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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.
| January 12: SPECIAL EARLY BROWN BAG: David Steinsaltz, Associate Researcher, IBER, UCB, What Can Stochastic Processes Tell Us About Mortality Trajectories? | |
| January 26: Ted Miguel, Dept. of Economics, UCB, Orphans and Schooling in Africa: A Longitudinal Analysis. | |
| February 2: Tim Bruckner, Dept. of Epidemiology, UCB, Unemployment and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in California, 1989-2001. | |
| February 9: Mike Hout and Claude Fischer, Dept. of Sociology, UCB, Farm-Factory-Office: A Century of Changing Work Life in the USA. | |
| February 16: Shelley Lapkoff, Lapkoff & Gobalet Demographic Research, Inc., Where Have All the Students Gone: Demographic Analysis for the Oakland School District. | |
| February 23: Gene Hammel, Dept. of Demography, UCB, The Peasant Economist: An Update on Chayanov. | |
| March 2: John Wilmoth, Dept. of Demography, UCB, On the Relationship Between Period and Cohort Mortality. | |
| March 9:Pre-PAA Presentations,
15 minutes per talk, followed by 5 minutes of questions.
Presenter: Taek-Jin Shin,"Trends in Women's Labor Supply and the Family Income Inequality." Presenter: Shannon Gleeson, "Reconceptualizing the Economic Integration of Immigrants." | |
| March 16: Pre-PAA Presentations,
15 minutes per talk, followed by 5 minutes of questions.
Presenter: Rachel Sullivan, "A Demographic Analysis of the Senegalese Population of Reproductive Health Care Organizations." Presenter: Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, "The Changing Cultural Demography of Marriage in Cameroon" | |
| March 23:SPRING BREAK. | |
| March 30:PAA. | |
| April 6:David Levine, Haas School of Business, UCB, Learning to Teach (and to Inoculate, Build Roads and ?). | |
| April 13: Rucker Johnson, Goldman School of Public Policy, UCB, Economic Status, Birth Weight, and Adult Health and Labor Market Outcomes (Bob Schoeni, co-author). | |
| April 20: Omer Gersten, Dept. of Demography, UCB, Neuroendocrine Biomarkers, Social Relations, and the Costs of Cumulative Stress in Taiwan. | |
| April 27:Bernardo Queiroz, Dept. of Demography, UCB, Social Security and Retirement in Brazil. | |
| May 4: Andrew Noymer, Dept. of Sociology, UCB, Selective Mortality in the 1918 "Spanish" Influenza Pandemic. | |
| May 11: Special end-of-season
Brown Bag for two half-hour pre-IUSSP presentations!
Presenter: Sarah Staveteig, "Relative Cohort Size and the Risk of Civil War, 1961-2001." Presenter: Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, "What can the Social Security Notch Tell us about the Link Between Income and Mortality?: An Extension of Evans & Snyder." |