Spring 2018

Tuesday, January 30 Bayesian Analysis & Pizza  David Kaplan, UW-Madison Educational Psychology [Note: This will be a special session starting at 1:30pm after DemSem on Tuesday] Wednesday, January 31 Analyzing Causality I: Path Models Felix Elwert, UW-Madison Sociology/Population Health/Biostatistics Wednesday, February 7 Analyzing Causality II: Path Models & Regressions Felix Elwert, UW-Madison Sociology/Population Health/Biostatistics Wednesday, February 14 Analyzing Causality III: Instrumental Variables  Felix Elwert, UW-Madison Sociology/Population Health/Biostatistics Wednesday, February 21 Preparing for the Academic Job Market: CVs and Cover Letters Michal Engelman, UW-Madison Sociology Wednesday, February 28 Writing a Research Statement for the Academic Job Market Brad Hughes, UW-Madison Writing Center Wednesday, March 7 Giving a Good Talk Michal Engelman, UW-Madison Sociology Wednesday, March 14 GIT and GitHub Mark Banghart, UW-Madison Social Science Computing Cooperative Wednesday, March 21 Ethics and Education: Teaching Politically Contentious Topics Paula McAvoy, Center for Ethics and Education, UW-Madison Wednesday, March 28 Spring Break Wednesday, April 4 Working in the Nonprofit Research World Mark Lopez, Pew Hispanic Center Due to weather related travel difficulties, this seminar is cancelled. Please attend Mark’s other talk, “Hispanic Identity Fades across Generations as Immigrant Connections Fall away” on Thursday, April 5 at 3PM in Helen C. White Hall Room 4281. Wednesday, April 11 PAA Practice Talks [Note: This session is scheduled from 2-3:30 PM.] Displacement and Health: A Closer Look at Volition, Context, and Women’s Health at the Thai-Myanmar Border Stephanie Koning Anticipatory Behavior in Household Migration: Responses to Climate Shifts Esteban Quinones Climate Change-related Internal Migration among Geographically Isolated Islands in the Central Pacific Hugh Roland Village Migration, Kinship Networks, and Subjective Well-Being among Adults Staying behind in Rural China Jia Wang Lifelong Caring: Care Giving across the Life Course in the Context of Population Aging Jessica Polos Wednesday, April 18 PAA Practice Talks [Note: This session is scheduled from 1:30-3:30 PM.] The Mortality Implications of Disappearing Middle Class Jobs in the United States Nathan Seltzer Gender and the Education-Mortality Gradient Julia Goodwin The Education Gap in Women’s Earnings: The Role of Fertility Timing Catherine Doren Multigenerational Transmission of Child Quantity in Korea 1600-2000 Won-tak Joo What Part of the Ladder Is Widening? Effect Heterogeneity of Multigenerational Wealth Transmission Jingying He Parent-Child Relationship Quality and Children’s Behavioral Outcomes: Do Close Relationships Matter? Annelise Grant Nativity, Race, and Health Disparities: The Case of Diabetes Leafia Ye Wednesday, April 25 No Seminar: PAA Monday, April 30 Doing Interdisciplinary Research Jennifer Beam Dowd, King’s College London & CUNY School of Public Health [Note: This session is scheduled on Monday, 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM, Room 3470, Sewell Social Science Building]