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.
September 4: Eugene Hammel and Erik Smith, Dept. of Demography, UCB Differential Fertility in the Muslim World.
September 11: Hans-Peter Kohler, Max Planck Institute, Lowest-Low Fertility in Europe. (available in pdf format)
September 18: Jim Smith, RAND Program in Population and Labor, Expected Bequests and their Distribution
September 25: Michael Hout, Dept. of Sociology, UCB, The Overworked American Family: Trends and Non-Trends in Working Hours, 1968-2002. (Co-author Caroline Hanley). Paper available in pdf format.
October 2: Iliana Kohler, Max Planck Institute, Mortality in Transition Countries: A Bulgarian Snapshot in the Early 1990s.
October 9: Kristen Hawkes, University of Utah, Dept. of Anthropology, Slow Life Histories and the Importance of Grandmothers in Human Evolution.
October 16: Nancy Howell, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada, Age Patterns of Food Production and Consumption for the !Kung Bushmen
October 23: John Wilmoth, Dept. of Demography, UCB, A Parametric Representation of Mortality Differentials Over Age and Time, With Application to Finland, 1971-1995.
October 30: Ronald Lee, Dept. of Demography, UCB, Intergenerational Transfers and the Evolution of the Life Cycle.
November 6: Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Dept. of Demography, UCB, Marriage and the Timing of the Second Birth in Camaroon.
November 13: Michael Hurd, RAND, The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: Expected and Actual Spending Declines at Retirement. (Co-author Susann Rohwedder, RAND)
November 20: Philip Kreager,Sommerville College, Oxford University, Ageing in Indonesia.
November 27: Thanksgiving Break
December 4: Pepper Schwartz, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, The Transformation of Love: Sexually Adventurous Women of the Baby Boom Look Back on the 70s and 80s.
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