Minnesota Population Center Seminar Series

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MPC Seminars are held in 50 Willey Hall on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota Minneapolis Campus.

Monday, September 14

12:15 to 1:15 PM

Creating a National Data Enclave System for Health Data Resources

Peter S. Meyer, National Center for Health Statistics

Monday, September 21 

12:15 to 1:15 PM

Latin American Immigrants in Spain and the United States: A Comparative Analysis from the American Community Survey of 2007 and the Encuesta de Inmigrantes of 2007

Herbert S. Klein, Stanford University

Monday, September 28 

12:15 to 1:15 PM

Does It Matter Where You Live? Neighborhoods and Health

Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Monday, October 5

12:15 to 1:15 PM

Grazing Goods and Girth: Determinants and Effects         

Daniel S. Hamermesh, University of Texas at Austin

Monday, October 12    

12:15 to 1:15 PM

Supercentenarians and the Theory of Heterogeneity

James W. Vaupel, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Monday, October 19

12:15 to 1:15 PM

An Overview of Data Resources at the Minnesota Population Center

Trent Alexander and Katie Genadek, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota

Monday, October 26  

12:15 to 1:15 PM

Northern Coresidence across Generations: Northern Norway during the Last Part of the Nineteenth Century 

Hilde L. Jåstad, Minnesota Population Center visiting scholar from the Centre for Sámi Studies, University of Tromsø

Monday, November 2     
12:15 to 1:15 PM

Should Everyone Go to College?

Eric Grodsky, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota

Monday, November 9 

12:15 to 1:15 PM

Public and Private Schools in Nepal: A Comparative Perspective

Uttam Sharma, Applied Economics University of Minnesota

Monday, November 16  

12:15 to 1:15 PM

   

  

Historical Family Systems and the East-West Divide in Europe: Persistence of the Past or Persistence of Perspective? 

Mikolaj Szoltysek, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Monday, November 23  

12:15 to 1:15 PM

New Zealand in the Early Stages of the Modern Health Transition 

Evan Roberts, History Programme, Victoria University of Wellington

Monday, December 7  

12:15 to 1:15 PM'

Single Mothers and Minimum Wage          

Peter Brandon, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton College

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