Weekly News - April 2, 2018 - Population Sciences

EVENTS

Demography Brown Bag: Wednesday, April 4 | 12-1 p.m. “Immigrant Women Labor Market Incorporation: A Double-Cohort Approach.” With Sandra Florian, University of Pennsylvania Department of Sociology. | | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room.
A selection of Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.

Monday, April 2 | 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Adolescent Health and Emerging Adulthood Research Symposium. Conference/Symposium. Alumni House, Toll Room. Register ONLINE by April 1.

April 2 | 2-3:30 p.m. Economic History: The Transmission of Creativity: Evidence from Western Music, 1450-1900. With Karol Jan Borowiecki, University of Southern Denmark. | 639 Evans Hall
Tuesday, April 3, 12:00-1:30pm. Immigrant Agency and Social Movements in the Age of Devolution. Greg Prieto, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of San Diego. Multicultural Community Center (MCC), 220 Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union Building, UC Berkeley. Register for free lunch.

EVENTS

Monday, April 2 | 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Adolescent Health and Emerging Adulthood Research Symposium. Conference/Symposium. Alumni House, Toll Room. Register ONLINE by April 1.

April 4 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. “A Nation of Immigrants: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration” Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University. Seminar | | 648 Evans Hall.

Friday-Saturday, April 6-7, 2018, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. “Reconciling Islamic and European Civil Laws: Avenues and Obstacles to the Integration of European Muslim Immigrants.” The two-day conference to be held at Berkeley Law will include sessions on “Mosque and State”; “Islam and Legal Systems”; “Immigrant Integration in France and Germany” and “Cultural and Religious Identity, and Islamic Family Law in Europe” | Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall. For more information and to RSVP, please visit: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/event-services/islamiclaw/.

SAVE THE DATE
Friday April 13, 2018, 12:10pm – 1:30pm. Household Recombination, Retrospective Evaluation and Educational Mobility over 40 years Andrew Foster – Brown University. 201 Giannini Hall.

April 24, 4-5 PM. “Equity and the Environment: What’s the connection?” With Rachel Morello-Frosch. BIDS: 190 Doe Library.

PAA EVENTS

IPUMS Global Health PAA Workshop IPUMS Global Health, a powerful new data resource for global health research, which brings together IPUMS DHS and our newest IPUMS data product, IPUMS PMA.To learn about IPUMS Global Health data, attend the PAA conference workshop on “New Data from Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Global Health,” on Thursday, April 26, 2018, from 6:30 to 8 pm, Tower Court B (Sheraton Denver Downtown).

USING THE NLSY FOR YOUR RESEARCH. Deborah Carr (PI of the NLSY79) and Elizabeth Cooksey (PI of the NLSY79 Child and Young Adult studies) will provide an overview to the NLSY79 (including the NLSY Child and Young Adult surveys) and the NLSY97, present information on data updates and future survey directions, and show new and returning users how to search through the thousands of variables and download data into SPSS, SAS, STATA and R. Other possible titles we considered for this session were: “From Youth to Retirement – The NLSY79 Covers it all”, “Children of the NLSY79 – Not really Children Any More” and “The NLSY97 – Fast Approaching 40”! If you are interested in any life course stages from childhood to “early” aging, we have longitudinal data for you! The NLSY79 has tracked respondents for nearly 40 years, and the oldest respondents recently turned 60, while NLSY97 respondents have been tracked for more than 20 years, are now in their thirties. See www.nlsinfo.org. The session will take place from 3-5pm on WEDNESDAY APRIL 25. This is a member initiated meeting, and is FREE of charge. There is no need to reserve a place, but if you do plan to attend, it would be helpful if you could just email Elizabeth at cooksey.1@osu.edu.

WORKSHOPS
W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Crime 2018  National Institute of Justice: The W.E.B. Du Bois Program supports quantitative and qualitative research that furthers the Department’s mission by advancing knowledge regarding the intersections of race, crime, violence, and the administration of justice within the United States.     This solicitation seeks investigator-initiated proposals for funding from two categories of researchers:
1. W.E.B. Du Bois Scholars in Race and Crime Research – Researchers who are advanced in their careers (awarded a terminal degree at least six years prior to December 31, 2018) may apply for 36-month (or less) grants, with funding up to $500,000 for research and mentoring less-experienced researchers.
2. W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research on Race and Crime – Researchers who are early in their careers (awarded a terminal degree within six years prior to December 31, 2018) may apply for 24-month (or less) grants, with funding up to $250,000 for research. A period of residency at NIJ is optional, but not required.
All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on April 27, 2018.  Review the solicitation at  https://nij.gov/funding/Documents/solicitations/NIJ-2018-14220.pdf.

GRADUATE STUDENTS
AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI), 2018-2019 Cohort.  The 2018-2019 GEDI application is now available! Applications are due Thursday, May 24, 2018. The Graduate Education Diversity Internship Program provides paid internship and training opportunities during the academic year. The GEDI program works to engage and support students from groups traditionally under-represented in the field of evaluation. To learn more, visit the GEDI homepage. http://www.eval.org/GEDI.

CONFERENCES

The 2019 Applied Demography Conference will be held February 8-9 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Information on the conference, its venue, registration, housing, and abstract submission can be found at the Conference Website: https://gps.unm.edu/conference/.

Oxford Symposium on Population, Migration, and Environment. August 2 & 3 at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, UK. Attendees are welcome to either present a paper or participate as a panel member/observer. The abstract submission deadline is10 July 2018. The early registration deadline is 8 June.2018. Keynote speaker – David Coleman, Emeritus Professor of Demography; Associate Fellow, Department of Social Policy, University of Oxford. We welcome papers that take an interdisciplinary view of the main themes of the conference: climate change, world population increase, human migration, and environmental sustainability. The Symposium seeks to cover a broad agenda that includes disciplines such as economics, education, environmental studies, agriculture, law, political science, religion, and social studies. Topics for presentation may reach beyond these areas; our website contains an extensive list of suggested topics. Participant abstracts will be published online in the conference proceedings. Submission of complete papers is optional. If interested, you may send your manuscript (six weeks after the conclusion of the symposium) to be peer-reviewed by external readers for possible publication in Symposium Books or sponsored academic journals. Conference Oxford has hundreds of affordable bedrooms in Oxford colleges available, offering splendid views of college quadrangles and gardens. Consult our webpage for additional lodging information. Email: contact@oxford-population-and-environment-symposium.com or oxford.academic.symposia@gmail.com if you have questions. For more information, visit: https://www.oxford-population-and-environment-symposium.com/.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Journal of Development Economics (JDE) invites you to submit your work for pre-results review if you working on an empirical research project in development economics but have yet to collect and analyze your data. The pre-results review track allows authors to submit an introduction, methods, and analysis plan for prospective empirical studies. These submissions will be peer-reviewed based on the importance of the research question(s), the soundness of the theoretical reasoning, and the credibility and feasibility of the research design. High quality studies will be accepted for publication based on pre-results review, after which authors can collect and analyze the data, and submit a full paper. If implemented in line with the accepted research design, the JDE will publish the final paper regardless of the nature of its results. Learn more in this blog post by JDE Editors Andrew Foster and Dean Karlan and UC Berkeley Professor of Economics Edward Miguel. Visit the website of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) to find the Author Guidelines and to learn how to prepare your submission. Start your submission as ‘Registered Report’ on the JDE’s online submissions platform. For questions about submitting and preparing your work, please contact Aleks Bogdanoski at abogdanoski@berkeley.edu. For questions about peer review and editorial questions at the JDE, please contact Lead Editor Prof. Andrew Foster (andrew_foster@brown.edu) or Editor Prof. Dean Karlan (karlan@northwestern.edu). The JDE looks forward to receiving your submissions!

WEBINAR
2020 Census Data Collection Methodology and a New Tool for Identifying Hard-to-Enumerate Areas, April 18, 2018, Noon – 1:30 PM CDT. Presented by Michael Bentley and Nancy Bates. This webinar will explore in depth the data collection methodology for the 2020 Census, starting with address canvassing to ensure a complete and accurate address list for enumeration, to the various methods to motivate and encourage households to self-respond, to nonresponse followup and field operations, to lesser-known aspects such as enumeration in transitory locations like campgrounds and carnivals. To learn more and register, click HERE.

D-LAB
D-Lab is on Spring Break. But they resume April 2 with its regularly offered workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focused topics. One-on-one consulting also available. For more information and registration, visit http://dlab.berkeley.edu. You can now add D-Lab workshops to your bcalendar directly from D-Lab workshop description.

JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/jobs. This list advertises positions of all sorts relevant for social and behavioral scientists with advanced degrees.

MIGRATION MAILING LIST
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI.berkeley.edu) is a research center for the study of immigrants and immigration. BIMI has a mailing list (immigration_group@lists.berkeley.edu), which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and not all of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News.