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Sarah Brayne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. In her work, she uses qualitative and quantitative methods to understand whether and how data-intensive surveillance shapes individual trajectories and population-level disparities. Her first book, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing, draws on ethnographic research within the Los Angeles Police […]

The Committee on National Statistics is hosting a series of workshop sessions to discuss approaches to characterizing and communicating the quality of national statistics and statistical data. The U.S. Federal Statistical System produces statistics and data products that inform decision making at all levels of government as well as for businesses and individuals. In response […]

CSDE Winter 2025 Lecture Brea Perry (Indiana Univ.) Research suggests social connectedness reduces dementia risk and helps older adults with neuropathology maintain cognitive functionality and quality of life. However, little is known about the specific underlying social and biological mechanisms. This presentation provides an overview of potential pathways through social bridging (i.e., cognitive enrichment through […]

Demography Seminar (DemSem) Presented by Ariel Azur (CDE Visiting Scholar, Purdue University)

Demography Brown Bag Seminar Kathleen Beegle is a Lead Economist in the Poverty, Inequality and Human Development Team of the World Bank’s Development Research Group. Her research experience includes the study of poverty, labor, economic shocks, and methodological studies on household survey data collection in developing countries. She is co-leading the new World Bank Center […]

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 […]

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 […]