Seminar Series

There is increasing interest in discovering mechanisms that mediate the effects of childhood stress on late-life disease morbidity and mortality. Previous studies have suggested one potential mechanism linking stress to cellular aging, disease, and mortality in humans: telomere erosion.

Date
2/15/2012
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Perkins Library Breedlove Room

Since the twilight of the 20th century, the era of a normative, discrete, and permanent retirement at age 65 has begun to wane. For many, it has been replaced with heterogeneous pathways to final retirement.

Date
2/08/2012
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Perkins Library Breedlove Room

This seminar will be co-presented by two Duke Doctoral students.

Date
2/01/2012
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Perkins Library Breedlove Room

Dr. Valente will discuss the field of social network analysis and introduce several key hypotheses that show how networks influence behavior.

Date
12/07/2011
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Sanford Rhodes Conference Room

Prior estimates of the magnitude of the association between obesity and mortality have varied widely and have been a source of ongoing debates and controversies.

Date
11/30/2011
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Sanford Rhodes Conference Room

This paper provides a systematic analysis of identification in linear social networks models. This is both a theoretical and an econometric exercise in that it links identification analysis to a rigorously delineated model of interdependent decisions.

Date
11/15/2011
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Social Sciences 111

There has been great interest in one dimension of mortality change, aggregate human life expectancy. I focus on a distinct dimension, the variance in the age at adult death. I explain why this measure matters, discuss historical trends in this variance, and compare trends across countries.

Date
11/09/2011
Time
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue
Rubenstein Hall 200

Little is known about the situation facing widows andtheir dependent children in West Africa especially afterthe widow remarries. Women in Malian society arevulnerable to the loss of husbands especially in ruralareas.

Date
11/02/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Rubenstein Hall 200

Good survey practice requires the computation and presentation of the response rate for the realized sample.

Date
10/26/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Sanford Rhodes Conference Room

A large body of work in economics and other disciplines has investigated the relationship between family structure- including birth order, family size, and sibling composition- and children's outcomes.

Date
10/19/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Perkins Library 217