Seminar Series

ABSTRACT: Although climate-related extreme events---floods, rain-induced landslides, and droughts---are receiving increasing attention in the development and disaster risk-reduction communities, demographic analysis of the incidence and consequences of these events has remained very scarce indeed

ABSTRACT: This presentation will discuss several studies examining the associations among life course socioeconomic indicators and health.

ABSTRACT: In the social sciences, there is a longstanding tension between data collection methods that facilitate quantification and those that are open to unanticipated information. Advances in technology now enable new, hybrid methods that can combine some of the benefits of both approaches.

ABSTRACT: Academic and policy literatures on intergenerational transmissions of poverty and inequality suggest that improving schooling attainment and income for parents in poor households will lessen poverty and inequality in their children's generation through increased human capital accumulate

Radical changes in the nature of romantic relationships are reflected in the decoupling of what were once considered "marital behaviors" from the institution of marriage.

This paper examines whether associations between personality and attained status are socially contingent such that valued personality characteristics are stronger predictors of attainments at lower levels of parental education (the resource substitution hypothesis) but such characteristics are le

Compared to the US-born, Black immigrants have higher child poverty rates despite their comparatively higher levels of schooling. This disadvantage is inconsistent with human-capital theory and is unseen among other immigrant racial groups.

A population's level of period life expectancy is a biased indicator of period mortality conditions, due to the existence of cohort effects and mortality selection. It is also an indicator that has little relevance for the experience of actual individuals.

Tobacco consumption is seen as the predominant driver of both the trend and the extent of sex differences in life expectancy.

In this talk, I present recent primate and human evidence on the importance of investing in the early years to promote health across the lifecourse.