*New* APPAM Webinar on the Future for Data Access (3/4/25)
Join the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) for a webinar focused on on data access and what researchers who rely on federal datasets for their work might expect in the future from the Trump administration.
The webinar will explore the availability of data on agency websites, access to confidential data, interaction with agency staff, and data continuity and quality. Panelists will assess what has changed and where efforts to get answers from the administration stand. The panel will also discuss the next steps in the pursuit against missing public information that underpins the research all our members engage in. Time will be reserved for audience questions. This webinar is free and open to all. Learn more and register here.
Speakers: Jed Kolko (Former Undersecretary for Economic Affairs at the Department of Commerce), Amy O’Hara (Director, Georgetown Federal Statistical Research Data Center), Steve Pierson (Director of Science Policy, American Statistical Association)
Moderator: Erica L. Groshen (Senior Economic Advisor, Cornell ILR School and Former Commissioner of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Huo Family Foundation Grants on Effects of Digital Technology in Children (4/2/25)
Postdoctoral Scholar, UW Center for Health and the Global Environment (ongoing)
Multiple faculty positions, Washington University School of Public Health
ICPSR Summer Scholarships in Quantitative Methods Now Available (2/28/25)
Scholarships for the 2025 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program are now open! These scholarships cover one of our General Sessions, where you can curate your own schedule of methods training to fit what you need for your research and goals.
View the full list of scholarships that we offer, along with scholarships offered in partnership with other organizations.
The deadline to apply for a scholarship is Friday, February 28.
Postdoctoral Scholar – University of Pennsylvania Population Studies Center (rolling)
*New* Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center (GECC) Offers Pilot Funding (3/1/25)
The new, NIA-funded GECC has pilot project funding available. The GECC facilitates research on the environmental determinants of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementials (ADRD) risk, resilience, and disparities, and emphasizes six environmental domains including climate and the physical environment.
Application deadline is March 1.
ASA Sociology of Population Section Student Paper Award (3/1/25)
The American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Population section is accepting nominations for the best student paper in the sociology of population. This award consists of a certificate and $500 award. The paper must use a sociological perspective to address an issue of relevance to contemporary demography, broadly construed; purely technical papers are not eligible. The paper can be published or unpublished and should be article-length (approximately 40 pages including tables and figures). Papers can be sole-authored or have multiple student authors. All authors must be currently enrolled in graduate school or have completed their Ph.D. degrees on or after January 1, 2024. No faculty co-authors are allowed.
Please send a letter of nomination with author name(s), title, date of publication, and a brief statement explaining the significance of the work and its contribution to the sociology of population. Self-nominations are welcome. Nominations and a copy of the article should be emailed to all committee members by March 1, 2025. Membership in the Sociology of Population Section of the ASA is not a requirement for the award but is encouraged.
Karen Benjamin Guzzo (Chair), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, karen.guzzo@unc.edu
Zoya Gubernskaya, University at Albany, zgubernskaya@albany.edu
Ohjae Gowen, Singapore Management University, ohjaegowen@smu.edu.sg
Sophia Chae, University of Montreal, sophia.chae@umontreal.ca
Won-tak Ju, University of Florida, wjoo@ufl.edu
*New* Joint Seminar for Development Economics (JSDE) to Host Natalie Bau (3/3/25)
The Joint Seminar in Development Economics (JSDE) Series will host Dr. Natalie Bau (UCLA) for a talk on Monday, March 3rd entitled “The Long-Term Effects of School Quality in Low-Income Countries: Evidence From 15 Years of Data”. The seminar will take place in person at 11:00am in Savery 410.
Abstract: “Using rich data following children over 15 years in Pakistani villages, we provide the first causal estimates of the effects of attending a better primary school on children’s long-term outcomes in a low-income setting. Exploiting panel test score data, which allow us to estimate and validate value-added measures of school quality, in combination with variation generated by moves across schools, we show that on average being exposed to a school that increases childhood test scores by 1 standard deviation, increases adult test scores by 0.2 standard deviations, total years of schooling by nearly 1 year, the likelihood of still studying as a young adult by 5 percentage points, of graduating high school by 10 ppt, and college enrollment by 5 ppt. A Mincerian exercise suggests that moving the children from the worst school to the best school in a village would generate present discounted wage gains of 280,000 USD for the average village.” Learn more here.