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Over the course of the twentieth century, fertility intentions, desires, preferences, and attitudes (fertility “goals”) became key constructs for demographic research on fertility. In high-fertility contexts, unwanted births and unmet need for contraception serve as a justification for intensifying family planning programs. In low-fertility contexts, desired fertility exceeds actual fertility, implying high prevalence of “unrealized […]

CSDE Winter 2025 Lecture Sasha Johfre (UW) This talk will discuss emerging perspectives on the social construction of age, with a focus on implications for demography and inequality research. I will draw on several of my ongoing projects about conceptualizing, theorizing, and measuring age as a social construct. “Aging” is often considered an individual and […]

Demography Seminar (DemSem) Presented by Joel Mittleman (University of Pennsylvania).

Eliana La Ferrara is Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She received a PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1999. Prior to joining HKS, she was the Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bocconi University, Milan, where she founded and directed the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies (LEAP). She is Vice-President of the […]

FDA Organizational Dynamics and Pharmaceutical Side Effects, Jason Schnittker, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

This virtual workshop is designed to share leading research methods and findings on comparative patterns and determinants of adult mortality, morbidity, and healthy aging in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The goal is to build a robust evidence base for understanding the drivers of cross-national adult health patterns, especially in populations with unusually high or […]

CSDE Winter 2025 Lecture Jason Kerwin (UW) w/ Divya Pandey (Univ. of Minnesota) Probabilistic risk beliefs are key drivers of economic and health decisions, but people are not always certain about their beliefs. We study these “impre-cise probabilities”, also known as ambiguous beliefs. Imprecision is measurable separately from the level of risk beliefs, and higher […]

Demography Seminar (DemSem) Presented by Courtney S. Thomas Tobin (UCLA).

International labor migration, economic development, and the demographic dividend are key components of development impacting low- and middle-income countries. This webinar will discuss the relationship among these factors that may be used by policymakers, development agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders to create a more resilient and inclusive future for labor migration. This event will outline […]

This is the first of two webinars - Assessment of National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research on Women's Health The National Academies is hosting two public webinars to highlight the persistent gaps in biomedical funding, research, and knowledge of diseases and conditions affecting women and girls. Breakthroughs to improve health and well-being for women and […]

Presenter: Payal Hathi, PhD candidate in Sociology and Demography, UC Berkeley Payal focuses on social inequality and health in the Global South, with two main lines of inquiry. The first investigates the association between health outcomes and social disadvantage along lines of gender, caste, and religion. The second analyzes how dynamics of gender inequality shape the demographic […]