Past Events

Symposium: Containment and the Carceral State.
Heather Ann Thompson (PSC, U of M), Asia Johnson, Gift Chowchevech, Pete Letkemann, Tania Morris Diaz, Cozine Welch.
Hatcher Library Gallery.

4
Jan

Meeting: ASSA Annual Meeting.
Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel, Atlanta, GA.

2018

14
Dec

Conference: Evaluating the lasting, economic effects of the War on Poverty.
Martha J. Bailey (PSC, U of M), Hilary Hoynes (University of California, Berkeley), Valentina Duque (University of Sydney), Olga Malkova (Department of Economics, University of Kentucky), Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University).
ISR Thompson.

13
Dec

Presentation: Community Corrections, Fines and Fees.
Meghan O'Neil (Research Investigator, PSC, PSC, U of M).
School of Social Work Building, B798 .

3
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Issues in Immigration: PSC Discussion Forum.
Paula Fomby (PSC, U of M).
1430 ISR - Thompson.

26
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Identifying explanations of the Hispanic Health Paradox, immigrant adaptation, and neighborhood effects on health..
Fernando Riosmena (Associate Professor of Geography, Population Program & Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder).
1430 ISR - Thompson.

10
Nov

Conference: American Public Health Association Annual Meeting.
San Diego.

9
Nov

Conference: Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS).
J.J. Prescott (PSC, U of M), Sonja B. Starr (PSC, U of M), James Hines, Jr (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan), Michael G. Mueller-Smith (PSC, U of M), Jukka Savolainen (PSC, U of M).
University of Michigan Law School.

7
Nov

Symposium: The Future of Social Security - Michigan Forum.
Henry Aaron (Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution), Jason Fichtner (Former Deputy Commissioner (Acting) and Chief Economist, Social Security Administration), John Laitner (MiCDA, U of M), Thomas C. Buchmueller (PSC, U of M), Helen Levy (PSC, U of M), H. Luke Shaefer (PSC, U of M).
Michigan League Building, Vandenberg Room.

5
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: When Children are No Longer Children: U.S. Immigrants in a Deportation State.
Katharine Donato (Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University).
1430 ISR - Thompson.

2
Nov

Workshop: MAXQDA: Mixed methods analysis software.
North Campus Research Complex, South Atrium.

31
Oct

Meeting: NICHD Strategic Planning.
Webinar.

31
Oct

Symposium: 2020 Census: Citizenship, Science, Politics, and Privacy.
Al Fontenot (Associate Director, Decennial Census Program, U.S. Census Bureau), James S. House (PSC, U of M), Barbara A. Anderson (PSC, U of M), Jason Owen-Smith (PSC, U of M), Joelle Abramowitz (MiCDA, U of M), Jowei Chen (Research Associate Professor, Center for Political Studies, ISR), Gary Peters (US Senate), Jeffrey Morenoff (PSC, U of M), Margaret Levenstein (PSC, U of M).
1430 ISR.

24
Oct

Workshop: Designing a Mixed-Methods Research Project.
Weber's Ann Arbor.

23
Oct

Workshop: Qualitative Research: From Design to Dissemination.

23
Oct

Workshop: Total Survey Error: A Framework for High Quality Survey Design.
Brady T. West (PSC, U of M), Paul Schulz (Population Studies Center, U-M).
1430 ISR Thompson.

22
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Postdocs presenting research interests and ongoing projects.
Sarah Seelye (PSC, U of M), Karra Greenberg (PSC, U of M), Lauren L. Brown (PSC, U of M), Julie Ober Allen (PSC, U of M), Emily Treleaven (PSC, U of M), Angela Bruns (PSC, U of M).
1430 ISR - Thompson.

17
Oct

Workshop: NIH Tools for Publications Compliance, Reporting and Biosketch.
Yan Fu (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).
ISR Thompson Rm 1450.

16
Oct

Presentation: Crime, Perceived Danger, and Obesity in Later Life: The Role of Gender.
Haena Lee (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR Thompson.

10
Oct

Presentation: NIH Clinical Trials Designation - Implications for Social Science Research.
1430 ISR-Thompson .

8
Oct

Symposium: 2018 MIDAS Annual Symposium.
Rackham.

5
Oct

Workshop: CSCAR Intro to the Flux cluster and batch computing.
East Hall, B254, 530 Church St..

3
Oct

Conference: 2018 IAPHS Population Health Conference.
NASEM, Washington, DC.

3
Oct

Presentation: The Third Shift: Multiple Job Holding and the Incarceration of Women's Partners.
Angela Bruns (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR Thompson .

27
Sep

Workshop: Demonstrate Research Impact with Bibliometrics Tools.
Yan Fu (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).
ISR Thompson Rm 1450.

24
Sep

Workshop: CSCAR Introduction to Stata.
Modern Languages Building, 2001A.

18
Sep

Seminar: Social Change among American Indians.
Arland Thornton (PSC, SRC, U of M).
1430 Thompson.

17
Sep

Event: Celebration of Al Hermalin and Ren Farley -- 50 Years at UM!.
Albert Hermalin (PSC, U of M), Reynolds Farley (PSC, U of M).
1430 ISR Thompson.

13
Sep

Conference: Panel Study of Income Dynamics Annual User Conference 2018: Child Wellbeing and Outcomes in Childhood, Young Adulthood, and over the Lifecourse.
Ann Arbor, Michigan.

13
Sep

Presentation: Personalizing Healthcare with Economics.
Amanda Kowalski (Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy, Department of Economics, University of Michigan).
Foster Library, Lorch Hall.

13
Sep

Symposium: Data-Intensive Social Science Challenge.
10th floor, Weiser Hall, 500 Church St..

13
Sep

Workshop: EndNote and Zotero Compared.
Yan Fu (ISR, University of Michigan), Hailey Mooney (Sociology Librarian, University Library).
ISR Thompson Rm 1450.

7
Sep

Conference: Federal Statistical Research Data Centers Annual Conference.
Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.

11
Aug

Conference: ASA 2018 Annual Meeting: "Feeling Race".
Philadelphia.

4
Aug

Event: Detroit Bus Tour with Reynolds Farley.
Reynolds Farley (PSC, U of M).
Ann Arbor - Detroit.

17
Jul

Event: ISR EXPO - Projects & Programs.
Atrium, ISR Thompson.

18
Jun

Workshop: Genomics for Social Scientists.
ISR Thompson.

11
Jun

Registration: Early-Bird rates through 6/30 for 2018 IAPHS conference.

2
Jun

Symposium: Life History Symposium in honor of Bobbi Low.
Bobbi Low (PSC, U of M).
Rackham Amphitheatre, 4th floor.

18
May

Workshop: New Directions in Basic Income.
Michigan League & Rackham.

14
May

Training: Big Data Summer Camp.
Ross School of Business.

7
May

PSC Brown Bag: Student Forum.
6050 ISR - Thompson.

7
May

Workshop: Intro to survey design: Data collection, questionnaire design, response processes (CSCAR).
Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East.

27
Apr

Funding Opportunity: RWJF Policies for Action: seeking proposals on how health policies and practices impact population health. Due by June 7..
Submit application.

26
Apr

Conference: Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting 2018, Denver.
Denver, Colorado.

17
Apr

Event: PSC Celebration of departing Pre-doctoral Trainees and Post-doctoral Fellows.
6050 ISR-Thompson.

16
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Unequal origins: Prenatal exposures, stratification, and children's educational achievement.
Florencia Torche (Professor, Department of Sociology, Stanford University).
1430 ISR - Thompson.

12
Apr

Presentation: Visual Computational Sociology: Methods and Challenges.
Timnit Gebru (Microsoft Research).
1670 Beyster Bldg, 2260 Hayward, N. Campus.

11
Apr

Workshop: NIH Tools for Publications Compliance, Reporting and Biosketch.
1450 ISR- Thompson.

9
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: College Dropout in the United States, 1980-2010: Persistent Problems and Inequalities.
Mike Hout (Professor, Sociology, NYU).
1430 ISR - Thompson.

6
Apr

Workshop: Causal inference in online systems: Methods, pitfalls and best practices.
Weiser Hall, room 747.

5
Apr

Presentation: Home Sweet HomeLab: Studying Daily Life in Context with Richard Gonzalez.
Richard Gonzalez (Director, RCGD, Institute for Social Research).
1430 ISR.

2
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Inequality of Educational Opportunity in the US: Evidence from Population Data, 2009-2015.
Sean Reardon (Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University).
1430 ISR - Thompson.

20
Mar

Event: PSC Coffee Hour.
PSC bay, 2116 ISR-Thompson.

16
Mar

Workshop: An Intro to Machine Learning for Social Scientists.
Weiser Hall, room 747.

12
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Student Forum.
6050 ISR - Thompson.

9
Mar

Workshop: Data Visualization for Social Science.
Weiser Hall, room 747.

7
Mar

Event: PSC Coffee Hour.
PSC bay, 2116 ISR-Thompson.

5
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Are Families Becoming More Complex?.
Judith A. Seltzer (Professor, Department. of Sociology, University of California).
1430 ISR - Thompson.

28
Feb

Workshop: Unconscious Bias in Everyday Life.
1430 ISR-Thompson.

23
Feb

Workshop: Data science with social science data: Building predictive models using Python's Scikit-learn (CSCAR).
Modern Languages Building, Room 2001A.

21
Feb

Presentation: Nikole Hannah-Jones on Structural Racism and the Broken Pipeline.
Nikole Hannah-Jones (New York Times).
Robertson Auditorium.

20
Feb

Event: PSC Coffee Hour.
PSC bay, 2116 ISR-Thompson.

15
Feb

Funding Opportunity: Pre-applications due, MICHR Accelerating Synergy Award.
MICHR application deadline.

12
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Americans' Views on Refusal of Services to Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment.
Brian Powell (James H. Rudy Professor, Department of Sociology, Indiana University Bloomington).
1430 ISR - Thompson.

9
Feb

Workshop: Data science with social science data: Intro to Pandas and StatsModels in Python (CSCAR).
Modern Languages Building, Room 2001A.

7
Feb

Event: PSC Coffee Hour.
PSC bay, 2116 ISR-Thompson.

7
Feb

Workshop: Statistical modeling in Stata (CSCAR).
Modern Languages Building, Room 2001A.

6
Feb

Training: Register for ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Social Research.
Online Registration.

5
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: A Plateau in Family Complexity Among Children?.
Wendy Manning (Professor, Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University).
1430 ISR - Thompson.

1
Feb

Event: Responding to campus climate concerns: CRLT Players.
1430 ISR-Thompson.

25
Jan

Workshop: Intro to Stata (CSCAR).
Modern Languages Building, room 2001A.

23
Jan

Event: PSC Coffee Hour.
PSC bay, 2116 ISR-Thompson.

22
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: The Effects of Childhood Health on Young Adult Education.
Narayan Sastry (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

17
Jan

Event: ISR film screening and discussion of documentary "Class Divide".
Michigan Theater, screening room.

15
Jan

Symposium: U-M MLK Day: Harper Hill on "The Fierce Urgency of Now".
Hill Auditorium.

10
Jan

Event: PSC Coffee Hour.
PSC bay, 2116 ISR-Thompson.

10
Jan

Event: ISR panel discussion on the effects of gentrification on inequality.
ISR-Thompson, room 1430.

8
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Choosing How Best to Choose: Antecedent Volition & Process Representation in Models of Choice Behavior.
Joffre Dan Swait, Jr (PSC, University of Technology Sydney).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

2017

14
Dec

Event: ISR State of the I & Winter Celebration.
ISR-Thompson Atrium.

14
Dec

Meeting: Faculty input on UM Biosciences Initiative.
Ford Amphitheater, University Hospital.

12
Dec

Presentation: A Global Leader in Data Access, Stewardship and Training: ICPSR.
Linda Detterman.
1430 ISR-Thompson.

7
Dec

Meeting: Faculty input on UM Biosciences Initiative.
Vandenberg Room, Michigan League.

7
Dec

Presentation: Overlapping (and Non-Overlapping) Generations.
Melvin Stephens, Jr (PSC, U of M).
265 Lorch Hall.

7
Dec

Reception: Munger Case Competition Showcase.
Munger Grad Residence, 8th floor. 540 Thompson St.

4
Dec

Conference: The Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health.
Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, VA.

30
Nov

Presentation: Unconscious Bias in Everyday Life Training.
G150 ISR-Perry.

29
Nov

Event: ISR Health & Wellness: 'Keeping Winter Healthy'.
1430 ISR-Thompson.

29
Nov

Presentation: Geography of Population Loss in the U.S.: New Insights from a Typology of Decline.
Rachel Franklin (Brown University).
1028 Dana Bldg, SEAS.

28
Nov

Workshop: Issues in Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data.
Modern Languages Bldg, Room 2001A.

28
Nov

Meeting: Faculty input on UM Biosciences Initiative.
Northeast Room, Pierpont Commons.

16
Nov

Presentation: What will 2018 hold for low-income people?.
Olivia Golden.
Annenberg Auditorium, Ford School.

14
Nov

Workshop: Improve your career development (K) grant application.
U-M North Campus Research Complex, Bldg 300, Rm 376.

13
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Childhood neighborhood disadvantage and adult social and economic well-being: Evidence from sibling and cousin fixed effects using the NLSY.
Steven Alvarado (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

11
Nov

Event: A2 Data Dive 2017 and Bootcamps.
1275 North Quad.

9
Nov

Symposium: Impact on Inequality: Contributions of Michigan Social Science.
Rackham Amphitheater, 4th floor.

8
Nov

Presentation: UM computing/data science resources & services for grad students.
West Conference Rm, 4th floor of Rackham.

6
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Unequal Families, Unequal Effects: How Family Disruption is not Uniformly Disruptive to Children's Educational Attainment.
Jennie Brand (Professor, Dept of Sociology, UCLA).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

1
Nov

Symposium: Showcase of MCubed projects. Keynote by NIH Director Francis Collins..
Rackham Auditorium & Michigan League.

1
Nov

Presentation: A History of U-M's Institute for Social Research, with Patrick Shields.
6050 ISR-Thompson.

27
Oct

Workshop: Data Science with Social Science data: Building predictive models using Python's Scikit-learn.
Modern Language Bldg, Room 2001A.

24
Oct

Event: ISR Town Hall Meeting.
ISR-Thompson atrium and 1430.

23
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Social Mobility in the Long-Run: An Analysis with Five Linked Generations in China 1300-1900.
Carol Shiue (Professor, Economics, University of Colorado Boulder).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

16
Oct

Workshop: Intro to Survey Design.
Rackham, Earl Lewis Room.

11
Oct

Symposium: MIDAS presents "A Data-Driven World," with Cathy O'Neil (live stream avail).
Rackham Auditorium.

9
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: HIV after 40 in Rural South Africa: Aging in the Context of an HIV epidemic..
Sanyu Mojola (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

6
Oct

Presentation: The Future of Big Data and Survey Methods.
Matthew Salganik (Princeton University), Jeremy Freese (Stanford University), Colter Mitchell (University of Michigan).
1430 ISR-Thompson.

5
Oct

Discussion: Angus Deaton, "What Should We Do About Global Poverty?".
David Lam (PSC, U of M).
Ross Business School, Robertson Auditorium.

4
Oct

Symposium: Translational Research 2017.
MICHR.
Bldg 10, North Campus Research Complex.

3
Oct

Presentation: Leveraging diversity in diverse places.
1430 ISR-Thompson.

2
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Integrating Early-Life Shocks and Human Capital Investments on Children's Education.
Valentina Duque (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

27
Sep

Workshop: MICHR Mock Study Section.
North Campus Research Complex, bld 300, rm 376.

26
Sep

Event: HomeLab open house.
Atrium, ISR-Thompson .

18
Sep

Workshop: Conducting research using the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation.
Washington DC.

18
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Poverty and Income Pooling in Extended Family Households.
Adriana Reyes (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

16
Sep

Funding Opportunity: Small grants for secondary analyses of existing data sets and biospecimens (NICHD R03).
Open date for applications.

14
Sep

Event: ISR Celebration of Excellence and Picnic.
ISR-Perry Atrium.

11
Sep

Presentation: Technology & the Future of Work.
1110 Weill Hall, Ford School.

11
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Welcoming of Postdoctoral Fellows: Dr. Angela Bruns, Dr. Karra Greenberg, Dr. Sarah Seelye and Dr. Emily Treleaven.
Angela Bruns (PSC, U of M), Karra Greenberg (PSC, U of M), Sarah Seelye (PSC, U of M), Emily Treleaven (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

14
Aug

Presentation: Detroit 67: Looking Back to Move Forward.
Heather Ann Thompson (PSC, U of M).
Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.

12
Aug

Conference: 2017 Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Palais des Congrès de Montréal in Montréal, Québec.

9
Aug

Presentation: Disability Awareness & Etiquette.
1430 ISR-Thompson.

13
Jul

Presentation: ICPSR Blalock Lecture: How to Compete with Fake News and Cat Videos: Political Persuasion in the Internet Era.
Angell Hall Auditorium D.

12
Jul

Presentation: ICPSR Blalock Lecture: How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know it When You See it.
Modern Language Bldg, Auditorium 3.

10
Jul

Workshop: Demographic Analysis & Population Projections, Census Bureau.
Census Bureau, Suitland, MD.

29
Jun

Workshop: ISR grant writing workshop & panel discussion on review committees.
1430 ISR-Thompson.

27
Jun

Event: Outdoor exhibits & activities highlighting U-M staff contributions.
Ingalls Mall & Diag.

13
Jun

Conference: Strategies for research development success.
Michigan Union Pendleton Rm.

12
Jun

Workshop: Introduction to Applied Data Analysis, Census Bureau.
US Census Bureau, Suitland, MD.

1
Jun

Meeting: Precision Health Town Hall.
1430 ISR-Thompson.

25
May

Workshop: CSCAR - Intro to Stata.
Josh Erickson.
2001A Modern Languages Building.

22
May

Workshop: CSCAR - Fitting General Linear and Mixed Effects (Multilevel) Models in SPSS..
Brady T. West (PSC, U of M).
2001A Modern Languages Building.

19
May

Symposium: Celebrating Dick Nisbett: 'Cognition, Rationality and Culture'.
Richard Nisbett (RCGD).
1324 McKeachie Auditorium, East Hall.

16
May

Seminar: Living on Almost Nothing in America.
H. Luke Shaefer (PSC, U of M).
1430 ISR-Thompson.

11
May

Presentation: U-M FASAP, overview of services for staff, faculty, dependents.
6050 ISR-Thompson.

10
May

Workshop: CSCAR - Intro to SPSS.
Brady T. West (PSC, U of M).
2001A Modern Languages Building.

9
May

Workshop: CSCAR - Intro to Survey Design.
Frederick G. Conrad (Survey Research Center, U-M).
2001A Modern Languanges Building.

5
May

Funding Opportunity: Public policy effects on substance-related behaviors and outcomes (R01).
Online NIH FOA.

3
May

Event: Lunchtime discussion of data science work at ISR.
6050 ISR-Thompson.

27
Apr

Conference: Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting 2017, Chicago.
Hilton Chicago.

19
Apr

Presentation: A Revolutionary Collection of Data on Americans: the LIFE-M project.
Martha J. Bailey (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR-Thompson.

18
Apr

Seminar: PRS Research Seminar: The Impact of Affordable Day Care on Women's Work: Preliminary Findings from an RCT in a Slum Settlement of Nairobi.
Shelley Clark (Professor of Sociology, Centre on Population Dynamics, McGill University).
1430BD, ISR-Thompson.

13
Apr

Presentation: The Future of Obamacare: REPEAL, REPAIR OR REPLACE.
Paula M. Lantz (PSC, U of M).
M1020 SPH II.

12
Apr

Event: Open house for Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques.
Atrium, ISR-Thompson.

10
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Human Decision Processes, Population Structure, and Online Dating Markets.
Elizabeth Eve Bruch (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

10
Apr

Presentation: The Politics of Measuring Human Rights and Gender Violence.
Sally Engle Merry (New York University).
1014 Tisch Hall.

7
Apr

Presentation: Poverty Solutions series on housing affordability in Detroit & Washtenaw County: Presentations and discussion groups followed by reception.
H. Luke Shaefer (PSC, U of M).
U-M SSW.

6
Apr

Symposium: Using Sensitive Data across the Social Sciences.
Margaret Levenstein (PSC, U of M), Jason Owen-Smith (PSC, U of M), Ceren Budak.
6050 ISR-Thompson.

30
Mar

Conference: Sterilization and Social Justice: Past and Present.
Nicole Novak (PSC, U of M), Alexandra Minna Stern (PSC, U of M), Sioban D. Harlow (PSC, U of M), Sharon R. Kardia (MiCDA, U of M).
1014 Tisch Hall.

29
Mar

Event: Book talk: Kristin Seefeldt's "Abandoned Families".
Kristin Seefeldt (PSC, U of M).
Annenberg Auditorium, Weill Hall.

29
Mar

Event: Kristin Seefeldt: Book talk on Abandoned Families.
Kristin Seefeldt (PSC, U of M).
Weill Hall, Annenberg Auditorium.

24
Mar

Seminar: Women in Health Leadership Summit and Reception.
Paula M. Lantz (PSC, U of M), Jacqui Smith (MiCDA, U of M).
Michigan League.

23
Mar

Seminar: Getting to Know ISR: Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) study.
Jennifer S. Barber (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR-Thompson.

20
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: PSC Brown Bag: Taken by Storm: Hurricanes, Migrant Networks, and U.S. Immigration.
Dean Yang (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

13
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Disease Advocacy and the NIH Budget.
Rachel Best (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

13
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Getting SMART about Adaptive Interventions in Clinical and Health Services Research.
Daniel Almirall (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

23
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Has the decline of cash assistance impacted the well-being of poor children?.
H. Luke Shaefer (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

2016

24
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Academic Innovation and the Global Public Research University.
James Hilton (Dean of Libraries and Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, University Libraries, University of Michigan).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

10
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? On the Questionable Association Between 16 and PREGNANT and Teenage Childbearing.
David Jaeger (Professor, Economics, City University of New York).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

3
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Longevity, Education, and Income: How Large is the Triangle?.
C. Hoyt Bleakley (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

19
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: The Paradox of Unintended Pregnancy: Why Do So Many Young Women Who Say They Don’t Want to Get Pregnant Get Pregnant Anyway?.
Jennifer S. Barber (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

12
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Incoming Post Doctoral Fellow Introductions.
Melanie Wasserman (PSC, U of M), Adriana Reyes (PSC, U of M).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

18
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Neighborhood Influences on Youth Violence and Substance Use.
Sarah Anne Stoddard (PSC, U of M).

11
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Gender differences in telomere length across the life course.
Belinda L. Needham (PSC, U of M).

4
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Paying for the Party.
Elizabeth A. Armstrong (PSC, U of M).

14
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: When the Sidewalks End: Poverty and Isolation in an American Suburb.
Alexandra Murphy (PSC, U of M).

7
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: The Criminal and Labor Market Impacts of Incarceration.
Michael G. Mueller-Smith (PSC, U of M).

1
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization.
Sarah Miller (PSC, U of M).

2015

7
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: The Healthy Minds Network: Population-level Approaches to Adolescent and Young Adult Mental Health.
Daniel Eisenberg (PSC, U of M).

16
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Eugenic Sterilization in 20th-century California: From Demographic Analysis to Digital Storytelling.
Alexandra Minna Stern (PSC, U of M), .

9
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Multigenerational Associations in Social Status in the U.S..
Fabian T. Pfeffer (PSC, U of M), .

2
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Income Inequality and Lifetime Income Dynamics in the US.
Deirdre Bloome (PSC, U of M).

19
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Providing HIV prevention and care for male couples.
Rob Stephenson (PSC, U of M).

12
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Getting There: Policy and Planning for Social Equity in Transportation.
Joe Grengs (PSC, U of M).

5
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: The biological consequences of growing up in poverty: neighborhoods, schools and families.
Colter Mitchell (PSC, U of M).

21
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Prevalence and risk factors of maternal near miss in Central Uganda: a community based study.
Elizabeth Nansubuga (Populations Studies, Makerere University).

14
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Introduction of incoming PSC Post Docs.
Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz (PSC, U of M), Lauren Schmitz (PSC, U of M), Abigail Weitzman (PSC, U of M), Michael G. Mueller-Smith (PSC, U of M), Valentina Duque (PSC, U of M).

18
May

PSC Brown Bag: Disability Experience and Measurement.
Lois M. Verbrugge (PSC, U of M).

13
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Really Understanding Homelessness: How the University Can Contribute.
Bill Birdsall (Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work, U of M).

6
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Wellbeing of the Elderly in East Asia: China, Korea, and Japan.
Jinkook Lee (University of Southern California).

23
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Lifting the Burden: State Care of the Elderly and Labor Supply of Adult Children (with Katrine V. Løken and Julie Riise).
Shelly Lundberg (Leonard Broom Professor of Demography, University of California, Santa Barbara).

16
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Cohort Size and the Marriage Market: Explaining Nearly a Century of Changes in U.S. Marriage Rates.
Maurizio Mazzocco (Department of Economics, UCLA).

9
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply.
Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University).

23
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Recovery in Indonesia after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
Elizabeth Frankenberg (Duke University).

26
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: The Consequences of Mismatch Between Students and Colleges.
Jeff Smith (PSC, U of M).

12
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: On the Move: The Changing Dynamics of Mexico-U.S. Migration.
Filiz Garip.

2014

8
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Immigrant Context and Opportunity: New Destinations and Socioeconomic Attainment among Asians in the United States.
Chenoa Flippen (Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Pennsylvania).

1
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Understanding the Health and Well-Being of Adults over 60.
Linda J. Waite (University of Chicago).

10
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Migration, Schooling Aspirations, and the Role of Sending Community Context..
Scott T. Yabiku (Arizona State University).

3
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Estimating the Impacts of Program Benefits: Using Instrumental Variables with Underreported and Imputed Data.
Melvin Stephens (Department of Economics, University of Michigan).

6
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: The Unintended Consequences of Family Planning Initiatives in Nigeria.
Elisha Renne (Professor of Anthropology, Aftromerican and African Studies, PSC, U of M).

22
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Family Complexity, Siblings, and Children’s Aggressive Behavior at School Entry.
Paula Fomby (Associate Research Scientist and Faculty Associate, SRC, PSC, U of M).

15
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Spousal Education and Adult Mortality Risk in the United States.
Dustin Brown (Research Fellow, PSC and SRC, PSC, U of M).

8
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: PSC Incoming Post Docs.
Emily Smith-Greenaway (PSC, U of M), Apoorva Jadhav (PSC, U of M), Holly Donahue Singh (PSC, U of M).

21
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Managerial Incentives in Public Service Delivery: Evidence from School-based Nutrition Programs in Rural China.
Grant Miller (Stanford University).

14
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Fragile Families: Implications for Parenting and Child Well-being.
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (Columbia University).

24
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Environmental determinants of Infectious diseases: Roads and diarrheal disease.
Joe Eisenberg.

17
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Differential Fertility, Human Capital, and Development.
Tom Vogl (Princeton University).

10
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia.
Samuel Bazzi (Boston University).

10
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Neuroimaging and Population Science.
Christopher Monk (University of Michigan).

3
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Multi-Partnered Fertility and Child Well-Being among Urban U.S. Families.
Marcia J. Carlson (School of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison).

13
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Projecting Low Fertility: Some Thoughts about the Plausibility and Implications of Assumptions.
Barbara A. Anderson (PSC, U of M).

2013

9
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Genomics in the Health and Retirement Study.
Sharon R. Kardia (PSC, U of M).

2
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: High Hopes versus Harsh Realities: The Population Impact of Emergency Contraceptive Pills.
James Trussell (Princeton University).

11
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Relationship Dynamics and Contraception: The Role of Seriousness, Instability, and Violence.
Yasamin Kusunoki (PSC, U of M).

4
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Getting what you can, and no more, from administrative data: Matching and omitted variable sensitivity for quasiexperiments in K-12 education.
Ben Hansen (PSC, U of M).

21
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Perverse Consequences of Well-Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban.
Prashant Bharadwaj (University of California, San Diego).
G150 A&B ISR - Perry.

14
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Genuine Fakes: The prevalence and implications of data fabrication in a large South African survey.
Vimal Ranchhod (University of Cape Town).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

7
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: The Long Term Cohort Increase in Premarital First Births: Is it About Sex or the Economy?.
Paula England (Professor of Sociology, New York University).
G150 A&B ISR - Perry.

16
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Labor Migration, HIV, and Society in Rural Africa.
Victor Agadajanian (Arizona State University).

9
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: PSC Postdoc Introductions.
Dustin Brown (PSC, U of M), Patrick Coate (PSC, U of M), Pawel Krolikowski (PSC, U of M), Amelia Karraker (PSC, U of M), Emily Ann Marshall (PSC, U of M).

29
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: On the Use of Demographic Evidence at International War Crime Tribunals.
Helge Brunborg (Social and Demographic Research, Statistics Norway).

15
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: The Mechanisms of Alcohol Control: Evidence from the Canadian Minimum Legal Drinking Age.
Carlos Dobkin (Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz).

8
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Child Murder in America.
Randolph Roth (Professor of History and Sociology, Ohio State University).

1
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: High School Environments, STEM Orientations, and the Gender Gap in Science and Engineering Degrees.
Thomas A. DiPrete (Department of Sociology, Columbia University), Joscha Legewie.

11
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Aggregation Problems.
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks (Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley).

26
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Weathering the Storm? Employment Transitions of Low-Skill Mexican Immigrants, 2003-2011.
Katharine Donato (Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University).
6050 ISR - Thompson.

11
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Growth in Income and Subjective Well-Being Over Time.
Justin Wolfers (Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan).

28
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: A Cognitive Model of Culture for Demography.
Christine Bachrach (Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland).

2012

19
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: The Effects of U.S. Family Planning Programs on Children's Economic Resources.
Martha Bailey (Department of Economics, National Poverty Center and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan), Olga Malkova, Zoe McLaren.

12
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Cumulative Risks of Foster Care Placement for American Children, 2000-2009.
Christopher Wildeman (Department of Sociology, Yale University).

5
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: School Reform and Beyond: A Comprehensive Approach to Foster Achievement.
Robin Jacob (Center for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society, University of Michigan), David Featherman (PSC, U of M).

22
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: A Search for Oppositional Culture: Race, Perceptions of Opportunity, and Academic Investment.
Angel Harris (Department of Sociology and Center for African American Studies, Princeton University).

16
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Power and Priorities: Gender, Caste, and Household Bargaining in India.
Nancy Luke (Department of Sociology, Brown University).
6050.

8
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: The Cultural Significance of the Second Demographic Transition.
Lisa Neidert (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).

1
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Demographic Transitions and Global Economic Inequality.
Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue (Development Sociology and Demography, Cornell Population Program, Cornell University).

10
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Predicting Survival of Older Adults: Findings from a Biosocial Survey.
Noreen Goldman (Office of Population Research and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University).

16
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: The Institutional Foundations of Social Capital: Evidence from Mothers and Childcare Centers.
Mario Small (Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago).

2
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Health and Development of Mexican American Preschool Children: An Integrative Approach Using Latent Class Analysis.
Nancy Landale (Department of Sociology and Crime. Law and Justice, Pennsylvania State University).

26
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Mate Preferences and Marriage Market Dynamics.
Elizabeth Bruch (University of Michigan).

12
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Rebuilding a Destroyed Population: Mortality, fertility, and the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Jenna Nobles (University of Wisconsin).

13
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Family Instability, Genes, and Children’s Externalizing Behavior.
Colter Mitchell (Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University).

6
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: The Great Migration and African American Mortality: Evidence from the Deep South.
Seth Sanders (Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University).

23
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: The Rise and Fall of Worldwide Education Inequality from 1870-2010: Measurement and Trends.
Shawn Dorius (University of Michigan).

2011

5
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Socioeconomic Risk Factors for Adult Mortality in a Middle-Income Country: The Costa Rican Longitudinal Mortality Study.
William H. Dow (School of Public Health and Berkeley Population Center, University of California, Berkeley).

21
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Measuring Health Literacy in the Health and Retirement Study.
Helen Levy (Institute for Social Research, School of Public Health and Gerald Ford School of Public Policy).

15
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: The Un/deserving Rich: American Beliefs about Opportunity and Inequality in the Era of Rising Inequality.
Leslie McCall (Department of Sociology, Northwestern University).
6050 ISR-Thompson.

7
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Health Insurance, Utilization and Mortality: Evidence from Medicare's Origins.
Kenneth Chay (Department of Economics and Community Health, Brown University).

24
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Relationship Dynamics and Pregnancy: Seriousness, Instability, and Partner Change.
Jennifer Barber (Department of Sociology and Research Professor, Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center), Yasamin Kusunoki (Assistant Research Scientist, Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center), Heather Gatny (Research Associate, Institute for Social Research).

10
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Portfolio Choice and Mental Health Issues.
Angela Fertig (Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of Georgia at Athens).

3
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Why Do Women Live Longer than Men? An Integrative Social and Biodemographic Approach to Explaining Sex Differences in Longevity.
Yang Yang (Department of Sociology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

19
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: The Acute Problem of Chronic Disease in Twentieth Century Epidemiology.
Aaron Mauck (School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Research Fellow, Epidemiology).

12
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: "White-Hispanic Differences in Meeting Fertility Intentions Over the Life Course"; "The Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Activity Limitation among Late Midlife Adults"; and "Intersections Between Crime and Community".
Caroline Sten Hartnett (PSC), Kenzie Latham (PSC), Jessica Wyse (PSC).

11
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: The Reversal of the Education Gender Gap in Marriage and Marital Dissolution.
Christine Schwartz (Department of Sociology and Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin - Madison).

5
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Life Situations of Young Fathers in Jakarta.
Iwu Dwisetyani Utomo (Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute, Australian National University).

29
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Worldwide Household Patterns of Young Couples in Multilevel Perspective.
Jeroen Spijker (Researcher, Centre d'Estudis Demografics, Barcelona, Spain).

22
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Dynamic Aspects of Family Transfers.
Kathleen McGarry (Department of Economics, University of California - Los Angeles).

14
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Social Determinants of Stroke in the Elderly: Race, Place and SES.
Maria Glymour (Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health).

7
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Explaining the High and Worsening Position in Life Expectancy.
Eileen Crimmins (Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California).

21
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: How the World Survived the Population Bomb: Lessons from 50 Years of Exceptional Demographic History.
David Lam (Department of Economics and Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Resarch).

14
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Does Staying in School (and not Working) Help Prevent Teen Drinking and Smoking?.
Adriana Lleras-Muney (Economics Department, University of California - Los Angeles).

7
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Experimental Analysis of the Health and Well-Being Effects of a Non-contributory Social Security Program.
Emma Aguila (RAND Corporation).

24
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Using Incentives to Encourage Healthy Eating in Children.
Joseph Price (Department of Economics, Brigham University).

10
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Postmodern Segregation: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences in the 21st Century.
Douglas S. Massey (Office of Population Research and Department of Sociology, Princeton University).

2010

6
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: The Effect of Unemployment on Household Composition and Doubling Up.
Emily Wiemers (University of Michigan).

22
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Health and Health Insurance Trajectories of Mexicans in the US.
Robert Kaestner (Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Chicago).

22
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Health and Health Insurance Trajectories of Mexicans in the US.
Robert Kaestner (Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Chicago).

15
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: School Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries.
Leah Platt Boustan (Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles).

8
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: FDA and ABCs: Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Academic Achievement.
Ellen Meara (The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College), Ezra Golberstein, Susan Busch.

1
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Circumcision, Information, and HIV Prevention.
Rebecca Thornton (PSC), Susan Godlonton (PSC, U of M), Alister Munthali.

11
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: PSC Faculty Introductions: Faculty Offer Brief Descriptions of Their Research Interests and Projects.
Mick Couper, (PSC), Sheldon H. Danziger (PSC, U of M), Sioban D. Harlow (PSC, U of M), Susan Hautaniemi Leonard (PSC, U of M), James M. Lepkowski (PSC, U of M), Lauren Nicholas (PSC, U of M).

4
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: PSC Faculty Introductions: Faculty Offer Brief Descriptions of Their Research Interests and Projects.
Charlie Brown (PSC), Philippa J. Clarke (PSC, U of M), Kathleen Ford (PSC, U of M), Vicki Freedman (PSC, U of M), Edward Norton (PSC, U of M), Jeffrey A. Smith (PSC, U of M), Kenneth M. Sylvester (PSC, U of M).

20
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Schools, School Quality, and Marriage Timing.
Scott Yabiku (Program in Sociology, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University).

13
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: If Nothing is Certain But Death and Taxes, Why Do So Few Americans Prepare for the End of Life?.
Deborah Carr (Department of Sociology and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University).

15
Jun

PSC Brown Bag: Emerging Family Patterns in Latin America: The Southern Cone Experience.
Georgina Binstock (Centro de Estudios de Poblacion, Argentina).

8
Jun

PSC Brown Bag: Globalization and Migration in Hungary Structures and Attitudes in a Comparative Perspective.
Attila Melegh (Demographic Research Institute, Institute of Sociology and Social Policy).

18
May

PSC Brown Bag: Effects of Childhood Mental and Physical Health on Adult SES.
James Smith (Rand Corporation).

12
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy.
Douglas Almond (Economics Department, Columbia University), Bhash Mazumder.

6
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Career and Family.
Claudia Goldin (Department of Economics, Harvard University).
6050 ISR.

22
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Voter Turnout and the Labor Market.
Mel Stephens (School of Public Policy, Department of Economics, Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan), Kerwin Charles (University of Chicago).

15
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Social Inequality and Infant Mortality in China and India.
Sarah Burgard (Department of Sociology, Population Studies Center and Epidemiology, University of Michigan), Shige Song.

8
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: The Continuum of Disorder and Its Implications for Health.
Kathleen Cagney (Visiting Professsor, University of Michigan, Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research;, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago).

15
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Objective and Perceived Neighborhood Environment and Social Engagement.
Jennifer Ailshire (Center of Biodemography and Population Health, School of Gerontology, University of Southern California).

8
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Demographic and Criminological Perspectives on the Aging of the State Prison Population during the Era of Mass Incarceration (1974-2004).
Shawn Bushway (School of Criminal Justice, University of Albany, State University of New York).

1
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Research Ethics Presentation.
Judy Birk (Managing Director, IRB Health Sciences and Behavioral Sciences), Lynette Hoelter (Director, Instructional Resources & Development, ICPSR), Lisa Neidert (Senior Research Associate, PSC).

11
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Unions, Norms and the Rise in American Earnings Inequality.
Bruce Western (Department of Sociology and Director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government;, Harvard University).

2009

7
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: International Fertility Change: New Data and Insights from the Developmental Idealism Framework.
Arland Thornton (PSC, University of Michigan), Georgina Binstock, Kathryn Yount, Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Dirgha Ghimire,, Yu Xie (PSC, U of M).

1
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Group discussion of Beth Simmons’ book MOBILIZING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN DOMESTIC POLITICS.
Barb Koremenos, Arland Thornton (PSC, U of M).

23
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: PSC Faculty Introductions: Faculty Offer Brief Descriptions of Their Research Interests and Projects.
John Bound (PSC), Elizabeth Eve Bruch (PSC, U of M), Sarah Burgard (PSC, U of M), Reynolds Farley (PSC, U of M), Arline T. Geronimus (PSC, U of M), David J. Harding (PSC, U of M), Jeffrey Morenoff (PSC, U of M), Rachel C. Snow (PSC, U of M), Arland Thornton (PSC, U of M), Rebecca L. Thornton (PSC, U of M).

16
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: PSC Faculty Introductions: Faculty Offer Brief Descriptions of Their Research Interests and Projects.
George Alter, Barbara Anderson, Martha Bailey, Jennifer Barber, Al Hermalin, David Lam, Narayan Sastry, Bob Schoeni, Yu Xie (PSC, U of M).

9
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: For Better or Worse? Increased Stratification in US Higher Education.
John Bound (Population Studies Center, Survey Research Center, Department of Economics, University of Michigan).

6
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Making the Invisible Visible: Challenges of Measuring Gender and Women’s Empowerment.
Sunita Kishor (Macro International).

2
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Contraceptive Method Choice among Youth in the United States: The Importance of Relationship Context.
Yasamin Kusunoki (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).

12
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?.
James J. Prescott (Law School, University of Michigan), Jonah Rockoff.

5
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Imprisonment and Infant Mortality.
Christopher Wildeman (School of Public Health, University of Michigan).

14
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: A Dynamic Economic Model of Weight Change.
Edward Norton (Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan).

27
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Causes and Consequences of Teen Pregnancy in South Africa.
Nicola Branson, David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, Vimal Ranchhod, Leticia Marteleto (PSC, U of M).

13
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Can We Explain Black-White Disparities in Infant Mortality?.
Steven J. Haider (Department of Economics, Michigan State University).

1
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Understanding Inequality in China.
Yu Xie (Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology, Population Studies Center).

23
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Conversions and Continuities: The Implications of Tamang Conversion to Christianity in Nepal for Thinking about Ideational Change.
Tom Fricke (Survey Research Center & Population Studies Center, Anthropology Department).

16
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: The Limits of Collective Efficacy: Investigating the Influence of Neighborhood Context on Levels of Violence in Medellin.
Magdalena Cerda (New York Academy of Medicine).

15
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: TBD.
Sarah Burgard (Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).

9
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: The Demand for Sex Selective Abortions.
Claus Portner (Department of Economics, University of Washington).

2
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: What Explains Fertility? Evidence from Italian Pension Reforms.
Francesco Billari (Director, Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, University of Bocconi, Milano, Italy).

15
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: TBD.
Jennifer Ailshire (Population Studies Center, Survey Research Center and Department of Sociology, University of Michigan).

15
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: TBD.
Jennifer Ailshire (Population Studies Center, Survey Research Center, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan).

9
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Recycling Behavior Among Urban South Africans: The Role of Race and Social Status.
Barbara Anderson (Professor, Department of Sociology, Population Studies Center), John H. Romani (Professor Emeritus of Public Health Administration, ).

3
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: What the American Community Survey Can Tell Us about Mixed-Mode Surveys.
Deborah Griffin (U.S. Census Bureau).

12
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: The Embodiment of Tourism: Sexual Performance and HIV/AIDS Among Dominican Tourism Workers.
Mark Padilla (School of Public Health and Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan).

2008

8
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Going Home After Hurricane Katrina: Determinants of Return Migration and Changes in Affected Areas.
Jeff Groen (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

1
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Family Size of Children and Women during the Demographic Transition.
David Lam (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan), Leticia Marteleto (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).

24
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: The Expansion and Impact of U.S. Family Planning Programs Under the War on Poverty, 1960-1980.
Martha Bailey (Department of Economics and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).

18
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Relationship Dynamics and Social Life: Design and Implementation of Mixed Mode, Mixed Method Study of Young Women.
Jennifer Barber (Survey Research Center,Population Studies Center and Department of Sociology), Yasamin Kusunoki (Population Studies Center), Heather Gatny (Survey Research Center and Population Studies Center).

4
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Social Isolation, Gender and Inflammation.
Linda Waite (Department of Sociology, University of Chicago).

27
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Some Macroeconomic Consequences of the Demographic Transition.
Ron Lee (Center for Demography and Economics, University of California, Berkeley).

20
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Cognitive Economics and Human Capital.
Bob Willis (Population Studies Center, Survey Research Center).

13
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Marginal Valuation of Fertility and Risk-Aversion in Women’s Reproduction on the Utah Frontier, 1849-1929.
Jamie Jones (Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University).

6
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: School Quality, Attitudes about the Family, and Contraceptive Use in Nepal.
Sarah Brauner-Otto (Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina).

22
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks: The Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on Urban Poverty and Inequality.
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat (Institute of Public Policy, Duke University).

15
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: The Kerner Commission Report: 40 Years Later. What Has Changed, What Hasn’t.
Reynolds Farley (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).

21
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Family Formation and Fertility in Central and Eastern Europe: Sweeping Changes and Driving Forces.
Dimiter Philipov (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Institute of Demography).

14
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Educational Transitions in Egypt.
Ray Langsten (Social Research Center, American University in Cairo).

7
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Consequences of Unwanted Fertility: Longitudinal Evidence from Bangladesh.
John Casterline (Department of Sociology, Ohio State University).

17
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in Charleston, South Carolina 1860-1880.
Jeff Strickland (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).

10
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Moving Women: Household Composition, Labor Demand and Crop Choice.
Isaac Mbiti (Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University).

3
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: New and Current Services from the Center for Statistical Consultation and Research (CSCAR).
Edward Rothman (Center for Statistical Consultation and Research, University of Michigan).

11
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Complex Systems Approaches to Population Studies.
Carl Simon (School of Public Policy, University of Michigan).

4
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Community Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Youth in Asia.
David Bishai (School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University).

14
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Reevaluating the Causes of the Baby Boom: The Effects of Electrification in the United States, 1925 to 1960.
Martha Bailey (Department of Economics, University of Michigan).

2007

3
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability.
Patrick Bayer (Department of Economics, Duke University).

26
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Sleep and Health: Gender, socio-economic status and inequalities in sleep.
Sara Arber (Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK).

5
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: The Effects of Social Origins on Educational Attainment: A 51 Nation Comparison.
Don Treiman (California Center for Population Research, UCLA).

22
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: The Making of the Modern Western Family and the Politics of Moral Control--Illustrated with the Example of Flanders 1450-1800.
Ron Lesthaeghe (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).

15
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Evidence-Based Reproductive and Child Health Program Development in Ghana.
James Phillips (Population Council).

1
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Family in the Middle East: Ideational Change in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia.
Kathryn Yount (Department of Sociology, Emory University).

24
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Modernisation vs. Traditionalism--The Fertility Changes in Albania 1950-2000..
Arjan Gjonca (Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics).

16
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Social Identity and Preferences.
Daniel Benjamin (University of Michigan).

9
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: The Social Ecology of Public Space: Street Activity and Violent Crime in Urban Neighborhoods.
Christopher Browning (Ohio State University).

2
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Fragile Families: The First Five Years.
Sara McLanahan (Princeton University).

19
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Trends in the Percent of Children who are Orphans in South Africa: 1995-2005.
Barbara Anderson (University of Michigan).

15
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and their Children.
Greg Duncan (Northwestern University).

12
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: How America Expanded Education and Why It Mattered.
Michael Hout (University of California, Berkeley).

5
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools.
David Card (University of California, Berkeley).

12
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Giving Help in Return: Family Reciprocity by Older Singaporeans.
Lois Verbrugge (University of Michigan).

6
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: An Update on the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG).
Robert Groves (University of Michigan), William Axinn (University of Michigan).

22
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Being Together Working Apart: Results from the 500 Family Study.
Barbara Schneider (Michigan State University).

8
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: The Declining Multiple Race Population of the US and the American Community Survey: 2000 to 2005.
Reynolds Farley (University of Michigan).

2006

11
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Women's Preferences and Child Survival in American History.
Grant Miller (Stanford University).

4
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Replication Standards for Quantitative Social Science: Why Not Sociology?.
Jeremy Freese (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

20
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Sexual Behavior, Childbearing, and Schooling in South Africa: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study.
David Lam (University of Michigan).

13
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Measuring the Magnitude of HIV: Evaluating the Ugandan Miracle.
Emily Oster (University of Chicago).

6
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles: Fertility Decline Among European Catholics.
Eli Berman (University of California, San Diego).

23
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: ‘Momma's Got the Pill’: Griswold v. Connecticut and U.S. Childbearing.
Martha Bailey (University of Michigan).

9
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Do Battered Mothers Have More Fetal and Infant Deaths? Evidence from India.
Nan Johnson (Michigan State University).

3
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: The 2010 World Program of Population and Housing Censuses.
Paul Cheung (United Nations Statistical Division).

18
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men.
Harry Holzer (Georgetown University).

11
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: The Shape of Fertility Decline in 19th-Century Europe: Visualizing Stopping and Spacing.
George Alter (Indiana University).

18
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Pre-Marital and Extra-Marital Fertility in Munich, 1825-1910.
Tim Guinnane (Yale University).

12
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Demonstration of a New Framework for Assessing Progress toward Education for All.
Ray Langsten (American University in Cairo).

10
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: On the Implications of Weathering for Eliminating Racial Health Inequality in the United States.
Arline Geronimus (University of Michigan).

20
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: The Development of Relationship Education for Low-Income Individuals.
Scott Stanley (The University of Denver).

13
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Reevaluating the Schooling Costs of Teenage Childbearing.
Jeffrey Smith (University of Michigan).

15
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Strange Unrest: American Family Instability in Comparative Perspective.
Andrew Cherlin (The Johns Hopkins University).

23
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Substance Use in Adolescence and Adulthood: The Links with Educational Success and Failure.
Jerry Bachman (University of Michigan).

9
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Sexual Risk-Taking in South Africa.
Rachel Snow (University of Michigan).

2005

5
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Communities, Descent Groups, and Individual Outcomes in Liaoning, China, 1749-1909.
Cameron Campbell (UCLA).

14
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: From a First to a Second Demographic Transition -- Concept, Evidence, Prospects.
Ron Lesthaeghe (University of Michigan).

7
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Add Health Grows Up: Social, Behavioral, and Biological Linkages in a Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
Kathleen Mullan Harris (University of North Carolina).

24
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Spatial Data Analysis of Child Poverty in the U.S. with Particular Attention to Issues of Spatial Heterogeneity.
Paul Voss (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

10
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Death and Dying in the 21st Century: Implications for Older Adults and their Families.
Deborah Carr (Rutgers University).

3
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Mental Health and Behavioral Consequences of Terrorism.
Sandro Galea (University of Michigan).

19
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: New Social Science Initiatives in China.
Yu Xie (University of Michigan), James Lee (University of Michigan).

18
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change.
Robert Mare (UCLA).

11
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Leaping the Hurdles and Navigating the Maze: How to Get Funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Rebecca Clark (NICHD).

4
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Accessing and Using Confidential Census Microdata through the Michigan Census Research Data Center.
Margaret Levenstein (University of Michigan).

28
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Natural Capacities: farm scale and cropland resilience on the Great Plains, 1910-1992.
Ken Sylvester.

21
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Innovating at the End: Studying Race in the 2004 Detroit Area Study.
Ren Farley (University of Michigan), Maria Krysan (University of Illinois-Chicago), Mick Couper (University of Michigan).

11
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage.
Kathy Edin (University of Pennsylvania), Maria Kefalas (Saint Joseph's University).
Rackham Hall Amphitheater.

7
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Trends in Socioeconomic Inequality in Child Mortality in Brazil.
Narayan Sastry (RAND).

7
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Grammars of Death: 19th-Century Literal Causes of Death from the Age of Miasmus to Germ Theory.
Susan Hautaniemi Leonard (University of Michigan).

24
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Migration, Acculturation, and Infant Health of the Mexican-origin Population in the United States: Investigating a Paradox.
Miguel Ceballos (University of Michigan).

10
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Making Muslim Babies: IVF and Gamete Donation in Sunni Egypt and Shi'ite Lebanon.
Marcia Inhorn (University of Michigan).

2004

6
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Family Connections: Over Generations and Across Nations.
James Jackson (University of Michigan).

22
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Deliberate Control in a Natural Fertility Population: Southern Sweden 1766-1865.
Tommy Bengtsson (Lund University, Sweden), Martin Dribe (Lund University, Sweden).

15
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: The Impact of the AIDS Epidemic on Older Aged Parents: Evidence from Thailand.
John Knodel (University of Michigan).

8
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Partner + Children = Happiness? An Assessment of the Effect of Fertility and Partnerships on Subjective Well-Being in Danish Twins.
Hans-Peter Kohler (University of Pennsylvania).

25
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Concepts of Population and Development in Southwestern Nigeria.
Elisha Renne (University of Michigan).

11
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Family and Neighborhood Sources of Socioeconomic Inequality in Children's Achievement.
Narayan Sastry (RAND).

4
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Intermarriage and Social Distance in Multiracial America.
Joshua Goldstein (Princeton University).

20
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Intimate Partner Violence in China.
William Parish (University of Chicago).

4
May

PSC Brown Bag: Family Change After An Unintended Birth..
Jennifer Barber (University of Michigan).

26
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Adolescent Health, Genes, and Social and Demographic Contexts.
Guang Guo (Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina).

20
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Aging in Mexico.
Beth Soldo (Sociology, University of Pennsylvania).

5
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Taking Culture Seriously: Making the Survey Ethnographic.
Tom Fricke (University of Michigan).

29
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Youth, Identity and Gender Bargains: Egypt and the Muslim World.
Barbara Ibrahim (The Population Council).

22
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: The Impact of Social Changes on the Family in Vietnam.
Rukmalie Jayakody (Pennsylvania State University).

15
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: 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..
Al Hermalin (University of Michigan), Pamela Smock (University of Michigan), Robert Schoeni (University of Michigan), Sapna Swaroop (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).

8
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Gender, Caste and Contraceptive Use in Rajasthan, India.
Rachel Snow (Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan).

1
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Stressed Out On Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?.
Daniel Hamermesh (Centennial Professor of Economics, University of Texas, at Austin).

2
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Long-Term Care and Family Decision Making.
Robert Pollak (Washington University).

2
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: New Directions in Population and Environment Research - A Panel Discussion.
Bill Axinn (University of Michigan), Dan Brown (School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan), Jianguo Liu (Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University), Myron Gutmann (University of Michigan).

19
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Developmental Idealism and Family Change: A Research Agenda.
Arland Thornton (University of Michigan).

12
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Overview of PSC Faculty Research.
Various PSC Faculty Researchers (University of Michigan).

2003

8
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Marital Biography and Health at Midlife.
Linda Waite (Department of Sociology, University of Chicago).

1
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: A SSAD Model of Family Resource Allocation Among Siblings: Competition, Forbearance, and Support.
Cyrus Chu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan).

17
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Patterns and Factors of Household Life Course in 18th and 19th Century Rural Japan..
Noriko Tsuya (Department of Economics, Keio University).

10
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Marriage on the Public Policy Agenda: What Do Policymakers Need to Know From Research?.
Pam Smock (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan), Kristin Seefeldt (Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan).

3
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: The National Survey of Family Growth: Cycle 6 Experiences and Cycle 7 Plans..
Bill Axinn (University of Michigan), Bob Groves (University of Michigan).

20
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child’s Perspective: Family Size, Cohort Size, and Schooling.
David Lam (University of Michigan), Leticia Marteleto (Federal University of Minas, Gerais, Brazil).

13
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Predictors of Poverty During the Market Transition in Central Europe.
Rebecca Emigh (UCLA).

21
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Food Stamps Use and the Elderly: Why is Participation So Low?.
Robert Schoeni (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).

14
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Exploring the Complexities of Racial Residential Preferences in the Detroit Area Study and Beyond: Lessons from the Past and Plans for the Future.
Maria Krysan (Department of Sociology, University of Illinois-Chicago).

7
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: By Words and Deeds: Racial Steering by Real Estate Agents.
George Galster (College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University).

31
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Food Insufficiency or Poverty? Measuring Need-related Diet Adequacy.
Steven Haider (Department of Economics, Michigan State University).

24
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Modeling the ecology of women's lives in modern contexts: Some evolutionary considerations.
Bobbi Low (School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan).

17
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Race and Space in Urban America: Perspectives from the 2000 Census.
William Frey (Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan).

10
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Racial Disparities in Violent Crime: Role of Socio-Economic Context and Neighborhood.
Jeff Morenoff (Population Studies Center and the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan).

3
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Health and Living Arrangements among Elderly Persons in the United States..
Joseph Winchester Brown (Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan).

10
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: The Measure and Meaning of Social Networks among Arab Immigrants in Detroit.
Ann Chih Lin (Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan).

3
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Has the percentage of children orphaned in South Africa increased? An analysis based on October Household Survey data 1995-98.
Barbara Anderson (Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research), John Romani (University of Michigan).

27
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Are "Two-Parent" and "Single-Parent" Families Misnomers Misdirecting Family Research?.
Martha Hill (Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research).

2002

9
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Heat, Elevation, and Migration: Two Population-Environment Regimes in the Great Plains of the United States.
Myron Gutmann (ICPSR, PSC, and Department of History, University of Michigan).

2
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: IPUMS-International: Integrating and Calibrating Census Microdata.
Robert McCaa (Department of History & Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota).

18
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Teaching about Detroit and Racial Residential Segregation: Using the Web in the Classroom.
Reynolds Farley (Population Studies Center and the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan).

11
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Family Structure and Child Well-being: The Significance of Parental Cohabitation.
Susan Brown (Center for Family and Demographic Research & Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University).

4
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Looking for Mortality-Fertility Links: Reading History Backward, Sideways, and at the Extreme.
Patrick Heuveline (Department of Sociology & Population Research Center, University of Chicago).

28
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Religion, Health, and Mortality: Recent Findings and Next Steps.
Robert Hummer (Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, University of Texas).

21
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Economic Stress and Mortality in Past Times: Europe and Asia, 1700-1900.
James Z. Lee (Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology).

7
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Comparative Analysis of the Role of Function in Survival Among the Elderly: U.S. and Japan.
Kristine Mulhorn (Health Care Department, University of Michigan).

30
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China's One-Child Policy.
Vanessa L. Fong (Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).

23
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Sexual revolution and normative roles of the family: a hazard rate analysis of sexual initiation.
Kazuo Yamaguchi (Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, University of Chicago).

16
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Marriage as Public Policy: Welfare Reform and Union Formation Among Single Mothers.
Daniel T. Lichter (Department of Sociology & Initiative in Population Research, Ohio State University).

15
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: 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).
Robert LaLonde (Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago), Don Rubin (Statistics Department, Harvard University).
Conference Room, 6050 ISR.

8
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Paying to Waste Lives: The Affordability of Reducing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in South Africa.
Jolene Skordis (Dept. of Economics and Demography, University of Cape Town).

1
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Where's the Second Demographic Transition Headed?: A Child-Centered Perspective.
Patrick Heuveline (Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, University of Chicago).

18
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Attainment of Below Replacement-level Fertility in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi (Department of Demography, The University of Tehran).

11
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Why males are the frail sex: Evolutionary perspectives on cohort and cultural variations in the sexual mortality ratio.
Randolph Nesse (Department of Psychiatry and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan), Daniel Kruger (Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan).

11
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Racial Residential Segregation in the 1980s and 1990s: The Slow Shift Toward a More Integrated Society.
Reynolds Farley (Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).

4
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Is Covenant Marriage Law a Policy that Preaches to the Choir? A Comparison of Covenant and tandard Newlywed Couples in Louisiana.
Laura Sanchez (Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University).

28
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Gender, health, and access to care of the lifecourse: New perspectives on the Middle East.
Kathryn Yount (Department of International Health, Emory University).
LANE HALL, Room 2239.

14
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: The Effects of Welfare Work Requirements on Breastfeeding.
Bob Schoeni (Survey Research Center, University of Michigan).

7
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: The Changing United States As Shown by the 2000 Census.
Barbara Bryant (University of Michigan).

2001

10
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Excess Mortality Among Urban Residents: How Much, for Whom and Why?.
James House (Survey Research Center, University of Michigan).

3
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: AIDS and older people in Thailand: Results of a survey of AIDS parents.
John Knodel (Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan).

26
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Income inequality, psychosocial environment and health: comparisons across wealthy nations.
John Lynch (School of Public Health, University of Michigan).

19
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Health Satus of the Japanese Elderly: Results from the 1st Wave of a Longitudinal Survey.
Yasuhiko Saito (Nihon University, Japan).

12
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Immigrants, Their Children, and Theories of Assimilation: Household Structure, 1880 to 1970.
Myron Gutmann (Department of History, University of Michigan).

5
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Tradeoffs between Public and Private Economic Support of the Elderly: Results from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan.
Ann Biddlecom (PSC, University of Michigan).

29
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Family Structure and Educational Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons From Kenya and South Africa..
Claudia Buchmann (Department of Sociology, Duke University).

22
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Child-spacing and Abortion in a Northern Nigerian Town.
Elisha Renne (Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan).

8
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Ethnic identity and coping with experiences of ethnic discrimination.
Jacquelynne Eccles (Department of Psychology, University of Michigan).

1
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Five Years Into Welfare Reform: What Have We Learned?.
Rebecca Blank (Dean, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan).

24
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Egyptian Mothers of Testtube Babies: Gender, Islam, and the Globalization of New Reproductive Technologies.
Marcia Inhorn (Department of Anthropology and School of Public Health, University of Michigan).

17
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: The Cocaine Epidemic and Infant Health Outcomes.
Harold Pollack (School of Public Health, University of Michigan).

10
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Social Status of Older Women in the Middle East.
Kathryn Yount (Department of International Health and Sociology, Emory University).

23
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Understanding the Gender Pay Gap for Physicians.
Laurie Morgan (University of Michigan).

16
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Comparing How Full-Day and Half-Day Kindergarten Influences Children's Cognitive Development.
Valerie Lee (University of Michigan), David Burkam (University of Michigan).

9
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Marriage and Mobility as Two-Sided Matching: Models, Hypotheses, and Estimation.
John Logan (University of Wisconsin).

2
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Never Far from Home: Parental Assets and Migrant Remittances in Matlab, Bangladesh.
Randall Kuhn (Labor and Population Program, RAND).

26
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: A Complex Systems Approach to Population Dynamics.
Carl P. Simon (Department of Economics, University of Michigan).

19
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: China's Spectacular Fertility Decline Before the One-Child-Policy.
Ronald Freedman (PSC, University of Michigan).

12
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Changes in Singapore's Population Policy and Data Management.
Paul Cheung (Singapore Department of Statistics).

5
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Safe Water, Access to Health Care and Other Factors Affecting Infant and Child Survival among the African and Coloured Populations of South Africa.
Barbara Anderson (PSC, University of Michigan), John H. Romani (University of Michigan).

19
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Inequality in Life Expectancy, Functional Status, and Active Life Expectancy Across Selected Black and White Populations in the United States.
Arline Geronimus (PSC, University of Michigan).

12
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Intermarriage between the Never Married and the Divorced in the U.S..
Hiromi Ono (PSC, University of Michigan).

5
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: The Developmental Paradigm: Its Influence on the Field of Demography and Family and Fertility Behavior.
Arland Thornton (University of Michigan).

29
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: The Bali STD/AIDS Study.
Kathy Ford (University of Michigan).

22
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Upstream and Downstream Approaches to Inequalities in Health.
George Kaplan (University of Michigan).

2000

11
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Male Paternity Confidence and Patterns of Abortion, Divorce, and Investment in Children.
Kermyt G. Anderson (PSC, University of Michigan).

4
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Transitions in Living Arrangements Among the Elderly in Japan: Does Health Make a Difference?.
Win Brown (University of Michigan), Jersey Liang (University of Michigan).

27
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Location of Adult Children as an Attraction for Black and White Elderly Migrants in the United States.
Kao-Lee Liaw (McMaster University), William Frey (PSC, University of Michigan), Ji-Ping Lin (National Chung-cheng University, Taiwan).

20
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Effects of Economic Shocks on Children's Employment and Schooling in Brazil.
David Lam (PSC, University of Michigan).

13
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Socioeconomic Status, Health and Mortality in the U.S..
Paula Lantz (University of Michigan).

6
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Forewarning of Spouse's Death and Psychological Adjustment to Widowhood among Older Adults..
Deborah S. Carr (PSC, University of Michigan).

30
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Educational Attainment and the Transition to First Marriage among Japanese Women: a Test of the 'Independence Hypothesis'.
Jim Raymo (University of Wisconsin).

23
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: The National Survey of Family Growth - Cycle VI.
William Axinn (PSC, University of Michigan), Robert M. Groves, Krishna Winfrey (ISR, Institute for Social Research), William Mosher (NCHS).

16
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: The New Racial Identities of Americans: What Happens When You Give People the Choice to Identify with Multiple Races?.
Reynolds Farley (PSC, University of Michigan).

9
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Measurement and Correlates of Cognitive Functioning in a National Survey of Older Adults.
Mary Beth Ofstedal (PSC, University of Michigan).

3
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Global Health From The Late Paleolithic Era To The Present.
Richard Steckel (Department of Economics, Ohio State University).
201 Lorch Hall, Department of Economics.

2
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: The Influence of Nonfamily Institutions and Experiences on Dispositions Toward Marriage.
Jennifer Barber (PSC, University of Michigan).

25
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Between AIDS and Infertility: The Demographic Implications of Gender Construction and Reproductive Health in Botswana.
Rebecca L. Upton (University of Michigan).

18
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Race-Ethnicity, Social Background, and Grade Retention.
Robert Hauser (University of Wisconsin).
Michigan Union.

11
Sep

PSC Brown Bag: Wither the Hispanic Paradox? Racial/Ethnic Differences in Birth Outcomes.
Jeff Morenoff (PSC, University of Michigan).

24
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Measurement and Correlates of Cognitive Functioning in a National Survey of Older Adults.
Mary Beth Ofstedal (PSC).

17
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Altruism, Kin-Selection and Intra-Family Transfers: Evidence from Remittance Behavior in South Africa.
Dorrit Ruth Posel (University of Natal-Durban, South Africa).

10
Apr

PSC Brown Bag: Health in Indonesia during the Economic Crisis: Does Access to Services Make a Difference?.
Elizabeth Frankenberg (RAND).

27
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: How are Single Mothers Faring After Welfare Reform?.
Sheldon Danziger, Colleen Heflin (PSC).

20
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Population Aging and Family Dynamics of Elderly in China.
Zeng Yi.

13
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Improving Survey Data Analyses of Fertility Preferences Through Ethnographic Exploration: Studying Model Outliers.
Lisa Pearce (PSC).

6
Mar

PSC Brown Bag: Who is Mixed Race? Patterns and Determinants of Adolescent Racial Identity.
David Harris (PSC).

14
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Michigan's Minority Law Students in Practice: Research in the Shadow of Litigation.
Rick Lempert (PSC).

7
Feb

PSC Brown Bag: Describing and Comparing Trajectories of Individual Change.
Steve Raudenbush (PSC).

31
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Temporal and regional variation in the strength of educational homogamy.
Jim Raymo, Yu Xie (PSC).

24
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Sex Ratios in South African Census Data 1970-1996.
Barbara Anderson (PSC).

10
Jan

PSC Brown Bag: Going to War and Going to College: Did World War II and the GI Bill Increase Educational attainment of Returning Veterans?.
John Bound (PSC), Sarah E. Turner (University of Virginia).

1999

14
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: The Geography of South African Labour Markets.
Martin Wittenberg (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa).

6
Dec

PSC Brown Bag: Marriage, Money and 'Gender Display' in Men's Housework.
Sanjiv Gupta (PSC).

29
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Sexual Networks and HIV: Examples from the US, Thailand and Uganda.
Martina Morris (Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University).

22
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Transitions in Living Arrangements among Elderly Japanese.
Win Brown (PSC).

15
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: The New Second Generation.
Ren Farley (PSC).

11
Nov

Symposium: The World at 6 Billion: Where Do We Go From Here?.
Joseph Chamie (Director, United Nations Population Division), Allan Rosenfield (Dean, School of Public Health, Columbia University), Ronald Freedman (PSC), Sara Seims (Alan Guttmacher Institute).
School of Public Health Auditorium Building I.

8
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Have the Consequences of Early Childbearing Changed? Substantive and Methodological Issues.
Sandy Hofferth (PSC).

1
Nov

PSC Brown Bag: Menstrual Function Across the Reproductive Lifespan: How It Varies and Why It Matters.
Sioban Harlow (PSC).

25
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Reproductive Value, Child Care, and Natural Selection: Beyond the Leslie Matrix.
Ted Bergstrom (Department of Economics, U of C, Santa Barbara).

18
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Census Data for the Classroom: New Directions with the SSDAN Network.
William Frey (Social Science Data Analysis Network).

11
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Hazards of First Sex: Multilevel Components for Family and Neighborhood Effects.
Lee Lillard (PSC).

4
Oct

PSC Brown Bag: Aging in Asia: Facing the Crossroads.
Al Hermalin (PSC).