Below is a list of seminar and conference presentations organized by academic year. For videos relating to the Initiative in Social Genomics, please visit the ISG website.
Academic Year 2021-2022
Tami Gurley
University of Kansas Medical Center
"Costly and Complex Decisions with Incomplete Information and Messy Data - Insights and Questions from a COVID-19 Forecaster”
(November 19, 2022, DemSem)
Patrick Turley
"Challenges and Directions in Genomics Research Using Diverse-Ancestry Samples”
(November 19, 2022, Frontiers in Economic Analysis conference)
Richard Sias
"Molecular Genetics, Risk Aversion, Return Perceptions, and Stock Market Participation”
(November 18, 2022, Frontiers in Economic Analysis conference)
Mateo Velásquez-Giraldo
"Genetic Endowments, Income Dynamics, and Wealth Accumulation Over the Lifecycle"
(November 18, 2022, Frontiers in Economic Analysis conference)
Titus Galama
"Sources of Inequality at Birth: The Interplay Between Genes and Parental Socioeconomic Status"
(November 18, 2022, Frontiers in Economic Analysis conference)
Daniel Benjamin
"Frontiers in Within-Family Analysis"
(November 19, 2022, Frontiers in Economic Analysis conference)
Robel Alemu
"Gene-Environment Effects of Cigarette Taxes across the Life Course on the Smoking Behavior and Health Conditions of Older Adults"
(November 18, 2022, Frontiers in Economic Analysis conference)
Victor Ronda
"The Nurture of Nature and the Nature of Nurture"
(November 18, 2022, Frontiers in Economic Analysis conference)
Sebastian Tello-Trillo
University of Virginia
"Health Insurance for Whom? The ‘Spill-up’ Effects of Children’s Health Insurance on Mothers"
(November 9, 2021, DemSem)
Aldo Rustichini
"Selection and Migration in Ancient DNA"
(November 19, 2022, Frontiers in Economic Analysis conference)
Jonathan Beauchamp
"Nature and Nurture: Evidence from Molecular Genetics Data in Korean American Adoptees"
(November 18, 2022, Frontiers in Economic Analysis conference)
Silvia Barcellos
"The Effect of Education on the Relationship between Genetics, Early-Life Disadvantages, and Later-Life SES" (November 18, 2022, Frontiers in Economic Analysis conference)
Sebastian Tello-Trillo
University of Virginia
"Losing Insurance and Behavioral Healthcare: Evidence from A Large-scale Medicaid Disenrollment"
(November 8, 2021, Population Health Sciences Seminar)
Academic Year 2020-2021
Steve Cole
University of Southern California/University of California Los Angeles
"Social Regulation of Human Gene Expression"
(February 12, 2021, Methods Workshop)
Patrick Turley
University of Southern California
"The Traces of Assortative Mating on the Human Genome Reflect Human Behavior and Social Preferences"
(February 12, 2021, Methods Workshop)
Andrew Grotzinger
University of Texas at Austin
"Using Genomic SEM to Understand Psychiatric Comorbidity"
(November 19, 2020, Social Genomics Research Group)
Rosa Cheesman
University of Oslo
"How Important Are Parents in the Development of Child Anxiety and Depression? A Genomic Analysis of Trios"
(October 8, 2020, Social Genomics Research Group)
Amanda Starc
Northwestern University
“Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans"
Discussant: Corina Mommaerts, UW–Madison
(September 18, 2020, MHEC)
Samuel Norris
University of Chicago
"The Effect of Incarceration on Mortality"
Discussant: Michael Light, UW–Madison
(September 17, 2020, MHEC)
Chad Cotti
University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
“The Effects of E-Cigarette Taxes on E-Cigarette Prices and Tobacco Product Sales: Evidence from Retail Panel Data”
Discussant: Yang Wang, UW–Madison
(September 17, 2020, MHEC)
Lauren Gaydosh
University of Texas at Austin
"Aging Across the Life Course: Lessons from Add Health"
(February 12, 2021, Methods Workshop)
Lauren Schmitz
UW–Madison
"Integrating Genomic and Epigenomic Data into Population Research to Illuminate Social Pathways of Aging"
(February 12, 2021, Methods Workshop)
Jonathan Beauchamp
George Mason University
"Nature and Nurture: Evidence from Molecular Genetics Data in Adoptees"
(November 5, 2020, Social Genomics Research Group)
Jacob Vogler
Mathematica Policy Research
“Rural Hospital Closures and Local Economic Decline”
Discussant: Jason Fletcher, UW–Madison
(September 18, 2020, MHEC)
Peter Huckfeldt
University of Minnesota
“The Effects of Medicare Advantage on Post-Acute Care: Evidence from Public Retiree Health Benefits”
Discussant: Naoki Aizawa, UW–Madison
(September 18, 2020, MHEC)
Rebecca Gorges
University of Chicago
"Effects of Medicaid Managed Care on Outcomes among the Dually Enrolled"
Discussant: Marguerite Burns, UW–Madison
(September 17, 2020, MHEC)
Caitlin Carroll
University of Minnesota
“Physician Response to Malpractice Allegations: Evidence from Florida Emergency Departments”
Discussant: Lindsay Jacobs, UW–Madison
(September 17, 2020, MHEC)
Elliot Tucker-Drob
University of Texas at Austin
"Using Genomic SEM to Apply Social Science Models to Genetic Data"
(February 12, 2021, Methods Workshop)
Sam Trejo
UW–Madison
"The Phenotype Differences Model: Identifying Genetic Effects on High Blood Pressure using Incomplete Sibling Data"
(February 12, 2021, Methods Workshop)
Ben Domingue
Stanford University
"Heteroscedastic Regression Modeling Elucidates Gene-by-Environment Interaction"
(October 15, 2020, Social Genomics Research Group)
Jennifer Kwok
University of Illinois at Chicago
“How Do Primary Care Physicians Influence Healthcare? Evidence on Practice Styles and Switching Costs from Medicare”
Discussant: John Mullahy, UW–Madison
(September 18, 2020, MHEC)
Pieter De Vlieger
Uber
“Quantifying Sources of Persistent Prescription Behavior: Evidence from Belgium”
Discussant: Katie Jajtner, UW–Madison
(September 18, 2020, MHEC)
Tal Gross
Boston University
"Liquidity and Healthcare Consumption: Evidence from Social Security Payments"
Discussant: Justin Sydnor, UW–Madison
(September 17, 2020, MHEC)
Academic Year 2019-2020
L.H. Lumey
Columbia University
"Natural Experiments to Study the Impact of Early Life Shocks on Long Term Health: The Use of Famine Studies
(October 1, 2019, DemSem)
Rebecca Johnson
Dartmouth College
"v-PGS: A New Tool for G x E"
(July 14, 2020, Social Genomics Research Group)
Academic Year 2018-2019
Taylor W. Hargrove
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Intersecting Social Inequalities and Health across Adolescence and Early Adulthood”
(May 30, 2019, DemSem)
David Rekopf
Stanford University
“Social and Biological Perspectives on the Role of Employment Policies of the 1930s on Aging”
(December 4, 2018, DemSem)
Daphne Martschenko
University of Cambridge & University of Chicago
“The New Borderland: Genetics at the School House Door”
(May 30, 2019, DemSem)
James R. Carey
University of California, Davis
“Biodemography: A 21st Century Guided Tour”
(April 30, 2019, DemSem)
2017-2018
Lauren Brown
University of Michigan
“Disentangling the Stress Process: Race/Ethnic Differences in Exposure and Appraisal of Chronic Stressors”
(October 23, 2018, DemSem)
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
University of Minnesota
“The Black-White Mortality Crossover & Why Components of Frailty Don’t Act like ‘Frailty'”
(May 29, 2018, DemSem)
Philipp Koellinger
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
“Large-scale Genome-Wide Association Studies of Socioeconomic Outcomes”
(October 9, 2018, DemSem)
Karl Rohe
University of Wisconsin–Madison
“How to Think Like a (Theoretical) Statistician”
(May 30, 2018, DemSem)
Colter Mitchell
University of Michigan
“Biological Mediators and Moderators of Social Disadvantage”
(October 30, 2018, DemSem)