Seminar Series

Douglas Almond's use of the 1918 U.S. influenza pandemic as a natural experiment led to the seminal works on the subject of in utero health's impact on later life outcomes.

Date
2/09/2011
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Sociology-Psychology 329

Aging is an evolutionarily labile trait that is likely shaped by a diversity of sources of natural selection.

Date
2/02/2011
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Sociology-Psychology 329

There are indications that the mean difference in socioeconomic status between homeowners and renters has been increasing in recent decades, and that these trends vary by race and ethnicity.

Date
1/26/2011
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Sociology-Psychology 329

The share of the homeless population composed of African Americans and children has grown since the early 1980s, but the causes of these changes remain poorly understood.

Date
12/01/2010
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Social Sciences 113

The prevailing model of migration in transitioning countries conceives of a risk-diversifying household in which members share a coherent set of preferences about the departure of one or more members to work elsewhere.

Date
11/17/2010
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Social Sciences 113

The Global Health Initiative (GHI), President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) and other global health programs are putting increasing emphasis on evaluation and learning to ensure that investments in global health are effective and achieve desir

Date
11/10/2010
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Social Sciences 113

Most demographic research on intergenerational processes focuses on the associations between the numbers and characteristics of individuals in successive generations, and ignores multigenerational (Non-Markovian) aspects of intergenerational mobility.

Date
11/03/2010
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Social Sciences 113

There is now consensus that concurrent partnerships increase transmission of infectious diseases in sparse networks -- like HIV in sexual partnership networks.

Date
10/27/2010
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Social Sciences 113

This paper reports on an extension of group-based trajectory modeling to address non-random subject attrition or truncation due to death that varies across trajectory groups. The effects of the model extension are explored in both simulated and real data.

Date
10/20/2010
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Social Sciences 113

We have demonstrated a close match between self-reported race and bio-ancestry estimated from survey responses and 162 genetic ancestral informative markers drawn from 2,065 racially and ethnically diverse U.S. college students.

Date
10/13/2010
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Social Sciences 113