Registration is now open for Economic Consequences of Negative Population Growth, a mini-conference co-sponsored by BPC and CEDA. This part-day event will bring together panelists and participants to discuss what economic research can tell us about the consequences of shrinking population size. The event will be held at the Seaborg Room in the Faculty Club on campus, from 12pm-4:30pm, on February 9th. Panelists include Chad Jones, […]

The Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) is issuing a new call for pilot research proposals for academic year 2024‐2025, continuing its long‐standing NIA‐funded pilot grant program to support promising new research. We are seeking proposals in areas related to demography and economics of aging, especially those aligned with CEDA’s signature themes:  […]

On Wednesday, December 6th, please join us for our last Brown Bag of the semester with Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, who will present “What We Do, and Don’t, Learn from Black/White Mortality Disparities.” This talk is at 12pm, 310 Social Sciences Building. Zoom option. Zoom ID: 985 2901 0198. Passcode DEMOG_BB Abstract: Black Americans live, on average, […]

On Wednesday, November 29th, we welcome to our Brown Bag Seminar Series Jenna Nobles, who will present her research entitled, “Demography Before Birth: The Social Origins of Population Patterns.”  Jenna Nobles is a professor of Sociology and Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies the implications of migration systems for sending and receiving communities, […]

This week we take a holiday pause from our brownbag seminar series, but be sure to join us next Wednesday, November 29th, as we host Jenna Nobles, who will present, “Demography Before Birth: The Social Origins of Population Patterns.” More details to follow.  The Population Reference Bureau (PRB), in collaboration with the Association of Population Centers (APC), is working to […]

This week we give a warm welcome to Audrey Dorélien, Associate Professor of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, to give a talk at our brownbag seminar on Wednesday, November 15, at 12pm PST. Audrey will present her research on “Using Remotely Sensed Data to Study in Utero Health Shocks […]

This week, in lieu of our typical brownbag seminar on Wednesday, instead we are hosting a bonus talk tomorrow, Tuesday, November 7, with Diana Greene Foster. Her talk will be 12-1pm in 310 Social Sciences Building. The title of her talk is: “Studying the Consequences of Abortion Access in Nepal.”  Read the abstract for her […]

Please join us this Wednesday, November 1, at 12pm PST, for our next Brown Bag Seminar of the Fall 2023 semester, with Maria-Elena Young, Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Merced. Maria-Elena will present her research on “Immigrant Policy Exclusions and the Health of Latinx and Asian Immigrants in California.” 310 Social Sciences Building. Event details here.  Zoom […]

Please join us Wednesday, October 25, at 12pm PST, for our next Brown Bag Seminar of the Fall 2023 semester, with Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, Professor in the Department of Global Development and the Brooks School of Policy at Cornell University. Dr. Eloundou-Enyegue will give a talk on “Demographic Change and Global Inequality:  A New World Order?“. […]

Please join us Wednesday, October 18, at 12pm PST, for the next presentation in our Brown Bag Seminar Series, with Amanda Stevenson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who will present, “The Socioeconomic Impact of Access to Contraception in the US: Using Linked Restricted Data.” This seminar is in-person, 310 Social Sciences […]