Demography Seminar Series

Date: Fridays
Time: 1:00-2:30 PM
Location: Room 5383 of the CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue

To learn more about the seminars, contact seminar organizer, Professor Na Yin.

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Full Listing for the Health/Labor/Demography Series.

2011-2012

Fall term:

  • 10/14/11 Lowell Taylor Carnegie Mellon University "The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African American: Evidence from the Deep South"
  • 10/21/11 Don Treiman UCLA
  • 11/11/11 Kara Joyner Bowling Green State University "Quality of Male Fertility Data in Major U.S. Surveys"
  • 12/09/11 Florencia Torche NYU "The effect of drug-related homicides on birth outcomes: Selectivity, exposure, and behavioral responses"

Spring term:

  • 03/02/12 Duncan Thomas, Duke University--"The Impact of the Indian Ocean Tsunami: Parental death and child well-being"
  • 03/16/12 Daniel Lichter, Cornell University--"Shifting Ethnoracial Boundaries: New Hispanic Settlement Patterns and Demographic Change"
  • 04/20/12 Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University--"Maternal Health and Fertility"

2010-2011

Fall term:

  • 11/05/10 Alison Buttenheim, University of Pennsylvania--"Building back better? Evaluating post-disaster relief and recovery programs"
  • 12/03/10 Gunther Fink, Harvard School of Public Health--"Micro-economic foundation of the demographic dividend"
  • 12/10/10 David Hacker, SUNY Binghamton--"Adaptation or innovation? The onset of the fertility transition in the US"

Spring term:

  • 02/04/11 Emilio Parrado, University of Pennsylvania--"How high is Hispanic/Mexican fertility in the U.S.? Immigration and tempo considerations"
  • 04/08/11 Lena Edlund, Columbia University--"The Kindness of Strangers: Adopted Girls in China"
  • 04/15/11 Noreen Goldman, Princeton University--"Hispanic Health: Puzzles and Paradoxes"

2009-2010

Fall term:

  • 10/09/09 Andrew Mason, University of Hawaii--"Population Aging and the Generational Economy"
  • 10/16/09 Narayan Sastry, University of Michigan--“The Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Population of New Orleans”
  • 12/04/09 Nancy Luke, Brown University--"Gender, Caste, and Household Bargaining in South India"

Spring term:

  • 02/19/10 Patrick Gerland, United Nations--"International forensic population estimations: challenges and analytical strategies to reconstruct national demographic trends and levels since 1950 for 230 countries/areas"
  • 04/09/10 John Hobcraft, University of York--"Predictive factors from age 3 and infancy for poor child outcomes at age 5: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study"
  • 04/23/10 Terry Hull, Australian National University--"Measuring and Mis-measuring Millennium Development Goals: Lessons from Indonesia"

2008-2009

Fall term:

  • 10/24/08 Warren Sanderson SUNY Stony Brook--"Rethinking Age and Aging"
  • 12/19/08 Sam Preston, University of Pennsylvania--“American Mortality, 1950-2030"

Spring term:

  • 2/13/09 Joel Cohen, Rockefeller University--"International Migration: A Statistical Model for Use in Population Projections"
  • 2/20/09 Shelly Lundberg, University of Washington--"Non-Cognitive Attributes and Family Outcomes"
  • 5/8/09 Vida Maralani, Yale University--"Family Processes and Changing Educational Gradients in Smoking"
  • 5/15/09 Nancy Landale, Penn State University--"Why do Immigrant Youth who Never Enroll in U.S. Schools Matter? An Examination of School Enrollment Among Mexican and Non-Hispanic Whites"

2007-2008

Fall term:

  • 10/12/07 David Bloom, Harvard University--"Global Demographic Change: Dimensions of Economic Change"
  • 10/19/07 Scott Lynch, Princeton University--"The changing role of socioeconomic status in explaining black-white disparities in healthy life over the last three decades"
  • 12/07/07 Mark Montgomery, Population Council and SUNY-Stonybrook--“Forecasting city growth in poor countries: Comparing classical and Bayesian methods”

Spring term: