On June 28, 2023 @ 10 am, the US Census Bureau is hosting the next installment of the FSRDC Presentation Series. Anna Malinovskaya of Cornell University will present her research titled, “Long Term Own and Dynamic Complementarity Effects of the WIC program.” The FSRDC Presentation Series offers a virtual platform for researchers who have conducted research in a Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) to share their work. UW’s Northwest FSRDC (NWFSRDC) is one of 33 open FSRDCs in the country. (For more information about the NWFSRDC or research using federal restricted-use data, please contact the Center’s executive director, Sofia G. Ayala.
FSRDC Webinar WebEX link: https://uscensus.webex.com/uscensus/j.php?MTID=ma142296e614f1d83d42dab22f89beae0
Webinar number, if needed: 2764 506 8632
Webinar password, if needed: #Census1
Anna Malinovskaya is a PhD candidate at Cornell University, who will be on the job market in the 2023-2024 academic year. Her fields of specialization are Public Economics and Applied Econometrics. She is interested in the economics of human capital accumulation and the interactions of human capital accumulation with policy. (Presenter’s e-mail: am2883@cornell.edu)
Abstract: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has been in effect since the 1970s. In this project, I estimate the average causal intend-to-treat effects of the WIC program on a range of children’s longer-term outcomes such as educational attainment and economic self-sufficiency in adulthood. My first identification strategy exploits variation across counties and over time from WIC geographical roll-out in the 1970s. For this purpose, I match adult outcomes of individuals in the American Community Survey and Decennial Census 2000 born in the 1970s with their place of birth information in the SSA Numident File and then with the historical data on WIC geographical spread across counties. My preliminary findings from the analysis conducted on each of the two samples (ACS and Census) separately are strikingly similar and indicate that exposure to WIC in-utero raises, on average, the probability of graduating from high school and enrolling in college, with the biggest effects for white males. The second identification strategy uses a regression discontinuity design, which I implement by developing county priority rankings for WIC funding in their state mirroring the approach by officials from the state of Texas, who developed such priority rankings for Texas counties in the early 1970s.
On June 28, 2023 @ 10 am, the US Census Bureau is hosting the next installment of the FSRDC Presentation Series. Anna Malinovskaya of Cornell University will present her research titled, “Long Term Own and Dynamic Complementarity Effects of the WIC program.” The FSRDC Presentation Series offers a virtual platform for researchers who have conducted research in a Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) to share their work. UW’s Northwest FSRDC (NWFSRDC) is one of 33 open FSRDCs in the country. (For more information about the NWFSRDC or research using federal restricted-use data, please contact the Center’s executive director, Sofia G. Ayala.
FSRDC Webinar WebEX link: https://uscensus.webex.com/uscensus/j.php?MTID=ma142296e614f1d83d42dab22f89beae0
Webinar number, if needed: 2764 506 8632
Webinar password, if needed: #Census1
Anna Malinovskaya is a PhD candidate at Cornell University, who will be on the job market in the 2023-2024 academic year. Her fields of specialization are Public Economics and Applied Econometrics. She is interested in the economics of human capital accumulation and the interactions of human capital accumulation with policy. (Presenter’s e-mail: am2883@cornell.edu)
Abstract: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has been in effect since the 1970s. In this project, I estimate the average causal intend-to-treat effects of the WIC program on a range of children’s longer-term outcomes such as educational attainment and economic self-sufficiency in adulthood. My first identification strategy exploits variation across counties and over time from WIC geographical roll-out in the 1970s. For this purpose, I match adult outcomes of individuals in the American Community Survey and Decennial Census 2000 born in the 1970s with their place of birth information in the SSA Numident File and then with the historical data on WIC geographical spread across counties. My preliminary findings from the analysis conducted on each of the two samples (ACS and Census) separately are strikingly similar and indicate that exposure to WIC in-utero raises, on average, the probability of graduating from high school and enrolling in college, with the biggest effects for white males. The second identification strategy uses a regression discontinuity design, which I implement by developing county priority rankings for WIC funding in their state mirroring the approach by officials from the state of Texas, who developed such priority rankings for Texas counties in the early 1970s.
The International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS) has issued a call for editors. If you’re interested in the position, you can find the link here.
CSDE Affiliate Patricia Louie published “Inflation Hardship, Gender, and Mental Health” in Population Health. The article utilizes data from the US Household Pulse Survey (September–November 2022), to test whether exposure to inflation hardships is associated with greater distress and whether this association is moderated by gender. Awesome work, Dr. Louie!
The International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS) has issued a call for editors. If you’re interested in the position, you can find the link here.
The Institute of Education Sciences has released two new requests for applications for fiscal year 2024 (FY 2024) and invites applications for the Using Longitudinal Data to Support State Education Policymaking Grants program (84.305S) and the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences Grants program (84.305T) with applications due August 17, 2023.
Through the Using Longitudinal Data to Support State Education Policymaking grant program, IES supports state agencies to use their state’s education longitudinal data systems (SLDS) to provide evidence for their own program and policy decisions and those of their local education agencies. Data from other sources may also be included to help address the state agency’s research questions. For FY 2024, the program will support research to identify and reduce opportunity and achievement gaps for learners from prekindergarten through adult education. State agencies may apply for these grants on their own or in collaboration with other organizations.
Through the Transformative Research program, IES seeks to support innovative research that has the potential to make dramatic advances towards solving seemingly intractable problems and challenges in the education field and/or to accelerate the pace of conducting education research to facilitate major breakthroughs. For FY 2024, the program will focus on accelerating learning and reducing persistent education inequities by leveraging evidence-based principles from the learning sciences coupled with advanced technology to create high-reward, scalable technology solutions.
For more information about these research opportunities and the application process, visit the IES Funding Opportunities web page.
IES will provide virtual office hours for this new competition. Please see the Digital Technical Assistance web page for additional details.
NIH has released a recent notice of application for a limited competition entitled Collaborative Partnership to Advance Global Health Research, due September 1st, 2023. The goal of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to develop, establish, implement, and maintain a successful collaborative partnership to advance NIH priorities, support NIH collaboration on global health, and advance biomedical research internationally. This program will support a partnership between the NIH and the recipient(s) with the commitment and capacity to help extend NIH research-related programs worldwide.
NIH has released a recent notice of application for a limited competition entitled Collaborative Partnership to Advance Global Health Research, due September 1st, 2023. The goal of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to develop, establish, implement, and maintain a successful collaborative partnership to advance NIH priorities, support NIH collaboration on global health, and advance biomedical research internationally. This program will support a partnership between the NIH and the recipient(s) with the commitment and capacity to help extend NIH research-related programs worldwide.
The Institute of Education Sciences has released two new requests for applications for fiscal year 2024 (FY 2024) and invites applications for the Using Longitudinal Data to Support State Education Policymaking Grants program (84.305S) and the Transformative Research in the Education Sciences Grants program (84.305T) with applications due August 17, 2023.
Through the Using Longitudinal Data to Support State Education Policymaking grant program, IES supports state agencies to use their state’s education longitudinal data systems (SLDS) to provide evidence for their own program and policy decisions and those of their local education agencies. Data from other sources may also be included to help address the state agency’s research questions. For FY 2024, the program will support research to identify and reduce opportunity and achievement gaps for learners from prekindergarten through adult education. State agencies may apply for these grants on their own or in collaboration with other organizations.
Through the Transformative Research program, IES seeks to support innovative research that has the potential to make dramatic advances towards solving seemingly intractable problems and challenges in the education field and/or to accelerate the pace of conducting education research to facilitate major breakthroughs. For FY 2024, the program will focus on accelerating learning and reducing persistent education inequities by leveraging evidence-based principles from the learning sciences coupled with advanced technology to create high-reward, scalable technology solutions.
For more information about these research opportunities and the application process, visit the IES Funding Opportunities web page.
IES will provide virtual office hours for this new competition. Please see the Digital Technical Assistance web page for additional details.
External Affiliate Emilio Zagheni recently presented at the ICWSM Workshop on Data for the Wellbeing of the Most Vulnerable. His conference paper entitled, “Demographic Inequalities in Digital Spaces in China – The Case of Weibo” provides the first systematic, large-scale exploration of user counts by age, gender, and location on Weibo, the world’s largest microblogging platform, using data from its advertising platform.