Weekly News, May 8th, 2023

Hello Everyone, In this month of May, 2023, as the spring semester winds down to an end, it is my pleasure to announce the continued success of our students. Congratulations first goes to Payal Hayti, PhD student in Demography, for winning a poster award at PAA 2023 last month for her research, “Examining the Relationship […]

Weekly News, April 18th, 2023

A warm welcome back from PAA 2023 in New Orleans. Congratulations to visiting student researcher Vincent Jerald Ramos, PhD candidate, Dynamics PhD Program at the Hertie School Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin, for receiving a poster award at PAA for his research on “Extreme Lockdowns and the Gendered Informalization of Employment.” Great job, Vincent! Tomorrow, […]

Weekly News, April 10th, 2023

Congratulations to several of our PhD students for their poster acceptance at the upcoming All UC Demography Conference at UC Irvine, May 4th-5th, including Payal Hathi, Ben Shapiro, Chris Soria, and Vincent Jerald Ramos (visiting student). Additional congrats goes to BPC Affiliate Maria-Elena Young, Assistant Professor of Public Health/School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, […]

Weekly News, April 4th, 2023

Congratulations to BPC Affiliate Juan Pedroza, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz, for receiving the Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant! The Foundation, in partnership with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, seeks to increase innovative research advancements on economic mobility and access to opportunity nationally. The […]

Weekly News, March 21, 2023

Our next Brown Bag Talk of the semester is this Wednesday, March 22nd, at 12pm, with Sangeetha Madhavan, Professor and Chair of African American Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. The title of her talk is “Does Kinship Matter in Low Income Urban Contexts in sub-Saharan Africa?: New Findings from Nairobi, […]

Weekly News, March 13, 2023

Our next Brown Bag Talk of the semester is this Wednesday, March 15th, at 12pm, with Caitlin Myers, John G. McCullough Professor of Economics and Co-director of the Middlebury Initiative for Data and Digital Methods at Middlebury College. The title of Cailin’s talk is “Forecasts for a Post-Roe America: The Effects of Increased Travel Distance […]

Weekly News, March 6, 2023

The Berkeley Population Center and the Department of Demography is now accepting applications for the 9th Annual Workshop on Formal Demography (WFD). Lead instructors this year are Josh Goldstein, Dennis Feehan, and Robert Chung. The Workshop will take place from June 5-9, 2023 at the UC Berkeley campus. The focus this year is on fertility, […]

Weekly News, February 27, 2023

Our next Brown Bag Talk of the semester is Wednesday, March 1st, at 12pm, with Trent Alexander and Katie Genadek, who will present, “New Data and Research Using Linked Decennial Census Records from 1940-2020.” We are delighted to host Trent and Katie in person, so do join us in our Seminar Room, 310 Social Sciences […]

Weekly News, February 20, 2023

Register now for the 2023 Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs. The workshop is co-hosted by the USC/UCLA Center for Biodemography and Population Health (CBPH) and UC Berkeley’s Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA), and will be held virtually this Friday, February 24, 2023, 8:30am-2:30pm PT. […]

Weekly News, February 13, 2023

The White House Office of Management and Budget has issued a request for comments in the Federal Register on initial proposals issued by the Interagency Technical Working Group on Race and Ethnicity Standards. Comments are due April 12th. PAA will submit organizational comments, but also encourages individual members to share their own views. In sum, […]