Past Event Category: DemSem
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Oct 17DemSem: Youngmin Yi (University of Massachusetts-Amherst; CDE 2023-24 Visiting Scholar), “Race-Making in Administrative Data”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
From Dr. Yi: “This talk will focus on providing an overview of the motivation, conceptual framework, and current planned research design for a project that aims to explore how racial/ethnic categories are produced—and in cases of discrepancies or multiple sources of information, reconciled—collection, maintenance, and analysis of administrative data on contact with the criminal legal …
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Oct 12William A. Darity Jr. and Kirsten Mullen (Duke University), “Reparations and the Nation’s Capital”Great Hall, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Event Poster Co-sponsored with the Department of Economics & the Institute for Research on Poverty
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Oct 10DemSem: Dora Costa (UCLA), “The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
From Costa: “How important is economic growth to long-run increases in longevity? I argue that we have underestimated the role of early economic growth in the health improvements we saw after 1870 because we have ignored ancestral effects. Past and present economic conditions are in the genome. Changes in variance in the food supply at …
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Sep 26Working Group MeetingsSewell Social Sciences, 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Working Group Meetings Families & Family Change, led by Christine Schwartz & Alejandra Ros Pilarz, Rm. 8417 Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility, led by Eric Grodsky & Jessica Pac, Rm. 4405 Spatial & Environmental Demography, led by Malia Jones & Meg Bea, Rm. 2435 Gender & Reproductive Health, led by Christine Durrance & Leigh Senderowicz, …
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Sep 19DemSem: “Flash Research Talks: Meet the New CDE & CDHA Affiliates at UW-Madison”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Join us for a series of flash talks from new affiliates & friends in in our CDE & CDHA communities! Lunch will be served at 11:45am. Speakers will include: Fabien Accominotti (Sociology), Anton Babkin (Applied Economics), Raeven Chandler (Applied Population Lab), Nicholas Mark (Sociology), Eunsil Oh (Sociology), Weidi Qin (Social Work), Tamkinat Rauf (Sociology)
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Sep 12DemSem: Mathew Hauer (Florida State University), “Responsibility for Climate Change from a Demographic Perspective”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Matt Hauer is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University and a faculty affiliate in the Center for Demography and Population Health. “Determining who is most responsible for climate change is of paramount importance for properly accounting for climate damages. While attributing responsibility often involves countries, major historical carbon emitters, and corporations, these …