Please join us Wednesday, October 4, at 12pm PST, for our next presentation of the Fall 2023 semester Demography Brown Bag Seminar Series, with Andrew Penner, Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, who will give a talk entitled, “The Academic and Socioemotional Effects of Advanced Mathematics Coursetaking.” This seminar […]

You are invited to submit an abstract for presentation at the 2024 Workshop on Determinants of Adult Mortality, Morbidity, and Healthy Aging in LMICs, to be held virtually on February 23, 2024.  The workshop is jointly sponsored by the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging here at UC Berkeley and the Center for […]

Please join us Wednesday, September 20, at 12pm PST, for our next seminar of the Fall 2023 semester Demography Brown Bag Series, with Claudia Masferrer, Associate Professor, El Colegio de México, who will give a talk on “Recent Migration from the United States to Mexico: A Family Affair.” Dr. Masferrer will present remotely, via zoom. Attendees have an option […]

Please join us Wednesday, September 13th, for our first talk of the Fall 2023 semester Demography Brown Bag Seminar Series, with Diana Greene Foster, Professor at UC San Francisco and visiting here in Demography, who will present “Health and Economic Consequences of the End of Roe: Lessons from the Turnaway Study.”  This talk is in […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]