Duke University Population Research Institute Seminar Series - Fall 2013

Usual time and place: 12:00pm - 1:15pm on Thursday in 230 E Gross Hall.
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09/05/2013
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Shelly Lundberg  (University of California-Santa Barbara)
Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills
09/12/2013
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Mikko Myrskyla  (Max Plank Institute)
Is later better or worse? Advanced parental ages and offspring IQ, health, and mortality
09/19/2013
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Andrew Noymer  (University of California, Irvine)
What's flu got to do with it? Changes in the age-structure of influenza mortality during pandemics.
09/26/2013
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James Montgomery  (Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
An Age-Structured Two-Sex Population Model with Endogenous Forces of Attraction
10/03/2013
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Jessica Ho  (Duke University)
America’s Lagging Life Expectancy: International Comparisons of U.S. Mortality
10/10/2013
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Vida Maralani  (Yale University)
Understanding the links between education and smoking
10/17/2013
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Emmanuelle Cambois  (INED -- France National Institute of Demographic Studies)
Recent diverging trends in male and female disability-free life expectancies in France: a sex or a gender issue?
10/18/2013
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Robert Hummer  (University of Texas-Austin)
De-Mystifying the Hispanic Paradox: Toward a Better Understanding of Health and Mortality Patterns among Mexican Origin Adults in the United States
Joint with Department of Sociology.
10/25/2013
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Scott Lynch  (Princeton University)
Modeling Long-Term Cohort Survival Using Repeated Cross-sectional Data
Joint with Department of Sociology.
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10/31/2013
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Joseph Lariscy  (Duke University)
Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Adult Survival in the United States
11/07/2013
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Andrea Velasquez  (Duke University)
The Economic Burden of Crime: Evidence from Mexico
11/14/2013
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Christine Schwartz  (University of Wisconsin)
The Growing Economic Resemblance of Spouses: Changes in Assortative Mating or the Division of Labor in Marriage?
11/21/2013
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Timothy Smeeding  (University of Wisconsin)
Connecting Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility: Looking Ahead, Not Behind
12/05/2013
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Theodore Iwashyna  (University of Michigan)
The Old Man's Friend No More: Disability and Cognitive Decline After Acute Infection


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