Winter 2020 News & Events

As we wind down the year, we'd like to share some fall highlights, upcoming events, affiliate news, an alumni spotlight, and training updates. I am optimistic about our future and look forward to reconnecting next semester. Best wishes for a wonderful and restful winter break. Matt Hall, CPC Director
Fall Highlights and Spring Events
CPC Seminar Series

Highlights from the fall and co-sponsored talks include Stéphane Helleringer (New York University, Abu Dhabi), "Preventing the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Malawi: Initial Results from a Panel Study"; Daniel Schneider (Harvard Kennedy School), "Essential and Unprotected? Service Sector Work in a time of COVID19", and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field (University of Minnesota), "The Black Deaths America Treats as Normal". Recordings from CPC hosted talks and can be viewed online.
Visit the Cornell Population Center
Naomi Sugie (University of California Irvine) will kick off the spring semester with a talk titled, "Concentrated Disadvantage and Stress in Daily Life". Maarten Bijlsma (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research), Emily Smith-Greenaway (University of Southern California), and Joscha Legewie (Harvard University) follow. The Innovations series co-sponsors include the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS), the Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI), and the Department of Policy Analysis and Management (PAM).
Affiliates in the Racism in America Webinar Series
Peter Enns (GOV) and Anna Haskins (SOC) served on the first panel of the yearlong Cornell Arts and Sciences, Racism in America series, “Policing and Incarceration". Dan Lichter (PAM) and Kendra Bischoff (SOC) were panelists on the second panel of the yearlong series, "Education: Segregation still ‘in force’ in US schools, neighborhoods". Spring panels are planned with extensive resources and references available online.

Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS)
The CAPS Upstate New York consortium with Syracuse University, the Cornell Population Center, and the University at Albany School of Public Health held its first annual conference with keynote speaker, Clare Bambra (Newcastle University). CAPS is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) P30 Demography and Economics of Aging Centers program. 
COVID-19 Affiliate Research and Outreach

Francine D. Blau (ILR), Pamela Meyerhofer (Ph.D. PAM '20), and Josefine Koebe (CPC affiliated ILR Visiting Scholar '19) research Econofact: Essential and Frontline workers in the Covid-19 Crisis was cited in "The Elderly vs. Essential Workers: Who Should Get the Coronavirus Vaccine First?" Read the article in the NY Times.

Nicolas Bottan (PAM) with Bridget Hoffmann and Diego Vera-Cossio published, "The unequal impact of the coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from seventeen developing countries" in Plos One.

Matt Hall (PAM) discussed populations in NYS with underlying health conditions and rates of COVID-19 infection in the article, "Cornell Researchers Predicted Virus Stronghold On Upstate Counties With Vulnerable Populations" at WICZ.

Erin McCauley (Ph.D. Candidate in SOC) with Katherine Lemasters, Kathryn Nowotny, and Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein published the article, "COVID-19 cases and testing in 53 prison systems" in Health and Justice.

Nicolas R. Ziebarth (PAM) was cited in the article, "Paid Sick Leave Significantly Reduces COVID-19 Cases, Study Finds" in Huffpost and in Marketplace.

Stefan Pichler with Katherine Wen (Ph.D. Candidate in PAM) and Nicolas Ziebarth (PAM) published "COVID-19 Emergency Sick Leave Has Helped Flatten The Curve In The United States" in Health Affairs.

Grant Development Program
Be on the lookout for an exciting collaboration with CCSS and the Cornell Center for Health Equity to launch an NIH grant development program next semester. Erin York Cornwell (SOC) is CPC's Grant Development Program Director.
Training Program Updates
Demography Graduate Student Proseminar
The demography training proseminar covers a mix of topics, from professional development to statistical methods, while introducing students to the community of demographers on campus. CPC Associate Director, Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue (DSOC) gave the final proseminar of the semester on demographic decomposition. Earlier semester topics included, PAA 2021 prep with Doug Miller (PAM), Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) resources from the CISER team, William Block, Florio Arguillas, and Lynda Kellam, and how to get a draft paper out the door and under review with Landon Schnabel (SOC).

Research Funds for Graduate Students

To encourage academic and professional growth, CPC launched a Rapid Response Grant Program to fund graduate student research. All CPC graduate student affiliates are eligible, with strong priority given to demography minors. Projects must focus on demographic topics. In the first two rounds, CPC training co-directors, Vida Maralani (SOC) and Doug Miller (PAM) awarded grants to Alexandra Cooperstock (Ph.D., SOC, expected ‘22), Erin McCauley (Ph.D., SOC, expected ‘22), Yoselinda Mendoza (Ph. D., SOC, expected ‘22), Giulia Olivero (Ph.D., PAM, expected ‘23), Katharine Sadowski (Ph.D., PAM, expected ‘24), Juhwan Seo (Ph.D., SOC, expected ‘25), and Li Zhu (Ph.D., PAM, expected ‘22).


Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellows Working Group

The final postdoc working group of the semester focused on research by Gaoxia Zhu (Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Development) titled, "Profiling Youth and Examining Their Motivation in A Self-Driving Learning Project". The working group meets monthly and is cosponsored by CPC, the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, CCSS, and CSI.

Affiliate Highlights
Faculty Affiliate Spotlight
Erin York Cornwell (SOC) with Alyssa Goldman (Ph.D., SOC '20; Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston College), recently published "Neighborhood Disorder and Distress in Real Time: Evidence from a Smartphone-Based Study of Older Adults" in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Welcome New Affiliate
Duanyi Yang (ILR School, Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History) studies labor relations, gender, work and family policies, worker voice and unions. Yang's research investigates how organizational human resource management policies operate within different institutional contexts and in the face of globalization, migration, and demographic shifts.
CPC Alumni Recognition
Fenaba Addo (Ph.D., PAM '12, CPC Graduate Research Assistant '11, Associate Professor, UW-Madison) is an economic demographer whose research examines the role of economic resources in the family, relationships, and on wellbeing. Her recent work explores racial disparities in student-loan debt and its relationship to wealth inequality within communities of color and among economically vulnerable populations. Addo believes that policy matters for addressing inequality within our society and shares that her interdisciplinary training at Cornell taught her to ask policy-relevant questions that have led her to where she is today. Addo appreciates her many mentors, including Sharon Sassler (PAM), and Dan Lichter (PAM) who positively impacted her while at Cornell and continue to, today. Addo will begin the next phase of her academic career in January 2021 as an Associate Professor of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill and a Carolina Population Center affiliate. 

Graduate Student Spotlight
Emily Parker (Ph.D. Candidate, PAM, expected May '21) is broadly interested in health and social policy, poverty and inequality, as well as gender and family. Her dissertation uses in-depth interviews, spatial demographic methods, and archival research to study access to health care for low-income Americans, and recently received APPAM's Best Comparative Policy Paper award. Congratulations Emily!
 
Undergraduate Student Spotlight
Julia Eddelbuettel (B.A., PAM, expected '22) is a demography minor and interested in public economics, public health, and social policy, with a specific focus on women’s reproductive rights policy. She is a research assistant and lab manager in Rosemary Avery's (PAM) Pharmaceutical Advertising Databases Lab. Eddelbuettel's honor’s thesis is an analysis of state-level policy hostility toward abortion rights and women’s contraceptive use and unintended pregnancy rates.

Affiliate Research and Awards
John Abowd (Economics, Statistics and Information Science, U.S. Census Bureau) was elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Chris Barrett (AEM) recently published the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability/Nature Sustainability report, "Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems" on the Nature Sustainability website, in collaboration with its sibling journal, Nature Food.

Maria Fitzpatrick (Economics, PAM, Cornell Institute of Public Policy) is Cornell’s new associate vice provost for social sciences. Read the more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Erin McCauley (Ph.D. Candidate in SOC) received a Fahs-Beck Doctoral Dissertation Grant funded by The New York Community Trust for Dissertation and Faculty Research in the Human Services for her dissertation project, "Detained Potential: Associative Stigma as a Core Mechanism Behind Educational Inequality for Children of Incarcerated Mothers."

Victor Nee (SOC) with Lucas Drouhot (Ph.D., '18 and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) published “Immigration, Opportunity and Assimilation in a Technology Economy,” in Theory and Society.

Emily Parker (Ph.D. Candidate in PAM), Sharon Sassler (PAM), and Laura Tach (PAM) published, "Fatherhood and Racial-Ethnic Differences in the Progression of Romantic Relationships" in the Journal of Family and Marriage.

Karl Pillemer (Human Development) published the book, “Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them,” Read more in the Cornell Chronicle. Listen to Pillemer discuss the stigma of estrangement and steps to reconciliation in this video.

Adriana Reyes (PAM) has been selected as a USC Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research scholar to advance her research on how different state policies affect family caregiving strategies for adults with cognitive decline. Read more in the USC Health Policy news.

Sharon Sassler (PAM) has been elected to the Population Association of America Nominations Committee and serves as committee chair.

Mildred Warner (CRP) received the Margarita McCoy Faculty Award for the advancement of women in planning in higher education through service, teaching and research. Read more in the Cornell Chronicle.

Population Studies in Practice: The New York Minute 
The New York Minute is published through the Cornell Program on Applied Demographics every other month and highlights NYS trends and data sources on varying community development topics. Read the most recent edition, Unemployment Trends across New York State: The Impact of COVID-19 by Robin Blakely-Armitage, Jan Vink, and Adriana Hernandez.



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