Past Event Category: Spring 2024
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Apr 23DemSem: Uchechi Mitchell (University of Illinois-Chicago), “The Stress Process in the Lives of Older Black Adults”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
This presentation covers the ways in which race and stress interact to affect the physical, mental and cognitive health of older Black adults. It identifies the factors and mechanisms that put them at greater risk for poor health compared to white populations, while also highlighting protective factors and cultural assets within the Black community
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Apr 9DemSem: 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 *CANCELLED* Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility, led by Eric Grodsky & Jessica Pac, Rm. 2435 Spatial & Environmental Demography, led by Malia Jones & Meg Bea, Rm. 3470 *CANCELLED* Gender & Reproductive Health, …
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Apr 2DemSem: Jacqueline (Jackie) Torres (UC-San Francisco), “Upward influences of adult child socio-economic status on parents’ health: an expansion of lifecourse epidemiology with quasi-experimental and observational evidence”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Torres: Lifecourse epidemiology has long recognized the importance of intergenerational influences on health. However, the direction of these influences is typically described as flowing downward, from one generation to the next. A rapidly emerging body of scholarship from economics, sociology, and public health has begun to consider the reverse – that is, whether …
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Mar 19DemSem: 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 *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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Mar 12DemSem: Byungkyu (BK) Lee (New York University), “Homogeneity and Health: Sameness and Othering Processes in Suicide and COVID-19 Infection”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Lee: “Individuals prefer to be connected to those who are similar to themselves, generating a homogenous network environment. How does homogeneity shape our own health and our perception of the health status of others? In the first part of the talk, I use a novel harmonized data set on completed suicide in the …
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Mar 5DemSem: Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde (CDE Visiting Scholar, Utah State University), “Intersectionality & Discrimination: Predicting Cardiovascular, & Sleep Health Outcomes among Sexual & Gender Minorities”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
Lunch will be served at 11:45 am in 8417 Sewell Social Sciences From Marquez-Velarde: “The chronic exposure to social disadvantage-related stressors becomes biologically embedded over time. Discrimination is a chronic stressor associated with adverse health outcomes among both racial & ethnic and sexual & gender minoritized individuals. Extant research predominantly examines the health effects of …
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Feb 27DemSem: Isaac Sasson (Tel Aviv University), “Social Inequalities in Bereavement across the Life Course: A Study of Four-Generation Kinship Networks in Sweden”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Sasson: “In this talk I propose a demographic framework for conceptualizing the burden of bereavement with respect to intensity and predictability. Applying this framework to Swedish population register data reveals inequalities in bereavement by education and income among the 1973 birth cohort, including differences in cumulative exposure to deaths of family members and in …
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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 …