Weekly News - October 13, 2019 - Population Sciences

EVENTS
Wednesday, October 16 | 12-1 p.m. Demography Brown Bag: “600 Million and Counting: How Demographers Missed the Astonishing Population Reduction Caused by China’s Birth Planning Program” with Daniel Goodkind. A link to his Demography article, and responses to the article, can be found here: https://rd-springer-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/article/10.1007/s13524-017-0595-x. | 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.

Monday, October 14, 2019 • 12:10pm–1:30pm. “Administrative Burden: Policymaking By Any Other Means” With Pamela Herd, Professor (Georgetown, McCourt School). Goldman School of Public Policy, 2607 Hearst Avenue.

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

Tuesday, October 15 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. “Thermal thresholds increase the vulnerability of coastal Los Angeles to temperature-linked increases in West Nile virus transmission” Nicholas Skaff. | 5101 Berkeley Way West

Thursday, October 17 | 2-3:30 p.m. “Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development” Matthew Wiswall, UW-Madison| 648 Evans Hall

October 17th, 2019, 2:30-4:00pm, Greg Duncan, UC Irvine School of Education, “Child Poverty: Next Steps for Research and Policy” 2121 Berkeley Way West, #1102.

Friday, October 18, 12 – 1:30 PM. Brown Bag Presentation and Discussion: Is Home Gardening An Effective Entry Point For Reducing Vulnerability and Improving Household Welfare? With MDP student Guillaume, Hansen, Rebecca Gerny and supervisor Dr. Robin Marsh. A Population Health and Environment project. 311 Wellman Hall.

FUNDING
Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grants Competition. RSF expects to fund between 10-15 one-year projects by assistant and associate professors. The proposal deadline is on December 3, 2019, for funding starting in Summer 2020. The funded researchers will be invited to submit their findings at a conference at the Russell Sage Foundation the following year, with investigators, mentors, advisory committee members, and other experts in attendance. For more information, visit HERE.

Open Society Foundation: Soros Justice Fellowship. Due November 20th, 2019. The Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals to undertake projects that advance reform, spur debate, and catalyze change on a range of issues facing the U.S. criminal justice system. The fellowships are part of a larger effort within the Open Society Foundations to reduce the destructive impact of current criminal justice policies on the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the United States by challenging the overreliance on incarceration and extreme punishment, and ensuring a fair and accountable system of justice.

More information here.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Call For Papers: The Housing Affordability Crisis Housing Studies. The lack of affordable housing has profound implications for access to housing, tenure security, health and wellbeing, urban development and economic growth, in ways that have been measured and in other ways that are yet to be well-documented. While issues of affordability are common across housing markets, the policy responses can be quite different. At least in part, these differences reflect variation in housing systems, economic structures, welfare state arrangements, governmental configurations and political ideologies; but they also present opportunities for innovative responses that are less bounded by such institutional structures. This Special Issue explores the topic of affordability in housing markets in advanced economies. We focus on advanced economies because the nature and drivers of housing affordability problems, and the responses to them, are likely to be more comparable. (Deadline: 11/20/2019).

2nd IUSSP Population, Poverty and Inequality. Research Conference. Paris, France, 22-24 June 2020. The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population, Poverty and Inequality invites economists, demographers, economic demographers, sociologist, and scholars from other related disciplines to submit their research on the interactions between population dynamics, poverty and inequality.

Call for Chapter Proposals: Routledge Handbook of African Demography. A book to be edited by Clifford Odimegwu, PhD, Wits University, South Africa. Proposal Submission Deadline: 31 October 2019. African demography in terms of structure, training and research has been in transition since 1994, leading to a massive increase in the number of population scientists and research outputs. With the golden generation of African demographers and population scientists tending to retirement from training and research scenes, there is urgent need to document the body of research in Africa in the past 50 years and define the future of African demographic scholarship. Principally the handbook will be a comprehensive collection and documentation of methodological, theoretical, practical and substantive issues on African demography. The book will also provide exhaustive bibliography rich in references to African demography research done in Africa by Africans and African scholars. The handbook will be an essential collection for teachers, researchers, policy makers and programmers in the field of population research. No new study or analysis is needed, except a comprehensive review of what is known and what should be known in the next decades of demographic research in Africa. The handbook is expected to be launched at the forthcoming IUSSP conference in India in 2021. Abstracts should be sent by email to Prof Clifford Odimegwu: Clifford.Odimegwu@wits.ac.za. For more information on this call for chapter proposals, please read the attached document.

CONFERENCES
USC Center for Economic and Social Research is thrilled to announce the second CIPHER conference, 26-27 February 2020, in Washington, D.C. Conference website: https://cesr.usc.edu/cipher_2020. As population-representative online panels become more prominent in economic, social science and health research, researchers and policymakers continue to explore new ways to further increase their quality and usefulness. The USC Center for Economic and Social Research launched the annual “Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) conference in 2019, to provide a platform for rigorous, time-sensitive and policy-relevant exchange on these issues. This year, we are building on last year’s very successful event by broadening the scope of the event to ensure inclusion of international perspectives, and voices from the policy, non-governmental and private sectors. Submit abstracts by December 30, 2019 Abstracts of 500 words or less are currently being accepted. Please click here to submit your abstract. Applicants will be notified by January 15, 2020. Travel expenses will be covered for accepted speakers Registration is free, but required, as space is limited. Register here . The conference will take place on the 7th floor in the City View Room of the Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E Street NW in Washington D.C. This conference has been made possible through funding from a grant partnership between the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration, with additional financial contributions from the FINRA Investor Educational Foundation. Feel free to contact us at cesr@usc.edu for more information.

The 2020 Federal Computer Assisted Survey Information Collection (FedCASIC) Workshops is now accepting abstracts. This year’s conference will be held on April 28 and 29, 2020 at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, DC. FedCASIC is a great opportunity to share work focused on the use of technology in data collection for federal surveys. It is co-sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau and open to researchers and practitioners from across the federal government, including contractors working on federal surveys. This is a free conference and a wonderful way to meet and talk with colleagues working at other organizations. Topics of interest include but are not limited to survey design, online data collection, use of administrative, 3rd party data, paradata, and/or big data; survey software development, data visualization, the accompanying organizational and field operation challenges with the use of technology, and the influence of these technological advances on respondent perceptions of privacy and confidentiality. Please visit our website at www.census.gov/FedCASIC to view the call for participation. All abstracts should be submitted by December 20, 2019 using the submission portal on the website. The maximum abstract length is 1200 characters and no special formatting is required. Contact the FedCASIC planning committee with any questions – FedCASIC@bls.gov.

WORKSHOP

National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers. This Summit, which will occur on March 24-25, 2020 on the NIH campus, will be an opportunity for all interested parties to discuss how NIA can best support the development of more effective, dementia-friendly care and services for people living with the disease and their caregivers. There will be plenary talks, research presentations, discussion panels, and a poster presentation session at this two-day event. If you are interested in being an active part of the summit, we encourage you to submit a scientific or informational poster presentation abstract for consideration (by the deadline – November 15, 2019). For more information on logistics of the Summit, please visit the summit website. And stay tuned for registration – it should open later this fall!

D-LAB
The previously cancelled workshop on questionnaire design is rescheduled for October 30. 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 (immigration_group@lists.berkeley.edu), 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.

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.