EVENTS
[All events are subject to change.]
Wednesday, February 19, 12:00 to 1:15 pm: Demography Brown Bag. Iain Mathieson, Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. “Polygenic scores for complex traits: uses, biases and evolution.” Demography Department Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Avenue. Cookies and beverages served.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Tuesday, February 18, 11:30-12:30 PM. UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health for a Brown Bag Series presentation titled “Bigger than AIDS? The clash of population growth & climate change in the West African Sahel.” Malcolm Potts and Alisha Graves. 5101 Berkeley Way West.
Tuesday, February 18, 12-1 pm. Development Lunch: “The Long-Run Effects of a Girls Scholarship Program” Michael Walker, Post-Doc, CEGA| 648 Evans Hall.
EVENTS
[All events are subject to change.]
Wednesday, February 19, 12:00 to 1:15 pm: Demography Brown Bag. Iain Mathieson, Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. “Polygenic scores for complex traits: uses, biases and evolution.” Demography Department Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Avenue. Cookies and beverages served.
View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.
Tuesday, February 18, 11:30-12:30 PM. UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health for a Brown Bag Series presentation titled “Bigger than AIDS? The clash of population growth & climate change in the West African Sahel.” Malcolm Potts and Alisha Graves. 5101 Berkeley Way West.
Tuesday, February 18, 12-1 pm. Development Lunch: “The Long-Run Effects of a Girls Scholarship Program” Michael Walker, Post-Doc, CEGA| 648 Evans Hall.
Tuesday, February 18, 11AM-12 PM. Labor Lunch: “Outside Options in the Labor Market” Sydnee Caldwell, Microsoft Research/Berkeley. | 648 Evans Hall
Thursday, February 20, 2-3:30 PM “Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap” Alexandre Mas, Princeton, 648 Evans Hall
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Thursday, February 20, 2020 • 7:00pm–9:00pm “The Legacy of School Integration and Educational Outcomes” Rucker Johnson. JCC East Bay, Berkeley Branch, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA 94709. (Register by clicking on the above link.)
SAVE THE DATE
Wednesday-Thursday February 26-27, 9am-1pm. “Pathways to scientific teaching” (A certificate-awarding course on learner-centered teaching). PTOP (Postdoc Teaching Opportunities Program) invite you to participate in an exciting professional development/pedagogy course titled “Pathways to Scientific Teaching”. The course involves two parts: two half-day pedagogy seminars (lunch provided), and an optional two-hour peer-feedback session. Participants who attend both seminars and peer-feedback session will earn a Certificate in Learner-centered teaching from the VSPA office (great for your CV!) The course will introduce scientific teaching, which integrates the research model into learner-centered teaching approaches. Participants will gain hands-on experience in developing course materials. Diane Ebert-May, a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University, will teach the course. Registration Info: Registration is limited to 40 attendees. Please register via: https://tinyurl.com/ua5d5rk.
Monday, March 2, 4-5 PM. The 2020 Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lectures. David Card, Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, “Are We Under-investing in Education?” In the Chevron Auditorium at International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.
March 19, 2020, 12pm, Matrix On Point: Taxation and the 1%. With Emmanuel Saez, and Danny Yagan. 820 Barrows Hall.
FUNDING
Mini-grants: Cross-National Comparison of Psychological Stress: Utilizing Newly Available Data on Psychological Stress from Around the World. Support is available for five projects for early career researchers that examine cross-national relationships between stress and aging. Includes mentorship from senior faculty, priority access to the harmonized data and the lead data programmer, statistical consulting, and a $2,500 honorarium. Brief proposals due 2/28/20. For details see https://mailchi.mp/
CONFERENCES
Call for Proposals for the 8th Annual North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI) June 17-19, 2020, Conference Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences. The conference theme is “Making Data FAIR by using Metadata Standards.” The main conference sponsor is IPUMS at the University of Minnesota Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation. Aimed at individuals working in and around research data and metadata, NADDI 2020 seeks submissions of presentations and posters that highlight the use of DDI and other metadata standards within research projects, official statistics, survey operations, academic libraries, and data archives. March 6: Deadline for conference proposals. Submissions may be made through the conference web site. The proposal deadline is March 6, 2020.
2020 FCSM Research and Policy Conference. Sponsored by the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) and the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS), Tuesday April 14-16, 2020, Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Place, NW, Washington DC, 20001. Register Now. More details about the conference can be found on the conference website. Preliminary program.
WORKSHOPS
Summer Workshop on Comparative Studies on Aging: Long Term Care using harmonized HRS data. Aug 23-28, 2020 in Jackson Hole, WY. Travel costs are covered. Applications due by 3/20/20. More information and application at https://g2aging.org/?section=
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research welcomes papers that examine various aspects of population trends as well as theoretical and methodological contributions related to population studies. Contributions in the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research are divided into three main categories: *Research articles featuring original, peer-reviewed research articles; *Demographic Debates featuring invited contributions on topics related to the ongoing scientific debates in population research; *Data & Trends mapping changes and patterns in various components of population dynamics or presenting databases and data infrastructure. For more information, visit HERE.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
The Institute for the Study of Societal Issues is pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2020-2021 Graduate Fellows Program. We are currently seeking applications for the 2020-2021 academic year from doctoral students who are interested in substantive issues related to contemporary processes of social change in U.S. cities. The GFP is open to all UC Berkeley graduate students in good standing who have completed at least three years of graduate studies. The GFP is committed to diversity in graduate education and the academy more broadly. Students from groups historically underrepresented in higher education (such as African American, Native American and Latinx/Chicana/o) are especially encouraged to apply. In an expansion of the Graduate Fellows Program, the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues will provide funding for one or more UC Berkeley doctoral students who have completed at least three years of graduate studies and whose research concerns issues confronting Native Americans in the United States today. To read more about this program and to download an application, click here. All Fellows participate in a weekly training seminar and receive a modest stipend. (Due to budget cuts from the Chancellor’s Office, funding for stipends has been reduced. We are currently fundraising and will announce the stipend amount when the new Fellows are accepted.) An application workshop will be held Friday, March 13, from 12:00-1:00p.m in the Duster Conference Room, 2420 Bowditch Street. Attendance at the workshop is encouraged but not required. Applications are due at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, 2420 Bowditch Street, Berkeley, CA 94720-5670 before 5PM on Monday, March 30. For questions or additional information about the Graduate Fellows Program please contact Dr. David Minkus: minkus@berkeley.edu, 643-7539.
DATA
UCNets, the UC Berkeley Social Networks Study (R01 AG041955, Claude Fischer PI) consists of three waves of data collection from 2015-2018 of six San Francisco Bay Area counties, two age cohorts – 21-30 years old, and 50-70 years old – and is now available by request. We are in the process of making it available on NACDA/ICPSR, which will happen later this spring. Please write to Leora Lawton, llawton@berkeley.edu for more information. In addition, please visit the project website, ucnets.berkeley.edu.
SSRS Weekly Telephone Omnibus Survey. [LL: An omnibus survey allows interested parties to purchase questions on a nationally representative survey, and receive the data set with those questions and other standard demographic and SES items, usually at a cost of about $500-$1000/question – I don’t know how much SSRS is charging, but the price is likely to be much more affordable than conducting the survey yourself.] Some time on the survey has become available over the next few weeks If you have a question or set of questions you would like to administer to a general population sample (1,000 respondents, English and Spanish, Dual Frame RDD, 70% cell phone), please contact Jordon Peugh (jpeugh@ssrs.com) who will give you more information and provide pricing (15% discount to encourage use over the next 6 weeks). More information about the SSRS Omnibus is here: https://ssrs.com/ssrs-omnibus-
D-LAB
Tom Piazza is giving a workshop on sample weights Feb 27, 11-1 pm. Register here: https://dlab.berkeley.edu/
RELATED LISTS
JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.
MIGRATION MAILING LIST
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI.berkeley.edu) is a research center for the study of immigrants and immigration. BIMI has a mailing list which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and only some of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News. Sign up for it with this link
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MAILING LIST
Tue$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.