EVENTS
No Demography Brown Bag this week as we’ll be at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the Spring 2019 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
Monday, April 8 | 2-3:30 p.m. “Abroad we are all Yugoslavs”: Why Encouraging Economic Migration in the 1960s Helped to Undermine, rather than to Strengthen, a Diverse State in the 1980s, and Why this Matters Nowadays” Dr. Andrej Milivojevic, UC Berkeley. | 639 Evans Hall.
Monday, April 8 | 2-3:30 p.m. “Cigarette Regulation, mental health and mortality”. Katherine Meckel, UCSD| 597 Evans Hall.
Monday, April 8, 2-3:30pm. Tina Sacks, “Invisible Visits: Black Middle Class Women in the American Healthcare System,” in 402 Barrows Hall.
Monday, April 8, 12-1.30p.m., The Two-Tier Faculty System: Is it here to stay? With Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 402 Barrows Hall.
EVENTS
No Demography Brown Bag this week as we’ll be at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the Spring 2019 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
Monday, April 8 | 2-3:30 p.m. “Abroad we are all Yugoslavs”: Why Encouraging Economic Migration in the 1960s Helped to Undermine, rather than to Strengthen, a Diverse State in the 1980s, and Why this Matters Nowadays” Dr. Andrej Milivojevic, UC Berkeley. | 639 Evans Hall.
Monday, April 8 | 2-3:30 p.m. “Cigarette Regulation, mental health and mortality”. Katherine Meckel, UCSD| 597 Evans Hall.
Monday, April 8, 2-3:30pm. Tina Sacks, “Invisible Visits: Black Middle Class Women in the American Healthcare System,” in 402 Barrows Hall.
Monday, April 8, 12-1.30p.m., The Two-Tier Faculty System: Is it here to stay? With Dan Clawson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 402 Barrows Hall.
Monday, April 8 12:30-2 p.m. “Skills, Signals and Search in Low-income Labor Markets: Evidence from a Six-Year Two-Sided Field Experiment” Imran Rasul, University College London. 223 Moses Hall
Tuesday, April 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm. “Inter-Firm Contracting and Wages: Concepts, Trends, and New Directions for Research” Jessica Halpern-Finnerty, UC Berkeley. IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Thursday, April 11 11-2pm. “Medicalization and Demedicalization of the Homeless Mentally Ill” with Joel Braslo, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and History, UCLA. 470 Stephens Hall, UCB.
Friday, April 12, 201912:10-1:30pm. “How Well Targeted Are Soda Taxes?” Rachel Griffith – Institute for Fiscal Studies. ARE Friday Seminar Series. 311 Wellman.
Friday, April 12 | 12-1:30 p.m. |”Healthcare Delivery During Crises: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone’s Ebola Outbreak” Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy. Seminar | 648 Evans Hall.
SAVE THE DATE
Monday, April 15, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm. “The Future of Work: Myth, Reality, and What We Should Do About It.” Paul Osterman, MIT Sloan School of Management. IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way
Thursday April 18, 2018, 4:00 – 6:00 pm, Social Science Fest/Matrix Open House. Held at the Social Science Matrix, 820 Barrows Hall. RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/
April 30th from Noon-1pm: A brown bag with Christopher Hoffman from IT who is working on improving research data security on campus – he will present a new initiative that is in the works. 5101 Berkeley Way West.
Friday, April 26, 2019 • 11:30am–1:30pm. “Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works” This event is a part of the Research to Impact Haas Institute Faculty Colloquium Series and will feature a discussion of Professsor Rucker C. Johnson’s new book Children of the Dream. Professor Johnson will appear in conversation with Dean of the Graduate School of Education Prudence Carter and Berkeley Law’s Professor Chris Edley, Jr. David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way.
May 30-31: Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries. On May 30 and 31, CEGA and the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab) will host the 2019 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) at UC Berkeley. The event will bring together researchers conducting economic lab experiments (or lab-in-the-field experiments) in low- and middle-income countries, and will feature keynote talks by Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley) and Pam Jakiela (University of Maryland and Center for Global Development). RSVP here.
PAA EVENTS
There are many ‘member-initiated meetings’ that you might want to avail yourself of. For example:
The NLSY for New and Returning Users: Elizabeth Cooksey (PI of the NLSY79 Child and Young Adult studies) and Steve McClaskie (NLSY User Services guru) 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 our thousands of variables and download data into SPSS, SAS, STATA and R. 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 40 years, and the oldest respondents are in their early 60s, while NLSY97 respondents have been tracked for more than 20 years and are now in their thirties. See www.nlsinfo.org. The session will take place from 3-5pm on WEDNESDAY APRIL 10 in Room 305 at the Marriott Hotel. This is a member initiated meeting, and is FREE of charge.
FUNDING
Young Scholars Program (YSP), Foundation for Child Development supports policy and practice-relevant research that is focused on how the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of the early care and education workforce can support young children’s early learning and development across the birth through age eight continuum. YSP encourages applications from: (a) Scholars who are from underrepresented groups that have historically experienced economic instability and social exclusion; (b) Scholars who represent a variety of disciplines and methodological approaches. All proposed research should focus on the ways in which the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of the early care and education workforce can support young children’s growth and development across the birth through age eight continuum.
Eligible researchers must have received their doctoral degrees (e.g., Ph.D., Ed.D., Psy.D., M.D., J.D., etc) within one to eight years of application submission; ten years for physician applicants. The affiliated private non-profit organization must have a minimum operating budget of $2.5 million and a minimum three-year track record in conducting multi-year research projects (at least three over the last three years). For more information please download the 2018 YSP Guidelines.
WORKSHOPS.
Texas Resource Center for Minority Aging Research pilot grant proposals for the Texas Resource Center for Minority Aging Research and are being solicited and are due on April 15. Please see the updated information here: http://www.rcmar.ucla.edu/
ON THE WEB
National Transfer Account. A new book on NTTA has just been published: Time Use and Transfers in the Americas: Producing, Consuming, and Sharing Time Across Generations and Genders. The book presents the NTTA methods, and has chapters by NTA members on Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the Hispanic ethnicity in the United States.https://rd.springer.com/book/
The Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR) team is excited to present a short video highlighting the ways we can support research conducted by your members and affiliates. If you enjoy the next 3.30 minutes, we hope you’ll share this video with colleagues, students, and others who can benefit from DSDR’s data and services.
WEBINAR
US Census: See DATA.
DATA
The US Census reports that FactFinder will be winding down and replaced by data.census.gov. On Tuesday, April 9, there will be a webinar about it: https://www.addevent.com/
D-LAB
D-Lab regularly offers workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses 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. They will have pre-semester intensives, so be sure to check out the calendar.
RELATED LISTS
JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.
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.
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MAILING LIST
Tue$day Top Tip$ for SPH Research is a listserv with research funding opportunities and other information pertinent to public health researchers who are not necessarily population researchers. To subscribe, write to Dr. Lauren Goldstein, lhg@berkeley.edu.