WINTER 2013
| JANUARY | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 16, 12:00-13:00 PM | Steven Lehrer, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University | "Gene-Environment Interactions, Health Behaviors and Public Policy" | Leacock 429 |
| Jan. 23, 12:00-13:00 PM | Alain Bélanger, INRS, Urbanisation, culture et société | "Population Aging, Immigration and Future Labor Shortage : Myths and Virtual Reality" | Leacock 429 |
| Jan. 30, 12:00-13:00 PM | Fabian Lange, Economics, McGill University | "Fertility Transitions along the Extensive and Intensive Margins" | Leacock 429 |
| FEBRUARY | |||
| Monday Feb. 4, 12:00-13:00 PM |
Kenneth Hill, Department of Global Health and Population, Havard School of Public Health |
"Life and Death in African Slums" | Leacock 429 |
| Feb. 13, 12:00-13:00 PM | Leslie Roberts, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia Population Research Centre | "Problems of passive surveillance for sensitive events in times of war: when is health information propaganda?" | Leacock 429 |
| Feb. 20, 12:00-13:00 PM | Seth Richards-Shubik, Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College | "Peer Effects in Sexual Initiation: Separating Demand and Supply Mechanisms" | Leacock 429 |
| Friday, March 1, 15:00-17:00 PM | Gary King, Department of Government, Harvard University. Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor & Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science |
"Big Data Is Not About the Data!" |
Faculty Club Ballroom |
| MARCH | |||
| March, 6, 12:00-13:00 PM / / READING WEEK, NO TALK | |||
| March 13, 12:00-13:00 PM | Catherine Haeck, Economics, UQÀM |
"Prenatal nutritional program and child health at birth: empirical evaluation of the impact of the OLO program in Canada' |
Leacock 429 |
| March 20, 12:00-13:00 PM | Laurent Roy, Census Operations, Statistics Canada | "National Household Survey: collection, quality and dissemination" | Leacock 429 |
| March 27, 12:00-13:00 PM | Erica Field, Economics, Duke University | "Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India" | Leacock 429 |
FALL 2012
| SEPTEMBER | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 19, 12:00-13:00 PM | Christopher Barrington-Leigh,Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University | "The Québec convergence and Canadian life satisfaction, 1985-2008" | Leacock 429 |
| Sept. 26, 12:00-13:00 PM | Michael Haan, Sociology, University of New Brunswick | "To the excess?: Household dynamics and outcomes in men and women's long-distance commuting" | Leacock 429 |
| OCTOBER | |||
| Oct. 3, 12:00-13:00 PM | Aniruddha (Bobby) Das, Sociology, McGill University | "Some recent findings in the biosociology/biodemography of aging" | Leacock 429 |
| Oct. 10, 12:00-13:00 PM | Becky Pettit, Sociology, University of Washington | "Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress" | Leacock 927 |
| Oct. 17, 12:00-13:00 PM | Rachel Margolis, Sociology, Western University | "Happiness Before and After the Kids: The Importance of Parental Well-being for Understanding Low Fertility" | Leacock 429 |
| Oct. 24, 12:00-13:00 PM | Eran Shor, Sociology, McGill University |
"A Paper Ceiling? The Origins of Gender Inequality in Printed News Coverage, 1880-2008" |
Leacock 429 |
| Oct. 31, 12:00-13:00 PM | Marie-France Raynault, Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal | "Measuring Social Inequalities in Health: Going Beyond Description to Support Intervention" | Leacock 429 |
| NOVEMBER | |||
| Nov. 7, 12:00-13:00 PM | Jean-Baptiste Pingault, Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal |
"Estimating three-dimensional trajectories of childhood behaviors using mother and teacher ratings" |
Leacock 429 |
| Nov. 14, 12:00-13:00 PM | Catherine Deri Armstrong, Economics, University of Ottawa |
"Virginity and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Canadian Micro Data" |
Leacock 429 |
| Nov. 21, 12:00-13:00 PM | Miles Corak, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa | "Age at immigration and the adult attainments of child migrants" | Leacock 429 |