DemSem Schedules 2020-2021
Fall Schedule 2020
Wednesday, September 9: CDE welcome gathering at James Madison Park, CANCELLED
Tuesday, September 15: “Leveraging the Genome to Evaluate the Impact of the Social Environment,” Lauren Schmitz (UW Madison); “Social and Spatial Inequalities in Household Finance,” Megan Bea (UW–Madison) Join via BB Collaborate: https://go.wisc.edu/235614
Tuesday September 22: “Three Decades of Very Low Fertility in Spain,” Albert Esteve (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona); response by Christine Schwartz (UW–Madison) Join via Zoom: https://go.wisc.edu/7pvi56
Tuesday, September 29: “Discrimination and Weight Outcomes among Hispanic Immigrants: Old Questions, New(ish) Approaches and Lessons Learned,” Tiffany Green (UW–Madison); “Mothers’ Work Schedules and Child Wellbeing,” Alejandra Ros Pilarz (UW–Madison)
Tuesday, October 6: ” Exploring Genetic Influence on Birth Weight,” Sam Trejo (UW–Madison) and “The Consequences of Prenatal Substance Exposure for Maternal and Infant Health,” Christine Durrance (UW–Madison)
Tuesday, October 13: “Immigration Enforcement Effects on Health, Housing, and Education: How Targeted are the Consequences?” Juan Pedroza (UC-Santa Cruz)
Tuesday, October 20: “The Formal Demography of Kinship,” Hal Caswell (University of Amsterdam); response by Jenna Nobles (UW–Madison)
Tuesday, October 27: “Inequalities in Young Adult Criminal Justice Contacts: Patterns and Collateral Consequences for Parents and Siblings,” Courtney Boen (University of Pennsylvania)
Tuesday, November 3: No seminar
Tuesday, November 10: “Does Increased K-12 Funding Improve Student Learning and Narrow Achievement Gaps? New Evidence from California’s Local Control Funding Formula,” Rucker Johnson (UC-Berkeley)
Tuesday, November 17: “Latinx Population Growth, School Choice, and Segregation in New Latinx Destination School Districts,” Jacob Hibel (UC-Davis)
Tuesday, November 24: No seminar – Thanksgiving week
Tuesday, December 1: “Safety-Net Reform and Long-Term Changes in Economic Outcomes among Low-Skill Americans,” Jeffrey Grogger (University of Chicago)
Tuesday, December 8: “When Evidence Shapes Policy: A Conversation about Reproductive Healthcare Access in the U.S.,” Danielle Bessett (University of Cincinnati), Tiffany Green (UW–Madison), Jenny Higgins (UW–Madison), Alison Norris (Ohio State University), Kari White (University of Texas at Austin)
Spring Schedule 2021
January 22, 2021: “Climate Migration across Contexts, Gender, and the Life Course,” Fernando Riosmena (University of Colorado, Boulder)
*Please note that this session will be held from 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. on Friday, January 22.
January 26, 2021: “The Impact of Expanding Public Health Insurance on Safety Net Program Participation: Evidence from the ACA Medicaid Expansion,” Lucie Schmidt (Williams College)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging
February 2, 2021: “The Gendered Consequences of COVID-19: Initial Insights for American Families,” Leah Ruppanner (University of Melbourne, Australia)
*Please note that this session will begin at 3 p.m.
February 9, 2021: “Racialized Differences in Wage Growth within Firms: Testing a Theory of Organizational Ethnoracism,” Mosi Ifatunji (UW) and “The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Rental Market: Evidence from Craigslist,” Max Besbris (UW)
February 16, 2021: “Digitizing and Text-Mining the Toxic Past: The IT Revolution, Civic Transparency, and Environmental Health,” Merlin Chowkwanyun (Columbia)
February 23, 2021: “A New Look at the Separation Surge in Europe: Contrasting Adult and Child Perspectives,” Thomas Leopold (University of Cologne) with response by Betty Thomson (UW/Stockholm University)
March 2, 2021: “Black Women’s Health Matters: Theoretical, Conceptual, and Empirical Considerations,” Christy Erving (Vanderbilt)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging
March 9, 2021: “Covering Undocumented Immigrants: The Effect of a Large-Scale Prenatal Care Intervention,” Laura Wherry (New York University) with response by Tiffany Green (UW)
March 16, 2021: “Incorporating Equity Value Judgements into Causal Decomposition Analysis,” John Jackson (Johns Hopkins University) with response by Felix Elwert (UW)
March 23, 2021: “Family Background, Occupational Returns to College, and the Rise of the Comprehensive Welfare State: Evidence from Danish Monozygotic Twins Born 1931–1979,” Kristian Karlson (University of Copenhagen) with response by Eric Grodsky (UW)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging
March 30, 2021: “Demography: Fast and Slow,” Francesco Billari (Bocconi University)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging
April 6, 2021: No seminar
April 13, 2021: “Intergenerational Correlations in Longevity,” Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA) with response by Jason Fletcher (UW)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging
April 20, 2021: “Abortion Laws Should be Based on Science: Understanding the Impacts of State-Level Abortion Restrictions,” Ushma Upadhyay (University of California, San Francisco)
April 27, 2021: “Demographic Perspectives on COVID-19: One Year Later,” Jennifer Beam Dowd (University of Oxford)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging