EVENTS
Wednesday November 7, 12-1:15 p.m. “Ethnic Neighborhood Segregation and Residential Mobility Dynamics in Norway, 1993–2013” Torkild Lyngstad, Professor, Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. 2232 Piedmont Ave. Cookies and refreshments served.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
Monday November 5 | 2-3:30 p.m. “Taxation and Labor Force Participation: The EITC Reconsidered” Henrik Kleven, Princeton. | 648 Evans Hall
EVENTS
Wednesday November 7, 12-1:15 p.m. “Ethnic Neighborhood Segregation and Residential Mobility Dynamics in Norway, 1993–2013” Torkild Lyngstad, Professor, Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. 2232 Piedmont Ave. Cookies and refreshments served.
To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/
For the fall 2018 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/
Monday November 5 | 2-3:30 p.m. “Taxation and Labor Force Participation: The EITC Reconsidered” Henrik Kleven, Princeton. | 648 Evans Hall
Wednesday, November 7, from 12:00 – 1:30 pm. “Demographic Dividend or Disaster? Population, Food Security and Stability in the Sahel” Please join the Bixby Center, the Goldman School for Public Policy, and Population Institute for short presentations followed by discussion with Prof. Malcolm Potts, Bob Walker of Population Institute, and Alisha Graves of the OASIS Initiative. The talk will be held on in room 5101 of Berkeley Way West. Refreshments provided.
November 9, 2018 — 4:10 PM. “Shaping a 21st Century Workforce – Is AI Friend or Foe?” Jennifer Granholm. International House, Chevron Auditorium
SAVE THE DATE
Thursday, November 15, 2018 • 3:30pm–5:30 pm. GSPP Critical Theory Speaker Series: “Human Trafficking” with Cecilia Mo. GSPP 250. To learn more and rsvp, https://gspp.berkeley.edu/
Wednesday, November 14 | 4:00 pm. “Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison,” with Bruce Western. IRLE: 2521 Channing Way. To learn more and register, visit here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
November 29th, 2018: Mini-Conference on Inequality in Life and Death. A half-day mini-conference, exploring social, economic, and policy dimensions of Inequality in Life and Death, featuring a keynote by Peter Orszag, and presentations from UC Berkeley faculty in Economics, Demography and Public Policy. Co-sponsored by CEDA together with the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), and the UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab (O-Lab). Registration is free. To learn more and register, visit https://inequality-policy.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The NIH and NSF want to clarify rules around disclosure of financial support. It’s fine to apply for and/or hold more than one grant at the same time, but when you get awarded the grant, you must declare in the Other Support document all the grants and contracts you receive, even if you receive no additional salary for it. They just want to make sure you aren’t getting paid twice for the same work. Here’s the NIH statement about Other Support.
FUNDING
The Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) program is accepting proposals from developing country researchers interested in collaborating with counterparts who are funded by selected U.S. Government-supported agencies. PEER is an international awards program that brings developing country scientists and engineers together with researchers funded by U.S. federal science agencies to address global development challenges. Through catalyzing collaborative research and strategic partnerships and leveraging existing U.S. investments in research, PEER is designed to elevate the use of science and technology in addressing local and global development challenges in USAID-presence countries. To help applicants understand the eligibility guidelines and the application process, PEER program staff will be holding an optional one-hour webinar on Wednesday, November 14, 2018, beginning at 10:30 AM (U.S. East Coast time). If you are interested in participating in the free webinar, you must register in advance on the WebEx website, and you will receive another link by e-mail so you can log into the webinar on November 14. The pre-proposal deadline is January 14, 2019. For much more information, visit the PEER website: http://sites.
CONFERENCE
22nd Annual American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences (AABSS) sponsored by the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) College of Liberal Arts, on February 25 – 26, 2019. The deadline for submitting a proposal is November 7th. All proposals will undergo juried review on a rolling basis, with prompt notifications of acceptance/rejection so that presenters can make early and economical travel arrangements.To be held at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada with a special conference room rate of $64 per night (plus tax & fees). All presented papers are eligible for submission to the Journal of Behavioral and Social Sciences (www.jbssjournal.org) and all submitted papers will be peer-reviewed for potential publication. Visit the website for details at www.AABSS.net.
American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, August 2019. The submission site for the 2019 Annual Meeting is now open. The submission deadline is January 9, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern). Please review the Call for Submissionsweb page for important information including instructions and policies. All submissions for the 2019 program must be made via the online submission system. The online forms will guide you through the steps required to submit your proposal. In addition to paper and section submissions, proposals are being accepted for Courses, Workshops, Preconferences, theSociology in Practice Settings Symposium, and the Teaching and Learning in Sociology Symposium
Health, Morbidity and Mortality in Europe — and Beyond, September 4 – 6 2019, Medizinische Hochschule, Hanover, Germany. On behalf of the European Association for Population Studies Working Group on Health, Morbidity and Mortality; ISA RC41 (Sociology of Population) and the local organising committee in Hanover, we are pleased to announce a workshop on “Health, Morbidity and Mortality in Europe – and Beyond”, to be held Wednesday, 4th September – Friday, 6th September 2019, at the Medical Sociology Unit, Hanover Medical School. As in previous EAPS workshops, there will be no registration fee, but participants will need to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. We anticipate that the workshop will have about 20 oral presenters, as well as posters, giving each participant ample time to present his/her work and have it discussed by the whole group. Researchers interested in presenting their work are invited to contact Jon Anson at anson@bgu.ac.il with an abstract or preliminary conceptualisation by 15th March 2019. Responses and tentative programme by the middle of April, 2019. For more information, visit:https://www.eaps.nl/news/
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Health Data for Action: Leveraging Health Data for Actionable Insights (Data Access Award) 2018 Call for Proposals. Release Date: October 30, 2018 | Application Deadline: December 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m. ET Purpose. The Health Data for Action: Leveraging Health Data for Actionable Insights (Data Access Award) (HD4A) program will support innovative research that uses the available data to answer important research questions. Applicants under this Call for Proposals (CFP) will write a proposal for a research study using data from one of the following four data providers: theHealth Care Cost Institute (HCCI), OptumLabs, CareJourney, or athenahealth. The proposed studies should enable relevant, innovative, and actionable research that uses the available data to answer important, policy-relevant questions. Successful applicants will receive access to these data, which are described in greater detail in the CFP.
Eligibility and Selection Criteria
Researchers, as well as practitioners in the public and private sector working with researchers, are eligible to submit proposals through their organizations. See data provider descriptions in the CFP for specific eligibility criteria.
Projects may be generated from disciplines including health services research; economics; sociology; program evaluation; political science; public policy; public health; public administration; law; business administration; or other related fields. Use of the data under this CFP is restricted to noncommercial purposes.
Preference will be given to applicants that are either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not private foundations or Type III supporting organizations. The Foundation may require additional documentation. Applicant organizations must be based in the United States or its territories.
WEBINARS
Intro to IPUMS NHGIS: U.S. Geographic Census Data from 1790 to the Present: The IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System provides free online access to summary tables and GIS mapping files for U.S. censuses and surveys going back to 1790. In addition to historical county and state data, NHGIS provides more recent data for all levels of census geography down to tracts and blocks. This webinar will familiarize participants with the breadth and depth of NHGIS resources and demonstrate how to use the NHGIS Data Finder to explore what’s available and to download customized data extracts. The webinar will be held on November 9, 2018, from 11 a.m. – noon, Central Standard Time.Registration is required and is capped at 100 participants. Like all IPUMS data, the webinar is free of charge!
ON THE WEB
A new Census report on the older population, The Population 65 Years and Older in the United Stateshttps://www.census.gov/
DATA
IPUMS PMA has released 41 samples for a new unit of analysis: the facility. The service delivery point data include information from health facilities (such as hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies) regarding facility characteristics, family planning services, and other health services offered. Facility data can be used in combination with the household and female files to describe the service delivery environment each woman of childbearing age experiences.
IPUMS PMA has also added new household and female data from Cote d’Ivoire, plus the latest samples from Ethiopia, India, Niger, Nigeria, and Uganda. More than 700 variables have been updated with these new samples, and more than 100 new integrated variables have been added. New topics include breastfeeding and pregnancy termination.
DHS Coming soon: new data from IPUMS DHS, with new samples from Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Lesotho, Myanmar, Namibia, and Senegal, bringing the total to 35 countries and 141 samples.
D-LAB
D-Lab offers training in Data Science this fall for students as well as pedagogical training for instructors. Visit the D-lab website for more information. 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.
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.