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Brown Bag Seminar Presentations

The Brown Bag series is an opportunity for the campus demography community to present either works in progress or completed works in an informal setting. The lectures are hosted during the school year every Wednesday at noon in the Demography Conference Room.


SPRING 2007 Schedule

January 17: Cancelled.

January 24: Emilio Zagheni, Department of Demography, UCB
Estimating Interpersonal Contact Patterns from Time Use Data as Input for Models of Disease Transmission.

January 31: Tim Bruckner, School of Public Health, UCB
Economic Contraction and the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in the "Back to Sleep" Era.

February 7: Daniel Kahneman, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
An informal discussion with Danny Kahneman about alternative ways to think about demographic decision making. Professor Kahneman, who received the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in psychology on how people actually make decisions, disavows any special knowledge about demographic decision making, so this will be an open discussion.

February 14: Vladimir Canudas, Department of Demography, UCB
Record Measures of Longevity.

February 21: Rucker Johnson, Goldman School of Public Policy, UCB
The Influence of Early-Life Events on Human Capital, Health Status, and Labor Market Outcomes Over the Life Course.

February 28: A Group Discussion on the Future of Demography.

March 7: Mike Hout, Sociology, UCB, and Claude Fischer, Sociology, UCB
Century of Difference: How American Families Changed over the Last Hundred Years.

March 14: Population Association of America meeting student presentations,
part I.

March 21: Population Association of America meeting student presentations,
part II.

March 28: No Brown Bag--spring break.

April 4: Will Dow, School of Public Health, UCB
The Puzzling SES Gradient in Costa Rican Adult Health and Mortality.

April 11: Webb Sprague, Department of Demography, UCB
"LAR-E": The Lee-Carter Analytical Report Engine. An internet-based application for Lee-Carter mortality forecasting.

April 18: Richard Akresh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Economics
School Enrollments Impacts of Non-traditional Household Structure.

April 25: Grant Miller, Stanford School of Medicine
Women's Preferences and Child Survival in American History.

May 2: Gene Hammel, Demography, UCB, Carl Mason, Demography, UCB
Mirjana Stevanovic, Archaeological Research Facility, UCB
Ethnic Diversity and Segregation in Yugoslavia 1961-91: The Runup to War.

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BACPOP Seminar Series

The BACPOP is a monthly seminar sponsored jointly by the Department of Demography and the Institute for International Studies (IIS) at U.C. Berkeley. Noted demographers and scholars from related fields make up the list of invited speakers to this seminar series, which brings together specialists interested in demography from the entire Bay Area, including Stanford University and U.C. Davis. The seminar takes place the first Thursday of each month during the school year. After the presentations, those interested generally continue discussions over dinner at a nearby restaurant.


February 1, 2007: Michael Gurven, Anthropology Department, UC Santa Barbara.
Longevity among hunter-gatherers: a cross-cultural examination.

March 1, 2007: Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Demography Department, UC Berkeley
When the wages of sin are death: sexual stigma and infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.

April 5, 2007: Patrick Ball and other members of the Human Rights team from Benetech. Title TBA.

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