DEMOGRAPHY FALL 2005 BROWN BAG SERIES
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 31: Dora Costa (Economics, MIT), Matthew E. Kahn (Fletcher School of International Diplomacy, Tufts University, Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps. | |
| September 7: Bernardo Queiroz (Dept. of Demography, UCB), Intergenerational Transfers and Socioeconomic Inequality in Brazil/Before it's too Late: Demographic Transition, Labor Supply and Social Security Problems in Brazil. Co-author Cassio Turra; topic from two different papers. | |
| September 14: Bryan Sykes, Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography, UCB, A Demographic Critique of the Abortion-Crime Decline Debate: Assessing the Impact of Omitted Variables Bias in Age-Period-Cohort Analyses. Co-authors: Dominik Hangartner, Univ of Bern and Earl Hathaway, University of Wisconsin-Madison. | |
| September 21: Ryan Edwards, RAND, Health Shocks and Consumption Among Elderly U.S. Households. | |
| September 28: Peter Brownell, Sociology, UCB, Sanctions for Whom? The effects of 'Employer Sanctions' on the Wages of Mexican Immigrants. | |
| October 5: No Brown Bag scheduled. | |
| October 12:Vladimir Canudas, Penn State Population Research Institute, The Modal Age at Death and the Shifting Mortality Hypothesis. | |
| October 19: Norman Grantham Miller, CHP/PCOR, Stanford University, Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Columbia. | |
October 26: Tommy Bengsston, Lund University, Deliberate Control in a Natural Fertility Population: Southern Sweden 1766-1865. |
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| November 2: Andrew Noymer, Sociology, UCB, Testing the Influenza-Tuberculosis Selective Mortality Hypothesis with Union Army Data. | |
| November 9: Rachel Sullivan, Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography, UCB, Predicting Population Policy Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Demography or Politics? | |
| November 16: Raj Arunachalam, Department of Economics, UCB. Topic TBA. | |
| November 23: No Brown Bag scheduled | |
| November 30: Jovan Zamac, Uppsala University, Sweden. Topic TBA. | |
| December 7: Anoshua Chaudhuri, Economics, San Francisco State University, topic TBA. |
| questions regarding program: Monique Verrier, monique@demog.berkeley.edu |
questions regarding webpage: webmaster@demog.berkeley.edu |
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