Tentative Schedule - Spring 2012

Tuesdays, 12:30-1:45 p.m.
Room 8417 Sewell Social Sciences Bldg.
Organizer: Jim Raymo

Date

Presenter

Title

Readings

Jan 24

Mike Massoglia

Racial variation in the effect of incarceration on neighborhood attainment  
Jan 31   No meeting scheduled  
Feb 7 Rukmalie Jayakody (Penn State, HDFS and Sociology) Television and International Family Change

 

Feb 14 Sarah Halpern-Meekin (UW-Milwaukee, Sociology) It's not like I'm poor: How working families make ends meet in a post-welfare world

 

Feb 21   No meeting scheduled  
Feb 28 Jay Bhattachrayra (Stanford, School of Medicine) Predicting Medical Innovation OR Economics of Obesity  
Mar 6 Sarah Burgard (Univ. Michigan, Sociology) Negative working conditions and health among American Adults  
Mar 13 David Grabowski (Harvard, Health Care Policy) TBA  
Mar 20 Hans-Peter Kohler (Univ. Pennsylvania, Sociology) TBA  
Mar 27 Ted Mouw (Univ. North Carolina, Sociology) The effect of immigration on the wages of native workers at the firm and metropolitan level: evidence from longitudinal data from the LEHD  
Apr 3   Spring Break - no seminar  
Apr 10 Duncan Thomas (Duke, Economics) TBA  

Apr 17

Jere Behrman (Univ. Pennsylvania, Economics) TBA  
Apr 24 Chao Fu (UW, Economics) TBA  
May 1 Oded Galor (Brown, Economics) TBA  
May 8 Cristina De Nardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) TBA  
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Seminars from Previous Semesters