Past Events
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Apr 18PAA 2024 ReceptionHyatt Regency Columbus (350 N High St, Columbus, OH) in the McKinley Room
We are excited to announce a PAA Reception jointly hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, UCLA’s California Center for Population Research, and UW–Madison’s Center for Demography and Ecology and Center for Demography of Health & Aging. Please join us on Thursday, April 18th, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at the Hyatt Regency Columbus …
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Apr 12Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Rob CollinsonGrainger Hall Rm. 4151 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Rob Collinson is the Wilson Family LEO Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Notre Dame and the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO). He is an applied microeconomist with research interests in housing policy, urban policy, and the design of anti-poverty programs. He completed his Ph.D. from New York University.
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Apr 5Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Chris Timmins (UW-Madison), “Racial Dynamics of Federal Property Buyouts in Flood-Prone Areas”Grainger Hall Rm. 4151 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Chris Timmins is the Gary J. Gorman Affordable Housing Professor in the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department at the Wisconsin School of Business. Timmins specializes in urban and environmental economics, but he also has interests in industrial organization, development, public and regional economics.
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Apr 5“The Statistical Lives of Elbertie Foudray” with Dan Bouk, co-sponsored with the Department of Community & Environmental SociologyOrchard View Room, Discovery Building, 330 N Orchard St., Madison, WI 53715
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Center for Demography of Health and Aging, and the Center for Demography & Ecology. The Haller Lecture Fund and the Department of Community & Environmental Sociology present Dan Bouk, Professor of History at Colgate University, Former Faculty Fellow at the Data & Science Research Institute, …
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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 15Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Johnny Tang (Cornell University), “Regulatory Competition in the US Life Insurance Industry”Grainger Hall Rm. 4151 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Johnny Tang is an assistant professor of finance at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. His research interests are in empirical asset pricing, financial intermediation, and law and finance. Prior to joining Cornell, he received his PhD from Harvard University.
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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 8Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Elizabeth Wrigley Field (University of Minnesota), “What’s happening to US mortality since the Covid-19 pandemic?”Virtual (Zoom) Full FMRI Seminar Series 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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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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Mar 1Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Roland Rau (University of Rostock), “Does mortality decelerate at the highest ages?”Grainger Hall Rm. 3070 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Roland Rau is professor of demography at the University of Rostock where he currently serves also as chair of the department of sociology & demography. In addition, he is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. His main research interests are in mathematical and statistical demography, survival improvements in developed countries, …