The UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity is a grant-funded center located in the Department of Sociology focused on conducting high-quality program evaluation and research to improve equity and broaden representation in STEM fields, with a focus on higher education. They help meet the challenges of the emerging workforce: recruitment, retention, and advancement of systemically marginalized groups. http://depts.washington.edu/cerse/
They are looking for a collaborative and organized individual who can help them manage and conduct multiple evaluation projects, who adds diversity to the perspectives of their team, and who has a strong commitment and expertise in diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice professional development work. Being able to apply an equity lens to evaluation and research is crucial for their work.
The Max Planck Institute is looking for a candidate with a background in Demography, Epidemiology, Public Health, or related disciplines and research interests in health and mortality.
This PhD project explores the demographic consequences of disease prevention and centers around the questions: (I) how and to what extent has disease prevention altered the composition of the population, and (II) how does disease prevention relate to population-level dynamics, such as the increases in life expectancy?
The U.S. National Science Foundation, in collaboration with other federal agencies, higher education institutions and other stakeholders, today announced a $140 million investment to establish seven new National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes. The announcement is part of a broader effort across the federal government to advance a cohesive approach to AI-related opportunities and risks.
The new AI Institutes will advance foundational AI research that promotes ethical and trustworthy AI systems and technologies, develop novel approaches to cybersecurity, contribute to innovative solutions to climate change, expand the understanding of the brain, and leverage AI capabilities to enhance education and public health. The institutes will support the development of a diverse AI workforce in the U.S. and help address the risks and potential harms posed by AI. This investment means NSF and its funding partners have now invested close to half a billion dollars in the AI Institutes research network, which reaches almost every U.S. state.
The new working paper series hosted by the Association of Population Centers has three new working papers. You, too, can also add your papers to this listing! You can read Sam Trejo and Klint Kanopka’s paper on phenotype difference models and what they reveal about genetic effects on mortality. Also, see Noli Brazil and Jennifer Candipan’s paper on millennials as a demographic bridge towards diversity. Finally, check out Michael Rendell’s paper on the acquisition of disability after age 50, following extreme urban coastal flooding events.
The Phenotype Differences Model Reveals Genetic Effects on Mortality Using Incomplete Sibling Data
Trejo, Sam and Klint Kanopka. APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2303. 2023.
Millennials as a Demographic Bridge to Diversity? Segregation and Diversity of Young Adult Neighborhoods
Brazil, Noli, and Jennifer Candipan. APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2302. 2023.
Acquistion of disability after age 50 following extreme urban coastal flooding events in India
Rendall, Michael S. APCA Working Paper Series. No. 2301. 2023.
https://www.popcenters.org/resources/association-of-population-centers-arxiv-apca/
The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to build research capacity and infrastructure to address complex and compounding national and global crises whose solutions require a human-centered approach. To help generate effective and long-lasting solutions that benefit the U.S. public, NSF is providing this funding opportunity to inform possible future Centers for Research and Innovation in Science, the Environment and Society (CRISES).
The envisioned centers will catalyze new research and research-based innovations to address seemingly intractable problems that confront our society. They will develop evidence-based solutions that address fundamental quality-of-life issues, such as those involving the environment, extreme weather and sustainability; workforce and the economy; equity and access to opportunities; and well-being.
This funding opportunity is led by NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE) in partnership with NSF’s directorates for Engineering (ENG) and Geosciences (GEO).
SBE supports research to understand the social and behavioral aspects of our rapidly changing world and how these issues are affected by our social, economic and natural environments. Fundamental and use-inspired research supported by the directorate advances our understanding of people, organizations and society, while revealing emerging opportunities to address challenges affecting our ability to live healthy and productive lives.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to build research capacity and infrastructure to address complex and compounding national and global crises whose solutions require a human-centered approach. To help generate effective and long-lasting solutions that benefit the U.S. public, NSF is providing this funding opportunity to inform possible future Centers for Research and Innovation in Science, the Environment and Society (CRISES).
The envisioned centers will catalyze new research and research-based innovations to address seemingly intractable problems that confront our society. They will develop evidence-based solutions that address fundamental quality-of-life issues, such as those involving the environment, extreme weather and sustainability; workforce and the economy; equity and access to opportunities; and well-being.
This funding opportunity is led by NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE) in partnership with NSF’s directorates for Engineering (ENG) and Geosciences (GEO).
SBE supports research to understand the social and behavioral aspects of our rapidly changing world and how these issues are affected by our social, economic and natural environments. Fundamental and use-inspired research supported by the directorate advances our understanding of people, organizations and society, while revealing emerging opportunities to address challenges affecting our ability to live healthy and productive lives.
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!