Weekly News - October 2, 2017 - Population Sciences

EVENTS
Wednesday October 4, 12-1:15 PM. Demography Brown Bag: Alex Gelber (Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley), will present, “Disability Insurance Income Saves Lives.” Demography Seminar room. 2232 Piedmont Ave. Refreshments and cookies served.
Brown Bag talks are recorded and posted on the Berkeley Population Sciences vimeo channel, https://vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience.

Wednesday, October 4 | 12-1:30 p.m. Consul General Rana Sarkar and Prof. Irene Bloemraad will discuss trade and immigration issues, including NAFTA and DACA. 223 Moses Hall

Wednesday October 04, 2017, 12-1:30 PM. “Estimating Heterogeneous Preferences to Avoid Flood Risk and the Implications for Disaster Exposure” (Joint with Lala Ma). With Laura Bakkensen/The University of Arizona. 248 Giannini Hall.

Thursday October 5, 12-1 PM. “Gender Stereotyping Academia: Evidence from Economics Job Market Rumors Forum” 648 Evans Hall.

Wednesday, October 4 | 12-1:30 p.m. Consul General Rana Sarkar and Prof. Irene Bloemraad will discuss trade and immigration issues, including NAFTA and DACA. 223 Moses Hall

Thursday October 5, 12-1 PM. “Gender Stereotyping Academia: Evidence from Economics Job Market Rumors Forum” 648 Evans Hall.

October 5 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. Book Talk Series: From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America, by Patrisia Macías-Rojas.

Friday, October 6, 12-1 PM. “Compensation Practices, Worker Mobility, and Wage Dispersion: Evidence from Brazilian Employer-Employee Matched Data” with Ian Schmutte, University of Georgia. | 648 Evans Hall

OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 • 7:00pm–9:00pm CALIFORNIA Live! A Matter of Degree: California Spending on Prisons and Higher Education. Los Angeles Music Center, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 5th Floor, 135 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Register here.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Association of American Geographers Conference, New Orleans, 10-14 April 2018. Abstracts are due Oct. 25. See http://annualmeeting.aag.org/ for more information.

CONFERENCES
Families and Technology – Penn State’s 25th Annual Symposium on Family Issues
October 23-24, 2017. New communication technologies such as smart phones and social media are rapidly diffusing across the globe among both children and adults. Fifteen percent of U.S. adults have used an online dating site. American teens spend an average of nine hours a day engaged in social media. Technological changes such as these are rapidly changing how couples meet and form relationships, how parents raise their children, and how family members remain connected across long distances. The 2017 National Symposium on Family Issues focuses on how these dramatic changes are shaping and changing families and family life in both positive and negative ways and is aimed at identifying novel directions for population and family research. For more information and to register visit 2017 Family Symposium
Pacific Sociological Association PSA 2018 conference and online submission system information–Deadline is October 15! (Start here to submit: http://pacificsoc.org/2018-conference/2018-call-for-papers-submission-information-more . The 2018 hotel information and reservations link is: http://pacificsoc.org/2018-conference/2018-conference-hotel-information.

ON THE WEB
US Bureau of the Census offers Webinars. See https://www.census.gov/mso/www/training/ for a full list.

OCT 4. Webinar: “Estimating Costs of Elder Health”. The RCMAR program is hosting a free, one-hour webinar from 12-1pm (PST) on October 4 with presenter Bryan Tysinger, Director of Simulation and Data at USC Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation. Tysinger will discuss the use of an economic-demographic micro simulation called the Future Elderly Model (FEM). The model is designed to predict the future costs and health status of the elderly and explore what current trends or future shifts imply for policy. Register here.

D-LAB
D-Lab sponsors workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. This week includes Creating Maps in R, Intro to STATA, R, Tableau and Python. One-on-one consulting also available. 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