DEMOGRAPHY FALL 2004 BROWN BAG SERIES

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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.

FALL 2004 BROWN BAG SCHEDULE:

Sept. 8: Kenneth Chay, Dept. of Economics, UCB, The Costs of Low Birth Weight.

Sept 15: Eugene Hammel, Dept. of Demography, UCB, Demographic Instability, Kinship Inequalities, and Their Political Implications.

Sept 22: Junia Quiroga, CEDEPLAR, Brazil, Race, Gender and Vulnerability Among Couples: Sexual Negotiation and STI's/HIV Prevention in a Brazilian Shantytown.

Sept. 29: William Dow, Department of Public Health, UCB, Medicare and Longevity in International Perspective.

Oct. 6: Federico Girosi, RAND Corp, Using Prior Knowledge in Mortality Forecasting.

Oct. 13: Charles Jones, Department of Economics, UCB, The Value of Life and the Rise in Health Spending.

Oct. 20: Nicholas Jewell, Dept. of Public Health-Biostatistics, UCB, Estimating the Case Fatality Rate for SARS.

Oct. 27:Jennifer Johnson-Hanks and Sarah Walchuk, Dept of Demography/Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography, UCB, The Heart's Reasons: Toward a Theory of Reproductive Practice After Rational Choice.

Nov. 3:John Wilmoth, The Multi-State Lexis Model, Applied to Fertility by Parity in the United States, 1917-2000.

Nov. 10:James Smith, RAND, Housing Price Volatility, the Demographic Ladder and Home Ownership.

Nov. 17:Magali Barbieri, INED, Surviving to Old Age in a Transitional Economy: Living Standards and Arrangements of the Elderly in Vietnam.

Dec. 1: Ronald Lee, Demography Department, UCB, Who Wins and Who Loses? Public Transfer Accounts for US Generations Born 1850 to 2090.

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	Sept. 8: Kenneth Chay, Dept. of Economics, UCB, The Costs of Low Birth Weight.
	Sept 15: Eugene Hammel, Dept. of Demography, UCB, Demographic Instability, Kinship Inequalities, and Their Political Implications.
	Sept 22: Junia Quiroga, CEDEPLAR, Brazil, Race, Gender and Vulnerability Among Couples: Sexual Negotiation and STI's/HIV Prevention in a Brazilian Shantytown.
	Sept. 29: William Dow, Department of Public Health, UCB, Medicare and Longevity in International Perspective.
	Oct. 6: Federico Girosi, RAND Corp, Using Prior Knowledge in Mortality Forecasting.
	Oct. 13: Charles Jones, Department of Economics, UCB, The Value of Life and the Rise in Health Spending.
	Oct. 20: Nicholas Jewell, Dept. of Public Health-Biostatistics, UCB, Estimating the Case Fatality Rate for SARS.
	Oct. 27:Jennifer Johnson-Hanks and Sarah Walchuk, Dept of Demography/Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography, UCB, The Heart's Reasons: Toward a Theory of Reproductive Practice After Rational Choice.
	Nov. 3:John Wilmoth, The Multi-State Lexis Model, Applied to Fertility by Parity in the United States, 1917-2000.
	Nov. 10:James Smith, RAND, Housing Price Volatility, the Demographic Ladder and Home Ownership.
	Nov. 17:Magali Barbieri, INED, Surviving to Old Age in a Transitional Economy: Living Standards and Arrangements of the Elderly in Vietnam.
	Dec. 1: Ronald Lee, Demography Department, UCB, Who Wins and Who Loses? Public Transfer Accounts for US Generations Born 1850 to 2090.