groups.  The project is titled Informing and promoting Shared decision-making for HIV prevention and Alcohol Reduction: Engaging diverse Veterans to refine and pilot a decision aid (SHARE Study) and will be done in collaboration with investigators at Yale University.

CSDE Affiliate Amy Hagopian has been named the vice chair for the American Journal of Public Health editorial board! Dr. Hagopian will begin the one year term November 9th, 2022 through November 15th, 2023, to become the Chair in the following year! We wish you a huge congrats on your accomplishment!

CSDE External Affiliate D. Mark Anderson and colleague Daniel Rees have recently had a paper accepted in the Journal of Economic Literature titled “The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana”. This publication reviews literature from various disciplines on the public health consequences of legalizing marijuana and considers outcomes such as youth marijuana use, alcohol consumption, abuse of prescriptive opioids, traffic fatalities, and crime. They find that it is not yet clear how legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes will affect these and other important health outcomes, but future data will help inform prior drawn conclusions.

CSDE would love to celebrate your accomplishments. If you have a new grant, award, paper, book, editorial, or media coverage, please email csde@uw.edu. We can feature your achievements in our weekly newsletter, and share select items with the Center for Public Information on Population Research to broadcast to a larger audience. This publicity broadens awareness of your work and can facilitate collaborations and other synergies.

The Urban Affairs Association is seeking paper, poster, panel, and roundtable proposals for its annual conference, held from April 26-29, 2023 in Nashville, TN. The 2023 conference theme is “From Global to Local: Urban Communities in Flux.”Proposal submissions are due November 1, 2022.