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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 […]

Parental Incarceration and Child Safety: Evidence from Wisconsin Garrett Baker, Graduate Student, Joint program in Public Policy and Sociology Duke University Decades after the rise of mass incarceration, a large literature has grown to debate the tradeoffs associated with this unparalleled social and policy experiment. While a significant body of research documents the consequences of […]

CDE’s research is focused in five primary research areas: Families and Family Change Health and Biodemography Inequality, Poverty, Wealth, and Mobility Spatial and Environmental Demography Gender and Reproductive Health

Zach Ward, Associate Professor of Economics, Baylor University Social mobility over multiple generations is often lower than predicted by two-generational data, suggesting that traditional estimates fail to capture long-run mobility. Using novel US data (1850-1940) that links over 1.7 million individuals across four generations, we find that the economic status of great-grandchildren is strongly tied […]

Demography Seminar (DemSem) Presented by Rahi Abouk (CDE Visiting Scholar; William Paterson University).

Magali Barbieri received her PhD in Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990. She currently holds a joint research position at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris, France and in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, she leads the Human Mortality Database (HMD, http://www.mortality.org) […]

Lauren Gaydosh, Associate Professor of Sociology, UNC Chapel Hill Many of the biological measures that we use to interrogate health risks have been developed in samples of older adults. Their association with sociodemographic characteristics and prediction of health and aging outcomes earlier in the life course is understudied. In this talk, I will provide an […]

Population Research Discovery Seminar Daniel Parker, Population Health & Disease Prevention, University of California Irvine Quantifying armed conflict is challenging, as traditional conflict data often rely on incomplete reporting and typically focus on metrics like the number of airstrikes. However, these measures overlook critical factors such as infrastructure destruction, population displacement, and recovery. In this […]

Presented by Jinkook Lee (USC).

We study the lifetime banning, as introduced by United States Public Law 104-193, of individuals convicted of felony drug offenses after August 22, 1996 from ever receiving future SNAP benefits. Using a regression discontinuity design that leverages CJARS criminal history records with federal administrative and survey data, we estimate the causal impact of safety net […]

Demography of Health and Aging seminars are predoctoral student-led seminars: Racial Residential Segregation and Cognitive Decline Across the Life Course Isabella Boukla Perceived Racial Treatment and Mental Health Across Black and White Generational Cohorts Fatima Fairfax

Population Research Discovery Seminars Lake Lui, Sociology, National Taiwan University Grounded in the literature on the deinstitutionalization of marriage, this presentation explores why, despite holding diverse ideologies about marriage, people in Taiwan have not widely practiced alternatives such as long-term cohabitation or singlehood. The analysis is framed within the cultural-cognitive approach of neoinstitutionalism, examining how […]