Weekly News – February 5, 2017 - Population Sciences

EVENTS
Wednesday, February 7, 12-1:10 PM. “Can Subsidized Early Child Care Promote Women’s Employment? Evidence from a Slum Settlement in Africa.” Shelley Clark, McGill University/Stanford. | 2232 Piedmont, Demography Seminar Room. Coffee tea and cookies are served. [Contact Monique@demog.berkeley.edu for more information about Dr. Alsan, the draft paper and her CV.]
Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.

Monday, February 5, 2-3:30 PM. “The Great Experiment and the Great Reckoning: Decarceration and the Legal Reform of Mass Incarceration” with Anjuli Verma, Chancellors Postdoctoral Scholar, Jurisprudence and Social Policy. 402 Barrows Hall.

Monday, February 5, 2018 • 12:00pm–1:30pm GSPP Policy Research Seminar: Multi-generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net. 105 GSPP.

February 7 | 3:30-5 p.m. i4Y Child Marriage and Youth Empowerment Group Speaker Series: “Harnessing the power of social norms for improving global health. A case study from West Africa.” Ben Cislaghi, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | 401 University Hall

Friday, February 9 | 12-1 p.m. Labor Lunch Seminar: “Employment Adjustment around Childbirth” Barbara Pertold-Gebicka; Filip Pertold. | 648 Evans Hall

SAVE THE DATE

March 16, 2018 12:00-1:30. Anne Case (Princeton University) will present research on “Morbidity and Mortality in Working Class America.” This is part of research, joint with Angus Deaton (Princeton), documenting and exploring falling mortality for middle aged Americans – deaths of despair. Location: GSPP, Room 250. 1893 Le Roy St, UC Berkeley.

February 13th from 12pm-1pm in 401 University Hall. Grant Writing Workshop: Specific Aims. presented by Erica Whitney, Associate Director of Strategy and Training, at the Berkeley Research Development Office (VCRO). The presentation will focus on tips for writing a successful Specific Aims section with examples of how to address different points and messages. We will have ample time for discussions and Q&A.

CALL FOR ABSRACTS/PAPERS
Fannie Mae and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) Symposium – a symposium that examines the evolving relationship between housing tenure choice, financial security, and residential stability. We invite article-length research papers on topics including wealth, foreclosures, tenure choice, financing, taxes, innovation, socioeconomics, and aging. Authors should submit a two-page abstract of their proposed paper to jchs@harvard.edu by April 13, 2018. The symposium will be held at Harvard in Spring 2019 with presented papers subject to a peer review process for inclusion in a special issue of Cityscape. For more information, visit http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/call-papers-symposium-housing-tenure-and-financial-security.

CONFERENCES
2018 NCFR Annual Conference Proposal System Now Open. Proposals Due March 1, 2018 — 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. Preparation for NCFR’s 2018 Annual Conference is underway! You are now able to submit a conference proposal. Oxford Abstracts, the online submission database for NCFR conference proposals, has been redesigned to improve your submission experience. Please read through our detailed instructions for a thorough understanding of these changes. The call for proposals (PDF) for the 2018 conference — themed “Families and Cultural Intersections in a Global Context: Innovations in Research, Practice, and Policies,” — includes details on conference presentation formats, criteria, topics, and more. The 2018 conference will be held at the San Diego Town and Country Resort & Convention Center from Nov. 7–10.

Aging Workforce: Older Workers and Immigrants as New Pillars of Western Economies? March 1 − 2, 2018, Česká spořitelna Palace, Prague (Rytirska 29, Prague 1). Preliminary conference program available here. Working language of the conference is English. Please register here (until Feb 15). The participation fee is 130 EUR.

Adolescent Health And Emerging Adulthood Research Symposium – Call for Abstracts. The UC Berkeley Center of Excellence in Maternal Child Health and UCSF Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Training Project invite researchers, students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty to present the very latest findings of their work in adolescent health and emerging adulthood at the upcoming 2018 Interdisciplinary Research Symposium. All disciplines are invited to submit an abstract for consideration for an oral presentation (15 minutes) or poster presentation. Any area of research related to adolescent health and emerging adulthood will be considered, including but not limited to: social determinants of health, applications of life course theory, environmental health, human development, education, youth with special health care needs, mental health, nutrition, social justice, health equity, and underserved populations. We highly encourage graduates students and postdoctoral researchers to attend, as this is an excellent opportunity to present your research and to interact with MCAH researchers and practitioners from around the Bay Area to discuss your research on an informal basis. This event is free and open to the public. Abstract requirements: For consideration, please submit an abstract of 250 words or less online by 5 pm on February 26th, 2018. Submit: http://bit.ly/2nvjpuA. Notification of Acceptance: Accepted poster authors & speakers will be notified via email by March 5th, 2018 and must then pre-register for the Symposium. Symposium details: Monday April 2nd, 2018, 9:00-1:00 PM. UC Berkeley Alumni House

ANNOUNCEMENTS
“Common Rule Implementation Delayed Six Months; Further Delays Likely” Posted on January 23, 2018 by COSSA. The 16 U.S. federal agencies subject to the Common Rule, the set of regulations governing research involving human subjects, announced a six-month delay on the implementation of revisions originally announced in January 2017 (see COSSA’s analysis of the changes). The delay was announced as an Interim Final Rule in a Federal Register notice published on January 17, 2018, two days before the changes were scheduled to go into effect. According to the notice, federal agencies subject to the Common Rule are “in the process of developing a proposed rule to further delay implementation of the 2018 requirements,” and the six-month delay will allow for a full notice and comment period on this proposal. Details on what this second delay would entail—including whether the agencies are considering more substantive changes to the revisions—are not provided. A statement issued by the Department of Health and Human Services suggests a possible proposed implementation date ofJanuary 21, 2019, but this could change. As the regulations currently stand, the new implementation date is July 19, 2018.

DATA AND SOFTWARE
ANNOUNCING IPUMS MEPS: We are pleased to announce the release of IPUMS MEPS. IPUMS MEPS is an NICHD-funded project designed to make Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component data easier for researchers to use. MEPS is an ongoing panel survey with information on health status, medical conditions, healthcare utilization, and healthcare expenditures for the U.S. civilian, non-institutionalized population. It began in 1996 and is collected by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The initial, beta release of IPUMS MEPS includes over 1,000 annual summary variables from the 1996-2014 MEPS Full Year Consolidated files. Visit http://meps.ipums.org to get started. Use it for good!

GRADUATE STUDENTS

The American Sociological Association – Section on Population – Student Paper Award goes to author(s) of the best scholarly paper in social demography. This award consists of a certificate and support for travel expenses to attend the 2018 ASA meeting. The following are the submission criteria: The paper can be published or unpublished; a published paper should be submitted as a PDF . A published paper should be submitted without any identifying information. The paper can be sole-authored or have multiple student authors; no faculty co-authors are allowed. All authors must be currently enrolled in graduate school or have completed their Ph.D. degrees on or after January 1, 2017. Papers should be article-length (approximately 40 pages including tables and figures), concise and focused. This is not a dissertation award competition. The paper must use a sociological perspective to address an issue of relevance to contemporary demography, broadly defined. Purely technical papers are not eligible. The paper need not be on the ASA program. Membership in the Population Section of the ASA is not a requirement for the award, but is encouraged. Submissions must be blinded. That means the cover page of the paper should include a title and an abstract, but should have no other identifying information, such as name, university affiliation, address, or acknowledgements. A separate cover page containing the author’s name, affiliation, address, and other identifying information should be included. The paper should be submitted to the committee members via email by February 23, 2017. Nominations can also be submitted through SocArXiv, by uploading the paper to the archive and sending an email with the link to the award committee chair. For instructions, see this tutorial: http://bit.ly/2y7hHn3. You only need to follow Step 1, “Sharing your paper,” to generate the link for submitting a nomination. If a paper submitted to SocArXiv wins a section award, notify socarxiv@gmail.com and SocArXiv will give the authors $250.

Career Advice: Phil Wolgin is a Berkeley PhD (History) who wrote his dissertation on post-WWII immigration policy in the United States. He now is the immigration expert at the Center for American Progress, a think tank/ advocacy group in DC. Below, his new guide, for academics, on how to get a non-academic job. It’s “An Academic’s Guide to Getting a Non-Academic Job“ on Medium. He hopes this guide will be helpful both for those looking for non-academic jobs, as well as those who are advising graduate students who are looking beyond the academy.

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.

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.