DemSem: Working Groups

8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
DemSem Full Semester Schedule

Locations in Sewell Social Sciences: Families & Family Change (rm. 8417) Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility (rm. 2435) Spatial & Environmental Demography (rm. 3470) Gender & Reproductive Health (rm. 8146) Health & Biodemography (rm. 4405)

DemSem (Co-Sponsor with IRP): Van Tran (City University of New York), “Vulnerable Asian Americans: From Intra-Asian Diversity to Narrative Plentitude”

8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
DemSem Full Semester Schedule

Co-sponsored by CDE This seminar is a part of the Spring IRP Seminar Series. As a high-achieving minority group, Asians—on average—have surpassed Whites in education, income, and wealth. This “controlling” narrative, however, is incomplete because it …

DemSem: Tiffany Green (UW-Madison), “Reproductive Health Access & Equity in the Post-Dobbs Era: Challenges and Opportunities in Survey Data Collection”

8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
DemSem Full Semester Schedule

Lunch will be served at 12:00 pm in rm. 8417! The Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision has created unprecedented challenges to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care access. Survey …

DemSem: Paula Fomby (University of Pennsylvania), “Fathers’ Military Service and Children’s Educational Attainment”

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
DemSem full semester schedule

From Dr. Fomby: US men’s military service has mixed effects on their own later status attainment. We consider whether and how Black and white men’s military service contributes to their children’s status attainment as measured …

DemSem: Sara Burgard (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), “Remembrance of things past? Measuring life course exposures retrospectively”

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
DemSem full semester schedule

From Dr. Burgard: Major ongoing longitudinal studies of aging start interviewing respondents in later life and have added retrospective life history (RLH) interviews or retrospective questions to fill in information about earlier exposures and experiences …

IRP Seminar: Geoffrey Wodtke (University of Chicago), “Poor Neighborhoods, Bad Schools? A High-dimensional Model of Place-based Disparities in Academic Achievement”

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
DemSem full semester schedule

Co-sponsored by CDE This seminar is a part of the Fall IRP Seminar Series.  Disparities in academic achievement between students from high- and low-poverty neighborhoods are often attributed to unequal school environments. Using nationally representative data …