DemSem: Jennifer Van Hook (Penn State University), “Texas-Style Exclusion: Mexican Americans and the Legacy of Limited Opportunity”

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

While Americans largely support legal immigration, this support is conditional on the basis that immigrants “make it on their own”. European-origin Industrial Era immigrants came to U.S. impoverished, worked hard, and achieved the American Dream …

DemSem: “Working Groups”

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

All groups will meet in the following locations during regular DemSem time! Families & Family Change Led by Monica Grant & Quentin Riser Sewell Social Sciences, Rm. 8417 Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, & Mobility Led by …

IRP Seminar: Anjum Hajat (University of Washington), “What Is Precarious Employment and How Does It Impact Health and Health Inequity?”

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

Co-sponsored by CDE This seminar is a part of the Fall IRP Seminar Series.  Precarious employment (PE), which encompasses the power relations between workers and employers, is a well-established social determinant of health. Often characterized …

DemSem: Jessica Ho (Penn State University), “Routes to High & Low Life Expectancy in High-Income Countries”

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

From Dr. Ho: Contemporary high-income countries have achieved the highest life expectancies observed to date in human history. However, there remains considerable variation even among these long-lived populations. This talk explains why the United States …

DemSem: Jennifer Glass (University of Texas at Austin), “The Motherlode: Why U.S. mothers are increasingly both financial providers & caregivers and what it means for families”

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

From Dr. Glass: I trace the rapid evolution of mothers as primary financial providers for their children and the events most often precipitating mothers’ transition into this role. Then I evaluate the income consequences of …

DemSem: Laura Sochas (University of Edinburgh), “A Quantitative Approach to Critical Population Studies”

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

From Dr. Sochas: While qualitative research presents obvious strengths for critical & feminist population research, quantification is also essential to critical social science’s emancipatory aim. In this talk, I take feminist critiques of demography seriously, …

Reproducibility Workshop

8411 Sewell Social Sciences Building
@ 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm

This workshop for CDE & CDHA students will delve into a variety of reproducibility topics, including minimizing coding error, pre-registering studies, building replication packages for restricted data, and coding in collaborative research. We invite all …