PSI Talks 2007-2008

• July 10, 2007, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  Tanja van der Lippe ( Professor of Sociology and ICS, Utrecht University )
  Folks Like Us: How Highly Educated Men and Women Use Their Time?

• Tuesday, October 2, 2007, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Susan Coutin ( Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society )
  Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United  States
• Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Wang Feng ( Professor of Sociology )
  Globalizing Production, Shrinking Reproduction: How Does China Fit into the Picture?
• Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Matt Huffman ( Associate Professor of Sociology )
  Management Matters? Female Managers and Workplace Gender Segregation, 1975-2005
• Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 5:00-6:00, SSPA 2112
  The Graduate Program in Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  David Swanson ( University of California, Riverside )
  Counting the Gulf Coast: A Demographer Gauges Katrina's Impact in Mississippi
• Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Maria Estela Zarate ( Assistant Professor of Education )
  When Do Grades Matter? Gender Differences in Trajectories to College
• Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  James Swanson ( Professor of Pediatrics )
  The National Children's Health Study
• Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Ping Ren ( Ph.D. student in Sociology )
  Do Sub-Cultural Norms Survive Immigration? Cantonese and Mandarin Fertility in the United States

• Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Dowell Meyers ( Professor of Policy, Planning, and Development, USC )
  Immigrants and Boomers: New Understanding for a New Civic Integration

• Tuesday, January 8, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Berna Torr ( RAND Labor and Population Group )
  Black-White Differences in the Co-residential Experience of Mothers of Young Children, 1880 to 2000
• Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Fernando Torres-Gil ( Acting Dean of the UCLA School of Public Affairs )
  The New Aging: the coming nexus of demographics, race and immigration
• Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  James Bachmeier ( Ph.D. student in Sociology )
  School or Work, or School and Work?  Enrollment and Intergenerational Variation in Work Activity among Mexican-Origin Adolescents
• Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Andrew Noymer (Assistant Professor of Sociology)
  The Twentieth Century Evolution of American Mortality
• Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Marigee Bacolod ( Assistant Professor of Economics )
  Two Sides of the Same Coin: U.S. "Residual Inequality" and the Gender Gap
• Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Frank D. Bean ( Professor of Sociology )
  Cultural Repertoires and Public Assistance Receipt: Explaining the Distinctiveness of Mexican Immigrant Welfare Behaviors
• Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  David Neumark ( Professor of Economics )
  Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration
• Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Sara Wakefield ( Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society )
  The Transition to Parenthood for Criminal Offenders
• Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 11:30-1:30, SSPA 2112
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Hiroshi Motomura ( Professor of Law, University of North Carolina )
  Immigration Outside the Law: A Conceptual Roadmap
  

• Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Gillian Stevens ( Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois )
  Is Younger Quicker?  Age at Arrival and the Rapidity of English Acquisition among Immigrant Children in the U.S.
• Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Hal Stern ( Professor of Statistics )
  The American Community Survey (ACS) and its Impact on Demographic Research
• Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Catherine Bolzendahl ( Assistant Professor of Sociology )
  Beyond Symbols: Support of Marital Right and Benefits for Non-Traditional Couples
• Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Maurice Crul ( Researcher, University of Amsterdam )
  The Integration of the Second Generation in Europe. The Importance of the National and Local Integration Context
• Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 12:15-1:15, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Thomas Jimenez & April Linton ( Assistant Professors, University of California, San Diego )
  Contexts for Bilingualism among US-Born Latinos
• Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Anne Roeters ( Doctoral Fellow, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands )
  Parents' work demands and activities with children
• Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
  The Sociology Department presents
  Elizabeth Fussell ( Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tulane and Washington State )
  Post-Katrina New Orleans as a New Migrant Destination
• Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  Miruna Petrescu-Prahova ( Ph.D. student in Sociology )
  Bridging Simulation and Inference in the Study of Residential Segregation: A Case Study
• Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 12:00-1:30, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Thurston Domina ( Assistant Professor of Education )
  Students Left Behind: Developing a Valid Measure of High School Completion

 

PSI Talks 2008-2009

• Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Frank Bean ( Professor of Sociology )
  Immigration Research at UCI
• Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Marianne Bitler ( Associate Professor of Economics )
  Effects of Increased Access to Infertility Treatment on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Health Insurance Mandates
• Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Greg Duncan ( Professor of Education )
  Early Childhood Poverty and Adult Attainment, Behavior and Health (with Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest and Ariel Kalil)
• Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Hilde Coffé ( Assistant Professor of Sociology, Utrecht University )
  Patterns, Not Gaps: Gender Differences in Political Participation
• Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Stanley R. Bailey ( Assistant Professor of Sociology )
  Unmixing for Race-Making: Dilemmas of Affirmative Action in Brazil
• Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Leah Boustan (Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles)
  Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence From the Black Migration
• Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  David Neumark ( Professor of Economics )
  Measuring the Importance of Labor Market Networks
• Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Andrew Noymer ( Assistant Professor of Sociology )
  War, race and disease: Tuberculosis in black and white troops in the Union Army during the Civil War
• Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Julie Ohlander ( Lecturer of Criminology, Law and Society )
  The Decline of Suicide in Sweden

• Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  David Frank (Professor of Sociology )
  Cross-National Variations in the Criminal Regulation of Sex
• Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  George Farkas (Professor of Education )
  Early Inequality
• Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Tsui-o Tai ( Postdoctoral Researcher of Sociology )
  Poverty, Household Composition, and Welfare States: A Multi-level Analysis of 22 Countries
• Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Nadia Kim ( Assistant Professor of Sociology, Loyola Marymount University )
  America's Migrating Color Lines: The Case of Koreans from Seoul to LA
• Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Katie Bolzendahl ( Assistant Professor of Sociology )
  "Doing Gender" in National Legislatures: Insights from Interviews and Committee Rosters in Germany, Sweden and the United States
• Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  James Pick ( Professor of Business, Redlands University )
  Which are the Largest Cities in the World?
• Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Patrick Heuveline ( Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)
  The Death Toll of the Khmer-Rouge Regime (1975-1979)
• Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Suzanne Model ( Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts-Amherst )
  Studying Immigrants Cross-Nationally: The West Indian Case
• Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Jeanne Batalova ( Migration Policy Institute )
  Chasing the American Dream: Highly Skilled Immigrants in the US Labor Market

• Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Mireille Jacobson ( Associate Professor of Social Ecology )
  Reimbursement Policy and Cancer Chemotherapy Treatment: Evidence from the Medicare Modernization Act.
• Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Evan Schofer ( Associate Professor of Sociology )
  The Structure of Education and National Income Inequality

• Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy presents
  Jutta Heckhausen ( Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior )
  Developmental Regulation Across the Life Span: Individual Agency and Society
• Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  PAA Practice Talks
  Three 15-minute practice talks and Q+A.
  - Changing Attitudes toward Marriage and Children in Six Countries • Zoya Gubernskaya
  - "School or Work" or "School and Work"? Enrollment and Intergenerational Variation in Work Activity among Mexican-Origin Adolescents • James D. Bachmeier with Frank Bean
  - Self-Rated Health: Is Happiness the Missing Link? • Andrew Noymer with Leah Ruppanner
  Can't make it to Detroit? Come hear your colleagues in Irvine!

• Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Judy Rosener, author, "Ways Women Lead",Harvard Business Review, 1990; co-author, Workforce America,(McGraw-Hill; Irwin, 1990); America's Competitive Secret, Women Managers, Oxford University Press, 1995); currently writing Organizational Intercourse for Stanford University Press ( Professor, Emerita of Merage School of Business )
  Female Disadvantages at Work: What Have Brains and Hormones Got to Do With it?
• Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Elianne van Steenbergen ( Visiting Scholar at University of California, Los Angeles )
  The Sunny Side of Work-Family Role Combination for Individuals, Employers, and Couples
• Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Center for Demographic and Social Analysis presents
  Christopher Carpenter ( Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy )
  New Evidence on Sexual Orientation, Partnership, and Outcomes
• Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 12:00-1:00, SSPB 4206
  The Gender, Work and Family Research Group presents
  Karen Rook ( Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior )
  Older Adults' Strategies for Protecting, Repairing, and Expanding their Social Relationships

 

PSI Talks 2009-10

• Tuesday, October 6, 2009
  Cynthia Feliciano (Department of Sociology)
  Racial Boundaries among Latinos: Evidence from Internet Daters’ Racial Preferences
  
• Tuesday, October 13, 2009
  C-DASA Faculty Update--All about our NICHD Population Center Proposal and the Computer Servers
  With Judy Treas (Department of Sociology) and Greg Duncan (Department of Education)
• Monday, October 19, 2009, 3:30-6:00, SSPA 2112
  Richard Alba (City University of New York)
  Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More integrated America
• Tuesday, October 27, 2009
  James P. Allen (California State University, Northridge)
  The Comparative Economic Status of Mexican-origin and White Populations in U.S. Counties.
• Tuesday, November 3, 2009
  Michael Burton (Department of Anthropology)
  Gender, Food, and Households in Micronesia
• Tuesday, November 10, 2009
  Joy Pixley (Department of Sociology)
  Career Prioritizing in Dual-Earner Couples
• Tuesday, November 17, 2009
  Fabian Pfeffer (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  Wealth and Life Chances in Comparative Perspective
• Tuesday, November 24, 2009
  Peter Brownell (RAND Corporation)
  Low Pay for Unauthorized Immigrants: “Superexploitation” or Employers’ Risk of Sanctions?
• Tuesday, December 1, 2009
  Matt Huffman (Department of Sociology)
  Some New Evidence on Gender and Management
  

• Tuesday, January 5, 2010
  Tsui-o Tai (Department of Sociology)
  Real Men Don't Do Laundry?  What Mokken Scaling Tells Us about Male Avoidance of Household Tasks in 34 Countries
  
• Tuesday, January 12, 2010
  James Bachmeier (Department of Sociology)
  Coethnic Contexts of Reception and Patterns of Mexican Immigration to U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1995-2000
• Tuesday, January 19, 2010
  Saba Senses Ozyurt (Department of Political Science)
  Religious Affiliations and Integration Patterns of Muslim Immigrant Women in Southern California
• Tuesday, January 26, 2010
  Sigrun Olafsdottir (Boston University)
  Gendered Welfare Support? Exploring Public Attitudes toward State Involvement across 15 Nations
• Tuesday, February 2, 2010
  Tim Bruckner (Department of Health Sciences and Public Health)
  Transient Cultural Influences on Infant Mortality: Fire-Horse daughters in Japan
• Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 4:00-5:00pm, SSPA 2112
  Pierre Bouvier (University of Paris)
  French Suburbs and Social Bonds: Between Inclusion and Exclusion
• Monday, February 8, 2010, 4:00-5:00pm, SSPA 2112
  Nancy L. Green (Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France)
  History, Memory and the Representation of Migration: Behind the Scenes at the Immigration History Museums in Paris and Ellis Island
• Tuesday, February 16, 2010
  Monica Boyd (University of Toronto)
  Language at Work: Linguistic Enclaves and Immigrant Economic Integration
• Tuesday, February 23, 2010
  Dean Baker (Department of Medicine) and Kimberley Lakes (Department of Pediatrics)
  National Children's Study: Study Overview, Implementation in Orange County, and Formative Research on Factors that Influence Participation in Diverse Communities
• Tuesday, March 2, 2010
  Kris Noam-Zuidervaart (Department of Sociology)
  Cultural transmission by intermarried second-generation Chinese parents: an international comparison
• Tuesday, March 9, 2010, SSPA 2112
  Kathleen Mullan Harris (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  Social, Behavioral, and Biological Linkages in a Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
• Tuesday, March 30, 2010
  Manisha Shah (Department of Economics)
  Do Natural Disasters Shape Risk Attitudes?

• Tuesday, April 6, 2010
  JoAnn Prause (Department of Psychology and Social Behavior)
  Timing and Extent of Early Maternal Work in Relation to Child Development
• Tuesday, April 13, 2010
  PAA Practice Talks:
  Zoya Gubernskaya (Department of Sociology)
  Farewell to Moms? Trends in Maternal Contact for 7 Countries, 1986-2001
  Andrew Noymer (Department of Sociology)
  Dyed Black: Homicide and Racial Classification on Death Certificates
• Tuesday, April 20, 2010
  Zack Almquist (Department of Sociology)
  U.S. Census Spatial and Demographic Data in R.
• Tuesday, May 4, 2010
  Andrew Penner (Department of Sociology)
  Do Women Managers Ameliorate Gender Differences in Wages? Evidence From a Large Grocery Retailer
• Tuesday, May 11, 2010
  George Farkas (Department of Education)
  Educational Inequality: Middle and High School Skills, Behaviors, Attitudes, Curriculum Enrollment and Their Consequences
• Tuesday, May 25, 2010
  John Hipp (Department of Criminology, Law & Society)
  Segregation through the lense of housing unit transition: What roles do the prior residents, the local micro-neighborhood, and the broader neighborhood play?
• Tuesday, June 1, 2010
  Belinda Campos (Department of Chicano/Latino Studies and Psychology & Social Behavior)
  The Rewards to Be Reaped: Pathways and Obstacles to High Quality Family Relationships