DEMOGRAPHY FALL 2007 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 29 : | John Wilmoth (Dept. of Demography, UCB), The Duration of Life Throughout the World: What We Know and How We Know It. |
| September 5: | Brian Rostron (Dept. of Demography, UCB), Stalled Mortality Declines at Older Ages in the US and Some Other Low-Mortality Populations. |
| September 12: | Giovanni Peri (Dept. of Economics, UC Davis), Comparative Advantages and Gains from Immigration. |
| September 19: | Samuel Lucas (Dept. of Sociology, UCB), Race and Track Location in the U.S. Public Schools. |
| September 26 : | David Levine (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley), A Rigorous Impact Evaluation of Micro-Health Insurance in Cambodia. |
| October 3 : | Shannon Gleeson (Sociology and Demography, UC Berkeley), State Variation in Labor Violations in the US . |
| October 10: | Jenna Nobles (Robert Woods Johnson Health and Society Fellow, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley), Parental Migration and Child Health in Mexico. |
| October 17 : | Aliya Saperstein (Sociology and Demography, UCB), (Re)modeling Race: Incorporating Racial Theory into Survey Research on Inequality.. |
| October 24 : | Andrew Penner (Sociology, UC Berkeley), Gender differences in extreme mathematical achievement: An international perspective on biological and social factors. |
| October 31: | Patrick Vinck (Human Rights Center's Berkeley-Tulane Initiative on Vulnerable Populations), Challenges for Human Rights Investigations: Using Quantitative Methodologies to Document Mass Atrocities. |
| November 7 : | Kevin Stange (Economics, UC Berkeley), Why do so many people drop out of college? The role of uncertainty and option value. |
| November 14 : | Jon Stiles (Survey Research Center, UC Berkeley), Above the Topcode and Below the PUMA: Non-Public Data in the Census RDCs. |
| November 21 : | No brown bag this week. |
| November 28 : | Pablo Comelatto (Demography, UC Berkeley), Immigration and Natives' Educational Attainment. |
| December 5 : | Hans-Peter Kohler (Department of Sociology and the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania), Expectations, Networks and Interventions: Research on HIV/AIDS in Malawi. |
| December 12 : | No brown bag this week. |
| questions regarding program: Monique Verrier, monique@demog.berkeley.edu |
questions regarding webpage: webmaster@demog.berkeley.edu |
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