The Evans School will host Dr. Supreet Kaur with co-sponsor, the Joint Seminar on Development Economics on Monday, Feb 12th from 11:00-12:30PM in 410 Savory Hall. Dr. Kaur is a development economist with research overlap in behavioral and labor economics. Dr. Kaur’s research focuses on the functioning of labor markets in poor countries by documenting frictions in labor markets, the causes of unemployment, and examining the impact of inequality on labor productivity. A second line of research explores how psychological forces–such as the limits of human cognition and social norms–can affect individual behavior and market equilibria. By applying insights from psychology into economics, Dr. Kaur’s goal is to deepen our understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty. Specific talk information will be shared closer to Dr. Kaur’s visit.
US Treasury is Seeking Research Partners to Understand Equity Impact of Housing Assistance Fund (Inquiries due 2/12/24)
The US Treasury Department seeks research partners to help evaluate the Housing Assistance Fund (HAF) and its impact on inequality. Learn more here. A webinar describing the research call will be held on February 13. Inquiries are due February 12 to receive an invite to the meeting.
Research Associate (Rolling deadline)
CSDE Welcomes Parwati Martin as New Budget/Fiscal Analyst Lead
CSDE welcomes a new Budget/Fiscal Analyst Lead to the administrative team! Parwati Martin has been with the University of Washington since 2012 and was previously with the Geography Department for almost 8 years! Parwati has vast experience in her field including receiving an internship from UW Accounts Payable while completing her Bookkeeping Certificate. She received her AA in Accounting at North Seattle College and then went on to join UW in 2012 to work for Housing and Food Services’ Cash Office for four years. She then later joined the Geography Department as Fiscal Specialist in 2016. Parwati’s interests include enjoying the outdoors, weight lifting, hiking, playing with her cat and dog, and dancing, specifically Indonesian Traditional Dance.
We are so excited to have Parwati be a part of the CSDE team. Some of her responsibilities will be to manage staff payroll and components of academic staff/faculty compensation, provide fiscal management of Center and grant funding, and serve as approver for Workday entries. The best way to reach her is by email at pnmartin@uw.edu.
CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Hosts David Coomes on Examining the Role of Migration in the Rural Mortality Penalty (3/6/24)
David Coomes, a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology and CSDE T32 Fellow (UW) will join CSDE to discuss his work examining the role of migration in the rural mortality penalty. The rural mortality penalty, in which rural areas have higher age-adjusted mortality rates as compared to more urban areas, has emerged over the last few decades in the US. Previous research has focused on characteristics of rural areas, such as access to healthcare, while little work has paid attention to how the process of migration shapes rural populations and impacts population health measures. This project uses national death records and IRS migration data to measure the association between all-cause mortality and migration by county in the US. CDWG Will be Hybrid in Winter Quarter 2024. Attend in-person in 223 Raitt or on Zoom (register here).
Chen Awarded NASA Early Career Investigator Award
CSDE Affiliate Professor Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen (College of Built Environment and School of Public Health) has just learned that she has been awarded a NASA Early Career Investigator Program in Earth Science for a project that will examine heat impacts on human health in urban settings in the Mediterranean. The project aims to understand the influence of 3-D urban land cover/land use changes (urban LCLUC) on extreme humid heat and its subsequent impact on health burden in the Mediterranean region. Utilizing machine learning techniques on multi-sensor remote sensing data, climate variability analysis, and epidemiological methods, the study will identify urban LCLUC patterns and their role in mediating the health impact of heat stress. They produced datasets of 3-D urban structure over 2000-2022 will allow us to integrate large-scale dynamic exposure assessment into environmental health studies. Together with our regional partners, we will provide data-driven knowledge and tools to foster healthy spaces and communities in the face of climate change. If you want to learn more about Karen’s work, please join CSDE for this week’s panel on climate impacts on population health. Karen will be presenting around her innovative research.
Media Sources Feature Goodreau’s Research on Decreasing Condom Use and Public Health Messaging on PrEP
Research by CSDE Affiliate Steven Goodreau (Anthropology) led to a recent article in AIDS and Behavior, which measures changes in condomless anal sex (CAS) among HIV-negative men who have sex with men (MSM) who are not taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The study found an increase in CAS for MSM not on PrEP, suggesting potential new HIV transmission pathways. Goodreau released a commentary in AIDS, discussing the findings and raising concern that public health’s increased emphasis on PrEP may be related to decreased condom use. This concern was also featured in a New York Times article by Benjamin Ryan, where Goodreau was quoted – “The goal of promoting PrEP is a valuable one, but it has overshadowed other prevention strategies like condoms”. UW News also featured Goodreau’s work in an interview with Lauren Kirschman, where Goodreau highlighted how “In the end, it’s key to remember that things like condom use are highly subject to social norms — many people use what they see and hear from their peers and beyond as a guide for their own decisions. Even just a little bit more attention to the topic may help to get many of those conversations started again.”
New Chapter by Rocha Beardall Examines How Settler-Colonial Logics of Reservation Policing Impact the Lives of American Indians
CSDE Affiliate Theresa Rocha Beardall (Sociology) authored a chapter, titled “‘Imperialism without Imperialists’ and the Settler-Colonial Logics of Reservation Policing” in the edited volume, Police and State Crime in the Americas. Growing awareness of U.S. police violence has sparked important discussions that link state violence and the nation’s settler-colonial origins, emphasizing the use of law enforcement to control racially marginalized groups. Yet, the enduring impact of settler-colonial logics of carcerality and elimination on the lives of Indigenous Peoples in the U.S., commonly known as American Indians under federal law, remains underexplored. This chapter examines how and why the social construction of American Indians as othered and deviant is used by the settler-state to assert control of Native bodies, lands, and jurisdiction through reservation policing.
*New* Issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Read Volume 50, Issue 4 here!
*New* IPUMS Data (Global Health, NHGIS, CPS)
IPUMS released updates for its for its NHGIS and CPS datasets. It also released the IPUMS DHS Climate Change and Health Research Hub, which will help researchers study the relationships between climate change and population health. Read more about each update in the full story!
IPUMS GLOBAL HEALTHIPUMS DHS is pleased to announce a new resource to help researchers illuminate the relationship between climate change and population health: the IPUMS DHS Climate Change and Health Research Hub. The Research Hub will showcase techniques to combine spatial data with IPUMS survey data, making it easier to add environmental context to population health resources. It will include both conceptual content and technical tutorials that demonstrate spatial processing techniques in R.
IPUMS NHGISNHGIS has released its fourth set of GIS boundary files for 1980 census blocks. This release adds 55 metropolitan areas, including St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Tampa-St. Petersburg, and Nassau-Suffolk, and provides full coverage of New England. Our 1980 block boundaries now cover all or part of 148 metro areas across 46 states, including the top 20 largest metro areas by 1980 population.
IPUMS CPSThe January 2024 Basic Monthly Sample data are now available through IPUMS CPS.