P30 Aging and Other Demographic Centers: Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar: “Racial/Ethnic Differences in US Social Contact Patterns and Implications for COVID-19,” Audrey Dorélien (University of Minnesota) October 3, 12:15pm – 1:15pm (details). University of California-Berkeley Population Sciences: “”Education, Son Preferences, and Missing Women,” Runjiu Liu (UC-Berkeley) October 5, 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST) (details)
Alzheimer’s and dementia research is getting a big boost after the National Institute on Aging awarded scientists a large grant to study how education affects the development of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Led by Chandra Muller at The University of Texas at Austin, the grant brings together an interdisciplinary team of neurologists, neuropsychologists, sociologists, …
P30 Aging and Other Demographic Centers: Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar: “The Causal Effect of Income Gains on Children’s Academic Achievement: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” Molly Martin (Penn State University September 26, 12:15pm – 1:15pm (details) University of California-Berkeley Population Sciences: “Geographic and Temporal Patterns in Covid-19 and Excess Mortality in the United States,” …
P30 Aging and Other Demographic Centers: Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar: “Black Men’s Health Across the Life Course”, Roland Thorpe, Jr. (Johns Hopkins University) 12:15pm – 1:15pm (details) University of California-Berkeley Population Sciences: “Weather fluctuations, migration and inequality,” Filiz Garip (Princeton) 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST) (details)
P30 Aging and Other Demographic Centers: Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar: “US State Policy Polarization and Death among Working-age Adults,” Jennifer Karas Montez (Syracuse University). September 12, 2022. 12:15pm – 1:15pm (details) National Science Foundation 2022 Waterman Lectures: “‘Falls and aging — the need for biomedical solutions to a global problem,” Lara A. Thompson (University …
Spring 2022 Schedule January 26: Introductions February 2: Causal Decompositions of Group Disparities, Felix Elwert (UW) February 9: Coding: Best Practices, Jenna Nobles (UW) February 16, 10:30-noon:* Structural Racism and Quantitative Causal Inference, Nick Graetz (Princeton) and Courtney Boen (Penn), virtual only *Please note different time and format February 23: Principles of Design, UW Design Lab *March 1, …
From May 23-24, 2022, Scott Cunningham will host CDE/CDHA’s Summer DemSem session and will present on several different topics relevant to social science researchers, particularly graduate students. At Summer DemSem, Cunningham will present on several different topics relevant to social science researchers, particularly graduate students. Discussions will focus on: key methods used in empirical social science …
May 17-19, 2022 from 10:00 am-6:00 pm ET, Syracuse University will host a co-sponsored methodology workshop on difference-in-differences with Scott Cunningham, professor of economics at Baylor University. This workshop will cover basic methodological concepts in causality like the potential outcomes model and directed acyclic graphs as these are the most common modalities used by contemporary …
CDE/CDHA affiliates and graduate students are looking forward to the 2022 PAA annual meeting in Atlanta! Both centers are well represented with 58 affiliates appearing 104 times on the program as authors, discussants, and chairs. A full list of CDE/CDHA contributions may be found here.
P30 Aging Centers and Other Demography Centers Minnesota Demography and Aging Seminar: “Race/Ethnicity, Racism, and Population Health in the United States: The Straightforward, The Complex, Innovations, and the Future,” Robert Hummer (UNC) March 28, 12:15-1:15 pm CT (details)