Big News: We are thrilled to announce that Jenna Nobles will join the Demography Faculty as Full Professor in Fall 2024! Welcome, Jenna!! As this week we are in Columbus, Ohio for PAA, we will not have our usual brown bag seminar. Our last talk of the academic year will be on May 1, 12pm, […]

Congratulations to our NIA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, Madeline Duhon, who has accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Economics at Pepperdine University. Congrats, Maddie! Super!  Congratulations as well to the entire team at the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), CEGA, and to BITSS Director and Faculty Affiliate in Demography, […]

Join us for this week’s Brown Bag Seminar on Wednesday, April 3rd, with David Steinsaltz, Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Oxford, who will present “What is Biological Age?”. This talk is in-person, 310 Social Sciences Building.  Event details are here.  See our events calendar for the spring semester schedule.  The latest video […]

**No Seminar this week.** Our next Brown Bag of the semester will be Wednesday, April 3rd, following spring break, with David Steinsaltz, Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Oxford, who will present “What is Biological Age?” This will be an in-person talk, 310 Social Sciences Building.  You can find more information here.  See […]

Our next BrownBag Seminar is Wednesday, March 13th, 12pm, with Isabel Madzorera, Assistant Professor of Public Health Nutrition in the School of Public Health. Dr. Madzorera will present “Diet Quality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The Role of Food Systems and Implications for Health Outcomes.” This is an in-person talk, 310 Social Sciences Building. Event […]

Be sure to join us Wednesday, February 28, 12pm, for our next BrownBag Talk of the semester with Emilio Zagheni, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). The title of Dr. Zagheni’s talk is “Global Improvements in the Representation of Women in Science Have Stalled.” Emilio will present remotely, but we will gather, as usual, in […]

Join us tomorrow, February 21, 12pm, for our next BrownBag Talk of the semester with Michelle Poulin, Executive Director of the Berkeley Population Center. The title of her talk is “Seeds of Unity: Examining the Link Between Joint Land Titles and Women’s Status in Western Uganda.” This is an in-person event, 310 Social Sciences Building (Seminar Room), 12pm. Event […]

Be sure to join us tomorrow, February 14th, 12pm, for our next BrownBag Talk of the semester with Magali Barbieri, a joint researcher here in the Department of Demography at UC Berkeley and at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris, France. Dr. Barbieri will present “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Socioeconomic Disparities in Mortality […]

Our Spring 2024 Brown Bag Seminar Series kicks off this Wednesday, February 7th, 12pm, with Aliya Saperstein, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University, who will present, “The Fluidity of Demographic Categories: Challenges and Opportunities.” Event details are here. Check our Events Calendar for the spring semester schedule.  The deadline to submit to the 119th Annual Meeting […]

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, […]