Brown Bag seminars are ordinarily held in the seminar room at 2232 Piedmont Avenue, usually on Wednesdays, from 12:10 to 1:00, although the discussion often continues for ten or fifteen minutes past 1:00. Please try to arrive before 12:10 so that we can start promptly at the scheduled time. Papers are not generally circulated in advance. Regular and decaffeinated coffee will be available, as well as cookies and hot water for tea. Administrative inquiries may be addressed to the Demography Office at 642-9800, or office@demog.berkeley.edu. If you would like to inquire about presenting a seminar yourself, or have suggestions for other potential speakers, please contact Ronald Lee at 642-4535, or rlee@demog.berkeley.edu.
Aug 30 Eugene Hammel & Aaron Gullickson, UCB, Demography, "Maternal Mortality in 18th & 19th Century Slavonia -- How Friedrich Engels Elected Pat Buchanan as Emperor of Austria"
Sep 6 Ronald Lee & Hisashi Yamagata, UCB, Demography and CEDA, "Sustainable Social Security: What Would it Cost?"
Sep 13 Sally Woodhouse, UCB, Economics, "Early Maternal Employment and Child Math and Reading Test Scores"
Sep 20 Kristin Luker, UCB, Sociology, "Sex Liberals, Sex Conservatives and the Dilemmas of Sex Education"
Sep 27 Marian Diamond, UCB, Biology, "Environmental Influences on the Brain, Both Internal and External."
Oct 4 Omer Gersten & John Wilmoth, UCB Demography, "Cancer Mortality in Japan Since 1951: Trends, Causes, and Implications"
Oct 11 John Wilmoth & Peter Brownell, UCB, Demography, "The Contribution of Immigration to Population Growth in the United States during the 20th century"
Oct 18 Dr. Llyod Goldwasser Southwest Fisheries Center, NMFS "Simple and Complex Models of Age Structure in Ecological Invasions and Extinctions"
Oct 25 Andrew Noymer, UCB, Sociology, "Interrogating Disability-adjusted Life Years: DALYs and inter-disease comparisons"
Nov 1 Mike Dennis, UCB, Economics, "The Role of Human Capital in Post WWII Mortality Decline"
Nov 8 Edward Miguel, UCB, Economics, "Health and School Participation: The Primary School Deworming Project in Kenya."
Nov 15 Erik Smith, UCB, Demography, tbd.
Nov 22 No seminar-Thanksgiving Break
Nov 29 Robert Mare, UCLA, Sociology, "Demographic Processes, Social Mobility, and Educational Inequality."
Dec 6 Paul Gertler, UC Berkeley, UCB, Haas Business School, tbd.
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