EVENTS CALENDAR

The National Academies Forum on Microbial Threats will host the fourth webinar in its series, Advancing Data Sharing to Strengthen One Health Effectiveness. One Health describes the interconnection between human, plant, animal, and environmental health. Applying a One Health approach requires collaboration at multiple levels to address complex challenges. Actors, such as government agencies, non-government and […]

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 […]

Sherry Glied, an economist, is Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. From 2010-2012, Glied served as the Senate-confirmed Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services. She served as Senior Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1992-1993, […]

CSDE Winter 2025 Lecture Patrick Greiner (UW) Patrick is an environmental sociologist at the University of Washington. His research and teaching address questions at the intersection of structural inequality, development processes, and environmental change. His work engages scholarship in the fields of environmental sociology, environmental justice, climate justice, critical theories of race, energy transitions and […]

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 […]

Join a panel of national aging experts to gain insights into the aging and healthcare policy priorities -- and the implications -- of the new Administration and Congress. This expert panel will also discuss the impacts of proposed legislation, the President’s executive orders, and potential budget implications that could affect aging policy. Join Patricia D’Antonio, […]

Berkeley Brown Bag Seminar Becky Staiger is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Program in Health Economics, Center for Health Management and Policy Research at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. In her research, she combines approaches from health economics, health policy, and health services research […]

Demography Seminar (DemSem) Presented by Van C. Tran (City University of New York).

CSDE Winter 2025 Lecture Sameer Shah (UW), Ethan Sharygin (Portland State Univ.), & Mary Angelica Painter (Univ. of Colorado Boulder)  

Demography Seminar (DemSem) Presenter: Steven Alvarado (CDE Visiting Scholar; University of Notre Dame)

Fairlie is a Distinguished Professor at UCLA. He is an Economist and Chair of the Department of Public Policy. He is also a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He studies a wide range of topics including entrepreneurship, education, labor, racial, gender and caste inequality, information technology, immigration, health, and development. He […]

Berkeley Brown Bag Seminar Avi Feller is an associate professor at UC Berkeley working at the interface of statistics and data science and the social sciences. His research focuses on developing practical, transparent methods that can be applied at scale, and on deploying these tools in a range of policy domains, with a particular emphasis […]

Join leading experts to critically examine the outlook for retirement security at a pivotal moment in American governance. As Congress grapples with the future of Social Security, Medicare, and private retirement savings, this two-panel discussion will explore both immediate priorities and objectives for long-term reform. The Brookings Retirement Security Project will host distinguished panelists for […]

CSDE Winter 2025 Lecture Amy Bailey (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)

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  

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 […]

Demography Brown Bag Seminar Jason Fletcher is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs and Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Institute for the Study of Labor. He is an affiliate at UW […]

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 […]