Past Event Category: DemSem
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Feb 18DemSem: Working Groups8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building DemSem Full Semester Schedule
Locations in Sewell Social Sciences:
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Oct 8DemSem: Jessica Ho (Penn State University), “Routes to High & Low Life Expectancy in High-Income Countries”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Ho: Contemporary high-income countries have achieved the highest life expectancies observed to date in human history. However, there remains considerable variation even among these long-lived populations. This talk explains why the United States has the lowest life expectancy among high-income countries, now lagging behind its peers by decades. I will also explore how …
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Sep 10DemSem: “New Faces Flash Research Talks”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
Speakers include Callie Freitag, Gina Lee, Gisella Kagy, Dan Sacks, Mollie McQuillan, Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero, & Quentin Riser.
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Apr 23DemSem: Uchechi Mitchell (University of Illinois-Chicago), “The Stress Process in the Lives of Older Black Adults”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
This presentation covers the ways in which race and stress interact to affect the physical, mental and cognitive health of older Black adults. It identifies the factors and mechanisms that put them at greater risk for poor health compared to white populations, while also highlighting protective factors and cultural assets within the Black community
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Apr 2DemSem: Jacqueline (Jackie) Torres (UC-San Francisco), “Upward influences of adult child socio-economic status on parents’ health: an expansion of lifecourse epidemiology with quasi-experimental and observational evidence”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Torres: Lifecourse epidemiology has long recognized the importance of intergenerational influences on health. However, the direction of these influences is typically described as flowing downward, from one generation to the next. A rapidly emerging body of scholarship from economics, sociology, and public health has begun to consider the reverse – that is, whether …
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Mar 12DemSem: Byungkyu (BK) Lee (New York University), “Homogeneity and Health: Sameness and Othering Processes in Suicide and COVID-19 Infection”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Lee: “Individuals prefer to be connected to those who are similar to themselves, generating a homogenous network environment. How does homogeneity shape our own health and our perception of the health status of others? In the first part of the talk, I use a novel harmonized data set on completed suicide in the …
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Mar 5DemSem: Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde (CDE Visiting Scholar, Utah State University), “Intersectionality & Discrimination: Predicting Cardiovascular, & Sleep Health Outcomes among Sexual & Gender Minorities”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
Lunch will be served at 11:45 am in 8417 Sewell Social Sciences From Marquez-Velarde: “The chronic exposure to social disadvantage-related stressors becomes biologically embedded over time. Discrimination is a chronic stressor associated with adverse health outcomes among both racial & ethnic and sexual & gender minoritized individuals. Extant research predominantly examines the health effects of …
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Feb 27DemSem: Isaac Sasson (Tel Aviv University), “Social Inequalities in Bereavement across the Life Course: A Study of Four-Generation Kinship Networks in Sweden”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Sasson: “In this talk I propose a demographic framework for conceptualizing the burden of bereavement with respect to intensity and predictability. Applying this framework to Swedish population register data reveals inequalities in bereavement by education and income among the 1973 birth cohort, including differences in cumulative exposure to deaths of family members and in …
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Feb 13DemSem: Peter Rich (Cornell University), “Policy Backlash or Structural Inertia? A Micro-Macro Causal Analysis of White Residential Decline from Desegregating City School Districts Between 1970 and 1990”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Rich: “The changing racial composition of city school districts over the 1970s and 1980s is often attributed to desegregation policies that propelled White families to move to the suburbs. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I test this causal hypothesis directly by following family residential sorting before, during, and after …
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Feb 6DemSem: Doron Shiffer-Sebba (Northwestern University), “Clans and Educational Attainment”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Shiffer-Sebba: “The household has been the dominant unit of measurement in the social sciences due to data availability and conceptual convenience. This project uses newly available Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data to instead explore the role of multi-generational extended families – or “clans” – in intergenerational stratification. Specifically, we ask whether clans …