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PRI Brown Bag Series: 2000-2001

Date Speaker Topic
September 5, 2000 David Baker,
Professor of Education and Sociology, Penn State
Cross-National Research in Education
September 19, 2000 Stephen Matthews, Assistant Professor of Geography & Demography and PRI Geographic Information Analysis Core Director, Penn State Families in Contexts: Coupling Ethnography and GIS
October 3, 2000 George Farkas, Professor of Sociology, Penn State Linguistic Cultural Capital is Central to Socioeconomic Inequality
October 17, 2000 Jeffrey Cohen, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Penn State Migration, Class, and Work in Rural Oaxaca, Mexico
Postponed Jouni Kuha, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Penn State Approaches to Statistical Model Selection
November 9, 2000
**3:30, 605 Oswald**
Dr. Ulrich Mueller, Institute of Medical Sociology and Social Medicine,
Medical School, University of Marburg, Germany
Is There a Stabilizing Selction Around Average Fertility in Modern Human Populations?
November 14, 2000 Sean Reardon, Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Sociology, Penn State Measuring Multi-group Segregation
November 28, 2000 Mark Hill, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Penn State Childhood Conditions Predicting Survival to Advanced Age
December 12, 2000 Ronica Rooks, Epidemiology, National Institute on Aging The Association of Race and Socioeconomic Status with Cardiovascular Disease Among Older Adults in the Health ABC Study
January 16, 2001 Mark Hayward, Director, Population Research Institute and Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State The Long Arm of Social Class: The Influence of Social and Economic Conditions and Men's Mortality.
January 30, 2001 Leif Jensen, Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, Penn State Research on Workers in Global Manufacturing: A CYFC Initiative
February 13, 2001 Jouni Kuha, Assistant Professor of Statistics Approaches to Statistical Model Selection
February 27, 2001 Robert Plotnick, University of Washington The Impact of Child Support Enforcement Policy on Nonmarital Childbearing
Marh 13, 2001 Derick Moore, Washington D.C. Sex, Lies, and Videotape: Stories from an Independent Video Producer Working on The U.S. Census Bureau's P.R. Project
March 27, 2001 Christopher Winship, Harvard University (2001 Clogg Memorial Lecturer) New Methods for Causal Analysis: Implications for Sociological Research
April 3, 2001 Charles Longino, Wake Forest University Retirement Migration Streams and Trickles: Trends and Implications for Retirement Communities
April 17, 2001 Tasha Snyder, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology Living With Parents or Living With a Male Partner: Birth Order and Living Arrangements Among Unmarried Women

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