EVENTS
Wednesday, November 1, 12:10-1:15 PM. “Social Capital and the Dark Side of Social Networks for Health” with Stephanie Child. 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/
Monday October 30 12-1:15 p.m. “Food, Water, and Labor in Central Valley: Farmworkers and the Westlands” with Mario Sifuentez, UC Merced. | Morgan Hall, Lounge.
Monday, October 30, 2:00-4:00 pm. “Anchor Babies” and Other Immigration-Related Stigmatizing Speech. With Dr. Chavez. 221 Kroeber Hall.
Monday, October 30 2:10-3:30 PM. “How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Incentive Effects of Horizontal and Vertical Inequality” with Featured Speaker: Ricardo Perez Truglia, UCLA Anderson School of Management. 648 Evans Hall
EVENTS
Wednesday, November 1, 12:10-1:15 PM. “Social Capital and the Dark Side of Social Networks for Health” with Stephanie Child. 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/
Monday October 30 12-1:15 p.m. “Food, Water, and Labor in Central Valley: Farmworkers and the Westlands” with Mario Sifuentez, UC Merced. | Morgan Hall, Lounge.
Monday, October 30, 2:00-4:00 pm. “Anchor Babies” and Other Immigration-Related Stigmatizing Speech. With Dr. Chavez. 221 Kroeber Hall.
Monday, October 30 2:10-3:30 PM. “How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Incentive Effects of Horizontal and Vertical Inequality” with Featured Speaker: Ricardo Perez Truglia, UCLA Anderson School of Management. 648 Evans Hall
Thursday, November 2, 12-1:30 PM. “The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America.” With Speaker: Rick Wartzman, Director, KH Moon Center for a Functioning Society. 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director’s Room.
Friday, November 3, 12-1 PM. Berk Özler-The World Bank-Senior Economist, Development Research Group. ARE Dept. Friday Seminar Series.
Friday, November 3, 12-1 PM. “Understanding Marital Sorting Among the College Educated” with Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago. | 648 Evans Hall.
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Friday, November 3, 2017, 12:30pm-1:30pm. DEB NOVEMBER SEMINAR hosted by Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics. “The Effects of Poverty Alleviation Policy on Child Health: A Series of Quasi-Experiments” with Rita Hamad, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor in Residence, UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies Department of Family & Community Medicine .Summary: Although adverse socioeconomic conditions are correlated with worse child health and development, the impacts of poverty alleviation policies are less understood. Dr. Rita Hamad will present some of her latest research that examines the effects of one such policy, the U.S. earned income tax credit. Her work employs a variety of quasi-experimental econometric methods, such as instrumental variables and difference‐indifferences techniques, aiming to provide more causal estimates to inform policy and clarify the underlying mechanisms linking income and health. Location: UCSF. MH-1401/1402.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Announcing a new scientific organization – the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS). Both of our centers are institutional members of IAPHS, and we have found the organization an exciting complement to PAA and a useful connection for our students and faculty with population health interests. We, Deborah Umberson and Sara Curran, invite you to get to know IAPHS, and hope that you’ll help the organization by sharing information about it with your faculty and students. IAPHS fills a unique niche among population and health organizations. It differs from PAA in several ways – its smaller conferences, its exclusive focus on population health science, its efforts to promote the application of science and to connect scientists with population health practitioners and policymakers. It complements other health organizations such as APHA and Academy Health by providing a dedicated space for population health and a fully interdisciplinary, cells-to-society understanding of health. Most of its members are social scientists or public health scientists, although we also include many physicians, nurses, social workers, and biomedical scientists. IAPHS can be an asset to your students and faculty:
· As a new and growing organization, it offers opportunities for networking, leadership, and professional development that may be less accessible in larger organizations.
· For those interested in interdisciplinary collaborations, its conferences and social media activities bring together a wide range of scholars from public health, social and behavioral sciences, medicine, and other areas such as health policy, urban planning, communication, social work, and education.
· Its conferences feature panel discussions involving scientists and stakeholders in public health, policy, and health care organizations alongside scientific presentations of current research in population health science. Registration fees for the next conference, October 3 – 5, 2018, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, will be significantly discounted for members.
· It maintains an active blog that provides an opportunity to disseminate ideas and research to a broad interdisciplinary audience.
· The IAPHS website provides up-to-date announcements about job, training and funding opportunities as well as conferences, webinars, calls for papers, and new publications – all curated for those interested in population health.
· The website also features an expanding page of resources that support teaching, research, and interdisciplinary and translational work in population health.
· It offers mentoring opportunities and resources that help scientists navigate interdisciplinary careers, lead interdisciplinary teams, develop policy-relevant research agendas, and engage stakeholders in their research.
IAPHS also offers institutional memberships: currently these are available at several levels and offer free student IAPHS memberships and conference registrations; in 2018 these will be available at one level ($2000) and offer discounted memberships to all faculty and staff.
SAVE THE DATE
Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health: A Workshop. November 28, 2017 (8:30 AM Pacific), at the Cal State East Bay Conference Center (Grand Lake Conference Room), Trans Pacific Centre, 1000 Broadway Suite 109, Oakland, CA 94607. For more information, visit here and here.
CALL FOR ARTICLES
Rsf: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: Issue on New Developments in American Job Quality: Understanding the Recent Rise of Low-Wage Jobs and Nonstandard Work Arrangements. Edited by David R. Howell, The New School and Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina. Please click here for a full description of this call for papers.
CONFERENCES
The C2ER Annual Conference/LMI Institute Annual Forum will be held June 6-8, 2018 in Atlanta, GA. We are currently soliciting session proposals related to the theme of the event – RISE: Resiliency, Innovation, Skills, and Equity in Regional Economic Research. With this theme, we hope to capture a diverse range of research efforts that contribute to these important topics in the economic and workforce development fields. See the flyer for more information.
FUNDING
Global Urban Humanities – Townsend Fellowships for Faculty. Applications for Spring 2019 are due November 17, 2017. The Global Urban Humanities-Townsend Fellowships for faculty and graduate students at UC Berkeley support research on contemporary and historical cities that engages approaches from the arts and humanities and the humanistic social sciences and from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and urban planning. Candidates from a wide range of departments are encouraged to apply. For detailed information, visit: http://townsendcenter.
The France-Berkeley Fund (with UC Davis) is pleased to announce its 2018 Call for Projects. Grants of up to $12,000 will be awarded as seed money for new, innovative, binational, collaborative research. Applications are welcome from all fields. The application deadline is Wednesday, January 31, 2018, and projects may begin on or after July 1, 2018. For more details and to apply, visit our website at http://fbf.berkeley.edu/. For any questions, e-mail fbf@berkeley.edu.
Request for Proposals: Matrix/Sciences Po Collaboration Grants. Social Science Matrix is partnering with Sciences Po, a premier university based in Paris, France, to provide seed funding for collaborative partnerships between scholars from the two universities. UC Berkeley faculty members are invited to submit applications for Matrix/Sciences Po Collaboration Grants, to be used to fund activities that will support this program’s goals. We anticipate making Seed Grants of up to $5,000 for each project, to support collaborations starting as early as January 2018. Activities may include but are not limited to: faculty exchanges, research seminars, and workshops for faculty and students. Collaborations may be new, or they may be new initiatives launched by past collaborators. The deadline for submitting proposals is November 30, 2017. Learn more on our website.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Request for Proposals: Matrix Book Series with UC Press. Social Science Matrix is partnering with the University of California Press and its Luminos Open Access publishing venture to launch a new book series, which has a goal to scholarly work of critical importance to a wide audience in a timely manner. The series is open to conventional monographs, but we also would be interested in working with authors to develop some of their general ideas or most powerful findings into readable long-essay form. Authors interested in publishing in this series should submit a cover letter and a proposal or manuscript; the deadline for the initial review of proposals is May 1, 2018. Learn more on our website.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Global Urban Humanities – Townsend Fellowships for Graduate Students. Applications for Spring 2019 are due November 17, 2017. The Global Urban Humanities-Townsend Fellowships for faculty and graduate students at UC Berkeley support research on contemporary and historical cities that engages approaches from the arts and humanities and the humanistic social sciences and from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and urban planning. Candidates from a wide range of departments are encouraged to apply. For detailed information, visit: http://townsendcenter.
Mini-Grants for Right-Wing Studies, Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, Graduate and Undergraduate Mini-Grant Program – 2017-18. Applications are due by 4pm on Monday, November 13, 2017. UC Berkeley graduate and undergraduate students are invited to apply for small grants to assist with the development of student research projects on issues related to right-wing movements in the U.S. or other regions of the world. To learn more, visit here: https://crws.berkeley.edu/
Public Speaking for Graduate Students, Friday, Feb 9, 2018 | 9:30 am; Friday, Feb 16, 2018 | 9:30 am, Lura Dolas (Head of Acting Program, UC Berkeley) conducts two three-hour workshops designed to teach graduate students techniques to help them deliver job talks and professional presentations clearly, confidently, and persuasively. The workshops help in identifying ineffective behavior, neutralizing stage fright, selecting persuasive language, heightening interest with storytelling techniques, and using voice, eye contact, and gestures appropriately and effectively. The workshops provide a safe, constructive atmosphere to maximize individual participation. For more information, visit http://townsendcenter.
Townsend Center offers many opportunities for honing the craft of research. Check out their website. http://townsendcenter.
TRAINING
Workshop | October 31 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Online Tools for Mapping Demographic Data. With Susan Powell, Library. | 55A McCone Hall.
The Manuscript Review Workshop is designed to provide helpful and timely feedback to faculty preparing monographs prior to submission for publication in any format. A three-hour workshop forms the heart of the program: In consultation with the author, one external reviewer and 3-4 UCB faculty members are invited to read the work in advance. The workshop consists of a morning or afternoon of discussion at the Townsend Center followed by a group lunch or dinner. Readers provide constructive criticism to assist the author in developing strategies for the work’s improvement. To learn more about this program, visit: http://townsendcenter.
ON THE WEB
Big Data/Machine Learning for survey analytics. There is a group of students here at Princeton that is designing a platform to give non-programmers access to Big Data/Machine Learning for survey analytics. If you’re interested in being a beta-tester for this new system, please follow the link below: If you have questions and want to contact the students directly, please reply to psrc@princeton.edu. Link: https://princetonsurvey.az1.
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 Intro to STATA, R, and mixed methods, to name a few. 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.
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.