Past Social Demography Seminars

The Hybrid Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography includes work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The Social Demography Seminar series thus welcomes presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, im/migration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes. The long-term goal is to build a broad and multi-disciplinary community of social demographers at Harvard.

12/5/2024: Jennifer Glass, PhD, Centennial Commission Professor of Liberal Arts in the department of sociology and research associate in the Population Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin, and current president of the Population Association of America (PAA), presented “The motherlode: Why most mothers end up financially supporting their children.”

11/21/2024: Xi Song, PhD, associate professor of sociology and demography, University of Pennsylvania, presented “From job descriptions to occupations: Using neural language models to code job data for population research.” This seminar was co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of their Thursday Brown Bag Seminar series and took place on the Longwood campus from 1:00–2:15 p.m.

11/14/2024: Thomas Gaziano, MD, MSc, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School in the division of cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, presented “Meeting the United Nations goal of reducing premature cardiovascular disease mortality: Global trends, policies and implementation.” This seminar was co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as part of their Thursday Brown Bag Seminar series and took place on the Longwood campus from 1:00–2:15 p.m.

10/31/2024: Natasha Pilkauskas, PhD, associate professor of public policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, presented “Beyond the nuclear family: Children’s shared living arrangements.”

10/24/2024: Maria Abascal, PhD, associate professor of sociology, director of graduate studies, New York University, presented “Is ‘Latino’ becoming a racial category?”

10/17/2024: Shauna Dyer, PhD, David E. Bell Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presented “Education can’t fix everything: Job quality and gender stratification in the labor market.”

10/10/2024: Johanna Oh, PhD, Spiegelman Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presented “Educational expansion regimes and household wealth inequality in sub-Saharan Africa.”

9/26/2024: Nino Cricco, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard University, and HCPDS graduate student affiliate, presented “Gender earnings convergence and changing pathways towards intergenerational income mobility.”

9/19/2024: Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, PhD, professor, community health sciences & sociology, UCLA, associate director, UCLA California Center for Population Research, and former Harvard Bell Fellow, presented “Mortality and survival among the older adult population in Mexico in the last two decades.”

4/11/2024: Asad Asad, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, Stanford University, presented “Institutional and social contexts of immigration enforcement and the health of infants born to Latina immigrants.”

4/4/2024: JOINT SESSION: Brian Xiao, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and HCPDS graduate student affiliate, presented “Non-resident motherhood in the United States: Prevalence and correlates.” Ana Luiza Penna, PhD candidate in population health sciences, Department of Global Health & Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and HCPDS graduate student affiliate, presented “Women’s empowerment and responsive caregiving in rural Pakistan.”

3/28/2024: Sarah Hayford, PhD, professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Population Research, Ohio State University, presented “Childbearing careers and women’s mid-life well-being: Preliminary evidence from a cohort study in rural Mozambique.”

3/21/2024: Angela Dixon, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, Emory University, and former Bell Fellow, HCPDS, presented “Empty chairs at the dinner table: Black-White disparities in exposure to household member deaths.”

3/7/2024: Lisa Berkman, PhD, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presented “Chaos or community: The role of social ties in shaping population health.”

2/29/2024: Christy L. Erving, PhD, associate professor of sociology, University of Texas Austin, presented “Intersectional stress exposure and Black women’s health.”

2/15/2024: David Reimer, PhD, professor of educational sociology, University of Iceland, presented “Changing inequality at educational transitions.”

2/8/2024: Isaac Sasson, PhD, associate professor of sociology, Tel Aviv University, presented “Social inequalities in bereavement across the life course: A study of four-generation kinship networks in Sweden.”

2/1/2024: Sharad Goel, PhD, professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School, presented “Included-variable bias and everything but the kitchen sink.”

11/16/2023: Zach Parolin, assistant professor in the department of social and political sciences, Bacconi University, Milan, Italy, and senior fellow, Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy, presented on his new book “Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19.”

11/02/2023: Dennis Feehan, assistant professor, department of demography, University of California, Berkeley, presented “Validating social network-based estimates of adult mortality with high-quality vital records: Evidence from 27 cities.” * This event was co-sponsored by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health and Population as part of their Brown Bag Lunch series.

10/26/2023: Emma Zang, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, biostatistics (secondary) and global affairs (secondary), Yale University, presented “Sex-selective abortion bans and the birth outcomes of Asian immigrants.” * This event was co-sponsored by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health and Population as part of their Brown Bag Lunch series.

10/19/2023: Margaret McConnell, PhD, associate professor of global health economics, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented “Evaluating the impact of home visiting for improving maternal and child health outcomes for low-income, first-time parents.” * This event was co-sponsored by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health and Population as part of their Brown Bag Lunch series.

10/12/2023: Minjin Chae, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (and HCPDS graduate student affiliate) presented “How worker power and time-related productivity constraints shape schedule quality,” and Jen Cruz, PhD candidate in population health sciences, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (and HCPDS graduate student affiliate), presented “Exploring the heterogeneity of rurality in the U.S.”

10/5/2023: Ohjae Gowen, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and HCPDS graduate student affiliate, presented “Career, children, or neither? Fathers’ housework and mothers’ work-family arrangements following first birth.”

9/28/2023: Holly Hummer, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (and HCPDS graduate student affiliate) presented “Paradoxes of childlessness in two divergent family contexts.”

9/21/2023: Rob Sampson, PhD, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University, presented “Social change and cohort inequalities in crime and its control over the life course.”

5/4/2023: Richard Layte, DPhil Oxon, professor of sociology, Trinity College Dublin, presented “Social connection in childhood and adolescence, social position and interpersonal trust: A preliminary theory and analysis.”

4/27/2023: Laura Tach, PhD, associate professor of policy analysis and management, and sociology, Cornell University; co-director of Cornell Project 2Gen, presented “The place-based turn in federal policy: Implications for urban demography & inequality.”

4/20/2023: Elizabeth Fussell, PhD, professor of population studies and environment & society, Brown University, presented “Migration as adaptation to the environment?: Evidence from US internal migration.”

4/6/2023: Sanyu Mojola, PhD, Maurice P. During Professor of Demographic Studies; professor of sociology and public affairs; and director of the Office of Population Research, Princeton University, presented (remotely) “Death by design: Producing racial health inequality in the shadow of the Capitol.”

3/30/2023: Kristin Turney, PhD, professor in the department of sociology (and, by courtesy, criminology, law and society), University of California, Irvine, presented (remotely) “‘The Waiting Game’: The pervasiveness and proliferation of anticipatory stress during jail incarceration.”

3/23/2023: Janet Xu, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Inequality in America Initiative, Harvard University, presented “Prize or penalty? Reputational effects of diversity scholarships in the labor market.”

3/9/2023: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, PhD, assistant professor, department of sociology, University of Minnesota, presented (remotely) “The distribution of infection in the early 20th century United States—and why it might still matter today.”

3/2/2023: Jennifer Hirsch, PhD, professor of sociomedical sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; co-director, Columbia Population Research Center, Columbia University, presented “It doesn’t have to be ‘1-in-3’: A public health approach to campus sexual violence prevention.”

2/9/2023: Michelle J. Budig, PhD, senior vice provost for faculty affairs, and professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, presented (remotely) “Israeli ethno-religious differences in motherhood penalties on employment and earnings.”

2/2/2023: Laia Bécares, PhD, MPH, professor of social science and health, King’s College London, presented (remotely) “Focusing in on life course processes to understand how racism patterns racial/ethnic inequities in health.”

1/26/2023: Leonard Lopoo, PhD, Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics; professor of public administration and international affairs; director and co-founder of the Maxwell X Lab, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University; and visiting scholar, Malcom Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, presented “Toward a population policy: Addressing contemporary eugenics and social inequality.”

12/1/2022: Aleksei Opacic, MSc, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard University, and HCPDS graduate student affiliate, presented “Does (higher) education tend towards egalitarianism? Evidence from a causal transitions model.”

11/17/2022: Rourke O’Brien, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, Yale University, and former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar, presented “Fiscal structures and economic mobility in the U.S.”

11/10/2022: Nikki Jones, PhD, Professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Department Chair of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, presented “The ordinary violence of policing.”

11/3/2022: Monica Alexander, PhD, assistant professor joint in statistical sciences and sociology, University of Toronto, presented “Racial disparities in infant outcomes: Insights from, and for, formal demography.”

10/27/2022: Yu Xie, PhD, Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Sociology and Director of Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University, and Visiting Chair Professor of the Center for Social Research, Peking University, presented “Economic inequality and social and demographic outcomes in China.”

10/20/2022: Michael J. Rosenfeld, PhD, professor of sociology, Stanford University, presented “The rainbow after the storm: Marriage equality and social change in the U.S.”

10/13/2022: Lindsay Kobayashi, PhD, MSc, assistant professor, department of epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health and former Harvard Bell Fellow (2016–2018 cohort) and Molly Rosenberg, PhD, associate professor, department of epidemiology and biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington and former Harvard Bell Fellow (2014–2016 cohort) presented “Socioeconomic conditions and cognitive aging in rural South Africa.”

10/6/2022: Special Event: Book Launch for “Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer.”

9/29/2022: Brittney Butler, PhD, Harvard Bell Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and FXB Health & Human Rights Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented “Associations between lifecourse racial and economic segregation and maternal hypertension among Black women.”

9/22/2022: A. Nicole Kreisberg, PhD, Harvard Bell Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presented “Nativity penalty, legal status paradox: The effects of nativity and legal status signals in the US labor market.”

9/15/2022: Geoffrey Wodtke, PhD, associate professor, department of sociology, University of Chicago presented “Concentrated poverty, ambient air pollution, and child cognitive development.”

4/28/2022 (hybrid): David Pedulla, PhD, professor of sociology, Harvard University, presented “Racial discrimination in context: The role of organizational policies and practices in hiring discrimination.”

4/21/2022 (hybrid): Mariana Amorim, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, Washington State University, presented “Black-white disparities in nuclear family trajectories and parents’ postsecondary transfers to adult children.”

4/14/2022 (hybrid): Sangeetha Madhavan, PhD, professor and chair, African American studies; and professor, sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, presented “Parenting from a distance: Children’s living arrangements and migrant well-being in South Africa.”

3/31/2022 (hybrid): Susan Dynarski, PhD, Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, presented “Closing the gap: The effect of reducing complexity and uncertainty in college pricing on the choices of low-income students.”

3/24/2022: Christina H. Fuller, ScD, associate professor in the department of population health science, Georgia State University School of Public Health, presented “Strategies to shift from air pollution injustice to environmental equity.”

3/3/2022: Fenaba R. Addo, PhD, associate professor of public policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presented “At the intersection of race, occupational class status, and middle-class attainment.”

2/24/2022: Deirdre Bloome, PhD, professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School, presented “Rising class crystallization? Trends in multidimensional class inequality across racialized/ethnic groups.”

2/17/2022: Roland J. Thorpe Jr., PhD, professor in the department of health, behavior, and society; and co-director of the DrPH concentration in health equity and social justice, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, presented “Approaches to achieve health equity in aging.”

2/10/2022: Shannon M. Monnat, PhD, associate professor of sociology; Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion & Lerner Center director; and co-director of the Policy, Place and Population Health Lab, Syracuse University, presented “Rural population health in the context of drug overdoses, COVID-19, and longer-term mortality trends.”

2/3/2022: Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald, PhD, professor of sociology, Harvard University, and Nino José Cricco, doctoral student in sociology, Harvard University, presented “Have changing family demographics narrowed the gender wage gap?”

1/27/2022: Paul Y. Chang, PhD, associate professor of sociology, Harvard University, presented “Intermarriage, assimilation theory, and the acculturation of global marriage migrants in South Korea.”

12/9/2022: Van C. Tran, PhD, associate professor of sociology and deputy director for the Center for Urban Research at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, presented “New frontiers of integration: Neighborhood diversification in metropolitan New York.” 

12/2/2022: David Rehkopf, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology and population health, medicine (primary care and population health) and, by courtesy, sociology, Stanford University, presented “Build back better for health equity: Lessons from the New Deal.”

11/4/2022: Sean Bock, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard University, and Jason Beckfield, professor of sociology, Harvard University, and associate director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presented “American exceptionalism, or Republican exceptionalism? A cross-national analysis of public opinion on health care policy.”

10/21/2022: David Canning, PhD, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Science, and professor of economics and international health in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented “Aging and cognitive decline: Evidence from chess tournaments.”

10/14/2022: Steven Ruggles, PhD, Regents Professor of History and Population Studies, and director, Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation, University of Minnesota, presented “A critique of the Census Bureau’s justification for differential privacy.”

10/7/2022: Ridhi Kashyap, DPhil, associate professor of social demography, University of Oxford and professorial fellow of Nuffield College, presented “Can the digital revolution promote gender equality?”

9/30/2022: In Jeong Hwang, MA, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard University, and HCPDS graduate student affiliate, presented “Grandparenthood, grandparenting, and working longer.”

9/23/2022: Keletso Makofane, PhD, FXB Health & Human Rights Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented “Networked resources, causal inference and health: Evidence from population-based studies in South Africa.”

9/16/2022: Ohjae Gowen, MA, doctoral student in sociology, Harvard University, and HCPDS graduate student affiliate, presented “Becoming a father, staying a father: An examination of the cumulative wage premium for U.S. residential fathers.”

9/9/2022: Florencia Torche, PhD, professor of sociology at Stanford University, presented “The COVID pandemic and inequalities in infant health.”

4/29/2021: Daniel Schneider, PhD, professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School, presented “Essential and unprotected: Service sector work in a time of COVID-19.”

4/22/2021: Margaret Frye, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, University of Michigan, presented “Educational expansion and family formation in sub-Saharan Africa.”

4/15/2021: Adia Harvey Wingfield, PhD, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences, associate dean for faculty development, and professor of sociology, Washington University in St. Louis, presented “Professional work in a ‘post-racial’ era: Black health care workers in the new economy.”

4/8/2021: Marie Bragg, PhD, assistant professor, department of population health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, presented “Food marketing and the Federal Trade Commission: Advancing health equity in the food environment through policy.”

4/1/2021: Anna R. Haskins, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, Cornell University, presented “Complexity and constraint: College attitudes and expectations among teens of the prison boom.”

3/25/2021: Colter Mitchell, PhD, research associate professor, Institute for Social Research, and adjunct research associate professor of sociology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, presented “The potential (and pitfalls) using epigenetics for examining social and health inequalities.”

3/11/2021: Sandra Susan Smith, PhD, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice; and Faculty Director of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School; and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute, presented “Mobilizing social capital for pretrial release.”

3/4/2021: Meg Lovejoy, PhD, research program director for the Workplace and Well-being Initiative, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and Pamela Stone, PhD, professor of sociology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, presented “Paradox of privilege: Gender, class and career interruption among high-achieving women.”

2/25/2021: Nancy Krieger, PhD, professor of social epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented “COVID-19, structural racism, embodied histories, and the two-edged sword of data.”

2/11/2021: Lingxin Hao, PhD, professor, department of sociology, Johns Hopkins University, presented “A social network model of detecting labor market structure from massive employment relations.”

2/4/2021: Ichiro Kawachi, MBChB, PhD, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented “Ten years on: Residential displacement and health outcomes following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.”

1/ 21/2021: Christina Cross, PhD, postdoctoral fellow (2019-2022); and assistant professor (beginning 2022) of sociology, Harvard University, presented “Color, class, and context: Examining heterogeneous family structure effects.”

12/3/2020: Neil Mehta, PhD, associate professor, preventive medicine & community health, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, presented “US life expectancy trends and stalling declines in cardiovascular disease mortality.”

11/19/2020: Kristi Williams, PhD, professor of sociology, The Ohio State University, presented “Missing links? Social developmental pathways from childhood adversity to later life health.”

11/12/2020: Dustin Duncan, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, presented “…I’m afraid of White people”:  Anti-Black racism, police violence and the health and well-being of Black sexual minority men. 

10/29/2020: Sharrelle Barber, PhD, assistant professor, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, presented “Racism in the time of COVID-19: Implications for theory, data, and action.” 

10/22/2020: Merlin Schaeffer, PhD, associate professor, University of Copenhagen, presented “Healthcare chauvinism during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

10/15/2020: Courtney Cogburn, PhD, associate professor of social work, Columbia University, presented “Racism, culture + health: Conceptual and methodological innovations.”

10/8/2020: Ariela Schachter, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, Washington University in St. Louis, presented “Ancestry, color, or culture? How whites racially classify others in the U.S.”

10/1/2020: Allison Daminger, PhD student in sociology & social policy, Harvard University, presented “The persistence of gender in cognitive household labor patterns.”

9/24/2020: Ethan Raker, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard University, presented “Stratifying disaster: State aid, institutional processes, and inequality in American communities.”

9/17/2020: Roland Neil, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard University, presented “Place-based discrimination in policing.”

9/10/2020: Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and the John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, and interim director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (2020-2021), presented “Long-term recovery after Hurricane Katrina: Health, geographic mobility and well-being in the mixed methods RISK study.”

4/16/2020: CANCELED – Gilbert Gee, PhD, professor in the department of community health science, University of California, Los Angeles.

4/9/2020: CANCELED – Colter Mitchell, PhD, research assistant professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.

4/2/2020: CANCELED – Meg Lovejoy, PhD, research program director for the Workplace and Well-being Initiative, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and Pamela Stone, PhD, professor of sociology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

3/26/2020: CANCELED – Weihua An, PhD, associate professor, sociology and quantitative theory and methods, Emory University, presented “You said, they said: A framework on informant accuracy with application to studying self-reports and peer-reports of adolescent smoking.”

3/12/2020: CANCELED – Ariela Schachter, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, Washington University, St. Louis, presented “Not one drop: Uncovering Whites’ contemporary rules of ethnoracial classification in the U.S.”

3/5/2020: Mariana Arcaya, ScD, associate professor of urban planning and public health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presented “A long-run view of recovery after Hurricane Katrina: Dimensions and determinants of post-disaster well-being.”

2/20/2020: Elizabeth Frankenberg, PhD, Director, Carolina Population Center, and professor of public policy and sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, presented “Long-term dynamics of health, well-being, and population change after a disaster.”

2/13/2020: Jayanti Owens, PhD, the Mary Tefft and John Hazen White, Sr. Assistant Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, department of sociology and Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, presented “What drives racial/ethnic disparities in school discipline?”

2/6/2020: Christina Ciocca Eller, PhD, assistant professor of sociology and social studies, Harvard University, presented “Life goes on after dropout: Examining the early life outcomes of four-year students with ‘some college, no degree.'”

1/30/2020: Jacob Bor, ScD, assistant professor and Peter T. Paul Career Development Professor in the departments of global health (primary) and epidemiology, Boston University, presented “Health divides and political divides.”

12/5/2019: Robert Hummer, PhD, Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presented “Health disparities among US adults who will soon transition to middle age (with a lagniappe focusing on Add Health data collection, availability, and future plans).”

11/21/2019: Amy Hsin, PhD, associate professor, department of sociology, Queens College, City University of New York, presented “Beyond Dreamers: The under-analyzed complexity of the undocumented youth population.”

11/7/2019: Jenny Trinitapoli, PhD, associate professor, department of sociology, University of Chicago, presented “AIDS: An epidemic of uncertainty.”

10/31/2019: Charles Nelson, PhD, director of research in the division of developmental medicine and the Richard David Scott Professor of Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, presented “Sensitive periods in human development: The effects of early profound deprivation on brain-behavioral development.”

10/24/2019: Letizia Mencarini, PhD, associate professor of demography, department of management and technology, Bocconi University, presented “Trust and fertility in uncertain times.”

10/17/2019: Elena Ruíz, PhD, visiting scholar in sociology, Harvard University, presented “The role of epistemic capital in structuring inequality.”

10/10/2019: Kevin Croke, PhD, assistant professor of global health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented “Ethiopia’s expansion of primary health care services: A mixed methods study.”

10/3/2019: Linda Zhao, doctoral student in sociology, Harvard University, presented “Ethnic homophily and socioeconomic status in adolescent classroom friendship networks.”

9/19/2019: Margot Moinester, doctoral student in sociology, Harvard University, presented “Rethinking the U.S. deportation boom.”

9/26/2019: Jared Schachner, doctoral student in sociology & social policy, Harvard University, presented “How educational choice reshapes residential segregation’s causes and consequences: Evidence from Los Angeles County.”

9/5/2019: David R. Williams, PhD, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health, and Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and professor of African and African American studies and sociology, Harvard University, presented “The health of population: Understanding the roles of emerging and traditional stressors.”

5/2/2019: Johannes Giesecke, PhD, professor of sociology, Humboldt University Berlin, presented “Decomposition methods in the social sciences: Old wisdom and new developments.”

4/25/2019: Chen Wei, PhD, professor of sociology, Renmin University of China, and visiting scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, presented “The two-child policy and fertility in China.”

4/4/2019: Marcia Castro, PhD, Andelot Professor of Demography at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented “Implications of Zika virus and congenital Zika syndrome for the number of live births in Brazil.”

3/28/2019: Meredith Rowe, EdD, Saul Zaentz Professor of Early Learning and Development at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, presented “Socioeconomic disparities in early language development: Predictors, consequences and considerations for intervention.”

3/7/2019: Jason Boardman, PhD, professor of sociology and director, Health & Society Program, Institute of Behavioral Science at University of Colorado Boulder, presented “A sociological perspective on the utilization of polygenic risk scores across racial and ethnic groups in the United States.”

2/28/2019: Claudia Olivetti, PhD, professor, department of economics at Boston College, presented “Social norms, labor market opportunities, and the marriage gap for skilled women.” (co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality)

 2/21/2019: Maria Abascal, PhD, assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University, presented “Diversity or outgroup share? Explaining permitted events and 311 calls in NYC.”

2/14/2019: Robbee Wedow, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, presented “The new genetics of sexual orientation: How large-scale genetic data can help us understand our social world.”

2/7/2019: Joscha Legewie, PhD, assistant professor of sociology at Harvard University, presented “Police violence and the health of Black infants.”

1/31/2019: Deborah Carr, PhD, professor and department chair of sociology at Boston University, presented “Love hurts? Family relationships and older adults’ emotional well-being.”

1/24/2019: Ellis Monk, PhD, assistant professor of sociology at Harvard University, presented “Beyond the binary: Skin tone, discrimination, and health among African Americans.”

12/6/2018: Christine Percheski, PhD, associate professor of sociology at Northwestern University, presented “Widening inequalities? Gender, resources during childhood, and adult family formation in the United States.“

11/ 29/2018: Jennifer Karas Montez, PhD, professor of sociology at Syracuse University, presented “Hypothesizing upward: US states and population health.”

11/15/2018: Thomas A. DiPrete, PhD, Giddings Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, presented “School-to-work linkages, educational mismatches, and labor market outcomes.”

11/8/2018: Kathleen Cagney, PhD, director of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago, presented “Activity space, social interaction and health in later life.”

11/1/2018: Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, PhD, associate professor, Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of California of Los Angeles, presented “Mortality declines in Latin America during the 20th century: Implications for current and future changes in longevity.”

10/25/2018: Tod Hamilton, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, Princeton University, presented “Immigration and Black America: Disparate origins, diverse outcomes.”

10/18/2018: Katherine Morris, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard University, presented “Social network as safety net: Social network structure and help with daily activities among older adults.”

10/11/2018: Adrian Raftery, PhD, the Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington, presented “Bayesian population projections with migration uncertainty.”

10/4/2018: Alix Winter, PhD candidate in sociology and social policy, Harvard University, presented “The criminal justice consequences of opioid prescription.”

9/27/2018: Kristin Perkins, PhD, postdoctoral fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, presented “Household composition and children’s educational attainment.”

9/20/2018: Margot Moinester, PhD candidate in sociology and doctoral fellow in Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, presented “Interior enforcement of immigration: Detentions and deportations, 1988-2010.”

9/13/2018: Lawrence Bobo, PhD, Harvard College Professor, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University, presented “Understanding ‘No Special Favors’: A quantitative and qualitative mapping of responses to the racial resentment scale.”

5/3/2018: Sanyu Mojola, PhD, associate professor of sociology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, presented “A Nowadays Disease”? Aging, Gendered Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in a rural South African community.”

4/5/2018: Phyllis Moen, PhD, McKnight Endowed Presidential Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, presented “Rethinking the gendered life course.” *co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality

3/29/2018: Greg Duncan, PhD, Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of California-Irvine, presented “Poverty and child development: Causation vs. correlation.”

3/8/2018: Xi Song, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, University of Chicago, presented “Intergenerational association of income dynamics: A dyadic group-based approach.”

3/1/2018: Bridget Goosby, PhD, Happold Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, presented “Biosocial pathways to health inequities: How racial discrimination matters.”

2/22/2018: Siwei Cheng, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, New York University, presented “Decoding the coding gap: The rise of programming-intensive occupations and the stalled gender revolution.”

2/15/2018: Michal Engelman, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, presented “Gradual change or punctuated equilibrium? Reconsidering patterns of health in later-life.”

2/8/2018: Dalton Conley, PhD, Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, presented “Deploying genetics to inform social science.”

2/1/2018: Sarah Damaske, PhD, associate professor of labor & employment relations, The Pennsylvania State University, presented “Job loss and attempts to return to work: Exacerbating inequalities across gender and class.” *co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality.

12/7/2017: Kelly Musick, PhD, professor of policy analysis and management, and director of the Cornell Population Center, presented “Cross-national comparisons of his and her work and earnings following parenthood.”

11/16/2017: Jan van Bavel, professor of demography, University of Leuven, Belgium, presented “The reversal of the gender gap in education and its consequences for family life.” (co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality).

11/9/2017: Debra Umberson, PhD, professor of sociology, and director of the Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, presented “Black deaths matter: Race, relationship loss, and effects on survivors.”

11/2/2017: Barbara Entwisle, PhD, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presented “Climate change and migration: New insights from a dynamic model.”

10/26/2017: WORLDWIDE WEEK AT HARVARD EVENT—Lisa Berkman, David Canning and Livia Montana, presented “Health and aging in Africa: Early results from a longitudinal study.” In 2013, the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies launched Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI), the first Health and Retirement (HRS) sister study in Africa. The project is led by an interdisciplinary team of collaborators from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, and The INDEPTH Network, a global network of health and demographic surveillance systems. The project aims to identify the biological, social, and economic conditions that shape health in the aging population of Agincourt, South Africa. Major themes include: dementia and cognitive impairment, HIV, cardiometabolic risks and disease, and public policies.

10/19/2017: Eunsil Oh, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard University, presented “Who deserves to work? How women develop expectations of childcare support.”  (co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality).

10/12/2017: Brielle Bryan, PhD candidate in sociology & social policy, Harvard University, presented “Housing instability following incarceration and conviction.”

10/5/2017: Kyle Albert, PhD, Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presented “The changing demographics of professional membership associations in the United States.”

9/28/2017: Nathan Wilmers, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard University, presented “Wage stagnation and buyer power: How buyer-supplier relations affect U.S. workers’ wages, 1978-2014.”

9/14/2017: Subu Subramanian, professor of population health and geography, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented “Why most population health discourse is not very useful.”

5/4/2017: Melinda Mills, PhD, Nuffield Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford, presented “The power of polygenic scores of reproductive behavior and their relationship to fertility traits and education.”

4/13/2017: Mary Brinton, PhD, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, presented “Babies, work, or both? The interdependence of women’s employment and fertility in East Asia.”

4/6/2017: Margot Jackson, PhD, associate professor of sociology, Brown University, presented “Educational gaps in parenting behavior and academic achievement across cohorts: The United Kingdom, 1958-2000”

3/30/2017: Francesco Billari, PhD, professor of sociology and demography, Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, presented “Fertility and the digital revolution.”

3/23/2017: Janet Gornick, PhD, professor of political science and sociology, CUNY, presented “Women, work, and care: What can we learn from cross-national comparisons?”

3/9/2017: Jason Beckfield, PhD, professor of sociology, Harvard University, and associate director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presented “Embodiment by design: An institutional approach to social inequalities in health.”

3/2/2017: Andrew Cherlin, PhD, Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public Policy, Johns Hopkins University, presented “A look at the discontented white working-class.”

2/23/2017: Filiz Garip, PhD, professor of sociology, Cornell University, presented “Network effects on behavior: How do mechanisms matter?”

2/16/2017: Yulya Truskinovsky, PhD, Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presented “Childcare subsidies and intra-family transfers.”

Fall 2016

12/1/2016: Tyson Brown, PhD, assistant professor of sociology, Duke University, presented “Race, nativity, aging and health: Critical demography and life course approaches.”

11/17/2016: Hiroshi Ishida, PhD, visiting scholar in sociology, Harvard University, presented “Life course transitions and educational assortative mating among Japanese youth.”

11/10/2016: Matthew Hall, PhD, associate professor of policy analysis & management, Cornell University, presented “Deporting the American dream: Immigration enforcement and Latino foreclosures.”

11/3/2016: Sasha Killewald, PhD, professor of sociology, Harvard University, presented “Falling behind: The black-white wealth gap in life course perspective.”

10/27/2016: Paula England, PhD, professor of sociology, New York University, presented “Cohort increases in bisexual behavior and identity in the U.S.”

10/20/2016: Xiang Zhou, PhD, assistant professor of government, Harvard University, presented “Market transition, industrialization, and social mobility trends in post-revolution China.”

10/13/2016: Kristin Perkins, PhD candidate in sociology & social policy, Harvard University, presented “Children and household composition change: Racial disparities, trends, and effects on educational attainment.”

10/6/2016: Asad Asad, PhD candidate in sociology, Harvard University, presented “The risk of deportation and the paradox of structural incorporation.”

9/29/2016:  Lisa Berkman, PhD, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, and of Epidemiology, and director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presented “Work family health: the long arm of early adulthood.”

9/22/2016:  Juli Simon Thomas, PhD, David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presented “Disruptions in the life course.”

9/15/2016:  Mary Brinton, PhD, the Reischaer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, presented “Welcome and general discussion on social demography.”