PRI Brown Bag Seminar Series
PRI Brown Bag Series: 2001-2002
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| September 11, 2001 | Nancy Landale, Associate Director, Population Research Institute and
Professor of Sociology and Demography
***Postponed*** |
Issues in the Study of Migration and Assimilation Processes: Findings from the Puerto Rican Maternal and Infant Health Study |
| September 25, 2001 | Michael Akritas, Professor of Statistics | Fully Nonparametric Models for Data Analysis: Some Case Studies |
| October 16, 2001 | Alan Benjamin, Research Associate | Ethnography & Scientific Method: One Ethnographer's Musings |
| October 30, 2001 | Pat Johnson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women's Studies and Demography | Male Migrants' Return and Women's Fertility and Health in Bangladesh |
| November 9, 2001 | Paula England, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania | She Left, He Left: Examining Determinants of Divorce in the NSFH With Attention to Who Wanted the Divorce |
| November 20, 2001 | Suet-ling Pong, Associate Professor of Education and Sociology | Single Parenthood and Children's Academic Achievement: An International Comparison |
| January 15, 2002 | Pamela Farley Short, Professor of Health Policy and Administration and Director of the Center for Health Policy Research | Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Views of Cancer Survival |
| January 29, 2002 | Dennis Shea, Professor of Health Policy and Administration | Estimating the Effects of a Medicare Prescription Drug Plan: Results from a Microsimulation |
| February 12, 2002 | Robert Schoen, Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography | Some Intergenerational Transfer Implications of Birth Fluctuations |
| March 12, 2002 | Al-Hassan Conteh, Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
***Canceled*** |
What's Demography's Take on the Impact of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Sahran Africa? A Survey of Issues as Lessons for the Harrisburg HIV/AIDS Project |
| March 26, 2002 | Warren Robinson, Professor Emeritus of Economics | Population Policy in Early Victorian England: Victoria's Secret Population Policy |
| April 4, 2002 | Irma Elo, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania | Racial and Neighborhood Disparities in Infant Health in Philadelphia |
| April 9, 2002 | Felicia Le Clere, Research Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame | Spatial and Lifecourse Dynamics: The Intersection Between Health and Social Geography |
| April 25, 2002 | Sean Reardon, Assistant Professor of Educational Theory and Policy and Sociology | Segregation in Church and State? Patterns of Racial Segregation Among Public and Private Schools in the U.S. |
** All seminars are held at 12:00 in 406 Oswald unless otherwise indicated.
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