PRI Brown Bag Seminar Series
PRI Brown Bag Series: 2002-2003
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| September 17, 2002 | Timothy Smeeding, Maxwell Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Economics and Public Administration, Syracuse University | No Child Left Behind? |
| October 1, 2002 | Barry Lee, Professor of Sociology and Demography; Chad Farrell, Graduate Student in Sociology; The Pennsylvania State University | Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime? Homelessness, Panhandling, and the Public |
| October 22, 2002 | Valarie King, Associate Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development & Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University | The Legacy of a Grandparent's Divorce: Consequences for Ties Between Grandparents and Grandchildren |
| October 29, 2002 | Lisa Cliggett, Assistant Professor of Cultural, Economic, Ecological, and Development Anthropology, University of Kentucky | Gendered Resource Access and Intergenerational Relations in Zambia's Southern Province |
| November 12, 2002 | Ted Mouw, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill | Social Capital and Job Search: Do Contacts Matter? |
| December 3, 2002 | Major Coleman, Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies, Labor Studies & Industrial Relations, and Political Science, The Pennsylvania State University | Do Whites Face a Moral Hazard? |
| January 14, 2003 | Linda Wray, Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University | Do Health Behaviors Mediate the SES-Health Link in Middle-Aged and Older Adults? |
| January 28, 2003 | Barbara S. Okun, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin at Madison (Sabbatical), and Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Insight into Ethnic Flux: Marriage Patterns Among Jews of Mixed Ancestry in Israel |
| February 4, 2003 | David Baker, Associate Director, Social Science Research Institute, and Professor of Education and Sociology; Clancy Blair, Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies; David Gamson, Assistant Professor, Educational Theory and Policy; Steve Thorne, Senior Lecturer and Associate Director, The Center for Language Acquisitions; The Pennsylvania State University | Are Schooled Populations Smarter? Neuro-development, Institutionalization of Schooling, and the Demography of IQ Growth 1900-2000 |
| February 11, 2003 | Fred Lorenz, University Professor, Departments of Sociology and Statistics, Iowa State University | Chronicity of Chronic Stress: Health and Distress Implications over a Decade |
| February 25, 2003 | Marianne Hillemeier, Assistant Profesor, Health Policy and Administration and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University | Relative or Absolute Standards for Child Poverty: A State-Level Analysis of Infant and Child Mortality |
| March 4, 2003 | Deborah Gorman-Smith, Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago | The Community Ecology of Family Influence on Delinquency |
| March 25, 2003 | Bob Schoeni, Senior Associate Research Scientist and Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan | Disability from Injuries at Work: The Effects on Earnings and Employment |
| April 1, 2003 | Diane McLaughlin, Associate Professor of Rural Sociology, Sociology, and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University | Barriers to Contraceptive Use in Bolivia: A Preliminary Examination |
| **Monday April 14**, 2003 | Steve Raudenbush, Professor of Education and Statistics, and Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan (Clogg Memorial Lecturer) | Clogg Memorial Lecture: Understanding Age-Related Change in Violent Crime: Concepts, Designs, Measures, and Some Findings |
| April 15, 2003 | Sandra Hofferth, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland | Are All Dads Equal? Biology vs. Marriage as Basis for Paternal Investment |
** All seminars are held at 12:00 in 406 Oswald unless otherwise indicated.
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