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
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Differential Privacy in the 2020 US Census
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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).
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Upstate Population Workshop
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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.
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Grant Development Program (GDP)
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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.
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Upcoming Training Opportunities and Innovations Seminars
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Call for Applications
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Population Studies in Practice: White Paper and The New York Minute
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Improving lives by exploring and shaping human connections to
natural, social, and built environments
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CORNELL LINK SAFETY TIP: In many email programs and browsers, hovering over a link *without* clicking lets you see the real destination for the link, often displayed in the bottom corner. You can trust links where cornell.edu appears right before the FIRST slash (/). Check all others closely, and
confirm the source
before you click. Never give away your NetID password -- not in email, not on the phone, not in person.
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