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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 10/19/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Perkins Library 217
In this talk, Pearce will highlight key findings from her book A Faith of Their Own: Stability and Change in the Religiosity of American Adolescents, coauthored with Melinda Lundquist Denton (Clemson).
Date
10/12/2011 - 10/12/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Sanford Rhodes Conference Room
That women live longer than men may be a well-known phenomenon. But why women live longer than men is much less well understood. I first briefly review the state of knowledge about sex differences in mortality and identify gaps in this knowledge.
Date
9/29/2011 - 9/29/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Sociology-Psychology 329
In this presentation, the Multiphasic Response model is used as a foundation for understanding the relationship between land use change (agricultural development), fertility and human migration in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Date
9/21/2011 - 9/21/2011
Time
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue
Sanford Rhodes Conference Room