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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 2009 Schedule

February 3rd (Tues) Noon

Pamela Stone, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, CUNY, "The Rhetoric and Reality of Opting Out: Toward a Better Understanding of Professional Women’s Decisions to Head Home."

 

February 10th (Tues) Noon

Mark Hayward, Director Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, "Nutritional Deprivation in Childhood and Cognitive Impairment among Older Chinese."

 

February 17th (Tues) Noon

Nick Erhman, Student, Dept. of Sociology, Princeton University, "Yellow Brick Road: The Making of Educational Futures in Washington DC."

 

February 24th (Tues) Noon

Hillard Kaplan, Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, "The Human Adaptive Complex and the Evolution of the 70 year lifespan."

 

March 3rd (Tues) Noon

Delia Baldassarri, Asst. Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, "Partisans without Constraint: Political Polarization and Trends in American Public Opinion."

 

March 10th (Tues) Noon

Graciela Teruel Belismelis, Professor of Economics, Universidad Iberoamericana, México, "The Well-being of Mexicans: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey."

 

March 17th - Spring Recess

 

March 24th (Tues) Noon

Emilio Parrado, Asso. Prof. of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, "Migration, Social Disorganization, and the Sexual Partners of Mexican Men: Implications for STD/HIV Risks."

Paper available.

 

March 31st (Tues) Noon

Robert Mare, Professor of Sociology, UCLA, "Educational Assortative Mating in Two Generations."

Paper available.

 

April 7th (Tues) Noon

Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Asst. Professor of Economics & Public Affairs, Princeton University, "Modeling the Evolution of Age and Cohort Effects in Social Research."

 

April 14th (Tues) Noon

Jane Menken, Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Women, Health, and Fertility in Bangladesh: Intended and Unintended Effects of Intervention Programs."

 

April 21st (Tues) Noon

Alicia Adsera, Associate Research Scholar & Lecturer of Public Affairs, Princeton University, "The Transformation of the European Family: Fewer Children, More Cohabitation."

 

April 28th (Tues) Noon

Valerie Lewis, Student, Dept. of Sociology, Princeton University, "The Urban (Dis)Advantage: Slums and Schooling in India."

Previous Seminars

We also maintain a list of seminars for previous terms:

Fall 2008