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March 2015
Children of Incarcerated Parents
UPDATE: See a video of the webinar >> The United States has more than 2 million people behind bars, and 45 percent were living with their children before they were imprisoned. U.S. children of incarcerated parents are an extremely vulnerable group, and much more likely to have behavioral problems and physical and mental health conditions than their peers. This webinar, Kristin Turney, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Irvine, presented findings from her research on the well-being of…
Read More »December 2014
Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Reproductive Health Services
Update: See a video of the webinar here ยป Over the past two decades, striking progress has been achieved in making pregnancy and childbirth safer in developing countries. However, a report issued by the Guttmacher Institute and the United Nations Population Fund finds a staggering lack of basic sexual and reproductive health services in developing countries. The report, Adding It Up: The Costs and Benefits of Investing in Reproductive Health Services 2014, documents current levels of unmet need for modern…
Read More »June 2014
Global Family Planning Goals and Measurement: Where Are We Now?
Update: View a video of the webinar here In this webinar, Scott Radloff, senior scientist at the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, and Emily Sonneveldt, director for the Center of M&E and Advocacy at the Futures Institute, describe how mobile technology is being used by local data collectors in Africa and Asia to generate rapid-turnaround data, and how this information is being used in tandem with modeling that leverages service statistics to measure progress across…
Read More »November 2013
The Economic and Social Consequences of Job Loss and Unemployment
Update: View a video of the webinar here 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 families in the United States. Their discussion was followed by 10 minutes of questions and answers. This…
Read More »September 2013
Net Migration Patterns as a Tool to Understand Community Change
Update: See a video of the webinar here Every year, about 10 million Americans move from one county to another. Migration rates vary by age, sex, race, and ethnicity and with local and national social and economic conditions over time. Examining patterns of net-migration for individual counties over time provides important information about how local populations are changing. This webinar introduces a new publicly available website (www.netmigration.wisc.edu) where users can generate maps and charts of state and county level net…
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