DEMOGRAPHY SPRING 2001 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.

Jan 24: Doug Miller, UCB, School of Public Health and Department of Economics, "Relative Income, Race and Mortality"

Jan 31:Sam Lucas, UCB, Sociology, "Tracking and the Black-White Test Score Gap: An Analysis Using Endogenous Switching Regressions"

Feb 7: Paul Gertler, UCB, Haas School of Business, "The Effect of a Parent's Death on School Enrollment in Indonesia"

Feb 14: Kenneth Prewitt, Former director, US Census Bureau "Census 2000: Science Under Public Scrutiny"

Feb 21: Zeng Yi, Peking University, "Population Aging and Oldest Old in China"

Feb 28: Abraham Akkerman, University of Saskatchewan, Dept. of Geography, "The Household Composition Matrix and its Application to Population Analysis and Forecasting"

March 7: Nicole Maestas, UCB, Economics Dept., "Joint Retirement Among Older Couples"

A note regarding format for Pre-PAA talks: There will be three presentations during each brown bag lunch. Each speaker will have no more than 17 minutes for the presentation, which will be followed by up to 5 minutes of discussion and comment. The total time of the brown bag meeting will be about 70 minutes, so if we start promptly at 12:10, we will finish ten minutes later than usual at 1:20.

Mar 14: Pre-PAA Talks

Tracy Gordon, Goldman School of Public Policy, "Crowd Out or Crowd In?: The Effects of Common Interest Developments on Political Participation in California"
Andrew Noymer, Dept. of Sociology, "The Role of Externalities and Bounded Rationality for the Evolution of Child Preferences."
Tim Miller, Dept. of Demography, (poster and talk) "A Stochastic Forecast for Medicare."

Mar 21: Pre-PAA Talks

Gabriel Demombynes, Dept. of Economics, "Child Time Allocation and Incentive-Oriented Poverty Programs: The Case of the Progresa Program in Mexico"
Aaron Gullickson, Dept. of Demography, "The Use of Stochastic Methods in Local Area Population Forecasts"
Gretchen Stockmayer, Dept. of Demography, "Has Increased Awareness of Infertility Contributed to Increased Fertility Rates?"
Eric Smith, Dept. of Demography, "What's centrality got to do with it? Comparing Community-Based Distribution of Family Planning in Advice Networks in Urban and Rural Madagascar"(also by Kirsten Stoebenau, Johns Hopkins Univ)

(the last two are posters only, which will be displayed before and after the Brown Bag Seminar. Gretchen and Eric will be there to answer questions from 11:50 to 12:10 and following the oral presentations)

Mar 28: Spring Break

Apr 4: Christopher Carpenter, Dept. of Economics, "New Evidence on Gay and Lesbian Household Incomes Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System"

Apr 11: Frank Bean, U.C. Irvine "'Chilling' Effects, Labor Market Conditions and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants"

Apr 18: Lijing Yan,National Bureau of Economic Research, Stanford"Understanding Disability Trends in the U.S. Elderly Population: The Role of Disease Management and disease Prevention"

April 25: Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann"Wealth Accumulation and Inequality in France, 1800-1940"(by Jerome Bourdieu, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann)

May 2: Gene Hammel and Aaron Gullickson, Dept. of Demography "Maternal Mortality and the Whore of Babylon: Slavonia 1700-1900"

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