Global health 2050: the path to halving premature death by mid-century
Speaker
Omar Karlsson
Visiting Fellow, DUPRI
Duke University
Using a Linked Dataset to Study the Spatial and Social Integration of Chinese Immigrants in a New Area of Destination.
Speaker
Lindsay Yingzhi Xu
Graduate Student, Sociology
Duke University
Are they insecure? Housing arrangements and residential mobility among families with children.
Speaker
Warren Lowell
Graduate Student, Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
On the evolutionary foundations of intra-family resource sharing
Speaker
Ingela Alger
CNRS Senior Researcher in Economics
Toulouse School of Economics
Abstract
Intra-family resource sharing is extensive in Homo sapiens. In this talk I will summarize key findings of theoretical work on the evolutionary foundations of some of this sharing, including paternal investment and food sharing between unrelated males and females.
How population-level matched birth-school administrative records can address public health and education policy questions
Speaker
David Figlio
Provost and Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education
University of Rochester
Abstract
This presentation highlights the recent scholarship of David Figlio, who popularized the use of matched birth-school data to address public health and education policy questions in the field of economics. Figlio will present a survey of his research on early health and later educational outcomes, as well as the use of sibling comparisons (facilitated by matched birth records) to study policy-relevant issues in education.
Trends in the Gender Pay Gap: Narrowing Starting Gaps and Persistent Life-Course Divergence
Speaker
Alexandra Killewald
Professor of Sociology
University of Michigan
Compensation vs. Reinforcement: Experimental Identification of Parental Aversion to Inequality in Offspring
Speaker
Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics
Vanderbilt University
Understanding the Structural Determinants of Population Health: Housing Assistance and Lead Exposure in the United States
Speaker
Andy Fenelon
Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
University of Minnesota
Rethinking the Past and Future of (Im)migrant Integration
Speaker
Tod Hamilton
Professor of Sociology
Princeton University
Global inequalities in U.S. visa rejection rates: Evidence from the outcomes of U.S visa applications submitted over the past two decades.
Speaker
Kevin J.A. Thomas
Director, Institute of Urban Policy Research and Analysis
Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Sociology
University of Texas at Austin