Check out the most recent work published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies! You can view the articles here.
CSDE Computational Demography Working Group Hosts Jessica Godwin on how to Get Involved with the Population Dynamics Lab! (6/7/23 @3pm)
On June 7 from 3-4pm, Jessica Godwin, CSDE Research Scientist and Training Program Director will be discussing ways to get involved with the Population Dynamics Lab.
The Population Dynamics Lab is a new collaborative platform where researchers, interdisciplinary scholars, and applied demographers can share and computational methods and empirical tools for population research. PDL is committed to open science, reproducibility, and providing peer-feedback and community engagement in methodological and theoretical advancements in demographic and population research.
PDL offers a place for researchers to share short, innovative methodological and computational developments in population research. Publish meaningful applied insights, teaching materials, and smaller components of methodological solutions that deserve more attention than they can receive in a full length scientific manuscript, through a high-level summary (The Download), an in-depth technical discussion (The Denominator), and a code Repository. Receive a unique DOI for ea4ch of these components for easy, specific citation and access.
CSDE Computational Demography Working Group Hosts Jessica Godwin on how to Get Involved with the Population Dynamics Lab! (6/7/23 @3pm)
On June 7 from 3-4pm, Jessica Godwin, CSDE Research Scientist and Training Program Director will be discussing ways to get involved with the Population Dynamics Lab.
The Population Dynamics Lab is a new collaborative platform where researchers, interdisciplinary scholars, and applied demographers can share and computational methods and empirical tools for population research. PDL is committed to open science, reproducibility, and providing peer-feedback and community engagement in methodological and theoretical advancements in demographic and population research.
PDL offers a place for researchers to share short, innovative methodological and computational developments in population research. Publish meaningful applied insights, teaching materials, and smaller components of methodological solutions that deserve more attention than they can receive in a full length scientific manuscript, through a high-level summary (The Download), an in-depth technical discussion (The Denominator), and a code Repository. Receive a unique DOI for ea4ch of these components for easy, specific citation and access.
Swanson Publishes New Article on Small-Area Population Forecasting
New research by CSDE External Affiliate David Swanson entitled, “Boosted Regression Trees for Small-Area Population Forecasting” has been published in Population Research and Policy Review. Swanson and co-authors point to some issues within Small-Area Populatin forecasting and the lack of current research utilizing machine learning techniques. Using 1990 and 2000 census data, the authors develop 10-year age/gender-structured 2010 population forecasts for 50,965 census tracts in the U.S. using a well-known machine learning technique: boosted regression trees.
Check Out this New Issue from Journal of Family History
The Journal of Family History has released a new issue, Volume 48, Number 3. This issue contains research on Birth Control as a National Challenge: Nationalizing Concepts of Families in Eastern Europe, 1914–1939. Feel free to check it out here!
Lecturer in Quantitative Population Geography/Demography
The University of St Andrews (UK) seeks to appoint a Lecturer with expertise in Quantitative Population Geography/Demography. We are looking for candidates with excellent research profiles in any area of population studies. Candidates should have strong skills in demographic/population and quantitative data analysis and be capable of contributing to the Human Geography and Sustainable Development undergraduate teaching programs.
For further details, please see at: https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/3123/0/393238/889/lecturer-in-quantitative-population-geography-demography-ac2374mr.
Opportunity Insights Conference
Opportunity Insights (Raj Chetty, et al’s research outfit) will be hosting its second annual conference this fall to share research on economic opportunity and to continue to support this scholarly community. This is a good opportunity for junior scholars to share their work as well as more senior folks to discuss early stage research. The conference will be held at OI’s offices in Cambridge, MA on November 30th and December 1st. They are accepting submissions of papers or extended abstracts through August 1st, 2023; more information about the conference and application instructions can be found HERE.
Postdoctoral Position
Click HERE for more information about an opportunity for a postdoc to study as part of an interdisciplinary group focused on inequality, broadly defined at at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Postdoctoral Position
The Center for Guaranteed Income Research at Penn is hiring two postdocs this fall to work with PIs and research scientists doing work on their unconditional cash portfolio. The portfolio encompasses 32 cash transfer experiments across the US — 24 of which are RCTs. This is an excellent opportunity for a junior scholar to publish and work with data on unconditional cash in a rapidly growing research space. One fellowship is focused on quantitative methodology (priority is on primary data collection) and the other on qualitative. Please see the document HERE for more information.
Research Scientist
Opportunity Insights has posted for an exciting Research Translation Associate position that will work across our projects on science writing, resource development, and external engagements. The hired researcher will work closely with David Forte, Raj Chetty, Sarah Oppenheimer, and the rest of the OI team. The job is perfect for someone who is enthused about research communication, data visualization, and making policy impacts.