Friday, September 11 Introduction & Overview, Planning a PAA Submission Michal Engelman, UW–Madison Sociology Jim Raymo, UW–Madison Sociology Friday, September 18 Workshop PAA Abstracts Michal Engelman, UW–Madison Sociology (Bring a draft.) Friday, September 25 Faculty Job Market: What Do Hiring Committees in Sociology, Applied Economics, Public Policy, and Public Health Look for? Christine Schwartz, UW–Madison …
Friday, January 29 The Publication Process: Manuscript Submission, Revision, and Reviewing Monica Grant, UW–Madison Sociology Friday, February 5 GIS: An Overview Malia Jones, UW–Madison Applied Population Laboratory Friday, February 12 A Hands-on Introduction to Geospatial Analysis Bill Buckingham, UW–Madison Applied Population Laboratory Friday, February 19 Grant Writing: A Primer for Graduate Students Pamela Herd, UW–Madison …
Wednesday, September 7 Intro & Overview of the Graduate Training Program Marcy Carlson, UW–Madison Sociology Michal Engelman, UW–Madison Sociology Pamela Herd, UW–Madison Public Affairs & Sociology John Mullahy, UW–Madison Population Health Jenna Nobles, UW–Madison Sociology Jim Raymo, UW–Madison Sociology Jim Walker, UW–Madison Economics Wednesday, September 14 Doing Interdisciplinary Research Ben Domingue, Stanford School of Education …
Wednesday, January 18 An Introduction to R Mark Banghart, UW–Madison Social Science Computing Cooperative Wednesday, January 25 Measuring Change with Longitudinal Data Eric Grodsky, UW–Madison Sociology Wednesday, February 1 Computational Social Science: Practice & Ethics Jenna Nobles, UW–Madison Sociology Wednesday, February 8 Communicating Research for Policy Ellen Dinsmore, UW–Madison Sociology Wednesday, February 15 Research on …
Tuesday, January 30 Bayesian Analysis & Pizza David Kaplan, UW–Madison Educational Psychology [Note: This will be a special session starting at 1:30pm after DemSem on Tuesday] Wednesday, January 31 Analyzing Causality I: Path Models Felix Elwert, UW–Madison Sociology/Population Health/Biostatistics Wednesday, February 7 Analyzing Causality II: Path Models & Regressions Felix Elwert, UW–Madison Sociology/Population Health/Biostatistics Wednesday, …
Wednesday, September 6 Intro & Overview of the Graduate Training Program Marcy Carlson, UW–Madison Sociology Michal Engelman, UW–Madison Sociology John Mullahy, UW–Madison Population Health Jenna Nobles, UW–Madison Sociology Jim Raymo, UW–Madison Sociology Wednesday, September 13 Writing a Strong Conference Abstract Michal Engelman, UW–Madison Sociology Wednesday, September 20 Workshop PAA Abstracts Jenna Nobles, UW–Madison Sociology Wednesday, …
Wednesday, September 2 Organizing Session 2:30-4:00 PM, 6101 William H. Sewell Social Science Building Wednesday, September 9 Jeong-Hwa Ho, University of Wisconsin, Sociology Joint Retirement and Well-being: Do Preretirement Expectations and Gender Matter? 2:30-4:00 PM, 6101 William H. Sewell Social Science Building Wednesday, September 16 Elliot Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Institute on Aging SES and …
The microbiome is now considered to be as important to human health as the genome. For social and population health scientists, research on the human microbiome may help identify biological mediators that link social conditions to health and mortality. However, research has been hindered by human studies that did not have randomly selected samples and …
Are friends more genetically similar to one another than to randomly selected peers? Humans tend to form social relationships with others who resemble them, and recent research has evaluated the possibility that unobserved genotypes may play an important role in the creation of homophilous relationships. Researchers Benjamin Domingue (Stanford), Daniel Belsky (Duke), CDHA affiliate Jason Fletcher (public …
On April 12, the La Follette School of Public Affairs hosted the 2018 Spring Symposium. Co-sponsored by CDHA, the Center for Demography and Ecology, and the Institute for Research on Poverty, the event examined the ethical and policy-related challenges that have stemmed from recent breakthroughs in research on the human microbiome, genetics, and the human …