Carolina Population Center

Mothers, Children, and Child Care in the U.S.
2016-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Robert Crosnoe
Professor and Chair of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
Abstract:
The state of early child care in a society—how accessible it is to families in need, how good it is for children—is a core component of the health, wellbeing, and productivity of the population, but the state of early child care in the U.S. is characterized by considerable inequality. This presentation draws on several years of quantitative research with the NICHD Study of Early Child Care to show how a variety of family disadvantages translate into disadvantages in the early child care market, undermining the future prospects of children and mothers, and then explores media coverage of this long-running federal study to demonstrate how cultural debates about maternal employment, intensive mothering, and the best interests of children slow progress in providing high-quality child care to families.
Bio:
Robert Crosnoe is the C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair #4 at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is Chair of the Department of Sociology and a faculty member in the Population Research Center. Prior to coming to Texas, he received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Crosnoe conducts mixed-methods research on the connections among health, child/adolescent development, and education and the contributions of these connections to socioeconomic and immigration-related inequalities in American society. This work has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Science Foundation, Institute of Education Sciences, National Institute of Justice, William T. Grant Foundation, and Foundation for Child Development. His books include Mexican Roots, American Schools: Helping Mexican Immigrant Children Succeed (Stanford University Press), Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education (Cambridge University Press), and Asset or Distraction: Physical Attractiveness and the Accumulation of Social and Human Capital from Adolescence and Young Adulthood (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development with Rachel Gordon), and his new books are Healthy Learners: A Whole Child Approach to Disparities in Early Education (Teachers College Press with Claude Bonazzo and Nina Wu), and Debating Early Child Care: The Relationship between Developmental Science and the Media (Cambridge University Press with Tama Leventhal). Dr. Crosnoe is Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Collaborative on Development in Context and President-Elect of the Society for Research on Adolescence, serves on the Governing Councils for the Society for Research in Child Development and Council on Contemporary Families, and just completed his term as Deputy Editor of Journal of Marriage and Family.

Sex, Gender, and Health
2016-10-28 12:00 - 13:00
Susan Short
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Population Studies and Training Center
The Brown University
Dr. Short’s research examines changing social and demographic environments and their implications for family dynamics, gender, health, and well-being.
She has examined economic reform and population policy in China, the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Lesotho, and changes in the organization of women’s work and parenting in the U.S. Short’s research is characterized by diverse methodologies, including demographic, ethnographic, spatial, and genomic approaches. Her recent work integrates social and biological perspectives to investigate the processes through which social experiences are embodied over the life course, producing variation in health and well-being.

The Individual’s Choice of Facility for Maternal Health and Family Planning Services in a Dense Urban Environment: The Case of Senegal
2016-10-14 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. David Guilkey
UNC-CH Professor of Economics and CPC Faculty Fellow
Professor Guilkey is an applied econometrician with a microeconomics focus. Much of his work has involved the use of large survey data sets that involve limited dependent variables and the presence of endogenous right-hand-side variables.
Dr. Ilene Speizer
UNC-CH Research Professor of Maternal & Child Health and
CPC Faculty Fellow
CPC Training Program Postdoctoral Alumna
Professor Speizer is trained as a demographer and evaluation researcher, and has led research and evaluation studies on family planning, HIV prevention, intimate partner violence, and adolescent reproductive health programs in sub-Saharan Africa, Haiti, and India. She is currently the co-Principal Investigator and Technical Deputy Director for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation (MLE) for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative project.

Do food security interventions benefit women?: Gender and groundnuts in Zambia
2016-10-07 12:00 - 13:00
Siân Curtis, UNC-CH
Professor Curtis is a statistical demographer whose research and administrative efforts have focused on monitoring and evaluation of global population and health programs and family planning and reproductive health. As the past Director of the MEASURE Evaluation Project (from 2002-12), she provided technical direction and leadership to a portfolio of over 100 individual monitoring and evaluation activities in over 25 countries. Curtis continues to play an important role in the MEASURE Evaluation Project as a Senior Evaluation Specialist with responsibilities for designing and leading evaluations related to international health and food security projects, and is director of the Family Planning Country Action Process Evaluation Project. She has particular expertise in the design and analysis of complex surveys and previously worked as a senior analyst with the Demographic and Health Survey Project at Macro International.

A sociogenomic approach to fertility: combining demography, sociology and molecular genetics
2016-09-30 12:00 - 13:00
Melinda Mills is the Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Editor-in-Chief of the European Sociological Review. She leads the SOCIOGENOME and several other related projects, which combine demographic, sociological, biological and molecular genetic research to study the life course. Her interests also include the impact of nonstandard schedules on family life, assortative mating and internet dating and research methods.

Does Changing the Social Environment in Early Childhood Matter? Emerging Causal Evidence from Pakistan
2016-09-23 12:00 - 13:00
Joanna Maselko, UNC-CH
Joanna (‘Asia’) Maselko is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist whose research aims to identify mechanisms through which the social environment impacts the development of common neuropsychiatric disorders. Anchored in a life-course developmental framework, a large portion of her research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of risk and the role of the environment in altering socio-emotional and cognitive developmental trajectories.
Dr. Maselko is currently the PI of the SHARE CHILD study, a cluster RCT set in rural Pakistan, whose goal is to investigate mechanisms through which maternal depression, and its treatment, impacts child development in the first three years of life. A central question is to examine heterogeneity of treatment effects by social contextual factors such as socioeconomic status, family composition, and parenting.
A separate line of research focuses on religious engagement and health, with a special interest on how gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status affect this relationship over the lifecourse.
The majority of Dr. Maselko’s research is located in South Asia, with the broad goal of expanding the field of social and psychiatric epidemiology globally through anchoring research in a cross-cultural context and addressing disparities in global health

Religion and Depression in Adolescence
2016-09-16 12:00 - 13:00
Jane Fruehwirth, UNC-CH
Jane Cooley Fruehwirth is an economist with research interests in the determinants of social, economic and racial inequality. A central theme to her research is the role of social context in shaping disadvantage, particularly in the context of schools and friendships. She also studies education policies at the elementary and secondary school level that are aimed at improving disadvantaged students’ outcomes, such as teaching practice, accountability and grade retention. More recently, her research delves into the determinants of mental health in adolescence, particularly the role of religion and friends

Health Systems Decentralization in Rural Honduras: Little Evidence for Improvements in Maternal and Child Health
2016-09-09 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Elisabeth Root
Associate Professor of Geography; Associate Professor of Epidemiology; The Ohio State University
CPC Training Program Predoctoral Alumna
Professor Root’s research is situated at the intersection of geography and public health. Using spatial statistical methods and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), she integrates socioeconomic and environmental context into studies of disease processes and health behaviors to better understand geographical patterns of human health across diverse settings, examine how local and regional context drives these patterns of disease, and model the effect of major health and development interventions across these diverse settings. Dr. Root’s main approach involves collecting extensive survey and health data and combining these data with areal demographic/economic indicators and environmental data. She then use spatial statistical methods and GIS to quantify and assess the spatial/contextual factors which alter disease processes and programmatic effects. Her active research projects are located in Honduras, Bangladesh, and the Philippines as well as the U.S.

The Effect of Ethnic Enclaves on Job Matching and Wage Growth: Evidence using Co-worker and City of Birth Networks in the LEHD
2016-04-22 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Ted Mouw
UNC-CH Associate Professor of Sociology and CPC Faculty Fellow
In his current research on immigration, Professor Mouw is analyzing the effect of immigration on the labor market outcomes of native workers using a unique data set of restricted-access employer-employee data (the Longitudinal Employer Household Data “LEHD”) at the Triangle Census Research Data Center. The LEHD is an administrative data set on the quarterly earnings of all privately employed workers in participating states, constructed from unemployment insurance records. This project uses longitudinal data on over 93 million workers in 30 states from 1992-2008. By following these workers over time, Mouw is able to analyze the way that native workers adapt to immigration by modelling earnings growth and firm, industry, and geographic mobility.

Dietary Acculturation among Mexican-origin Children
2016-04-08 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Jenifer Van Hook
Professor of Sociology & Demography; Center Director, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Jennifer Van Hook is Professor of Sociology and Demography and Center Director of the Population Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University. She conducts demographic research on the settlement and incorporation patterns of U.S. immigrants, with one strand of her work focusing on illegal immigration. Her work also focuses on the social, economic, and health assimilation of immigrants and their descendants.
Dr. Van Hook received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, and has held positions at the Urban Institute and Bowling Green State University before joining the faculty at Penn State. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Population Association of America and the Census Scientific Advisory Committee.

Cash Transfers to Prevent HIV Infection: State of the Evidence and Implications for Programs
2016-03-04 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Audrey Pettifor
UNC-CH Associate Professor of Epidemiology and
CPC Faculty Fellow
Dr. Audrey Pettifor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. She has conducted research on sexual behavior HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa for close to twenty years with a particular focus on young women and structural interventions. Dr. Pettifor is PI of a large NIH funded randomized controlled trial in South Africa (HPTN 068) which examines the impact of a cash transfer conditional on school attendance on HIV incidence among young women.

Global Estimates of Children’s and Young Person’s Food Insecurity using the Gallup World Poll
2016-02-26 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Ashu Handa
UNC-CH Professor of Pubic Policy and CPC Faculty Fellow
Professor Handa is currently on-leave from UNC serving as Chief of Social & Economic Policy at UNICEF’s Office of Research-Innocenti, Florence, Italy. At UNICEF he leads the Innocenti Report Card Series, UNICEF’s flagship publication on the well-being of children in rich countries. The 2014 Report Card, which Handa led, focused on the impact of the great recession on child poverty, and was featured in over 100 major media outlets including the Washington Post, Financial Times, The Guardian (UK), Republica (Italy), El Pais (Spain), AP, and Reuters. The current Report Card, scheduled to be launched in March 2016, tracks bottom-end inequality among children in 41 rich countries over time, measured through children’s health, education and income. Professor Handa is one of eight researchers awarded access to the food security scale that the FAO incorporated into the Gallup World Poll through their Voices of the Hungry project
While at Innocenti, Dr. Handa continues to be actively engaged in CPC activities. Three CPC predoctoral trainees and four CPC Faculty Fellows visited Innocenti in 2013-14 for workshops and research collaboration. He also continues to actively manage his CPC-based grant portfolio as Principal Investigator on the Transfer Project (Transfer Project), a collaboration between CPC, UNICEF, FAO and Save the Children. The Transfer Project is a multi-country research initiative to study the impact of national cash transfer programs on poverty and human development.

Selective Migration and the Health of Black Immigrants in the United States
2016-02-19 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Tod Hamilton
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Dr. Tod Hamilton is an Assistant Professor in the Princeton University Department of Sociology and a Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research. His research interests are in the field of demography, with an emphasis on immigration and health. His current research evaluates the relative importance of culture and selective migration in explaining differential patterns of stratification between U.S.-born and foreign-born individuals in the United States. Hamilton also explores the degree of health selection among contemporary immigrants to the United States as well as the role that social, economic, and health conditions in immigrants’ countries of origin play in explaining variation in their post-migration health in the United States.

The Impact of Intensive Livestock Production on the Disease Ecology of Antibiotic Resistant Staphylococcus
2016-02-12 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Jill Stewart
UNC-CH Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences & Engineering
Professor Jill Stewart is an environmental health microbiologist who studies links between human and ecosystem health. She is developing novel tools to detect and track pathogens in the environment and she is applying these tools to evaluate how human activities affect the distribution of microbial contaminants. Current research projects include (1) epidemiology studies of bathing beaches impacted by non-point source pollution, (2) development of stress-response models for forecasting the impacts of development and climate change within watersheds, and (3) evaluating the evolution and dissemination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the environment and in human and animal populations. These activities are leading to a greater understanding of how environmental conditions affect human health, and how humans themselves influence this process. At UNC, Dr. Stewart has a primary appointment in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, and is also serves as the Deputy Director of the Center for Galapagos Studies. She also has adjunct appointments in the Department of Marine Sciences and the Curriculum for the Environment & Ecology.

Can We Really End Malnutrition by 2030?: The Case For and Against
2016-02-04 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Lawrence Haddad
Senior Research Fellow
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Professor Lawrence Haddad is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). He was the Director of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex from 2004 to 2014. Prior to that he was a Division Director at IFPRI for 10 years and a Lecturer in Development Economics at the University of Warwick, UK. His main research interests are at the intersection of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition. He is currently serving as the Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report, which has been downloaded over 60,000 times in the past year.

Using Genomics to Prevent Adverse Drug Reactions in Global Populations
2016-01-29 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Christy Avery
UNC-CH Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Christy Avery is an assistant professor who specializes in cardiovascular epidemiology. Her specific research areas include genetic epidemiology, pharmacogenomics, and translation-oriented approaches to assess the burden of cardiovascular diseases in diverse populations.

Household Decision-making, Gender and Groundnuts in Zambia
2016-01-22 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Siân Curtis
Associate Professor of Maternal & Child Health and CPC Faculty Fellow
Professor Curtis is a statistical demographer whose research and administrative efforts have focused on monitoring and evaluation of global population and health programs and family planning and reproductive health. As the past Director of the MEASURE Evaluation Project (from 2002-12), she provided technical direction and leadership to a portfolio of over 100 individual monitoring and evaluation activities in over 25 countries. Curtis continues to play an important role in the MEASURE Evaluation Project as a Senior Evaluation Specialist with responsibilities for designing and leading evaluations related to international health and food security projects. She has particular expertise in the design and analysis of complex surveys and previously worked as a senior analyst with the Demographic and Health Survey Project at Macro International.

Fertility and the Great Recession
2016-01-15 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Daniel Schneider
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Schneider is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2012, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at UC Berkeley from 2012-2014. Schneider’s research is focused on the family and social inequality.
His work has examined economic influences on family formation, including work on labor union membership and marriage and asset ownership and marriage. His current research examines how the economic shocks of the Great Recession have affected relationship quality, marriage, and fertility. A second line of research focuses on household finances and particularly on household financial fragility. Dr. Schneider uses the non-public versions of data from NCHS, in the Berkeley RDC, to support his research.

CPC Research Methods Series: Cleaning Up After Missing Data: Pitfalls and Priorities
2015-11-20 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Amy Herring, Professor Of Biostatistics and CPC Faculty Fellow
Dr. Annie Green Howard, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Professor Amy Herring investigates factors related to adolescent sexual development and the demography of sexual minorities in the United States, studying trajectories of weight gain and cardiovascular health in a large population-based study in China, learning about factors related to human fertility among older mothers, improving the standards of care in neonatal intensive care units, studying occupational exposures and Parkinson’s-type symptoms, and investigating the roles of nutrition and exercise in healthy pregnancies.
Herring is a member of CPC’s methodological consultation unit and advises and collaborates extensively with CPC Fellows working in population science. She is actively involved in the scientific community and she serves on FDA’s Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee and as an associate editor or editorial board member of a number of journals, including Journal of the American Statistical Association and Environmental Health Perspectives.
Dr. Annie Green Howard graduated from UNC with a Ph.D. in May 2012. After working briefly as a postdoctoral research association at the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center (CSCC) here at UNC, she took a position as an Assistant Professor in the Biostatistics Department.

Summarizing Interactions between People, Places, and Genes
2015-11-13 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Jason Boardman
Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder
Director, Health & Society Program, Institute of Behavioral Science
Professor Jason Boardman’s research focuses on the social determinants of health with an emphasis on the gene-environment interactions related to health behaviors. He teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in statistics, social demography, and the sociology of race and ethnicity.

The Interrelationship between the Status of Singlehood and the Long-term Implications for Racial and Economic Inequality
2015-11-06 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Kris Marsh
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
CPC Training Program Postdoctoral Scholar Alumna
Professor Kris Marsh’s general areas of expertise are the black middle class, demography, racial residential segregation, and education. She has combined these interests to develop a research agenda divided into three broad areas: the black middle class, the intersection of educational attainment and racial identification, and intra-racial health disparities. The common theme in her work is decomposing what it means to be black in America by focusing on intra-group variability in regards to class, space, identity, educational achievement, and mental health. Professor Marsh teaches undergraduate courses in Research Methods and Race Relations. In addition, she is interested in constructing specialized graduate and undergraduate seminars on Racial Residential Segregation, Black Middle Class, and Sociology of Education.

CPC Research Methods Series: Stories and Themes: A Framework for Qualitative Analysis
2015-10-30 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Clare Barrington
Assistant Professor of Health behavior; and CPC Faculty Fellow
Barrington’s research examines social and structural influences on health and health behaviors, with a focus on HIV prevention and health care among female sex workers, men who have sex with men (MSM), and transgender women in Latin America and Latino migrants in the United States. She has been conducting community-based research in the Dominican Republic for over 15 years. In collaboration with the Centro de Orientacion e Investigacion Integral (COIN), she studied the social networks of male clients of female sex workers. Results from this study contributed to the growing literature on normative influences on sexual behavior within social networks and were also used in developing a pilot HIV prevention intervention aimed at male clients in the Dominican Republic (funded by the USAID/Academy for Educational Development). Most recently, with support from USAID, Barrington has been studying a cohort of 250 female sex workers living with HIV in Santo Domingo and their male partners. The aim is to improve understanding of the factors influencing their achievement of optimal HIV outcomes and to assess feasibility and initial effects of a multi-level intervention called Abriendo Puertas (Opening Doors). In Guatemala, she has collaborated with researchers from the Universidad del Valle (UVG) and the Centers for Disease control to examine and compare social networks among gay identifying and non-gay identifying MSM and transgender women. She is currently working with UVG to implement two PEPFAR-funded implementation science projects to pilot the use of social networks to promote HIV testing among MSM in Guatemala City and to evaluate a multi-level intervention for MSM living with HIV. In North Carolina, Barrington has been studying the intersection between social networks, migration and HIV among Mexican migrants. She currently leads the qualitative formative research and evaluation of a HRSA project to promote early detection and linkage to care for HIV among Mexican MSM and transgender women in North Carolina. Finally, Barrington is the qualitative researcher on several mixed-methods projects including a NIDA-funded longitudinal study of relationship disruption during incarceration and HIV risk among African American men in North Carolina, a quality improvement strategy to improve maternal and child health in Ghana, and an impact evaluation of cash transfer program in Malawi.
Barrington will continue to conduct mixed-methods research to improve understanding of the long-term experiences of people living with HIV in Latin America and Latinos in North Carolina. In the Dominican Republic her goal is to continue research with the Abriendo Puertas cohort to examine the role of substance use in HIV care and treatment among female sex workers living with HIV. She also has a grant pending to the adapt Abriendo Puertas for MSM. She is also interested in exploring how to improve employment opportunities for FSW, MSM and transgender women who are living with HIV in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and North Carolina as this has emerged as key structural determinant to positive HIV outcomes across settings. With her work with Latinos in North Carolina she aims to identify strategies to overcome the challenges of geographic dispersion and social isolation for engaging with Latinos living with HIV. She is also developing a new line of research focused on chronic disease in Latin America. She will conduct formative research in collaboration with two rural diabetes clinics to examine the epidemiological transition from the perspective of community health workers and explore social determinants of diabetes in these communities.

Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
2015-10-23 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Luca Flabbi
Associate Professor of Economics and CPC Faculty Fellow
Professor Flabbi is a labor economist focusing on gender discrimination in labor markets, labor market search and frictions, earnings inequality across skill groups, the role of flexibility on wages, simultaneous marriage and labor market searches, intergenerational mobility, and schooling decisions. After obtaining a Ph.D. in economics at NYU, he worked both in academia, in the Economics Department at Georgetown University, and in public policy in the Research Department at the Inter-American Development Bank. Professor Flabbi joined the Department of Economics and the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during summer 2015.

Child Marriage Prevention in Amhara Region, Ethiopia: Association of Communication Exposure and Social Influence with Parents/Guardians’ Knowledge and Attitudes
2015-10-09 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Anastasia (Stacey) Gage
Professor of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University
Dr. Anastasia Gage is a Professor in the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University and holds a Ph.D. in demography. She has 25 years of experience in conducting research on gender and coming-of-age issues among adolescents and young women, consequences for later life, and demographic implications, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti. Her research on young people has addressed transitions to adulthood, child marriage and its health consequences, female genital cutting, health risk behaviors, and the interrelationship between schooling, fosterage, and child labor. She has published on child marriage, female empowerment and adolescent demographic behavior; intimate partner violence; dating violence attitudes and perpetration among high school students; power, control and sexual violence; and the association of maternal violence victimization with child physical punishment. Her research activities include quantitative and/or qualitative studies in a number of countries, including Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Jamaica, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia. Dr. Gage is currently President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Member of the INDEPTH Network Scientific Advisory Committee, Member of the International Outreach Committee of the Population Association of America, and Member of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series -International Advisory Board for the National Science Foundation. She is Principal Investigator of Tulane University’s sub-agreement with the University of North Carolina on the USAID-funded MEASURE Evaluation Project.

Panel Discussion, The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion
2015-10-02 12:00 - 13:00
Moderator: Dr. S. Philip Morgan
Panelists
Dr. Yong Cai: CPC Faculty Fellow (Sociology)
Dr. Peter Coclanis: CPC Faculty Fellow (History)
Dr. Sian Curtis: CPC Faculty Fellow (Maternal & Child Health)
Dr. Paul Leslie: CPC Faculty Fellow (Anthropology)
Rapid population growth in the 1950s, 60s and 70s raised concern about a population explosion with repercussions for the environment, resource depletion and political stability. One could argue that the “population bomb” (Ehrlich, 1968) has been diffused – global population growth has slowed and many predict its end in the next half-century. Concern about population growth spawned a “social movement” to curb fertility; a few at the time called this hysteria and an overreaction. In retrospect more are asking this question, as the New York Times (http://tiny.cc/zlb62x) did this summer. In his 2011 PAA Presidential address, David Lam raised similar questions, as did a cover story in The Economist (October, 2009). What do we think?
Lam, D. (2011). How the world survived the population bomb: Lessons from 50 years of extraordinary demographic history. Demography, 48(4), 1231-1262.

The Migration Climate-Nexus in Central America
2015-09-25 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Valerie Mueller
Senior Research Fellow, Development Strategy and Governance Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
Prior to joining IFPRI, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. She earned her B.S. in Environmental Economics and Policy from the University of California, Berkeley (1998), and both her M.S. and Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park (2001 and 2005, respectively).
Valerie has ten years of experience working on topics related to migration and poverty dynamics and the consequences of climate variability on household welfare in developing countries. She has extensive survey experience, particularly in the area of tracking migrants from longstanding panel surveys (e.g., in Ethiopia and Pakistan). Her research has culminated into several peer-reviewed publications, notably in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Climate Change, and World Development. She also serves on the Environmental Change and Migration Thematic Working Group for the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) hosted by the World Bank.

The German Occupation of the Soviet Union in WWII: The Long-Term Effects on Health Outcomes
2015-09-18 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Klara Peter
Associate Professor of Economics and CPC Faculty Fellow
Peter serves as a principal investigator for the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), the household panel survey that CPC has been conducting since 1992. Peter first worked with the RLMS in 1997 when she received a funded scholarship as part of an RLMS training program to introduce Russian economists and sociologists from outside Moscow RLMS and to longitudinal research methods. She has been working with the RLMS ever since that date and uses these longitudinal data in much of her work. She has collaborated with Barry Popkin in fielding the RLMS since the mid2000s. She was actively involved in the design and implementation of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, the Survey of RLMS Local Administrations, and the survey of all employers of RLMS wage workers. Currently she is editing the symposium of cross-disciplinary research articles based on RLMS (forthcoming in Economics of Transition).
Peter’s advisees work on the spatial discontinuity in demographic outcomes, the factors of migration assimilation, the reversal of the gender gap in educational attainment, and intergenerational economic mobility. She teaches a PhD-level class, Labor Economics, which is a population course approved by CPC. The course attracts students from various disciplines, including economics, public policy, health policy and management, sociology, and city and regional planning.
Klara Peter’s research will take advantage of dynamic, multi-level, cross-spatial, inter-generational longitudinal analysis in understanding population-related outcomes. In particular, her research will focus on some of the methodological issues in causal inference, including the marginal treatment effect method and the spatial discontinuity design as applied to the distributional returns to human capital and other social outcomes.

Mexicans in America
2015-09-11 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Duncan Thomas
Norb F. Schaefer Professor of International Studies
Professor of Economics, Global Health and Public Policy
Department of Economics, Duke University
Duncan Thomas investigates the inter-relationships between health, human capital and socio-economic status with a focus on the roles that individual, family and community factors play in improving levels of health and well-being across the globe. Much of this work highlights resource allocation and decision-making within households and families. His research uses data from large-scale population based longitudinal surveys that he has designed and fielded in collaboration with Elizabeth Frankenberg and other colleagues in the U.S., Indonesia and Mexico. These include 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). He was elected vice president of the Population Association of America (PAA) and, prior to that, was elected to the PAA Board of Directors. He is a fellow, past president and board member of the Bureau for Research in the Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and he currently directs the NBER Development Economics program.

The Theory of Change and Response: A New Agenda for Research on Population and Development in Africa
2015-04-24 12:00 - 13:00
The Theory of Change and Response: A New Agenda for Research on Population and Development in Africa
Dr. Yves Charbit, Professor Emeritus of Demography, University of Paris, Descartes

Selection In Utero and Quality of Surviving Males in Historical and Modern Societies
2015-04-17 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Tim-Allen Bruckner, Assistant Professor of Public Health & Planning, Policy and Design, University of California, Irvine
