2011 Notestein Seminars

Racial Boundaries and Demographic Change.
February 1, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Daniel Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology, Cornell University

Of Beauty, Sex, and Power: Statistical Challenges in Estimating Small Effects.
February 8, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University

5Risk, Resilience, and Gene-Environment Interplay in Primates.
February 15, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Steve Suomi, NIH, Child Health and Human Development

Individual Decisions to Migrate during Civil Conflict.
February 22, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra, Ph.D. Candidate, Woodrow Wilson School

Contemporary Model Life Tables for Developed Countries: An Application of Model-based Clustering.
March 1, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Sam Clark, Professor of Sociology, University of Washington

Strategies to Increase Access to Medical Abortion.
March 8, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Rebecca J. Gomperts, M.P.P. Candidate, Woodrow Wilson School

Parental Son Preference and Children’s Housework: The Case of India.
March 22, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Tin-chi Lin, Ph.D. Candidate, Woodrow Wilson School

Invisible Racial Lines: Segregation and Discrimination in a Colorblind Society.
March 29, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Patrick Simon, National Demographic Institute, France

The Limits of Genocide: An Attempt at a Confidence Interval on the Khmer-Rouge Death Toll.
April 5, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Patrick Heuveline, Professor of Sociology, UCLA

Comparing Regression Coefficients Between Models using Logit and Probit: A New Method.
April 12, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Richard Breen, Professor of Sociology, Yale University

Neighborhood Effects on Subjective Well-Being.
April 19, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Jens Ludwig, Professor of Social Service Administration and Law and Public Policy, University of Chicago

Stutter-Step Models of College Entry.
April 26, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Steve Morgan, Professor of Sociology, Cornell University

Health and Human Capital in Sub Saharan Africa.
May 2, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Elizabeth Gummerson, Ph.D. Candidate, Woodrow Wilson School

Go Healthy, Return Healthy? The Health of Returned Migrants in Mexico.
May 3, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Silvia Heidi Ullmann, Ph.D. Candidate, Woodrow Wilson School

How Effective are Current Interventions to Prevent Post-Partum Hemorrhage?
May 4, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Wendy Sheldon, Ph.D. Candidate, Woodrow Wilson School

Relationship Dynamics and Pregnancy: Intensity, Instability, and Partner Change.
September 20, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Jennifer Barber, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan

Future Trends in U.S. Life Expectancy.
September 27, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
John Bongaarts, Vice President, The Population Council

Intergenerational Advancement of the Mexican-origin Population Relative to a Changing Mainstream: Challenges of Selective Migration in the Comparison of California and Texas.
October 4, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Dowell Myers, Professor of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California

Activity-Space Segregation: Understanding Social Divisions in Space and Time.
October 11, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
John Palmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Wealth and the Marital Divide.
October 18, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Danny Schneider, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Princeton University

Blurring Gender Boundaries and New Dilemmas of Work and Care.
October 25, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Kathleen Gerson, Professor of Sociology, New York University

Worldwide Family Changes: Insights from the Developmental Idealism Perspective.
November 8, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Arland Thornton, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan

Degrees of Difference: Gender Segregation of U.S. Doctorates by Field and Program Prestige.
November 15, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Kim Weeden, Professor of Sociology, Cornell University

Family Instability, Genes, and Children’s Externalizing Behavior.
November 22, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Colter Mitchell, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University

Sexual Networks in sub-Saharan Countries: Some Preliminary Results and a New Agenda for Research and HIV Prevention.
November 29, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Stéphane Helleringer, Professor, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick?
December 6, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Janet Currie, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Do Support Environments Influence Fertility? Evidence from 21 European Countries.
December 13, 2011 @ Noon - 300 Wallace Hall
Kristen Harknett, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania