Past Presentation Abstracts
Spring 2008
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Whats special about mining spatial datasets? Shashi Shekhar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
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Are we bowling alone? Findings from the American Time Use Survey. Vincent Louis and Sarah Flood, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
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Interrogating the implications of marriage and gendered power for fertility and sexual behavior. Francis Dodoo, Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice, Penn State University
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The internal learning system: Assessing impact while addressing participant learning needs. Helzi Noponen, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
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Luxembourg Income Study: A cross national comparative project to study welfare state outcomes. Markus Jäntti, Luxembourg Income Study, Luxembourg
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Country variation in sex differences in self-assessed health: Evidence from the Survey of Health and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Elsie Pamuk, The National Center for Health Statistics
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Urban sprawl: Observations on urban form and environmental health. Julian Marshall, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
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Insights into the nature of aging from the Danish Longitudinal Survey. Kaare Christensen, Professor of Epidemiology, Southern Denmark University and Director of the Danish Twin Registry
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Diversity and its discontents: Lessons from higher education. Marta Tienda, Office of Population Research, Princeton University
Fall 2007
- Early Findings from the Flexible Work and Well-Being Study. Phyllis Moen and Erin Kelly, Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
- Personalizing Lynch Victims: Using Census Records to Study the History of Southern Mob Violence. Stewart Tolnay, Department of Sociology, University of Washington
- "Check All that Apply" and Then What? Working with the New Race Question. Carolyn Liebler, Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
- The Impact of Work and Family Careers on Life Outcomes in Late Adulthood. Rob Warren, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
- Cohabitation and Children's Living Arrangements: New Estimates from the United States. Sheela Kennedy, Minnesota Population Center
- Before their Time: Child Labor and Health. Dr. David L. Parker, Department of Occupational Medicine, Park Nicollet Clinic and Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota
- Intergenerational Families in Developing Countries Steve Ruggles and Misty Heggeness, Minnesota Population Center
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Census in Korea Namhoon Kim, The Korean National Statistical Office
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Evolution of National Statistical Systems Dennis Trewin, Former Australian Statistician and President of the International Statistical Institute
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Bayesian Sampling Weights: Toward a Practical Implementation of the Polya Posterior Jeremy Strief, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota.
Spring 2007
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Measuring Race in America C. Matthew Snipp, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, Standford University
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Did All US Cities Grow the Same? Patterns of Unban Growth in US Cities 1910-2000 Andrew A. Beveridge, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, Queens College and the Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
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Union, Public Sector, and Within-group Wage Dispersion in the U.S.: A Density Function Decomposition Analysis Changhwan Kim, Ph.D. Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
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Switching Social Contexts: Housing Mobility, Neighborhood Effects and Youth Stefanie Deluca, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University
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Effect of Racial Residential Segregation on Black Infant Mortality and Infant Mortality Disparities Mary Hearst, M.P.H. Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota
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Blacks, Whites, and Brown: Effects on the Earnings of Men and Their Sons Jenny Wahl, Ph.D., Department of Economics, Carleton College
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Immigrants and Industrialization in the United States, 1880 to 1920 Charles Hirschman, Ph.D. Department of Sociology and Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington
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Is the Effect of Poverty and Racial Concentration on Health and Mortality Robust over Time? Felicia LeClere, Ph.D., Population Studies Center and ICPSR, University of Michigan