MPC is a University-wide interdisciplinary cooperative for demographic research. Weekly seminars are held during both the fall and spring semesters.
Unless otherwise noted, all MPC seminars are held from 12:15 to1:15 PM on Mondays
in the MPC Seminar Room (50 Willey Hall)
Spring 2012
Monday, January 23
Cognitive Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills, and the Employment and Wages of Young Adults in Rural China
Paul W. Glewwe, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
NOTE: This seminar will be held 12:30 - 1:30pm
Monday, January 30
TerraPopulus: A Global Population / Environment Network
Steven Ruggles, Department of History and Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
Monday, February 6
When Do Laws Matter? National Minimum-Age-of-Marriage Laws and Adolescent Fertility, 1989-2007
Elizabeth Boyle, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Monday, February 13
Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Production and the Web of Population in the U.S. Great Plains
Myron Gutmann, Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate, National Science Foundation
Monday, February 20
MPC Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows' Presentations
Michel Boudreaux (Health Policy and Management) and Rachelle Hill (Sociology), University of Minnesota
Monday, February 27
Marital Quality in Second Marriages across the Life Course
Kathryn Coursolle, Minnesota Population Center
Co-Sponsored with the Life Course Center
Monday, March 5
Geographies of Racial Mixing in Households and Neighborhoods
Mark Ellis, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington
Monday, March 19
Tracking Health Communication Resources, Needs, and Experiences in the U.S. Population:
The Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS)
Lila Finney Rutten, Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (HCIRB), National Cancer Institute
CANCELED
Monday, March 26
Social Mobility in Multiple Generations
Robert Denis Mare, Department of Sociology and California Center for Population Research, University of California Los Angeles
Monday, April 2
Intensive Work Commitment among Executive Men: Cultural Inheritance and Contemporary Meaning
Mary Blair-Loy, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Co-Sponsored with the Life Course Center
Monday, April 9
Presentation title: TBA
Kathleen Mullan Harris, Department of Sociology, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina
Co-Sponsored with the Life Course Center
Monday, April 16
Health after the Great Recession: The Michigan Recession and Recovery Study
Sarah A. Burgard, Departments of Sociology, Epidemiology and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Monday, April 23 and Monday, April 30
"Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America Papers"
Presented by members and staff of the Minnesota Population Center
