2018 O-Week: Learn more about studying demography
Seminar
How long will we live? Can the earth support a growing population? Can migration solve our population problems? Are we heading towards a sustained era of population decline?Associate Prof Vladimir Canudas-Romo will fully explore the importance of demography in answering the most important…
“But How Many Actually Died ? Counting Civilian Deaths in Recent Wars”
Seminar
This seminar covers two areas. The first is a 10 minute introduction to The Demography of Conflict based on the author’s new chapter for Beginning Population Studies (3rd Edition) demonstrating how changes in the nature of warfare since the end of the Cold War have altered both the demography and…
Gender, Education and Marital Status Differentials in Migration
Seminar
Comparing levels and patterns of internal migration across countries is a difficult task. Administrative geographies are non-uniform and migration can be defined in a number of different ways. These challenges have prohibited cross-national studies on demographic differentials in migration patterns…
Parental Imprisonment and Adverse Development: Thinking about Adversity and Resiliency in the Context of Mass Imprisonment
Seminar
In recent decades, an increasingly large number of individuals in the U.S. have both experienced parental imprisonment, with a range of adverse health, developmental, and behavioural outcomes. In this presentation, I use a life course perspective to examine important factors behind…
Modelling and Understanding Mortality Disparities
Seminar
Accurate and reliable estimates of mortality outcomes are essential in monitoring progress over time and understanding disparities across populations. However, in many cases trends may be unclear due to poor quality or noisy data. I present a hierarchical framework to estimate mortality at the…
Continuity and change in Chinese marriage
Seminar
Changes in marriage and family formation in China were often considered a result of direct state social engineering during the first three decades of the People’s Republic, but have increasingly been seen as driven by social and economic changes such as the expansion in education enrolment and non-…
Continuity and change in Chinese marriage
Seminar
Changes in marriage and family formation in China were often considered a result of direct state social engineering during the first three decades of the People’s Republic, but have increasingly been seen as driven by social and economic changes such as the expansion in education enrolment and non-…