Happy New Year! Winter 2026 CSDE seminars will resume this Friday, January 9, 2026. Seminar posters are available here or can be picked up during seminar. You can also subscribe to our Trumba Events to receive regular announcements about CSDE-sponsored events.

CSDE Affiliate Andrew Messamore (Sociology) will kick off the quarter on January 9 with a talk on “The Emergence of Ownership Opacity in Landed Capitalism: Consolidation,

CSDE Affiliates Vince Wang (Real Estate), Arthur Acolin (Real Estate), Rebecca Walter (Real Estate) examined employment status and wage trajectories of recipients of the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program from 2005 to 2018 in a recent article in Housing Policy Debate. Drawing on a national dataset containing 22.5 million householder-year observations, the study shows most housing voucher recipients did not work while in the program,

CSDE Affiliate Patricia Louie (Sociology) examined the implications of multiracial status for health by examining specific multiracial groups (Black-White, Black-Asian, and Asian-White adults) versus their monoracial counterparts in an article published in Race and Social Problems. Louie and her co-author draw on an 11-year pooled sample of the nationally representative Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (2002–2012) and find that different hypotheses fit the health risk status of different multiracial groups.

CSDE External Affiliate Ethan Raker (University of British Columbia) and co-authors recently published an article in Demography on “Severe Tornadoes and Infant Birth Weight in the United States”. The authors merged 1991 – 2017 county-month data on singleton births with block-group-level monthly data on the paths of severe tornadoes and block-group data on the distribution of the population at risk of a birth, and then estimated difference-in-differences models in which the treatment variable is equal to the percentage of the population at risk of a birth affected by the tornado.

When: Friday, January 9, 2025 at 12:30 pm

Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom

We are looking forward to hosting CSDE Affiliate Andrew Messamore from the University of Washington for the first seminar of Winter 2026 Quarter on Friday, January 9 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative. Seminar posters are available here or can be picked up during seminar.