This class will teach you how to get started with R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The course will cover the basic organization of R and RStudio, where to find good help references, and how to begin a basic analysis. This class is ideal for users who have little or no experience with R. Please register for this workshop here.

This course will provide students with a broad overview of what geographic information systems (GISs) are and how social scientists can benefit from using them in their research. Students will explore basic GIS concepts through hands-on exercises using ArcGIS, a widely used GIS software package, as well as freely available data sets. Please register for this workshop here.

The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population, Poverty and Inequality invites economists, demographers, economic demographers, sociologist, and scholars from other related disciplines to submit their research on the interactions between population dynamics, poverty and inequality.

The 2nd IUSSP Population, Poverty, and Inequality conference will be jointly organized with Agence Française de Développement (AFD), a leading institution that funds, supports and accelerates the transitions to a fairer and more sustainable world.

In examining the interaction of population with poverty and inequality, the Panel is interested in the causal impact in both directions: poverty and inequality impacting population dynamics, and population dynamics affecting poverty and inequality. The conference has a focus on policy-relevant research germane to low- and middle-income settings and welcomes studies on how the intersection of population, poverty and inequality is shaped by public policy.

The Panel invites submissions from scholars using secondary source data analysis, natural experiments, and encourages those who have primary data collection for baseline data analysis, policy and program evaluations, mixed methods, and big data, to bring a range of data analysis methods to spark the advancement of science addressing old problems and present emerging topics.

The conference is a friendly and inclusive forum, and the format will enable scholars and policy makers from around the world to engage and collaborate. As such, we ask that participants attend the 2.5 to 3 days of the conference.

Deadlines and Important Dates:

• Call for conference extended abstracts/ papers opens: Tuesday 1 October 2019
• Call for conference extended abstracts/ papers closes: Monday 16 December 2019
• Authors notified of extended abstracts/ papers accepted: Monday 28 January 2020
• Deadline for making online revisions to papers: Monday 25 May 2020
• Conference: Monday 22 June to Wednesday 24 June 2020

Submission of Papers:

Researchers are invited to submit a short AND an extended abstract (four-page minimum) or a draft paper to the IUSSP Population, Poverty and Inequality 2020 Conference. The official language of the conference is English. Submissions must include a description of the research objectives and intersections with the IUSSP Population, Poverty and Inequality themes, the data and research methods, some preliminary results, and the policy relevance of the research.  Extended abstracts or papers must be submitted on the IUSSP website.

If you do not have an IUSSP user or member account you will need to create an account. (You do not have to be an IUSSP member to submit for or participate in this conference).

Travel Awards:
Travel awards will be provided to assist a limited number of conference participants (presenters, discussants, chairs). Priority will be given to those participants traveling from low-income countries.

For further information, please contact Jocelyn Finlay (jfinlay@hsph.harvard.edu) and/or Murray Leibbrandt (murray.leibbrandt@uct.ac.za).

The Cornell Population Center (CPC) invites applicants for the Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellowships. The position starts August 15, 2020 and will continue for 2 years, subject to a satisfactory first year evaluation. Selection is based on scholarly potential, ability to work in multi-disciplinary settings, and the support of a CPC faculty affiliate who will serve as mentor. Preference will be given to fellows with research interests in areas broadly related to the CPC’s four main areas: families & children; health behaviors & disparities; poverty & inequality; and immigration & diversity. Especially encouraged are applications from candidates whose research has significance for those countries on which the fellowship’s funder focuses – the United States, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, South Africa, and Bermuda.

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is highly interested in hosting up to two independent Max Planck Research Groups. MPIDR invites you to work with them and apply for a position as Max Planck Research Group Leader. Applications will need to be directed to the Max Planck Society. Detailed information as well as application instructions can be found in this official announcement.

Successful candidates will be offered a Max Planck Research Group Leader position accompanied by the excellent research conditions in a Max Planck Institute, and additionally – in case of interest – also the opportunity to apply for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at TUM with doctorate granting rights and career options via Associate to Full Professor according to the TUM Faculty Tenure Track system.

Click the link below for more information.

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) is currently accepting applications for two postdoctoral fellowship programs: The Sloan Fellowship on Aging and Work and the David E. Bell Fellowship. The deadline to apply is Monday, December 2, 2019.

Sloan Fellowship on Aging and Work

The Sloan Fellowship is an interdisciplinary, postdoctoral training program that seeks to address the challenges of aging societies and labor force participation in the U.S. Fellows conduct self-directed research under the guidance of Harvard faculty mentors. Expectations are that the research derived from the fellowship will be used to support improved workplace policies at various institutions as well as increase the public’s understanding of aging and labor force challenges. In addition to research and writing, fellows participate in seminars, leadership skill building, and communications & media skills training.

The David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Bell Fellowship is an interdisciplinary, postdoctoral training program designed for researchers and practitioners in the fields of population sciences and/or population health. Through self-directed research, selected candidates examine a broad range of critical issues, most from within the HCPDS’s focal areas: 1) social and environmental determinants of population health; 2) aging societies; 3) workplace & well-being; and 4) social/family demography. In addition to research and writing, fellows participate in weekly seminars, leadership skill building seminars, and communications & media skills training.

For both fellowship programs, the salary is $65K/yr plus benefits and a generous research, travel, and relocation fund. Both are open to U.S. and international candidates.

For detailed information, visit this page or contact Lesley Harkins at popcenter@hsph.harvard.edu.

Redistributive policies represent powerful policy instruments for improving equality of outcome through the redistribution of income and for enhancing equality of opportunity by improving the distribution of income-generating assets, such as human capital and wealth.

In low- and middle -income countries such reality is even more evident. These countries have the particularity of having a large proportion of their population considered as poor or recently graduated from that status, but still in a vulnerable position. In this context,  the French development agency (AFD) is organizing on November 4th, at the AFD headquarters, a conference on the topic of Inequality and redistribution in low- and middle- income countries, with the goal of bringing together academia, political actors and civil society to discuss about these issues.

Confirmed speakers :

• Nora Lustig, Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQ)
• Grégoire Rota-Graziosi, Professor at CERDI
• Erica Gerretsen, Head of Budget support, Public finance management and Domestic revenue mobilisation Unit at DEVCO/European Union
• Susana Ruiz Rodríguez, Regional Taxation Coordinator at Oxfam Intermon
• Anne-Sophie Robilliard, Researcher at DIAL
• Ingrid Woolard, Professor at Stellenbosch University
• Manuela De Allegri, Professor at Heidelberg University
• Liyousew Borga, Research Associate at University of Luxembourg

This conference is organized by the Agence française de développement (AFD), with support from the Development Cooperation Instrument of the European Union. The conference will be held at AFD headquarters in Paris, at Le Mistral – Auditorium Nelson Mandela, 3 Place Louis-Armand, 75012 Paris. Conferences organized by AFD are by invitation only. Places are limited and registrations are subject to validation by the organizing committee. For additional information and registration please click here. 

The fourth biennial poverty law conference, “Poverty Law? Where We Go From Here” hosted by Berkeley Law is happening on April 10-11, 2020. This conference will focus on the evolving nature of our collective obligation to each other, on changes to national, state, and local antipoverty programs, and on the future of poverty law as a field. This conference is a gathering for all those whose work focuses on the relationship between law and socio-economic marginality, broadly construed.

There are three main tracks to the conference:

1. The History and/or Future of Antipoverty Efforts and Programs
2. Antipoverty Teaching, Service, and Research
3. General Poverty Law (subject matter not limited)

If you would like to present, please submit a title and abstract by Oct. 18, 2019 to erosser@wcl.american.edu.