Seminar Series

Many studies have found a positive relationship between cognitive ability, as measured in childhood or youth, and subsequent survival, and several explanations of this have been offered, ranging from the idea that low ability is an indicator of adverse systemic events in infancy or childhood to t

Mortality is being postponed at older ages. This finding, documented in 1994 and bolstered since, is a fundamental discovery about the biology of human ageing, a discovery with profound implications for individuals, society and the economy.

This talk will present the theoretical foundations, study design, and research findings of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, or Add Health.

(joint with DGHI)"Maximizing the Effectiveness and Efficiency of HIV and STI Interventions"Garnett is Professor of Microparasite Epidemiology at Imperial College London. His main area ofresearch is the epidemiology and control of sexually transmitted infections.

"Family Disruption in Sweden: New Possibilities and Preliminary Results from Administrative Registers" Nordic data registers are a source of longitudinal life histories for entire populations.

"Consider the Possiblities!" Ethnography and Collaborative Family Research Opportunities at DuPRISSRI at Duke University currently houses two of the largest longitunal ethnographic datasets on poverty and family life in the country: Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study and the Famil

EXTENDED COHORT-COMPONENT APPROACH FOR HOUSEHOLDS PROJECTION AT SUB-NATIONAL LEVELS This paper discusses the five core ideas of the extended cohort-component method known as ProFamy for simultaneously forecasting of family households, living arrangements and population.

Topic: TBD. Duke University Seminar on Global Health series is a university-wide interdisciplinary initiative which connects those from Duke and area universities with nationally-recognized experts to explore critical issues in the field of global health.

"The Great Migration and Mortality of African Americans" Two inextricably linked phenomena lie at the heart of African American social history in the twentieth century: The first is "black-white economic convergenc, that accompanied the decline in discriminatory barriers and narrowing of the blac

(joint with Sanford School of Public Policy) "Supercentenarians and the Theory of Heterogeneity" *Please note room: Rubenstein Hall 200, Sanford The Duke Population Research Institute (DuPRI), an affiliate of SSRI, is dedicated to the conceptual unification of the demographic sciences.