Bridges to social inclusion for the Pacific Islander young people in the ACT Community: Education, health and employment
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PhD thesis proposal seminar Kwalimu Virobo is a PhD candidate in ADSRI.
Public lecture - Declining fertility and increasing investment in children: The quantity & quality trade-off in Japan & selected Asian countries
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By drawing heavily upon a new methodological approach called the National Transfer Accounts (NTA), Professor Ogawa will discuss Japan’s changing pattern of intergenerational transfers, both public and private, over the period 1984-2009. Also, within the NTA framework, he will shed light on the…
Global bilateral migration flows by gender between 1960 and 2010
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Migration flows between all countries has in the past been very difficult to measure. Flow data is limited in availability and comparability. Dr Abel aims to address these issues at a global level using an indirect methods to estimate migration flows from more readily available bilateral stock data…
Cousin marriage, illegitimacy and geographical mobility in 18th and 19th century Wiltshire
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Cathy Day created a database of over 20,000 individuals in two villages in Wiltshire, England, using a wide array of data sources to link them into extensive pedigrees. She relied heavily on a small army of volunteers to transcribe over a million lines of records, which were principally from…
New methods for old questions: Exploring the drug-crime nexus using latent trajectory models
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Criminologists in Australia have long debated both the empirical and theoretical merits of the so-called ‘drug-crime nexus’. Few, however, have considered this relationship within a life-course context and this omission has potentially serious implications for the development and implementation of…
Bayesian demographic estimation
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Applied demography produces some challenging and distinctive statistical problems. For instance, applied demographers often need to estimate and forecast thousands of cross-classified rates and counts, subject to complicated sets of constraints. The talk describes a long-term research program to…
Parental incarceration and long-term risks for adult children: The case of criminal justice involvement in the US
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As incarceration rates have exponentially risen in the US, parental incarceration has become an increasingly common lifecourse event experienced by children, particularly among racial and ethnic minorities. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Dr Roettger examines…