EVENTS

No demography brown bag this week.   Monday, March 6, 12-2 p.m. “Migration, Commuting and Local Joblessness” with Alan Manning, LSE | IRLE, 2521 Channing Way.
Monday, March 6, 2017 • 12:00pm–1:30pm. “The Invisible Helping Hand: Neoliberalism, Public Choice Economics, and Prison Conditions” with Hadar Aviram, UC Hastings College of the Law. GSPP 105
Monday, March 6, 2017, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Doathon Kick-off. The Docathon is a week-long mini-sprint to improve the state of documentation in the open science community. It consists of a half day of tutorials and talks to help you start off on the right foot. BIDS, 190 Doe Library. Learn more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bids-docathon-kickoff-tickets-32302896834?aff=mcivte. 

EVENTS

No demography brown bag this week. 

Monday, March 6, 12-2 p.m. “Migration, Commuting and Local Joblessness” with Alan Manning, LSE | IRLE, 2521 Channing Way.

Monday, March 6, 2017 • 12:00pm–1:30pm. “The Invisible Helping Hand: Neoliberalism, Public Choice Economics, and Prison Conditions” with Hadar Aviram, UC Hastings College of the Law. GSPP 105

Monday, March 6, 2017, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Doathon Kick-off. The Docathon is a week-long mini-sprint to improve the state of documentation in the open science community. It consists of a half day of tutorials and talks to help you start off on the right foot. BIDS, 190 Doe Library. Learn more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bids-docathon-kickoff-tickets-32302896834?aff=mcivte. 

Tuesday, March 7, 4-5:30 PM. Is ‘Decarceration’ Even a Word? The Legal Reform of Mass Incarceration in California with Anjuli Verma, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Jurisprudence and Social Policy. ISSI, 2538 Channing Way. 

Wednesday, March 8 12-1:30 p.m. “Intergenerational Income Mobility in Canada and the United States” Marie Connolly, Université du Québec à Montréal | 223 Moses Hall.

Wednesday, March 8, 12:10-1:15 p.m. “Race Matters in Schools: The Significance of School Racial Climate and Microaggressions for Adolescents and Emerging Adults” with Christy Byrd, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz, 5101 Tolman Hall.

Wednesday, March 8, 12:00 – 1:30 pm. “Intergenerational Income Mobility in Canada and the United States” with Marie Connolly, Université du Québec à Montréal, IRLE Visiting Scholar. 223 Moses Hall

Wednesday March 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m. “Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism: From Florence to Jerusalem and New York” Patrizia Guarnieri, Cultural and Social History, University of Florence, Italy. Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way).

Thursday, March 9, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. “Inside NIH” with Erica Whitney, Berkeley Research Development Office. 177 Stanley Hall. 

Thursday, March 9, 2-3:30 pm.  “The Roles of Nature and Nurture in Entrepreneurial Success” with Paul Oyer, Stanford Graduate School of Business. 648 Evans Hall.

Thursday, March 9, 2-3:30 p.m. Economic History: “The Vanishing Middle Class” with Peter Temin, MIT | Blum Hall, 330 East Building, Board Room

OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
March 9, 2017, 12-1:30 p.m. “Navigating Change in the Health Workforce”with Perri Anne Morgan, Duke University. She will be speaking about care outcomes for veterans with diabetes who are cared for by physicians, nurse practitioners, or physician assistants. UCSF Laurel Heights Campus, Suite 410.

CALL FOR PAPERS
International Society for Urban Health, 26-29 September 2017, Coimbra, Portugal. ICUH 2017 is the only global conference focused on advancing the health of people living in cities worldwide. Submit abstracts now to join an expert line-up of invited speakers to discuss urban health issues related to the following broad domain areas: Urban governance and equity-oriented policies; Understanding and addressing demographic, epidemiologic and societal changes in cities; Healthy urban planning, measurement and metrics, data and research; Environmental health and urban sustainability; Health care in cities – access, services and quality. Proposals are invited for: oral and poster presentations; panels; pre-conference workshops, and special tracks For further information and to submit abstracts visit: www.icuh2017.org. 

PRIEC, (Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium) May 12, 2017 at UC Santa Barbara. Proposals are due Monday, March 20. Please send a title and short abstract to Pei-te Lien plien AT polisci DOT ucsb DOT edu. Advanced graduate students should pay attention to this sweet nugget of information: for PRIEC at UC Santa Barbara, limited travel stipends may be available for advanced graduate students. 

FELLOWSHIPS
The Butler-Williams Scholars program. Are you a post-doc looking for training in aging research? Are you an established researcher who’s new to the area of aging research? Are you junior faculty interested in expanding your career options? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then you should apply for the 2017 NIA Butler-Williams Scholars Program. This year’s week-long program will take place from July 31 through August 4 on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The B-W Scholars Program is sponsored by NIA with support from the Wake Forest University Health System and the John A. Hartford Foundation. The deadline for applications is March 24, 2017. For more information, visit HERE.

GRANTS
NICHD Research Education Programs (R25) (PAR-17-183), from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Due Date: May 25, 2017; May 25, 2018; May 25, 2019 This FOA encourages applications to develop and conduct short-term research education programs to improve the knowledge and research skills of biomedical and behavioral scientists conducting research in areas relevant to the mission of NICHD, including reproductive, developmental, behavioral, social, and rehabilitative processes that determine the health and well-being of newborns, infants, children, adults, families, and populations.

Congressional Research Grants. DEADLINE: All proposals must be received no later than April 1, 2017. The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress. Since 1978, the Congressional Research Grants program has invested more than $1,000,000 to support over 462 projects. Applications are accepted at any time, but the deadline is April 1 for the annual selections, which are announced in May. The Center has allocated up to $30,000 in 2017 for grants with individual awards capped at $3,500 The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible. The Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who reside in the United States. The grants program does not fund undergraduate or pre-Ph.D. study. Organizations are not eligible. Research teams of two or more individuals are eligible. Noinstitutional overhead or indirect costs may be claimed against a Congressional Research Grant. Download the Word document — Congressional Research Grant Application <http://dirksencenter.org/crg_app2017.doc> — and complete the required entries. You may send the application as a Word or pdf attachment to an e-mail directed to Frank Mackaman at fmackaman@dirksencenter.org . Please insert the following in the Subject Line: “CRG Application [insert your surname].” Thank you. The Congressional Research Grant Application contains the following elements: Applicant Information, Congressional Research Grant Project Description, Budget, Curriculum Vita, Reference Letter (reference Letter not to exceed one page—additional pages will not be forwarded to the judges), and Overhead Waiver Letter. The entire application when printed must NOT exceed ten pages. Applications may be single-spaced. Please use fonts no smaller than 10-point. This total does NOT include the reference letter (one additional page) or the Overhead Waiver Letter (one additional page). All application materials must be received on or before April 1 of the current year. Grants will be announced in May. Complete information about what kinds of research projects are eligible for consideration, what could a Congressional Research Grant pay for, application procedures, and how recipients are selected may be found at The Center’s Website: http://dirksencenter.org/print_programs_crgs.htm . PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY. Frank Mackaman is the program officer – fmackaman@dirksencenter.org .

GRADUATE STUDENTS
IRLE Dissertation Fellowship. The IRLE Dissertation Fellowship provides funding for doctoral students writing dissertations relating to labor and employment. The fellowship provides a stipend of $16,000 and in-state tuition and fees for the 2017-18 academic year. Recipients must be conducting research related to IRLE’s mission and commit to engaging with IRLE’s activities during the academic year (see irle.berkeley.edu for more about IRLE’s mission and programs). IRLE seeks to promote an interdisciplinary research culture focused on improving the lives of working people, and awards fellowships in a wide range of disciplines.  Deadline: March 24, 2017. PDF flyer | Link for Details.

DATA
Alaska PFD*-based migration by age, sex, and borough/census area (county-equivalent):
http://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/pop/migration/PFDMigrationByAgeBySexBCA.xls (three tabs)
http://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/pop/estimates/data/PFDMigMethods.pdf
http://labor.alaska.gov/news/2017/news17-10.pdf
Alaska migration data and information website: http://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/pop/migration.cfm
Many thanks especially to Eric Sandberg in our office, and also to David Howell (soon to be back in Alaska, developed earlier iterations for use in population projections), for development and production of these data! There are of course very few migration by age and sex data resources, and these data consistently cover 29 diverse Alaska areas (plus statewide), and for three periods of time, so I think are such a terrific new element for migration research and modeling.

D-LAB
Upcoming workshops include Data Organization in STATA, Machine learning in R, and so much more. On March 7, from 11-1, Dr. Tom Piazza will be teaching a class on weighting. Sign up for these and other workshops at Dlab. Dlab sponsors workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. For more information and registration, visit http://dlab.berkeley.edu. 

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.