DemSem: 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
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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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 …

DemSem: 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
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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 …

DemSem: 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
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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 …

DemSem: 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
@ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
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 …

DemSem: Isaac Sasson (Tel Aviv University), “Social Inequalities in Bereavement across the Life Course: A Study of Four-Generation Kinship Networks in Sweden”

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

From Sasson: “In this talk I propose a demographic framework for conceptualizing the burden of bereavement with respect to intensity and predictability. Applying this framework to Swedish population register data reveals inequalities in bereavement by …

DemSem: Peter Rich (Cornell University), “Policy Backlash or Structural Inertia? A Micro-Macro Causal Analysis of White Residential Decline from Desegregating City School Districts Between 1970 and 1990”

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

From Dr. Rich: “The changing racial composition of city school districts over the 1970s and 1980s is often attributed to desegregation policies that propelled White families to move to the suburbs. Using data from the …

DemSem: Corina Mommaerts (UW-Madison), “Hiring Subsidies for the Disadvantaged: Evidence from the Work Opportunity Tax Credit”

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

From Dr. Mommaerts: “The US spends billions of dollars each year on policies to promote employment and upward economic mobility among disadvantaged groups. This talk centers on a paper that studies the effects of its …