Carolina Population Center

The German Occupation of the Soviet Union in WWII: The Long-Term Effects on Health Outcomes
2015-09-18 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
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

Competing Risk Data Analysis
2015-04-10 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. C. Suchindran, Professor of Biostatistics, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center

The Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and Unemployment
2015-03-27 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Jennie Brand, Associate Professor of Sociology, UCLA; CPC Training Program Alumna

Early Environments, Inflammation, and the Perpetuation of Health Disparities within and Across Generations
2015-03-20 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Thomas McDade, Professor of Anthropology & Director, Laboratory for Human Biology Research, Northwestern University; CPC Training Program Alumnus

Longitudinal and Multilevel Methods for the Multinomial Logit Model
2015-02-20 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. David Guilkey, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Economics, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center

No Control Group, No Problem? Using Natural Experiments to Evaluate National-Level Nutrition Initiatives in the U.S. and Mexico
2015-02-13 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Lindsey Smith, Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition, UNC-CH; CPC Training Program Alumna

The Perils of Precarity: The Impacts of Insecure Work on Individuals and Families in Industrial Societies
2015-02-06 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Arne Kalleberg, Professor of Sociology, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center

An Overview of Instrumental Variables (IVs) in the Social Sciences
2015-01-30 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Bollen, Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Professor of Psychology & Sociology, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center

Linking Microfinance and Cell Phone Technology to Promote Optimal Breastfeeding Practices in Nigeria
2015-01-23 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Valerie Flax, Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition, UNC-CH

Identity Categories and Identity Construction in Demographic Research
2015-01-15 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. David Kertzer, Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science & Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies, Brown University

Intergenerational Socioeconomic and Cultural Determinants of Latino Health: The NINOS Study
2014-11-14 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Allison Aiello, Professor of Epidemiology, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center

Social, Biological, and Environmental Linkages
2014-11-07 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Linda Adair, Professor of Nutrition, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center

Environmental Contaminants and Inequality in Chronic Disease Morbidity: Arsenic and Cardiometabolic Risk
2014-10-31 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Michelle Mendez, Assistant Professor of Nutrition, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center

Incorporating Geographic Context into Randomized Controlled Trials: The Case of the Oral Cholera Vaccine
2014-10-24 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Michael Emch, Professor and Chair of Geography, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center

Compression of Morbidity: Change over Time in the Morbidity Process
2014-10-10 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Eileen Crimmins, AARP Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California

The Demography of Natural Disasters: What Can We Learn from DesInventar?
2014-10-03 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Mark Montgomery, Professor of Economics, Stony Brook University; Senior Associate, Population Council

Economic Boom, Population Aging, and Policy Shift: What’s Ahead for China?
2014-09-26 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Yong Cai, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center

MEASURE Evaluation: The Next Five Years
2014-09-19 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Jim Thomas, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center; Director, MEASURE Evaluation

Psychosocial Influences on Clinical Outcomes Among Adults Living with HIV
2014-09-12 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. Brian Pence, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, UNC-CH

New Methods for Soliciting Responses to Sensitive Questions: Evidence from Adolescent Surveys in Ethiopia
2014-09-05 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Dr. David Lindstrom, Professor of Sociology, Brown University
