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 ... 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 ... Read more
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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Alex Ezeh is Dornsife Professor of Global Health at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University. Dr. Ezeh’s work focuses on urban health, population change, and models to strengthen knowledge-based ... Read more
Our signature evening event, the Richard Jessor distinguished Lecture features a prominent researcher in the social and behavioral sciences. Alex Ezeh is the Dornsife Professor of Global Health at the ... Read more
Dr. DeWitte is a biological anthropologist with research specialties in bioarchaeology, paleoepidemiology, and paleodemography. She engages in the reconstruction of life, health, disease, and demography in the past using assemblages of ... Read more
