See below for highlights of the Fall term, news of our affiliates, training and fellowship opportunities, and upcoming events in Spring 2020. I wish you all the best for the coming holidays and look forward to seeing you in the new year! Kelly Musick , CPC Director

Fall Highlights

Differential Privacy in the 2020 US Census

CPC and Policy Analysis and Management (PAM) hosted a panel on September 20 addressing implications of differentially privatized data. Matthew Hall (PAM) moderated, and panelists included John Abowd (ECON and U.S. Census Bureau), Andrew Beveridge (Queens College, CUNY), Abraham Flaxman (University of Washington), and Shannon Monnat (Syracuse University). Link to 2020 Census panel presentations, resources, and news.

Upstate Population Workshop

The Center for Aging and Policy Studies at Syracuse University hosted this year's 8th Annual Upstate Population Workshop on November 1. Douglas Miller (PAM, CPC Training Co-Director) presented Dynamic Effects of Local Unemployment Shocks on Mortality , and CPC students, postdocs, and faculty participated in flash sessions and roundtables.   Link to more about the 2019 Upstate Population Workshop.

Grant Development Program (GDP)

CPC hel d a GDP Workshop on December 13. Vida Maralani (SOC, CPC Training Co-Director) and Matt Hall (PAM) shared tips from recent NICHD grant submissions, and Kelly Musick (PAM, CPC Director) talked about the review process. Read more about CPC's Grant Development Program.

Upcoming Training Opportunities and Innovations Seminars

Emilio Zagheni , Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, will give the Spring 2020 Methods Minicourse Introduction to Digital and Computational Demography on February 6. Aimed at students, postdocs, and faculty, it will focus on interpreting digital trace data with emphasis on modern demographic analysis and big data-driven discovery.

CPC has an exciting line-up for its Innovations in Population Science Seminar Series , including Amanda Stevenson (University of Colorado at Boulder) on March 6 presenting The Educational and Poverty Impacts of Access to Contraception in the US . Next in line are Robert Sampson (Harvard University) and Giovanna Merli (Duke University). Co-sponsors include CCSS, CSI, OVPR, PAM, and SOC.  Link to CPC's complete list of seminars and events .

John Cawley (PAM) will lead the Graduate Training Proseminar on January 24 addressing Causal Analyses of Health Behaviors . The Spring 2020 lineup includes sessions on mentoring, presenting research, journal submissions, and PAA 2020 practice talks. Link to CPC Graduate Training Proseminar.

Affiliate Spotlights

Kim Weeden (SOC) recently received Cornell's prestigious Stephen H. Weiss Teaching Award . Her work is also featured by Cornell Research in Work: Aspirations, Inequalities, Markets .  Link to CPC faculty affiliates .

Etienne Breton (Postdoctoral Associate, PAM and CPC) studies family and gender dynamics in developing countries. His work on Modernization and Household Composition in India, 1983–2009 came out last month in Population and Development Review .  Link to CPC postdoctoral affiliates .

Alyssa Goldman (Ph.D., SOC, expected 2020), Erin York-Cornwell (SOC), and Kathleen Cagney (University of Chicago) are using data from the Chicago Health and Activity Space in Real-Time (CHART) study to examine the activity spaces of urban older adults and how they contribute to health inequalities. Link to CPC graduate student affiliates .

Isabella Harnick (B.S., PAM, expected 2021) is minoring in demography. She has created new opportunities for fellow students through her work on the HumEcathon and PAM’s Careers Class . She will spend Spring 2020 in Copenhagen studying public health. Read more about CPC's undergraduate minors.

Postdoctoral Fellowship Call for Applications  The Big Data/Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship in PAM combines expertise in big data/data science and policy analysis. It includes working with demographers and economists on new research and helping to develop undergraduate training in data science. Applications are due December 31. For more information and to apply, go to http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/15116.

Affiliate Highlights

Kendra Bischoff (SOC) and Noliwe Rooks (Africana Studies & Research Center) discuss the current state of schools in New York City. Watch Inside Cornell: Addressing Diversity, Segregation in NYC Schools . Warren Brown (PAD and FSRDC) addresses state concerns about their data being weaponized against unauthorized immigrants. Read Declining Response Rates Weaken Government Surveys--and Policies . Elizabeth Day (CIPA, BCTR), Maria Fitzpatrick (PAM), and Thomas O'Toole (CIPA) are integrating data science into CIPA's curriculum to increase proficiency in data science. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle . Dan Lichter (PAM) and Christopher Wildeman (PAM) discuss contemporary issues facing rural communities in the podcast The Issues of Rural America . Kelly Musick (PAM) examines persistent inequalities in parenting and the earnings penalties that go along with them. Listen to Unequal Parenting on Cornell's What Makes us Human podcast . Adriana Reyes (PAM) published new work on Race/Ethnic Differences in Spatial Distance Between Adult Children and Their Mothers in the Journal of Marriage and Family and Mitigating Poverty through the Formation of Extended Family Households: Race and Ethnic Differences in Social Problems . Lars Vilhuber (ILR) contributed to updates of the American Economic Association policy aimed at improving replicability in research. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle .

New Faculty Affiliates

Roger Figueroa (Division of Nutritional Science) combines concepts and methods across disciplinary boundaries to examine the social and behavioral determinants of health, with a particular focus on children’s energy-balance behaviors in underrepresented and low-income communities.

Tristan Ivory (ILR) is working on a multi-year, multi-sited longitudinal interview project that will track Sub-Saharan middle-class high-school and college students as they begin professional careers to assess the correlation between international migration and better economic and social outcomes.

William Schpero ( Weill Cornell Medical College) studies Medicaid and the U.S. health care safety net. He aims to inform federal and state policy, as well as the work of health care providers and organizations that serve vulnerable and high-need, high-cost patient populations. Link to CPC faculty affiliates .

Population Studies in Practice: White Paper and The New York Minute

Adriana Hernández (PAD) presents key findings on the status of headship rates and household formation in New York State and implications for the future in Headship Rates and Household Formation in New York State, 2012-2017 .

Robin Blakely-Armitage (CaRDI), Jan Vink (PAD), and Adriana Hernandez (PAD) published Conducting a Fair & Accurate 2020 Census in NYS: Mapping Hard to Count Communities , providing a variety of overlays at various geographic levels to identify the hard-to-count population and inform outreach efforts. Link to the New York Minute .

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