About
CDE’s weekly Demography Seminar (DemSem) offers presentations of substantive work at the forefront of population sciences by top scholars from across the university campus and beyond.
Schedule Fall 2021
The Demography Seminar is open to all and meets on Tuesdays during the academic year from 12:15-1:30 p.m. Please note whether sessions will be virtual or in person. For in-person sessions, DemSem will meet in 8417 Social Sciences. Masks are required. For questions, please email cde@ssc.wisc.edu.
September 14, 2021: “Educational Gender Gaps,” Shelly Lundberg (UC Santa Barbara), virtual
September 21, 2021: “Mass Education and Women’s Autonomy: Evidence from Latin America,” Daniela Urbina (University of Oxford), virtual
September 28, 2021: “Connecting Demography and Epidemiology: Spatial Studies in New York, New Jersey and Boston,” Dustin Duncan (Columbia University), hybrid
Co-sponsored by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging
October 5, 2021: “Prediction in Social Science: A Tool to Study Inequality in Populations,” Ian Lundberg (UCLA), hybrid
October 12, 2021: “The Perils of Progress: Narratives of Racial Inequality & the Impacts of Teleology,” Jasmine Hill (UCLA), virtual
October 19, 2021: “Assisting Lower Income Enrollees in the Health Insurance Marketplace: The Impacts of Personalized Assistance and Email Nudges,” Rebecca Myerson (UW–Madison), hybrid
Co-sponsored by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging
October 26, 2021: “Aging and Cognition among Older Latinos in the United States: Current Knowledge and Future Directions,” Marc Garcia (Syracuse University), virtual
Co-sponsored by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging
November 2, 2021: “Coordinated Markets, School-to-Work Linkages, and Labor Market Outcomes in the European Union,” Thomas DiPrete (Columbia University), in person only
November 9, 2021: “Health Insurance for Whom? The ‘Spill-up’ Effects of Children’s Health Insurance on Mothers,” Sebastian Tello-Trillo (University of Virginia), in person only
Co-sponsored by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging
November 16, 2021: “Climate Migration Amplifies Population Aging in Origins and Population Growth in Destinations,” Mathew Hauer (Florida State University), virtual only
Co-sponsored by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging
November 23, 2021: Week of Thanksgiving, no speaker
November 30, 2021: “Prenatal Opioid Exposure among Medicaid-Covered Births in Wisconsin: Prevalence, Patterns, and Birth Outcomes,” Lonnie Berger (UW–Madison), in person only
December 7, 2021: “More than Rocks and Stone: Confederate Monuments, Memory Movements, and Race,” Heather O’Connell (Louisiana State University), virtual only
December 14, 2021: Symposium on COVID-19 research