Harsha Thirumurthy, Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
In this talk, Thirumurthy will assess the potential for HIV self-testing o facilitate HIV testing within sexual networks and prevent new infections among women in western Kenya who are at high risk of acquiring of HIV.
Katherine Mason, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University, and Sarah Willen, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut
Alexandra Killewald, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
In this talk, Professor Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald of Harvard University will use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to show how changes in family life help explain both the narrowing of the gender pay gap since 1980 and the stalled progress in recent decades.
Emma Zang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Zang will discuss this paper on causal sibling spillover effects among students from different family backgrounds in elementary and middle school, which finds that individuals whose older siblings were born shortly after the school entry cutoff date have significantly higher scores in middle school, and that this positive spillover effect is moderated by family background.
David N. Weil, James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics, Brown University
Professor David Weil will discuss a book-in-progress that examines the evolution of world population and thinking about population issues since the end of the Malthusian era around 1750.
David Lindstrom, Professor of Sociology, Brown University
In this talk, Lindstrom talk will present results from an experimental trial of the non-verbal response card method in a study of violence and trauma in Burkina Faso.
Stephen Trejo, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin
In this talk, Professor Steve Trejo will use U.S. census data to examine how geographic variation in racial identification of Mexican Americans in 1930 is correlated with educational attainment in this population.
Emilio Zagheni, Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, and Head, Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography
In this talk, Zagheni will discuss the use of social media platforms as a data source and tool for survey research to improve understanding of population health.
In this joint work with Thomas Helgerman and Bryan Stuart, Bailey will discuss how women's wages and employment were affected by the 1963 Equal Pay Act.
Felix Elwert, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Using data from a large randomized field experiment, Elwert will present research on whether close inter-ethnic exposure increases or decreases discrimination.
John Sullivan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, PSTC, Brown University
Sullivan will discuss neighborhood aging patterns and estimate an explanatory model of aging pattern as a function of social, spatial, economic and housing characteristics.
Megan Ranney, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
In this talk, Dr. Ranney will provide an overview of the rationale for using digital technology to engage and improve the health of at-risk populations
Angela Bengtson, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Brown University
Dr. Bengtson will discuss her work on the intersection of HIV, obesity, and perinatal health and discuss preliminary findings from a pilot study among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women in South Africa.
Trevon Logan, Professor of Economics, The Ohio State University (joint with Shari Eli and Boriana Miloucheva, University of Toronto)
Dr. Logan will discuss racial differences in longevity through his findings on the monumental impact of physicians' racial bias when determining veterans' pension awards.
Sonia Rupcic, PSTC Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
PSTC Postdoctoral Fellow Sonia Rupcic will introduce a paper that draws on 22 months of ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa and asks crucial questions about data collection and research on gendered violence.
Tyson Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology, Duke University
Duke sociologist Tyson H. Brown will discuss his research on the underexplored relationship between macro-level structural racism and population health in the United States.
Shanti A. Parikh, Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and of African and African-American Studies, Washington University, St. Louis
Anthropologist Shanti A. Parikh will discuss her ethnographic research on sexual networks and HIV hotspots in Uganda, and the potential to develop a mobile app to provide tailored, confidential HIV interventions for long-distance truckers and truckstop sex workers, two highly mobile and vulnerable populations.
Ridhi Kashyap, Associate Professor of Social Demography, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
University of Oxford demographer Ridhi Kashyap will present findings on how the proliferation of mobile phones can empower women in Sub-Saharan Africa and potentially contribute to the fight for gender equality.
Don Operario, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, School of Public Health, Brown University
This research presentation will review the epidemiology and context contributing to HIV transmission among transgender women (transwomen), and will describe pilot findings as well as the study design for a randomized controlled trial to test a couples-focused HIV prevention program for transwomen and their partners.
Tom Vogl, Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego (joint with Frances Lu, UCSD)
UCSD economist and demographer Tom Vogl will discuss research surrounding the burden of family member deaths as a source of intergenerational inequality.
Several PSTC predoctoral trainees will preview the talks they will present at the upcoming 2020 Population Association of America meeting in Washington, DC.
Don Operario, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University
This presentation will review the epidemiology and context contributing to HIV transmission among transgender women (transwomen), and will describe pilot findings as well as the study design for a randomized controlled trial to test a couples-focused HIV prevention program for transwomen and their partners.
Angie Bengtson, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Brown University
Bengtson will discuss her work on the intersection of HIV, obesity, and perinatal health and discuss preliminary findings from a pilot study among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women in South Africa.
Katherine Mason, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University
Mason will focus on her recent findings concerning the role that grandmothers can play in exacerbating symptoms of postpartum mental illness in intergenerational households in China, and will also address related issues in American households.
Sean F. Reardon, Professor of Education, Stanford University
Reardon will discuss the 350 million tests taken by public school students from 2009-2016 and the patterns and correlates of academic performance and racial/ethnic and socioeconomic achievement gaps.
PSTC predoctoral trainees Yifan Shen, Chantel Pheiffer, and Sagar Wadhwa will discuss their research that will be presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America.
PSTC trainees from the Departments of Anthropology, Economics, and Sociology and the School of Public Health will present their completed or in-progress research.
Daniel Jordan Smith, Professor of Anthropology, Brown University
Smith will explore the concept of conspicuous redistribution as means to understand Nigerian men’s behavior as they navigate the complex geometry of money and intimacy in their everyday lives.
Adriana Lleras-Muney, Professor of Economics, UCLA
Lleras-Muney will discuss how social and economic conditions experienced early in life affect the evolution of health and mortality rates over the lifetime.
Júlia Vich-Bertran, Postdoctoral Fellow in Population Studies, Brown University
Vich-Bertran will discuss transnational adoption and how transnational reproduction draws on and amplifies local stratification as well as how national and global political-economies intersect with domestic and transnational understandings of reproduction and nationhood.
Tukufu Zuberi, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Zuberi will discuss how during the past 500 years the transformation of the human population along racial lines has been a process of dividing humans into 1st and 2nd class citizens as a critical aspect of demographic transitions.
Kristi Williams, Professor of Sociology, Ohio State University
Williams will discuss the influence of adverse childhood experiences on two key dimensions of family formation—age and marital status at first birth—and whether these dimensions of family formation mediate the effect of childhood adversity on women’s midlife health.
Sara McLafferty, Professor of Geography and GIScience, University of Illinois
McLafferty investigates the impacts of persistent residential segregation on health and well-being for African immigrant mothers and infants in New York City using a large, detailed, multi-year vital statistics dataset. Co-sponsored with (S4).
Catherine Massey, Assistant Research Scientist, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan
Using longitudinally-linked Census data, Massey investigates the long-term economic and health impacts of the Great Migration on the migrants’ children, who were retirement-age by 2000.
John Friedman, Associate Professor of Economics, Brown University
Friedman will address intergenerational income mobility at each college in the United States using data for over 30 million college students from 1999-2013.
Matthew Gutmann, Professor of Anthropology, Brown University
Gutmann will examine how the term shengnü (剩女) is used, seriously and in jest, to stigmatize unmarried women, something that is happening at the same time that there are more women Ph.D.s, for instance, than ever before.
Abigail Harrison, Assistant Professor (Research) of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University, and Omar Galarraga, Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Featuring the research of PSTC Trainees Whitney Arey, David Glick, Jamie Hansen-Lewis, Nicole Kreisberg, Michelle Marcus, Ken Miura, and Alex Ayalu Reda
