Weekly News - November 4, 2019 - Population Sciences

EVENTS
Wednesday, November 6 | 12-1 p.m Demography Brown Bag: “Inequality and Health across the Life Course: Gradual Change or Punctuated Equilibrium” with Michal Engelman, Wisconsin. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room. Refreshments and cookies served.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Tuesday, November 4 | 4-5:30 p.m. “Winners and Losers?: The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomes” with Jesse Rothstein. Berkeley Way West, Room 1102

Tuesday, November 5, 11:30-1:00 PM. Jack Colford. “WASH Benefits: Large-scale RCTs to evaluate the health impacts of water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition interventions for young children in Bangladesh and Kenya” 5101 Berkeley Way West.

View past talks on our Population Sciences channel. The Brown Bag talks have been organized into playlists: http://bit.ly/2kZvaME.

Tuesday, November 5 I 4:00-5:30pm. Beth Redbird, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, Northwestern University, “What Drives Native American Poverty?” Shorb House, 2547 Channing Way.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 1 – 2 p.m. “Cities and the Structure of Social Interactions Evidence from Mobile Phone Data” Maximilian von Ehrlich, University of Bern. Evans Hall, room 648.

Thursday, November 7 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm. Book Talk – On the Outside: Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration, David J. Harding. Social Welfare Library, 227 Haviland Hall #6000.

Friday November 08, 2019, 1:10pm – 2:30pm. “Farmers to Entrepreneurs” with Giacomo Di Giorgi – Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, 150 University Hall.

SAVE THE DATE
November 19, 2019, 9 AM – 1 PM: Institute of European Studies is hosting an event together with the European Commission informing about their Horizon 2020 program, the European Union’s research and innovation funding program and the world’s largest multinational R&I program. Fellowships and grants are open to researchers of all nationalities and disciplines with a budget of over €13 Billion for the period 2014 – 2020. This multi panel event will inform on various opportunities and programs and how to apply for them. Location: 470 Stephens Hall. You can find the detailed listing here.

FUNDING
NIA P01 (Project) Grants: NIA has shortened the time and hurdles of review, increased the annual award to $2 million in direct, and has 3 times per year for submitting applications. Plus they have more generous funding than do other agencies in NIH. PO1 grants are a bundle of several research projects that stand on their own, but develop synergy with each other. They are complex grants to develop but can have a huge payoff. Read more at the BLOG post.

Research Infrastructure Development for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R33 and R21/R33): Notice of Intent to Publish the Reissuance of PAR-18-644 and PAR-18-645. (NOT-AG-20-004).

IRP (Institute for Research on Poverty) Extramural Small Research Grants: Youth Employment – 2020 Call For Applications – Due 11/15/2019. IRP seeks to support research that informs policies and programs that aim to understand and improve employment outcomes for youths from low-income families and opportunity youth. There is particular interest in the role of human services programs administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Watch Brief Webinar about Call | Learn More | Download RFP (PDF).

OPPORTUNITIES
The DHS Program is now accepting applications for the 2020 DHS Fellows Program for university faculty in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Jordan, Maldives, Pakistan, Philippines, Tajikistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Guinea, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, and Zambia. Learn and apply today… Deadline for applications is November 24.

CONFERENCES
Call for Papers: 17th Annual Migration Meeting. The IZA Institute of Labor Economics is looking for papers for its 17th annual migration meeting that will take place between May 22-23, 2020. They are specifically asking for papers centered around the topics of the economic aspects of migration, i.e. the economic drivers and impact of refugee migration, etc. If your paper is selected you may also be expected to be a discussant at the meeting. |Conference: May 22-23, 2020| Paper Deadline: February 1, 2020| More Information.

The 7th Annual International Conference on Demography and Population Studies, 15-18 June 2020, Athens, Greece is calling for submissions. (Academics Responsible: Dr. Barbara Zagaglia, Assistant Professor, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy & Dr. Chris Sakellariou, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). You are more than welcome to submit a proposal for presentation. The abstract submission deadline is 11 November 2019. If you need more information, contact Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos (atiner@athens-symposiums.com) President, ATINER, Honorary Professor, University of Stirling, UK, Professor, MLC Management & Law College of Ljubljana, Slovenia, so that you can receive the link to the website, and abstract submission form.

WORKSHOPS
Science of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) for Social Scientist program on April 14, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, hosted by USC and RCMAR. This program is open to social scientists, at any level interested in pursuing or expanding their research agenda in the field of ADRD. Space is limited. Interested participants should submit their application here: https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/science-of-adrd-for-social-scientists-online-registration-form/.

AWARDS
Population Association of America – 2020 Awards Nominations Open.
Please consider nominating a colleague or encouraging a student to apply for a PAA Award. The following four awards will be presented at the 2020 PAA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. See each for individual nomination criteria and how to nominate. Deadline is January 31, 2020.
* Dorothy S. Thomas Award – presented annually for the best graduate student paper on the interrelationships among social, economic and demographic variables.
* Early Achievement Award – given biennially to scholars who have made distinguished contributions to population research during the first ten years after receipt of their Ph.D.
* Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement – honors outstanding scholarly achievements of a population professional who attained their highest professional degree within the previous 10-20 years.
* Mindel C. Sheps Award – given biennially for outstanding contributions to mathematical demography or demographic methodology.
More information about the awards and eligibility criteria is available at this link ( http://www.populationassociation.org/sidebar/annual-meeting/awards/?utm_source=informz&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=informz).

DATA
The first European Social Survey data collected in Round 9 is now available on the ESS website. Survey data collected in this round includes two rotating modules: on the timing of life events (repeated from Round 3, 2006/07) and a new module on justice and fairness, in the context of respondents’ income. In addition the Core Questionnaire includes over 150 survey items. It also includes regular questions on: media and social trust, politics, subjective well-being, social exclusion, religion, national and ethnic identity, the human values scale and a wide range of socio-demographic measures. Data is available to download in SAS, SPSS and STATA formats from the following countries. Additionally, the data is available to view or download through our Online Analysis Tool. The data is freely available following a short registration. The following countries are included: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Kingdom. A second release will follow in late spring next year.

Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) is an NSF-funded initiative. Investigators propose survey experiments to be fielded using a nationally representative Internet platform via NORC’s AmeriSpeak® Panel. TESS studies so far always involved adults. We are excited to announce here a Special Opportunity for researchers to propose survey experiments to be conducted with a sample of adolescent participants, ages 13 to 17. This Special Opportunity is different from usual TESS competitions in that its viability is contingent on our receiving multiple successful proposals that can be fielded together on a single survey. We do not expect that to be a problem, but some of the constraints below are due to the need to field experiments as a set. We anticipate that we will field three projects together as one set via this opportunity. In terms of specifics: The sample will be drawn from US teens aged 13-17 in AmeriSpeak households. The sample must be general population (no sub-sampling or screening), since the sample will be shared by multiple investigators. A proposal can anticipate analysis on a subsample of the overall sample, but the experiment itself will be fielded on the full sample and the size of any subsample will be accordingly reduced. The sample size will be 800 respondents. Respondents can propose a study of up to 15 items, with guidelines for length included on the TESS website. Accepted proposals will be fielded with other studies in a randomized order. Information about this randomization and the content of the other experiments will be provided to investigators so that they can test for spillover effects. Studies cannot include sensitive items (e.g., about sexual activity, mental health or anything illegal). Standard demographics that accompany all TESS data will be provided, with some exceptions. There is no marital or employment status variable, no party ID or ideology variable, and no measure of religion or attendance. Investigators can propose asking about these as part of their project. Parental education level is provided. Information on other AmeriSpeak profile surveys (health, public affairs, finance) is not available for teen respondents, and so applicants cannot request to append these items in their proposals. Data will be collected only via the Web and only in English. Parameters are otherwise the same for other TESS proposals, and the instructions and requirements for these are provided at http://www.tessexperiments.org. These details should be reviewed by anyone wishing to apply. We strongly suggest that before applying send a pre-submission inquiry to tess.experiments@gmail.com to ensure that the project is feasible. Also, as with all TESS proposals, investigators whose proposals are successful will subsequently need to obtain IRB approval from their home institutions before their experiment can be fielded. The deadline for proposals is January 15, 2020.

ON THE WEB
Podcast: The Rural Economy and Barriers to Work in Rural America, by Brian Thiede, IRP Affiliate

Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, Sociology, & Demography, Penn State University. There has been renewed interest in issues facing the U.S. rural economy in recent years. In this episode, Penn State sociologist and demographer Brian Thiede breaks down some of the key changes that have taken place in the rural labor market and discusses potential policy responses to barriers to work faced by rural Americans. Listen to Podcast | Read Transcript.

NGO Knowledge Collective (NKC) Data Portal has launched: ngoknowledgecollective.org. This website catalogues 3,400 journal articles on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in development published in English from 1980-2014. Users can identify individual or sets of articles by country or region of study or by searching more than 200 keywords related to sectors and development issues. Each article is tagged with the frequency of selected keywords in the text, allowing users to fine-tune their searches and analyze the prevalence of these keywords in relation to citation information. Each article entry in the data portal contains a link to the article permanent DOI location on the internet. We continue to add articles published from 2015 forward. The portal also includes a topic model visualizer, allowing users to identify literature using topics pre-generated through machine-learning, rather than just keywords. For example, the topic model visualizer allows users to identify articles from the early 1980s on NGOs providing small loans before the term “microcredit” entered the literature. The NKC works against the “silo” effect in the study of NGOs. The data portal builds on a four-year effort to collect and synthesize journal articles across social science disciplines, geographies, and methods. We hope that the NKC Data Portal will be the “first stop” in research on NGOs, making it easy for researchers to identify the full range of articles on topics of interest, as well as to identify unanswered questions. We invite you to use the data portal – let us know when you do, and we will add your published work to our bibliography. Help us further build the intellectual community studying NGOs in development. PIs of the NGO Knowledge Collective are Allison Schnable and Jennifer Brass (Indiana University), Rachel Sullivan Robinson (American University), and Wesley Longhofer (Emory University). Read the findings from our systematic review of the NGO Literature from 1980-2014 in World Development, or contact us at ngoknoweldge@gmail.com.

WEBINAR
Alzheimer’s and Caregiving in AI/AN Communities: A Public Health Approach. Thursday 11/7/19, 4 – 5 pm ET. The webinar will cover key points in the recently released CDC Healthy Brain Initiative, Road Map for Indian Country. There will also be a discussion of a public health approach to Alzheimer’s and caregiving issues and ways to mobilize communities’ existing strengths and partner to make a difference across generations. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/facing-alzheimers-in-aian-communities-a-public-health-approach-tickets-76985667203

D-LAB
Be sure to check their calendar by visiting the website, dlab.berkeley.edu. D-Lab offers training, individual consulting and data services for the UC Berkeley community – faculty to undergrads.

RELATED LISTS
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 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.