Past Event Category: DemSem
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Feb 13DemSem: Peter Rich (Cornell University), “Policy Backlash or Structural Inertia? A Micro-Macro Causal Analysis of White Residential Decline from Desegregating City School Districts Between 1970 and 1990”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Rich: “The changing racial composition of city school districts over the 1970s and 1980s is often attributed to desegregation policies that propelled White families to move to the suburbs. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I test this causal hypothesis directly by following family residential sorting before, during, and after …
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Feb 6DemSem: Doron Shiffer-Sebba (Northwestern University), “Clans and Educational Attainment”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Shiffer-Sebba: “The household has been the dominant unit of measurement in the social sciences due to data availability and conceptual convenience. This project uses newly available Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data to instead explore the role of multi-generational extended families – or “clans” – in intergenerational stratification. Specifically, we ask whether …
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Jan 30DemSem: Corina Mommaerts (UW-Madison), “Hiring Subsidies for the Disadvantaged: Evidence from the Work Opportunity Tax Credit”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Mommaerts: “The US spends billions of dollars each year on policies to promote employment and upward economic mobility among disadvantaged groups. This talk centers on a paper that studies the effects of its largest wage subsidy program, the federal Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), which provides subsidies to firms that hire categories of disadvantaged …
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Jan 23DemSem: Working Group Meetings8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
Working Group Meetings (all meetings in Sewell Social Sciences) Families & Family Change, led by Christine Schwartz & Alejandra Ros Pilarz, Rm. 8417 Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility, led by Eric Grodsky & Jessica Pac, Rm. 2435 Gender & Reproductive Health, led by Christine Durrance & Leigh Senderowicz, Rm. 8411 Health & Biodemography, led by John …
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Dec 12DemSem: Elizabeth Bruch (University of Michigan), “From Transcripts to Trajectories: A Framework for Studying Undergraduate Careers”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Elizabeth Bruch is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Complex Systems, an Associate Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, and an External Faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. She also leads the University of Michigan’s Computational Social Science Initiative. “The culmination of a university education is the degree one receives at graduation, but the …
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Dec 5DemSem: Working Group Meetings8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Working Group Meetings (all meetings in Sewell Social Sciences) Families & Family Change, led by Christine Schwartz & Alejandra Ros Pilarz, Rm. 8417 *CANCELLED!* Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility, led by Eric Grodsky & Jessica Pac, Rm. 2435 Spatial & Environmental Demography, led by Malia Jones & Meg Bea, Rm. 3470 Gender & Reproductive Health, led …
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Nov 28DemSem: Marci Ybarra (UW-Madison), “No Calm Before the Storm: Low-Income Latina Immigrant and Citizen Mothers Before and After COVID-19”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Lunch will be served at 11:45am. From Dr. Ybarra: “We draw on interviews before and after COVID-19 with thirty-eight Latina immigrant and citizen mothers, most of whom are undocumented. We find that pre-pandemic distrust of public institutions and the safety net was common, increased after COVID-19, and negatively affected undocumented respondents’ post-pandemic circumstances. Our findings …
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Nov 14Working Group Meetings8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Working Group Meetings (all meetings in Sewell Social Sciences) Families & Family Change, led by Christine Schwartz & Alejandra Ros Pilarz, Rm. 8417 Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility, led by Eric Grodsky & Jessica Pac, Rm. 2435 Spatial & Environmental Demography, led by Malia Jones & Meg Bea, Rm. 3470 Gender & Reproductive Health, led …
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Nov 7DemSem: Melissa Alcaraz (Brigham Young University; CDE 2023-24 Visiting Scholar), “Unaccompanied Migrant Children in U.S. Government Custody: 2014-2023”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Melissa Alcaraz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brigham Young University. “Between October 1, 2014, and March 1, 2023, the US Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) took custody of 568,890 unaccompanied migrant children. Drawing on a unique dataset that ORR produced in response to Freedom of Information Act requests and litigation, …
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Oct 24DemSem: Jose Manuel Aburto (Oxford University), “The Upsurge of Violence in Mexico: Lives Lost and Challenges Ahead”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
José Manuel Aburto is the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the Department of Sociology. Lunch will be served at 12:00pm. “Since 2006, Mexico experienced an unprecedented surge in violence caused by a combination of national policies and international influences on drug trafficking organizations. In this seminar, I will present …