CSDE Affiliates Elizabeth Pelletier (U.S. Census Bureau) and Scott Allard (Evans School) recently collaborated on a publication in Early Childhood Research Quarterly entitled “The spatial inequality of early care and education centers” that highlights spatial variation in the provision of various forms of childcare across the US. Using a national database with multiple measures of participation and availability of childcare resources, the article shows how the provision of public and private childcare options varies in urban and rural settings, and in counties with different levels of poverty. Read the full article here.
Assistant Professor of Data Science – University of Oregon (10/27/24)
*New* CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Hosts Michael Schultz on The Structure of Opportunity and Wage Mobility (10/23/2024)
*New* CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Hosts Michael Schultz on The Structure of Opportunity and Wage Mobility (10/23/2024)
On 10/23 from 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST, CDWG will host Dr. Michael Schultz for a research talk. Michael A. Schultz is quantitative sociologist and social demographer with expertise on work, poverty, and structural inequality. He specializes in telling stories with data to provide insight into how workers and households navigate opportunities and constraints to advance their careers and gain economic security. Michael’s research uses an intersectional and place-based approach to shed light on how social (e.g., gender, race, class) and economic positions (e.g., work, income) shape work, family, and mobility outcomes over the life course. Michael brings a political economy lens to understand how institutions like vocational education, occupations, labor markets, the criminal legal system, and welfare state policies and programs vary across places and change over time to impact the economic mobility of workers and their households. He uses advanced quantitative methods and causal analysis, including multinomial conditional logit models (also known as “discrete choice” models) and event history analysis. To date, Michael’s research is published in venues such as the American Sociological Review, the Russell Sage Foundation Journal for the Social Sciences, and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth’s Working Paper Series.
Title: The Structure of Opportunity and Wage Mobility
Abstract: Sociologists use the concept of “the opportunity structure” to describe how opportunities for mobility differ for workers in different places, in different organizations and jobs, and in different social positions, including race, class, and gender positions. Yet, researchers studying workers’ occupational and wage mobility over their careers have found it difficult to operationalize a structural perspective. As a result, the dominant empirical perspectives for workers’ upward mobility are individual supply-side explanations like the human capital and status attainment models. We use occupations as the unit of analysis to define the labor market structure and then use a novel method, multinomial conditional logit (MCL) models, to study three components of the opportunity structure for workers’ wage mobility. The first element is demand for jobs. We modify a Bartik industry demand shock measure by translating the shock to occupations in geographic areas. Second, firm and occupational internal labor markets provide job ladders for upward mobility. We use firm tenure and measures of institutional and skill linkages between occupations to operationalize internal labor markets. Third, opportunities for mobility are structured by the interaction between worker status characteristics, like gender and race, and the status-typing of jobs. We include measures of the gender and racial composition of occupations to study this element. Our data comes from the 2014 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. We account for individual-level characteristics explaining occupation and wage mobility. We find strong evidence of the effect of all three elements on the opportunity structure on workers’ wage mobility.
CDWG Will be Hybrid in the Fall Quarter of 2024. Dr. Schultz will be available to meet with students on 10/23 to discuss research and NORC/careers in the government and research institute space. Students interested in connecting with him can directly reach out via emailing schultz-michael@norc.org.
Zoom Registration is here.
Room: Raitt 223 – The Demography Lab
*New* UW Graduate Aging Group Hosts Associate Professor of Psychology Andrea Stocco (10/24/24)
*New* CSDE Affiliate Dafeng Xu to present at CSSS Weekly Seminar (10/23/24)
CSDE Affiliate Dafeng Xu (Evans School) will present at this week’s edition of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Series. On Wednesday, October 23 at 12:30pm, Xu will give a seminar titled: Ideological Segregation in a Politically Diverse Community: Evidence from China.
This seminar will be offered as a hybrid session, in-person in Savery Hall (409) or online (link here).
Author Meets Critics – Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times – Dr. Erin McElroy
When: Friday, Oct 18, 2024 (12:30-1:30PM)
Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)
We are looking forward to hosting Erin McElroy (Geography, UW) on Friday, Oct. 18th in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.
In this presentation, Erin McElroy will discuss Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times, just published with Duke University Press. The book maps out processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and also looks at how that logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley technocapitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents, and generates extreme income inequality in order to expand its reach. The book also explores how in Romania, dreams of privatization have updated fascist pasts, often in the name of anticommunism. At the same time, McElroy accounts for the ways that activists resist Silicon Valley capitalist logics, building upon socialist-era worldviews not to restore state socialism but rather to establish more just social formations. Attending to the violence of Silicon Valley imperialism, McElroy reveals technocapitalism as an ultimately unsustainable model of rapacious economic and geographic growth.Dr. McElroy will be joined by Nassim Parvin (Information School, UW) and Jenna Grant (Anthropology, UW).
Author:
Erin McElroy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, where their work focuses upon intersections of gentrification, technology, empire, and racial capitalism, alongside housing justice organizing and transnational solidarities. McElroy is author of Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times (Duke University Press, 2024), and co-editor of Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance (PM Press, 2021). Additionally, McElroy is cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project—a data visualization, counter-cartography, and digital media collective that produces tools, maps, reports, murals, zines, oral histories, and more to further the work of housing justice. At UW, McElroy runs Landlord Tech Watch which produces collaborative research and collective knowledge regarding the dispossessive technologies of landlordism. Such commitments inform their work coediting the Radical Housing Journal—an open access publication that foregrounds housing justice research transnationally.
Critics:
Nassim Parvin is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington (UW) Information School where she also serves as the Associate Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access & Sovereignty (IDEAS). Dr. Parvin’s interdisciplinary research integrates theoretically-driven humanistic scholarship and design-based inquiry to explore the ethical and political dimensions of design and technology, especially as related to questions of democracy and justice. Rooted in pragmatist ethics and feminist theory, she critically engages emerging digital technologies—such as smart forests or artificial intelligence—in their wide-ranging and transformative effect on the future of collective and social interactions. From 2018-2023, Dr. Parvin served as the co-lead editors of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, an award-winning journal in the expanding interdisciplinary field of STS.
Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist working in the fields of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, multimodal anthropology, and Southeast Asia Studies. Her research centers on Cambodia, an important place for thinking through postcolonial and Cold War histories in contemporary medical, technological, and visual practices. She theorizes these practices as care and repair, which relate to both health care specifically but also a more general understanding of care for the self and collective that involves ongoing repair of infrastructures, relationships, and beings. She has developed her research questions, methods, and commitments in three different directions: medical imaging and visual practices of health care in Phnom Penh; Cambodia as a site of experimental global health sciences; and experiments in collective care in Cambodia and the U.S. Her book, Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh (2022), was published by UW Press.
Call for Papers: Demographic Change and Challenges in the Americas – Canadian Studies in Population (10/15/24)
Special issue of Canadian Studies in Population on “Demographic Change and Challenges in the Americas”
- Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2024
This special issue of Canadian Studies in Population will spotlight key demographic concerns facing the Americas, including migration, mortality and morbidity, fertility, and family dynamics, and provide a forward-looking introduction that sets an agenda for a more integrated approach to understanding demographic change in the region. We seek papers that address demographic processes in the Americas, broadly defined, from Canada to Patagonia. Our issue is motivated by the following core questions about demography in the Americas:
- What are the most important emerging demographic trends and processes in the Americas?
- How do demographic processes in the Americas challenge or bring nuance to understanding of processes found elsewhere?
- Are there regional demographic systems in the Americas? Are national demographic trends emblematic of regional trends? How heterogeneous is the demography of countries and regions?
- Are similar demographic dynamics/mechanisms evident across places (i.e., changing mortality risks or fertility decline)?
- How do national policies relate to unique demographic outcomes?
Papers may focus on a specific country or identify links and demographic systems between countries or regions. We invite papers that present novel empirical evidence, methodological insights or theoretical contributions. Empirical papers may include descriptive findings or center on identifying mechanisms. Authors are encouraged to situate their findings in regional context if they are not explicitly comparative in nature.
Please read the full Call for Papers online or in the attached document.
*New* Intro to R III: Data Visualization (10/15/24)
*New* Intro to R III: Data Visualization (10/15/24)
Join CSDE Statistical Demographer & Training Director Jessica Godwin for 75 minute introduction data visualization in R. This workshop, the final in a series of 3, will cover all major types of plots in both base R and the tidyverse.
The workshop will be hybrid with in-person attendance in Savery 121 and a Zoom link for online attendance will be provided upon registration. Learn more and register here.