CCPR Seminar, 4/15/2026, Graeme Blair (UCLA), Juliana Londono-Velez (UCLA), Daniel Haanwinckel (UCLA), “Course Release and Seed Grant Talks" #CCPR #UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEventTrading

Latinos make up nearly 1 in 5 people in the U.S. and have longer life expectancy than average, but that “survival advantage” masks health disparities. New research by Anne Pebley & Noreen Goldman explores why.

Read more: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Call for Technical Advisory Group on Maternal Mortality The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking experts to serve as members of the Technical Advisory Group on Maternal Mortality and Maternal Cause of Death Estimation. The below “Call for experts” pr...

Congratulations to CCPR affiliate @alisongemmill.bsky.social on her reappointment to the @who.int Technical Advisory Group on Maternal Mortality and Maternal Cause of Death Estimation.

Learn more about the group: www.who.int/news-room/ar...

Professor Jennie Brand and collaborator receive Russell Sage Foundation Grant – California Center for Population Research CCPR Faculty Fellow, Professor Jennie Brand, and  UCLA alumna XI Song (Columbia University) received a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for their project “Occupational Restructuring, Job Displacement, and Worker Mobility.”  Their project will evaluate how restructuring U.S. occupations affects workers’ opportunities and career trajectories in an era of technological change. They will construct a database of occupational restructuring to systematically classify and analyze new and declining forms of work by evaluating their short- and long-term employment change; conduct a historical analysis of the impact of occupational restructuring on intergenerational mobility over the second half of the twentieth century; and lastly, they will assess contemporary risk and vulnerability of workers to occupational restructuring with attention to jobs affected by AI.

CCPR Faculty Fellow, Professor Brand, and collaborator receive a Russell Sage Foundation grant to evaluate the restructuring of U.S. occupations on workers’ opportunities and career trajectories in an era of technological change. @jenniebrand.bsky.social #UCLA #CCPR

CCPR Director Martha Bailey discusses how the declining U.S. fertility rate could still reverse course with the New York Times. @marthajbailey.bsky.social #UCLA #CCPR

CCPR Seminar, 4/08/2026, Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA), “The Impact of Medicare’s Introduction on Life Expectancy” #CCPR #UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEventTrading

CCPR Seminar, 4/01/2026, Laurence Baker (Stanford University), “Does the form of medical practice affect health care utilization and costs?”
hashtag#CCPR hashtag#UCLA hashtag#CCPRWednesdays hashtag#UCLAEventTrading

The Economics of Childbearing: Trends, Progress, and Challenges The neoclassical economics of childbearing turns 65 this year, marking the anniversary of Gary Becker's foundational article on the subject in 1960. This review article begins with a study of how...

Find #CCPR Director @marthajbailey.bsky.social paper here:

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing.

U.S. birth rates have been declining, but #CCPR Director @marthajbailey.bsky.social finds that there has been no drop in the number of children born over the last 30 years.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

15,000 athletes are expected for LA28. Here's an inside look at where they'll stay As preparations for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games get underway throughout Los Angeles, UCLA is getting ready to transition its campus into the Athlete Village.

As UCLA looks ahead to hosting the Athlete Village in 2028, UCLA Housing and Hospitality's senior executive chef Joey Martin spoke to @nbcla.com about what's in store. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/1...

Exploring Racial and Ethnic Differences in Utilization of Medications for Obesity Management in a Nationally Representative Survey - PubMed The results of this study suggest that there are racial and ethnic disparities in the use of obesity-management medications.

New research from @ccpratucla.bsky.social finds racial and ethnic gaps in U.S obesity-management medication use. Eligible Asian, Black and Hispanic adults are less likely than White adults to receive obesity medications even after adjusting for health and socioeconomic factors. #HealthEquity

📢 Call for Papers: 2026 Reproduction of Society Conference

How do contraception, fertility preferences, and policy design shape the modern fertility decline?

Submit your paper by April 3, 2026. Learn more: https://ow.ly/1brw50YkvFY

PAA loves first timer attendees! Yay @elijahjwatson.bsky.social - we are having a special mixer for early career PAA folk from 4:30-6pm on Weds May 6 before the traditional Welcome Mixer at 6pm and we'd love to have you join us @popassocamerica.bsky.social

Eugene Chan and Barbara Jean Wong during Chinese New Year celebration in Los Angeles.

Group of Chinese-American percussionists play during the Chinese New Year celebration while surrounded by a crowd, Los Angeles.

Chinese lion being readied for the New Year celebration in Chinatown, Los Angeles.

Happy Lunar New Year — today marks the beginning of the Year of the Horse! 🐴🎊 Wishing you good luck and prosperity this year 🧧🥠
📸 Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library Special Collections

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Segregation Tracking Project Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.

VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here!

New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more!

edopportunity.org/segregation/

Congratulations to @uclacollege.bsky.social faculty affiliate Juliana Londoño-Velez--one of the 2026 #SloanFellows!!!

Congratulations to CCPR faculty affiliate Juliana Londoño-Velez--2026 #SloanFellows!!! newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/3-u...

I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....

CCPR Workshop, 1/21/2026, Matias D. Cattaneo, (Princeton University), "Boundary Discontinuity Designs: Theory and Practice” #CCPR #UCLA Geo #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent

Comment on After the Spike at UCLA event Me responding to a talk by Michael Geruso about his book with Dean Spears, After the Spike.

I had the opportunity to comment on Spears and Geruso's book After the Spike at an event at @ccpratucla.bsky.social last night, thanks to @marthajbailey.bsky.social. My remarks transcribed:

@mikegeruso.bsky.social, UT Austin, “After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People” CCPR Book Talk today at 6:00 pm in 314 Royce Hall! #CCPR #UCLA @uclacollege.bsky.social #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

@philipncohen.com, University of Maryland, “Research Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar” CCPR Book Talk today at 12:00pm in 4240 Pub Aff!
#CCPR #UCLA @uclacollege.bsky.social #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvents #Seminar

I need to take a cue from @philipncohen.com and do more to disseminate my academic research on the determinants of fertility. I am looking forward to his book talk on Wednesday at @ccpratucla.bsky.social .

This week CCPR's seminar series will feature @philipncohen.com discussing his book, "Research is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar." Join us on January 14 @12pm in Public Affairs 337.

CCPR is excited to host
@mikegeruso.bsky.social to discuss his book, After the Spike, Wednesday, Jan 11 @6pm, in UCLA's 314 Royce Hall. Comments by CCPR Director @marthajbailey.bsky.social
& @philipncohen.com. Reception to follow. RSVP here: eventsrsvp.ucla.edu/CCPRLecture2...

ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.

UCLA CCPR Faculty Affiliate Professor Graeme Blair, co-director of the Deportation Data Project, highlights new ICE data showing federal crackdowns are arresting mostly immigrants with no criminal record — far more non-offenders than serious criminals. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

CCPR Workshop, 12/3/25, Development Workshop: Mary Jo Mitchell (Director of Gov’t and Public Affairs, PAA), “Engaging Policymakers: Role of PAA/APC and Population Scientists” on Zoom #CCPR #UCLA@UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent

CCPR Seminar, 11/12/25, Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia, “Development Mismatch?:
Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa” #CCPR #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #seminar#CampusEvent

CCPR Seminar, 11/12/25, Manasi Deshpande, Johns Hopkins University, “Explaining the Historical Rise and Recent Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment” #CCPR #UCLA @UCLA #CCPRWednesdays #UCLAEvent #CampusEvent

Global Fellows Program in Demography The PSTC has a long-standing tradition of hosting scholars, researchers, and practitioners from diverse corners of the globe.

The Brown Population Studies & Training Center is accepting applications to our Global Fellows Program. The program is for early- & mid-career demographers. We are especially interested in applications from scholars from low & middle-income countries. Share & apply! pstc.brown.edu/programs-and...