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CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Hosts Elizabeth Pelletier on the Effects of WA’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Policy on Maternal Employment (2/21/24)

On February 7th from 3-4pm, Elizabeth Pelletier, PhD candidate at the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, and CSDE T32 fellow, will present at the CDWG on Feb. 21st from 3:00-4:00pm. CDWG Will be Hybrid in Winter Quarter 2024. Attend in-person in Raitt 223 (The Demography Lab) or on Zoom (register here). Pelletier will present research, titled “The Effects of Washington’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Policy on Maternal Employment”. Read more in the full story!

Abstract: Parents often experience unstable employment and volatile earnings around the time a child is born. Consequently, household income frequently falls at precisely the time families need increased resources to support a new child’s needs. Paid leave has emerged as a potentially promising way to smooth employment disruptions, support caregiving, and reduce inequalities by allowing more parents to afford time off. This paper studies the use and effects of a new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) policy in Washington state among a key population of interest: mothers of newborns. I describe use of the policy in its first few years, examining what share of eligible mothers claimed PFML and how these take-up rates varied across demographic and employment characteristics and over time as the policy rolled out. Next, I use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of PFML on mothers’ employment trajectories, leveraging the policy’s discontinuous eligibility cutoff to compare outcomes among mothers whose work histories place them right above and below the cutoff. I estimate the effects of PFML on employment status, earnings and hours levels and volatility, and employer continuity among mothers around a birth.

 

 

Chan quoted in Politico on China’s Internal Passport System

As many in this region celebrate the Lunar New Year of the Dragon, CSDE Affiliate Kam Wing Chan (Geography) was quoted in an annual review piece titled “Enter the Dragon” in Politico. In the section, “China’s internal Passport System Won’t Die”, China watcher Phelim Kine drew extensively on Chan’s research on the hukou system and his recent perspectives on China’s latest reforms to the system. Read more in the full article on Politico.

New Study by Jones and Colleagues Examines Developmental Assets of Young Black Sexual Gender Minority Males in Preventing Suicidal Behaviors

CSDE Affiliate Kristian Jones (Social Work) recently released an article with co-authors in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, titled “Examining developmental assets of young Black sexual gender minority males in preventing suicidal behaviors“. Black gay and bisexual male adolescents and young adults (BGBMA/YA) are at higher risk for suicidal outcomes given their minoritized and stigmatized identities at the intersection of race and sexual orientation. This study explores key developmental assets, including family support and family communication, and their role in preventing depression symptoms and suicidal outcomes among BGBMA/YA.

Attend the 2024 Future of Families Summer Data Workshop (Due 2/19/24)

The 2024 Future of Families Summer Data Workshop application form is now available and is due on Monday, Feb 19, 2024. The workshop will be held in-person from Wednesday, June 12, 2024 to Friday, June 14, 2024. Travel and hotel costs will be covered for successful applicants. The workshop is designed to familiarize participants with the data available in the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) (formerly Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study), a national study following a birth cohort of (mostly) unmarried parents and their children, providing information about the capabilities, circumstances, and relationships of unwed parents, the wellbeing of their children, and the role of public policy in family and child wellbeing. 
For more information or questions on the application, please email ffsummerdataworkshop@columbia.edu. 

​The workshop will be focused on data from the public-use Future of Families files, from the baseline through Year 22 waves. These data can be downloaded by researchers through the Princeton University Office of Population Research Data Archive. Panelists may also discuss data from the restricted-use contract files, but participants need not have the contract data to participate in the workshop. Researchers will also discuss the ongoing 22-year follow-up data collection. This year’s workshop theme will be FFCWS contextual data. Applicants must possess basic quantitative data analysis skills. About 25-30 applicants will be selected. 

​The Future of Families Summer Data Workshop is made possible by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (2R25HD074544-06).

Call for Applications: Time Use Data for Health and Well-Being Workshop (Due 2/19/24)

The Maryland Population Research Center is accepting applications for the 2024 Time Use Data for Health and Well-Being Summer Workshop to be held June 12, 2024, the day before the June 13 and 14 University of Maryland 2024 Time Use Conference.  This workshop aims to promote awareness of and expertise in the IPUMS Time Use data archive, particularly the 2010-2012 and 2021 ATUS Well-being Module data. About 20 applicants will be selected. Travel support will be available for accepted non-local candidates. For application details, go to here. The application deadline is Monday, February 19, 2024 at 11:59 PM EST.

Urban@UW Requests Applications for the Research to Action Collaboratory (Due 2/20/24)

Urban@UW is excited to announce the second round of Request for Applications (RFA) for the Research to Action Collaboratory (RAC). The RFA invites teams of community members, researchers and students across the University of Washington who are excited to co-produce actionable, community-centered research and knowledge for persistent urban-focused problems. The deadline for submitting an application is Monday, February 20, 2024, at 5:00 pm PST. Several information sessions will occur on 12/13, 1/3, and 1/18.
The Research to Action Collaboratory, launched last year, is an accelerator program that builds the transformational capacity of collaborative research teams to address sustainability and resilience across urban areas and the Pacific Northwest. Seeded by a grant from the Bullitt Foundation, the RAC will bring together teams of UW scholars and community partners and supply them with funds, intensive workshops to build team cohesion and collaboration skills, and peer support through the project cycles. The inaugural cohort has been collaborating to address extreme heat and just circular communities.
Urban@UW will host 3 online information sessions on the RAC program and RFA, open to all UW and community partners. You may register for these info sessions at the links below. Please contact urbanuw@uw.edu with any questions.

Accepting Applications for an NIH-funded short course @ UCI: Systems Biology Foundations (2/20-3/15/24)

The Systems Biology – Foundations short course is an NIH-sponsored, didactic and practical educational experience devoted to training in systems biology. The Systems Biology – Foundations course also includes teaching of collaborative skills and mentoring activities for career development. Participants may attend the online and/or the in-person course.  The “Online Course” is held entirely online over the first two weeks (2/20-3/1) (off on Presidents’ Day), and the “In-person Course” is held in person, on the UC Irvine campus for the following two weeks (3/4-3/15).
The course has been designed to serve both individuals from quantitative and computational disciplines who wish to apply their training to biology, as well as individuals from biological and biomedical sciences, who wish to move their research in more quantitative and computational directions.
The “Online Course” will be offered as a half-day program (9:00am to noon, Pacific Time). The “In-Person Course” will be an all-day program over the course of the program dates and includes hands-on labs, networking, and mentoring/career development opportunities. The applicants have the option to select to participate in the “Online Course” only or the full course (both online + in-person courses).
Application is open to scientists and trainees at all levels. We strongly encourage applications from scientists and trainees with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, including those who identify as underrepresented in the biomedical field.
For sample course schedule and application, please visit course website: https://ccbs.uci.edu/education/fasb-sc/
Please e-mail ccbs@uci.edu for questions.