A Proposal for Studying the Effect of Medicaid Expansion on the Black-White Gap in Diabetes Management Outcomes
Speaker
Brenda Onyango
Graduate Student, Sociology
Duke University
From Linear to Complex: Immune System Dynamics and Health Inequities in a Racialized Society
Speaker
Bridget Goosby
Professor of Sociology
University of Texas at Austin
Fertility Decision-Making in the U.S. in an Era of Uncertainty
Speaker
Karen Guzzo
Director of the Carolina Population Center
Professor of Sociology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Long Arm of Family Structure On Offspring’s Trajectory of Wealth Accumulation and Allocation Pattern in early and Middle Adulthood
Speaker
Shuyi Qiu
Graduate Student, Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Global health 2050: the path to halving premature death by mid-century
Speaker
Omar Karlsson
Visiting Fellow, DUPRI
Duke University
Using a Linked Dataset to Study the Spatial and Social Integration of Chinese Immigrants in a New Area of Destination.
Speaker
Lindsay Yingzhi Xu
Graduate Student, Sociology
Duke University
Are they insecure? Housing arrangements and residential mobility among families with children.
Speaker
Warren Lowell
Graduate Student, Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
On the evolutionary foundations of intra-family resource sharing
Speaker
Ingela Alger
CNRS Senior Researcher in Economics
Toulouse School of Economics
Abstract
Intra-family resource sharing is extensive in Homo sapiens. In this talk I will summarize key findings of theoretical work on the evolutionary foundations of some of this sharing, including paternal investment and food sharing between unrelated males and females.
How population-level matched birth-school administrative records can address public health and education policy questions
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David Figlio
Provost and Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education
University of Rochester
Abstract
This presentation highlights the recent scholarship of David Figlio, who popularized the use of matched birth-school data to address public health and education policy questions in the field of economics. Figlio will present a survey of his research on early health and later educational outcomes, as well as the use of sibling comparisons (facilitated by matched birth records) to study policy-relevant issues in education.
Trends in the Gender Pay Gap: Narrowing Starting Gaps and Persistent Life-Course Divergence
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Alexandra Killewald
Professor of Sociology
University of Michigan