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.

Remote Access

Live streaming video is now available for those who cannot attend the presentations. To watch in real time (beginning around noon) on the day of the Brown Bag, LINK HERE. Requires a WMV viewer.


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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Recent resources, events, news

New Publications

Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"

Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report

Next Brown Bag

Mon, Nov 9
John Bound
Stratification in US Higher Education
For live stream
LINK HERE


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