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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 […]

Polarization in U.S. state policy has driven geographic disparities in population health, but most studies focus on concurrent policy contexts rather than cumulative exposure over the life course. A life course perspective is crucial because individuals experience varied policy environments at different stages, shaping long-term health outcomes, including cognitive health. Using restricted-access data from the […]

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Population Research Discovery Seminars Christy Erving, Sociology, University of Texas – Austin Recently, scholars have attempted to bring voice to Black women’s interpersonal experiences with gendered racism by developing measures that capture their intersectional oppression. Missing from this small, but growing, literature is the nuance of life course dynamics which suggest that Black women’s gendered-racialized […]

Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the co-director of Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing. She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development. Her current research […]

Population Research Discovery Seminars Ann Chih Lin, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan In the forty years since the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), no significant reform to the structure of immigration law has made it through the U.S. Congress.  Yet during those forty years, how immigrants enter the United […]