Ninth Annual Demography Graduate Student Methodology Workshop
Causal Inferences in the Social Sciences
Monday, July 22, 2002
The Nittany Lion Inn, The Pennsylvania
State University
Ballroom C
Organized by the PRI Graduate Student Workshop
Committee
Latrica E. Best, Jacob Cheadle, Bridget Goosby, Stefan Jonsson, Tanya S. Kenkre, David Warner, Zhenmei Zhang
Sponsored by
The Population Research Institute (PRI) at Penn State
University
Workshop Sessions:
| 9:00 a.m. | Opening and Welcome, |
| 9:05-10:05 a.m. | "What do Randomized Studies of Housing Mobility Reveal?" Dr. Michael Sobel , Professor of Sociology at Columbia University |
| 10:05-10:20 a.m. | Refreshments |
| 10:20-11:20 a.m. | "What Have We Discovered When We Discover Social Causes?" Dr. Paul Humphreys , Professor and Chairman of Philosophy at the University of Virginia |
| 11:20-12:30 p.m. | Roundtable. Discussant: Dr. George Farkas |
| 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Informal luncheon with the speakers |
| --------------- | Dr. Paul W. Holland has cancelled his participation |
A brief introduction of the three speakers and the discussant:
George Farkas is a Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Education at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include demographic and statistical research methods, evaluation research, schooling and inequality, labor markets and economic sociology. George Farkas has contributed to sociology with his extensive research on the causal links between early language development, cognitive skills, and later labor market outcomes. He is author and co-author of four books and more than 20 scholarly articles, which appear in journals such as The American Sociological Review, The Journal of Labor Economics and The Journal of Human Resources. For more information on Dr. Farkas, please check his homepage
Paul Humphreys is Professor and Chairman of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Humphreys' research interests are in the philosophy of science. Humphreys has published a large number of journal articles and several books in the area of emergence, computational science, and causation. For more information on Dr. Humphreys, please check his vitae
Michael Sobel is a professor of Sociology at Columbia University. His statistical research has focused on causal inference, models for categorical data, and structural equation models. He is one of two series editors of recent Sociological Methodology volumes. Dr. Sobel has edited with Clifford Clogg, and written a chapter on causality in Handbook of Statistical Modeling for the Social and Behavioral Sciences. For more information on Dr. Sobel, please check his www.jstor.org listing
For more information, please contact workshop@pop.psu.edu
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