Weekly News – September 4, 2017

EVENTS
Wednesday, September 6 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. Demography Brown Bag: “Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending” with Rucker Johnson, GSPP, 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.

Tuesday, September 5, 12:40-2 PM. “The Role of Supply and Demand in Efficient Health Care Delivery: Evidence From Utah” with Ben Handel. 714C University Hall

Wednesday, Sept 6, 3-4 PM. “Delaying the age of marriage through girls’ education in northern Nigeria” with Dr. Mardhiyyah Abbas Mashi, Co-Founder, Centre for Girls’ Education; Margaret Bolaji, Program Officer, Centre for Girls’ Education | 401 University Hall.

EVENTS

Wednesday, September 6 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. Demography Brown Bag: “Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending” with Rucker Johnson, GSPP, 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.

Tuesday, September 5, 12:40-2 PM. “The Role of Supply and Demand in Efficient Health Care Delivery: Evidence From Utah” with Ben Handel. 714C University Hall

Thursday, Sept 7, 4-6 PM. IRLE Fall Reception: Featuring Professor Daniel Schneider on Unstable Work Schedules in Retail. Thursday, September 7 | 6:30-8:30pm and Friday, September 8 | 8:30am-5:30pm.

UC Berkeley Program for the Medical Humanities presents: “Medicine and Violence”. Join an interdisciplinary gathering of medical professionals and humanities and legal scholars to explore the various ways in which health care and violence interrelate. Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley. For room numbers, complete program, and free registration link, please visit the website. Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. Townsend Center Geballe Room, Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley.

SAVE THE DATE
September 13 | 4-5:30 p.m. Burning Dislike: Ethnic Violence in High Schools, a book by Martin Sanchez-Jankowski. 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room.

FUNDING
The 2017 NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRP) Application Cycle opens on Friday, September 1^st for applications due November 15. Awardees can receive up to $70,000 of qualified educational debt repayment with a two-year contract. See https://www.lrp.nih.gov/.

CONFERENCES
Hungry For Change: Food Insecurity, Stress, and Obesity will take place on October 25th, 2017 at UCLA. The 11th Annual Sugar, Stress, Environment, and Weight (SSEW) Symposium, presented by the UCSF Center for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment (COAST) and the UCLA Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy, brings together leading researchers to present the latest science on how the food we eat and the stress we experience create a perfect storm, accelerating one of the most urgent public health crises of our time: the obesity epidemic. Register now for free! Space is limited! Useful Links:
Free Registration at EventBrite: http://ssewhungryforchange.eventbrite.com
Link to the SSEW Event Schedule: https://www.coastcenter.org/ssew-symposium
SSEW Facebook @SSEW Science : https://www.facebook.com/SSEWscience/.
SSEW Twitter @SSEWScience : https://twitter.com/SSEWscience
UCTV Channel includes all talks from previous COAST and SSEW Events. These are great to share with your networks. http://uctv.tv/coast/.

CALLS FOR PAPERS

The Oxford Symposium on Climate Change, December 7-8, 2017 is a special interest meeting of London Symposia, an organization devoted to scholarly research, writing, and discourse. This interdisciplinary conference is an opportunity for scientists and policy makers to present papers and engage in discussion relevant to sustainability, human welfare, and progress. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring to the table academics and professionals from the realms of economics, education, environmental studies, the built environment, sociology political science, gender equity, ethics and other related fields, to present papers and engage in discourse relevant to global environmental issues and its effects on human welfare and progress. You are invited to present a paper on an aspect of research, or you may wish to attend as an observer. If you wish to present a paper, you will be requested to submit a brief abstract for review by the Programme Committee. The deadline for abstract submissions for the December Session is 13 November 2017. The early registration deadline is 16 Octoberand the regular registration deadline is 17 November. Keynote speaker – David Coleman, Emeritus Professor of Demography; Associate Fellow, Department of Social Policy, University of Oxford. Abstracts are reviewed on a rolling basis and notifications sent within ten days of submission. We encourage you to submit early as presentation slots fill up. For more information, visit https://www.oxford-population-and-environment-symposium.com/.

Aging & Society: Eighth Interdisciplinary Conference, held 18–19 September 2018 at Toyo University in Tokyo, Japan. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, innovation showcases, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks. The conference features research addressing the annual themes and the 2018 Special Focus: “Aging, Health, Well-being and Care in a Time of Extreme Demographic Change.” We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, innovation showcases, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks. The conference features research addressing the annual themes and the 2018 Special Focus: “Aging, Health, Well-being and Care in a Time of Extreme Demographic Change.” For more information, visit the conference website:

WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), presents, “Using QWI to Quickly Write Interesting Articles.” In this webinar the presenter Cameron Macht, Regional Analysis and Outreach Manager, Minnesota Department of Employment & Economic Development (DEED), demonstrates how Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) data are an excellent resource for greater insight into the shifting demographics of industries and regions. Workforce and economic development agencies can use the data to better understand the present and plan for the future. Register here.

DATA
The European Social Survey ERIC is pleased to pre-announce the ‘Call for multi-national teams of researchers to submit applications for modules of questions to be fielded as part of Round 10 of the European Social Survey (ESS)’. Applications for both new and repeat modules will be invited. The call for Round 10 QDTs will formally open by mid-October 2017. Provisional details and timings are available from our website http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/about/singlenew.html?a=/about/news/essnews0032.html.

The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) 13.05 dataset is now available in both wide and long formats. For details, see: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/wlsresearch/data/updates/change_notice/chnt_041.htm.

D-LAB
Dlab sponsors workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. Upcoming workshops include R, Stata, qualitative methods, and social science methods. 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.