Tuesday, February 11, 2025 – 12:00 – 1:00pm, Parrington Hall 360
Dowell Myers, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
This seminar is co-host by the College of Built Environments. Please note that we will have a special Tuesday seminar. The seminar location is still PAR 360.
Dr. Myers will present a paper, Extending Analysis of the Great Misalignment Between Housing and Population.
Abstract:Major omissions of demographic factors in policy making are argued to be a principal cause of the crisis of housing shortages since the Great Recession. Overlooked changes in cohort size and lagged measurements have misled about current housing preferences, and quantity of housing needed, with mistiming producing extreme volatility. Restrictions of credit and supply legislated in 2010 were aimed at curbing the excesses of the early 2000s bubble but clashed after 2010 with requirements of much larger millennial cohorts, creating shortages first in rentals, then in homes for sale. For lack of apparent input of any demographic reasoning, analysis by policy makers and contributing housing experts omitted crucial temporal factors shaping demand. Thus was constructed the great misalignment between population and housing. This paper considers how housing policy should be crafted in anticipation of housing needs based on changing cohort sizes and the active demands of expected life-course transitions. Principles of housing demography can help integrate these population dynamics with temporal dynamics of the housing stock itself.
At the weekly seminar hosted by the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), Dr. Yuichi Shoda (Psychology) will present on the limits of traditional null hypothesis significance testing in scientific endeavors. For example, increasing the precision of a study (e.g., by increasing the sample size) makes it easier to find statistical significance, with the result that any theory predicting a non-zero effect is considered supported—even if it explains only a small portion of the phenomenon of interest. This is not the case when using the “null regions framework” if the observed value falls within the “null region”—the range of population values that researchers aim to rule out (e.g., effects or associations that are too small to matter, even if not exactly zero). This framework provides tests to address questions such as: “Is the effect strong enough to matter?” and “Is the effect close enough to the predicted value to suggest that the theory that predicted it should be retained?” Learn more here.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Food Insight Group, and Chef Ann Foundation recently announced a Request for Research Proposals entitled “Understanding the
School Food Workforce Subgrants.” The group is looking for research projects that will increase understanding of the current state of the K-12 school food workforce in the United States and/or explore strategies to create a stable and respected workforce that can provide healthy meals to students while supporting resilient local and regional food systems. You are invited to join an informational webinar on December 18 (register here) and access the full RFP here.
This seminar from the Center for Aging, Climate, & Health (CACHE) uses two ongoing interdisciplinary, research projects to illustrate techniques for integrating social and environmental data at the county scale. The project engage different social data (American Time Use Survey; National Health Interview Survey) and different climate-related data (temperature data from GridMET; disaster data from FEMA and SHELDUS). Investigators will review project goals, background on data and measurement decisions, and integration and analytical strategies. Learn more and register here.
On Friday, January 31, federal agencies removed public data and documentation previously made available via public-facing federal government websites in response to administration directives. The types of data removed include large-scale population data sources that provide vital insight into the health and wellbeing of all communities.
The IPUMS team recently reported that their data remain available, and that IPUMS remains committed to preserving and democratizing access to the world’s population data.
Since last Friday, several organizations (and individuals) have downloaded many other public federal datasets. There are efforts underway to catalog and make these data available. We will share resources and guidance when we have it about how to locate or share missing data.
Each quarter, CSDE offers 3-5 workshops on data sources, statistical and biomarker methodology, introductions to analysis programs, and more, all given by CSDE staff and faculty affiliates.
Check out the winter workshop offerings here!
Winter Workshops (select workshops to register):
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- Date & Time: Thursdays Jan 23 and 30 @ 10:00AM–12:00PM
- Location: Zoom
- Instructors: Matt Dunbar & Paul Litwin
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- Date & Time: Thursday, Jan 30 @ 2:30PM-3:30PM
- Location: Zoom
- Instructor: Tiffany Pan
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- Date & Time: Tuesday, Feb 4 @ 12:30PM-1:30PM
- Location: Zoom
- Instructors: Sofia Ayala & Carlos Becerra
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- Date & Time: Tuesday, February 11 @ 10:00AM–11:30PM
- Location: Zoom
- Instructors: June Yang
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- Date & Time: Thursdays Feb 6 @ 10:00AM–12:00PM
- Location: Zoom
- Instructor: Jessica Godwin
An international symposium bringing together migration researchers to discuss innovative research on migrants and their descendants. Contributions in the following research areas of migration studies are sought: fertility and family; employment and education; housing and residential mobility; and ageing, health, and mortality. Learn more here.