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Polarization in U.S. state policy has driven geographic disparities in population health, but most studies focus on concurrent policy contexts rather than cumulative exposure over the life course. A life course perspective is crucial because individuals experience varied policy environments at different stages, shaping long-term health outcomes, including cognitive health. Using restricted-access data from the […]

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Population Research Discovery Seminars Christy Erving, Sociology, University of Texas – Austin Recently, scholars have attempted to bring voice to Black women’s interpersonal experiences with gendered racism by developing measures that capture their intersectional oppression. Missing from this small, but growing, literature is the nuance of life course dynamics which suggest that Black women’s gendered-racialized […]

Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the co-director of Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing. She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development. Her current research […]

Population Research Discovery Seminars Ann Chih Lin, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan In the forty years since the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), no significant reform to the structure of immigration law has made it through the U.S. Congress.  Yet during those forty years, how immigrants enter the United […]

An ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods Topical Workshop Learn how structural equation models compare to other approaches to causal inference, and how to apply it to your research! Goals: Course goals include providing participants with the skills necessary to apply causal inference using a structural equation modeling approach in their own research and to […]

An ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods Topical Workshop If you're interested in phenomenon that moves over time, this is the Workshop for you! Goals: To teach students the problems that "memory" in time series poses to OLS models. To teach students how to choose the proper time series model for their research question. To […]

Population Research Discovery Seminars Natasha Iskander, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University With the rightward turn of governments in migrant-receiving countries, policy approaches to labor immigration have shifted from an emphasis on labor market integration to the punitive enforcement of controls against migrant workers who are undocumented or otherwise out of status.  These hardline […]

An ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods Topical Workshop Summarize, visualize, and model network data using R and the Netify package. Goals: Introduce the core concepts of network analysis, emphasizing practical applications for social science research. Guide participants through summarizing, visualizing, and modeling network data using R and the netify package. Equip attendees with a […]

Join the first webinar in a new series on Human-AI Teaming (HAT)—a critical and rapidly evolving area as AI systems shift from passive tools to active partners in work, learning, and decision-making. This session will explore the current state and future trajectory of human-AI collaboration. As AI begins to take on roles as coaches, assistants, […]

Population Research Discovery Seminars Holly Hummer, Sociology, University of British Columbia Co-Sponsor: Population Health

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), created by Congress in 1975 and expanded several times since, has grown into one of the nation’s largest anti-poverty programs, providing cash to millions of working, low-income families. On June 3, the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy and the Center for Economic Security and Opportunity at Brookings […]