Past Events
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Dec 3DemSem: “Working Groups”Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
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Nov 19DemSem: Paula Fomby (University of Pennsylvania), “Fathers’ Military Service and Children’s Educational Attainment”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Fomby: US men’s military service has mixed effects on their own later status attainment. We consider whether and how Black and white men’s military service contributes to their children’s status attainment as measured by college completion. Our empirical models evaluate status attainment transmission pathways that we expect will be shaped by men’s military …
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Nov 12DemSem: Sara Burgard (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), “Remembrance of things past? Measuring life course exposures retrospectively”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Burgard: Major ongoing longitudinal studies of aging start interviewing respondents in later life and have added retrospective life history (RLH) interviews or retrospective questions to fill in information about earlier exposures and experiences of theoretical interest. These RLH interviews are relatively quick and cost-effective, but how good are RLH data? Are there measurement …
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Nov 7DemSem: Geoffrey Wodtke (University of Chicago), “Poor Neighborhoods, Bad Schools? A High-dimensional Model of Place-based Disparities in Academic Achievement”
8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
Dr. Geoff Wodtke’s research is in the areas of urban poverty and neighborhood effects, group conflict and racial attitudes, class structure and income inequality, and methods of causal inference in observational research. He is currently working on several projects dealing with the impact of poverty on child development, class and racial disparities in exposure to …
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Oct 29DemSem: Jennifer Van Hook (Penn State University), “Texas-Style Exclusion: Mexican Americans and the Legacy of Limited Opportunity”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
While Americans largely support legal immigration, this support is conditional on the basis that immigrants “make it on their own”. European-origin Industrial Era immigrants came to U.S. impoverished, worked hard, and achieved the American Dream seemingly on their own. Mexican immigrants, the nation’s largest contemporary immigrant group, are often accused of being dependent on the …
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Oct 22DemSem: “Working Groups”Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
All groups will meet in the following locations during regular DemSem time!
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Oct 15DemSem: Sara Curran (University of Washington), “Reflections on Demographic Dynamics and Climate Change”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Curran: The presentation will reflect upon past and current research around demographic dynamics and climate change. The talk will consider how demographers might think more broadly about both adaptation and mitigation in relation to climate change. First, the talk will examine the demographic selectivity of climate impacts across the life course, livelihoods, and …
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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 24DemSem: Jennifer Glass (University of Texas at Austin), “The Motherlode: Why U.S. mothers are increasingly both financial providers & caregivers and what it means for families”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Glass: I trace the rapid evolution of mothers as primary financial providers for their children and the events most often precipitating mothers’ transition into this role. Then I evaluate the income consequences of this shift for mothers and families, how mothers themselves have responded to the need for their income, and how we …
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Sep 17DemSem: Laura Sochas (University of Edinburgh), “A Quantitative Approach to Critical Population Studies”8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 DemSem full semester schedule
From Dr. Sochas: While qualitative research presents obvious strengths for critical & feminist population research, quantification is also essential to critical social science’s emancipatory aim. In this talk, I take feminist critiques of demography seriously, to demonstrate how we can include social structure, better model distributions and heterogeneity, and use critical theory to shape research …