Tentative Schedule - Spring 2012
Tuesdays, 12:30-1:45 p.m.
Room 8417 Sewell Social Sciences Bldg.
Organizer: Jim Raymo
Date |
Presenter |
Title |
Readings |
| Jan 24 | Mike Massoglia |
Racial variation in the effect of incarceration on neighborhood attainment | |
| Jan 31 | No meeting scheduled | ||
| Feb 7 | Rukmalie Jayakody (Penn State, HDFS and Sociology) | Television and International Family Change |
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| Feb 14 | Sarah Halpern-Meekin (UW-Milwaukee, Sociology) | It's not like I'm poor: How working families make ends meet in a post-welfare world |
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| Feb 21 | Joan Fujimura | Circumventing or Reifying Race: The use of ancestry versus race in biomedical human genetic research | |
| Feb 28 | Jay Bhattachrayra (Stanford, School of Medicine) | Who Pays for Obesity? | |
| Mar 6 | Sarah Burgard (Univ. Michigan, Sociology) | Negative working conditions and health among American Adults | |
| Mar 13 | David Grabowski (Harvard, Health Care Policy) | Effect of Nursing Home Ownership on the Quality of Post-Acute Care: An Instrumental Variables Approach | |
| Mar 20 | Jere Behrman (Univ. Pennsylvania, Economics) | Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools | |
| Mar 27 | Ted Mouw (Univ. North Carolina, Sociology) | Network Sampling with Memory: A proposal for efficient sampling from social networks, with an application using Mexico-U.S. migration networks | |
| Apr 3 | Spring Break - no seminar | ||
| Apr 10 | Duncan Thomas (Duke, Economics) | TBA | |
Apr 17 |
Hans-Peter Kohler (Univ. Pennsylvania, Sociology) | TBA | |
| Apr 24 | Chao Fu (UW, Economics) | TBA | |
| May 1 | Zhen Zeng | Marrying Up by Marrying Down: Status Exchange between Social Origin and Education in the United States | |
| May 8 | Cristina De Nardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) | Medicaid Insurance in Old Age |