CSDE Affiliate Tyler McCormick has been awarded a R01 grant from NICHD for his project, “Improving Age- and Cause-Specific Under-Five Mortality Rates (ACSU5MR) by Systematically Accounting Measurement Errors to Inform Child Survival Decision Making in Low Income Countries.” The project involves collaboration with Li Liu in Maternal/Child Health at Johns Hopkins University and builds on work started by McCormick as part of his earlier K01 award from NICHD. Congratulations, Tyler!
CSDE Affiliate Gregg Colburn recently appeared on the Market Morning Report to speak about his co-authored book “Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns.” The interview between Colburn and Marketplace’s host David Brancaccio can be found here!
Check out the most recent work published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies! You can view the articles here.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 (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.
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