In a recent story from the Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Negócios, CSDE Affiliate Kam Wing Chan (Geography) was quoted about the impact of China’s hukou (household registration) system on the Chinese economy. Chan’s analysis highlights how the system discriminates against migrants and contributes to reduced domestic consumption. Find the full (translated) article here.
Biomarker Working Group Winter Quarter Meetings
The CSDE Biomarker Working Group is a forum for discussions of practical and theoretical issues associated with collecting and using biomarker data in social and behavioral science research. This working group is open to all students, faculty, and staff and meets on the first Thursday of each month. Subscribe to the mailing list here!
Winter Quarter meetings:
Dates: Feb 6, March 6
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: Raitt 223
Organizer: Tiffany Pan (tpan@uw.edu)
Mokdad Discusses the Factors Contributing to Disparate Life Expectancy
Population health scientists have recently documented growing disparities in life expectancy across U.S. status. In a recent Stateline article, CSDE Affiliate Ali Mokdad (Health Metrics Sciences, Epidemiology) addresses this trend and describes how wealthier, more urban, and better-educated populations tend to have higher life expectancies. Mokdad, whose research was recently published with Affiliate Laura Dwyer-Lindgren (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) in The Lancet, explains that this is partly due to the adoption of policies that promote health, such as stricter gun laws and expanded Medicaid coverage as well as preventable risk factors, including obesity and smoking. Read the full article here.
NSF Graduate Research Internships in Forensic Science and Criminal Justice Contexts (Applications accepted at any time)
The National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice are inviting supplemental funding requests under the NSF-NIJ INTERN program, which allows graduate students to explore non-academic research internships in forensic science and other criminal justice fields. Read the dear colleague letter.
Senior Tenured Researcher, French Institute for Demographic Studies (2/12/25)
Evans School Research Seminar: Dowell Myers, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy (2/11/25)
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 – 12:00 – 1:00pm, Parrington Hall 360
Dowell Myers, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
This seminar is co-host by the College of Built Environments. Please note that we will have a special Tuesday seminar. The seminar location is still PAR 360.
Dr. Myers will present a paper, Extending Analysis of the Great Misalignment Between Housing and Population.
Abstract:Major omissions of demographic factors in policy making are argued to be a principal cause of the crisis of housing shortages since the Great Recession. Overlooked changes in cohort size and lagged measurements have misled about current housing preferences, and quantity of housing needed, with mistiming producing extreme volatility. Restrictions of credit and supply legislated in 2010 were aimed at curbing the excesses of the early 2000s bubble but clashed after 2010 with requirements of much larger millennial cohorts, creating shortages first in rentals, then in homes for sale. For lack of apparent input of any demographic reasoning, analysis by policy makers and contributing housing experts omitted crucial temporal factors shaping demand. Thus was constructed the great misalignment between population and housing. This paper considers how housing policy should be crafted in anticipation of housing needs based on changing cohort sizes and the active demands of expected life-course transitions. Principles of housing demography can help integrate these population dynamics with temporal dynamics of the housing stock itself.
Evans School Research Seminar to Host Dr. Dowell Myers (2/11/25)
Next week, the Evans School will host Dr. Dowell Myers from the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. In the research seminar, he will present a paper about housing policy: Extending Analysis of the Great Misalignment Between Housing and Population. Please note that this is a Tuesday event.
CSDE and the College of Built Environments (CBE) are co-hosting this seminar. To sign up for meetings with Dr. Myers, please follow this link.
CS&SS Seminar on the Limits of Traditional Null Hypothesis Testing (2/12/25)
At the weekly seminar hosted by the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), Dr. Yuichi Shoda (Psychology) will present on the limits of traditional null hypothesis significance testing in scientific endeavors. For example, increasing the precision of a study (e.g., by increasing the sample size) makes it easier to find statistical significance, with the result that any theory predicting a non-zero effect is considered supported—even if it explains only a small portion of the phenomenon of interest. This is not the case when using the “null regions framework” if the observed value falls within the “null region”—the range of population values that researchers aim to rule out (e.g., effects or associations that are too small to matter, even if not exactly zero). This framework provides tests to address questions such as: “Is the effect strong enough to matter?” and “Is the effect close enough to the predicted value to suggest that the theory that predicted it should be retained?” Learn more here.
NIH Notice of Funding Opportunity: Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) (K12 Clinical Trial Optional) (RFA-OD-24-013)
The NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) and participating NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) invite institutional career development award applications for Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Career Development Programs, hereafter termed “Programs”. Programs will support mentored research career development of junior faculty members, known as BIRCWH Scholars, who have recently completed clinical training or postdoctoral fellowships, and who will be engaged in interdisciplinary basic, translational, data science, behavioral, clinical, and/or health services research relevant to the health of women and, where appropriate, the use of both sexes to better understand the influence of sex as a biological variable on health and disease.
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) allows appointment of Scholars (K12) proposing to serve as the lead investigator of an independent clinical trial; or proposing a separate ancillary clinical trial; or proposing to gain research experience in a clinical trial led by another investigator, as part of their research and career development.
Call for Research Proposals: Understanding the School Food Workforce Subgrants (due 2/14/25)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Food Insight Group, and Chef Ann Foundation recently announced a Request for Research Proposals entitled “Understanding the
School Food Workforce Subgrants.” The group is looking for research projects that will increase understanding of the current state of the K-12 school food workforce in the United States and/or explore strategies to create a stable and respected workforce that can provide healthy meals to students while supporting resilient local and regional food systems. You are invited to join an informational webinar on December 18 (register here) and access the full RFP here.