Brown Bag Seminars

Fall 2009 Schedule

August 28, 2009, 11:30-1 pm
Texas Union Santa Rita room (3.502)
"Fall 2009 Brown Bag Kickoff"
Mark Hayward
Population Research Center and Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin

September 4, 2009, 12-1 pm
Burdine 214
"Use of High-Quality Child Care and Mothers' Mental Health"
Rachel Gordon
Department of Sociology and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago

September 11, 2009, 12-1 pm
Burdine 214
"Diverging Destinies: Maternal Education and the Development Gradient in Time with Children"
Ariel Kalil
Harris School of Policy Studies, University of Chicago

September 18, 2009 - No Brown Bag
Sept. 15-17:  2009 International Conference on Aging in the Americas, Key Issues in Hispanic Health and Health Care Policy Research: Biobehavioral Underpinnings and Social Interaction on Hispanic Health

September 25, 2009, 12-1 pm
Burdine 214
"Aggregation Problems"
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
Department of Anthropology
Co-sponsored by UT Department of Anthropology

October 2, 2009, 12-1 pm
Burdine 214
"Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications"
Ken Land
Department of Sociology, Duke University
Co-sponsored by UT Department of Sociology

October 9, 2009, 12-1 pm
Burdine 214
"Friendship Networks and Health Behaviors"
Jason Fletcher
Division of Health Policy and Administration, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Yale University

October 16, 2009, 12-1 pm
Burdine 214
"A 'Mincer' Result for U.S. Marriage"
Robert Moffitt
Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Co-sponsored by UT Department of Economics

October 23, 2009
Southern Demographic Association Meeting in Galveston - No Brown Bag

October 30, 2009, 12-1 pm
Burdine 214
"Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility"
Sandra Black
Department of Economics, University of California at Los Angeles

November 6, 2009, 12-1 pm
Burdine 214
"Economic Disparities in Middle Childhood: Do Parental Investments in Children's Health Matter?"
Rashmita Mistry
Graduate School of Education, University of California at Los Angeles
Co-sponsored by UT Department of Human Development and Family Studies

November 13, 2009, 12-1 pm
Burdine 214
'The UT School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus: What, Where, When, and Why?"
Cheryl Perry
Regional Dean, The University of Texas School of Public Health and Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living

November 20, 2009, 12-1 pm
Burdine 214
"Population Based Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Suicide"
Lloyd Potter
Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio

December 4, 2009, 12-1 pm
Burdine 214
"Youth in Multiple Nested Contexts: Mental Health Impacts of Disadvantage and Violence in Both Home and School Neighborhoods"
Elizabeth Gershoff
Department of Human Development and Family Sciences