In spring 2025, CSDE celebrated its 75th anniversary a couple of years after the actual event..  The program and event can be found here and photos from the event can be found here.  If you attended and want to share photos, please send them to Maddie Farris (email: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu).  Along with a great program of presentations, we also gathered wonderful historical perspectives about CSDE that can be found here.  During the event, CSDE inaugurated a new fund for graduate student research, generously established by Charles and Josephine Hirschman. The inaugural awardees were Todd Nobles (Sociology) for his research in the national archives about German internment in the U.S. during the world wars and Aryaa Rajouria (Sociology) for her research in Nepal on the dynamic relationship between migration and environmental conditions. Both awardees reflect the breadth of Charlie Hirschman’s research legacy.  We are looking forward to next year and we welcome your support in all forms of sharing.  In these times especially, CSDE welcomes donations to our standing gift funds.

CSDE affiliates you are invited to join the Evidence Matters webinar on August 28 at noon.  Hosted by King County, J-PAL North America, and the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunity at Notre Dame, the webinar will focus on homelessness prevention.   From Evidence to Action: Translating Homelessness Prevention Across Communities will demonstrate how targeted, rapid, flexible financial assistance prevents homelessness—and saves communities money. With rising housing insecurity and strained budgets, it’s critical to act on what works. But every community is different.  How can we take a proven solution from one community and make it work in another?

 

From Evidence to Action: Translating Homelessness Prevention Across Communities

The evidence is clear:  targeted, rapid, flexible financial assistance prevents homelessness—and saves communities money. With rising housing insecurity and strained budgets, it’s critical to act on what works. But every community is different.  How can we take a proven solution from one community and make it work in another?

 

Join your webinar hosts Carrie S. Cihak (King County Evidence & Impact Office) and Vincent Quan (J-PAL North America Co-Director) on Aug. 28 for a conversation on moving from evidence to impact in homelessness prevention.

 

Our panelists David Phillips (LEO), Chad Bojorquez (Destination : Home), Jessica Orozco (Santa Clara County OSH), and Alyson Moon (Mary’s Place) will share lessons from building collaborative partnerships that turn research into practical solutions for preventing homelessness. Using Santa Clara County’s homelessness prevention system as a case study, we’ll discuss how local governments can replicate evidence-based models in their own contexts utilizing the Homelessness Prevention System Toolkit—a step-by-step guide, co-created by researchers, policymakers and practitioners— that equips leaders across the country to build and launch their own homelessness prevention system.

You’ll learn:

• How evidence-based prevention models can translate across varied community settings
• Why partnerships between research, policy and practice are critical to building impactful, sustainable systems
• How the HPS Toolkit provides a flexible blueprint for rapid, effective deployment and how the Right at Home initiative aims to prevent homelessness nationwide

 

Thurs, Aug 28, 2025

• 3:00-4:15 PM ET / 12:00-1:15 PM PT
  Part of the Evidence Matters series hosted by King County, LEO, and J-PAL North America.
• Register here!

Recently, CSDE Scientist Sofia Ayala, along with CSDE Affiliates Sara Curranand Abie Flaxman engaged with the Association of Public Data Users.  Further, Flaxman attended their unConference and Data Integrity Summit, where he heard repeated calls for ways to make it easier for all of us to be champions for public data. So, at APDU members’ request, APDU created a comprehensive, up-to-date slide deck that anyone can use to brief their colleagues on the latest developments in the federal statistical system. We think you’ll want to know the lates and thought we should share it with you.

CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat (Epidemiology) was recently featured in a South Seattle Emerald story titled, “As Air Pollution Rises, Local Programs Help South Seattle Families Breathe Easier.” South Seattle is subject to worse air pollution than other areas of Seattle due to redlining and nearby polluting industries, however, it is also one of the more affordable places to live in the city. Dr. Hajat is featured in this story confirming that airport traffic, highway air pollution, and industries contribute to higher rates of air pollution in the area. This article describes how local programs such as the Duwamish Air Improvement for Youth (DAISY), run jointly by Dr. Hajat and Paulina Lopez at the Duwamish River Community Coalition (DRCC) are helping those who have asthma and are affected by the air pollution.  To read the full article, visit this link.

CSDE Affiliate Leigh Anderson and the EPAR group at the Evans School have published a new brief titled, “CRIFS Technical Brief: Who is a small-scale producer? A proposed operational definition – EPAR,” that proposes a new operational definition of small-scale producers in the context of low and middle income countries. To read the full brief, visit this link.

CSDE External Affiliate Vedavati Patwardhan (Center on Gender Equity and Health, UC San Diego) recently published a research article in The Economic and Labour Relations Review titled, “Work-related decision-making and economic well-being among married women in India.” In this article, Dr. Patwardhan and co-authors use original survey data from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra to examine how married women’s agency over the decision to work influences economic inclusion. In all three states, women who make the decision to work independently are significantly more likely to engage in paid work than those whose spouses control this decision. In Maharashtra, sole work-related decision-making is also linked to higher savings and remittances sent by married women. In all three states, women who make work-related decisions jointly with their spouses have greater control over money. This study highlights work-related agency as a crucial dimension of women’s economic opportunities, adding to the growing evidence on the importance of women’s household bargaining power in shaping their economic participation. To read more about Dr. Patwardhan and her co-authors’ findings and results, visit this link.