The Global Aspirational Class and Its Demographic Fortunes
Posted: 2/16/2023 (CSDE Seminar Series)
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This week’s CSDE seminar is offered by Dr.Sonalde Desai, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland. Dr. Desai is the immediate past president of the Population Association of America and this is a preview of her 2023 PAA Presidential Address – “The Global Aspirational Class and Its Demographic Fortunes”. Her talk examines how the global educational expansion and growth in middle-income households in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) have brought worldwide attention to the social transformation underway in many countries. Simultaneously, income inequalities within LMICs has also grown sharply, and employment opportunities have lagged behind the aspirational transformations. This seminar will examine the changes in education and employment opportunities in LMICs over the past three decades and explore changes in marriage, fertility and investments in children that have accompanied these economic changes.
Bio
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Sonalde Desai (Distinguished University Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland and Professor and Centre Director, NCAER-National Data Innovation Center, New Delhi) is a demographer whose work deals primarily with social transformation and its impact on the lives of individuals with a focus on education, employment, gender, and maternal and child health.
Date: 02/24/2023
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM PT
Location: 101 Hans Rosling Center and Online Here