Fall 2025 Brown Bags

September 3, 2025. Non-Existent Outcomes in Research on Inequality: A Causal Approach, Ian Lundberg, UCLA

September 10, 2025. Modeling Re-emergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the United States, Nathan Lo, Stanford University

September 17, 2025. Experimental Evidence on Distributional Effects of Head Start, Marianne Bitler, UC Davis

September 24, 2025. Inference with Weights: Residualization Produces Short, Valid Intervals for Varying Estimands and Varying Resampling Processes, Erin Hartman, UC Berkeley

October 1, 2025. The Role of Demographics in Sociological Research: Authorship, Citation, and Acknowledgment, Jeffrey Lockhart, UC Berkeley

October 8, 2025. Temporary Shock or Lasting Scar? Life Expectancy Deficits Since COVID, Jennifer Beam Dowd, University of Oxford

October 15, 2025. Age at Marriage and Women’s Health Over the Life Course in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Kriti Vikram, National University of Singapore

October 22, 2025. A New Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Disparities, Felix Elwert, University of Wisconsin-Madison

October 29, 2025. Global Labor Markets and the End of World Population Growth, David Lam, University of Michigan

November 5, 2025. Inequality in Demographic Outcomes: Contributions of Multiple Social, Biological, and Environmental Factors, Hal Caswell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

November 12, 2025. Routes to High Life Expectancy in High-Income Countries, Jessica Ho, The Pennsylvania State University

November 19, 2025. Demographic Reproduction in the Early Modern City: Testing the Urban Graveyards and Sharlin Theses, Jan de Vries, UC Berkeley