DEMOGRAPHY FALL 2006 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 monique@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.
| Date: | Speaker, Affiliation, Topic |
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| August 30: | Dana Glei (Dept. of Demography, UCB), The Narrowing Sex Gap in Life Expectancy: Demographic Mechanisms. |
| September 6: | Mike Hout (Dept. of Sociology, UCB), Century of Difference: The Rise of Education in the 20th Century US. (co-authored by Claude Fischer, Department of Sociology, UCB). |
| September 13: | Avi Ebenstein (Dept. of Economics, UCB), Family Size and Family Outcomes: What is the Cost of an Extra Child? |
| September 20: | Rachel Sullivan (Sociology and Demography, UCB), Global-Local Intersections: The Case of Population Policy in Africa. |
| September 27: | Gretchen Donehower (Demography, UCB), The Most Important Graph in the World: US Lifecycle Deficits, 1888-2003. |
| October 4: | Jane Herr (Economics, UCB), Estimating the Effect of First Birth Timing on Women's Long-Run Wages. |
| October 11: | Bryan Sykes (Sociology and Demography, UCB), The Effect of Incarceration on Transitioning to Marriage: Do Women and Men Pay the Same Marital Cost for Prior Incarceration? |
| October 18: | Sarah Tom (Demography, UCB), Women's Health Trajectories and Mid-Life Experiences: The Predictive Value of Menopause Symptoms for Future Health Outcomes. |
| October 25: | Sarah Walchuk-Thayer (Sociology and Demography, UCB), Rachel Sullivan (Sociology and Demography, UCB), and Kristin Luker (Sociology, UCB), Not your Momma's Premarital Sex: The Changing Social Meaning of Virginity in 20th Century America. |
| November 1: | Griffith Feeney (Population Division of the United Nations), Levels and age-sex patterns of rural-urban migration: Why do we know so little, and what can be done about it? |
| November 8 : | Sarah Staveteig (Sociology and Demography, UCB), Youthful Age-Structure and the Risk of Armed Conflict. |
| November 15: | Clara Mantini-Briggs (Demography, UCB), Barrio Adentro is the Quantum Leap in Health: Revolution, Structural Violence, and New Definitions of "The Political" in Venezuela. |
| November 22: | No Brown Bag |
| November 29: | Elizabeth Weber Handwerker (Economics, UCB), Child Schooling and Retirement Timing. |
| December 6: | Elizabeth Bruch (RWJ Scholar in Health Policy Research School of Public Health University of Michigan), Dynamic Models of Neighborhood Segregation. |
| questions regarding program: Monique Verrier, monique@demog.berkeley.edu |
questions regarding webpage: webmaster@demog.berkeley.edu |
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