Seminar Series

Fall 2024
Date Speaker Talk Title Position Institution
8/29/2024   Demography of Health and Aging Student Seminar Organizational Meeting    
9/05/2024 Jenna Nobles

Race and Childbearing in the US: Infertility as a Pressing Form of Reproductive Inequity

 Professor of Demography University of California, Berkeley
9/12/2024 Jennie Romich

Amy Hawn Nelson		 Expanding the field of integrated administrative data: National perspectives and new work in Washington State Director, West Coast Poverty Center & Professor of Social Work

Research Faculty & Director of Training and Technical Assistance at Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy

University of Washington

University of Pennsylvania
9/26/2024 Kevin J.A. Thomas Global inequalities in U.S. visa rejection rates: Evidence from the outcomes of U.S visa applications submitted over the past two decades. Director, Institute of Urban Policy Research and Analysis
Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Sociology		 University of Texas at Austin
10/03/2024 Warren Lowell

DOHA*: Are they insecure? Housing arrangements and residential mobility among families with children.

 Graduate Student, Sanford School of Public Policy Duke University
10/10/2024 Lindsay Yingzhi Xu

DOHA*: Using a Linked Dataset to Study the Spatial and Social Integration of Chinese Immigrants in a New Area of Destination.

 Graduate Student, Sociology Duke University
10/17/2024 Tod Hamilton Rethinking the Past and Future of (Im)migrant Integration Professor of Sociology Princeton University
10/24/2024 Andy Fenelon Understanding the Structural Determinants of Population Health: Housing Assistance and Lead Exposure in the United States Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health University of Minnesota
10/31/2024 Felipe Barrera-Osorio Compensation vs. Reinforcement: Experimental Identification of Parental Aversion to Inequality in Offspring Associate Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics Vanderbilt University
11/07/2024 Alexandra Killewald Trends in the Gender Pay Gap: Narrowing Starting Gaps and Persistent Life-Course Divergence Professor of Sociology University of Michigan
11/14/2024 David Figlio How population-level matched birth-school administrative records can address public health and education policy questions Provost and Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education University of Rochester
11/21/2024 Ingela Alger On the evolutionary foundations of intra-family resource sharing CNRS Senior Researcher in Economics Toulouse School of Economics
12/05/2024 Omar Karlsson DOHA*: Global health 2050: the path to halving premature death by mid-century Visiting Fellow, DUPRI Duke University

*DOHA (Demography of Health and Aging) seminars are predoctoral student-led seminars.

Spring 2025
Date Speaker Talk Title Position Institution
1/09/2025   DOHA Student Seminar*    
1/16/2025 Karen Guzzo Fertility Decision-Making in the U.S. in an Era of Uncertainty Director, Carolina Population Center
Professor of Sociology		 University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
1/23/2025 Bridget Goosby   Professor of Sociology University of Texas at Austin
1/30/2025   DOHA Student Seminar*    
2/06/2025 Abba Greenleaf Dynamics of HIV Prevention Practices among Young Women in Eswatini Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health Columbia University
2/13/2025 Deirdre Bloome Family Tree Branches and Southern Roots: Contemporary Racial Differences in Marriage in Intergenerational and Contextual Perspective Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy
Professor of Sociology		 Harvard University
2/20/2025   DOHA Student Seminar*    
2/27/2025 Martha Bailey   Director, California Center for Population Research
Professor of Economics		 University of California–Los Angeles
3/06/2025 Jason Schnittker   Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania    
3/20/2025 Jennifer Candipan   Assistant Professor of Sociology Brown University
3/27/2025   DOHA Student Seminar*    
4/03/2025 Zach Ward Like Great-grandfather, Like Great-grandson? Multigenerational Mobility in American History Associate Professor of Economics Baylor University
4/17/2025 Ellora Derenoncourt   Assistant Professor of Economics Princeton University

*DOHA (Demography of Health and Aging) seminars are predoctoral student-led seminars.