2012-13 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars: Carolina Population Center

Spring 2013

All seminars are held from 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

January 11 *Research Methods Workshop*
Causality in Measurement Models
Dr. Kenneth Bollen, Professor of Sociology, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Room 405 CPC East

January 18
Parental and Adolescent Health and Pathways to Adulthood
Dr. Michael Shanahan, Professor of Sociology, UNC-CH
Room 405 CPC East

January 25
From Theoretical to Real World Networks: Using Empirical Samples of Female Sex Workers in China to Evaluate Respondent Driven Sampling
Dr. Giovanna Merli, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Sociology, & Global Health, Duke University; Associate Director, Duke Population Research Institute
Room 405 CPC East

February 1
Environmental Predictors of Inflammation in Chinese Children and Adults
Dr. Amanda Thompson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Room 405 CPC East

February 8
Disentangling the Contemporaneous and Life-Cycle Effects of Body Mass on Earnings
Dr. Donna Gilleskie, Professor of Economics, UNC-CH
Room 405 CPC East

Thursday, February 14
Spring 2013 Carolina Population Center - Duke Population Research Institute Lecture
Climate Variability & Migration: Some Evidence from Thailand
Dr. Sara Curran, Associate Professor of International Studies and Public Affairs; Associate Director, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington; CPC Training Program Alumna
Duke University, 111 Social Sciences; 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

February 22
Title TBA
Dr. Erica Field, Associate Professor of Economics, Duke University
Room 405 CPC East

Thursday, February 28
2012-13 J. Richard Udry Carolina Population Center Distinguished Lecture
Contraception and Demography: Strange but Productive Bedfellows
Dr. Amy Tsui, Professor, Population, Family and Reproductive Health, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Director, The Bill & Melinda Gates Institute of Population & Reproductive Health; Former Carolina Population Center Director & Faculty Fellow
Pleasants Family Assembly Room at Wilson Library, 3:30 p.m.

March 15 *Spring Break*

March 22
The Devil Is in the Details: Big Science Ethnography and Understanding America's Changing Families
Dr. Linda Burton, Professor of Sociology, Duke University
Room 405 CPC East

March 29 *University Holiday*

April 5
Space-Time Latent Structure for Small Area Health with Spatial Clustering of Temporal Effects
Dr. Andrew Lawson, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina
Room 405 CPC East

April 12 *PAA 2013 New Orleans*

April 19 *Research Methods Workshop*
Sampling Weights and Regression Analysis
Dr. C. Suchindran, Professor of Biostatistics, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Room 405 CPC East

April 26
Title TBA
Dr. S. V. Subramanian, Professor of Population Health and Geography, Harvard School of Public Health
Room 405 CPC East

Fall 2012

September 7
Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States
Dr.  Guang Guo, George and Alice Wells Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences
Room 405 CPC East

September 14
Linkages between Biology, Behavior, and Environment in the Development of Obesity
Dr.  Penny Gordon-Larsen, Associate Professor of Nutrition, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Room 405 CPC East

September 21
Population, Land Use and Health Dynamics of Biomass Fuel Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: Building a Research Agenda
Dr.  Pamela Jagger, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Room 405 CPC East

September 28
The Impact of a Natural Disaster on Children's Nutritional Status
Dr.  Elizabeth Frankenberg, Professor of Public Policy & Sociology, Duke University
Room 405 CPC East

October 5 *co-sponsored with Phi Beta Kappa - Alpha of North Carolina Chapter *
Is there a Link Between Foreclosure and Health?
Dr. Janet Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics & Public Affairs, Princeton University; Director, Center for Health and Well-Being
Room 405 CPC East

October 12 *Research Methods Workshop*
Estimation of Non-Random Program Impact when both the Program Variable and Outcome Variable are Binary Indicators: Monte Carlo Results for Alternative Estimators and Empirical Examples
Dr. David Guilkey, Professor of Economics, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Room 405 CPC East

October 26
Understanding Heterogeneous Effects of Health Policies Using a Gene-Environment Interaction Framework
Dr.  Jason Fletcher, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Yale University
Room 405 CPC East

November 2
Candidate Gene Research in Behavioral Science: Challenges, Possible Solutions from Prevention Science, and Very Early Findings
Dr.  Hobart "Bo" Cleveland, Associate Professor of Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University
Room 405 CPC East

November 9
Occupational Characteristics and Marriage in Early Adulthood
Dr.  Kelly Raley, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Room 405 CPC East

November 16
Poverty Reduction, HIV Prevention and Adolescent Development: Results from the Government of Kenya’s Cash Transfer Program
CPC Faculty Fellows Carolyn Halpern, Professor of Maternal and Child Health, Ashu Handa, Professor and Chair, Public Policy, Audrey Pettifor, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, and Harsha Thirumurthy, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Room 405 CPC East

November 30 *Ethics in Research Workshop*
Ethical Issues in Reducing Health Disparities
Dr.  William (Bill) Jenkins, CEO, Community Health Analytics Inc. (CHAI)
Room 405 CPC East