BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Carolina Population Center - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Carolina Population Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190111T130000 DTSTAMP:20200102T153544Z CREATED:20200102T153544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200102T153544Z UID:35786-1547208000-1547211600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:A Path towards Citizenship: The Effects of Early College High Schools on Criminal Convictions and Voting DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, January 11\, Douglas Lauen\, PhD\, will present A Path towards Citizenship: The Effects of Early College High Schools on Criminal Convictions and Voting as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series.\nLauen is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an affiliated faculty member with the Department of Sociology and the Education Policy Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Lauen’s work examines the effectiveness of educational policies\, school types\, and interventions on students and how these effects vary for traditionally underserved populations. \nLauen is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Ted Mouw. Mouw is a Professor of Sociology. His research focuses on social mobility and factors that affect the upward mobility of low wage workers. \nFriday\, Jan 11\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street \nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nFormal schooling is critically important to human capital development and socialization. Those with more education enjoy many benefits – higher income\, better health\, and longer lives\, to name just three. Education also produces positive externalities beyond individual benefits. Highly educated people are more likely to vote\, become civically involved\, and are less likely to commit crimes. For this reason\, virtually all cultures subsidize education\, although the quantity and nature of this support varies across countries. While we know a great deal about the broad effects of educational attainment on civic outcomes\, we actually know very little about the effects of specific educational interventions on these types of outcomes\, in part because long term follow-up studies are rare. \nThis talk will present early findings from a long term follow up study of early college high schools (ECHS) from North Carolina. ECHS are small schools of choice that provide students with the opportunity to earn\, at no financial cost to them\, two years of transferable college credit or an Associate’s degree while simultaneously satisfying high school graduation requirements. This promising intervention is aimed at smoothing the transition from high school to college for under-represented demographic groups. There are more than 85 ECHSs in North Carolina\, although the model is implemented in more than 30 states in the U.S. as well. \nThe study team assembled personally-identified population level statewide administrative data on all NC high school students (including ECHS) and linked it to postsecondary enrollment and completion data (through in-state four-year and two-year institutions and the National Student Clearinghouse)\, incarceration records (from the NC Department of Public Safety)\, and voting records (from the NC Board of Elections). Together\, these data comprise one of the most comprehensive data sources in the U.S. to study the effects of educational interventions. \nOur results show that early colleges have positive effects on test scores and post-secondary degree attainment. The intervention also reduces the likelihood of incarceration and increases the likelihood of voting. We argue that the effects on crime are likely robust to unmeasured confounding\, while the effects on voting most likely are not. Quasi-experimental impacts for some outcomes have been validated against impacts generated from a randomized controlled trial of the same intervention in a subset of the sites during the same time period. \nCV for Douglas Lauen\, PhD. \n Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC at cpc@unc.edu by the Monday before the seminar \n Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance. \nThis seminar is part of the Carolina Population Center’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/a-path-towards-citizenship-the-effects-of-early-college-high-schools-on-criminal-convictions-and-voting/ CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190118T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190118T130000 DTSTAMP:20200102T153544Z CREATED:20200102T153544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200102T153544Z UID:35787-1547812800-1547816400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Mucking about with Maps: Integrating Remote Sensing and Archival Maps in West Africa DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, January 18\, 2019\, Colin West\, PhD\, will present Mucking about with Maps: Integrating Remote Sensing and Archival Maps in West Africa as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series.\nWest is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. \nWest is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow and Center Director Elizabeth Frankenberg. Frankenberg\, Professor of Sociology\, has served as the Director of Carolina Population Center since 2017. \nFriday\, Jan 18\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street \nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nLand degradation is a complex global challenge that has historically attracted strong interdisciplinary scholarship. Especially in the world’s drylands\, social and physical scientists have long collaborated on applied research to understand the drivers of desertification – land degradation in arid\, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. In fact\, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD – 1996) explicitly recognizes it as a both a human and physical process. This presentation presents preliminary results on mapping both land degradation and rehabilitation in the Sahel of West Africa. Using archival maps of land-use/land-cover (LULC) and high-resolution satellite imagery\, we explore how patterns of browning and greening vary across communities. \nThis talk will present three of our efforts to “muck around with maps” to identify areas of “greening” and “browning” in northern Burkina Faso. My colleague\, Dr. Aaron Moody in the Dept. of Geography is a remote sensing expert and out effort has been guided by CPC’s pioneering work to “pixelize the social” and “socialize the pixel.” Northern Burkina Faso is a region where communities have invested heavily in widespread Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) measures. Experts have suggested that these local SWC investments may explain larger regional patterns of greening. The first part presents on our work combining a time series of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI and Rainfall Estimate (RFE) to identify areas of greening and browning in Burkina Faso. The second presents our work converting archival maps of Land-Use/Land-cover from Yatenga\, Burkina Faso to GIS layers using remote sensing and image processing techniques. The last part presents our work mapping localized greening and browning through participatory mapping and high-resolution satellite imagery. These demonstrate the utility of combining ethnography with remote sensing analysis to better understand LULC processes and patterns. \n Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC at cpc@unc.edu by the Monday before the seminar \n Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance. \nThis seminar is part of the Carolina Population Center’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/mucking-about-with-maps-integrating-remote-sensing-and-archival-maps-in-west-africa/ CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190125T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190125T130000 DTSTAMP:20200102T153545Z CREATED:20200102T153545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200102T153545Z UID:35788-1548417600-1548421200@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Early Childhood Development in Rural China: Evidence from the Qingling Cohort Study DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, January 25\, Sean Sylvia\, PhD\, will present Early Childhood Development in Rural China: Evidence from the Qingling Cohort Study as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series.\nSean Sylvia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Sylvia is a health and development economist whose research focuses on designing and evaluating innovative approaches to improve the delivery of health services in developing countries. His work relies heavily on fieldwork to collect primary data and most uses experimental or quasi-experimental methods to evaluate the causal effects of policies and interventions. In past and ongoing projects\, he has studied the design of performance-based incentives for providers\, school-based health and nutrition programs\, early childhood health and development\, and the quality of primary care in low-resource settings. His work has been published journals such as the BMJ\, PLOS Medicine\, the American Journal of Public Health\, Health Affairs\, and Health Policy and Planning. He has long-standing collaborations with researchers at a number of universities in China where he has directed several large-scale surveys and randomized trials. Prior to joining UNC\, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at Renmin University of China. \nSylvia is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow and Center Director Elizabeth Frankenberg. Frankenberg\, Professor of Sociology\, has served as the Director of Carolina Population Center since 2017. \nFriday\, Jan 25\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street \nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nA growing body of cross-disciplinary research suggests that human capital deficits in early life negatively affect later life outcomes and that interventions in early childhood can substantially improve health and productivity in adulthood. Given this evidence – and growing recognition that human capital development is an important mechanism affecting the persistence of poverty and inequality – investing in early childhood has risen on the policy agenda in a number of developing countries. The goal of the Qingling cohort study is to inform ECD policies in China. Across five waves of data collection\, this study follows a cohort of more than 1800 children in rural areas of southern Shaanxi province from 6 months of age until age 5. Using this unique data\, this talk will discuss the nutritional and developmental status of rural children and its evolution in early childhood. It will also present the short and medium-term results of two embedded randomized trials: one testing the effects of micronutrient supplementation and another intervention providing parenting support through home visits by cadres from China’s Family Planning Commission. Although the effects of micronutrient supplementation subside by age 2\, we find persistent effects of the parenting intervention on cognitive outcomes. Data on parenting activities are used to explore behavioral mechanisms underlying these results. \nCurriculum Vita (PDF) \n Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC at cpc@unc.edu by the Monday before the seminar \n Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance. \nThis seminar is part of the Carolina Population Center’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/early-childhood-development-in-rural-china-evidence-from-the-qingling-cohort-study-2/ CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190201T130000 DTSTAMP:20200102T153545Z CREATED:20200102T153545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200102T153545Z UID:35789-1549022400-1549026000@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:A Large-Scale Binational Survey of International Migrants from Rural Bangladesh DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 1\, Randall Kuhn\, PhD\, will present A Large-Scale Binational Survey of International Migrants from Rural Bangladesh as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series.\nRandall Kuhn is a demographer and sociologist focused on the social determinants of health\, program evaluation\, global health\, immigrant health and homelessness. In Bangladesh\, he leads a 35-year evaluation of the effects of randomized child and reproductive health interventions on health and socioeconomic change across generations. He also leads a binational survey of the health and well-being of guest workers and their left-behind families. His cross-national research explores the effectiveness of global health policies and the role of improvements in health as a driver of social and political change. Kuhn’s methodological expertise includes longitudinal data analysis\, experimental and quasi-experimental research design\, forecasting\, and integrated data systems. Kuhn founded the Goal 18 campaign for inclusive UN Sustainable Development Goals. \nKuhn is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Robert (Bob) Hummer. Hummer is the Howard W. Odum Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also co-PI of the Biosocial Training Program at the Carolina Population Center. \nFriday\, Feb 1\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nThis study uses three rounds of survey data on respondents from the Matlab area of Bangladesh to compare the health of international migrants\, interviewed in person and by phone\, to that of non-migrants and internal migrants drawn from the same sample. To our knowledge\, this is the largest binational panel study of migrant health yet conducted. We control for baseline conditions\, account for self-selection and address the role of country of destination\, return migration and duration. Results from a 2012-14 survey of migrants and non-migrants find that migrants fare better on measures of health that are reflective of self-selection (i.e. general health\, smoking\, positive dimensions of mental health). Migrants fare better or no worse on acute risks associated with the migration process such as mortality and injury. Yet they fare moderately worse on emerging chronic health factors such as obesity\, hypertension and negative dimensions of mental health. These findings point to a model of health capital\, in which migrants’ unique physical and emotional gifts are gradually eroded by the insults of the migration process. The seminar will include emerging results from a 2017-18 follow-up survey of migrants that explores the specific role of migrant recruitment\, finance\, social networks\, occupational risk and context of integration in explaining migrant health trajectories. \n Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC at cpc@unc.edu by the Monday before the seminar \n Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance. \nThis seminar is part of the Carolina Population Center’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/a-large-scale-binational-survey-of-international-migrants-from-rural-bangladesh/ CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190208T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190208T130000 DTSTAMP:20200102T153545Z CREATED:20200102T153545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200102T153545Z UID:35790-1549627200-1549630800@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Frontiers in Women's Nutrition: Agenda for Research and Action DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 8\, Parul Christian\, DrPH\, MSc\, will present Frontiers in Women’s Nutrition: Agenda for Research and Action as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nParul Christian leads the Women’s Nutrition portfolio as Senior Program Officer on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Nutrition Program Team in Global Development. She is also Professor of International Health and Human Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Christian’s nutrition research has contributed policy relevant knowledge related to the impact of maternal and infant/child nutrition interventions in improving pregnancy-related outcomes\, including fetal growth\, maternal and infant health and survival\, child growth\, as well as long-term outcomes of child cognition\, and cardiometabolic risk. \nChristian is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Margaret E. Bentley. Bentley is the Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Nutrition\, Associate Dean for Global Health\, and Associate Director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at UNC-Chapel Hill. \nFriday\, Feb 8\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nWomen and girls hold roles in their communities that make them drivers of development as individuals\, and influencers of the health and well-being of their families. To equip women and girls to succeed in school\, maximize work productivity and have their own healthy children in the future\, they must receive the appropriate nutrition right from the start. In this way\, well-nourished girls and women can achieve their potential and meaningfully contribute to their communities. Globally\, about 23 million children are born small-for-gestational age (SGA)\, 15 million are preterm birth\, and around 160 million children are stunted by the end of the first two years of life. Maternal underweight\, short stature\, inadequate pregnancy weight gain\, and micronutrient deficiencies contribute to the high burden of SGA\, which is associated with an increased risk of infant mortality\, childhood stunting\, and poor neurodevelopment. Efficacious nutritional interventions during pregnancy include supplementation with balanced energy-protein\, iron-folic acid\, and multiple micronutrients. However\, constraints exist in the availability of nutritious food products that can be used for supplementing women\, requiring more research on product development. More research is also needed to fully combat the problem of adverse pregnancy outcomes of preterm birth\, pre-eclampsia (PE)\, and stillbirth. For example\, low dose calcium may work to reduce the risk of PE\, which is currently hard to implement in large scale programs due to cost and adherence barriers. Risk factors such as maternal young age\, prepregnancy underweight and stunting\, and prevention \n/treatment of maternal infections require new and multi-pronged strategies in adolescence and preconception; addressing these in part may alleviate a significant burden of fetal growth failure and preterm birth. Data show that growth failure in the first 6 months of life is high in part related to small birth size\, but maternal nutritional support during lactation may also be important. Thus\, there is an overwhelming need to combine implementation learning with new research to impact the nutritional wellbeing of pregnant and lactating women\, women of reproductive age\, and young girls – a neglected agenda in low and middle income settings. The talk will highlight the priorities and new frontiers in women’s nutrition. \n Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC at cpc@unc.edu by the Monday before the seminar \n Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance. \nThis seminar is part of the Carolina Population Center’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/frontiers-in-womens-nutrition-agenda-for-research-and-action/ CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T130000 DTSTAMP:20200102T153546Z CREATED:20200102T153546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200102T153546Z UID:35791-1550232000-1550235600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Research Methods Seminar: An Overview of Autoregressive\, Latent Growth Curve\, and ALT Models for Longitudinal Data DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 15\, Kenneth Bollen\, PhD\, will present An Overview of Autoregressive\, Latent Growth Curve\, and ALT Models for Longitudinal Data: CPC Research Methods Seminar as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nProfessor Bollen is the Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor\, Psychology & Neuroscience and Department of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on developing statistical methodology with applications across a range of population and health areas. His expertise on latent variable structural equation models provides a means to control for measurement error when testing hypotheses. As a statistical consultant for CPC\, Bollen provides statistical advice for many CPC Fellows and students. \nFriday\, Feb 15\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nA wide variety of models are applied to analyze longitudinal data. This seminar provides an overview of three popular ones: the latent growth curve (LGC)\, the autoregressive (AR)\, and the autoregressive latent trajectory (ALT) longitudinal models. The seminar presents each model and discusses their parameters and interpretation. I use an empirical example to illustrate each model and how to program them using structural equation modeling software. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/research-methods-seminar-an-overview-of-autoregressive-latent-growth-curve-and-alt-models-for-longitudinal-data/ CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190222T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190222T130000 DTSTAMP:20240422T145235Z CREATED:20200102T153547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T145235Z UID:35792-1550836800-1550840400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Biological Mediators and Moderators of Social Disadvantage DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, February 22\, Colter Mitchell\, PhD will present Biological Mediators and Moderators of Social Disadvantage as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nMitchell is Research Assistant Professor of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and is a Faculty Associate of the University of Michigan Population Studies Center. \nMitchell is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Guang Guo. Guo is Dr. George and Alice Welsh Distinguished Professor of Sociology. Guo is a CPC Training Program Alum: he was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1991-1993. \nProfessor Mitchell is part of an NIH initiative to explore social epigenomics related to health disparities. \nFriday\, Feb 22\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nMeasures of social disadvantage such as poverty\, parental incarceration\, and family instability have well documented health and behavioral consequences for children\, which can even reach into adulthood. Social disadvantage likely operates through both social and biological mechanisms; however\, only in the last decade and a half have we seen a rapid increase in the integration of social science and biology. I investigate biological correlates of social disadvantage using the Fragile Family and Child Wellbeing Study (n=4898)\, a population-based sample of children born in hospitals in 20 cities in the US. Families have been studied at birth and ages 1\,3\,5\,9\, and 15\, with additions of genetic\, epigenetic\, and neuroimaging data collected more recently. Due to the study design the sample is racially and ethnically diverse and has lower SES levels than most large national studies— making it exceptionally rare within biosocial research. Of particular interest here are the correlations with genomic (polygenic scores\, and changes in epigenetic profiles and telomere length) and functional and structural neuroimaging measures with the effect of cumulative disadvantage and timing of social disadvantage. \nResearch project: “Epigenetic Mediation of Adverse Social Context on Stress Response\, Socioemotional Development\, and Health in a Population-based Study of Minority and Low SES Children and Adolescents” \nSelected publications URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/biological-mediators-and-moderators-of-social-disadvantage/ CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190301T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190301T130000 DTSTAMP:20200102T153547Z CREATED:20200102T153547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200102T153547Z UID:35793-1551441600-1551445200@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Did We Botch the Notch? Investigating the Social Security Notch Literature and Use of the Health and Retirement Study DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, March 1\, Jeremy Moulton\, PhD\, will present Did We Botch the Notch? Investigating the Social Security Notch Literature and Use of the Health and Retirement Study as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nMoulton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research investigates the intended and unintended consequences of public policy on labor supply\, consumption\, retirement\, self-employment\, real estate\, and the intergenerational transmission of wealth and education. \nMoulton is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow and Center Director Elizabeth Frankenberg. Frankenberg\, Professor of Sociology\, has served as the Director of Carolina Population Center since 2017. \nFriday\, Mar 1\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nThe Social Security Amendments of 1972 and 1977\, often referred to as the “Social Security Notch\,” have been exploited as a natural experiment by researchers across numerous literatures to estimate causal relationships between income and an array of different outcomes. In this paper\, we investigate whether a demographic or sampling shift potentially confounds results from Notch papers that use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)\, a popular data source for many of these studies. Specifically\, we find a large discontinuous shift in the proportion of non-white respondents in the HRS starting with the 1917 birth cohort (i.e.\, those adversely affected by the Social Security Amendments)\, which we conclude is due to sampling problems in the HRS. To determine whether this confounds key results in the literature\, we replicate three papers with different empirical approaches that used the HRS in their analysis of the Social Security Notch (Moulton\, 2017; Goda et al\, 2010; and Moran and Simon\, 2006) and test the extent to which the results hold after accounting for the sampling issue. Overall\, the results imply that the Social Security Notch literature and other work using the HRS data should carefully consider this issue. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/did-we-botch-the-notch-investigating-the-social-security-notch-literature-and-use-of-the-health-and-retirement-study/ CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190322T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190322T130000 DTSTAMP:20200102T153547Z CREATED:20200102T153547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200102T153547Z UID:35794-1553256000-1553259600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Labor Supply and a Temporary Reprieve from Deportation: Evidence from the DACA Program DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, March 22\, Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba\, PhD\, will present Labor Supply and a Temporary Reprieve from Deportation: Evidence from the DACA Program as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series.\nRubalcaba is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill. His areas of interests broadly include health and labor economics. Specifically\, he has explored the health and labor market outcomes among underrepresented and disadvantaged communities\, while developing new empirical techniques to investigate the economic mechanisms and public policies driving these outcomes. \nRubalcaba is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa. Handa is the Lawrence I. Gilbert Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill. \nFriday\, Mar 22\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street\nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nApproximately 800\,000 unauthorized immigrants have participated in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program\, receiving deportation deferment and work eligibility. This paper investigates the impact of the DACA program on the labor supply of unauthorized immigrant youth\, with a focus on the gender disparities in the labor market. We leverage an imputed immigration status as a mechanism for identification in a triple-differences model. Our results reveal DACA increased labor force participation by 3 to 4 percentage points among immigrant youth\, which is primarily attributable to women with previous employment experience. The change in labor force participation among DACA eligible women is estimated to be approximately 3 percentage points greater than the estimated change in labor force participation among DACA eligible men\, or approximately 27\,000 women. The results presented throughout the analysis suggests DACA played a role in contracting the glaring gender disparity\, measured in terms of labor force participation\, among the unauthorized immigrant population. This study provides a unique insight into the relationship between immigration policy and labor supply behavior at the intersection of immigration status and gender. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/labor-supply-and-a-temporary-reprieve-from-deportation-evidence-from-the-daca-program/ CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T130000 DTSTAMP:20200102T153548Z CREATED:20200102T153548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200102T153548Z UID:35795-1553860800-1553864400@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Biomarker Expert Panel DESCRIPTION:This panel will focus on challenges and opportunities related to inclusion of biomarkers in large population surveys\, addressing: \n What are the most informative\, cutting edge methods and markers for use in population research? (Whole blood by venipuncture\, dried blood spots\, urine\, feces\, other tissues for analysis of the microbiome\, metabolomics\, disease and nutrient markers\, and quantification of the exposome). \n What informs decisions around inclusion of biomarkers in study protocols?\n Feasibility: What is field-friendly?\n Cost\n Respondent burden\n Establishing collaborations with lab science experts \n Ethics: what are responsibilities around return of results? \nThis panel includes principal investigators of large population based studies with experience in measurement of biomarkers. \nLinda Adair: The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey; ECHO\nKathleen Harris: The National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health\nElizabeth Frankenberg: The Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS)\, the Work and Iron Status Evaluation (WISE)\, the Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR) and the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS).\nKatie Meyer: Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA) URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/biomarker-expert-panel/ CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190405T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190405T130000 DTSTAMP:20200102T153833Z CREATED:20200102T153549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200102T153833Z UID:35796-1554465600-1554469200@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Attainment Goals\, Attainment Gaps: Understanding North Carolina’s Education Pipeline DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 5\, Rebecca Tippett\, PhD\, will present Attainment Goals\, Attainment Gaps: Understanding North Carolina’s Education Pipeline as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nTippett is the Director of Carolina Demography. Located within the Carolina Population Center at UNC-Chapel Hill\, Carolina Demography helps North Carolina’s leaders make sense of population-level changes throughout the state. Offering a full array of demographic data and research consulting services\, Carolina Demography draws on the Center’s global expertise and 50+ years’ experience in population research. The work of their outstanding community of scholars informs decision making\, planning\, and program evaluation for businesses\, foundations\, government agencies\, schools\, and not-for-profit organizations who need to better understand their communities and environments. For more information\, please visit https://demography.cpc.unc.edu. URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/attainment-goals-attainment-gaps-understanding-north-carolinas-education-pipeline/ LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516 CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190426T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190426T130000 DTSTAMP:20200102T153549Z CREATED:20200102T153549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200102T153549Z UID:35797-1556280000-1556283600@www.cpc.unc.edu SUMMARY:Monitoring Health Progress: From Global Estimates to Local Health Data DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 26\, Ties Boerma\, PhD\, will present Monitoring Health Progress: From Global Estimates to Local Health Data as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.\nBoerma is Professor and Canada Research Chair for Population and Global Health at the Centre for Global Public Health\, Department of Community Health Sciences\, University of Manitoba\, Canada\, and Director of the Countdown to 2030 for Reproductive\, Maternal\, Newborn\, Child and Adolescent Health. He has over 30 years of experience working in global public health and research programs\, including 10 years at national and districts levels in Africa. Boerma served as Director of the Evaluation project\, precursor to today’s MEASURE Evaluation\, while holding an appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has directed the World Health Organization’s work on health information and evidence for 12 years\, and has worked for bilateral donors\, national governments and research institutions\, and published extensively on AIDS\, maternal and child health\, health information systems and statistics in epidemiological\, demographic\, and public health journals. A national of the Netherlands\, he received his medical degree from the University of Groningen\, and a PhD in Medical Demography from the University of Amsterdam. \nBoerma is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Sharon Weir. Weir is a Research Assistant Professor\, Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Weir has collaborated with UNAIDS and the World Health Organization since 2009\, co-chairing a working group to develop operational guidelines for monitoring and evaluation of HIV prevention and treatment programs for people who inject drugs\, sex workers\, men who have sex with men and transgender people URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/monitoring-health-progress-from-global-estimates-to-local-health-data-2/ CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR