Past Event Category: Fall 2023
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Dec 12DemSem: Elizabeth Bruch (University of Michigan), “From Transcripts to Trajectories: A Framework for Studying Undergraduate Careers”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Elizabeth Bruch is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Complex Systems, an Associate Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, and an External Faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. She also leads the University of Michigan’s Computational Social Science Initiative. “The culmination of a university education is the degree one receives at graduation, but the …
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Nov 28DemSem: Marci Ybarra (UW-Madison), “No Calm Before the Storm: Low-Income Latina Immigrant and Citizen Mothers Before and After COVID-19”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Lunch will be served at 11:45am. From Dr. Ybarra: “We draw on interviews before and after COVID-19 with thirty-eight Latina immigrant and citizen mothers, most of whom are undocumented. We find that pre-pandemic distrust of public institutions and the safety net was common, increased after COVID-19, and negatively affected undocumented respondents’ post-pandemic circumstances. Our findings …
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Nov 7DemSem: Melissa Alcaraz (Brigham Young University; CDE 2023-24 Visiting Scholar), “Unaccompanied Migrant Children in U.S. Government Custody: 2014-2023”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Melissa Alcaraz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brigham Young University. “Between October 1, 2014, and March 1, 2023, the US Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) took custody of 568,890 unaccompanied migrant children. Drawing on a unique dataset that ORR produced in response to Freedom of Information Act requests and litigation, …
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Oct 24DemSem: Jose Manuel Aburto (Oxford University), “The Upsurge of Violence in Mexico: Lives Lost and Challenges Ahead”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
José Manuel Aburto is the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the Department of Sociology. Lunch will be served at 12:00pm. “Since 2006, Mexico experienced an unprecedented surge in violence caused by a combination of national policies and international influences on drug trafficking organizations. In this seminar, I will present …
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Oct 17DemSem: Youngmin Yi (University of Massachusetts-Amherst; CDE 2023-24 Visiting Scholar), “Race-Making in Administrative Data”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
From Dr. Yi: “This talk will focus on providing an overview of the motivation, conceptual framework, and current planned research design for a project that aims to explore how racial/ethnic categories are produced (and in cases of discrepancies or multiple sources of information, reconciled) collection, maintenance, and analysis of administrative data on contact with the …
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Oct 10DemSem: Dora Costa (UCLA), “The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
From Costa: “How important is economic growth to long-run increases in longevity? I argue that we have underestimated the role of early economic growth in the health improvements we saw after 1870 because we have ignored ancestral effects. Past and present economic conditions are in the genome. Changes in variance in the food supply at …
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Sep 26CDE: Working Group MeetingsSewell Social Sciences, 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Working Group Meetings
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Sep 12DemSem: Mathew Hauer (Florida State University), “Responsibility for Climate Change from a Demographic Perspective”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem Webpage with full semester schedule
Matt Hauer is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University and a faculty affiliate in the Center for Demography and Population Health. “Determining who is most responsible for climate change is of paramount importance for properly accounting for climate damages. While attributing responsibility often involves countries, major historical carbon emitters, and corporations, these …