EVENTS CALENDAR

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 […]

This is the second of two webinars - Assessment of National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research on Women's Health The National Academies will host 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 […]

Over the course of the twentieth century, fertility intentions, desires, preferences, and attitudes (fertility “goals”) became key constructs for demographic research on fertility. In high-fertility contexts, unwanted births and unmet need for contraception serve as a justification for intensifying family planning programs. In low-fertility contexts, desired fertility exceeds actual fertility, implying high prevalence of “unrealized […]

Over the course of the twentieth century, fertility intentions, desires, preferences, and attitudes (fertility “goals”) became key constructs for demographic research on fertility. In high-fertility contexts, unwanted births and unmet need for contraception serve as a justification for intensifying family planning programs. In low-fertility contexts, desired fertility exceeds actual fertility, implying high prevalence of “unrealized […]

Parental Incarceration and Child Safety: Evidence from Wisconsin Garrett Baker, Graduate Student, Joint program in Public Policy and Sociology Duke University Decades after the rise of mass incarceration, a large literature has grown to debate the tradeoffs associated with this unparalleled social and policy experiment. While a significant body of research documents the consequences of […]

CDE’s research is focused in five primary research areas: Families and Family Change Health and Biodemography Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, and Mobility Spatial and Environmental Demography Gender and Reproductive Health

Zach Ward, Associate Professor of Economics, Baylor University Social mobility over multiple generations is often lower than predicted by two-generational data, suggesting that traditional estimates fail to capture long-run mobility. Using novel US data (1850-1940) that links over 1.7 million individuals across four generations, we find that the economic status of great-grandchildren is strongly tied […]

Demography Seminar (DemSem) Presented by Rahi Abouk (CDE Visiting Scholar; William Paterson University).

Magali Barbieri received her PhD in Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990. She currently holds a joint research position at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris, France and in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, she leads the Human Mortality Database (HMD, http://www.mortality.org) […]

Lauren Gaydosh, Associate Professor of Sociology, UNC Chapel Hill Many of the biological measures that we use to interrogate health risks have been developed in samples of older adults. Their association with sociodemographic characteristics and prediction of health and aging outcomes earlier in the life course is understudied. In this talk, I will provide an […]

Population Research Discovery Seminar Daniel Parker, Population Health & Disease Prevention, University of California Irvine Quantifying armed conflict is challenging, as traditional conflict data often rely on incomplete reporting and typically focus on metrics like the number of airstrikes. However, these measures overlook critical factors such as infrastructure destruction, population displacement, and recovery. In this […]