Population Science News

Weekly News — October 28, 2019

EVENTS
Wednesday, October 30 | 12-1 p.m Demography Brown Bag: “Economics of Fertility: Evidence from the Minimum Wage” Anna Godøy. | 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, Oct 28, 12:10pm –1:30pm Policy Research Seminar: Assessing Criminal Record Clearance Reforms: Population Effects and Racial Disparities. With Amy Lerman, Professor (UC Berkeley, Goldman School) and Alyssa Mooney, Postdoc (UC Berkeley, California Policy Lab and Goldman School). Goldman School of Public Policy.

Monday October 28 | 2-3:30 p.m. “Confederate Streets and Black-White Labor Market Differentials” with Jhacova Williams, Clemson University. 597 Evans Hall

Monday October 28 | 4-5:30 p.m. “Measuring the Impact of Dual Enrollment on Postsecondary Outcomes in NYC Public Schools” Tolani Britton.  Berkeley Way West, Room 1102

Monday, October 28 | 4-5:30 p.m. The Language of Incorporation: The Chinese Migrants in Central-Eastern Europe. Amy H. Liu, Associate Professor, Department of Government, UT Austin | 270 Stephens Hall

EVENTS
Wednesday, October 30 | 12-1 p.m Demography Brown Bag: “Economics of Fertility: Evidence from the Minimum Wage” Anna Godøy. | 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, Oct 28, 12:10pm –1:30pm Policy Research Seminar: Assessing Criminal Record Clearance Reforms: Population Effects and Racial Disparities. With Amy Lerman, Professor (UC Berkeley, Goldman School) and Alyssa Mooney, Postdoc (UC Berkeley, California Policy Lab and Goldman School). Goldman School of Public Policy.

Monday October 28 | 2-3:30 p.m. “Confederate Streets and Black-White Labor Market Differentials” with Jhacova Williams, Clemson University. 597 Evans Hall

Monday October 28 | 4-5:30 p.m. “Measuring the Impact of Dual Enrollment on Postsecondary Outcomes in NYC Public Schools” Tolani Britton.  Berkeley Way West, Room 1102

Monday, October 28 | 4-5:30 p.m. The Language of Incorporation: The Chinese Migrants in Central-Eastern Europe. Amy H. Liu, Associate Professor, Department of Government, UT Austin | 270 Stephens Hall

Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 12:10 – 1:30 p.m. “The Morbidity Cost of Air Pollution: Evidence from Consumer Spending in China” Panle Jia Barwick, Cornell University. , Mulford Hall, room 132.

Wednesday, October 30 @ 5:10 pm – 6:30 pm. The Triumph of Injustice: A Book Talk with authors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. REGISTER.

Thursday, October 31, 2-3:30 p.m.  “Does Eviction Cause Poverty? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Cook County, IL” John Eric Humphries, Yale | 648 Evans Hall.

SAVE THE DATE

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.

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

FUNDING
Innovations to Foster Healthy Longevity in Low-Income Settings (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) for research and development to improve functioning and quality of life for the elderly, especially the disabled elderly, living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), or to improve functioning and quality of life for low-income, disabled, and isolated elderly living in high-income countries. Applications may address the needs of the elderly directly or indirectly by supporting family or other informal caregivers and service providers. Applications likely to have an impact on a large scale are encouraged. Due Feb 20, 2020. See the full announcement here: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-20-027.html,

Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge: NIA is proud to announce a new funding opportunity as part of the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge to spark low-cost healthy aging innovations where they are needed most. Academies of science and medicine in several countries are on board with this initiative, and several NIA grantees are part of a newly formed NAM advisory committee. NIA has unveiled a funding opportunity for up to 10 R03 awards in support of the Grand Challenge’s goals. Our competition is open to ideas for use in low-income regions in higher-income nations, as well as LMICs. Wherever and whomever it helps—from Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta, from inner cities to Inuit country—all inspirations are welcome. International and trans-NIH collaborations are encouraged.  The Deadline is February 1, 2020. Read more about it here: https://www.nia.nih.gov/research/blog/2019/10/attention-health-hackers-global-initiative-will-fund-innovation-where-its

NIH R03 Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Researchers in AD/ADRD Research: Area of Focus Archiving and Leveraging Existing Data Sets for Analyses. Targeted to new researchers, and established researchers not currently conducting AD/ADRD research. Budgets may be up to $100,000/year for up to two years. R03 (PAS-19-391) https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAS-19-391.html

CONFERENCES
36th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ISRAEL STUDIES. American Jewry and Israel: Intersections and Connections between Homelands and Diasporas, Tulane University, New Orleans, June 29 – July 1, 2020. The Program Committee of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies invites scholars conducting research on any aspect of Israel Studies to submit proposals for organized panels and individual papers. Of special interest are proposals relating to the conference theme: “American Jewry and Israel: Intersections and Connections between Homelands and Diasporas.” This year’s venue is Tulane University in historic New Orleans, known worldwide for its fabulous food, music and atmosphere. The conference coincides with the launch of Tulane’s Stuart and Suzanne Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience, which seeks to better integrate the study of American Jewry into that of world Jewry. Visit the conference website for more information: http://reg.co.il/ais/ais/fut_conf.ehtml.

23rd Annual American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences conference.  AABSS is sponsored this year by the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) College of Liberal Arts. The conference will be held on February 24-25, 2020 at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada with a special conference room rate of $69 per night (plus tax & fees). The deadline for submitting a proposal is November 20th and papers will undergo juried review on a rolling basis, with prompt notifications of acceptance/rejection so that presenters can make early and economical travel arrangements. Visit the website for details at www.aabss.net.

Register Now for the 2019 PAPOR Annual Conference! Register for the Conference. Join us for the 2019 annual PAPOR conference in San Francisco! The conference provides an opportunity for professional growth and networking in a collegial, friendly setting that also provides ample opportunity for good conversation and fruitful collaboration. Thursday, December 5 – Friday, December 6, 2019. Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel, 609 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California 94102. Register by Wednesday, November 20 for a discounted rate of just $230 for the full conference. Don’t wait – on November 21, registration fees will increase to $275! More info here.

2020 ASA Annual Meeting. Submissions Open November 1, 2019. The submission deadline is January 29, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern). Please review the Call for Submissions web page for important information. In addition to paper and section submissions, proposals are being accepted for Courses, Workshops, Preconferences, the Sociology in Practice Settings Symposium, and the Teaching and Learning in Sociology Symposium. Registration. Registration for the 2020 Annual Meeting is now open. Please review the registration rates, deadlines, and policies on the Registration Information web page. To receive the discounted member rate, renew your membership for 2020 at the same time or prior to registering for the meeting.

DATA
IPUMS Time Use.
ATUS 2017/2018 leave module data have been released.
IPUMS NHGIS. The 2018 ACS 1-year summary tables are now available.

NICHD Data and Specimen Hub: DASH is a centralized resource for researchers to store de-identified data and to access data and associated biospecimens from NICHD supported studies for use in secondary research.  Search for data sets here: https://dash.nichd.nih.gov/.

WEBINAR
IPUMS Health Surveys Webinar – “Intro to IPUMS NHIS” Wednesday, October 30. 12:00-1:00 p.m. CST. IPUMS NHIS harmonizes data from the National Health Interview Survey collected by the National Center for Health Statistics. Data include annual survey data from 1963 to the present. This webinar will overview the structure of the NHIS data and topics available in IPUMS NHIS, explore website features for customizing data extracts, provide a quick start guide for new users, and share insider knowledge useful to both new and experienced users. Registration is required. Like all IPUMS data, the webinar is free of charge!

D-LAB
The previously cancelled workshop on questionnaire design is rescheduled for October 31 (note date correction). The day before (Oct 30) is an introduction to Qualtrics. 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.

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