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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. An * indicates the presentation is also sponsored by the Population Aging Research Center (PARC). For additional information about the colloquium series, please contact: Hyunjoon Park.

January

January 28, 2008 Devah Pager, Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, "Race at Work: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets"

February

February 04, 2008 *Cancelled* Elizabeth Frankenberg, Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University, "Mental Health Consequences of the 2004 Tsunami"

February 11, 2008 Elaina Rose, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Washington, "Your Mamma Was Home and You Left? Parental Influence on Military Service"

February 18, 2008 Ahu Gemici, Assistant Professor of Economics, New York University, "Family Migration and Labor Market Outcomes"

February 25, 2008 Jennifer Lundquist, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, "Reevaluating Ethnic and Gender Satisfaction Differences: The Effect on a Meritocratic Institution"

March

March 3, 2008 John Hoddinott, Senior Research Fellow Food Consumption and Nutrition, International Food Policy Research Institute, "Gender, resources across the life course and cognitive reserve in Guatemala"

March 10, 2008 Spring Break - No Colloquium

March 17, 2008 Robert Seyfarth, Professor of Psychology & Dorothy Cheney Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, "Stress, Social Relations, and Reproductive Success in Wild Baboons"

March 24, 2008 Robert Mare, Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles, "Educational Assortative Mating in Two Generations"

March 31, 2008 Stephen Shore, Assistant Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, "Changes in the Distribution of Income Volatility"

April

April 07, 2008 Kathleen Beegle, Senior Economist Development Research Group, The World Bank, "Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey"

April 14, 2008 PAA Presentations, Schedule

April 21, 2008 Sara Curran, Associate Professor of International Studies and Public Affairs, University of Washington, "Migration, Economic Growth & Recession: Do Migrant Networks & Prior Experiences Mitigate Thailand's 1997 Economic Crisis and Post-Crisis Migration Responses?"

April 28, 2008 Robert Hummer, Professor of Sociology and Director, Population Research Center, University of Texas, "Eliminating Disparities?: Educational Differences in U.S. Adult Mortality in the 21st Century"