DEMOGRAPHY SPRING 2006 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.
| January 18: Annette Erlangsen (The National Centre for Register-based Research at the University of Aarhus, Denmark), The Association Between Declining Suicide Rates and Increased Use of Antidepressants: A Population-based Register Study. | |
January 25: Steven Raphael (Dept. of Public Policy, UCB), "Reconciling National and Regional Estimates of the Effects of Immigration on U.S. Labor Markets: The Confounding Effects of Native Male Incarceration Trends". |
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February 1: Jane Herr (Demography, UCB), "Estimating the Effect of First Birth Timing on Women's Wage Growth." |
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February 8: Timothy Miller (Demography,
UCB), "Population Projections Based on the Collective Experience of UN |
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| February 22: Avi Ebenstein (Economics, UCB), "Fishing Your Wish: Sex Selective Abortion in Taiwan". |
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| March 1: Yumiko Kamiya (Demography, UCB), "Social Security and Living Arrangements of the Elderly: The Brazilian Case". |
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March 8: Kevin Stange (Economics, UCB),
"The Causal Effect of Fertility Timing on Educational Attainment: An |
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| March 15: PAA UCB Student Presenter, Aliya Saperstein and Marcel Paret, Inheriting Race: The Classification of US Newborns in the ECLS-B; Magali Barbieri (UCB Demography), The mortality impact of the August 2003 heat wave in France; Jon Stiles (UCB Sociology), Incorporating Nativity and Education into California Population Projections: Comparison of the Inputs to and Results of Projections to the California Population. | |
March 22: PAA UCB Student Presenters: Emilio Zagheni (UCB Demography),"An IPAT-type Model of Environmental Impact Based on Stochastic Differential Equations"; Chris Sullivan (Demography, UCB), "Inequality in Reform Era China: The Ethnic Question"; Danzhen You (UCB Demography), "Familial Transmission of Human Longevity among the oldest-old in China." | |
March 29: No Brown Bag (spring break). |
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| April 5: Jim Oeppen, Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research, Demographic Insights into Influenza Pandemics: Why was 1918 So Different? | |
April 12: Gene Hammel (Demography, UCB) and Mirjana Stevanovic (Archaeological Research Facility, UCB), |
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| April 19: Duncan Thomas (UCLA), Causal effect of health on labor market outcomes: Experimental evidence . | |
| April 26: Noreen Goldman (Princeton, School of Public International Affairs), Biomarkers, Stress and Health: Findings from the Taiwan Study. | |
| May 3: No Brown Bag. |
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