Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Is the Phone Mightier than the Virus? Cell Phone Access and Epidemic Containment Efforts (October 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88052 88052-21648952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This talk examines the impact of mobile phone access on the containment of an epidemic. Speaker Elisa Maffioli et al. study this question in the context of the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Liberia. They found that having access to cell phone coverage leads to a 10.8 percentage point reduction in the likelihood that a village has an EVD case. Results from this novel survey collected following the epidemic suggest that this is mostly explained by cellphone access facilitating emergency care provision rather than improving access to outbreak-related information.

Dr. Maffioli is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Management and Policy, at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research is in development economics, health economics and political economy, with a focus on infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and nutrition in lower income countries. She is currently working in Liberia, Myanmar, Brazil, Mozambique and Nigeria, and has also conducted research in Lesotho, Kenya and India.


Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:02:51 -0400 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Impact of response styles on inclusive measurement (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86252 86252-21640716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Impact of response styles on inclusive measurement
Wednesday, October 27, noon to 1:10pm ET via Zoom

Speakers:
Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton
(PhD Candidate, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan)

Sunghee Lee
(Research Associate Professor, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan)

Rachel Davis
(Associate Professor, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina)

Abstracts:

Negated and Polar Opposite Items for Balanced Scale construction: An Empirical Cross-Cultural Assessment

Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton

Acquiescent Response Style (ARS) is a culturally patterned measurement error in surveys that threatens comparisons across groups with different cultural backgrounds potentially undermining inclusivity estimating attitudes and beliefs in a population. Balanced scales blend items written in different directions and are hypothesized as a method for controlling ARS. This study examined the differences in measurement properties between two types of balanced scales. The first balanced scale type included negated items, which were item reversals formed by inserting a negation, such as, “no” and “not.” The second type included polar opposite items, which used antonyms or opposite terms to reverse the item direction (e.g., “unhappy” as the opposite of “satisfied”). Participants were recruited to a Web survey and randomly assigned to (1) unbalanced, (2) negated balanced or (3) polar opposite balanced scales. Participants came from three groups with different ARS tendencies to contrast the effects of scale wording in mitigating ARS across groups and improving measurement across cultural subgroups. These groups were: Non-Hispanic White respondents, Hispanic respondents in Mexico and Hispanic respondents in the US. Both types of balanced scales outperformed unbalanced scales in convergent validity, with higher correlations between scale scores and validation variables for balanced than unbalanced scales. No statistical differences were observed between negated and polar opposite scales in fit indices of factor models, reliability measures or convergent validity for any group. These findings suggest that negated and polar opposite balanced scales are equivalent for ARS control, and that they yield adequate measurement properties for all groups included in the study.

Response Style and Measurement of Satisfaction with Life

Sunghee Lee

Satisfaction with Life (SWL), a five-item scale, is designed to assess global judgment about one’s satisfaction with life as a whole rather than specific domains of life. Popularly used by many organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it has been translated into over 30 languages. However, with its standard version using a 7-point Likert response scale, it is subject to measurement error due to response style and measurement non-comparability across groups associated with systematically different response styles. More importantly, whether and how this is addressed in research may have implications for its inclusivity. This study examines the utility of balancing the SWL scale experimentally with multiple racial/ethnic/linguistic groups in the US: Latinx dominant in English, Latinx dominant in Spanish, non- Latinx Whites, non-Latinx Blacks, non-Latinx Koreans dominant in English and non-Latinx Koreans dominant in Korean. The results suggest the benefit of balancing measurement scales but not for groups that engage in middle response style.

Reducing Acquiescent Response Style with Conversational Interviewing

Rachel Davis

Acquiescent response style (ARS), the tendency for survey respondents to select positive answers such as “Strongly Agree,” is of particular concern for increasing measurement error in surveys with populations who are more likely to acquiesce, such as U.S. Latinx respondents. This study enrolled 891 Latinx telephone survey respondents in an experiment to address two questions: (1) Does administering a questionnaire using conversational interviewing (CI) yield less ARS than standardized interviewing (SI)? (2) Do item-specific (IS) response scales reduce ARS when compared to disagree/agree (DA) response formats? No difference was observed in ARS between the DA and IS response scales. However, CI yielded significantly lower ARS than SI, likely due to the CI interviewers' efforts to clarify questions and help with response mapping. Findings from this study suggest that using CI to administer survey questions may decrease use of ARS and improve data quality among survey respondents who are more likely to engage in ARS.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:06:36 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Innovation in Tracking and Collecting Migrant Data (October 27, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85330 85330-21626242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 4: Innovation in Tracking and Collecting Migrant Data
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Dirgha Ghimire

This webinar will provide an overview of CVFS design for tracking migrants and innovation in collecting migrant data along with empirical findings investigating consequences of international migration. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcu-trzsjGdW33jgiYGmw1_x0dEER9CZO

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:15:26 -0400 2021-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
Consequences of Receiving Versus Being Denied a Wanted Abortion (November 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86164 86164-21631757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Michigan Population Studies Center Brown Bag seminars presents:

Diana Greene Foster will discuss the context and findings of The Turnaway Study. The Turnaway Study answers the question, Does abortion hurt women? and the converse, What are the harms when women are unable to get a wanted abortion? Dr. Foster will review the challenges of studying abortion and what has happened in the absence of rigorous data. She will describe the study design of the Turnaway Study and present its major findings about women’s mental health, physical health and the wellbeing of their children. She will describe the reasons people give for seeking to end an unwanted pregnancy and what that tells us about whether one can trust women’s decision-making abilities around pregnancy.

Diana Greene Foster, PhD, is a demographer who uses quantitative models and analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of family planning policies and the effect of unwanted pregnancy on women’s lives. She is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco and Director of Research at the UCSF ANSIRH Program. She led the Turnaway Study, a nationwide longitudinal prospective study of the health and well-being of women who seek abortion including both women who do and do not receive the abortion in the United States. She is currently collaborating with scientists on an NIH-funded Turnaway Study in Nepal. Dr. Foster received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley, her MA and PhD in Demography and Public Policy from Princeton University. She is the author of the 2020 book, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women and the Consequences of Having – or Being Denied – an Abortion. She is the recipient of the 2021 Harriet B. Presser Award for the study of gender and demography from the Population Association of America.

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:46:51 -0400 2021-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Diana Greene Foster
Detecting white supremacist speech on social media (November 3, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88358 88358-21653508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Detecting white supremacist speech on social media
Wednesday, November 3, 1pm ET

Social media have been repeatedly shown to harbor white supremacist networks, enabling far-right extremists to find one another, recruit and radicalize new members, and normalize their hate. In order to address the problem of white supremacist speech on social media, platforms must first be able to identify it.

In this talk, Libby Hemphill will present research to understand what white supremacist speech looks like, especially how it’s different from general or commonplace speech, and to determine whether white supremacists try to adapt to avoid detection from social media platforms’ current content moderation systems.

ISR Insights Speaker Series is a series focusing on the research happening at ISR.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:25:09 -0400 2021-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Cross-NIA Center Research: Early Results from Pilot Projects on the Health of Older Americans (November 4, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88727 88727-21657085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Coordinating Center for the Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Related Dementias (based at the UM Institute for Social Research) is holding a meeting to highlight research on aging that crosses disciplinary divides. Researchers who have received pilot funding from the Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) will present early results from their Cross-NIA Center collaborative research and talk about the process of building cross-disciplinary collaborations. We hope you’ll join us. Please see the flyer for full program details (also below).

Cross-NIA Center Research: Early Results from Pilot Projects on the Health of Older Americans

Sponsored by the Coordinating Center for the Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Related Dementias

November 4, 2021, 10 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. (EST)

Agenda:
10:00 Welcome
Amanda Sonnega, Director, Coordinating Center for the Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Related Dementias

10:05 NIA Welcome TBA

10:10 Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) Remarks
Stephen Kritchevsky, Director, RCCN; Wake Forest School of Medicine, Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers

10:15 Maintaining Health Behavior Change in Older Adults
Jaime Hughes, Wake Forest School of Medicine, previously Duke University, Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging and Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC)
Janet Prvu Bettger, Duke University, Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging
Minakshi Raj, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, previously University of Michigan, Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging
Susan L. Hughes, University of Illinois, Chicago, Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging.

10:45 Discussion

11:00 Examining Sex Differences in Pleiotropic Effects for Depression and Cognition Using Gene Polygenic and Gene-Region Aggregation Techniques
Arianna Gard, University of Maryland, previously University of Michigan
Erin Ware, University of Michigan, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers, Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging, Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA)
Lauren Schmitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA)

11:30 Discussion

11:45 Conclusion

Background
The Demography and Economics of Aging Centers Program, now expanded to include Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Related Dementias (D&E Centers/D&E Centers on AD/ADRD), has contributed significantly to developing both innovative lines of research and the next generation of scholars in the field. New areas and new directions have emerged (such as population genetics and biomeasure collection within national population-based surveys), largely as a result of increasing cross-disciplinary collaborations encouraged by the Centers. This successful model represents multiple centers engaged in a range of research and infrastructure activities within thematic research areas. There is wide recognition within the NIA and in the field that the full promise of the center mechanism itself and, indeed, the pace of future scientific discovery in aging will depend on scholars continuing to bridge disciplinary divides.

The Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) was established “to catalyze cross-disciplinary research across the NIA Center Programs,” which include D&E Centers/D&E Centers on AD/ADRD, Edward R. Roybal Centers for Translational Research on Aging, the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research, the Claude D. Pepper Older American Independence Centers, the Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging, and the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers. To promote cross-NIA Center research and support junior scholars, the RCCN funds pilot research awards. This meeting will feature two RCCN pilot projects that each include a research affiliate of one of the D&E Centers/D&E Centers on AD/ADRD in collaboration with researchers at other NIA Centers. Each team will present preliminary results of their pilot project and share insights on the opportunities and challenges of cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Sponsored by the Coordinating Center for the Centers on the Demography & Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Related Dementias.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:20:27 -0400 2021-11-04T10:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T11:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Early Results from Pilot Projects on the Health of Older Americans
Measuring Child Exposure to the U.S. Justice System: Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data (November 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88675 88675-21656594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Michigan Population Studies Center Brown Bag seminars presents Michael Mueller-Smith who will discuss, "Measuring Child Exposure to the U.S. Justice System: Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data."

Mike Mueller-Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Population Studies Center. His research focuses on measuring the scope and prevalence of the criminal justice system in the U.S. as well as its broadly defined impact on the population. He is the Director of the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS), a new data infrastructure project joint with the U.S. Census Bureau that seeks to collect and link extensive amounts of criminal justice microdata with social and economic data held at the Census Bureau. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2015, and completed a NICHD Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Michigan’s Population Studies Center between 2015-2017.

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:44:30 -0400 2021-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Measuring Child Exposure to the U.S. Justice System (poster)
Representative Research: Assessing Diversity in Online Samples (November 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86292 86292-21640719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Representative Research: Assessing Diversity in Online Samples
Wednesday, November 10, noon to 1:10pm Eastern via Zoom

Speaker: Frances Barlas
Vice President, Research Methods at Ipsos Public Affairs

In 2020, we saw a broader awakening to the continued systemic racism throughout all aspects of our society and heard renewed calls for racial justice. For the survey and market research industries, this has renewed questions about how well our industry does to ensure that our public opinion research captures the full set of diverse voices that make up the United States. These questions were reinforced in the wake of the 2020 election with the scrutiny faced by the polling industry and the role that voters of color played in the election. In this talk, we’ll consider how well online samples represent people of color in the United States. Results from studies that use both KnowledgePanel – a probability-based online panel – and non-probability online samples will be shared. We’ll discuss some strategies for ways to improve our sample quality.

Dr. Frances Barlas is a Senior Vice President and the lead KnowledgePanel Methodologist for Ipsos. She has worked in the survey and market research industries for 20 years. In her current role, she is charged with overseeing and advancing the statistical integrity and operational efficiency of KnowledgePanel, the largest probability-based panel in the US, and other Ipsos research assets. Her research interests focus on survey measurement and online survey data quality. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Temple University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:18:12 -0400 2021-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T13:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion poster
Health Policy Research Using CVFS/ISER-N Infrastructure (November 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85337 85337-21626250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 5: Health Policy Research Using CVFS/ISER-N Infrastructure
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Yubraj Acharya

The webinar is targeted to doctoral students and junior researchers in development economics/health economics intending to conduct their research using the CVFS/ISER infrastructure. I will share experience from a recent field experiment among health workers, focusing on resources on research administration available at ISER. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrc-upqj4pHtKxK1qRZWxg3TDlfFgZn_xM

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:30:12 -0400 2021-11-10T14:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
Science Communications in a Social Media Crisis: Lessons Learned from Dear Pandemic (November 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87140 87140-21639086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A PSC Brown Bag seminar.

Dr. Malia Jones is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of infectious disease and social epidemiology, demography, and geography. She will discuss Science Communications in a Social Media Crisis: Lessons Learned from Dear Pandemic.

She is an Associate Scientist in Health Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Population Laboratory, where her work focuses on how the places we spend time affect our health, especially spatial clustering of infectious disease and vaccines. She was also a co-founder and inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Dear Pandemic. Over the past year, Dr. Jones has emerged as a national leader in pandemic-related science communications. She is developing a research program that aims to understand how social media, trust, and science communication intersect.

Dr. Jones' current research work is funded by a K01 Career Development Award from the National Institutes for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

She received an MPH and a PhD in Public Health at UCLA and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine. Her work has been published in leading scientific journals such as the American Journal of Public Health, Health Affairs, and Demography.

https://DearPandemic.org/

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/events/brown-bag/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:28:04 -0500 2021-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar flyer