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Trainee Terry and Co-Authors Publish Study on Pre-K Costs and Maternal Labor Force Participation
CSDE Trainee Ellie Terry with two co-authors recently published a new working paper through the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas. The paper evaluates the effects of free pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) programs on the labor force participation of mothers using longitudinal data from the Current Population Survey. The authors find that access to free Pre-K programs increases overall maternal labor force participation by 2.3 percentage points.
Flaxman Joins Panel on COVID-19 Experience in Israel
On Thursday, November 18 at 8pm, CSDE Affiliate Abraham Flaxman will join Dr. Nadav Davidovitch, Professor of Health Systems Management at Ben-Gurion University, to discuss Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. You can register for the event here.
Small Area Estimation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This week CSDE Affiliate and Professor of Statistics Jon Wakefield will present his research on measuring the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) in low- and middle-income countries. In this talk, he will describe models that have been developed to produce the official United Nations (UN) subnational U5MR estimates in 22 countries. He will also discuss strategies for dealing with data sparsity and time and space, discrete and continuous spatial models, and a number of other modeling topics.
You can register for the seminar HERE, and check out all the upcoming topics and register for future seminars on our website.
This seminar is co-sponsored with the Population Health Initiative
UW is Selected as Next Editorial Home for Demography, 2022-2025
The Population Association of America has selected Sara Curran and a team of 25 editorial board members to lead the association’s flagship journal, Demography, for the next three years – from May 2022 through April 2025. Curran, CSDE Director, will be joined by an editorial board of UW faculty in Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Public Policy, Sociology, and Statistics, along with an equal number of faculty from Duke University, Emory University, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, National University of Singapore, Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of California at Riverside, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Minnesota. Demography has just moved to an open access platform with Duke University Press and this new organization presents good opportunities for further growing the impact of population research more broadly.
This exciting news is important recognition of the invaluable networks of collaboration with demographers across the country and the University of Washington’s capacities for demographic research. A decade ago, under the leadership of the Professor Emeritus Stewart Tolnay, UW also served as the editorial team home for Demography. CSDE is honored to be selected again and to support outstanding demographic research. UW and CSDE are picking up the editorial reins from Professor Mark Hayward and the Population Research Center at the University of Texas where the journal has been extremely well-managed and grown its scientific impact.