On November 29 from 3:30-4:30 pm, CSDE Trainee Breon Haskett will join CDWG to discuss his research. CDWG Will be Hybrid in Fall Quarter 2023. It will take place in 223 Raitt hall (The Demography Lab) on Zoom (register here). Breon Haskett is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at UW and a T32 Fellow at CSDE. His work focuses on the intersection of industry and population processes to understand how people get by in the U.S..
Is the Grass Greener: A Wage Comparison across Racial Segregation at Home and Work
Race continues to be a strong predictor of where people live and work in the U.S. Past works show that we experience segregation to varying degrees throughout our day, not just at our residence. Yet little is known about what consequences the interaction of these segregations across two places, work and home, have for inequality. This research examines to what extent the social distance between residence and workplace holds for local economic outcomes. He uses LEHD residence and workplace characteristics data to assess the cost of the variation in diurnal segregation across Census tracts in the U.S. He develops this work in conversation with whitespaces, activity space, and wage attainment literatures. This research is part of his dissertation project that examines the composition of industries as a mechanism for population outcomes and inequality.
The Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley launched an interactive climate displacement database illustrating how and why over 70 percent of people displaced worldwide are from the most climate-vulnerable countries–largely from across the Global South. Explore the data here.
The Populations Studies Center T32 Training Programs, located at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, is looking to fill two postdoctoral fellowship positions with appointments beginning on or about September 1, 2024. One fellowship will be sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and one will be sponsored by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
On Wednesday, Nov. 29th from 12-30-1:30, CS&SS will host Dr. Elizabeth Sanders (Associate Professor, Measurement and Statistics) in 409 Savery Hall and on Zoom (register here). In this presentation Dr. Sanders will discuss the major ways clustered data can be analyzed, especially when we only care about lower-level research questions, along with results from my own work showing how to avoid lower-level fixed effect coefficient (slope) bias, and why it’s especially important for multilevel modeling alternatives. If time permits, Dr. Sanders will also present some work on statistically comparing two predictors’ slopes from the same model, including for frequentist and Bayesian multilevel models. R code and sample data will be provided. Learn more about the talk here.
Dr. Liz Sanders is Associate Professor in the College of Education’s Measurement & Statistics program. Her research focuses on evaluating applied analytic methods for handling clustered data. Outside of work, Liz loves running.
The Populations Studies Center T32 Training Programs, located at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, is looking to fill two postdoctoral fellowship positions with appointments beginning on or about September 1, 2024. One fellowship will be sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and one will be sponsored by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Since 1963, the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods has provided rigorous, comprehensible training in statistics, quantitative and qualitative methods, and data analysis. Their commitment to providing premier instruction in courses that are affordable and enjoyable has inspired generations of researchers to call the ICPSR Summer Program their home for learning statistics! Their sessions will range from June 10-July 5 and July 8-Aug 2 of 2024 with in-person courses in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They offer more than $150,000 in student scholarships every year and teaching assistant positions. Learn more at the virtual info session from 11-12 (PST) on Nov 30th (register here).