Institute of Behavioral Science
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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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
Title: What’s a Parent to Do? Socioeconomic Variation in Parenting Logics Measured with Computational Text Analysis Bio: Orestes "Pat" Hastings is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at ... Read more
Title: Geography of the U.S. Health Care Safety Net and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mortality Bio: Dr. Emily A. Parker is an Assistant Professor at the Bloustein School. Before this role, ... Read more
