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Brown Bag Seminar Schedule, 2009-2010

Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies. Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held in room 6050 ISR at noon.

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September 14, 2009: Edward Norton (Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan),
"A Dynamic Economic Model of Weight Change."
October 5, 2009: Christopher Wildeman (School of Public Health, University of Michigan),
"Imprisonment and Infant Mortality."
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?"
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."
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 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 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 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."
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."
December 7, 2009: Arland Thornton (Population Studies Center and co-sponsored by the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan),
"International Fertility Change: Insights from the Developmental Idealism Framework."
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),
"TBD."
February 8, 2010: Shawn Bushway (School of Criminal Justice, University of Albany, State University of New York),
"TBD."
February 15, 2010: Jennifer Ailshire (Center of Biodemography and Population Health, School of Gerontology, University of Southern California),
"TBD."
March 8, 2010: Kathleen Cagney (Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago),
"TBD."
March 15, 2010: Sarah Burgard (Departments of Sociology, Population Studies Center and Epidemiology, University of Michigan),
"TBD."
March 22, 2010: Kathleen McGarry (Department of Economics , University of California, Los Angeles, cosponsored with Public Finance),
"TBD."
April 6, 2010: Claudia Goldin (Department of Economics , Harvard University, cosponsored with Economic History),
"TBD."
April 12, 2010: Douglas Almond (Economics Department, Columbia University),
"TBD."

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Next Brown Bag

Mon, Nov 9
John Bound
Stratification in US Higher Education
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