Past Events
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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 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 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 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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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 30Hilldale Lecture Series 2023Tripp Commons, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53703 Event Poster
“Healthy Aging: The Interaction of Social and Biological Factors” with Dr. Eileen Crimmins We are pleased to announce Dr. Eileen Crimmins (Professor, USC; AARP Chair in Gerontology; Director of the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography & Population Health) will be presenting “Healthy Aging: The Interaction of Social and Biological Factors,” as a part of the Hilldale …
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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 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 …