Spring 2008 Colloquium Series
The colloquium of the Population Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania meets most Mondays from 12:00pm (noon) until 1:00pm in Room 103 in the McNeil Building (3718 Locust Walk). Sessions start and end promptly. Attendees are invited to bring and eat their lunch. There is also the possibility of having lunch with our "out-of-town" colloquium speakers, please contact Karen L. Cook for details regarding specific dates.
Presentations are often available beforehand, and if not then, afterwards. These papers can be accessed by clicking on the links below the topics, below. (To read and/or print most of these papers, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. If this is not already on your computer, you can download it.)
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Previous Semester Colloquium
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January 21, 2008 |
Martin Luther King Day - No Colloquium |
January 28, 2008 |
Devah Pager, Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Title: "Race at Work: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets"
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February 04, 2008
*Cancelled* |
*Cancelled* Elizabeth Frankenberg, Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University
Title: "Mental Health Consequences of the 2004 Tsunami"
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February 11, 2008 |
Elaina Rose, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Washington
Title: "Your Mamma Was Home and You Left? Parental Influence on Military Service"
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February 18, 2008 |
Ahu Gemici, Assistant Professor of Economics, New York University
Title: "Family Migration and Labor Market Outcomes"
With this paper, Ahu was the winner of the 2007 Etienne van de Walle Prize for the best graduate student paper in demography, awarded by the Population Studies Center at Penn.
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February 25, 2008 |
Jennifer Lundquist, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts
Title: "Reevaluating Ethnic and Gender Satisfaction Differences: The Effect on a Meritocratic Institution"
Paper: Reevaluating Ethnic and Gender Satisfaction Differences: The Effect on a Meritocratic Institution
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March 3, 2008 |
John Hoddinott, Senior Research Fellow Food Consumption and Nutrition, International Food Policy Research Institute
Title: "Gender, resources across the life course and
cognitive reserve in Guatemala"
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March 10, 2008 |
Spring Break - No Colloquium |
March 17, 2008 |
Robert Seyfarth, Professor of Psychology & Dorothy Cheney Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Stress, Social Relations, and Reproductive Success in Wild Baboons"
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March 24, 2008 |
Robert Mare, Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "Educational Assortative Mating in Two Generations"
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March 31, 2008 |
Stephen Shore, Assistant Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Title: "Changes in the Distribution of Income Volatility"
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April 07, 2008 |
Kathleen Beegle, Senior Economist Development Research Group, The World Bank
Title: "Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey"
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April 14, 2008 |
PAA Presentations
Schedule TBA
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April 21, 2008 |
Sara Curran, Associate Professor of International Studies and Public Affairs, University of Washington
Title: "Migration, Economic Growth & Recession: Do Migrant Networks & Prior Experiences Mitigate Thailand's 1997 Economic Crisis and Post-Crisis Migration Responses?"
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April 28, 2008 |
Robert Hummer, Professor of Sociology and Director, Population Research Center, University of Texas
Title: "Eliminating Disparities?: Educational Differences in U.S. Adult Mortality in the 21st Century"
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* Indicates the presentation is also sponsored by the Population
Aging Research Center (PARC).
For additional information about the
colloquium series, please contact: Hyunjoon Park.
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