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Ongoing: Demography Workshops are held every Thursday during Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters. Students, faculty, and interested researchers are welcome to attend.
Thursday, May 15:
Giovanna Merli, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Epidemiology, Social Sciences, and HIV/AIDS in China
Ongoing: Workshop/Working Group on Human Potential convenes every Thursday morning at the Harris School of Public Policy. Students, faculty, and interested researchers are welcome to attend.
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Environmental Demography
- July 16-18, 2008
- Boulder, Colorado
The course will provide an overview of the sub-discipline and several
in-depth examples of central areas of research. Top scholars in the
field will review both conceptual and methodological aspects of their
research. In addition, students will receive an introduction to
spatial data and analyses with a focus on the link between demographic
and environmental processes.
The course is open to all graduate students, postdoc toral fellows, and junior faculty from any institution. CUPC will provide a limited number of stipends to pay for travel to and from the short course. Course credit: If desired, students may enroll in the course for 1.5 credits, and the CUPC will cover tuition expenses. Credit-seeking students will be expected to complete a final exam.
See the website, flyer, or contact Lori Hunter for more information.
- JPAM Back Issues Now Online!
The entire run of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management from 1981 through the present is now accessible online at a John Wiley & Sons website. Anyone can use regular and advanced searches to find article references and read article abstracts. APPAM members, and persons at institutions with library subscriptions to JPAM, can login to the John Wiley & Sons website to download full texts of articles for free. Other persons can pay one-time fees to access the full articles.
Please also note that search results are NOT automatically sorted in reverse chronological order. You may click "Date" at the top of the search results page to have the items sorted again. And your searches can be convered into email alerts (and RSS feeds) that will notify you automatically when new JPAM content matches your search criteria. APPAM will be posting more detailed information about conducting searches and setting up alerts on its website as soon as possible.
The Population Research Center at NORC and the University of Chicago, now in its 25th year, is an interdisciplinary research center designed to facilitate high-quality population research conducted by its researchers -- economists, sociologists, and other population scientists. From the early 1940s through the early 1970s, Chicago had an outstanding population group in sociology under the leadership of Philip Hauser, Donald Bogue, and Evelyn Kitagawa. This center of activity was revived in 1983 with a new P-30 Population Center. Since then, the staff of population researchers has grown from twelve to more than 40.
Growth within the Population Research Center has come from researchers in economics, psychology, business, public policy, medicine, and social services administration. This diversification in part reflects a broadening in all population centers and reflects a consistent trend at Chicago. The PRC has always worked at the margins of what was considered to be traditional demography, and as a result our center has helped expand the domain of the field. For example, we have placed less emphasis on the demographic methods featured in other population centers than on statistical methods adopted from the field of labor economics, including event-history analysis, and we have stressed the importance of understanding selection bias and censoring. We have also researched determinants of fertility decisions and their dynamics, timing, and spacing rather than more traditional fertility analyses. Though the research occasionally may have appeared to be on the periphery of demography, over time it has helped to redefine the domain more broadly.
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Last modified: May 8, 2008.
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