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 3: Eugene Hammel, Department of Demography, UCB, Ergodic Politics in the Paleolithic: Time Travel on the D.S.S. SOCSIM.
September 10: Edward Miguel, Department of Economics, UCB, Poverty and Witch Killing.
September 17: Anna Cabre, Center of Demographic Study, U. Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, The Reproduction of the Cohorts 1856-1960 in Catalonia: An Extreme Case of Low Fertility.
September 24: Malcolm Potts and Martha Campbell, Department of Public Health, UC Berkeley, The Case for Ease: Understanding the Barriers to Fertility Regulation.
October 1: Suzanne Bianchi, Sociology Department, University of Maryland, Changing Time Allocation in American Families.
October 8: James Smith,RAND, Unraveling the SES-Health Connection.
October 15: No Brown Bag today.
October 22: Gretchen Stockmayer, The Demographic Roots of Household Change in 20th Century U.S.
October 29: Trevon Logan, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley, The Transformation of Hunger: Nutritional Well-Being and the Evolving Demand for Calories.
November 5: Heather Royer, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley, The Effect of Maternal Age on Birth Outcomes.
November 12: Nicole Maestas,RAND, The Effect of Medical Expense Risk on Portfolio Choice.
November 19: Magali Barbieri, INED, France, HIV and Fertility in Thailand.
November 26: Aaron Gullickson, Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography, UCB, The Interracial Context of Educational Assortative Marriage.
December 3: Cyrus Chu, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, A SSAD Model of Family Resource Allocation Among Siblings: Competition, Forbearance, and Support.
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