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, […]

The Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) is issuing a new call for pilot research proposals for academic year 2024‐2025, continuing its long‐standing NIA‐funded pilot grant program to support promising new research. We are seeking proposals in areas related to demography and economics of aging, especially those aligned with CEDA’s signature themes:  […]

On Wednesday, December 6th, please join us for our last Brown Bag of the semester with Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, who will present “What We Do, and Don’t, Learn from Black/White Mortality Disparities.” This talk is at 12pm, 310 Social Sciences Building. Zoom option. Zoom ID: 985 2901 0198. Passcode DEMOG_BB Abstract: Black Americans live, on average, […]

On Wednesday, November 29th, we welcome to our Brown Bag Seminar Series Jenna Nobles, who will present her research entitled, “Demography Before Birth: The Social Origins of Population Patterns.”  Jenna Nobles is a professor of Sociology and Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies the implications of migration systems for sending and receiving communities, […]

This week we take a holiday pause from our brownbag seminar series, but be sure to join us next Wednesday, November 29th, as we host Jenna Nobles, who will present, “Demography Before Birth: The Social Origins of Population Patterns.” More details to follow.  The Population Reference Bureau (PRB), in collaboration with the Association of Population Centers (APC), is working to […]

This week we give a warm welcome to Audrey Dorélien, Associate Professor of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, to give a talk at our brownbag seminar on Wednesday, November 15, at 12pm PST. Audrey will present her research on “Using Remotely Sensed Data to Study in Utero Health Shocks […]

This week, in lieu of our typical brownbag seminar on Wednesday, instead we are hosting a bonus talk tomorrow, Tuesday, November 7, with Diana Greene Foster. Her talk will be 12-1pm in 310 Social Sciences Building. The title of her talk is: “Studying the Consequences of Abortion Access in Nepal.”  Read the abstract for her […]