2014/15 Schedule
All Seminars are on Mondays, from 1:00 - 3:00 pm, in North Hall 2111
(The Thormahlen Family Seminar Room).
All are welcome.
Fall
Monday October 6: Aaron Blackwell (UC Santa Barbara, Anthropology) "Effects of Parasitism on Fecundity and Life History in Human Females" Host: Shelly Lundberg
Monday October 20: Gillian Ice (Ohio, Biological Anthropology and Gerontology) "On the balance ofcaregiving in the context of HIV: burden, benefit or neither?" Host: Mike Gurven
Monday November 3: James Smith (Rand, Labor Markets and Demographic Studies) "Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration" Host: Shelly Lundberg
Monday November 10: Adrian Raftery (University of Washington, Statistics and Sociology) "Probabilistic Population Projections for All Countries" Hosts: Shelly Lundberg and Stuart Sweeney
Monday November 17: Lori Hunter (University of Colorado at Boulder, Sociology) "Migration-Environment Connections: Evidence from South Africa and Mexico" Host: David Lopez-Carr
Monday December 8: Pascaline Dupas (Stanford, Economics) "Effectively Targeting Health Subsidies in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence on Take-up and Delivery" Host: Kelly Bedard
Notes: Oct 13 and Oct 27 are tentatively scheduled internal talks
Tuesday Nov 11 is a university holiday.
Thanksgiving is Thurs Nov 27.
Winter
Monday January 12: Edward Telles (Princeton, Sociology) "Alternative Measures of Race and Educational Inequality in Eight Latin American Countries" Host: Maria Charles
Wednesday January 21: David Lawson (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) "Is Polygyny a 'Harmful Cultural Practice' Marriage, Ethnicity, and Child Health in Northern Tanzania." Host: MikeGurven NOTE: Location is 2001A HSSB at 3:00pm
Monday January 26: Corinne Low (Wharton School, Penn, Business Economics and Public Policy) "Pricing the Biological Clock: Reproductive Capital on the US Marriage Market." Host: Peter Kuhn
Monday February 9: Steven Ruggles (University of Minnesota, History) "Marriage, Family Systems, and Economic Opportunity in the United States since 1850." Host: Stuart Sweeney
Monday, February 23: Luis Rosero-Bixby (UC Berkeley, Demography) "The exceptionally high longevity in the region of Nicoya, Costa Rica" Host: David Lopez-Carr
Monday, March 9: Jerry Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania, Sociology) "American's Views on the Employment of Mothers and Fathers: Lessons from a National Vignette Survey" Host: Maria Charles
Notes: Mon Jan 19 and Mon Feb 16 are university holidays.
Spring
Monday April 6: Maya Rossin-Slater (UC Santa Barbara, Economics) "Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation"
Monday April 20: Cedric Puleston (UC Davis, Anthropology) "Feast, Famine and Feast Again: The Effects of Taxation and Food Storage on an Agrarian Population Under Malthusian Constraints" Host: Mike Gurven
Monday May 4: Broom Center Annual Research Workshop
Monday May 18: Lindsay Chase-Lansdale (Northwestern University, Human Development and Social Policy) "Two-Generation Programs in the 21st Century" Host: Shelly Lundberg
Monday June 1: Melissa Emery Thompson (University of New Mexico, Anthropology) "On Less Fertile Ground: Chimpanzee Life Histories in Context" Host: Michael Gurven
Notes: Mon May 25 is a university holiday.