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DemSem: Laura Sochas (University of Edinburgh), “A Quantitative Approach to Critical Population Studies”

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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, …

DemSem: 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
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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 …

DemSem: 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
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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 …

DemSem: 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
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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 …

DemSem: 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
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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 …

DemSem: Paula Fomby (University of Pennsylvania), “Parents’ Military Service and Children’s Educational Attainment”

8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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 …

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