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SUMMARY:Miyuki Hino: In harm’s way: characterizing exposure to flooding in North Carolina
DESCRIPTION:On January 14\, 2022\, Miyuki Hino\, assistant professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and an adjunct assistant professor in the Environment\, Ecology\, and Energy Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, will present “In harm’s way: characterizing exposure to flooding in North Carolina” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nMiyuki Hino is an assistant professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and an adjunct assistant professor in the Environment\, Ecology\, and Energy Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research examines the linkages between climate hazards\, governance\, and public policy to drive effective and equitable adaptation to climate change. Recent work has focused on the impacts of sea level rise\, the effects of flood risk on property markets\, and the use of managed retreat in adapting to climate change. Miyuki received a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources from Stanford University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Yale University. \nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/miyuki-hino/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Giovanna Merli: The Changing Intellectual Landscape of Demography: A Computational Look at Published Scholarship\, 1950-2020
DESCRIPTION:On November 19\, 2021\, Giovanna Merli\, Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at Duke University and a member of the Duke Global Health Institute\, will present “The Changing Intellectual Landscape of Demography: A Computational Look at Published Scholarship\, 1950-2020” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nHer research straddles three disciplinary realms: demography\, contemporary Chinese society and global health. She focuses on a range of population and health issues in developing countries that intersect frontline public policy\, such as the role of China’s population control program in lowering fertility preferences and fertility rates in China\, the social and behavioral determinants of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and the evaluation of methodological approaches to sample hard-to-reach and hidden populations at high risk of acquiring HIV/AIDS. Merli combines her passion for demography and her 20-years experience with living in\, studying and conducting research in China in her most recent work. China is a very low HIV prevalence setting but infection rates are high in some population groups whose behaviors are driving the Chinese epidemic. Thus\, it is crucial to understand the social and behavioral patterns that put population groups with different risk profiles in contact with each other. Merli’s work examines the social and behavioral factors that create conditions which lead individuals in China to acquire HIV infection. This work is crucial to inform the design of appropriate interventions to prevent further spread of infection. Merli also studies HIV/AIDS in another\, very different setting of the global HIV epidemic\, South Africa\, where the AIDS morbidity and mortality crises are tantamount to a perturbation of the age structure. HIV/AIDS in South Africa mostly affects individuals in the mid-adult ages and her work focuses on understanding the consequences of this mortality and morbidity crisis for families and households. Research in China is my comparative advantage. \nAbstract: \nMuch of what we know about the intellectual landscape of demography comes from subjective narratives authored by leaders in the field\, whose reviews and observations are grounded in their broad knowledge of the field. Here we use bibliographic information from all articles in the journals Demography\, Population Studies and Population and Development Review to survey the changing contours of the field over the past 70 years. We characterize the field by applying a two-pronged\, data-driven approach from the sociology of science. The first uses natural language processing that lets the substance of the field emerge from the contents of publication records and applies social network analyses to identify groups of papers that talk about the same thing. The second uses bibliometric tools to capture demographers’ reliance on other disciplines. Our goals are to (a) identify the primary topics of demography since the discipline first gained prominence as an organized field; (b) assess changes in the field’s intellectual cohesion and the topical areas that have grown or shrunk; (c) examine how demographers place their work in relationship to other disciplines and our field’s visibility in the scientific literature. We discuss prospects for the continued scientific importance of demography as a standalone research field and its public visibility. \nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/giovanna-merli/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Ashu Handa: Malawi’s Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP)
DESCRIPTION:On November 12\, 2021\, Ashu Handa\, the Lawrence I. Gilbert Distinguished Professor in the Department of Public Policy at UNC and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center\, will present his study results from Malawi as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nHanda is Lawrence I. Gilbert Distinguished Professor in the Department of Public Policy at the UNC and is a human resource economist specializing in household behaviours in developing countries. He has over 20 years’ experience assessing impacts of government poverty alleviation programs in Latin America\, the Caribbean and Africa. He previously served as Chief of Social Policy and Economic Analysis\, UNICEF Innocenti. \nAbout the Transfer Project \nThe Transfer Project is a multi-country cash transfer research initiative. Established in 2008\, the project is a collaborative network between UNICEF Innocenti\, FAO\, University of North Carolina\, UNICEF Regional and Country Offices\, national governments\, and local research partners. The Transfer Project is a thought leader on cash transfers in Africa. We go beyond measuring typical economic outcomes to find out if and how cash transfers impact other aspects of people’s lives.\nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/ashton-verdery/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Julie Bynum: Accelerating population research and its impact to reduce Burden of Alzheimer’s disease
DESCRIPTION:On November 5\, 2021\, Julie Bynum\, the Margaret Terpenning Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine\, Research Professor in the Institute of Gerontology\, Geriatric Center Associate Director for Health Policy and Research\, and a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan\, will present “Accelerating population research and its impact to reduce Burden of Alzheimer’s disease” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nDr. Bynum is the Margaret Terpenning Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine\, Research Professor in the Institute of Gerontology\, Geriatric Center Associate Director for Health Policy and Research\, and a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. She received her medical and public health degrees from Johns Hopkins\, did her residency and chief residency at Dartmouth\, and completed specialty training in Geriatric Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Bynum then joined the faculty at Dartmouth Medical School.  She received prestigious awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholar Program and the National Institute of Aging Beeson Scholar Program. She has been an Atlantic Philanthropies Health & Aging Policy Fellow\, was a member of the National Academy of Medicine Committee that published “Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress” and was recently a Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. She is currently a member of the National Academy of Medicine Forum on Aging\, Disability and Independence. \nDr. Bynum joined the University of Michigan in 2018 and was recently chosen to succeed Dr. Dick Simon as Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs for the Department of Internal Medicine.  She currently leads a robust portfolio of research\, has taken on a diverse group of junior faculty mentees across the instructional\, clinical and research tracks\, and provides primary and consultative care to older adults. Dr. Bynum is well known for leading interdisciplinary research teams to study questions about the complex drivers of quality and costs for older adults and how to improve health care policy and performance using national administrative data. \nTitle and abstract of lecture will be available soon. \nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/julie-bynum/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Will Dow: Female Sex Workers in the Time of COVID: A Longitudinal Study in Tanzania
DESCRIPTION:On October 29\, 2021\, Will Dow\, the Director of the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging and a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health\, will present “Female Sex Workers in the Time of COVID: A Longitudinal Study in Tanzania” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \n\nDow\, a celebrated scholar of the economic aspects of health insurance\, health behaviors\, and health and demographic outcomes\, joined the Berkeley faculty in 2004. Since 2005\, he has been the founding associate director of the Berkeley Population Center and\, since 2013\, the director of the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging. He has also served at the School as division head of Health Policy and Management and as the associate dean for research\, and in 2018-19 served as Interim Dean of the School of Public Health. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, and previously served as Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. \nDow’s research contributes to improvements in health policy and healthy aging among vulnerable populations locally and globally. He has led teams analyzing California’s pathbreaking health insurance reforms and paid leave policies\, as well as teams designing innovative behavioral economic strategies for preventing HIV and promoting behavior change such as smoking cessation. His global work includes serving as principal investigator of the premier team studying determinants of Costa Rican’s exceptional longevity\, as well as projects in Cuba\, Mexico\, Tanzania and Japan. \n\nTitle and abstract of lecture will be available soon. \nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/will-dow/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:Yamnia I. Cortés: Women’s reproductive health across the life course: A marker for cardiovascular disease risk in later life?
DESCRIPTION:On October 15\, 2021\, Yamnia I. Cortés\, Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Nursing\, Health Disparities\, Women’s Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, will present “Women’s reproductive health across the life course: A marker for cardiovascular disease risk in later life?” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \n\nDr. Cortés obtained her BA in Biology and completed a concentration in Latino/a Studies at Williams College in 2006. She completed her MPH in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University in 2009\, where she also received her BS/MS in Nursing and FNP-BC. In 2015\, she received her PhD at Columbia University School of Nursing. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health from 2015-2018 in Cardiovascular Epidemiology. Dr. Cortés leads an interdisciplinary research program focusing on cardiovascular disease in midlife women. She has a longstanding interest in understanding how women’s reproductive health may be an indicator of future cardiovascular disease risk\, including measures of subclinical vascular disease. Another area of research focuses on racial/ethnic disparities in women’s reproductive and cardiovascular health\, as well as the role of sociocultural factors. \nAbstract: \nWomen’s reproductive health across the life course: A marker for cardiovascular disease risk in later life? \nIn this presentation Dr. Cortés will provide an overview of the current evidence linking reproductive health\, from menarche thru postmenopause\, to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in midlife women and beyond. Using examples from existing literature and her program of research\, she will discuss potential mechanisms and interventions to address inequities in reproductive health and CVD. \n\nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/yamnia-i-cortes/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Marcia (Marcy) J. Carlson and Peter Fallesen: Longer lives\, Later Births: Generational Overlap in Denmark and the U.S.
DESCRIPTION:On October 8\, 2021\, Marcy Carlson\, Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, and Peter Fallesen (Rockwool Foundation and Stockholm University) will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nCarlson’s primary research interests center on the associations between family contexts and the wellbeing of parents and children. She has explored the changing composition of families and aspects of their functioning. Her early work explored how family structure was associated with child and adolescent being\, identifying fathers’ involvement with children as a key mechanism by which family structure affects offspring. Much of her recent work is focused on growing family diversity and complexity\, particularly with respect to fertility patterns and fatherhood\, as well as how family change is linked with inequality in both the U.S. and cross-national contexts. \nFallesen is an associate professor (docent) of sociology in the LNU/level-of-living group. Until December 2016\, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the same place. He received my PhD in sociology from the University of Copenhagen in February 2015. He is also a Research Professor at the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit in Copenhagen and a research affiliate at the Center for Demography and Ecology\, University of Wisconsin – Madison. He previously held visiting positions at Yale University\, UC Berkeley\, and European University Institute. \nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/marcia-marcy-j-carlson/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Thomas McDade: Biosocial 2.0:  Future directions for research at the interface of the biological and social sciences
DESCRIPTION:On October 1\, 2021\, Thom McDade\, a biological anthropologist and the Director of the Laboratory for Human Biology Research at Northwestern University\, will present “Biosocial 2.0:  Future directions for research at the interface of the biological and social sciences” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nThom McDade is a biological anthropologist specializing in human population biology. His work is primarily concerned with the dynamic interrelationships among society\, biology and health over the life course\, with an emphasis on life course approaches to stress and the human immune system. The development and application of minimally-invasive methods for integrating physiological measures into population-based research is also a major area of interest. Prior research in Samoa\, and ongoing research in Bolivia and Ecuador\, investigates how local cultural transitions associated with globalization affect human development and health\, while research in the Philippines is exploring the long term developmental consequences of early nutritional and microbial environments. He is currently applying conceptual and methodological tools from this work to US-based research on health disparities\, with an emphasis on the potential contributions of stress and environments in infancy. \nAbstract: \nNovel methods for measuring human biology and health in non-clinical settings are generating new opportunities for discovery at the interface of the social and biological sciences.  In this seminar I highlight how biosocial approaches have enriched our explanatory and conceptual frameworks\, and I underscore how work in this area can fundamentally change how we think about human biology and the origins of social inequalities in health. \nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/thomas-mcdade/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210924T120000
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SUMMARY:Aunchalee Palmquist: Advancing Health Equity in the first 1\,000 days: Breastfeeding and Reproductive Justice
DESCRIPTION:On September 24\, 2021\, Aunchalee Palmquist\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and an affiliate of the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI)\, will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nDr. Palmquist’s research addresses the intersectionality of perinatal maternal\, newborn and young child health disparities globally and in the U.S.\, with an emphasis on breastfeeding. Dr. Palmquist’s interdisciplinary work bridges medical anthropology and global public health. She conducts community-based participatory research and uses both ethnographic methods and mixed-methods approaches. Her scholarship and practice are informed by human rights based approaches and a reproductive justice lens. \nDr. Palmquist is the lead for the CGBI Lactation and Infant Feeding in Emergencies (L.I.F.E.™) Initiative. She serves as a CGBI representative on the WHO/UNICEF Global Breastfeeding Collective\, the Emergency Nutrition Network IFE Core Group\, and the United States Breastfeeding Committee as Co-Steward of the COVID-19 Infant and Young Child Feeding Constellation. Dr. Palmquist has previously served as an International Lactation Consultants Association liaison to the United Nations. \nAbstract: The perinatal period is a critical time during which health interventions have potential to impact immediate\, life course\, and intergenerational outcomes for mothers\, children\, and families. Collaborative community-engaged approaches are critical to advancing health equity for this population. In this presentation\, Dr. Palmquist will describe her research on breastfeeding and reproductive justice globally and locally. \nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/aunchalee-palmquist/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T120000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Kreitzer: Unplanning Pregnancy: The Politics of Contraception Deserts
DESCRIPTION:On September 17\, 2021\, Rebecca Kreitzer\, Associate Professor of Public Policy and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, will present “Unplanning Pregnancy: The Politics of Contraception Deserts” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. This is a project with Candis Watts Smith (Duke)\, Kellen Kane (UNC Policy PhD student)\, Tracee Saunders (former UNC Policy undergrad\, now PhD student at Iowa). \nDr. Kreitzer’s research focuses on gender\, political representation\, political inequality\, and public policy in the US states. She teaches classes on the politics of policy\, public policy theory\, gender and sexuality policy\, and interest groups. \nAbstract: \nHistorically\, access to contraception has been supported in a bipartisan way\, best exemplified by consistent Congressional funding of Title X–the only federal program specifically focused on providing affordable reproductive healthcare to American residents. However\, in an era of partisan polarization\, Title X has become a political and symbolic pawn\, in part due to its connection to family planning organizations like Planned Parenthood. The conflicts around Title X highlight the effects of the intertwining of abortion politics with that of contraception policy\, particularly as they relate to reproductive justice and gendered policymaking. To what extent are contraception deserts—places characterized by inequitable access to Title X—developed or expanded in response to policy changes around contraception and reproductive health? What is the demographic make-up of these spaces of inequality? \nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/rebecca-kreitzer/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Mark Hayward: Understanding Recent Trends in Dementia Prevalence for Older Black and White Americans
DESCRIPTION:On September 10\, 2021\, Mark Hayward\, Professor of Sociology and the director of the Population Health Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin\, will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nDr. Hayward also serves as the Training Director of the Population Research Center. He recently served as the the president of the Southern Demographic Association\, chair of the Aging and Life Course section of the American Sociological Association\, and is the chair of the Sociology of Population section of the ASA. He has served on the boards of the Population Association of America and the Society of Biodemography and Social Biology\, and he was a member and then chair of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research council. Currently\, he is a member of the Committee on Population\, National Academy of Sciences\, and the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Center for Health Statistics. He recently served on the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health and Society Scholars Program. Hayward received his Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University in 1981. \nHis primary research addresses how life course exposures and events influence the morbidity and mortality experiences of the adult population. Recent studies have clarified how early life conditions influence socioeconomic\, race and gender disparities in adult morbidity and mortality; the demography of race/ethnic and gender disparities in healthy life expectancy; social inequality in the biomarkers of aging\, and the health consequences of marriage\, divorce\, and widowhood. Most recently\, he has been investigating the fundamental inequalities in adult mortality in the United States arising from educational experience\, differences in these associations by race and gender\, and trends in inequality in mortality. Currently\, he is part of a national scientific team examining the role of federal and state policies shaping the growing inequality in life chances in the US adult population. His research on these topics has been by the National Institute on Aging and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. His recently published work has appeared in the American Journal of Public Health\, Demography\, the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences\, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior\, and Social Science and Medicine. \nAbstract \nObjectives: Today’s talk is motivated by recent evidence that dementia prevalence has been declining in the United States. Less clear\, however\, is whether important sociodemographic groups diverged or perhaps contributed in different ways to the overall national trend. For example\, is the downward trend in dementia prevalence evident across the age range (young old compared to the oldest old)? Do Blacks and Whites both experience downward trends in dementia prevalence? Have changes in educational attainment\, as well as other changes in modifiable risk factors for dementia (such as changes in poor childhood circumstances\, health behaviors\, and health conditions)\, had widespread consequences across major race–age groups \nMethods: The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is used to assess dementia prevalence changes for non-Hispanic Blacks and Whites between 2000-2014 for community dwelling and nursing home residents aged 65 years and older. Cognitive status has been validated using clinical diagnoses and survey scores of a subsample of HRS respondents. The analysis of the dementia prevalence trends is based on logistic regression models predicting the log odds of having dementia as a function of a time-trend variable and a set of relevant covariates. \nResults: Consistent with other studies\, we found significant declines in dementia for Blacks and Whites across the 2000-2014 period. Nonetheless\, these declines were not uniform across age and race groups. Blacks aged 65–74 years had the steepest decline in this period. We also found that improved educational attainment in the population was fundamentally important in understanding declining dementia prevalence in the United States. \nDiscussion: This study shows the importance of improvement in educational attainment in the early part of the twentieth century to understand the downward trend in dementia prevalence in the United States from 2000 to 2014. The downward trend was unrelated to dementia risk \nfactors such as controlled hypertension\, changes in health behaviors\, or changes in early life conditions. This finding has implications not only for understanding current trends in the United States\, but also the potential role of the growth in cognitive ability and functioning in other countries that underwent similar rapid expansions in schooling. \nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/mark-hayward/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars,Aging
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Michael H. Esposito: Racism and Quantitative Counterfactual Inference: Historical and Life-Course Examples
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled and will be rescheduled for the spring semester.  \nOn August 27\, 2021\, Michael H. Esposito\, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis\, will present “Racism and Quantitative Counterfactual Inference: Historical and Life-Course Examples” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2021-2022 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. \nDr. Esposito’s research examines how structural racism shapes population health. His work investigates how macro-level economic\, social and ideological systems—and the institutions that comprise them—are arranged in ways that confer significant advantages for individuals interpreted as white; penalties for individuals interpreted as non-white; and how these systematically produced rewards/risk coalesce and generate health inequity among individuals. This work includes: (1) studies that examine how the actions of race-cognizant institutions (like law enforcement agencies) contribute to health disparities; (2) studies that consider how multiple racialized systems interact to gate access to critical health contexts; and (3) projects that examine how structural racism enters into and distorts social processes that are foundational to well-being (e.g.\, the association among education and health). He specializes in statistical methods—particularly Bayesian approaches and techniques for drawing causal(-ish!) inferences from observational data. \nAbstract \nWhile evidence suggests an association between redlining and population health\, we still lack empirical accounts of how this historical act of racialized violence arrived on contemporary inequities. In this study\, we use a counterfactual-based mediation framework to evaluate 1) how the spatial marking of places\, codified by redlining\, translated into historical trajectories influencing life expectancy and 2) how racialized disparities in life expectancy might look if Black working-class neighborhoods were exposed to histories of White professional-class neighborhoods. We find significant disparities in life expectancy between redlined geographies that can be traced along urban renewal\, racialized economic isolation\, and property valuation in the following decades. Still\, only a small fraction of the total disparity between Black working- class and white professional-class communities is explained by this historical exposure. Policy implications include targeting resources to formerly redlined neighborhoods\, but also dismantling broader racist logics of capital accumulation codified in more abstracted political economies of place. \nWe record as many seminars as possible. You can see previous events here.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/michael-h-esposito/
LOCATION:Carolina Square Room 2002\, 123 W. Franklin St\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27516
CATEGORIES:2021-22 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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