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Eliana La Ferrara is Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She received a PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1999. Prior to joining HKS, she was the Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University, Milan, where she founded and directed the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies (LEAP). She is Vice-President of the […]

FDA Organizational Dynamics and Pharmaceutical Side Effects, Jason Schnittker, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

This virtual workshop is designed to share leading research methods and findings on comparative patterns and determinants of adult mortality, morbidity, and healthy aging in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The goal is to build a robust evidence base for understanding the drivers of cross-national adult health patterns, especially in populations with unusually high or […]

CSDE Winter 2025 Lecture Jason Kerwin (UW) w/ Divya Pandey (Univ. of Minnesota) Probabilistic risk beliefs are key drivers of economic and health decisions, but people are not always certain about their beliefs. We study these “impre-cise probabilities”, also known as ambiguous beliefs. Imprecision is measurable separately from the level of risk beliefs, and higher […]

Demography Seminar (DemSem) Presented by Courtney S. Thomas Tobin (UCLA).

International labor migration, economic development, and the demographic dividend are key components of development impacting low- and middle-income countries. This webinar will discuss the relationship among these factors that may be used by policymakers, development agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders to create a more resilient and inclusive future for labor migration. This event will outline […]

This is the first of two webinars - Assessment of National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research on Women's Health The National Academies is hosting two public webinars to highlight the persistent gaps in biomedical funding, research, and knowledge of diseases and conditions affecting women and girls. Breakthroughs to improve health and well-being for women and […]

Presenter: Payal Hathi, PhD candidate in Sociology and Demography, UC Berkeley Payal focuses on social inequality and health in the Global South, with two main lines of inquiry. The first investigates the association between health outcomes and social disadvantage along lines of gender, caste, and religion. The second analyzes how dynamics of gender inequality shape the demographic […]

Demography Seminar (DemSem) Presented by Arun Hendi (Princeton University).

Demography Brown Bag Seminar Speaker: Nicholas Mark, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Nicholas Mark focuses on understanding how social policy and contextual stressors influence health and fertility. He develops and employs novel methodology to examine the effects of policies, environments, and events on family outcomes, with emphasis on variation by race/ethnicity and age. […]

Presented by Jennifer Candipan, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brown University Research on neighborhood inequality increasingly emphasizes the need to move beyond residential-based frameworks by considering the neighborhood environments individuals visit beyond their homes. This talk examines how citywide mobility networks—structural connections within cities formed by residents' routine travels between neighborhoods—offer new insights into neighborhood inequality […]