Dr. Leigh Senderowicz is a public health researcher and feminist social demographer. Her mixed-methods research focuses on contraceptive autonomy, exploring the ways that new approaches to measurement and evaluation can promote person-centered care, health equity and reproductive freedom.
Abstract:While qualitative research presents obvious strengths for critical population studies, quantification is also essential to critical social science’s emancipatory aim. In this talk, I take feminist critiques of demography and public health seriously, to demonstrate how we can include social structure, better model distributions and heterogeneity, and use critical theory to shape research questions, within ... Read more
Benson John from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the University of Stockholm will be giving a talk at IBS. Ben is a Malawian demographer with expertise in fertility, marriage, and their intersection in sub-Saharan Africa. He will be presenting research from his dissertation on “The Contribution of Marital Dissolution and Repartnering to ... Read more
Students and post-docs will have the opportunity to practice their Population Association of America (PAA) talks and display their posters before the conference. Join the audience to provide support and constructive feedback before they head off to conference in Columbus, Ohio.
Abstract: Flows of international migration are needed around the world to understand the patterns and corresponding effects on demographic, social and economic change across sending and receiving countries. A major challenge to this understanding is that nearly all of the countries in the world do not gather or produce reliable statistics on flows of international migration. ... Read more
Title: When All Health Politics Was Local Abstract: This talk argues that one cannot understand the origins of health problems — and the success of solutions to address them — without analyzing the local context that surrounds them. We’ll examine battles over pollution caused by industrial giants, coal extractors and fights over the unequal distribution of medical care in major cities via ... Read more
Abstract: An extensive literature documents large and persistent declines in earnings following job loss. We comprehensively study the role of the public safety net in mitigating lost income from no fault job loss using the 1996-2013 Survey of Income and Program Participation. With an individual fixed effects model, we document which public programs provide the most ... Read more
Abstract: Mass incarceration is a system of social and racial control in the United States that arrests, convicts, incarcerates, and supervises racial and ethnic minority populations through probation and parole. Mass incarceration affects those who are incarcerated and under community supervision, as well as the families and communities where it is concentrated, and is a pervasive cause ... Read more
Steering Committee: Leslie Root, Amanda Stevenson, Jane Menken, Sara Yeatman, Stefanie Mollborn, Katie Genadek Location: Hybrid, online and in-person at CU Population Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder Since the Supreme Court ended the era of the federally protected right to abortion with their decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health in June 2022, ... Read more
Abstract: The immediate, direct effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality are felt worldwide. Yet this is not the only mortality crisis the world has witnessed in recent decades. In the US, theopioid epidemic, increased automobile deaths and homicides, and, more generally, the midlifemortality crisis all contribute to the deteriorating average lifespan of Americans today. ... Read more
Jani Little, Rocky Mountain Research Data Center- “The Rocky Mountain RDC and Expanding Opportunities with Restricted Data” Brian Cadena, Economics, University of Colorado Boulder – “US-Mexico Migration Networks: New Data and New Questions” Ryan Masters, Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder – “Understanding Recent Mortality Trends Among U.S. States in an International Context” Jessica Finlay, Geography, University of Colorado Boulder ... Read more
Keynote Speaker: Emily R. Klancher Merchant, Univ. of California, Davis, Science and Technology Studies Keynote Address: The American Pursuit of Intelligence Genes, 1916-2022 Breakfast and Lunch served each day
Abstract: Women and men across the globe are at high risk of underachieving their fertility goals. This means that they are aging out of their reproductive years having had fewer children than they desired to have, a phenomenon referred to as unrealized fertility. Although often considered a problem concentrated in low-fertility settings, recent research has revealed ... Read more
Bio: Kathleen Cagney, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Sociology. Her work examines social inequality and its relationship to health with a focus on neighborhood, race, and aging and the life course. Her general aim is to bring insights from urban sociological theory and methods to research on health. ... Read more
Abstract: Universal public health insurance is being implemented across the globe putting substantial pressure on public finances. Whereas the impact of these programs on health care utilization has been well documented, there is limited evidence on the causal impacts on population health. This study contributes to filling this important gap by exploiting the roll-out of ... Read more
