Fall 2024 Brown Bags

November 20, 2024. “Mortality Variation Across U.S. States and Counties,” Yuan Peng, Stanford University

November 13, 2024. “Violent Discipline and Child Behavior: The Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers in Jamaica,” Manisha Shah, UC Berkeley

October 30, 2024. “The Demography of the Mortality–Fertility Nexus: Early Death and ‘Missing Births’ in the United States,” Antonino Polizzi, University of Oxford

October 23, 2024. “Fertility Decline in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Fresh Assessment of Mechanisms,” John Casterline, Ohio State University

October 16, 2024. “Population Issues and the 2024 Election,” Hilary Hoynes, Ronald Lee and Jenna Nobles, UC Berkeley

October 9, 2024. “Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration,” Peter Catron, University of Washington

October 2, 2024. “From Job Descriptions to Occupations: Using Neural Language Models to Code Job Data for Population Research,” Xi Song, University of Pennsylvania

September 18, 2024. “Digital Echoes: Using Mortality Analysis to Document, Memorialize, and Prosecute War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and Genocide,” Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Resource Group

September 1, 2024. “Using Simple Models to Untangle Infectious Disease Dynamics Across Scales: From Immuno-epidemiology to Behavioral-epidemiological Dynamics,” Chad Saad-Roy, UC Berkeley