EVENTS
Monday October 1 | 2-3:30 p.m. Economic History: Do Black Politicians Matter?’ Trevon Logan, Ohio State U. 597 Evans Hall
Tue Oct 2, 2018 12:40pm – 2pm “Status Report on Corporate Efforts to Promote a Culture of Health.” With Sara Singer, Stanford University. Berkeley Way West, room 1205.
Tuesday October 2 | 4:10-5 p.m. “The challenge of big data and data science for the social sciences” Henry Brady, Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy. 190 Doe Library
Tuesday October 2 | 5-6:30 p.m. “Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective” Uwe Lübken, LMU Munich. 201 Moses Hall
EVENTS
Monday October 1 | 2-3:30 p.m. Economic History: Do Black Politicians Matter?’ Trevon Logan, Ohio State U. 597 Evans Hall
Tue Oct 2, 2018 12:40pm – 2pm “Status Report on Corporate Efforts to Promote a Culture of Health.” With Sara Singer, Stanford University. Berkeley Way West, room 1205.
Tuesday October 2 | 4:10-5 p.m. “The challenge of big data and data science for the social sciences” Henry Brady, Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy. 190 Doe Library
Tuesday October 2 | 5-6:30 p.m. “Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective” Uwe Lübken, LMU Munich. 201 Moses Hall
Wednesday October 3 | 12-1:30 p.m. Real Estate Research Seminar: Alex Bartik, UIUC: “Moving Costs and Worker Adjustment to Changes in Labor Demand: Evidence from Longitudinal Census Data” C325 Haas School of Business.
Thursday October 4 | 12-1 p.m. SPH Brown Bag Research Presentation: “Does Suing Schools Make Kids Healthier? The Impact of Litigation on Physical Education and Student Fitness in California”. Speaker: Hannah Thompson, Research Scientist, School of Public Health. 5101 Berkeley Way West.
Thursday October 4 | 12:45-2 p.m. “Freedom and Ethics in the Era of Big Data” Peter Dabrock, Chair, German Ethics Council. 170 Boalt Hall, School of Law
Friday October 5 | 12-1 p.m. Labor Lunch: “Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Sizable Conditional Child Subsidy” Evgeny Yakovlev, NES. 648 Evans Hall.
Friday, October 5, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee (BSSR CC) open meeting on NIH’s campus (Rockledge II, room 9112/9116) or online (WebEx access code: 628 548 199, password: gWZPDbr4). Representatives from NIH Institutes and Centers will meet to discuss behavioral and social sciences-relevant topics. This is a good way to understand their funding priorities.
OFF CAMPUS
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 | 2:00PM-3:00PM Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences. “Building the “Discovery Instruments” for Precision Medicine and Population Health Research Edmon Begoli, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)” Event Information and Registration,
SAVE THE DATE
OCTOBER 10 @ 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. “The Distributional Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data” With John Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau. IRLE. REGISTER.
October 10 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm. Bixby Center event: “An Analysis: The Implementation of Youth Centers In Musanze, Rwanda” with Kalee Singh Kalee. 440 University Hall
Friday October 12, 12-1 PM. “Deterring Illegal Entry: Migrant Sanctions and Recidivism in Border Apprehensions” Gordon Hanson – UC San Diego. 248 Giannini Hall
Friday October 12, 2018, 12-1 PM. “Deterring Illegal Entry: Migrant Sanctions and Recidivism in Border Apprehensions” with Gordon Hanson – UC San Diego. ARE Dept. Friday Seminar Series. 248 Giannini Hall
Wednesday, October 17 I 12:00-1:30pm. “Mobility, Expulsion and Claims to Home: Migrant Organizing in an Era of Deportation and Dispossession” Monisha Das Gupta, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
CONFERENCES
LMICs on Friday, February 22, 2019 and have released a call for abstracts. Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 12, 2018. This workshop is designed to share leading research methods and findings on comparative patterns of adult mortality, mortality determinants, and risk factors in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), following-up on workshops held on this topic at USC and Berkeley in 2016, 2017, and 2018 Details are in the attached PDF.
Geo4Dev Conference 2018 Call for Speakers. On November 15, CEGA will host the second annual Geospatial Analysis for International Development Symposium (Geo4Dev) in Berkeley, CA. This year’s symposium will focus on geospatial research that addresses climate- and conflict-driven migration and humanitarian response. If you are interested in presenting, please fill out the speaker interest form by close of business October 1, 2018. If you are interested in attending, please fill out this form and visit our website: https://www.geo4dev.com/.
WGAPE Regional Meeting Call for Papers. On December 7-8, the Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE) will host its fall West Coast regional meeting at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. WGAPE brings together faculty and advanced graduate students in Economics and Political Science who combine field research experience in Africa with training in political economy methods. The deadline to submit papers is 11:59 pm U.S. Pacific Time on September 23rd, 2018. For more information, see the request for papers.
CALLS FOR PAPERS
BITSS Annual Meeting Invitation & Call for Papers. On December 10, The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its 7th Annual Meeting at UC Berkeley. The meeting will feature preliminary results from the BITSS State of the Social Science (3S) Study, updates from the Registered Reports pilot at the Journal of Development Economics, and presentations of selected research from a call for papers open until October 12. Submit your abstracts https://www.bitss.org/events/
WORKSHOPS
The Data Incubator is an intensive 8 week fellowship that prepares masters students, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM and social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for Fellows and supported by sponsorships from hundreds of employers across multiple industries. In response to the overwhelming interest in our earlier sessions, we will be holding another fellowship.
Who Should Apply: Anyone who has already obtained a masters or PhD degree or who is within one year of graduating with a masters or PhD is welcome to apply. Applications from international students are welcome. Everyone else is encouraged to sign-up for a future session.
Locations: In addition to the below in-person locations, we will have a remote online session: New York City; San Francisco Bay Area; Boston; Washington, DC.
Dates: All sections will be from 2019-01-07 to 2019-03-01.
Application Link: https://www.thedataincubator.c
Data Science in 30 minutes: Learn how to build a data-science project in our upcoming free Data Science in 30-minutes webcast. Signup soon as space is limited. You can learn about our fellows at The New York Times,LinkedIn, Amazon, Capital One, or Palantir. To read about our latest fellow alumni, check out our blog. To learn more about The Data Incubator, check us out on Venture Beat, The Next Web, or Harvard Business Review.
WEBINARS
New National Earnings Data for Graduates by Institution and Major, October 17, 2018 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT. The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), welcomes Andrew Foote as he presents, “New National Earnings Data for Graduates by Institution and Major.” The Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) project tabulates earnings by institution, degree level and degree field. PSEO does this by linking university transcript data to the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) records. Data from PSEO offer an important assessment tool to plan postsecondary education and address a major gap in education statistics by providing a much clearer picture of what happens when a graduate gets a job out of state. Free. Register: https://register.gotowebinar.
DATA
CPS: 2018 ASEC data are now available. Basic monthly data are available through July 2018 and August data will be up in the next week. Also, check out RoPES, our new tool for exploring which months and CPS supplements can be linked together.
Time Use: Data are now available via MTUS-X for Hungary 2009, Israel 1991, and Bulgaria 2001.
International: 19 new census datasets have been added to IPUMS International, bringing us to more than 1,000,000,000 person records in dissemination!
Health Surveys: New data from MEPS and NHIS were released in August 2018, including data from the 2015 and 2016 MEPS Full-Year Consolidated files. Newly released MEPS variables include person-level variables from the Access to Care section and the Self-Administered Questionnaire, as well as round-level variables on demographics, employment, and conditions. The recently released 2017 NHIS imputed income files are also now available through IPUMS NHIS.
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.