DEMOGRAPHY SPRING 2003 BROWN BAG SERIES

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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.

SPRING 2003 BROWN BAG SCHEDULE:

Trevon Logan
January 22: Trevon Logan, Dept. of Economics, UCBCarnivores, Consumptions, and Centimeters: Empirical Identification of the Nutrition-Stature Hypothesis.

Aaron Gullickson
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.

Steven Raphael
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.

Piedad Urdinola
February 12: Piedad Urdinola, Department of Demography, UCB Could War Affect Infant Mortality? The Colombian Case.

Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
February 19: Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Dept. of Demography, UCB, Birth Spacing as Social Action: Preliminary Comparisons from the Demographic and Health Surveys.

Andrew Mason
February 26: Andrew Mason, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii, Saving, Wealth, and the Transition from Transfers to Individual Responsibility.

Ken Hill
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.

Jane Mauldon
March 12: Jane Mauldon, Department of Public Policy, UCB The Family Formation Impacts of Welfare Reform: Fresh Evidence from Four Experiments.

Walter Scheidel
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.

Gretchen Stockmayer
April 2: Gretchen Stockmayer, Dept. of Demography, UCB, Distinguishing the Levels and Dimensions of U.S. Metropolitan Segregation, 1960-2000.

Andrew Noymer
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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Trevon Logan	January 22: Trevon Logan, Dept. of Economics, UCBCarnivores, Consumptions, and Centimeters: Empirical Identification of the Nutrition-Stature Hypothesis.
Aaron Gullickson	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.
Steven Raphael	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.
Piedad Urdinola	February 12: Piedad Urdinola, Department of Demography, UCB Could War Affect Infant Mortality? The Colombian Case.
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks	February 19: Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Dept. of Demography, UCB, Birth Spacing as Social Action: Preliminary Comparisons from the Demographic and Health Surveys.
Andrew Mason	February 26: Andrew Mason, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii, Saving, Wealth, and the Transition from Transfers to Individual Responsibility.
Ken Hill	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.
Jane Mauldon	March 12: Jane Mauldon, Department of Public Policy, UCB The Family Formation Impacts of Welfare Reform: Fresh Evidence from Four Experiments.
Walter Scheidel	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.*
Gretchen Stockmayer	April 2: Gretchen Stockmayer, Dept. of Demography, UCB, Distinguishing the Levels and Dimensions of U.S. Metropolitan Segregation, 1960-2000.
Andrew Noymer	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."