Brown Bag Seminar Schedule
Spring 2012 Schedule
January 20, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Beyond Health Care Reform: Social Determinants and Disparities in Health & America's Paradoxical Crisis of Health Care and Health"
Jim House
jimhouse@umich.edu
Population Studies Center, University of Michigan
January 27, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Age-Period-Cohort Analyses of U.S. Illegal Drug Use from 1985 to 2009: Prescription Drug Abuse, Cocaine, and Marijuana"
Richard Miech
richard.miech@ucdenver.edu
Health and Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado
February 3, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Modeling Old-Age Wealth with Endogenous Early-Life Outcomes: the case of Mexico"
Rebeca Wong
rewong@utmb.edu
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch
February 10, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"The Rise of Women: Understanding the Female Advantage in American Education"
Claudia Buchmann
buchmann.4@osu.edu
Department of Sociology, Ohio State University
February 24, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Sociogenomics: Three Applications to Depression"
Dalton Conley
dalton.conley@nyu.edu
Dean of Social Sciences, New York University
March 2, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Income Inequality among American Children during the Great Recession"
Lingxin Hao
hao@jhu.edu
Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
March 9, 2012, 12-1pm - CANCELLED
Burdine 214
"Retention of Women and Men in the STEM Labor Force: Gender Similarities and Differences with a Focus on Destination Status"
Jennifer Glass
jennifer-glass@austin.utexas.edu
Population Research Center and Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
March 16, 2012- No Brown Bag
March 23, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"The Unintended Consequences of Medical Advances: Educational Gradients in Prenatal Behaviors During First Pregnancy"
Elaine Hernandez
ehernandez@prc.utexas.edu
Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin
March 30, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Why Are Educated Adults Thin? Body Mass Index and Selection into College" (co-authored with Jamie Lynch)
Paul von Hippel
paulvonhippel@austin.utexas.edu
Population Research Center and LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
April 6, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"The Efficacy of Private Sector Providers in Improving Public Educational Outcomes for Disadvantaged Students"
Carolyn Heinrich
cheinrich@austin.utexas.edu
Population Research Center and LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
April 13, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Immigration enforcement policies, the economic recession, and the size of local Mexican immigrant populations"
Emilio Parrado
eparrado@sas.upenn.edu
Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
April 20, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Smoke and mirrors: longevity in Latin America and the Caribbean"
Alberto Palloni
palloni@ssc.wisc.edu
Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin at Madison
April 27, 2012, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Demographic Differentials in Educational Attainment Using a Market-Based Scale"
Art Sakamoto
asakamoto@austin.utexas.edu
Population Research Center and Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
Fall 2011 Schedule
August 26, 2011, 12-1pm
Student Activity Center Legislative Assembly Room 2.302
"Fall 2011 Brown Bag Kickoff"
Mark Hayward
mhayward@prc.utexas.edu
Population Research Center and Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
September 2, 2011, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"The Correspondence Between Race/Ethnic Identities and Observed Race"
Charles Hirschman
charles@u.washington.edu
Department of Sociology, University of Washington
September 9, 2011, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Families, Resources, and Adult Health: Where Do Sexual Minorities Fit?"
Justin Denney
jtdenney@rice.edu
Department of Sociology, Rice University
September 16, 2011, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Building a Cross-National Index of Well-Being for Older Populations "
Marlene Lee
MLee@prb.org
Population Reference Bureau
September 23, 2011 - 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"The Texas Census Research Data Center: A Resource for Research and Scholarship"
Mark Fossett
m-fossett@tamu.edu
Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University
Download Dr. Fossett's presentation slides
September 30, 2011 - 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?"
Daniel Hamermesh
hamermes@eco.utexas.edu
Population Research Center and Department of Economics, The University of Texas at Austin
October 7, 2011, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Cohort Change, Diffusion, and Support for Environmental Spending"
Fred Pampel
pampel@colorado.edu
Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder
October 14, 2011, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Science Funding in an Age of Austerity"
Howard Silver
silverhj@cossa.org
Executive Director, Consortium of Social Science Associations
October 21, 2011, No Brown Bag
November 4, 2011, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Why Do Women Live Longer than Men? An Integrative Social and Biodemographic Approach to Explaining Sex Differences in Longevity"
Yang Yang
yangy@unc.edu
Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
November 11, 2011, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Diverging Longevity in the U.S.: Putting the U.S. in an International Perspective"
Eileen Crimmins
crimmin@usc.edu
Center on Biodemography and Population Health, University of Southern California
November 18, 2011, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"Temporal Trends for Health Disparities Research: Assessing Modern Approaches"
Brian Finch & Audrey Beck
bfinch@mail.sdu.edu & abeck@projects.sdsu.edu
San Diego State University
December 2, 2011, 12-1pm
Burdine 214
"The Impact of Childhood Sickness on Adult Socioeconomic Outcomes: Evidence from Late 19th Century America"
Rob Warren
warre046@umn.edu
Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
