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PSC Brown Bag Seminar Archive

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April 29, 2013: Helge Brunborg (Social and Demographic Research, Statistics Norway ),
On the Use of Demographic Evidence at International War Crime Tribunals
April 15, 2013: Carlos Dobkin (Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz),
The Mechanisms of Alcohol Control: Evidence from the Canadian Minimum Legal Drinking Age
Archived video available
April 8, 2013: Randolph Roth (Professor of History and Sociology, Ohio State University),
Child Murder in America
Archived video available
April 1, 2013: Thomas A. DiPrete (Department of Sociology, Columbia University), and Joscha Legewie,
High School Environments, STEM Orientations, and the Gender Gap in Science and Engineering Degrees
Archived video available
March 11, 2013: Jennifer Johnson-Hanks (Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley),
Aggregation Problems
Archived video available
February 26, 2013: Katharine Donato (Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University),
Weathering the Storm? Employment Transitions of Low-Skill Mexican Immigrants, 2003-2011
Archived video available
February 11, 2013: Justin Wolfers (Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan),
Growth in Income and Subjective Well-Being Over Time
Archived video available
January 28, 2013: Christine Bachrach (Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland),
A Cognitive Model of Culture for Demography
Archived video available
November 19, 2012: Martha Bailey (Department of Economics, National Poverty Center and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan), and with Olga Malkova and Zoe McLaren,
The Effects of U.S. Family Planning Programs on Children's Economic Resources
Archived video available
November 12, 2012: Christopher Wildeman (Department of Sociology, Yale University),
Cumulative Risks of Foster Care Placement for American Children, 2000-2009
November 5, 2012: Robin Jacob and David Featherman (University of Michigan, Center for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society),
School Reform and Beyond: A Comprehensive Approach to Foster Achievement
Archived video available
October 22, 2012: Angel Harris (Department of Sociology and Center for African American Studies, Princeton University),
A Search for Oppositional Culture: Race, Perceptions of Opportunity, and Academic Investment
Archived video available
October 16, 2012: Nancy Luke (Department of Sociology, Brown University),
Power and Priorities: Gender, Caste, and Household Bargaining in India
Archived video available
October 8, 2012: Lisa Neidert (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
The Cultural Significance of the Second Demographic Transition
October 1, 2012: Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue (Development Sociology and Demography, Cornell Population Program, Cornell University),
Demographic Transitions and Global Economic Inequality
Archived video available
September 10, 2012: Noreen Goldman (Office of Population Research and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University),
Predicting Survival of Older Adults: Findings from a Biosocial Survey
April 16, 2012: Mario Small (Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago),
The Institutional Foundations of Social Capital: Evidence from Mothers and Childcare Centers Co-sponsored with SRC
April 2, 2012: Nancy Landale (Department of Sociology and Crime. Law and Justice, Pennsylvania State University),
Health and Development of Mexican American Preschool Children: An Integrative Approach Using Latent Class Analysis
March 26, 2012: Elizabeth Bruch (University of Michigan),
Mate Preferences and Marriage Market Dynamics
March 12, 2012: Jenna Nobles (University of Wisconsin),
Rebuilding a Destroyed Population: Mortality, fertility, and the Indian Ocean tsunami Co-sponsored with SRC
February 13, 2012: Colter Mitchell (Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University),
Family Instability, Genes, and Children’s Externalizing Behavior
February 6, 2012: Seth Sanders (Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University),
The Great Migration and African American Mortality: Evidence from the Deep South
January 23, 2012: Shawn Dorius (University of Michigan),
The Rise and Fall of Worldwide Education Inequality from 1870-2010: Measurement and Trends
December 5, 2011: William H. Dow (School of Public Health and Berkeley Population Center, University of California, Berkeley),
Socioeconomic Risk Factors for Adult Mortality in a Middle-Income Country: The Costa Rican Longitudinal Mortality Study
November 21, 2011: Helen Levy (Institute for Social Research, School of Public Health and Gerald Ford School of Public Policy),
Measuring Health Literacy in the Health and Retirement Study
November 15, 2011: Leslie McCall (Department of Sociology, Northwestern University),
The Un/deserving Rich: American Beliefs about Opportunity and Inequality in the Era of Rising Inequality
November 7, 2011: Kenneth Chay (Department of Economics and Community Health, Brown University),
Health Insurance, Utilization and Mortality: Evidence from Medicare's Origins
October 24, 2011: Jennifer Barber (Department of Sociology and Research Professor, Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center), Yasamin Kusunoki (Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center , Assistant Research Scientist), and Heather Gatny (Institute for Social Research, Research Associate),
Relationship Dynamics and Pregnancy: Seriousness, Instability, and Partner Change
October 10, 2011: Angela Fertig (University of Georgia at Athens, Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health),
Portfolio Choice and Mental Health Issues
October 3, 2011: Yang Yang (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Sociology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Carolina Population Center ),
Why Do Women Live Longer than Men? An Integrative Social and Biodemographic Approach to Explaining Sex Differences in Longevity
September 19, 2011: Aaron Mauck (School of Public Health, University of Michigan , Research Fellow, Epidemiology),
The Acute Problem of Chronic Disease in Twentieth Century Epidemiology
September 12, 2011: Caroline Sten Hartnett, Kenzie Latham "The Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Activity Limitation among Late Midlife Adults", and Jessica Wyse "Intersections Between Crime and Community",
White-Hispanic Differences in Meeting Fertility Intentions Over the Life Course
April 11, 2011: Christine Schwartz (Department of Sociology and Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin - Madison),
The Reversal of the Education Gender Gap in Marriage and Marital Dissolution Co-sponsored with the Survey Research Center
April 5, 2011: Iwu Dwisetyani Utomo (Australian National University, Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute),
Life Situations of Young Fathers in Jakarta Co-sponsored with the Survey Research Center
March 29, 2011: Jeroen Spijker (Researcher, Centre d'Estudis Demografics, Barcelona, Spain),
Worldwide Household Patterns of Young Couples in Multilevel Perspective Co-sponsored with the Survey Research Center
March 22, 2011: Kathleen McGarry (Department of Economics, University of California - Los Angeles),
Dynamic Aspects of Family Transfers Co-sponsored with the Survey Research Center
March 14, 2011: Maria Glymour (Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health),
Social Determinants of Stroke in the Elderly: Race, Place and SES Co-sponsored with the Survey Research Center
Archived video available
March 7, 2011: Eileen Crimmins (Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California),
Explaining the High and Worsening Position in Life Expectancy
February 21, 2011: David Lam (Department of Economics and Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Resarch),
How the World Survived the Population Bomb: Lessons from 50 Years of Exceptional Demographic History
Archived video available
February 14, 2011: Adriana Lleras-Muney (Economics Department, University of California - Los Angeles),
Does Staying in School (and not Working) Help Prevent Teen Drinking and Smoking?
February 7, 2011: Emma Aguila (RAND Corporation),
Experimental Analysis of the Health and Well-Being Effects of a Non-contributory Social Security Program
January 24, 2011: Joseph Price (Brigham University, Department of Economics),
Using Incentives to Encourage Healthy Eating in Children
January 10, 2011: Douglas S. Massey (Princeton University, Office of Population Research and Department of Sociology),
Postmodern Segregation: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences in the 21st Century
December 6, 2010: Emily Wiemers (University of Michigan),
The Effect of Unemployment on Household Composition and Doubling Up
November 22, 2010: Robert Kaestner (Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Chicago),
Health and Health Insurance Trajectories of Mexicans in the US
November 15, 2010: Leah Platt Boustan (Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles),
School Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries
November 8, 2010: Ellen Meara, (with Ezra Golberstein and Susan Busch) (The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College),
FDA and ABCs: Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Academic Achievement
November 1, 2010: Rebecca Thornton, Susan Godlonton and Alister Munthali,
Circumcision, Information, and HIV Prevention
October 11, 2010: Mick Couper, Sheldon Danziger, Siobhan Harlow, Susan Leonard, Jim Lepkowski, Lauren Nicholas,
PSC Faculty Introductions: Faculty Offer Brief Descriptions of Their Research Interests and Projects
October 4, 2010: Charlie Brown, Philippa Clark, Kathy Ford, Vicki Freedman, Edward Norton, Jeff Smith, Ken Sylvester,
PSC Faculty Introductions: Faculty Offer Brief Descriptions of Their Research Interests and Projects
September 20, 2010: Scott Yabiku (Program in Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University),
Schools, School Quality, and Marriage Timing
September 13, 2010: Deborah Carr (Department of Sociology and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University),
If Nothing is Certain But Death and Taxes, Why Do So Few Americans Prepare for the End of Life?
June 15, 2010: Georgina Binstock (Centro de Estudios de Poblacion, Argentina, cosponsored with Survey Research Center),
Emerging Family Patterns in Latin America: The Southern Cone Experience
June 8, 2010: Attila Melegh (Demographic Research Institute, Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, cosponsored with Survey Research Center),
Globalization and Migration in Hungary Structures and Attitudes in a Comparative Perspective
May 18, 2010: James Smith (Rand Corporation; COSPONSOR WITH SURVEY RESEARCH CENTER),
Effects of Childhood Mental and Physical Health on Adult SES
Archived video available
April 12, 2010: Douglas Almond (with Bhash Mazumder) (Economics Department, Columbia University),
Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy
Archived video available
April 6, 2010: Claudia Goldin (Department of Economics , Harvard University, cosponsored with Economic History),
Career and Family
March 22, 2010: Mel Stephens (with Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago) (School of Public Policy, Department of Economics, Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan),
Voter Turnout and the Labor Market
Archived video available
March 15, 2010: Sarah Burgard and Shige Song (Department of Sociology, Population Studies Center and Epidemiology, University of Michigan;COSPONSOR WITH SURVEY RESEARCH CENTER),
Social Inequality and Infant Mortality in China and India
Archived video available
March 8, 2010: Kathleen Cagney (Visiting Professsor, University of Michigan, Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research;, University of Chicago, Department of Health Studies; COSPONSOR WITH SURVEY RESEARCH CENTER),
The Continuum of Disorder and Its Implications for Health
Archived video available
February 15, 2010: Jennifer Ailshire (Center of Biodemography and Population Health, School of Gerontology, University of Southern California),
Objective and Perceived Neighborhood Environment and Social Engagement
Archived video available
February 8, 2010: Shawn Bushway (co-authors: Hui-shien Tsao and Herb Smith) (School of Criminal Justice, University of Albany, State University of New York),
Demographic and Criminological Perspectives on the Aging of the State Prison Population during the Era of Mass Incarceration (1974-2004)
Archived video available
February 1, 2010: Judy Birk (Managing Director, IRB Health Sciences and Behavioral Sciences), Lynette Hoelter (Director, Instructional Resources & Development, ICPSR)), and Lisa Neidert (Senior Research Associate, PSC),
Research Ethics Presentation
January 11, 2010: Bruce Western (Harvard University, Department of Sociology and Director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government; cosponsored by National Poverty Center, University of Michigan),
Unions, Norms and the Rise in American Earnings Inequality
Archived video available
December 7, 2009: Arland Thornton (with Georgina Binstock, Kathryn Yount, Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Dirgha Ghimire, Yu Xie) (Population Studies Center and co-sponsored by the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan),
International Fertility Change: New Data and Insights from the Developmental Idealism Framework
Archived video available
December 1, 2009: Barb Koremenos and Arland Thornton (Jointly sponsored by the CPS Interdisciplinary Workshop in Politics and Policy; the Political Methodology Workgroup in the Department of Political Science; the NIS; and the Population Studies Center),
Group discussion of Beth Simmons’ book MOBILIZING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN DOMESTIC POLITICS
November 23, 2009: John Bound, Elizabeth Bruch, Sarah Burgard, Ren Farley, Arline Geronimus, David Harding, Jeffrey Morenoff, Rachel Snow, Arland Thornton, Rebecca Thornton,
PSC Faculty Introductions: Faculty Offer Brief Descriptions of Their Research Interests and Projects
November 16, 2009: George Alter, Barbara Anderson, Martha Bailey, Jennifer Barber, Al Hermalin, David Lam, Narayan Sastry, Bob Schoeni, Yu Xie,
PSC Faculty Introductions: Faculty Offer Brief Descriptions of Their Research Interests and Projects
November 9, 2009: John Bound (Population Studies Center, Survey Research Center, Department of Economics, University of Michigan),
For Better or Worse? Increased Stratification in US Higher Education
November 6, 2009: Sunita Kishor (Macro International),
Making the Invisible Visible: Challenges of Measuring Gender and Women’s Empowerment Cosponsored by IRWG’s Gender & Global Health Program, SRC, and PSC
November 2, 2009: Yasamin Kusunoki (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
Contraceptive Method Choice among Youth in the United States: The Importance of Relationship Context
Archived video available
October 12, 2009: James J. Prescott (joint with Jonah Rockoff) (Law School, University of Michigan),
Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?
October 5, 2009: Christopher Wildeman (School of Public Health, University of Michigan),
Imprisonment and Infant Mortality
September 14, 2009: Edward Norton (Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan),
A Dynamic Economic Model of Weight Change
April 27, 2009: Nicola Branson, David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, Letícia Marteleto, and Vimal Ranchhod,
Causes and Consequences of Teen Pregnancy in South Africa
April 13, 2009: Steven J. Haider (Department of Economics, Michigan State University),
Can We Explain Black-White Disparities in Infant Mortality?
April 1, 2009: Yu Xie (Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology, Research Professor, Population Studies Center),
Understanding Inequality in China Distinguished University Professorship Lecture. Wednesday, April 1st, 4 pm, Rackham Amphitheatre.
March 23, 2009: Tom Fricke (Survey Research Center & Population Studies Center, Anthropology Department),
Conversions and Continuities: The Implications of Tamang Conversion to Christianity in Nepal for Thinking about Ideational Change
March 16, 2009: Magdalena Cerda (New York Academy of Medicine),
The Limits of Collective Efficacy: Investigating the Influence of Neighborhood Context on Levels of Violence in Medellin
March 15, 2009: Sarah Burgard (Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
TBD
March 9, 2009: Claus Portner (Department of Economics, University of Washington),
The Demand for Sex Selective Abortions
March 2, 2009: Francesco Billari (Director, Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics , University of Bocconi, Milano, Italy),
What Explains Fertility? Evidence from Italian Pension Reforms
February 15, 2009: Jennifer Ailshire (Population Studies Center, Survey Research Center and Department of Sociology, University of Michigan),
TBD
Archived video available
February 15, 2009: Jennifer Ailshire (Population Studies Center, Survey Research Center, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan),
TBD
February 9, 2009: Barbara Anderson (Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Professor, Department of Sociology), and John H. Romani (Professor Emeritus of Public Health Administration),
Recycling Behavior Among Urban South Africans: The Role of Race and Social Status
February 3, 2009: Deborah Griffin (U.S. Census Bureau ),
What the American Community Survey Can Tell Us about Mixed-Mode Surveys Jointly sponsored with the Survey Research Center, TUESDAY Feb. 3, 12 noon, 6050 ISR
January 12, 2009: Mark Padilla (School of Public Health and Department of Anthropology , University of Michigan),
The Embodiment of Tourism: Sexual Performance and HIV/AIDS Among Dominican Tourism Workers
December 8, 2008: Jeff Groen (Bureau of Labor Statistics),
Going Home After Hurricane Katrina: Determinants of Return Migration and Changes in Affected Areas
December 1, 2008: David Lam (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan), and Leticia Marteleto (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
Family Size of Children and Women during the Demographic Transition
November 24, 2008: Martha Bailey (Department of Economics and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
The Expansion and Impact of U.S. Family Planning Programs Under the War on Poverty, 1960-1980
November 18, 2008: Jennifer Barber (Survey Research Center,Population Studies Center and Department of Sociology), Yasamin Kusunoki (Population Studies Center), and Heather Gatny (Survey Research Center and Population Studies Center),
Relationship Dynamics and Social Life: Design and Implementation of Mixed Mode, Mixed Method Study of Young Women
November 4, 2008: Linda Waite (Department of Sociology, University of Chicago),
Social Isolation, Gender and Inflammation Jointly sponsored by PSC and SRC. Tuesday, 12-2 pm.
October 27, 2008: Ron Lee (Center for Demography and Economics, University of California, Berkeley),
Some Macroeconomic Consequences of the Demographic Transition
October 20, 2008: Bob Willis (Survey Research Center, Population Studies Center),
Cognitive Economics and Human Capital
October 13, 2008: Jamie Jones (Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University),
Marginal Valuation of Fertility and Risk-Aversion in Women’s Reproduction on the Utah Frontier, 1849-1929
October 6, 2008: Sarah Brauner-Otto (Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina),
School Quality, Attitudes about the Family, and Contraceptive Use in Nepal
September 22, 2008: Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat (Institute of Public Policy, Duke University),
The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks: The Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on Urban Poverty and Inequality Jointly sponsored by PSC and the National Poverty Center.
September 15, 2008: Reynolds Farley (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
The Kerner Commission Report: 40 Years Later. What Has Changed, What Hasn’t Jointly sponsored by PSC and the National Poverty Center.
April 21, 2008: Dimiter Philipov (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Institute of Demography),
Family Formation and Fertility in Central and Eastern Europe: Sweeping Changes and Driving Forces
April 14, 2008: Ray Langsten (Social Research Center, American University in Cairo),
Educational Transitions in Egypt
April 7, 2008: John Casterline (Department of Sociology, Ohio State University),
Consequences of Unwanted Fertility: Longitudinal Evidence from Bangladesh
March 17, 2008: Jeff Strickland (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in Charleston, South Carolina 1860-1880
March 16, 2008: Magdalena Cerda (New York Academy of Medicine),
TBA
March 10, 2008: Isaac Mbiti (Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University),
Moving Women: Household Composition, Labor Demand and Crop Choice
March 3, 2008: Edward Rothman (Center for Statistical Consultation and Research, University of Michigan),
New and Current Services from the Center for Statistical Consultation and Research (CSCAR)
February 11, 2008: Carl Simon (School of Public Policy, University of Michigan),
Complex Systems Approaches to Population Studies
February 9, 2008: Barbara Anderson (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
TBA
February 9, 2008: Barbara Anderson (Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, The University of Michigan),
TBA
February 4, 2008: David Bishai (School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University),
Community Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Youth in Asia
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January 14, 2008: Martha Bailey (Department of Economics, University of Michigan),
Reevaluating the Causes of the Baby Boom: The Effects of Electrification in the United States, 1925 to 1960
January 12, 2008: Mark Padilla (School of Public Health and Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan),
TBA
December 3, 2007: Patrick Bayer (Department of Economics, Duke University),
Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability
November 26, 2007: Sara Arber (Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK),
Sleep and Health: Gender, socio-economic status and inequalities in sleep (jointly with UM-GHRT)
November 5, 2007: Don Treiman (California Center for Population Research, UCLA),
The Effects of Social Origins on Educational Attainment: A 51 Nation Comparison jointly with CCS
October 22, 2007: Ron Lesthaeghe (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
The Making of the Modern Western Family and the Politics of Moral Control--Illustrated with the Example of Flanders 1450-1800
October 15, 2007: James Phillips (Population Council),
Evidence-Based Reproductive and Child Health Program Development in Ghana
October 1, 2007: Kathryn Yount (Department of Sociology, Emory University),
Family in the Middle East: Ideational Change in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia
September 24, 2007: Arjan Gjonca (Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics),
Modernisation vs. Traditionalism--The Fertility Changes in Albania 1950-2000.
April 16, 2007: Daniel Benjamin (University of Michigan),
Social Identity and Preferences
April 9, 2007: Christopher Browning (Ohio State University),
The Social Ecology of Public Space: Street Activity and Violent Crime in Urban Neighborhoods
April 2, 2007: Sara McLanahan (Princeton University),
Fragile Families: The First Five Years Jointly Sponsored by PSC and the National Poverty Center.
March 19, 2007: Barbara Anderson (University of Michigan),
Trends in the Percent of Children who are Orphans in South Africa: 1995-2005
March 15, 2007: Greg Duncan (Northwestern University),
Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and their Children Jointly Sponsored by PSC and the National Poverty Center. Thursday, March 15, 4:00 - 5:30 PM, Weill Hall, 735 S. State Street.
March 12, 2007: Michael Hout (University of California, Berkeley),
How America Expanded Education and Why It Mattered Jointly Sponsored by PSC and the Sociology Department. 4154 LSA Building, 4:00 PM.
March 5, 2007: David Card (University of California, Berkeley),
Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools Jointly Sponsored by PSC, SRC, and the Economics Department.
February 12, 2007: Lois Verbrugge (University of Michigan),
Giving Help in Return: Family Reciprocity by Older Singaporeans
February 6, 2007: Robert Groves (University of Michigan), and William Axinn (University of Michigan),
An Update on the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) Jointly Sponsored by PSC and SRC. Tuesday, 12 - 2 PM.
January 22, 2007: Barbara Schneider (Michigan State University),
Being Together Working Apart: Results from the 500 Family Study
January 8, 2007: Reynolds Farley (University of Michigan),
The Declining Multiple Race Population of the US and the American Community Survey: 2000 to 2005
December 11, 2006: Grant Miller (Stanford University),
Women's Preferences and Child Survival in American History
December 4, 2006: Jeremy Freese (University of Wisconsin-Madison),
Replication Standards for Quantitative Social Science: Why Not Sociology? Jointly Sponsored by PSC and ICPSR.
November 20, 2006: David Lam (University of Michigan),
Sexual Behavior, Childbearing, and Schooling in South Africa: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study
November 13, 2006: Emily Oster (University of Chicago),
Measuring the Magnitude of HIV: Evaluating the Ugandan Miracle
November 6, 2006: Eli Berman (University of California, San Diego),
From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles: Fertility Decline Among European Catholics
October 23, 2006: Martha Bailey (University of Michigan),
‘Momma's Got the Pill’: Griswold v. Connecticut and U.S. Childbearing
October 9, 2006: Nan Johnson (Michigan State University),
Do Battered Mothers Have More Fetal and Infant Deaths? Evidence from India
October 3, 2006: Paul Cheung (United Nations Statistical Division),
The 2010 World Program of Population and Housing Censuses This seminar will be held on Tuesday, October 3, from 12:00 - 1:30, in ISR 6080.
September 18, 2006: Harry Holzer (Georgetown University),
Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men Jointly Sponsored by PSC and the National Poverty Center.
September 11, 2006: George Alter (Indiana University),
The Shape of Fertility Decline in 19th-Century Europe: Visualizing Stopping and Spacing
April 18, 2006: Tim Guinnane (Yale University),
Pre-Marital and Extra-Marital Fertility in Munich, 1825-1910 Jointly Sponsored by PSC, ICPSR, and the Economics Department. This event replaces the PSC Brown Bag on Monday, April 17. The talk will be held from 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, in 201 Lorch.
April 12, 2006: Ray Langsten (American University in Cairo),
Demonstration of a New Framework for Assessing Progress toward Education for All
April 10, 2006: Arline Geronimus (University of Michigan),
On the Implications of Weathering for Eliminating Racial Health Inequality in the United States
March 20, 2006: Scott Stanley (The University of Denver),
The Development of Relationship Education for Low-Income Individuals 4:00-5:30pm in the Wolverine Room at the Michigan Union. Jointly Sponsored by PSC and the National Poverty Center.
March 13, 2006: Jeffrey Smith (University of Michigan),
Reevaluating the Schooling Costs of Teenage Childbearing
February 15, 2006: Andrew Cherlin (The Johns Hopkins University ),
Strange Unrest: American Family Instability in Comparative Perspective 4:00-5:30pm in 6050 ISR. Jointly Sponsored by PSC and the National Poverty Center. This event replaces the PSC Brown Bag on Monday, February 13.
January 23, 2006: Jerry Bachman (University of Michigan),
Substance Use in Adolescence and Adulthood: The Links with Educational Success and Failure Jointly Sponsored by SRC and PSC. 12-2pm.
January 9, 2006: Rachel Snow (University of Michigan),
Sexual Risk-Taking in South Africa
December 5, 2005: Cameron Campbell (UCLA),
Communities, Descent Groups, and Individual Outcomes in Liaoning, China, 1749-1909
November 14, 2005: Ron Lesthaeghe (University of Michigan),
From a First to a Second Demographic Transition -- Concept, Evidence, Prospects Jointly Sponsored by SRC and PSC. 12-2pm.
November 7, 2005: Kathleen Mullan Harris (University of North Carolina),
Add Health Grows Up: Social, Behavioral, and Biological Linkages in a Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
October 24, 2005: Paul Voss (University of Wisconsin-Madison),
Spatial Data Analysis of Child Poverty in the U.S. with Particular Attention to Issues of Spatial Heterogeneity
October 10, 2005: Deborah Carr (Rutgers University),
Death and Dying in the 21st Century: Implications for Older Adults and their Families
October 3, 2005: Sandro Galea (University of Michigan),
Mental Health and Behavioral Consequences of Terrorism
September 19, 2005: Yu Xie (University of Michigan), and James Lee (University of Michigan),
New Social Science Initiatives in China
April 18, 2005: Robert Mare (UCLA),
Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change
April 11, 2005: Rebecca Clark (NICHD),
Leaping the Hurdles and Navigating the Maze: How to Get Funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
April 4, 2005: Margaret Levenstein (University of Michigan),
Accessing and Using Confidential Census Microdata through the Michigan Census Research Data Center Jointly Sponsored by SRC and PSC. 12-2pm.
March 28, 2005: Ken Sylvester,
Natural Capacities: farm scale and cropland resilience on the Great Plains, 1910-1992
March 21, 2005: Ren Farley (University of Michigan), Maria Krysan (University of Illinois-Chicago), and Mick Couper (University of Michigan),
Innovating at the End: Studying Race in the 2004 Detroit Area Study 12-2pm. Jointly Sponsored by SRC and PSC
March 11, 2005: Kathy Edin (University of Pennsylvania), and Maria Kefalas (Saint Joseph's University),
Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage Jointly Sponsored by PSC and the National Poverty Center. Friday, March 11, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM at Rackham Auditorium. This event replaces the PSC Brown Bag on Monday, March 14.
March 7, 2005: Narayan Sastry (RAND),
Trends in Socioeconomic Inequality in Child Mortality in Brazil noon to 1:30pm. Jointly Sponsored by SRC and PSC
February 7, 2005: Susan Hautaniemi Leonard (University of Michigan),
Grammars of Death: 19th-Century Literal Causes of Death from the Age of Miasmus to Germ Theory
January 24, 2005: Miguel Ceballos (University of Michigan),
Migration, Acculturation, and Infant Health of the Mexican-origin Population in the United States: Investigating a Paradox
January 10, 2005: Marcia Inhorn (University of Michigan),
Making Muslim Babies: IVF and Gamete Donation in Sunni Egypt and Shi'ite Lebanon
December 6, 2004: James Jackson (University of Michigan),
Family Connections: Over Generations and Across Nations
November 22, 2004: Tommy Bengtsson (Lund University, Sweden), and Martin Dribe (Lund University, Sweden),
Deliberate Control in a Natural Fertility Population: Southern Sweden 1766-1865
November 15, 2004: John Knodel (University of Michigan),
The Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Aged Parents: Evidence from Thailand
November 8, 2004: Hans-Peter Kohler (University of Pennsylvania),
Partner + Children = Happiness? An Assessment of the Effect of Fertility and Partnerships on Subjective Well-Being in Danish Twins
October 25, 2004: Elisha Renne (University of Michigan),
Concepts of Population and Development in Southwestern Nigeria
October 11, 2004: Narayan Sastry (RAND),
Family and Neighborhood Sources of Socioeconomic Inequality in Children's Achievement
October 4, 2004: Joshua Goldstein (Princeton University),
Intermarriage and Social Distance in Multiracial America
September 20, 2004: William Parish (University of Chicago),
Intimate Partner Violence in China
May 4, 2004: Jennifer Barber (University of Michigan),
Family Change After An Unintended Birth. Jointly Sponsored by SRC & PSC
April 26, 2004: Guang Guo (Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina),
Adolescent Health, Genes, and Social and Demographic Contexts
April 5, 2004: Tom Fricke (University of Michigan),
Taking Culture Seriously: Making the Survey Ethnographic
March 29, 2004: Barbara Ibrahim (The Population Council),
Youth, Identity and Gender Bargains: Egypt and the Muslim World
March 22, 2004: Rukmalie Jayakody (Pennsylvania State University),
The Impact of Social Changes on the Family in Vietnam
March 15, 2004: Al Hermalin (University of Michigan), Pamela Smock (University of Michigan), Robert Schoeni (University of Michigan), and Sapna Swaroop (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
Are Demographers an Endangered Species: A panel discussion of how substance and methods of demography are changing and what this means for training, for the identity of demography as a discipline, and for its role within academia.
March 8, 2004: Rachel Snow (Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan),
Gender, Caste and Contraceptive Use in Rajasthan, India
March 1, 2004: Daniel Hamermesh (Centennial Professor of Economics, University of Texas, at Austin),
Stressed Out On Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?
February 2, 2004: Robert Pollak (Washington University),
Long-Term Care and Family Decision Making
February 2, 2004: Bill Axinn (University of Michigan), Dan Brown (School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan), Jianguo Liu (Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University), and Myron Gutmann (University of Michigan),
New Directions in Population and Environment Research - A Panel Discussion
January 19, 2004: Arland Thornton (University of Michigan),
Developmental Idealism and Family Change: A Research Agenda
January 12, 2004: Various PSC Faculty Researchers (University of Michigan),
Overview of PSC Faculty Research
December 8, 2003: Linda Waite (Department of Sociology, University of Chicago),
Marital Biography and Health at Midlife
December 1, 2003: Cyrus Chu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan),
A SSAD Model of Family Resource Allocation Among Siblings: Competition, Forbearance, and Support
November 17, 2003: Noriko Tsuya (Department of Economics, Keio University),
Patterns and Factors of Household Life Course in 18th and 19th Century Rural Japan.
November 10, 2003: Pam Smock (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan), and Kristin Seefeldt (Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan),
Marriage on the Public Policy Agenda: What Do Policymakers Need to Know From Research? Jointly sponsored by PSC and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
November 3, 2003: Bill Axinn (University of Michigan), and Bob Groves (University of Michigan),
The National Survey of Family Growth: Cycle 6 Experiences and Cycle 7 Plans. Jointly sponsored by SRC & PSC
October 20, 2003: David Lam (University of Michigan), and Leticia Marteleto (Federal University of Minas, Gerais, Brazil),
Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child’s Perspective: Family Size, Cohort Size, and Schooling
October 13, 2003: Rebecca Emigh (UCLA),
Predictors of Poverty During the Market Transition in Central Europe
April 21, 2003: Robert Schoeni (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
Food Stamps Use and the Elderly: Why is Participation So Low?
April 14, 2003: Maria Krysan (Department of Sociology, University of Illinois-Chicago),
Exploring the Complexities of Racial Residential Preferences in the Detroit Area Study and Beyond: Lessons from the Past and Plans for the Future
April 7, 2003: George Galster (College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University),
By Words and Deeds: Racial Steering by Real Estate Agents
March 31, 2003: Steven Haider (Department of Economics, Michigan State University),
Food Insufficiency or Poverty? Measuring Need-related Diet Adequacy
March 24, 2003: Bobbi Low (School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan),
Modeling the ecology of women's lives in modern contexts: Some evolutionary considerations
March 17, 2003: William Frey (Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan),
Race and Space in Urban America: Perspectives from the 2000 Census
March 10, 2003: Jeff Morenoff (Population Studies Center and the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan),
Racial Disparities in Violent Crime: Role of Socio-Economic Context and Neighborhood
March 3, 2003: Joseph Winchester Brown (Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan),
Health and Living Arrangements among Elderly Persons in the United States.
February 10, 2003: Ann Chih Lin (Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan),
The Measure and Meaning of Social Networks among Arab Immigrants in Detroit
February 3, 2003: Barbara Anderson (Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research), and John Romani (University of Michigan),
Has the percentage of children orphaned in South Africa increased? An analysis based on October Household Survey data 1995-98
January 27, 2003: Martha Hill (Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center),
Are "Two-Parent" and "Single-Parent" Families Misnomers Misdirecting Family Research?
December 9, 2002: Myron Gutmann (ICPSR, PSC, and Department of History, University of Michigan),
Heat, Elevation, and Migration: Two Population-Environment Regimes in the Great Plains of the United States
December 2, 2002: Robert McCaa (Department of History & Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota),
IPUMS-International: Integrating and Calibrating Census Microdata
November 18, 2002: Reynolds Farley (Population Studies Center and the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan),
Teaching about Detroit and Racial Residential Segregation: Using the Web in the Classroom
November 11, 2002: Susan Brown (Center for Family and Demographic Research & Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University),
Family Structure and Child Well-being: The Significance of Parental Cohabitation
November 4, 2002: Patrick Heuveline (Department of Sociology & Population Research Center, University of Chicago),
Looking for Mortality-Fertility Links: Reading History Backward, Sideways, and at the Extreme
October 28, 2002: Robert Hummer (Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, University of Texas),
Religion, Health, and Mortality: Recent Findings and Next Steps
October 21, 2002: James Z. Lee (Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology),
Economic Stress and Mortality in Past Times: Europe and Asia, 1700-1900
October 7, 2002: Kristine Mulhorn (Health Care Department, University of Michigan),
Comparative Analysis of the Role of Function in Survival Among the Elderly: U.S. and Japan
September 30, 2002: Vanessa L. Fong (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China's One-Child Policy
September 23, 2002: Kazuo Yamaguchi (Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, University of Chicago),
Sexual revolution and normative roles of the family: a hazard rate analysis of sexual initiation
September 16, 2002: Daniel T. Lichter (Department of Sociology & Initiative in Population Research, Ohio State University),
Marriage as Public Policy: Welfare Reform and Union Formation Among Single Mothers
April 15, 2002: Robert LaLonde (Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago), and Don Rubin (Statistics Department, Harvard University),
The Returns to Community College Training for Displaced Workers (Robert LaLonde). Estimating Direct and Indirect Causal Effects: Does Wealth Cause Health or Health Cause Wealth? (Don Rubin)
April 8, 2002: Jolene Skordis (Dept. of Economics and Demography, University of Cape Town),
Paying to Waste Lives: The Affordability of Reducing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in South Africa
April 1, 2002: Patrick Heuveline (Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, University of Chicago),
Where's the Second Demographic Transition Headed?: A Child-Centered Perspective
March 18, 2002: Dr Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi (Department of Demography, The University of Tehran),
Attainment of Below Replacement-level Fertility in the Islamic Republic of Iran
March 11, 2002: Randolph Nesse (Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan), and Daniel Kruger (Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan),
Why males are the frail sex: Evolutionary perspectives on cohort and cultural variations in the sexual mortality ratio
February 11, 2002: Reynolds Farley (Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
Racial Residential Segregation in the 1980s and 1990s: The Slow Shift Toward a More Integrated Society
February 4, 2002: Laura Sanchez (Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University),
Is Covenant Marriage Law a Policy that Preaches to the Choir? A Comparison of Covenant and tandard Newlywed Couples in Louisiana
January 28, 2002: Kathryn Yount (Department of International Health, Emory University),
Gender, health, and access to care of the lifecourse: New perspectives on the Middle East Co-sponsored by PSC and Women’s Studies.
January 14, 2002: Bob Schoeni (Survey Research Center, University of Michigan),
The Effects of Welfare Work Requirements on Breastfeeding
January 7, 2002: Barbara Bryant (University of Michigan),
The Changing United States As Shown by the 2000 Census
December 10, 2001: James House (Survey Research Center, University of Michigan),
Excess Mortality Among Urban Residents: How Much, for Whom and Why?
December 3, 2001: John Knodel (Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan),
AIDS and older people in Thailand: Results of a survey of AIDS parents
November 26, 2001: John Lynch (School of Public Health, University of Michigan),
Income inequality, psychosocial environment and health: comparisons across wealthy nations
November 19, 2001: Yasuhiko Saito (Nihon University, Japan),
Health Satus of the Japanese Elderly: Results from the 1st Wave of a Longitudinal Survey
November 12, 2001: Myron Gutmann (Department of History, University of Michigan),
Immigrants, Their Children, and Theories of Assimilation: Household Structure, 1880 to 1970
November 5, 2001: Ann Biddlecom (PSC, University of Michigan),
Tradeoffs between Public and Private Economic Support of the Elderly: Results from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan
October 29, 2001: Claudia Buchmann (Department of Sociology, Duke University),
Family Structure and Educational Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons From Kenya and South Africa.
October 22, 2001: Elisha Renne (Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan),
Child-spacing and Abortion in a Northern Nigerian Town
October 8, 2001: Jacquelynne Eccles (Department of Psychology, University of Michigan),
Ethnic identity and coping with experiences of ethnic discrimination
October 1, 2001: Rebecca Blank (Dean, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan),
Five Years Into Welfare Reform: What Have We Learned?
September 24, 2001: Marcia Inhorn (Department of Anthropology and School of Public Health, University of Michigan),
Egyptian Mothers of Testtube Babies: Gender, Islam, and the Globalization of New Reproductive Technologies
September 17, 2001: Harold Pollack (School of Public Health, University of Michigan),
The Cocaine Epidemic and Infant Health Outcomes
September 10, 2001: Kathryn Yount (Department of International Health and Sociology, Emory University),
Social Status of Older Women in the Middle East
April 23, 2001: Laurie Morgan (University of Michigan),
Understanding the Gender Pay Gap for Physicians
April 16, 2001: Valerie Lee (University of Michigan), and David Burkam (University of Michigan),
Comparing How Full-Day and Half-Day Kindergarten Influences Children's Cognitive Development
April 9, 2001: John Logan (University of Wisconsin),
Marriage and Mobility as Two-Sided Matching: Models, Hypotheses, and Estimation
April 2, 2001: Randall Kuhn (Labor and Population Program, RAND),
Never Far from Home: Parental Assets and Migrant Remittances in Matlab, Bangladesh
March 26, 2001: Carl P. Simon (Department of Economics, University of Michigan),
A Complex Systems Approach to Population Dynamics
March 19, 2001: Ronald Freedman (PSC, University of Michigan),
China's Spectacular Fertility Decline Before the One-Child-Policy
March 12, 2001: Paul Cheung (Singapore Department of Statistics),
Changes in Singapore's Population Policy and Data Management
March 5, 2001: Barbara Anderson (PSC, University of Michigan), and John H. Romani (University of Michigan),
Safe Water, Access to Health Care and Other Factors Affecting Infant and Child Survival among the African and Coloured Populations of South Africa
February 19, 2001: Arline Geronimus (PSC, University of Michigan),
Inequality in Life Expectancy, Functional Status, and Active Life Expectancy Across Selected Black and White Populations in the United States
February 12, 2001: Hiromi Ono (PSC, University of Michigan),
Intermarriage between the Never Married and the Divorced in the U.S.
February 5, 2001: Arland Thornton (University of Michigan),
The Developmental Paradigm: Its Influence on the Field of Demography and Family and Fertility Behavior
January 29, 2001: Kathy Ford (University of Michigan),
The Bali STD/AIDS Study
January 22, 2001: George Kaplan (University of Michigan),
Upstream and Downstream Approaches to Inequalities in Health
December 11, 2000: Kermyt G. Anderson (PSC, University of Michigan),
Male Paternity Confidence and Patterns of Abortion, Divorce, and Investment in Children
December 4, 2000: Win Brown (University of Michigan), and Jersey Liang (University of Michigan),
Transitions in Living Arrangements Among the Elderly in Japan: Does Health Make a Difference?
November 27, 2000: Kao-Lee Liaw (McMaster University), William Frey (PSC, University of Michigan), and Ji-Ping Lin (National Chung-cheng University, Taiwan),
Location of Adult Children as an Attraction for Black and White Elderly Migrants in the United States
November 20, 2000: David Lam (PSC, University of Michigan),
Effects of Economic Shocks on Children's Employment and Schooling in Brazil
November 13, 2000: Paula Lantz (University of Michigan),
Socioeconomic Status, Health and Mortality in the U.S.
November 6, 2000: Deborah S. Carr (PSC, University of Michigan),
Forewarning of Spouse's Death and Psychological Adjustment to Widowhood among Older Adults.
October 30, 2000: Jim Raymo (University of Wisconsin),
Educational Attainment and the Transition to First Marriage among Japanese Women: a Test of the 'Independence Hypothesis'
October 23, 2000: William Axinn (PSC, University of Michigan), Robert M. Groves, Krishna Winfrey (ISR, Institute for Social Research), and Dr. William Mosher (NCHS),
The National Survey of Family Growth - Cycle VI (Panel Discussion)
October 16, 2000: Reynolds Farley (PSC, University of Michigan),
The New Racial Identities of Americans: What Happens When You Give People the Choice to Identify with Multiple Races?
October 9, 2000: Mary Beth Ofstedal (PSC, University of Michigan),
Measurement and Correlates of Cognitive Functioning in a National Survey of Older Adults
October 3, 2000: Richard Steckel (Department of Economics, Ohio State University),
Global Health From The Late Paleolithic Era To The Present
October 2, 2000: Jennifer Barber (PSC, University of Michigan),
The Influence of Nonfamily Institutions and Experiences on Dispositions Toward Marriage
September 25, 2000: Rebecca L. Upton (University of Michigan),
Between AIDS and Infertility: The Demographic Implications of Gender Construction and Reproductive Health in Botswana
September 18, 2000: Robert Hauser (University of Wisconsin),
Race-Ethnicity, Social Background, and Grade Retention co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology
September 11, 2000: Jeff Morenoff (PSC, University of Michigan),
Wither the Hispanic Paradox? Racial/Ethnic Differences in Birth Outcomes
April 24, 2000: Mary Beth Ofstedal (PSC),
Measurement and Correlates of Cognitive Functioning in a National Survey of Older Adults
April 17, 2000: Dorrit Ruth Posel (University of Natal-Durban, South Africa),
Altruism, Kin-Selection and Intra-Family Transfers: Evidence from Remittance Behavior in South Africa
April 10, 2000: Elizabeth Frankenberg (RAND),
Health in Indonesia during the Economic Crisis: Does Access to Services Make a Difference?
March 27, 2000: Sheldon Danziger, and Colleen Heflin (PSC),
How are Single Mothers Faring After Welfare Reform?
March 20, 2000: Zeng Yi,
Population Aging and Family Dynamics of Elderly in China
March 13, 2000: Lisa Pearce (PSC),
Improving Survey Data Analyses of Fertility Preferences Through Ethnographic Exploration: Studying Model Outliers
March 6, 2000: David Harris (PSC),
Who is Mixed Race? Patterns and Determinants of Adolescent Racial Identity
February 14, 2000: Rick Lempert (PSC),
Michigan's Minority Law Students in Practice: Research in the Shadow of Litigation
February 7, 2000: Steve Raudenbush (PSC),
Describing and Comparing Trajectories of Individual Change
January 31, 2000: Jim Raymo, and Yu Xie (PSC),
Temporal and regional variation in the strength of educational homogamy
January 24, 2000: Barbara Anderson (PSC),
Sex Ratios in South African Census Data 1970-1996
January 10, 2000: John Bound (PSC), and Sarah E. Turner (University of Virginia),
Going to War and Going to College: Did World War II and the GI Bill Increase Educational attainment of Returning Veterans?
December 14, 1999: Martin Wittenberg (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa),
The Geography of South African Labour Markets
December 6, 1999: Sanjiv Gupta (PSC),
Marriage, Money and 'Gender Display' in Men's Housework
November 29, 1999: Martina Morris (Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University),
Sexual Networks and HIV: Examples from the US, Thailand and Uganda
November 22, 1999: Win Brown (PSC),
Transitions in Living Arrangements among Elderly Japanese
November 15, 1999: Ren Farley (PSC),
The New Second Generation
November 8, 1999: Sandy Hofferth (PSC),
Have the Consequences of Early Childbearing Changed? Substantive and Methodological Issues
November 1, 1999: Sioban Harlow (PSC),
Menstrual Function Across the Reproductive Lifespan: How It Varies and Why It Matters
October 25, 1999: Ted Bergstrom (Department of Economics, U of C, Santa Barbara),
Reproductive Value, Child Care, and Natural Selection: Beyond the Leslie Matrix
October 18, 1999: William Frey (Social Science Data Analysis Network),
Census Data for the Classroom: New Directions with the SSDAN Network
October 11, 1999: Lee Lillard (PSC),
Hazards of First Sex: Multilevel Components for Family and Neighborhood Effects
October 4, 1999: Al Hermalin (PSC),
Aging in Asia: Facing the Crossroads
September 27, 1999: John Knodel, and Chanpen Saengtienchai (PSC),
AIDS and Older People in Thailand: A Key Informant Approach
September 20, 1999: Mark Mizruchi (PSC),
Diffusion of Financing Strategies Among Large U.S. Firms: A Dyadic Panel Analysis
September 13, 1999: Faculty and Staff (PSC),
Faculty and Core Heads Introductory Meeting
May 10, 1999: Ron Freedman (PSC),
Population Projections and Problems in the 21st Century
May 3, 1999: David Harris (PSC),
All Suburbs Are Not Created Equal: A New Look at Racial Differences in Suburban Location
April 26, 1999: Johannes Fedderke (Department of Economics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa ),
Estimating an Education Production Function for South Africa
April 19, 1999: Don Treiman (UCLA),
Racial Differences in Educational Attainment in South Africa: 1930-1994
April 12, 1999: Jennifer Ward-Batts (PSC),
Out of the Wallet and Into the Purse: Modeling Family Expenditures to Test Income Pooling
April 5, 1999: S. Philip Morgan (Duke University),
Future Fertility in Developed Countries
March 29, 1999: Susan Murphy (PSC),
Issues in Assessing Mediation
March 22, 1999: Deborah Carr (PSC),
Back to School: Understanding the Correlates of Men's and Women's College Attendance at Midlife
March 15, 1999: Hiromi Ono, and Frank Stafford (University of Michigan),
Til Death Do Us Part or I Get My Pension: Wives' Pension Holding and Marital Dissolution in the U.S.
February 22, 1999: Elisha Renne (PSC),
Social Change, Uncertainty, and Fertility in a Southwestern Nigerian Town