At the CSDE seminar on April 23rd, Dr. Alejandra Ros Pilarz will present “Understanding Trends in Mothers’ Work Schedules in the U.S., 1989-2017”. CSDE Affiliate Jennifer Romich will moderate the discussion. Dr. Pilarz will discuss mothers’ employment in jobs with nonstandard schedules in the United States. Dr. Pilarz is an Assistant Professor at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research examines how parental employment, child care, and early education experiences contribute to child and family well-being, and the role of public policies in supporting low-income parents and their children’s development.

Register for Dr. Zoom seminar here. This quarter, CSDE is recording the seminar series and posting the links on its website. Visit our site here.

After the seminar, UW Social Work PhD student Jessica Lapham will facilitate a graduate student discussion with Dr. Pilarz. RSVP by emailing her at jlapham1@uw.edu. (read more)

CSDE’s Biodemography Director Eleanor Brindle will lead the workshop on April 28 on lab methods and data. This workshop, intended for those with little or no experience working in laboratories, will focus on how to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of biomarker data, discuss principles of commonly used lab methods in biodemographic research, reliability and standardization issues, and how to interpret or write lab methods sections to convey the most important information for evaluating lab data. To register, click here. (read more)

On April 20, 2021 at 10am, CSDE is co-hosting with several organizations on campus, a presentation by Dr. Diego Alburez of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research on the “Demographic Drivers of Grief and Memory after Genocide in Guatemala“. Dr. Alburez is a demographer and a computational scientist who is employing unique data to better understand the demographic causes and consequences of armed conflict. To join the event, click here. (read more)

This week, CSDE Training Director and Research Scientist Christine Leibbrand writes about identifying and preventing fraud in survey research. Her recommendations are based on her work on a multi-city survey in the US of families with young children, and the many conversations she has had with experts in survey research. So how do you prevent survey fraud from occurring and, when it does happen, how do you identify it? Read more here. (read more)

At the upcoming 2021 PAA meeting, 24 CSDE Trainees and 16 CSDE Affiliates are scheduled to participate as presenters, chairs, coauthors, and discussants. Our scholars tackle a wide range of demographic issues, represented in the varied presentations listed here.

This year’s conference is happening entirely online from May 5-8. There is still time to register for the conference at this link. CSDE’s PAA participants will be presenting in preparation for the conference on Wednesday, April 26 during the Computational Demography Working Group meeting. All are welcome to attend and hear the talks; schedule and Zoom information available here.

CSDE has supported Trainees and Fellows by awarding PAA registration awards to Courtney Allen, Matt Fowle, Jessica Lapham, Neal Marquez, and Crystal Yu. CSDE Trainees also participated in a PAA workshop led by Christine Leibbrand last Fall, where they received feedback from CSDE Affiliates on drafts of their submissions. (read more)

On Friday, April 23 at 2.30 pm, CSDE Trainee Hannah Lee will present her dissertation research on housing search and residential segregation in the Sociology Department’s SocSem. Recent research suggests that in addition to ongoing, overt racial housing discrimination and unequal access to resources, multiple subtle housing search processes are racially stratified and contribute to persistent racial residential segregation. Yet, little prior research has examined these processes. In this presentation, Lee will discuss findings from a co-authored paper using novel survey data collected by Redfin from housing consumers across the United States to investigate racial differences in the subtle ways that individuals use online housing search tools and identify real estate agents to assist them through the housing search process. The zoom link for the talk can be found here. (read more)