Congratulations to CDE graduate student Esteban Quiñones (agricultural and applied economics), who completed his PhD last spring/summer. Quiñones’ research focused on poverty and the roles that households and government policies play in alleviating deprivation, with an emphasis on impacts of migration and gender. Quiñones has joined Mathematica Policy Research in Chicago, where he will contribute …
We are pleased that CDE’s Director, Marcy Carlson, has been elected vice president of the Population Association of America (PAA). PAA is the leading U.S. scientific, professional organization promoting research on population issues. She will begin serving on January 1, 2020. The main duties of the Vice President of PAA are to assist the PAA …
CDE is excited to welcome five new assistant professors to campus in fall 2019 who will expand the depth and breadth of our scholarship. Megan Bea joins UW’s School of Human Ecology after receiving a PhD in Sociology from Cornell University. Her research interests are in economic sociology, sociology of finance, social stratification, and financial …
CDE is pleased to report that we have received official approval from NICHD for five years of continued funding for our Center grant (2019-24). The Population Dynamics Research Infrastructure Program at NICHD advances the field of population dynamics research by increasing the scientific impact of research, increasing competitiveness for peer-reviewed external funding, developing junior scholars, …
CDE affiliate Jen Dykema is embarking on a two-year research project funded by the National Science Foundation entitled “Effects of interviewers, respondents, and questions on survey measurement of health outcomes and health disparities.” In this research, Dykema and her colleague, former CDE student Dana Garbarski (Loyola University-Chicago) will examine the dimensions and impacts of interviewer …
Within the current context of global climate change, the study of how environmental changes are shaping individual behaviors related to human migration, mortality, and fertility is among the most pressing issues confronting population research and policy. CDE and the Applied Population Laboratory at UW-Madison will co-host an exciting conference – Demographic Responses to Changes in …