PRI Brown Bag Series: 2003-2004
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| September 5, 2003
9:00-10:00 |
Jane Menken, Professor, Department of Sociology, and Faculty Associate, Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder | Childbearing and Women's Survival: New Evidence from Rural Bangladesh |
| September 16, 2003 | Mark Hayward, Director, Social Science Research Institute | The Long Arm of Childhood: The Influence of Early Life Conditions on Adult Morbidity & Mortality |
| September 17, 2003 | Joan McCord, Professor of Criminal Justice, Temple University | Social Capital as Mediator between Family Socialization and Crime: A Longitudinal Study |
| September 30, 2003 | David Harris, Professor, Cornell University | Race, Theory, and the 2000 Census |
| October 21, 2003 | Richard D. Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, State University of New York at Albany | Blurred vs. Bright Boundaries: Second Generation Assimilation and Exclusion in Comparative Perspective |
| November 4, 2003 | Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, Cornell University | Demography and Education Policy: An Application to UN Millennium Development Goals |
| November 18, 2003 | Duane Alwin, McCourtney Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University | What Determines Intellectual Function in Middle and Older Age? |
| December 2, 2003 | Gordon De Jong, Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Demography, The Pennsylvania State University ; Deborah Graefe, Research Associate, The Pennsylvania State University ; Tanja St. Pierre, Graduate Student, Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University | Welfare Reform and Interstate Migration of Poor Families |
| February 10, 2004 | Glenn Firebaugh, Department Head and Professor of Sociology and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University | Accounting for the Recent Decline in Global Income Inequality (with an Emphasis on Population Processes) |
| February 17, 2004 | John Casterline, Senior Associate in the Policy Research Division of the Population Council | Social Networks and Reproductive Change in Southern Ghana |
| March 2, 2004 | Rukmalie Jayakody, Associate Professor of Human Development, Family Studies, and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University | Social Change and the Family in Vietnam |
| March 23, 2004 | Kathleen Mullan Harris, Gillian T. Cell Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology and the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Social Context and the Assimilation of Immigrant Youth |
| April 13, 2004 | Leif Jensen, Director, Population Research Institute | PRI's Future: Strategic Directions and Center Grant Renewal |
| April 20, 2004 | Sean Reardon, Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University ; David O'Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University | Measuring Spatial Segregation |
| April 27, 2004 | Darren Sherkat, Associate Professor of Sociology, Southern Illinois University | Toward Explaining Black-White Differences in Mortality among Medicare Beneficiaries: A Health Services Approach |
** All seminars are held at 12:00 in 406 Oswald unless otherwise indicated.
