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January 15, 2008

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CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR: Bill Bradford -- How Black and White Families Manage Their Finances
CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS: IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling (IPEM) -- Steve Goodreau; The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation -- Sam Clark
CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST: Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar -- Susan Joslyn; Economics Seminar -- Olumide Taiwo; Muhammad Yunus -- Creating a World Without Poverty
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES: National Poverty Center Small Grant Competition; Graduate Student Travel Grants for Health Research
CALLS FOR PAPERS: Graduate Student Research Conference -- Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, UW; Economic Analyses of Programs and Laws to Enhance Marriage Quality and Stability -- Review of Economics of the Household
CONFERENCES: Summer Institute on Livelihoods Under Stress -- Feinstein International Center; Global Health and Development Conference -- Yale University
TRAINING & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES: Teaching Fellowship -- UW Project of Interdisciplinary Pedagogy; Research Funding Service's Grant$ for Lunch -- General NIH K Awards; Senior Research Associate -- Cornell University, Family Life Development Center
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST: PRB has added new content to its website, including, Kenya, Child Poverty in the US, and neuroeconomics; Climate Impacts Group Seminars -- Philip Mote and Alan Hamlet; World Bank Publications Announcement

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CSDE WEEKLY SEMINAR

Bill Bradford -- How Black and White Families Manage Their Finances

Friday, January 18
12:30 - 2:00 PM
Parrington Hall Commons

CSDE AFFILIATE & FELLOW NEWS

IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling (IPEM) -- Steve Goodreau

Steve Goodreau, U of Washington, Anthropology, CSDE Affiliate
Social networks: An introduction for evolutionary modelers

Thursday, January 17
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Denny 401

Samual Clark -- The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Sam Clark, Assistant Professor in Sociology, CSDE Affiliate
Investigating Possible Effects of Male Circumcision in HIV Epidemics Using Microsimulation, and Methods to Improve Utilization of Data From Demographic Surveillance sSystem Sites in the Developing World

Thursday, January 17
4:00 - 5:30 PM
1616 Eastlake Avenue E, Suite 300
We have limited space so please come early.

CAMPUS SEMINARS & EVENTS OF INTEREST

Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar -- Susan Joslyn

Susan Joslyn, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
Understanding and Using Forecast Uncertainty Information in the Context of Weather Related Decision Making

Wednesday, January 16
12:30 - 1:20 PM
Denny 401

Economics Seminar -- Olumide Taiwo

Olumide Taiwo, of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, will present a seminar talk entitled "Sharing the Burden of Parental Death: Intrafamily Effects of HIV/AIDS Orphans on Fertility and Child Quality"

Thursday, January 17
2:00 PM
Condon Hall 309

Hosted by Claus Portner, Assistant Professor, Economics, and CSDE Affiliate.

Muhammad Yunus -- Creating a World Without Poverty

Muhammad Yunus, Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
"Creating a World Without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives"

Friday, January 18
7:00 PM
Kane Hall 130

He will discuss his business model- one that keeps markets free but works towards the elimination of poverty. More information: http://www.ubookstore.com.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

National Poverty Center Small Grant Competition

Application deadline: February 1, 2008 "Financial Risk, Assets, and Poverty" The NPC’s 2008 Poverty Research Grants program seeks to fund research that will broaden and/or deepen our understanding of the ways in which access to financial services, debt, asset holding, savings, and insurance shapes the lives of low-income persons and families. Both public and private programs can help low-income families smooth consumption and acquire savings for future investments or future emergencies. The NPC anticipates funding up to 4 proposals, up to a maximum of $17,500 per award.

Applicants for these grants must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent academic degree by July 1, 2008. Preference will be given to non-tenured researchers with full-time academic appointments and researchers using new approaches and innovative methods. University of Michigan faculty and postdoctoral fellows are ineligible for funding.

A more complete description of the goals of this call for proposals, examples of priority research questions and the application guidelines are available at: http://www.npc.umich.edu/opportunities/research_grants/2008_poverty_grants/

Graduate Student Travel Grants for Health Research

Global Partnership Travel Grants

The Global Partnerships Travel Grant funds graduate students to do public health focused work for up to 3 months in any developing country under the supervision of UW faculty and faculty and staff of linked institutions in a developing country. This link can be a research or service collaboration with an established institution and an individual within that institution. Students are awarded up to $4000 to carry out their research or service project.

Application materials and more details on the grant are available online at: http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/ghrc/abraod/gptg.html

Contact Chris Bachman at bachman@u.washington.edu with any questions.

An information session is scheduled for January 22 from Noon to 1:00pm in Room H–670

Application Deadline is February 18th

CALLS FOR PAPERS

Graduate Student Research Conference -- Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, UW

New Scholarship at the Intersections: Care, Work and Diversity

Friday, April 11
UW School of Social Work

Organized by the Working Group on Race, Class, Work & Care of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and Co-sponsored by UW School of Social Work, College of Education, Department of Geography, and Center for Research on Families

More info and submission guidelines are here

Economic Analyses of Programs and Laws to Enhance Marriage Quality and Stability -- Special Issue of Review of Economics of the Household

High levels of marital instability, non-marital childbearing, and single parenthood have important implications for many social and economic outcomes, including poverty, economic and social mobility, criminal activity, and educational problems. In recent years a number of policy instruments have been introduced in an attempt to raise directly the propensity to marry, to reduce divorce, and to enhance the quality of marriages and parental cohabitation. Such government programs and legal interventions include marriage education and relationship skills classes, mediation among couples seeking a divorce, and premarital counseling. In the U.S.A., some of these programs are part of the Healthy Marriage Initiative.

The Review of Economics of the Household is planning a special issue containing economic analyses of any kind of program or law-based in the U.S.A. or elsewhere--aimed at enhancing and stabilizing marriages and other long-term relationships between parents.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

the costs and benefits of such interventions;

experimental and non-experimental evidence about the impact of such interventions;

the implications of economic theories of the household for the assessment of such programs.

Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcome. Papers that combine theoretical and empirical analysis are particularly appreciated by the Review. Interested contributors should submit a paper to the Review of Economics of the Household at http://www.springerlink.com/content/1573-7152/?k= by February 15, 2008. A copy should be sent to the editor of the special issue, Robert I. Lerman, at blerman@ui.urban.org. Questions should also be addressed to the special issue editor.

CONFERENCES

Summer Institute on Livelihoods Under Stress -- Feinstein International Center

Feinstein International Center
Summer Institute Livelihoods Under Stress
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia June 15 - 27, 2008

This is a reminder that the Feinstein International Center is organizing a Summer Institute on Livelihoods Under Stress.

The deadline for applications is January 31, 2008.

For more information on the program schedule and speakers, download the Summer Institute registration packet at http://fic.tufts.edu/downloads/SILUSPacketwform.pdf or email.

Global Health and Development Conference -- Yale University

Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health & Development Conference Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow

April 12-13, 2008
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Register today at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008

Join 2,000 conference attendees and 180 speakers for a stimulating international conference. Unite for Sight: A Nonprofit Organization Featured Weekly on CNN International Keynote Addresses By: Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim Plus More Than 180 Featured Speakers

Register For Conference - Early Bird Rate ( $75 students, $100 all others) Register at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008
Register now to secure the lowest rate. Rate increases after January 30, 2008

Who should attend? Anyone interested in international health, public health, international development, medicine, nonprofits, eye care, philanthropy, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, bioethics, economics, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, environmental health, service-learning, medical education, and public service.

Keynote Addresses

"Global Health: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century," Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General; Senior Advisor For Health and Medicine; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center

"Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health," Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD,Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Francois Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Former HIV/AIDS Director at World Health Organization

"Common Wealth: Economics For A Crowded Planet," Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon

"Millennium Village Project", Sonia Ehrlich Sachs,, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages

Full list and conference schedule at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/

TRAINING & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Teaching Fellowship -- UW Project of Interdisciplinary Pedagogy

The Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation (GSFEI) and Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (IAS) at the University of Washington, Bothell are collaborating to offer a teaching fellowship for 4-6 doctoral students who have been advanced to candidacy and are interested in the theory and practice of interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary pedagogy.

Fellows in the Project of Interdisciplinary Pedagogy (PIP) will work closely with faculty mentors in the IAS program, participate in a day-long workshop focused on interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary course design and pedagogy, teach one interdisciplinary course each quarter on the Bothell campus in an area related to their teaching and research interests, and engage in quarterly workshops with the other graduate students and faculty mentors in the cohort. Further teaching opportunities during the 2009-2010 academic year may also become available.

Fellows will be compensated at the appropriate annual Graduate Student Service Appointment rate, including tuition waivers, and will receive an additional stipend of $750 for their participation in the early fall and quarterly workshops. For more information about eligibility and application procedures and the program itself, please go to the following two links: Flyer URL: http://www.uwb.edu/IAS/about/PIPFlyer2008-09.pdf and PIP Website: http://www.uwb.edu/IAS/about/pip.xhtml. Or, feel free to contact the co-directors of PIP for 2006-2007: Becky Rosenberg, Bruce Burgett, and Martha Groom.

Deadline is January 28, 2008

Research Funding Service's Grant$ for Lunch: General NIH K Awards

Grant$ for Lunch: General K Awards

Tuesday, January 22
12:00 - 1:00 PM
South Campus Center, Room 316L

NIH offers popular career development grants—the K series. The best-known examples are the K08, K23, and K01, but many additional awards are available. Come to the next G$FL offered by the Research Funding Service to learn more about these career grants: what types of awards are offered, who is eligible, how these proposals are reviewed, and important ways they differ from common NIH research grants (R01, R21, R03).

Senior Research Associate -- Cornell University, Family Life Development Center

The Family Life Development Center within the College of Human Ecology is seeking a Senior Research Associate to serve as the Associate Director for the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN). The Associate Director serves as the project director for a $2.5 million cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services supporting the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect. Primary functions involve overseeing the daily operation of the Archive and promoting secondary data analysis in the academic community.

The Associate Director is also expected to collaborate with the Director and others to conduct research utilizing Archive holdings.

Responsibilities include:

presenting scholarly work in academic journals and at national meetings

conducting workshops

working with Children’s Bureau grantees and other contributors to provide guidance and technical assistance

assisting with the identification and acquisition of new archive holdings

managing the Archive’s annual Summer Research Institute

developing policies and procedures for licensing the use of secondary data and preventing disclosure of confidential data

developing innovative strategies for networking and training child maltreatment researchers.

This is a 2-year term position with the possibility for renewal.

This position will be posted through Janaury 16, 2008 and review of applications will begin December 20, 2007.

For full details, click here.

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST

PRB has added new content to its website, including, Kenya, Child Poverty in the US, and neuroeconomics

The Population Reference Bureau has added new content to its website: www.prb.org

GENDER

Women Prevail Against Violence: Film Raises Awareness of the Link Between Violence Against Women and AIDS

Mama Joyce and Josephine are unlikely heroines. Mama Joyce, who lives in Mwanza, Tanzania, gave birth to 10 children with her husband, who brought home a second wife and the HIV virus. Josephine lives in Kampala, Uganda, and was pulled out of school, married off at 18, and stuck in a violent marriage when her family could not repay the "bride price." Both women were brought low by abusive husbands who beat them, took away their dignity and choices, and left them with AIDS. But both women have emerged as heroines, as captured in "SASA! A Film About Women, Violence and HIV/AIDS," produced by the Uganda-based NGO Raising Voices (www.raisingvoices.org) and The People's Picture Company (www.theppcinc.com). This powerful film tells the story of how these courageous women triumphed over gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS and gained power that helped them organize, become activists in their communities, and build meaningful and rewarding lives. The film's director and co-producer, Chanda Chevannes, recently presented the film at an Interagency Gender Working Group meeting in Washington, D.C.

This article was written by Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs, a senior policy analyst at the Population Reference Bureau and co-chair of the Interagency Gender Working Group's Gender-Based Violence Task Force.

http://www.prb.org/Articles/2008/womenprevail.aspx

NUTRITION

New & Noteworthy in Nutrition

New & Noteworthy in Nutrition (NNN), a newsletter first published in 1980 by the World Bank, is now published by the Population Reference Bureau. Each issue aims to enhance learning opportunities and complement other relevant materials on nutrition. NNN is based on a review of recent literature, news articles, and outcomes of important events and conferences related to nutrition. Richard Skolnik, the director of International Programs at PRB, is the editor of NNN. To read the first issue, and to sign up for e-mail alerts about NNN, go to http://www.prb.org/NewandNoteworthy.aspx

AGING

Caregiver Health

This e-newsletter is the 10th in a series funded by the University of Michigan Demography Center. This issue, "Caregiver Health," highlights work by National Institute on Aging-supported researchers and others that examines aspects of caregiver health, particularly negative health consequences and what can be done to ease caregiver burden. This issue was written by Sandra Yin, editor at the Population Reference Bureau; and Marlene Lee, senior policy analyst at the Population Reference Bureau.

http://www.prb.org/pdf07/TodaysResearchAging10.pdf

Why Do We Make Bad Decisions? Findings From a New Science

This e-newsletter is the ninth in a series funded by the University of Michigan Demography Center. This issue, "Why Do We Make Bad Decisions? Findings From a New Science," highlights National Institute on Aging-funded research that examines neuroeconomics--the integrated study of decision processes by economists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Neuroeconomics is barely two decades old, and its practitioners hope to shed light on the aspects of decisionmaking that lead some people to prepare inadequately for their old age. This issue was written by William P. Butz, president and CEO of the Population Reference Bureau.

http://www.prb.org/pdf07/TodaysResearchAging9.pdf

KENYA

Political Unrest Reflects Ethnic Divide in Kenya

Opposition to Kenya's election results in late December erupted in days of riots that left hundreds dead. The Kenya Red Cross reported that hundreds of thousands needed food, shelter, and medical assistance. The fallout came after a contentious presidential election between two candidates from different ethnic groups, highlighting ethnic divisions and economic problems in the country. Kenya's recent demographic trends provide some background to the current situation. This article was written by Sandra Yin, editor at the Population Reference Bureau; and Mary Kent, senior demographic editor at the Population Reference Bureau.

http://www.prb.org/Articles/2008/kenya.aspx

UNITED STATES

Child Poverty Is Highest in Rural Counties in U.S.

While many people think of poverty in the United States as primarily an urban problem, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that most of the counties with high child poverty rates are located in rural America. Of the 100 counties with the highest child poverty rates in 2005, 95 are rural. All 100 counties have child poverty rates above 40 percent, more than twice the national rate of 18.5 percent in 2005. Ziebach County, in South Dakota, has the highest rate--70 percent. This article was written by William O'Hare, visiting senior fellow at the Carsey Institute; and Mark Mather, deputy director of domestic programs at the Population Reference Bureau.

http://www.prb.org/Articles/2008/childpoverty.aspx

Climate Impacts Group Seminars -- Philip Mote and Alan Hamlet

Part 1: "New CSES climate change scenarios" with Philip Mote (CSES)
Part 2: "Effects of changing 20th century precipitation variability on annual streamflow resources and hydropower production in the western U.S" with Alan Hamlet

Thursday, January 17
1:30 - 3:00 PM
JISAO Conference Room (1st Floor, Lisa Li Building),4909 25th Ave. NE, Seattle

More information: http://www.cses.washington.edu/cig/outreach/seminars.shtml#anchor1

World Bank Publications Announcement

Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World
By World Bank
Global Economic Prospects 2008: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World examines the state of technology in developing countries and the pace with which it has advanced since the early 1990s.

This year's Global Economic Prospects comes on the heels of an extended period of strong growth and a 15 year period of strong performance in much of the developing world, which has contributed to substantial declines in global poverty. While high oil prices and heightened market volatility may signal a coming pause in this process, over the longer term continued technological progress should continue to push back poverty.

January 2008. 220 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8213-7365-1

Are You Being Served? : New Tools for Measuring Service Delivery
Edited by Samia Amin, Jishnu Das, and Markus Goldstein
This publication presents tools and techniques for measuring service delivery in health and education and people's experiences from the field in deploying these methods. It begins by providing an introduction to the different methodological tools available for evaluating the performance of the health and education sectors. Country specific experiences are then explored to highlight lessons on the challenges, advantages and disadvantages of using different techniques to measure quality in a variety of different contexts and of using the resulting data to affect change. This book is a valuable resource for those who seek to enhance capacity for the effective measurement of service delivery in order to improve accountability and governance and enhance the quality of service delivery in developing countries.

December 2007. 340 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8213-7185-5

The Investment Climate in Brazil, India, and South Africa: A Comparison of Approaches for Sustaining Economic Growth in Emerging Economies
By Qimiao Fan, Jose Guilherme Reis, Michael Jarvis, Andrew Beath, and Kathrin Frauscher
Few trends have captured the interest and imagination of economists and policy makers as has the sustained economic rise of middle-income countries in recent years. The fast growing economies of Brazil, India, and South Africa have been producing world beating companies and creating new opportunities for their large populations. Development experience in recent decades suggests that a strong investment climate is central to economic growth and poverty reduction. By drawing on the wealth of information captured in the World Bank's Doing Business indicators and enterprise surveys, this volume assesses the factors that contribute to the creation of a robust investment climate and shares best practices and lessons learned from these three global players.

December 2007. ISBN: 978-0-8213-7363-7

Finland as a Knowledge Economy: Elements of Success and Lessons Learned
Edited by Carl J Dahlman, Jorma Routti, and Yla Anttila Pekka
Knowledge is fueling economic growth and social development in every region of the world. New ideas and innovation are spreading faster than ever. This book showcases the Finnish experience in the 1990s as an example of how knowledge can become the driving force in economic transformation and growth.

December 2007. ISBN: 978-0-8213-6911-1

The Road Not Traveled: Education Reform in the Middle East and North Africa
By Ahmed Galal
The Road Not Traveled assesses the contribution of investment in education to economic growth, better income distribution and poverty reduction in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It explores the possible explanatory variables for the weak link between the accumulation of human capital and economic outcomes, arguing that this weakness is due to two factors: weak incentives and public accountability in education; weak and distorted domestic labor markets and inappropriate migration policies. On the basis of comparative analysis of four MENA countries, the book offers a new approach to education reform for the region, which may also be applicable to other developing countries.

January 2008. ISBN: 978-0-8213-7062-9

Transforming Government and Empowering Communities: The Sri Lankan Experience with e-Development
By Nagy K. Hanna
A case study of why and how national e-leadership institutions, e-government and e-society programs were designed and implemented. The book examines the process of building national ICT institutions, showing how to design and implement an integrated e-government program. The book describes how a fund was developed to promote grassroots innovations that leverage ICT to solve problems of rural development and poverty. The book proposes national e-strategies be grounded in an integrated framework and institutional mechanisms that would exploit synergies and interdependencies among the different elements of e-development. Finally the many lessons learned so far from implementing the e-Sri Lanka program are summed up.

January 2008. 265 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8213-7335-4

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