Tentative Schedule - Fall 2009
Tuesdays, 12:20-1:45 p.m.
Room 4308 Sewell Social Sciences Bldg.
Organizer: Jim Raymo
Date |
Presenter |
Title |
Readings |
| 9/8 | Show and Tell | ||
| 9/15 | Jenna Nobles |
Disaster and the Rise of the Therapeutic Community: Civic engagement and adult health in post-tsunami Indonesia | |
| 9/22 | Jim Raymo and Jim Walker |
Overview of Graduate Program in Demography | |
9/29 |
Andrew Jones |
Quality of schooling and inequality of opportunity in health Joint with CDHA |
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| 10/6 | John Delamater (UW Sociology) |
Getting Published in Peer-reviewed Journals | |
| 10/13 | Whitney Witt (UW Population Health Sciences) |
The Impact of Childhood Activity Limitations on Parental Health, Mental Health, and Workdays Lost in the United States | |
| 10/20 | Roger Wojtkiewicz (Ball State University Sociology) |
TBA | |
| 10/27 | John Kennan (UW Economics) |
Higher Education Subsidies and Human Capital Mobility | Link to paper |
| 11/3 | Miho Iwasawa (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research - Japan) |
The End of Lowest-low Fertility in Japan?: Explanations for Fertility Reversal after 2005 | |
| 11/10 | Monica Grant (UW Sociology) |
Children's living arrangements and the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa | |
| 11/17 | James Montgomery (UW Sociology and Economics) |
The Population Dynamics of Black-White-Mulatto Racial Systems | Link to paper |
| 11/24 | Salvador Navarro (UW Economics) |
A Framework for the Analysis of Dynamic Treatment Effects: Grade Retention and Test Scores | |
| 12/1 | Pam Herd (UW LaFollette and Sociology) |
Education and Health Behaviors among the Elderly | |
| 12/8 | Chistopher McKelvey (University of Maryland Economics and RWJ Fellow) |
The Effects of Cellular Phone Infrastructure: Evidence from Rural Peru | |
| 12/15 | Betty Thomson (Stockholm University) | Family disruption in Sweden: New possibilities and results from administrative registers |