Duke University Population Research Institute Seminar Series - Spring 2013

Usual time and place: 12:00pm - 1:15pm on Thursday in 230 E Gross Hall.
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01/10/2013
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Steven Ruggles  (University of Minnesota)
The Deterioration of Divorce Statistics, the Rise of Divorce, and the Impact of Cohabitation on Union Dissolution, 1980-2011
01/17/2013
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Patrick T Sharkey  (NYU)
The Effects of Local Violence on Children's Cognitive Functioning & Academic Performance
01/25/2013
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Filiz Garip  (Harvard University, Department of Sociology)
Why People Migrate: The Diverse Mechanisms of Mexico-US Migration
Joint with Duke Sociology.
01/31/2013
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Meeting of DuPRI Students  
02/07/2013
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Donald Treiman  (UCLA)
Educational Achievement in Comparative Perspective
02/14/2013
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Sara Curran  (University of Washington)
Climate Variability & Migration: Some Evidence from Thailand
Joint with Carolina Population Center.
02/21/2013
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Tim Bruckner  (Univ California, Irvine)
Ambient Temperature During Gestation and Cold-related Adult Mortality in a Swedish Cohort, 1915-2002
02/28/2013
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Amy Tsui  (Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University)
Contraception and Demography: Strange but Productive Bedfellows
Joint with Udry Distinguished Lecture, Carolina Population Center, UNC.
03/07/2013
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Hedwig (Hedy) Lee  (University of Washington)
Using Twitter for Demographic and Social Science Research: Tools for Data Collection
03/14/2013
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NO DuPRI Seminar (Spring Break)  
03/21/2013
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David Rehkopf  (Stanford & UC Berkeley)
Approaches to Understanding the Impacts of Poverty Alleviation on Child and Adult Health
03/28/2013
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Harsha Thirumurthy  (Carolina Population Center, UNC)
Health Shocks and Natural Resource Management: Evidence from Western Kenya
04/04/2013
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Greg Duncan  (UC Irvine)
Increasing Inequality in Parent Incomes and Children’s Completed Schooling: Correlation or Causation?
04/11/2013
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NO DuPRI Seminar (PAA Meetings, New Orleans)  
04/18/2013
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Monique Borgerhoff Mulder  (University of California-Davis)
Inequality: Cooperation, Kinship and Witchcraft in Mpimbwe, Tanzania
Joint with Department of Evolutionary Anthropology.
04/25/2013
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NO SEMINAR (D-CIDES keynote event)  (see: http://www.dibs.duke.edu/research/d-cides/events/2013/04/1026-phishing-for-phools)
05/02/2013
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SaunJuhi Verma  (Duke University)
Trade in Migrant Labor: Inter-Organizational Ties and Employer Recruitment During an Economic Downturn


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