Howard University’s Center on Race and Wealth (CRW) and the Center for Financial Security (CFS) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison annually conduct the Junior Scholar Intensive Training (JSIT) Summer Workshop. This week-long workshop, from June 12 – 16, 2023 , held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, brings together PhD students, newly graduated PhD researchers, and junior faculty who are interested in topics related to disability and retirement research in the United States. Applications are due February 8th – click here for more detail about applications.
20th Annual West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference! (4/21/2023)
The 20th Annual West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference will take place from April 21-22nd, 2023 at the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management, University of Oregon. Proposals for the conference are due February 10th, 2023.
Acolin Awarded NIH R21 Grant to Study Gentrification, Mobility, and Health
Congratulations are due to CSDE Affiliate Arthur Acolin (Real Estate) who was recently awarded an NIH R21 grant to entitled ‘Gentrification, Mobility, and Exposure to Contextual Determinants of Health.’ The project will examine how gentrification affects mobility patterns at the neighborhood levels and changes exposure to contextual determinants of health that have been shown to contribute to social and race/ethnic inequalities in health. The proposed research leverages consumer trace data from Data Axle that have broad population coverage and high temporal and spatial specificity to further our understanding of gentrification, mobility, and health disparities. Acolin graciously acknowledged the support from CSDE, writing “from start to finish [CSDE support] was key from the grant writing workshop with Kyle [Crowder] and feedback from Steve [Goodreau] to Belinda’s [Sachs] wonderful assistance putting together all the elements of the proposal, as well as the financial support for access to Data Axle data and the UW Data Collaborative infrastructure and data access support from Phil.”
Rowhani and Hill’s Research on Impact of EITC on Child Neglect a Featured Story for NIH’s Population Dynamics Centers
Recently, the Population Reference Bureau and its Population Dynamics Research Coordinating Center featured Dr. Rowhani’s and Dr. Hill’s research on the impact of Federal tax policy on poor child outcomes in their regular blog highlighting population research. They find that the child tax credit (CTC) and earned income tax credit (EITC) are related to declines in reports of child maltreatment, youth violence, and juvenile convictions. The CTC and EITC are among the largest anti-poverty programs in United States, notes Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, a UW epidemiology professor and study co-author. “While not originally designed to prevent violence, we find meaningful reductions in several forms of violence per each $1,000 increase in EITC provided,” he adds. This new research comes as policymakers at both the national and state levels are considering proposals to expand these tax credits. Child poverty fell more than 40% between 2020 and 2021 thanks to a temporary one-year expansion of the CTC—part of the government’s pandemic response.
Bostrom Presents Research on Climate Change and Extreme Hazards at AGU!
CSDE Affiliate Ann Bostrom presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) annual meetings from December 12thto 15th. Her invited presentation, “Climate Change and Extreme Hazard Events: Risk Perceptions, Priorities, and Subjective Attribution,” summarized the current state of knowledge regarding subjective attribution of extreme hazards to climate change and of climate change to various causes, and the role of attribution in behavioral intentions and policy support for mitigating climate change. Another great example of Ann’s field-leading work!
Postdoctoral Position- Climate Hazards Center UCSB (Due 2/15/2023)
The Climate Hazards Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher for an exciting project supported by the US Geological Survey. This project focuses on using forecasts of climate variables, as well as remotely sensed datasets, and statistical methods such as machine learning to predict argicultural statistics in food insecure countries and will directly support the famine early warning efforts of USAID’s Famine Early Warning System Network.
Register for CSSCR Workshops this Quarter!
The Center for Social Science Computation and Research is offering a variety of workshops that can help you expand your academic toolkit! The first of which is an introduction to R using Rstudio on January 23rd, 2023, with many others to follow described in their newsletter here. You can sign up for any of these workshops here, and if you’re interested in utilizing CSSCR for services they are available from 8am-5pm in Savery Hall 119. For more information on the CSSCR resources and how they can best serve you in your research click here!
*New* RFP from Guttmacher Institute on A New Social and Economic Case For Investing in Family Planning (1/15/2023))
Between 2022 and 2025, the Family Planning Impact Consortium (FP-Impact) will conduct a research, modeling and dissemination project centered on how support for women’s family planning intentions provides a path to women’s empowerment and economic development. The core research and modeling team is made up of the Guttmacher Institute, the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), Harvard University, the Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM) and Avenir Health.
FP-Impact aims to use a model-based approach to generate and disseminate robust, stakeholder-informed estimates of how family planning programs, policies and behaviors affect people’s well-being over the life course (adolescence through adulthood) and across a range of social and economic domains. FP-Impact will use the resulting evidence to advocate mobilization of funds for family planning—both from donor government development and foreign aid contributions and from national government allocations. Applications can be found here!
Applications Are Open for College of Built Environment Inspire Fund (Due 2/1/2023)
The CBE Inspire Fund, funded through Research Cost Recovery as well as the Applied Research Consortium, is designed to support research activities for which a relatively small amount of support can be transformative. This may include work that is traditionally underfunded, or that done by scholars who are members of groups currently underrepresented in our college. Inspire Fund proposals may request awards between $1,000 and $5,000. We anticipate awarding up to $21,000 in this funding cycle. More information can be found here!
Apply to the Office of Evaluation Sciences Fellowship (Due 1/11/2023)
From the King County Evidence & Impact Officer, Carrie Cihak: The Federal Government’s Office of Evaluation Sciences (OES) has an annual fellows program, where fellows work for one year to help government agencies build and use evidence to learn what works. OES is recruiting their next cohort of Fellows for Fall 2023, with applications due January 11th – but this is an annual process. Fellows are typically Ph.D.-level social and behavioral scientists and the work can be done remotely from anywhere in the US. Learn more or pass along the details here.