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CSDE Affiliate Drake and Co-Authors Publish In Contraception

CSDE Affiliate Alison Drake along with co-authors have published a new article in Contraception entitled “Trajectories of method dissatisfaction among Kenyan women using modern, reversible contraception: A prospective cohort study” The authors sample included a cohort of 947 women and identified four trajectories: consistent satisfaction, increasing dissatisfaction, decreasing dissatisfaction, and consistent dissatisfaction. Their study points to the need for deeper understanding of trajectories of contraceptive experience for advancing person-centered family planning care that addresses users’ changing preferences and challenges.

CSDE Affiliate Zagheni and Co-Authors Publish in Population Research and Policy Review

CSDE Affiliate Emilio Zagheni and co-authors publish in Population Research and Policy Review. The article entitled “The Impact of Demographic Change on Transfers of Care and Associated Well-being”  aims to evaluate the impact of demographic change on long-term, macro-level childcare and adult care transfers, accounting for the associated well-being effects of informal caregiving. The authors measure the impact of demographic change on non-monetary between different groups. They utilize American Time Use Survey data as well as the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Disability, and Use of Time Module from 2013 to produce estimates of well-being associated with two forms of care and their future projections. They project a progressively widening gender gap in terms of positive feelings related to care in the coming decades. Future reductions in absolute caregiver well-being influenced by demographic changes at the population level may reduce workforce participation, productivity, and adversely impact psycho-physical condition of caregivers, if not offset by targeted policies.

Population and Environment Released New Issue for September

Population and Environment has released a new issue including several publications. Readers can find new research on demographic characteristics of populations living near oil and gas, the psychology of wildfire and smoke related migration intentions, and much more! Check out this new issue for yourself here!

City of Bellevue seeks Demographer

The City of Bellevue, Washington is rapidly maturing from a sleepy suburb into a tech-centric, vibrant, and diverse metropolitan city within the Puget Sound Region. The city’s planning team is looking for creative planners with the technical expertise to help us shape and catalyze positive change. This position requires you, the candidate to have a curious mind, technical prowess, research skills, an open, mature, and an inclusive view of prevailing social issues. We also need a demonstrated willingness to think beyond the usual or ordinary. Ability to work across projects requiring knowledge of diverse planning topics from demographics to urban design is a big plus.

This position is part of the Community Development Department’s Comprehensive Planning Team. It requires experience as a planner and experience curating, using and presenting demographic and economic data for community planning purposes. The ideal candidate will have skills in GIS mapping, managing datasets, communicating data, and statistical methods.

In this role, you will work across four broad sets of responsibilities:

  • Keeping the community, staff, council, and boards and commissions informed of demographic trends and issues;
  • Responding to specific requests for data;
  • Contributing expertise in community data to projects as a member of one-time and recurring projects across city departments;
  • Leading innovation in data acquisition, organization, analysis and communication.

CSDE Affiliates Dobra and McCormick Part of UW Statistics NSF-Funded Team to Advance Low Income Inclusion for Statistics and Data Science Training

CSDE Affiliates Dobra and McCormick part of amazing team  that secured a $5M National Science Foundation grant to provide financial support, research opportunities, and mentoring to students who want to pursue education in statistics and data science! The University of Washington’s Statistics department has recently announced the formation of the Pacific Alliance for Low Income Inclusion in Statistics and Data Science (PALilSaDS), a partnership led by UW and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Let’s congratulate their team on an amazing partnership and opportunity to advance education!

Presentation by Dr. Jishnu Das at the Joint Seminar in Developmental Economics

We’re pleased to announce that Dr. Jishnu Das of Georgetown University will be on campus to present at the Joint Seminar in Development Economics on Monday, October 10 at 11:00am. The seminar will take place in person in Savery 410.

 

Zoom Link (for those unable to attend in person): https://washington.zoom.us/j/98699064305 [washington.zoom.us]

 

There are some opportunities to meet with Jishnu on Monday (sign up here [docs.google.com]), but Jishnu is also giving the CSSS seminar on Wednesday, October 12, and will have many more opportunities to meet then.  So if you are interested in meeting with him then and not on the CSSS listserve, please let me know and I’ll make sure you get the sign-up.  Graduate students interested in joining Jishnu for lunch on Monday though, do let me know.

 

Please contact me at rmheath@uw.edu, if you have any questions about meetings or the seminar.

 

Title: Randomized Regulation: The impact of minimum quality standards on health markets

 

Abstract:  We report results from the first randomization of a regulatory reform in the health sector. The reform established minimum quality standards for patient safety, an issue that has become increasingly salient following the Ebola and COVID-19 epidemics. In our experiment, the census of 1348 health facilities in three Kenyan counties were classified into 273 markets, and the markets were then randomly allocated to treatment and control groups. Government inspectors visited health facilities in treated markets and, depending on the results of their inspection, recommended closure or a timeline for improvements. The intervention increased compliance with patient safety measures in both public and private facilities (more so in the latter) and reallocated patients from private to public facilities without increasing out-of-pocket payments or decreasing facility use. In treated markets, improvements were equally marked throughout the quality distribution, consistent with a simple model of vertical differentiation in oligopolies. Our paper establishes the use of experimental techniques to study regulatory reforms and, in doing so, shows that minimum standards can improve quality across the board without adversely affecting utilization.

New Publication from Demographic Research

Demographic Research has released a new publication by Drs. Sara Johnsen and Megan Sweeney titled “Female sterilization in the life course: Understanding trends and differentials in early sterlization”. This paper utilizes the National Survey of Family Growth to examine racial, ethnic, and educational differences in the prevalence of sterilization and its timing in the life course. Key findings include observing differing patterns of sterilization timing across racial, ethnic, and educational groups.