Seminars

Hopkins Population Center and the  
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
Joint Seminars 2007-2008

Reproducing Foreigners: The Demography of Family Reunification in African Spain.

Seminar Supplement

Caroline Bledsoe, PhD.
Melville J. Herskovits Professor of African Studies Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University. 

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: East Baltimore
Building: Bloomberg - 615 N. Wolfe Street   Room: W2030
Contact: Kristi Willis, 410-955-3384, kwillis@jhsph.edu

Consequences of Unwanted Fertility: Longitudinal Evidence from Bangladesh on Child Mortality and Schooling
(PDF of paper)
Seminar Bibliography

John B. Casterline
Robert T. Lazarus Chair in Population Studies, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: East Baltimore
Building: Bloomberg - 615 N. Wolfe Street   Room: W2030
Contact: Kristi Willis, 410-955-3384, kwillis@jhsph.edu

Modeling Disability Dynamics Using Panel Data

Douglas A. Wolf
Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University

Wednesday, February 27 2008
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: East Baltimore
Building: Bloomberg - 615 N. Wolfe Street   Room: W2030
Contact: Allison Roeser, 410-955-3384, aroeser@jhsph.edu

Welfare Reform in the Mid-2000s: How Low-income Minority Families are Faring (pdf)

Andrew Cherlin, PhD,
Benjamin H. Griswold, III Professor of Public Policy, Department of Sociology, JHU

Wednesday January 23, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: East Baltimore
Building: Bloomberg - 615 N. Wolfe Street   Room: W2030
Contact: Allison Roeser, 410-955-3384, aroeser@jhsph.edu

Land, labor, and livelihood: Charting the effects of the pipeline project in Chad on the health of populations

Lori Leonard, Sc.D.  
Associate Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society

Wednesday November 28, 2007
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: East Baltimore
Building: Bloomberg - 615 N. Wolfe Street   Room: W2030
Contact: Allison Roeser, 410-955-3384, aroeser@jhsph.edu
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A New Empirical Model of Age Pattern Mortality: UN vs WHO

Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health

Wednesday October 17, 2007
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: East Baltimore
Building: Bloomberg - 615 N. Wolfe Street   Room: W2030
Contact: Allison Roeser, 410-955-3384, aroeser@jhsph.edu
Seminar Bibliography Link

Emily Agree, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health

Wednesday September 24, 2007
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: East Baltimore
Building: Bloomberg - 615 N. Wolfe Street   Room: W2030
Contact: Allison Roeser, 410-955-3384, aroeser@jhsph.edu

WHAT IS CAUSING THE DECLINE IN LATE-LIFE DISABILITY?

Linda Martin, PhD.
Scholar in Residence, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science

Wednesday April 18, 2007
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: East Baltimore
Building: Bloomberg - 615 N. Wolfe Street   Room: W2030
Contact: Allison Roeser, 410-955-3384, aroeser@jhsph.edu
Seminar Bibliography Link

AFRICA'S LAGGING DEMOGRAPHIC (AND ECONOMIC) TRANSITION: EVIDENCE FROM EXOGENOUS IMPACTS OF MALARIA ECOLOGY AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY

Dalton Conley, PhD.
University Professor of the Social Sciences and
Chair of Sociology, New York University

Thursday, May 31, 2007
Location: Homewood Campus
Building: Mergenthaler Hall         Room: 526

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Updated: February 2008