Seminar Series

In 2013, scientists reported the first successful genome-wide association study of a social science outcome, educational attainment.Their analysis of millions of genetic variants in over 100,000 individuals revealed a molecular "blueprint" for success in schooling written in the alphabet of DNA.

In recent years, technological change has presented a valuable opportunity for innovation in the measurement of cognitive skills in large population based samples.

ABSTRACT: Recent years have seen dramatic changes in the debate about the impacts of weather and weather shocks on human migration.

ABSTRACT: Projections of countries' future populations, broken down by age and sex, are widely used for planning and research. They are mostly done deterministically, but there is a widespread need for probabilistic projections.

ABSTRACT: Mexican-origin families make up the single biggest segment of the immigrant population of the U.S. As a group, they have high levels of socioeconomic disadvantage that combined with other characteristics of the U.S. receiving context, tend to block social mobility across generations.

ABSTRACT: Recent studies suggest a rapid change in fertility preferences among young adults across sub-Saharan Africa.

Attitudes toward risk play an important role in economic behavior, but how these attitudes change following large disruptive events remains unclear. This is largely due to persistent problems of selective exposure, mortality, and migration in these contexts.

ABSTRACT: A broad literature in social psychology has established that respondents react negatively when women engage in traditionally masculine actions in the workplace (Heilman and Chen 2005; Heilman, Wallen, Fuchs, and Tamkins 2004; Rudman and Glick 1999; Rudman 1998; Rudman and Glick 2001; Bo

ABSTRACT: Scholars question whether Latino, especially Mexican American, communities contain social, financial, and ethnic resources that foster mobility and integration. This research examines Latino ethnobanks in Los Angeles that are chartered by Mexican American elites.

ABSTRACT:The contribution of preterm birth and birthweight extremes to a child's health risks, ranging from infant mortality to later onset diseases in adulthood, has been examined extensively.