Population Studies & Training Center, Brown University


PSTC Home Brown University Home About Brief History Directions Contact Us People Graduate Students Faculty Staff Research Research Activities African Demography Related Centers at Brown Graduate Program Prospective Students Program Requirements Events PSTC Colloquia Series Anthropology and Population Seminar Series (WGAP) Conferences Opportunities at the PSTC Job Opportunities Summer Internships Services Computing Information Services Administrative Services	Fall 2008 Colloquia Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University Please note: All talks will be held at 12:00pm in the Seminar Room of Mencoff Hall at 68 Waterman St., unless otherwise noted. For more information about this series or to make an appointment with a visiting speaker, please contact Katelyn Clary. _________________________________________ Thursday, September 11 Sam Preston Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography, University of Pennsylvania “Recent Portraits of American Mortality” Thursday, September 18 Esther Duflo Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT “Education and Early Fertility: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya” Thursday, September 25 Rachel Friedberg Senior Lecturer in Economics, Brown University “Puzzling Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States” Thursday, October 2 Graduate Student Trainees Workshop Topic: TBA Thursday, October 9 Marida Hollos Professor of Anthropology, Brown University “Childbearing in Times of Uncertainty: Young Couples' Narratives from Hungary” Thursday, October 16 David Weil Professor of Economics, Brown University “The Economic Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States” Thursday, October 23 Steve McGarvey Professor of Community Health, Brown University “Interdisciplinary Studies of the Nutrition Transition in South Africa” Thursday, October 30 Deborah Balk Associate Professor of Public Affairs, CUNY “Urbanization and Climate Change: A Call for Spatial Demography” Thursday, November 6 Susan Greenhalgh Professor of Anthropology, UC Irvine “Just One Child! Population Science and Politics in Contemporary China” Thursday, November 13 Susan Short Associate Professor of Sociology, Brown University “Gender and Housework in post-Socialist China” Thursday, November 20 John Casterline Professor of Sociology, Ohio State University “Consequences of Unwanted Fertility: Evidence from Bangladesh on Child Mortality and Schooling” Thursday, November 27 No Colloquia - Thanksgiving Thursday, December 4 David Lam Professor of Economics, University of Michigan “Explaining the Persistence in Racial Gaps in Schooling in South Africa” _________________________________________
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