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SUMMARY:Should We Tax Soda? An Overview of Theory and Evidence
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, November 2nd\, Hunt Allcott\, PhD\, will present Should We Tax Soda? An Overview of Theory and Evidence as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Allcott is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research\, an Associate Professor of Economics at New York University\, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, and a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics. He is a Scientific Director of ideas42\, a think tank that applies insights from psychology and economics to business and policy design problems\, an Affiliate of Poverty Action Lab\, a network of researchers who use randomized evaluations to answer critical policy questions in the fight against poverty\, and a Faculty Affiliate of E2e\, a group of economists\, engineers\, and behavioral scientists focused on evaluating and improving energy efficiency policy. He was also a Contributing Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report.\nProfessor Allcott is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellows Shu Wen Ng and Lindsey Smith Taillie. Ng is an Associate Professor and Taillie is a Research Assistant Professor\, both in the Department of Nutrition at UNC-Chapel Hill. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nTaxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are growing in popularity and have generated an active public debate. Are they a good idea? If so\, how high should they be? Are such taxes regressive? Americans and some others around the world consume a remarkable amount of SSBs\, and the evidence suggests that this generates significant health costs. Building on recent work by Allcott\, Lockwood\, and Taubinsky (2018) and others\, we review the basic economic principles for an optimal sin tax on SSBs. The optimal tax depends on (1) externalities: uninternalized costs to the health system from SSB consumption; (2) internalities: costs consumers impose on themselves by overconsuming sweetened beverages due to poor nutrition knowledge or lack of self-control; and (3) regressivity: how much the financial burden and the internality benefits from the tax fall on the poor. We then summarize the empirical evidence on the key parameters that determine how large the tax should be\, which suggests that SSB taxes can be welfare enhancing. We end with seven concrete suggestions for policymakers considering an SSB tax. \nCurriculum Vita (PDF) \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact Kate Allison (akalliso@email.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/should-we-tax-soda-an-overview-of-theory-and-evidence/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:The Socioeconomic Effects of China's Forest Restoration and Conservation Programs
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, November 9th\, Conghe Song\, PhD\, will present The Socioeconomic Effects of China’s Forest Restoration and Conservation Programs as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series. Song is Professor and Associate Chair of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also the Director of the Graduate Certificate Program of Geographic Information Sciences. His research focuses on understanding the social-ecological consequences of human-environment interactions in the context of climate change.\nProfessor Song is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Clark Gray. Gray is an Associate Professor of Geography at the UNC-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on population and human-environment interactions in the developing world. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nChina’s economy had witnessed double digit growth following the adoption of open and reform policy in the late 1970s. However\, China’s natural environment did not improve with the economy. In fact\, China’s eco-environmental conditions went in the opposite direction with the economy for decades\, leading to devastating natural disasters in the late 1990s. As a result\, the Chinese government implemented a series of forest restoration and conservation programs to improve the natural environment. The Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program (CCFP) and the Ecological Welfare Forest Program (EWFP) are two of them. CCFP program is the largest reforestation program to date in the world\, involving 32 million households and 120 million people in 25 of the 31 provinces in China. China’s forest cover increased 3% as a result. EWFP is a program that preserves natural forests that provide essential ecosystem services. Both CCFP and EWFP are essentially payment for ecosystem services programs. Despite nearly two decades of implementation\, the programs’ socioeconomic as well as their ecological effects are not well understood. In this talk\, I will present the recent findings from a US-China collaborative project studying the impacts of CCFP on the dynamics of the coupled natural and human systems in Anhui\, China. Riding the tide of overall economic growth in China\, both CCFP and EWFP have been successful in converting and preserving the land-use\, and have exerted profound impacts on rural residents’ livelihoods. I will focus on the program effects on cropland abandonment\, fuel wood use and rural out migration in this talk. \nCurriculum Vita (PDF) \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact Kate Allison (akalliso@email.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/the-socioeconomic-effects-of-chinas-forest-restoration-and-conservation-programs/
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SUMMARY:Networks\, Diffusion and Inequality
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, November 16th\, Filiz Garip\, PhD\, will present Networks\, Diffusion and Inequality as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series. Garip is a Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. She is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Inequality and the Center for Population Research at Cornell. Her research lies at the intersection of migration\, economic sociology and inequality.\nGarip is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Barbara Entwisle. Entwisle is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as CPC Director for eight years (2002-2010) and as CPC’s Training Program Director for six of those years (2002-2008). Entwisle has resumed her role as CPC’s Training Director (2017-date). Entwisle studies social context and demographic and health behavior and outcomes. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nPrior work defines network externalities (where the value of a practice is a function of network alters that have already adopted the practice) as a mechanism exacerbating social inequality under the condition of homophily (where advantaged individuals poised to be primary adopters are socially connected to other advantaged individuals). This work does not consider consolidation (correlation between traits)\, a population parameter that is essential to network formation and diffusion. Using a computational model\, we first show that prior findings linking homophily to segregated social ties and to differential diffusion outcomes are contingent on high levels of consolidation. Homophily\, under low consolidation\, is not sufficient to exacerbate existing differences in adoption probabilities across groups\, and can even end up alleviating inter-group inequality by facilitating diffusion. We then apply this idea to the empirical case of Mexico-U.S. migration. We show that homophily and consolidation allow us to capture the structural constraints to diffusion\, and explain why some newly-emerging migrant communities eventually come to surpass historic migrant regions in levels of migration. \nCurriculum Vita (PDF) \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact Kate Allison (akalliso@email.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/networks-diffusion-and-inequality/
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SUMMARY:Rethinking the Role Childhood SES Plays in Affecting Adult Health: Integrating Existing Theories with a Life Course Perspective on the Disablement Process
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, November 30th\, Scott Lynch\, PhD\, will present Rethinking the Role Childhood SES Plays in Affecting Adult Health: Integrating Existing Theories with a Life Course Perspective on the Disablement Process as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series. Lynch is a Professor of Sociology and the Director of Training in the Population Research Institute at Duke University. His substantive research focuses on life course and cohort patterns in social inequalities in health in the US\, by education\, income\, race\, and region. His methodological research focuses on Bayesian methods in demography.\nLynch 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. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nMounting evidence indicates that childhood socioeconomic status (SES) has long-term effects on health in later adulthood.  However\, findings are mixed regarding how it influences health.  Specifically\, it is unclear whether childhood SES affects adult health only through its role in influencing adult SES or exerts an independent influence on adult health\, net of adult SES.  Drawing from life course perspectives on the disablement process\, we advance and test a theory of “progressive mediation” which suggests that the extent to which childhood SES exerts an independent influence on adult health depends upon the seriousness of the health outcome being considered.  We argue that childhood status can have strong residual influences on lesser health conditions and precursors to more serious conditions\, while having weak\, or no\, residual influences on more serious health conditions.  Lesser health conditions and precursors arise relatively early in adulthood\, but adult socioeconomic resources provide a number of resources that can interrupt or postpone the disease development and disablement process that otherwise may stem from early adulthood conditions.  Using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study\, we find robust support for this theory. \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact Kate Allison (akalliso@email.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/rethinking-the-role-childhood-ses-plays-in-affecting-adult-health-integrating-existing-theories-with-a-life-course-perspective-on-the-disablement-process/
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