DEMOGRAPHY FALL 2008 BROWN BAG SERIES
Brown Bag seminars are ordinarily held in the seminar room at 2232
Piedmont Avenue, usually on Wednesdays, from 12:10 to 1:00, although
the discussion often continues for ten or fifteen minutes past 1:00. Please
try to arrive before 12:10 so that we can start promptly at the scheduled
time. Papers are not generally circulated in advance. Regular and decaffeinated
coffee will be available, as well as cookies and hot water for tea. Administrative
inquiries may be addressed to the Demography Office at 642-9800, or monique@demog.berkeley.edu.
If you would like to inquire about presenting a seminar yourself, or have
suggestions for other potential speakers, please contact Ronald Lee at 642-4535,
or rlee@demog.berkeley.edu.
| Date: |
Speaker, Affiliation, Topic |
| September 3 : |
Avi Ebenstein (Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvard), Water Pollution, River Currents, and Digestive Cancers in China. |
September 10: |
Aaron Gullickson (Sociology, University of Oregon), Red, White, and Black: Interracial Marriage from 1850 to 2000.
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| September 17: |
Ran Abramitzsky (Economics, Stanford), Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching (co-authored by Adeline Delavande and Luis Vasconcelos). |
| September 24 : |
Laura Hill (Public Policy Institute of California), Immigrant Pathways to Legal Permanent Residence. |
| October 1 : |
TBA |
| October 8 : |
Diana Greene Foster (OBGYN Department, University of San Francisco), Cost effectiveness of contraceptives and the consequences of unintended pregnancy.
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| October 15 : |
Gustav Feichtinger (Vienna Institute for Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Division for Population
Economics), Age Dynamics of Learned Societies. |
| October 22 : |
Michele Tertilt (Economics, Stanford), TBA. |
| October 29 : |
TBA |
| November 5 : |
TBA |
| November 12 : |
TBA
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| November 19 : |
TBA
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| November 26 : |
*no brown bag* |
| December 3: |
TBA |
| December 10: |
TBA |
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