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.
January 22: Trevon Logan, Dept of Economics, UCB Carnivores, Consumptions, and Centimeters: Empirical Identification of the Nutrition-Stature Hypothesis.
January 29: Aaron Gullickson, Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography, UCB, The Significance of Color Declines: A Re-analysis of Skin-tone Effects in the National Survey of Black Americans.
February 5: Steven Raphael, Goldman School of Public Policy, UCB The Impact of Local Labor Market Conditions on the Likelihood that Parolees are Returned to Custody. (co-author: David F. Weiman, Dept. of Economics Barnard College, Columbia University). A draft copy is available for preview..
February 12: Piedad Urdinola, Department of Demography, UCB,Could War Affect Infant Mortality? The Colombian Case.
February 19: Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Dept. of Demography, UCB, Birth Spacing as Social Action: Preliminary Comparisons from the Demographic and Health Surveys.
February 26: Andrew Mason, Dept. of Economics, University of Hawaii, Saving, Wealth, and the Transition from Transfers to Individual Responsibility.
March 5: Ken Hill, Population and Family Health Services Dept; director, Hopkins Population Center, Johns Hopkins University; Methods for Estimating the Completeness of Death Recording: Applications to China 1964 to 2000.
March 12: Jane Mauldon, School of Public Policy, UCB, The Family Formation Impacts of Welfare Reform: Fresh Evidence from Four Experiments
March 19: Walter Scheidel, Department of Classics, Stanford, Continuity and Change in Mediterranean Demography from Antiquity to the Modern Period.
March 26: Spring recess No Brown Bag Seminar this week.
April 2:Gretchen Stockmayer, Dept. of Demography, UCB, Distinguishing the Levels and Dimensions of U.S. Metropolitan Segregation, 1960-2000.
April 9: Andrew Noymer, Dept. of Sociology, UCB, The Transmission and Persistence of 'Urban Legends': Demographic/Epidemic Models of Rumors.
April 16: Pre PAA,Students presenting talks should plan on 15 minutes per talk, followed by 5 minutes of questions.
Presenter: Rachel Sullivan,"Distribution of the Age at First Birth Among U.S. Women 1984-1993: An Analysis of a Bimodal Pattern."
April 23: Pre PAA.
Presenter: Aaron Gullickson, "Biracial Black/White Children and Class: The Semi-Permeable Boundaries of Race in America."
Presenter: Bernardo Queiroz, "Regional Wage Differentials and the Social Returns to Education: A Hierarchical Approach."
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