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.
August 29: Ray Catalano, Public Health, UC Berkeley, Detecting the Effect of Medical Care on Mortality.
September 5: Elisabeth Sadoulet, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, The Role of Labor Market Opportunities in Explaining School Attendance. (by Elisabeth Sadoulet, Frederico Finan and Alain de Janvry)
September 12: Ronald Lee (with Josh Goldstein), Dept. of Demography, UC Berkeley, Rescaling the Life Cycle: Longevity and Proportionality.
September 19: Janet Currie, Dept. of Economics (UCLA) and NBER, Accidents Will Happen? Unintentional Childhood Injuries and Child Care Policy. (by Janet Currie and V. Joseph Hotz)
September 26: Ian Timaeus, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Mortality in South Africa: From Apartheid to AIDS.
October 3: Gene Hammel, Dept. of Demography, UCB, and Mirjana Stevanovic, Archeological Research Facility, UCB, The Migrations of Serbs and Albanians in and Between Kosovo and Inner Serbia, c 1930-81.
October 10: Douglas Almond, Dept. of Economics, UC Berkeley, Early Childhood Conditions and Later Life Mortality in the US.
October 17: Edward Miguel, Dept. of Economics, UC Berkeley, Did Industrialization Destroy Social Capital in Indonesia?
October 24: Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Dept. of Demography, UCB, Systems, Causes and Rates: Units of Analysis in the Study of African Fertility.
October 31: Lorenzo Blanco, Dept. of Economics, UCB, The Fertility of Immigrant Women: Selectivity and Assimilation.
November 7: Clementine Rossier, Dept. of Demography, UC Berkeley, A New Method to Estimate the Rate of Illegal Induced Abortion? Results from Rural Burkina Faso.
November 14: Dr. Nancy Padian, UCSF, AIDS Research Institute, Gender Equality and Reproductive Health.
November 21: no Brown Bag seminar today, Happy Thanksgiving!
November 28: Ryan Edwards, Dept. of Economics, UC Berkeley, Health Risk and Portfolio Choice.
December 5: Gene Hammel and Ken Wachter, Dept. of Demography, UCB, The Friend We Have Lost, The Understanding We Have Gained: Peter Laslett, In Memoriam.
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