Past Events
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Apr 1DemSem: Working Groups8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building DemSem Full Semester Schedule
Locations in Sewell Social Sciences:
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Mar 18DemSem: Arun Hendi (Princeton University), “Immigrant Health & the Duality of Risk”8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building DemSem Full Semester Schedule
For decades, educational inequalities in mortality have widened and mortality among the least educated has stalled, even as overall mortality has improved, and an increasing proportion of young people have completed secondary and tertiary education. While researchers recognize that these trends are in part related to changing selection into education groups, there has been no …
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Mar 11DemSem: Courtney S. Thomas Tobin (UCLA), “The MOSAIC Initiative: Bridging Research, Community, and Innovation to Address Multimorbidity in Black Communities”8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building DemSem Full Semester Schedule
Multimorbidity—the co-occurrence of multiple chronic conditions—disproportionately affects Black Americans and often begins earlier than in other racial and ethnic groups. The MOSAIC (Multimorbidity Outcomes & Solutions for African/Black Americans In California) Initiative at UCLA is a three-phase, community-engaged research collaborative launched in 2024 to expand the evidence base and address these disparities. In this talk, …
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Mar 4DemSem: Joel Mittleman (University of Pennsylvania), “Gender Inequality Beyond the Gender Binary: Recasting How Gender Shaped American Schooling, 1960-2012”8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building DemSem Full Semester Schedule
Although scholars have long argued that boys’ academic engagement is undercut by dominant masculinity norms, these norms have been largely invisible in quantitative research. Instead, researchers have been restricted to documenting disparities by binary sex, collapsing the entire gender spectrum into a 0 or 1. Analyzing four decades of high school cohort studies, the current …
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Feb 25DemSem: Ariel Azar (Purdue University), “Institutions, the Life Course, & Health: A Research Agenda”8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building DemSem Full Semester Schedule
Dr. Ariel Azar is a CDE Visiting Scholar and will be joining us February 24th – 28th. This presentation examines how institutional environments throughout the life course shape health disparities by applying a comparative institutional life-course framework. Using two cases—Latin American immigrants in the U.S. and women’s mental health in Europe—it highlights how both pre-migration arrangements …
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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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Feb 11DemSem: Steven Alvarado (University of Notre Dame), “The Growing Divide: Neighborhood Disadvantage & College Outcomes Across Demographic Cohorts”8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building DemSem Full Semester Schedule
Dr. Steven Alvarado is a CDE Visiting Scholar and will be joining us February 10th – 14th. Residential income segregation has grown steadily in the United States over the past several decades. Meanwhile, as the economic returns to a college degree have grown, so have enrollments in postsecondary education. How are these two secular trends related and …
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Feb 6DemSem (Co-Sponsor with IRP): Van Tran (City University of New York), “Vulnerable Asian Americans: From Intra-Asian Diversity to Narrative Plentitude”8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building DemSem Full Semester Schedule
Co-sponsored by CDE This seminar is a part of the Spring IRP Seminar Series. As a high-achieving minority group, Asians—on average—have surpassed Whites in education, income, and wealth. This “controlling” narrative, however, is incomplete because it renders intra-Asian disparities invisible. One consequence of intra-Asian diversity is the divergent destinies of hyper-selected Asians and vulnerable Asians. …
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Jan 28DemSem: Tiffany Green (UW-Madison), “Reproductive Health Access & Equity in the Post-Dobbs Era: Challenges and Opportunities in Survey Data Collection”8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building DemSem Full Semester Schedule
Lunch will be served at 12:00 pm in rm. 8417! The Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision has created unprecedented challenges to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care access. Survey researchers face substantial challenges in evaluating the impacts of Dobbs, including the rapidly shifting policy landscape, participant recruitment, and high …
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Dec 10DemSem: Chris Timmins (UW-Madison), “Hidden Biases: Selective Advertising in the Rental Housing Market”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
Lunch will be served at 11:45am in rm. 8411! A growing body of literature has documented persistent racial discrimination in rental housing markets, often using audit or correspondence studies where fictitious identities request to view an apartment. However, these methods may overlook subtle forms of discrimination, such as selective advertising, where landlords choose not to …