Past Event Category: FMRI
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Feb 2Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Adriana Lleras Muney (UCLA), “Longevity and its Transmission Across Generations in the US”Grainger Hall Rm. 3070 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Adriana Lleras-Muney is a Professor of Economics at UCLA. She previously worked at Princeton University and has served as Editor of the Journal of Health Economics. Professor Lleras-Muney’s research studies the relationships between socio-economic status (in particular education) and health, the effect of disease on income and economic development, and the determinants of fertility.
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Dec 1*CANCELLED* FMRI Seminar: Elizabeth Wrigley Field (University of Minnesota), “What do, and don’t, we learn from the Black-white mortality disparity?”Grainger Hall, Room 1280 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715) FMRI Seminar Series Full Schedule
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. She is a formal demographer and a sociologist. Her work integrates demographic methods, designed to shift perspectives between population-level patterns and individual-level transitions between social statuses, with a sociological approach to the study of inequality, in which multiple dimensions of stratification interact …
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Nov 17FMRI Seminar: Yiqun Chen (University of Illinois-Chicago), “The Productivity of Professions: Evidence from the Emergency Department”Grainger Hall, Room 1280 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715) FMRI Seminar Series Full Schedule
Yiqun Chen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on topics in the interaction of health economics and labor and organizational economics.
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Nov 10FMRI Seminar: Josh Goldstein (University of California Berkley), “The persistence of immigrant mortality advantages over multiple generations: results from the CenSoc project ”Grainger Hall, Room 1280 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715) FMRI Seminar Series Full Schedule
Josh Goldstein is the Chancellor’s Professor of Demography and the Director of the Berkley Population Center at the University of California, Berkley. His recent research includes a new interest in big data and naming patterns, particularly what first naming patterns can reveal about fertility intentions and how the choice of first names influences life chances.
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Nov 9FMRI Lunch & Learn Lecture: Josh Goldstein (UC-Berkley), “CenSoc: A New Public Dataset to Understand Mortality”8417 Sewell Social Sciences
Please RSVP here for the lunch order by Tuesday, November 7th at 12pm! From Dr. Goldstein: “The CenSoc project – so named because it links 1940 Census data with Social Security Administration death records – is a new, large-scale, public microdata data set to be used for advancing understanding of mortality disparities in the United …
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Nov 3FMRI Seminar: Jason Fletcher (UW-Madison), “Extending Evidence for the Importance of Fetal Programming on Old Age Mortality”Grainger Hall, Room 1280 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715) FMRI Seminar Series Full Schedule
Jason Fletcher is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Public Affairs with appointments in Applied Economics and Population Health Sciences. A specialist in health economics, economics of education, social genomics, and child and adolescent health policy, Dr. Fletcher focuses his research on examining social network effects on adolescent education and health outcomes, combining genetics and …
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Oct 27FMRI Seminar: Hamid Noghanibehambari (Austin Peay University), “Early-Life Exposures and Later-Life Mortality”
Grainger Hall, Room 1280 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715) FMRI Seminar Series Full Schedule
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Oct 20FMRI Seminar: Allison Cole (Arizona State University), “Worker Valuation of Retirement Benefits”
Grainger Hall, Room 1280 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715) FMRI Seminar Series Full Schedule
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Oct 13FMRI Seminar: Ian Duncan (University of California Santa Barbara), “Opportunities in Health Actuarial Research”
Grainger Hall, Room 1280 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715) FMRI Seminar Series Full Schedule
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Oct 6FMRI Seminar: Victoria Udalova (U.S. Census Bureau), “Enhancing Health Data at the U.S. Census Bureau”Grainger Hall, Room 1280 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715) FMRI Seminar Series Full Schedule