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- CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR
- Samuel Clark, UW Sociology and CSDE Affiliate -- Estimating HIV Incidence
using Bayesian Melding and Exploring the Effects of Male Circumcision on HIV Epidemics using Microsimulation
- CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CSDE provides grant proposal assistance
- CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS
- Robert Plotnick -- New graduate course: U.S. Poverty and Anti-poverty Policy
- Robert Plotnick is quoted in a Seattle Times article on the middle class
- Martina Morris is quoted in a Washington Post article on HIV transmission
- CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
- WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy -- Scott Allard
- Environmental Anthropology Forum -- Rob Efird
- Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar -- Mark F.J. Steel
- West Coast Poverty Center -- Dr. Waldo Johnson, Jr.
- Economics Seminar -- Muriel Niederle
- CALLS FOR PAPERS
- Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Special Issue -- New Developments in Education Transitions Research
- Research in Critical Planning -- UCLA Journal of Urban Planning 15th Anniversay, Summer 2008
- TRAINING & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- Post Doctoral Fellowship -- Charlotte Ellertson Social Science, Abortion and Reproductive
Health
- Compton Foundation/PRB International Fellowship -- Population, Environment, and Human
Security
- Post Doctoral Yerby Fellowship Program -- Harvard School of Public Health
- Post Doctoral Positions Available -- Population Studies Center, University of Michigan
- Post Doctoral Fellow -- Economics of Demographic Change, Harvard University
- Post Doctoral Fellowship -- NBER Center for Aging and Health Research
- Junior Faculty position -- University of Southern California, Davis School of Gerontology/Andrus
Gerontology Center
- Assistant or Associate Professor -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of
Human and Community Development
- OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
- Merle Sande, AIDS Pioneer, Dies at 68
- Farewell party for OSP's Carol A. Zuiches
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CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR
Samuel Clark, UW Sociology and CSDE Affiliate -- Estimating HIV Incidence
using Bayesian Melding and Exploring the Effects of Male Circumcision on HIV Epidemics using Microsimulation
Friday, November 30
12:30 - 2:00 PM
Parrington Hall Commons
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CSDE ANNOUNCEMENTS
CSDE provides grant proposal assistance
CSDE is pleased to provide grant preparation assistance to affiliates and fellows. We provide a host of services, including
reading and editing drafts, research design advice, power analyses, literature searches and citation checking, budget development,
and proposal submission. We make every effort to provide a quick turn around. Please contact
Cori Mar,
David Hyllegard or
Scott Sipes. Additional information
about our support services is on the
CSDE website.
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CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS
Robert Plotnick -- New graduate course: U.S. Poverty and Anti-poverty Policy
This course provides a multidisciplinary introduction to poverty and antipoverty policies in the United States. It will extend over two quarters. Winter term will focus on how poverty is measured, its causes, and its consequences for children. Spring term will address the politics and evolution of US social welfare policy, compare US social welfare policies to those in other affluent countries, analyze the effects of specific policies on household income and poverty, discuss how policies affect labor market, demographic and other behaviors, and consider the equity-efficiency trade-offs created by public policies. Readings will be drawn from the fields of developmental psychology, economics, political science, public policy, sociology, and social welfare. Other UW poverty experts from several disciplines will teach some of the topics.
PBAF 573C - U.S. Poverty and Anti-poverty Policy
Winter and Spring 2008, Tuesday 1:30-4:20
In winter the class will meet in Raitt 221
Seminar Topics
Winter term - Measurement, causes and consequences of poverty
- Overview of course and main issues in US poverty and poverty
research
- Defining and measuring poverty, material hardship and social exclusion, trends in rate and composition of poverty, differences
among demographic groups
- Dynamics of poverty (spells), intergenerational transmission of poverty, welfare use, intergenerational earnings and income
mobility; international comparisons
- Causes - economic growth, labor market, income inequality
- Causes - structural theories, spatial mismatch and the urban underclass
- Causes - cultural forces, peer and neighborhood effects
- Causes - demographic change, adverse behavioral effects of income support programs
- Causes - discrimination, immigration
- Consequences of low income and family structure (including NMB) for children's short and long run well-being
- Consequences of low income and family structure for children's short and long run well-being (cont), estimating the overall
social costs of poverty
Spring Term - Anti-poverty policies
- History of anti-poverty policy; theories and data on the structure of the safety net and economic security programs, international
comparisons
- Politics of anti-poverty policy, esp racial politics
- Human capital policies for adults and other labor market interventions - minimum wage, wage subsidies, subsidized child
care, incarceration policy and programs for released convicts
- Welfare and welfare reform
- Earned Income Tax Credit child support
- Asset building
- Early childhood interventions
- Health care policies for poor children and adults
- Marriage promotion and other policies for affecting family structure
- Student presentations of final papers
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Robert Plotnick is quoted in a Seattle Times article on the middle class
Robert Plotnick, professor in the Evans School of Public Affairs, is quoted in an article in today's Seattle Times on the meaning
of the middle class.
Read the article here.
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Martina Morris is quoted in a Washington Post article on HIV transmission
Martina Morris, professor of sociology and statistics, is quoted in The Washington Post, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2007, about the
role of sexual networks in the the transmission of HIV.
Click here
for full article.
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CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST
WCPC Seminar Series on Poverty and Public Policy, 2007 - 08
Scott Allard,
John Hazen White Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Brown University
Getting There or Losing Out: Place, Race, and Access to the Safety Net
Monday, December 3
3:00 PM
Parrington Hall Commons
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Environmental Anthropology Forum -- Rob Efird
Rob Efird, Anthropology and Asian Studies, Seattle University
Japanese environmental NGOs in China
Wednesday, November 28
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Denny Hall 401
For abstract, click here.
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Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar -- Mark F.J. Steel
Mark F.J. Steel, Professor,
Department of Statistics, University of Warwick
On the Effect of Prior Assumptions in Bayesian Model Averaging with Applications to Growth Regression
Wednesday, November 28
12:30 - 1:20 PM
Denny 401
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West Coast Poverty Center -- Dr. Waldo Johnson, Jr.
Dr. Waldo Johnson, Jr., Associate Professor, School
of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Promising Practices for Paternal Involvement With Fragile Families
Friday, November 30, 2007
7:30 AM
School of Social Work, University of Washington, SSW Commons (Room 305)
4101 15th Avenue NE, Seattle, Washington
Please RSVP to Greg Ross: gregr40@u.washington.edu or 206.221.7735
Please feel free to post this flyer and
pass along to those that would have interest in this event.
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Economics Seminar -- Muriel Niederle
Muriel Niederle, Stanford University
How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness
Thursday, November 29
2:00 PM
Condon Hall 3rd Floor Conference Room
Economics Calendar
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CALLS FOR PAPERS
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Special Issue -- New Developments in Education Transitions
Research
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, the official journal of RC-28, the Social Stratification section of the International Sociological Association, announces a Call for Papers for research addressing new empirical, methodological, and theoretical developments in education transitions research. Education transitions research has become a staple of research on education attainment, often used to document substantive conditions and evaluate new theoretical perspectives in the study of inequality. Traditionally this approach involves the sequential analysis of students transition from one level of education to another. While some researchers continue to estimate education transition models on new data sets and countries, other researchers have articulated ever more serious criticisms of the statistical and theoretical foundations of education transitions research. Still others have offered alterations to these models in response to mounting criticisms. At this point there is sufficient ferment to justify a special issue dedicated to new education transitions analyses including criticisms and re-analyses of traditional education transition models.
Deadline: January 15th, 2008
For full details, click here.
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Research in Critical Planning -- UCLA Journal of Urban Planning 15th Anniversay, Summer 2008
In honor of our 15th anniversary, this year’s volume of Critical Planning is devoted to identifying and highlighting the most
current critical approaches to urban theory, research and practice. We seek submissions that 1) address the challenges confronting
the present and future of cities and regions in the U.S. and around the world and, 2) display an original and critical perspective
on recent theoretical developments, policies and practices. We invite submissions from all disciplines as well as the use of
various methodologies. We encourage cross-disciplinary, multi-scalar and mixed-method approaches. Critical Planning is a
double-blind peer-reviewed publication. Feature articles are generally between 5,000 and 7,000 words, while shorter articles are
between 1,000 and 3,000. All submissions should be written according to the standards of the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition.
Footnotes should be placed at the end of the document. Please double-space all parts of the manuscript and leave one-inch margins
on all sides. Tables and images should be separated from the text. Images should be provided in .tif format, not exceeding a width
of five inches and a resolution of 600 dpi (a width of 3000 pixels). Include a cover sheet with the article’s title; the author's
name, phone number, email address; and a two-sentence biographical statement. Please do not put identifying information (name or
affiliation) anywhere but the cover sheet.
Manuscripts should be submitted by 5pm on December 15, 2007
For full details, click here.
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TRAINING & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Post Doctoral Fellowship -- Charlotte Ellertson Social Science, Abortion and Reproductive Health
Ibis Reproductive Health invites social science and public health researchers to apply for a two-year postdoctoral research
and leadership training fellowship in abortion and reproductive health. The objectives of the fellowship are to:
- support a cohort of promising new social science researchers who study abortion and reproductive health, and
- produce and share research that informs policy and program design in abortion and reproductive health.
Ibis launched the first cohort of the fellowship in 2003 at two sites (Ibis Reproductive Health and University of California,
San Francisco). For its second cohort (2006-2008), the fellowship expanded to five sites, adding Columbia University, the
Guttmacher Institute, and Johns Hopkins University.
The 2008-2010 fellowship cohort begins in September 2008 and is for two years, with the second year contingent upon successful
completion of the first. We seek applicants who are committed to abortion scholarship and careers that include a focus on
abortion research and advocacy.
Deadline: Receipt by 11:59 PST, Monday, December 3, 2007. Fellowships awards announced March 3, 2008.
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Compton Foundation/PRB International Fellowship -- Population, Environment, and Human Security
In the spirit of this collaboration and to fulfill its objectives, the Compton Foundation is making available fellowships through
PRB for capstone/internship work and dissertation research on topics that examine the interactions linking population
dynamics/family planning/reproductive health with environmental and/or human security issues. This Fellowship provides highly
motivated individuals with a unique opportunity to explore these very important interactions. Fellowship recipients must also
be committed to returning to their country or region of origin to apply the skills and education they acquired and make substantial
contributions to the field.
The deadline for applying is December 14, 2007
For full details click here.
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Post Doctoral Yerby Fellowship Program -- Harvard School of Public Health
The Harvard School of Public Health (hsph) is the direct descendent of the first professional public health training program
in America. In contrast to medicine, which focuses on specific individuals and their treatment, the basic strategy of public
health is to prevent disease in broad populations, an approach that is far reaching, efficient, and equitable.
The Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship Program draws on the rich research environment and intellectual resources of one of the
world’s premier public health training institutions. Named for Dr. Alonzo Smythe Yerby, an African-American pioneer in public
health, this initiative is geared toward expanding the diversity of those entering academic public health. The program creates
a bridge between academic training in health-related disciplines and entry-level faculty positions at institutions throughout
the United States.
The goal of the program is to advance the intellectual and professional development of each Yerby fellow. Under the guidance
of a senior hsph faculty member with compatible interests, fellows develop their research agendas, gain experience in publishing
papers in peer-reviewed journals and obtaining grant support, participate in a variety of professional development workshops,
and increase their teaching expertise. Yerby fellows receive a competitive salary with benefits for one year, renewable for a
second year. Up to five new fellowships are awarded annually.
The application deadline is December 15 of each year. If December 15 falls on a weekend or holiday, the deadline is the next
working day.
For full details click here.
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Post Doctoral Positions Available -- Population Studies Center, University of Michigan
The Population Studies Center of the University of Michigan expects to have openings for postdoctoral fellows sponsored by
NICHD and NIA. Positions to start on or about September 1, 2008. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in demography, public health,
or one of the social sciences (sociology, economics, anthropology) at the starting date. Background in aging is desirable
for the NIA positions, but not required. Selection will be based on scholarly potential and compatibility with the interests
of a faculty mentor.
Screening of applications will begin on January 14, 2008 and will continue until positions are filled.
For full details, click here.
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Post Doctoral Fellow in the Economics of Demographic Change, Harvard University
Qualified applicants are sought for a post-doctoral fellowship in the Economics of Demographic Change. The successful
post-doctoral fellow will continue his/her training through a two-year fellowship in the Program on the Global Demography
of Aging. The post-doctoral fellow will work directly on projects with Professors David E. Bloom and David Canning. Examples
of current projects are:
- The macroeconomic effects of demographic change
- The effect of social security on savings and retirement behavior
- The effect of expected longevity on life cycle behavior
- The effect of health on labor productivity
Fellows will also be expected to develop their own research in this area and may be permitted to undertake a small amount
of teaching.
Deadline for applications: Application materials should be submitted by December 29, 2006.
For full details, click here.
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Post Doctoral Fellowship -- NBER Center for Aging and Health Research
The NBER sponsors post-doctoral fellowships in aging research, funded by the National Institute on Aging. Fellows participate in intensive research on the economics of aging and health, and interact with a large network of other economics scholars working on aging-related research through the NBER's Program on Aging.
Under the direction of Professor David A. Wise, the fellowship supports promising economists at an early stage in their research careers. Fellows develop their research expertise in the Economics of Aging and Health in an environment of prominent senior scholars and leaders in the field.
Post-Doctoral Fellowships applications are now being accepted for 2008-2009
Deadline: December 14, 2007
For full details, click here.
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Junior Faculty position -- University of Southern California, Davis School of Gerontology/Andrus Gerontology Center
The USC Davis School of Gerontology and the Andrus Gerontology Center are recruiting for a promising junior faculty member for Fall, 2008, as part of our ongoing expansion of programs. We seek candidates with a strong research profile and potential in the social scientific study of aging and the life-course. Specializations include, but are not limited to, biodemography, health inequality, cognitive neuroscience, disability and biomechanics, family and caregiving, work and retirement, and neuroeconomics. Those engaged in research that is interdisciplinary and integrates with current research strengths are especially encouraged to apply. Joint affiliations with other departments are possible.
Davis School faculty hold degrees in Biology, Demography, Gerontology, Policy, Medicine, Urban Planning, Psychology, and Sociology. We are also open to candidates from other disciplines and professions such as engineering, law, and business. We are particularly interested in candidates who will thrive in both research and teaching in this multidisciplinary atmosphere, and who have or will have federal funding.
The USC Davis School offers gerontology degrees at the bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. levels. Teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate level is expected. In addition to our own students, Gerontology faculty frequently mentor doctoral students in other schools and departments (e.g. Sociology, Psychology, Biological Sciences, Policy and Planning).
Candidates should send a C.V., along with a letter indicating experience and areas of interest, and should arrange for letters from three references to be mailed to: Gerontology Search Committee, Davis School of Gerontology, 3715 McClintock Avenue, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191 by December 10, 2007.
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Assistant or Associate Professor -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Human and Community
Development
Position: Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, full-time (50% teaching, 30% research, 20% extension), tenure-track,
9-month academic year appointment. The successful candidate will hold the title of Director of the Family Resiliency Center which
will require an additional 2 months in administrative service.
Required qualifications: Earned Doctorate in human development, family studies or related discipline. Record of academic scholarship,
teaching and/or outreach to meet qualifications for tenure of full professor. Candidates must possess commitment and vision for
the FRC and role of an interdisciplinary center fostering positive human development and resilient families. Seeking a scholar
with areas of emphasis in family resilience and positive human development.
Salary: Commensurate with qualifications/experience.
Available: August 16, 2008.
For full consideration applications must be received by November 19, 2007.
Applications of women and persons of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged. Send, in PDF format to
mrund@uiuc.edu, curriculum vita, a comprehensive cover letter addressing how personal
strengths and experience match qualifications for position; plus contact information for three references. Search #11416.
Contact Joseph H. Pleck, (217) 244-8834, jhpleck@uiuc.edu.
The complete position description is available at:
http://www.hcd.uiuc.edu/about/positions.html
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OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
Merle Sande, AIDS Pioneer, Dies at 68
Dr. Merle A. Sande, a leading infectious-diseases expert whose early recognition of the looming public health crisis posed by AIDS
led to the development of basic protocols for how to handle infected patients, died on Nov. 14 at his home in Seattle. He was
68.
For full details, click here.
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Farewell party for OSP's Carol A. Zuiches
OSP is pleased to invite you to a farewell party for Carol A. Zuiches on Thursday 11/29/2007 from 3 to 5:30pm in the Walker
Ames room - Kane Hall.
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