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California Center for Population Research, University of California, Los Angeles

  • Jennie Brand, Director
  • Patrick Heuveline, Associate Director
  • Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Associate Director

CCPR research increases scientific knowledge of population dynamics and their effects on reproductive and population health. Future improvements in public health require deeper understanding of the demographic and social determinants of health and, conversely, the effects of health on population dynamics and socioeconomic status. CCPR research seeks to understand these processes to improve public health.

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Childhood Trauma Has Lifelong Health Consequences for Women

Trauma and adversity in childhood raise the risk of numerous health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and mental illness in adulthood.1 Several recent studies found that women who experienced childhood adversity are more likely to have their first child early or outside of marriage and face a higher risk of cancer than men….

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Hispanics’ Longer Life Expectancy Linked to Migration, Smoking Patterns

U.S. Hispanics tend to defy the odds: They outlive non-Hispanic whites by three years on average, despite having lower income and education levels. In 2014, life expectancy at birth for the U.S. Hispanic population was 81.8 years, compared with 78.8 years for the U.S. non-Hispanic white population.1 For nearly three decades, demographers have probed why…

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The Economic and Social Consequences of Job Loss and Unemployment

In this recording of a webinar, Jennie E. Brand, associate professor of sociology and associate director of the California Center for Population Research (CCPR) at UCLA, and Till von Wachter, associate professor of economics and faculty affiliate of CCPR at UCLA, discussed some of the short-term and long-term consequences of job loss and unemployment for…

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