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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

Join us! Our next Brown Bag Talk of the semester is this Wednesday, February 8th, at 12pm, with Madeline Duhon, who will present, “Socioeconomic Status and Parental Beliefs.” Maddie is a Postdoctoral Fellow with us in the Department of Demography here at UC Berkeley.  The inaugural All-UC Demography Conference, hosted by the University of California, […]

Our first Brown Bag Talk of the semester is this Wednesday, February 1st, at 12pm, with Rachel Margolis, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. Check out our excellent line-up of speakers here, with a few updates forthcoming.     See further announcements and opportunities below. EVENTS January 30 | 2-3:30pm | UC Berkeley […]

Hello Everyone, Save the date: We are excited to announce that our 9th Annual Berkeley Workshop in Formal Demography will be held on campus June 5th – 9th, 2023. More information will be made available very soon.  We are also excited to announce that our Brown Bag Colloquium Series for Spring Semester 2023 will begin […]