Weekly News – March 19, 2018 - Population Sciences

EVENTS

Wednesday March 21, 12-1:10 PM. Demography Brown Bag: Brandon Stewart (Princeton University) will present, “How to make causal inferences using texts.” 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room. Cookies and refreshments served.
A selection of Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.

Monday, March 19, 2-3:30 PM. Sociology Colloquium. David Harding, “”Prisoner Reintegration in the Era of Mass Incarceration,” 402 Barrows Hall.

Monday, March 19, 12-1 PM. GSPP Policy Research Seminar: The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics. 105 GSPP.

Tuesday, March 20th, 3:30 – 4:30 Presentation, 4:30-5 Reception. “Why Walls Won’t Work – detailing the history and current state of the US-Mexico borderlands, and the dynamic third nation that connects the two nations.” Professor Michael Dear. CLPR, 2547 Channing Way

EVENTS

Monday, March 19, 2-3:30 PM. Sociology Colloquium. David Harding, “”Prisoner Reintegration in the Era of Mass Incarceration,” 402 Barrows Hall.

Monday, March 19, 12-1 PM. GSPP Policy Research Seminar: The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics. 105 GSPP.

Tuesday, March 20 | 12-1 p.m. “Healthy or Sick? Co-Evolution of Health Care and Public Health in a Comparative Perspective.” With Philipp Trein, University of Lausanne. | 201 Moses Hall. Abstract.

Tuesday, March 20, 4:10–5:00 PM (Arrive at 3:30pm for light refreshments and discussion prior to the formal presentation: Rescheduled from March 13). “Modeling and Planning Urban Systems with Novel Data Sources” with Marta Gonzalez, Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley. 190 Doe Library, UC Berkeley

Wednesday, March 21 | 3:30-5 p.m The Food of our Food: Medicated Feed and the Industrialization of Metabolism. Hannah Landecker, University of California Los Angeles. 575 McCone Hall.

Thursday, March 22 | 4-5 p.m. “Interactive systems for code and data demography” Elena Glassman, Postdoctoral Scholar, EECS; UC Berkeley. 306 Soda Hall – HP Auditorium. Abstract.

SAVE THE DATE
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.

Tuesday, May 22, 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM. Work-Life, Health, and Economic Trajectories of an Aging Workforce: A Longitudinal Research Data Workshop”, co-sponsored by CEDA and taking place on the Berkeley campus. Registration is now open for the one-day Data Research Workshop highlighting a longitudinal workforce health and environmental dataset of a large aluminum manufacturing company and its use in studies of occupational health, employment, aging and mortality, and policy impacts. To register: https://work-life-health-workshop.eventbrite.com. See attached documents for more information.

FUNDING
U.S. Tobacco Control Policies to Reduce Health Disparities Funding Opportunity Announcement: To support observational or intervention research focused on reducing health disparities in tobacco use in the United States. Specifically, this FOA is intended to stimulate scientific inquiry focused on innovative tobacco control policies. Applicants may propose projects in which the primary outcome of interest is on reducing tobacco use health disparities in vulnerable populations by utilizing tobacco prevention and control strategies. The long-term goal of this FOA is to reduce health disparities in health outcomes thereby reducing the excess disease burden of tobacco use within these groups. Applicants submitting applications related to health economics are encouraged to consult NOT-OD-16-025 to ensure that applications align with NIH mission priorities in health economics research.
1. U.S. Tobacco Control Policies to Reduce Health Disparities (R21 Clinical Trial Optional). (PAR-18-674) National Cancer Institute.
2. U.S. Tobacco Control Policies to Reduce Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional). (PAR-18-675). National Cancer Institute.
For more information, see https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/sm-18-010.

WORKSHOPS
Butler-Williams Scholar Program: The application deadline for the NIA Butler-Williams Scholars Program is March 23rd. This week-long program is a great opportunity for new and early stage investigators interested pursuing careers in aging research. The application is attached. Please refer to this blog post from Carl Hill, Director of NIA’s Office of Special Populations, for more information: https://www.nia.nih.gov/research/blog/2018/02/adventure-and-opportunity-ahead-apply-2018-butler-williams-scholars-program.

Google Summer Workshop on Coding. If students are thinking of a coding project (go R!), perhaps they should consider Google Summer of Code 2018. Deadline to apply is approaching (March 27).
https://www.r-bloggers.com/google-summer-of-code-2018/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RBloggers+%28R+bloggers%29.

WEBINAR
Friday, March 23 | 12-1 p.m. “Shortages in primary care and nursing. What’s the evidence, and what are the solutions?” with Joanne Spetz, Professor at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, Department of Family and Community Medicine, and School of Nursing at UCSF. Enroll online.

CALL FOR PAPERS
US 2050 is issuing a new, second call for papers to expand upon and complement the areas of focus in paper submissions already received through our November 2017 call for papers. In this March call for papers, we have defined additional questions and topics as outlined below. Economists, political scientists, sociologists, demographers and other scholars are invited to submit proposals for US 2050. Deadline April 2, 2018. For more information, visit here.

Symposium on Housing Tenure and Financial Security. To be held at Harvard University, in Spring 2019. Fannie Mae and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) are together organizing a symposium that examines the evolving relationship between tenure choice, financial security, and residential stability. Due April 13. For more information, visit: http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/call-papers-symposium-housing-tenure-and-financial-security.

DATA

ANNOUNCING IPUMS PMA. IPUMS PMA is now live! This project is a harmonized version of the international survey series Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020), which was designed to measure progress towards Family Planning 2020 goals. The initial, beta release of IPUMS PMA includes over 900 variables about women of childbearing age and their households collected in 10 countries in Africa and Asia. Later this year, IPUMS PMA will add data collected from family planning service providers and health facilities in the areas where the surveyed women of childbearing age live.

GLOBAL HEALTH: DHS AND PMA. You might have noticed that ipums.org has a different look. Because IPUMS DHS and IPUMS PMA cover similar topic areas, we have grouped them together under IPUMS Global Health on the main ipums.org page. You can still navigate directly to IPUMS DHS at the same web address as before.

CPS
1. The Agricultural Workers supplement is now available via IPUMS CPS. These data, available between 1977 and 1987, contain information about earnings from farm work, frequency of farm work, and location of farm work for individuals who did farm work during the past year.
2. WTSUPP, the variable previously used for weighting analyses including data from topical supplements to the CPS, is no longer available. We have separated WTSUPP into supplement-specific variables to clarify which weight should be used for analyses that include variables from specific supplements. Detailed information about how old and new variable names map onto one another is available. Please note that if you are revising your extract, you will need to add a supplement-specific weight to your data file since WTSUPP is no longer available.

TIME USE

ATUS Eating and Health Module data from 2016, including variables that measure exercise frequency, shopping and meal preparation, along with secondary eating on the diary day, are now available via IPUMS Time Use.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Innovating Solutions for Aging Populations primarily for master students. This program brings together ambitious students from all over the world and offer cross-cultural learning and global networking. Registration Deadline: 1 April 2018. There is a Scholarship option. UCPH offers scholarships to selected IARU students – also for short stays as our summer schools. The scholarship will typically amount to approximately EURO 1200 a month. We hope that this unique opportunity could lead to more mobility between our institutions, so we strongly encourage your students to apply! If you have any questions related to our summer schools or the scholarship program, please contact Academic Officers Nynne Reeckmann: nynne.reeckmann@sund.ku.dk or Pia Nygaard: pia.nygaard@sund.ku.dk

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.