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PRI Brown Bag Seminar Series

PRI Brown Bag Series: 1998-1999

Date Speaker Topic
September 15, 1998 Sal Oropesa, Department of Sociology, Penn State Ethnicity, Immigration, and Beliefs about the "Tie that Binds"
September 29, 1998 David Post, Department of Education, Education Policy Studies, Penn State Public Policy and the Equality of Access to Secondary Schooling in Mexico
October 13, 1998 William Kandel, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, PRI, Penn State Shifting Orientations: How Adult Migration Affects Children's Aspirations in Mexican Migrant Communities
October 10, 1998 James Moody, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Racial Relating: The Empirical Relation between Racial Heterogeneity and Friendship Segregation
November 2-3, 1998 Alan Agresti, University of Florida A Twentieth Century Tour of Categorical Data Analysis
November 24, 1998 Susumu Imai, Department of Economics, Penn State Estimating Youth Criminal Behavior Using the Dynamic Discrete Choice Model
December 8, 1998 Michael Rendall, Department of Sociology, Penn State Childrearing Lifetimes of Britain's Divorce - Revolution Men and Women
January 12, 1999 Nancy Landale, Department of Sociology, Penn State Does Americanization Have Adverse Effects on Health? Stress, Health Habits, and Infant Health Outcomes Among Puerto Ricans
February 2, 1999 Clancy Blair, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State Proportion of Learning Disabilities Placements Associated with Low Socioeconomic Status: Excess or Etiologic Causes
February 9, 1999 Lingzin Hao, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University Family Social Capital and Child Behavior Problems: A Sibling Analysis
March 2, 1999 Pamela Short, Department of Health Policy and Administration, Penn State Medicaid Dynamics: Applying Survival Analysis to Health Care
March 16, 1999 Gordon DeJong, Department of Sociology, Penn State For Better, For Worse: Life Satisfaction Consequences of Migration
April 20, 1999 Steve Borgatti, Boston University Social Capital: A Social Network Approach
April 29, 1999 Lawrence Altmayer, U.S. Bureau of the Census Using SAS for the Imputation of Missing Data at the Bureau of the Census
May 10-12, 1999 Gretchen Cornwell and Gordon DeJong, PRI, Graduate Program in Demography, Penn State Family Planning for Population Subgroups: Can One Program Fit All?

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