*New* CSDE Workshop: Introduction to Text as Data (10/22/24)
Text data has gained popularity over the last decade due to the increased data availability, the emergence of new methods, and the decreasing costs of computational resources. Based on the book Text As Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences, this workshop introduces the methods that could be used to select and represent text, conduct research discoveries, and build measurements out of text data.
We will review the principles briefly, take an overview of the methods for each section, and deep dive into one or two of the most common methods using Python. This workshop is designed to help researchers in social science and demography with no prior experience in working with text.
The event will take place on Tuesday, Oct 22, 2024, from 10 – 11:30 a.m. Learn more and register here.
Research from Doll and Co-Authors Featured in Article on Endometrial Cancer Screening
New research from CSDE Affiliate Kemi Doll (Obstetrics & Gynecology) and co-authors finds that a common endometrial cancer screening procedure missed cases in almost 10% of Black female patients. The article, entitled “Endometrial Thickness as Diagnostic Triage for Endometrial Cancer Among Black Individuals” and recently quoted in a Health.com article, highlights the high probability of false negatives for Black women in a retrospective study and recommends tissue biopsy in an effort to reduce this rate. Read the full study here.
*New* CSDE Workshop: Introduction to Text as Data (10/22/24)
Research Professor, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan (10/25/24)
*New* Book Talk with Dr. Randa Tawil (10/22/24)
Join the Jackson School of International Studies and the Simpson Center for the Humanities for a book talk with Dr. Randa Tawil on Tuesday, October 22nd at 3:30pm in Communications 202. Dr. Tawil is the 2024-2025 CHCI/ACLS scholar-in-residence and will give a short talk (25 minutes) on the topic of her fellowship, Race in Transit: Mobility Between Greater Syria and U.S. Empire. It will be followed by a reception sponsored by the Jackson School of International Studies and the Simpson Center. Email Caitlin Palo (cpalo@uw.edu) if you would like to attend.
RANDA TAWIL is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University. Her research focuses on race, gender, and mobility in the 20th century, particularly from SWANA (Southwest Asia/North Africa) to and through U.S. Empire.
She is currently a Consortium of Humanities Centers & Institutes visiting scholar at University of Washington and a fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies. Her book project, Race in Transit: Mobility Between Greater Syria and U.S. Empire, follows the itineraries of migrants from Ottoman Syria through Beirut, Marseille, the US-Mexico Borderlands, U.S.-occupied Philippines, and the United States to examine how transnational patriarchy forged the global color line, and to surface mobility’s central role in the construction of race, sexuality, and gender. She argues that gendered and classed differences in Ottoman Syria were exacerbated by the transit of migrants through multiple empires and became racialized in unstable ways as migrants encountered the emerging multi-sited U.S. empire. She shows how migrants’ experiences reveal the messy relations between local and global constructions of race and transnational patriarchy and the consequence for migrants who straddle racial categories.
Pelletier, Allard, and Colleagues Publish Insights on the Unequal Availability of Childcare
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