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The Notestein Seminar Series

An integral part of the research and training program at OPR is the series of weekly seminars, which provide a forum in which OPR staff, students, and visiting scholars can become acquainted with current research projects. Students who are writing theses are required to present a seminar in this series in order to receive suggestions on their research and to obtain experience in making public presentations. Demographers and social scientists from nearby institutions are frequently invited to present their research findings in this series.

In March 1983, the Frank W. Notestein Memorial Fund was established with the purpose of bringing distinguished outside speakers to OPR on a more regular basis. These lecturers usually spend several hours in informal discussion with students, faculty and postdocs before and/or after giving a seminar. Since 1993 OPR has also held occassional joint seminars with the labor economists and development economists with the goal of creating intellectual bridges between these two groups.

Spring 2007 Schedule

February 6 (Tues) Noon

John Santelli, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, "Abstinence-Only Proclivities and Demographic Realities". The following papers are available:
Abstinence-Only Education: Politics, Science, and Ethics and
Explaining Recent Declines in Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States: The Contribution of Abstinence and Improved Contraceptive Use

 

February 13 (Tues) Noon

Elizabeth Frankenberg, Dept. of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, "The Impact of the Tsunami on Mortality and Mental Health in Sumatra, Indonesia."

 

February 20 (Tues) Noon

John Wilmoth, United Nations & University of California, Berkeley, "The duration of life throughout the world: What do we know and how do we know it?"

 

February 27 (Tues) Noon

Kathleen Mullan Harris, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, "The Origins of Disadvantage in the Transition to Adulthood."

 

March 6 (Tues) Noon

Andy Cherlin, Dept. of Sociology, John Hopkins University, "American Merry-Go-Round: Serial Partnership and Its Consequences for Children."

 

March 13 (Tues) Noon

Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, Arizona State University, "Dynamics and Evolution of Emergent and Re-emergent Diseases in a Global Economy."

 

March 20 - Spring Recess

 

March 27 (Tues) Noon

Jane McLeod, Schuessler Institute for Social Research, Indiana University, "The Life Course Implications of Childhood Mental Health Problems."

 

April 3 (Tues) Noon

Conrad Hackett, OPR, Princeton University, "Religion and Fertility in the United States."

 

April 10 (Tues) Noon

Cameron Campbell, Dept. of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, "Was There a Revolution? Kinship and Inequality over the Very Long Term in Liaoning, China, 1749-2004."

 

April 17 (Tues) Noon

Yu Xie, Dept. of Sociology, University of Michigan, "Causal Inference and Population Heterogeneity"

 

April 24 (Tues) Noon

Jake Rosenfeld, OPR, Princeton University, ""Big" Labor Goes to the Polls: Unions and Voter Turnout in Post-Accord America."

 

May 1 (Tues) Noon

Jeff Morenoff, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, "Neighborhoods and Health: Findings from the Chicago Community Adult Health Study."

Previous Seminars

We also maintain a list of seminars for previous terms:

Fall 2006