Spring 2020 Brown Bags

May 27, 2020. “Covid-19 Mortality: Challenges to Comparisons Between and Within Countries,” Arianna Caporali, INED, Emmanuelle Cambois, National Institute for Demographic Studies, Farida B. Ahmad, CDC, Vladmir Shkolnikov, Max Planck Institute

May 13, 2020. “Beyond Deaths per Person: Three COVID-19 Mortality Indicators for Temporal and International Comparisons,” Patrick Heuveline, UCLA & “The Life-Saving Value of Testing and Herd Immunity,” Miguel Sanchez-Romero, Vienna Institute of Demography/Austrian Academy of Sciences

May 6, 2020. “The Impact of Covid-19 in the Developing World: Kenya,” Edward “Ted” Miguel, UC Berkeley & “Metrics of a Generally Mild COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America: Bad Data or Reality,” Luis Rosero-Bixby, Universidad de Costa Rica

April 29, 2020. “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality in the United States,” Magali Barbieri, INED & UC Berkeley & “Assessing Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality in the United States,” Joshua Goldstein, UC Berkeley

April 15, 2020. “The Intersection of Epidemiology and Demography,” Jessica Metcalf, Princeton University & “The COVID-19 Pandemic in an Aging World,” David Reher, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

April 8, 2020. “COVID-19 Effects on Low-Income Families and Workers,” Kristen Harknett, UCSF; Julianna Deardorff & Lia Fernald, UC Berkeley

April 1, 2020. “Social Distancing and Social Networks of the Aged,” Ayesha Mahmud, Dennis Feehan & Claude Fischer, UC Berkeley

March 25, 2020. “Mortality in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Joshua Goldstein & Ron Lee, UC Berkeley; Andrew Noymer, UC Irvine

March 18, 2020. “COVID-19 Pandemic Research Brainstorming Session,” William H. Dow, UC Berkeley & Joshua Goldstein, UC Berkeley

February 26, 2020. “Three Centuries of Comparative Demographic Analysis of Ancient Social Networks,” Adam Anderson, UC Berkeley

February 19, 2020. “Polygenic Scores for Complex Traits: Uses, Biases, and Evolution,” Iain Mathieson, Perelman School of Medicine

February 12, 2020. “Local Variation in the Intergenerational Transmission of Income,” Dan Black, University of Chicago

January 29, 2020. “Immigration and the Remaking of Black America,” Tod Hamilton, Princeton University