BERKELEY POPULATION CENTER
WEEKLY NEWS ARCHIVE Summer – Fall 2012
December 17, 2012
Hello everybody,
There’s just a little bit of news today – announcements from NIH, a postdoctoral fellowship, and a URL I
stumbled upon for scholarships.
A heads-up: A new AHRQ grant for conferences on some aspect of health measurements with some
connection to health delivery services and policy is circulating and I would like applications from Cal to be
submitted. The conference could be about a specific method, data set or data format, or it could be a
collection of presenters around a certain topic area, or…many ideas. The URL is:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-017.html.
We see this kind of activity important for developing the new ‘D-Lab’ – dataset resource center – and making
both the campus community as well as others aware of this emerging resource. I’ll take the lead on preparing
the grant, but we’ll need a PI. Or more than one: we can submit multiple grants if they are scientifically
distinct. If measuring health in any way is important to your work, you may be hearing from me in the near
future about possible participation. Or contact me if you have an idea.
Have a healthy and happy holiday season,
Best,
Leora
NIH News
NICHD has released its updated Vision Statement. These vision statements tell us what areas will get priority
for funding, thus if you are wondering how to shape your research in order to get funding, this document will
provide clarity. The Vision Statement is divided into eight distinct sections: developmental biology,
developmental origins of health and disease, pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes, reproductions, behavior and
cognition, plasticity and rehabilitation, population dynamics, and conduct of science. The Vision is expected to
inform an Institute-wide strategic planning process, to begin in early 2013. Download from:
https://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/Documents/NICHD_scientific_vision120412.pdf
The Cover Letter: NICHD and NIA program officers want to you remind applicants that an important document
in the application is the so-called ‘optional’ cover letter. In fact it’s a tool the PI uses to get suitable reviewers
for their application, by specifying expertise desired as well as expertise unsuited. However, one does not
name names. To quote John Haaga (NIA): “We are not asking applicants to name potential reviewers for a
particular application. A cover letter can suggest a particular committee and talk about types of expertise that
would be needed for review (and CSR assignment and referral officers welcome the suggestions.) We (both
program and CSR) are constantly thinking about who would be good members of the study sections, especially
for newly developing areas of science, and we very much welcome specific names as suggestions for
members.” Such suggestions are not included in this cover letter, of course.
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
University of Nebraska at Omaha invites applications for a post-doctoral scholar focusing on Latino/Latin
American population movement and socioeconomic characteristics. Applications will be reviewed beginning
January 2013. See the attached document for information.
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ON THE WEB:
A listing of scholarships that might be relevant for undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in
some aspect of Latin American studies:
http://www.unomaha.edu/ollas/studentopps.php#scholarships
December 3, 2012
Hi everybody,
We’re winding down the semester so it’s a light card this week, but there are some very interesting events – a
public health ‘mini-conference’ and also a colloquium with UW’s Adrian Raftery this Thursday, plus a workshop
on Friday.
Events and announcements follow,
Have a great week,
-Leora
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EVENTS
Tuesday, December 4 | 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 2012 School of Public Health Research Symposium. This full-day
mini-conference features: Kristine Madsen, Michael Jerrett, Kim Harley, Bill Satariano, Jack Colford, Lee Riley,
Kirk Smith and Dean Stephen Shortell, plus student poster sessions. Alumni House. For the program, see:
http://coeh.berkeley.edu/2012_SPH_Research_Symposium.pdf or
http://events.berkeley.edu/?event_ID=61423&date=2012-12-04&tab=academic.
Tuesday, December 4 | 4:10 p.m. Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture: “Income Inequality: Evidence and
Implications” with Emmanuel Saez, Economics. | International House, Chevron Auditorium. \
Thursday, Dec 6, 4-6 PM. BacPop (Bay Area Colloquia on Population) features Adrian Raftery from U
Washington. Wildavsky Seminar room. 2538 Channing (SW corner of Bowditch & Channing). Dinner follows:
RSVP with Monique@demog.berkeley.edu and ask her for the paper for discussion.
Friday, December 7, 10-12 AM Professor Raftery will also be giving a workshop, “Bayesian Population
Projections: Do It Yourself” With Hana Sevcikova in the Demography Department. 2232 Piedmont Ave,
Demography Seminar room.
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Solicitation Of Applications For ACS Data Users Group Steering Committee: “We are pleased to announce the
establishment of an ACS Data Users Group and Steering Committee. Through a competitive acquisitions
selection process, our Sabre Systems team was chosen to manage this initiative. The U.S. Census Bureau
provides funding and oversight for this initiative. “The purpose of the new American Community Survey (ACS)
Data Users Group is to improve understanding of the value and utility of ACS data. The ACS Data Users Group
will be led by a Steering Committee comprised of selected external stakeholders representing a broad
spectrum of data users with different interests. The Steering Committee will provide leadership to facilitate
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ongoing discussion and exchange about ACS data issues through an external website, webinars, workshops,
conference presentations, and several ACS Data Users Conferences. The ACS Data Users Group will not play a
role in advising the Census Bureau or advocating to the Census Bureau on behalf of ACS data users.
“We are looking for enthusiastic ACS data experts to serve on the Steering Committee for this Data
Users Group, which is currently funded through May of 2015. Steering Committee members will participate in
one in-person meeting and three virtual meetings per year, and attend two ACS Data Users Conferences. The
in-person meetings and conferences will be held in Washington, DC. Steering Committee members will be
reimbursed for travel expenses. If you are interested in being considered for membership on the Steering
Committee, please complete your application online at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ACS_Steering_Commitee_Application. The deadline for applications is
Thursday, December 6, 2012, by 6:00 p.m. EST. We will notify all applicants before the end of December when
our selection process is complete. If you have questions about the Steering Committee or the application
process, please contact Linda Jacobsen, Vice President of Domestic Programs at the Population Reference
Bureau, at ljacobsen@prb.org or at 202-939-5414.
November 26, 2012
Hi everybody,
We’ve been reminded by NIH that the policy of Public Access of published work is going to be strictly enforced.
This means that any work peer-reviewed articles published with NIH support must cite it correctly, and must
submit this to PubMed to get a PMCID number (not PMID; that’s different). Some journals do this
automatically. Some do not. Practical implications include:
1) Any biosketches MUST have all publications checked and include PMCID numbers where necessary, denote
‘in progress’ where not yet available, or make sure that it is in progress. This is true of your own biosketch as
well as the other investigators.
2) Any work cited in a progress report for continuing grants must also comply with this rule. NIH WILL NOT
RELEASE FUNDS IF THIS REQUIREMENT IS NOT MET.
2) Any pilot grants from BPC (or from CEDA, for that matter) that result in published work must acknowledge
the source (for BPC: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
R21HD056581).
3. Articles resulting from grants should also be available as a ‘result’ from the grant, and therefore submitted
via era commons or PubMed to be connected with the grant. Or send it to me and I’ll do it for the Popcenter
grants.
4) I recommend that you have a ‘master vita’ with all this information so that it can be easily adapted to new
grants.
I’ll be contacting pilot grant awardees in the next week or so to remind them of these requirements and assist
in the process where possible.
A heads up: Next month’s BacPop (Bay Area Colloquia on Population) features Adrian Raftery from U
Washington. In addition to his talk at 4 PM on Thursday (see
http://demog.berkeley.edu/announcements/bacpop.shtml) on Friday 10-12 AM he will also be giving a
workshop, “Bayesian Population Projections: Do It Yourself” With Hana Sevcikova in the Demography
Department.
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Last but not least, Ron Lee was at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on November 7 to discuss the
implications of an aging population for public policy. A summary of his statements and a link to the full report
can be found at the end of this Newsletter.
Events and announcements follow,
Have a great week,
-Leora
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EVENTS
Wednesday, November 28, 12-1 PM. Demography Brown Bag: Susan Carter (Economics, UC Riverside, Visiting
Scholar, UC Berkeley), “Embracing Isolation: Chinese American Geographic Redistribution during the Exclusion
Era, 1882-1943.” 2232 Piedmont Ave, Demography Seminar room. Coffee and Cookies served.
Monday,November 26 | 12-1 p.m. Data Resources at Berkeley: Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA), with
J. Merrill Shanks, UC Berkeley. Wildavsky Conference Room. 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720. Light
refreshments served.
Monday, November 26 | 2-3:30 p.m. "Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and
Labor Markets", with Leah Boustan, UCLA. 597 Evans Hall.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. Job Market Seminar: "Education, HIV, and Early Fertility:
Experimental Evidence from Kenya" with Pascaline Dupas, Stanford. | Evans Hall, 648 (formerly 608-7).
Tuesday, November 27, 4-5:30 PM. Implementing Medi-Cal and Private Insurance Coverage in California. With
Larry Levitt, Senior Vice President for Special Initiatives, The Kaiser Family Foundation; Bruce Bodaken,
Chairman and CEO, Blue Shield of California, | Mulford Hall, Room 159 | Note change in location.
Wednesday, November 28, 4-5 PM. Random matrix models for population ecology (Neyman Seminar)
With David Steinsalz (a CEDA member), University of Oxford. | 1011 Evans Hall.
http://events.berkeley.edu/?event_ID=58699&date=2012-11-28&tab=academic
Wed. Nov. 28, 4:00-5:30pm. ISSI Colloquia Speaker Series: “What Doesn't Kill us DOESN'T Make Us Stronger:
Stress, Strength, and the Health of African American Women” Amani Nuru-Jeter, Professor, Community Health
and Human Development, School of Public Health with Troy Duster, Chancellor's Professor, UC Berkeley, as
respondent. Wildavsky Conference Room, ISSI, 2538 Channing Way
Thursday, November 29, 12-1 PM. SPH Faculty Research Seminar presents Dr. Kirk Smith. 110 Barker Hall.
Thursday, November 29 | 4-6 p.m. The Origins of the Legible State: Mapmaking, Census Taking, And
Codification in Early Modern Europe. James J. Sheehan, Stanford University. Faculty Club, Heyns Room.
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Thursday,| November 29 | 4-5:30 p.m. “Ask an Anglo: Mapping White Attitudes Towards Latinos and the
Effects on Policy Preferences” with Celia Lacayo, doctoral candidate, Ethnic Studies Dept. | Shorb House, 2547
Channing Way. Light refreshments/appetizers.
NIH GRANTS
OBSSR: One source for grant funding aimed at interdisciplinary innovative research is the OBSSR, or Office of
Behavioral and Social Science Research. Peruse their current grant offerings here – there’s likely to be
something for everyone. http://obssr.od.nih.gov/funding_opportunities/foas/foas.aspx I often highlight
individual grant opportunities, but sometimes you may see something that strikes you as relevant.
FELLOWSHIPS
The PAA Fellowship. Spend a year in Washington DC. PAA will be accepting applications until December 15,
2012. A flyer announcing the opportunity is posted on the PAA home page.
http://www.populationassociation.org/government-affairs/paa-fellowship/
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 5th European Survey Research Association (ESRA) conference will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia from
July 15-19, 2013. (http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference). We are organising a session entitled
“Surveying Migrants and People with Migration Background using the Internet and Social Media“ and invite
you to submit a presentation to this session.
In social research, and particularly in quantitative surveys, migrants and people with a migration background
are considered "hard-to-reach" populations. The problems researchers face are usually stronger related to
sampling than to response behavior. A variety of procedures have been used so far but all of them have
considerable drawbacks, be it simple costs, availability of a useable sampling frame, or other impediments. For
this session, we invite papers on surveying migrant populations using the internet and social network sites in
particular, both on an international or purely national level. Papers with a strong focus on methodological
challenges and considerations are particularly welcome.
For submitting an abstract, please log onto the ESRA website,
http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conferences/register. The deadline for abstract submission is
January 13, 2013. During the submission process, you will be asked to select the area of survey methodology to
which your presentation belongs. Here, please select "Sampling and sample design" and then the title of this
session: "Surveying Migrants and People with Migration Background using the Internet and Social Media". A
session consists of 4 papers. One session slot it guaranteed. It might be possible to get a second time slot for
this session - depending on interest in this session and room availability. Please do not hesitate to contact us if
you have any queries about the session.
Steffen Poetzschke, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany,
steffen.poetzschke@gesis.org Timothy P. Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA, timj@uic.edu
Michael Braun, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany, michael.braun@gesis.org
NAS REPORT: NAS Report Explores Macroeconomic Impact of Aging
(from the COSSA Newsletter, November 19, 2012)
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On November 7, the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Population and its Board on Mathematical
Sciences and Their Applications hosted a briefing to discuss their new report, Aging and the Macroeconomy:
Long-Term Implications of an Older Population.
Ronald Lee, of University of California-Berkeley and co-chair of the Committee on the Long-Run
Macroeconomic Effects of the Aging U.S. Population, which authored the report, discussed the major findings.
He noted that while lower mortality rates and greater longevity are a major source of the population's aging,
other factors like lower birth rates and the aging of the baby boom generation also play a role. The Committee
estimates that by 2050, average life expectancy will have increased by about 6.5 years to 84.5. A major
challenge presented by this trend is that consumption has been rising with age (mainly due to public health
consumption). The consumption of 80-year-olds compared to 20-year-olds doubled between 1960 and 2007.
This shift in consumption towards the older cohort increases the costs of population aging.
The level of education among the elderly is increasing, a positive sign since greater education is associated
with better health and lower levels of disability. There was a steady decline in disability among seniors
between 1980 and 2002, but the rate has stayed steady since then. Lee noted that most seniors between 65
and 74 leave the workforce for reasons other than health-indicating that policies could be implemented to
convince this cohort to stay in the labor force longer. Overall, the average retirement age declined as life
expectancy increased (though the retirement age has risen by 1.5 years since 1995).
Policies that could encourage labor-force participation by seniors include making part-time work more
available, creating incentives for workers to stay (such as eliminating the payroll tax after a number of years in
the workforce or removing pension incentives for early retirement), and creating incentives for employers to
hire older workers (such as making Medicare the primary insurance provider for older workers). The
Committee found that increasing senior participation in the labor force would not take jobs away from young
people. The report also examined the aging population's effect on production and innovation, which the
Committee deemed would be minor.
Lee cautioned that between a third and a fifth of the population is not saving enough for retirement (a
conservative estimate, since the calculations assume Social Security, Medicare, and private pensions will
remain fully funded). Lee suggested policy options to encourage retirement saving, including improved
financial literacy, improved annuity products, more comprehensive insurance options, improved reverse
mortgages, and putting entitlements on sustainable footing.
The report looked into the net impact of a global aging population on rates of return on assets. While an aging
population could lead to the concentration of wealth in older cohorts, it is also likely to be a drain on
government resources. The Committee estimated a net decline between a third and one percent of assets.
An older population is also likely to put pressure on government programs, increasing the deficit. However,
these programs can also be used as a mechanism to influence consumption and working behavior. Lee
stressed the cost effectiveness of acting soon, noting that the longer we wait, the more intervening will cost.
Overall, Lee said, there are four broad options to meet the challenges of the aging population, which could be
mixed and matched to achieve the desired result: 1) saving more/consuming less, 2) increasing
taxes/consuming less, 3) reducing benefits for the elderly, 4) working longer/retiring later. Implementing
solutions will raise fundamental questions about how to allocate costs to different populations and across
generations and about what we pass on to future generations. Lee concluded by observing that "population
aging poses a serious challenge, but not an insurmountable one."
The report can be downloaded at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13465.
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November 5, 2012
Hi everybody,
More on biosketches: these documents are meant to showcase your accomplishments and one way to do that
is show evidence that your colleagues and peers recognize your leadership in the field. Operationalize that
evidence with listings of your appointment as editor, associate editor or editorial board member, as well as
serving on NIH/NSF review panels. Include elected offices to professional associations. Not everyone
reviewing your work will know who you are unless you tell them.
Another sign of federal funding support for interdisciplinary research: “NSF’s Social and Behavioral Branch is
joining forces with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to build on one another's strengths and leverage
resources to identify and support innovative social and forensic science research on crime, violence and
victimization. [In the hopefully not too distant future,] SBE and NIJ hope to jointly fund topical workshops and
research proposals, and develop new initiatives designed to catalyze high-quality, original scholarship in the
area of criminology and criminal justice. For funding opportunities in the Law and Social Sciences program go
to: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504727.
For funding opportunities at NIJ go to: http://www.nij.gov/nij/funding/forthcoming.htm. “
Events and announcements follow,
-Leora
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EVENTS
Wednesday, November 7, 12-1 PM, Demography Brown Bag: Mike Hout (Sociology/Demography, UC
Berkeley), “Trends in self-rated health after 50.” Demography Seminar room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. Cookies,
Snickers Bars® and refreshments served.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 2 - 3:30 p.m., Psych and Econ talk: "Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance"
Joshua Schwartzstein, Dartmouth College| 648 Evans Hall.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jschwartzstein/papers/bh.pdf.
Wednesday November 7 | 4-5 p.m. |EECS Colloquium: It Pays To Do the Right Thing: Incentive Mechanisms for
Societal Networks, with Balaji Prabhakar, Professor, EECS, Stanford University. 306 Soda Hall
Thursday, November 8, 4-5:30 PM “Understanding Cancer Treatment Trajectories Using Arrays of
Ethnographic Data: Approaches and Implications.” This methodological talk addresses challenges in causality
for ethnographic data, and suggests a variety of approaches, such as a mixed methods model. Daniel Dohan,
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine and Philip R. Lee Institute for
Health Policy Studies Associate Director for Training and Development, PRL-IHPS” Aaron Wildavsky Room.
2538 Channing, SW Corner of Bowditch and Channing,
November 8 | 1-2 p.m., "The Employment Effects of Credit Market Disruptions: Firm-level Evidence from the
2008-09 Financial Crisis" Gabriel Chodorow-Reich | 597 Evans Hall
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November 8 | 4-5:30 p.m. ”Contested Citizenship: Central Americans' Redefining the Meaning of Membership
in the Context of Legal Exclusion” with Dr. Arely Zimmerman, Post-Doctorate Fellow, University of Southern
California (USC). Shorb House, 2547 Channing Way.
NIH GRANTS
Publication Grants for Scholarly Work. Need some funding (up to $50k/yr for up to 3 years?) to work on a
book? [Or do you know someone who does? Pass this along!] NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine
and Health are awarded for the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other scholarly works of value to
U.S. health professionals, public health officials, biomedical researchers and historians of the health sciences. It
is not for dissertations or other the first-time presentation of research, but more of a systematic presentation
of the state of the field or area of inquiry. For more information, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pafiles/PAR-13-014.html
Centers of Excellence for Environmental Hazards and Health Disparities. This is from last week but I’m still
recruiting: There is an RFI (request for information) from NIH regarding Centers of Excellence for
Environmental Hazards and Health Disparities. Please contact me if this is of interest. I will be convening a
discussion group to see if we can be ready for the grant application when it is released. For more information,
see: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-MD-13-002.html.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
RWJ Public Health Services and Systems Research 2012 Call for Proposals. The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation (RWJF) seeks to expand the evidence base for effective public health policy and practice through
investment in Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR). PHSSR, a multi-disciplinary field of study,
provides a framework for examining the organization, financing, delivery and quality of public health services
within communities and the impact of those services on the health of the public. This solicitation, guided by
the national research agenda for PHSSR, aims to further advance the field with the ultimate goal of improving
the performance and efficiency of public health agencies and their system partners and the health of the
people they serve. Deadline: 2012-12-18 15:00:00.0 p.m
GRADUATE STUDENTS
November 6 | 1:30-3 p.m. Workshop: “My NCBI: PubMed Your Way! Customize PubMed to Save, Share, Stay
Current, and More” | Valley Life Sciences Building, Bioscience Library Computer Training Room. A Sheldon
Margen Public Health Library Drop In Class.
October 29, 2012
Hi everybody,
I was going to open up this edition of the Weekly News with an encouragement to attend tomorrow’s BacPop
except that our speaker, Simon Szreter from Princeton , is not going to be here because of
Hurricane/Megastorm Sandy and his talk is postponed, so stay tuned for updates.
Instead, I think I’ll open up with a request from the PAA, who is urging members to tell Congress to stop
impending cuts to NIH and NSF. For more information, visit this link:
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=hd5zhhcab&v=001g7xYn3eIW2NhTtNheJQV9Ir18tC80qA
_gf-qUUJVycjLgvClbymSxXHDdIzD6bxHM2iU1DSWKVEvhVmQxawX6rkqKjg7FaVdnmlSFk8x_SDr91sEq4s1pZue0U4HmVi
(or tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/9ztvacx)
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Events and announcements follow,
-Leora
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EVENTS
Wednesday, October 31, 12-1 PM, Demography Brown Bag: David Lam (Economics Research, University of
Michigan), Family Size of Women and Children During the Demographic Transition.. Demography Seminar
room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. Cookies, Snickers Bars® and refreshments served. [Note: Prof. Lam is a visiting
scholar this semester in the Demography Department, and is former president of the Population Association of
America.]
Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 2 - 3:30 p.m., Psych and Econ talk: "Multi-Dimensional Iterative Reasoning in
Action: The Case of the Colonel Blotto Game," with Ayala Arad, postdoctoral fellow in Behavioral Economics.
Evans Hall, room 648. http://www.tau.ac.il/~aradayal/blotto.pdf.
Tuesday, Oct. 30th, 12:30-2 pm Health Services Research Colloquium. “Serving the Mentally Ill in Primary Carebased Medical Home” Marisa E. Domino, Professor, Health, Policy & Management, University of North
Carolina. ~ 714C University Hall
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 4-6 PM. BacPop. Simon Szreter (History and Public Policy, Cambridge University), “Estimates
of the population prevalence of venereal disease in modern English history before the Great War: comparing
the 1770s with the 1910s.”Aaron Wildavsky Room. 2538 Channing, SW Corner of Bowditch and Channing,
Wednesday October 31 | 3:40-5 p.m. Geography Department Colloquium: “Housing and Health: A Social
Ecological Perspective on the United States Foreclosure Crisis,” Kathey Newman, Rutgers University | 575
McCone Hall
Friday, November 2, 2012, 12 - 1 p.m., Labor Lunch: "On the Effects of Youth Employment Subsidies: Evidence
from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Chile" Tomas Rau Binder, Universidad Catolica de Chile. Evans Hall,
room 648.
NIH GRANTS
There is an RFI (request for information) from NIH regarding Centers of Excellence for Environmental Hazards
and Health Disparities. Please contact me if this is of interest. I will be convening a discussion group to see if
we can be ready for the grant application when it is released. For more information, see:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-MD-13-002.html.
GRANTS
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality is inviting proposals from "new scholars" (or recent PhDs no
earlier than 2005): for its Hispanic Poverty and Inequality Grant Competition. Proposals are due Dec. 15, 2012.
See http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/hispanic_rfp.html.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
BORDERS Awards in Immigration Research, 2013. The National Center for Border Security and Immigration
(BORDERS), a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center of Excellence (COE) led by The University of
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Arizona, is dedicated to the development of innovative technologies, proficient processes, and effective
policies that will help protect our Nation’s borders and enhance long-term understanding of immigration
dynamics. For more information,
http://www.borders.arizona.edu/cms/announcements/borders-awards-immigration-research-2013-callproposals-due-november-9-2012
The National Center for Border Security and Immigration (BORDERS), a Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) Center of Excellence (COE) led by The University of Arizona, is dedicated to the development of
innovative technologies, proficient processes, and effective policies that will help protect our Nation’s borders
and enhance long-term understanding of immigration dynamics.
CALL FOR PAPERS
A special issue of Journal of Family Issues on men's family involvement and the Second Demographic
Transition. General Submission Guidelines: Articles should be no longer than 25 pages (including tables, notes,
and references) and should be formatted according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association (6th ed.) Submissions are due by March 1, 2013. To facilitate the review process, manuscripts
should be submitted electronically to frances_goldscheider@brown.edu. In addition, three hard copies should
be mailed to: Frances Goldscheider, 2737 Devonshire Pl, NW, Apt. 423, Washington, DC 20008. (nb: I’m an
occasional reviewer for JFI and would be happy to read over a paper as if I were reviewing it. Fran
Goldscheider was one of my dissertation advisers and is eminently approachable if you have questions.).
Write to me for the flyer detailed Call for Papers if interested.
Population Research and Policy Review is seeking papers for a special issue that explores population issues
relating to sexual minority status. The call for papers will close on November 8, 2012. See the attached
announcement for information on how to submit a paper. For all inquiries on this special issue please contact
Bridget Gorman (bkgorman@rice.edu ) and Justin Denney (Justin.denney@rice.edu ).
XXVII International Population Conference: OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. Deadline to submit extended to 31
October 2012. Abstract Submissions to the 27th International Population Conference to be held in Busan,
Korea is now open. This email provides tips and instructions for submitting your abstract for the Conference.
Please submit your abstracts as early as possible so as not to overload the new software and website on the
final day. For more information: Conference website: http://busan2013.iussp.org/
Call for papers: http://busan2013.iussp.org/callforpapapersEN.pdf
List of sessions with cross-listed sessions from other themes:
http://busan2013.iussp.org/IPC2013_Busan_ListofSessions_Call_English.pdf
GRADUATE STUDENTS
AAPOR Student Paper Competition. Due January 28, 2013. papers in any field related to the study of public
opinion, broadly defined; or to the theory and methods of survey research, including statistical techniques
used in such research. For additional information, please consult the Call for Conference Participation on the
2013 Annual Conference web page:
Graduate and Undergraduate Mini-grant Program – 2012-2013: The Center for Right-Wing Studies invites UC
Berkeley graduate and undergraduate students to apply for small grants to assist with the development of
student research projects on issues related to right-wing movements in the U.S. and other regions of the
world. Applications are due by 4pm on Friday, November 16. Download an application here.
http://crws.berkeley.edu/mini-grants
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October 22, 2012
Hi everybody,
We like to let others know of your accomplishments, so it’s time to toot your own horn: Have you won any
awards, been appointed to any prestigious organizations or received some other honor? Let me know if you
haven’t already.
In NIH grants, one of the most important documents is actually the official vita document known as the
biosketch. It establishes you and other investigators as experienced and knowledgeable in the field through
the personal statement about how the project is a logical one for the researcher given his or her background,
training and career of accomplishments. The second important source of evidence is the list of publications.
NIH reviewers don’t want to see all publications, just enough of the ‘right’ ones to make the point. For senior
scholars that may mean pruning for more than one hundred articles and books. Recently I verified with NIH
that while they recommend that you keep the number of publications (with a preference for peer-reviewed
articles) to just 15 IT IS NOT A REQUIREMENT. If you have 18, not a problem, but make sure they are relevant
and that leaving them out would noticeably short-sell you or a collaborator. Not sure which one is best? In
addition to the relevance of the topic itself, go by primacy of authorship, prestige of publication, and recency.
Events and announcements follow,
-Leora
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EVENTS
Wednesday, October 24, 12-1 PM, Demography Brown Bag: Girls Can Work Anything Now: Generational
Change and Schemas of Women’s Work in Cairo. Maia Sieverding (Sociology and Demography, UC Berkeley),
Demography Seminar room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. Cookies, Snickers Bars® and refreshments served.
Monday October 22, 2-3:30pm. Sociology Colloquium: in 402 Barrows Hall. “Looking Beyond the Election:
The Shape of America’s Future” A panel presentation by:
-Mike Hout on widening educational and economic inequality
-Margaret Weir on policy formation in an era of political stalemate
-Irene Bloemraad on how immigration alters the political landscape
Monday Oct 22nd, 1:00pm – 2:30pm Data, Society and Inference Seminar. Streamlined from Stanford in 330
Blum Hall. Speaker: Donald Rubin (Harvard Statistics) “Evaluating the Effect of Training on Wages in the
Presence of Noncompliance, Nonemployment, and Missing Outcome Data”
Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 4-5:30 p.m. “Health Benefits of the Non-Health Safety Net”, Hilary Hoynes, UC
Davis. Evans Hall, room 648. Data, Society and Inference Seminar
Wednesday, October 24 | 4-5:30 p.m. “The Four Faces of TANF: Aiding a Few, Neglecting the Many” Jane
Mauldon, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, UCB. Wildavsky Conference
Room, Location: 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Friday, October 26 12-1:30 p.m. |The Politics of Precaution: “Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental
Risks in Europe and the United States” with David Vogel, Political Science. 223 Moses Hall
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October 14, 2012
Hi everybody,
It’s worth while mentioning that federal budget issues affect federal funding for research. NIH just released an
announcement that existing non-competing grants would be reduced by 10% until the foreseeable future
because they are now ‘operating under a Continuing Resolution’ (see
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-13-002.html).
Despite that, all is not dire: Myron Gutmann, Assistant Director for the National Science Foundation's (NSF)
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) directorate, on September 27 issued a “Dear Colleague” letter
on Interdisciplinary Research to announce several new funding initiatives for interdisciplinary research in the
social and behavioral sciences. The complete letter is at
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12123/nsf12123.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click.
The writing on the wall: Doing your own thing within the discipline is all well and good, but federal (and
Foundation) funding is increasingly available for those who reach outside and create valuable synergies. The
NSF funding endeavors to fund three kinds of efforts (a) large research projects, (b) create networking
opportunities for interdisciplinary teams, and (c) foster postdoctoral research fellowships.
Events and announcements follow,
-Leora
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EVENTS
Wednesday, October 17, 12-1 PM, Demography Brown Bag: Nicholas Wilson (Economics, Williams College).
Demography Seminar room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. Cookies, Snickers Bars® and refreshments served.
TODAY: Monday Oct 15th, 1pm – 2:30pm. Data, Society and Inference Seminar: Berkeley (Lee Fleming, Jas
Sekhon) and Stanford (Guido Imbens) are proud to present: Jure LeskovecJure Leskovec (Stanford Computer
Science), “Computational Perspectives on Social Phenomena: How status and reputation shape human
evaluations.“ Blum Hall 330 - Lunch will be provided.
Monday, October 15, 12-1: Postponed: UCData Resource Series, featuring J.Merrill Shanks discussing the
Survey Documentation & Analysis (SDA) program and software has been postponed, and will be re-scheduled
for a date in November..
Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 12:20 - 2 p.m. “Assessing Pent-Up Demand Among the Uninsured:Lessons Learned
from the Health Care Coverage Initiatives,” with Dylan H. Roby, PhD, Director, Health Economics and
Evaluation Research Program, Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management, UCLA Fielding School of
Public Health. 714C University Hall. Draft paper: http://itup.org/wpcontent/uploads/downloads/2012/08/Roby.pdf
Thursday October 18 | 3-5:30 p.m. “The Best and the Brightest: Canadian Lessons on Attracting and Retaining
Immigrant Talent in a Globalized World” Speaker: Irene Bloemraad, Canadian Studies Program. Lecture
followed by reception. In partnership with the Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco/Silicon Valley.
Canada has an impressive record in welcoming and integrating immigrants through its immigration and
diversity policies. What lessons might a country like Canada offer the United States or other nations? What
problems might Canada face in the future? RSVP required: RSVP info: RSVP by October 12 [but try anyhow]
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by calling Rita Ross at 510-642-0531, or by emailing Rita Ross at rjross@berkeley.edu. | Moses Hall, 223, IIS
Conference Room.
Call for Papers
Call for Papers for the Eighth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and the call for
submissions to the peer-reviewed International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. The Social Sciences
Conference will be held 30 July - 1 August 2013 at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. For more
details visit: http://thesocialsciences.com/the-conference. Proposals for paper presentations, workshops,
round tables or colloquia are invited that address issues through one of the following categories:
Theme 1: Social and Community Studies
Theme 2: Civic and Political Studies
Theme 3: Cultural Studies
Theme 4: Global Studies
Theme 5: Environmental Studies
Theme 6: Organizational Studies
Theme 7: Educational Studies
Theme 8: Communication
The deadline for early proposal submissions is 21 December 2012. Proposals must be submitted by this date to
qualify for the early conference registration rate and other conference benefits.
Conference Registration must be completed and paid by 30 January 2013 to be eligible for the discounted early
registration rate. Other proposal submission deadlines are posted on the website at:
http://thesocialsciences.com/the-conference/call-for-papers.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
IUSSP Announcement - XXVII International Population Conference, Busan, Korea, 26-31 August 2013.:
Deadline to submit extended to 31 October 2012.
Conference website: http://busan2013.iussp.org/
Call for papers: http://busan2013.iussp.org/callforpapapersEN.pdf
List of sessions with cross-listed sessions from other themes:
http://busan2013.iussp.org/IPC2013_Busan_ListofSessions_Call_English.pdf.
October 7, 2012
Hi everybody,
The University has been going through a variety of organizational changes to save money, and as the territory
changes, some might feel that they don’t know who to turn to for help. But if comes to help with grants (and
lots of other things research-related), have no fear, you still have plenty of help. If you need ideas for funders,
a go-to person for any of those questions that come up, examples or templates of grant application
documents, help figuring out new rules and regulations (e.g., the new financial conflict-of-interest statements),
ideas for how to manage a conference – whatever! – just drop me an email. If I don’t know I’ll find out for you.
One of the new features of the Popcenter this year is visiting scholars. We have two such visitors, Martin Kohli
from Switzerland and at the European University Institute (he was a co-author of the recent publication about
life expectancy I mentioned two weeks ago). His research interests are life course, aging, family and
population. His website is:
http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/PoliticalAndSocialSciences/People/Professors/Kohli.aspx. Our
second visitor this year is Christine Tichit, from France and affiliated with INED. While in Berkeley, she is
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working with Barbara Abrams to initiate a comparative study of France-USA on food socialization in families,
from child cohorts data, starting by comparing perinatal nutrition.. Her main research interests are:
Construction of children feeding practices in the context of primary socialization (ELFE Child Cohort); food
acculturation by migration ; health and food inequalities (SIRS Cohort : Health and Social Inequalities) ; using
both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Both were given office space in Popcenter offices in ISSI.
Events and announcements follow,
-Leora
Ps: I’ll be on vacation Monday and Tuesday, Oct 8-9.
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EVENTS
Wednesday, October 10, 12-1 PM, Demography Brown Bag: Willa Friedman (Economics, UC Berkeley),
Antiretroviral Access and Behavior Change. Demography Seminar room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. Cookies,
Snickers Bars® and refreshments served.
Monday, October 8, 2012 (2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.) Faculty Research Symposium: Neighborhoods, Infectious
Diseases and Health. Professors Mahasin Mujahid and Lee Riley. Location: 214B Wurster Hall.
Monday October 8, 2-3:30pm. Sociology Colloquium: Andrew Perrin, “'Since This is the Editorial Section I
Intend to Express My Opinion': Assembling a Mediated Public in Letters to the Editor” (a demographic analysis)
in 402 Barrows Hall.
Monday, October 8, 12-1: UCData Resource Series. Kevin Koy will be discussing the Geospatial Innovation
Facility (GIF) at Berkeley. Wildavsky room of ISSI, in the Anna Head complex at Channing & Bowditch. (Light
refreshments and snacks provided).
Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Development Lunch: "Certified to Migrate: Property Rights and
Migration in Rural Mexico", Kyle Emerick, UC Berkeley. Evans Hall, room 648.
Wednesday, October 10 | 4-5:30 p.m. The Unequal End-Game: How Culture and Structure Shape Our Final
Years, Corey M. Abramson, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the
University of California, San Francisco and Research Associate at the Center for Ethnographic Research at the
University of California, Berkeley. Wildavsky Conference Room, Location: 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA
94720
Wednesday, October 10 | 4-5:30 p.m. Colloquium: From Promise to Practice - The Human Rights to Water and
Sanitation | Speaker: Inga Winkler, Legal Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right for Safe
Drinking Water and Sanitation & Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley, School of Law, 110 Barrows Hall.
Thursday, October 11 | 4-5:30 p.m. Cohort Effects and Attitudes Towards Immigration, Speaker: Dr. Marisa
Abrajano, Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego. Location: Shorb House, 2547 Channing
Way.
Thursday, October 11 | 12-1 p.m. SPH Faculty Research Seminar presents Dr. Cheri Pies – “Bringing Together
What We Know: Addressing Infant Mortality Through Best Babies Zone.” 110 Barker Hall.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012, 2 - 4 p.m.,Seminar: Labor Economics. "University Production Functions and the
Choice of College Major: Evidence from California" Speaker: V. Joseph Hotz, Duke University, Evans Hall, room
648. Download paper: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/moretti/e251_f12/hotz.pdf
Thursday, October 12, 12-1 PM. Labor Lunch. "Do 'Broken Windows' Matter? Identifying Dynamic Spilloversin
Criminal Behavior": Vikram Maheshri, University of Houston, Evans Hall, room 648. Download paper:
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/card/laborlunch/maheshri.pdf
Save the Date
Monday, October 29, 2012 ,12:00 – 1:30 p.m. CDT. AAPOR Professional Development Webinar"Thoughts on
Working Across Research Sectors During One's Career"
November 29-30: The 2012 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) will be
held November 29-30 at UC Berkeley. SEEDEC highlights the use of laboratory-based experimental economics
methods for research in developing countries. Register by Tuesday October 30th by emailing Jane Zhang at
janezhang@ust.hk.
FUNDING
Proposals Invited for Glenn/American Federation for Aging Research Breakthroughs in Gerontology Award.
Two awards of $200,000 will be made to full-time faculty at the rank of assistant professor or higher at
nonprofit institutions in the U.S. for research that offers significant promise of transformative discoveries in
the biology of aging. Deadline: December 17, 2012
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows Program Announces Call for Applications. Up to six
one-year fellowship awards of up to $165,000 will be made to exceptional midcareer health professionals and
behavioral and social scientists with an interest in health and healthcare policy...Deadline: November 14, 2012
GRADUATE STUDENT FUNDING
Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy 2012 Grants Available. Fifteen grants each year, of $7,500 each, for
policy related research in the social sciences, including evaluation research. Applicants are not required to be
US citizens or residents, but must be PhD candidates with an approved dissertation proposal by their faculty.
Applications are due January 31, 2013. Visit http://www.horowitz-foundation-org <http://www.horowitzfoundation-org/> for more information.
Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues - 2012 - 2013 Graduate and Undergraduate
Mini-grant Program. UC Berkeley graduate and undergraduate students are invited to apply for grants to assist
with the development of student research projects on issues affecting Native American communities in the
U.S. today. For details, visit: http://crnai.berkeley.edu/research/mini-grants * DEADLINE: 4pm on Friday,
October 19, 2012
September 23, 2012
Hi everybody,
The nature of data and the technology to use them has evolved rapidly over the last ten years. If you’ve been
feeling a bit left behind (or have students who might want cutting edge competence) then at the bottom of
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this Weekly News are several courses offered by UC DATA and the nascent D-Lab, which will support data use
of all kinds (and I mean all kinds) that might be useful to social and behavioral scientists.
One is a Coursera offering on Social Network Analysis. Other workshops provide introduction to important
data sources.
This week the Human Mortality Database was in a New York Times feature story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/us/life-expectancy-for-less-educated-whites-in-us-isshrinking.html?ref=todayspaper
(or tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/9a6zpfz), “Life Spans Shrink for Least-Educated Whites in the U.S.”
Several small dissertation grants as well as the usual events and other announcements follow. Have a great
week, Leora
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Events
Wednesday, Sept 26, 12 noon to 1 PM. Demography Brown Bag “Planning for ICPD + 20: What's Going On?
(ICPD is the International Conference on Population and Development)”, Adrienne Germain (President
Emerita, International Women's Health Coalition and Laureate, 2012 United Nations Population Award),.
Cookies and refreshments served. Demography Seminar room, 2232 Piedmont Ave.
Monday, September 24 | 2-3:30 p.m. |
Seminar: Public Finance. "Informal Labor and the Cost of Social Programs: Evidence from 15 years of
Unemployment Insurance in Brazil", Featured Speaker: Francois Gerard, UC Berkeley
648 Evans Hall
Monday, Sept 24. Noon-1pm. UC DATA Series: Topic: Statewide Database Karin Mac Donald, Director of the
Statewide Database and the Election Administration Research Center at University of California Berkeley Law
School. Visit: http://ucdata.berkely.edu url for more information. The “Data Resources @Berkeley” seminars,
are a series of lunchtime seminars which highlight and showcase exemplary local or locally developed (UC
Berkeley) data, labs, tools and resources of interest to social scientists. Location: Wildavsky room of ISSI, in
the Anna Head complex at Channing & Bowditch.
Wed, September 26 | 12-1 p.m. CITRIS talk: The Online Revolution: High-Quality Education for Everyone.
Speaker/Performer: Andrew Ng, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310,
Banatao Auditorium
Thursday, Sept 27 4-5:30pm, CLPR Colloquia Speaker Series: (1) Araceli Vázquez, "Nothing Beats a Bullet Like a
Job: A Look at Our Criminal Justice System", (2) Mario López, "Affordability in Higher Education", and (3) Isabel
Cortés, "PrePaid Debit Cards: Peril or Benefits for Communities of Color?". Shorb House Conference Room,
2547 Channing Way
Friday, Sept 28. Colloquium 4 p.m. | “Bargaining with Kinship: Chosonjok Migrant Mothers in the Age of Korea
Wind” Speaker: Caren Freeman, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia. Institute of East Asian
Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)
Friday, September 28, 2012, , "Dependent and Deportable: The Neoliberal Politics of Immigrant Women’s
Health Care" Lisa Park, Department of Sociology and Director, Asian American Studies Program University of
Minnesota. :
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Letters of Intent Invited for Ellison Medical Foundation/AFAR Postdoctoral Fellows in Aging Research Program.
Postdoctoral fellows are invited to apply for one-year grants of $47,114 to $55,670 for aging research projects
and to help them become established in the field of aging.... There is a great social, medical and economic
challenge of historic proportions due to the dramatic increase in life expectancy.
The program was developed to address the current concerns about an adequate funding base for postdoctoral
fellows (both MDs and PhDs) who conduct research in the fundamental mechanisms of aging. Postdoctoral
fellows at all levels of training are eligible. Up to fifteen one-year fellowships will be awarded. Deadline:
October 17, 2012 (Letters of Intent). For more information, visit:
http://www.afar.org/research/funding/postdoc/
GRADUATE STUDENT FUNDING
IBER Small Dissertation Grants: The Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER—soon to morph into
the Institute for Integrative Social Science) is pleased to announce the availability of small, donor-funded
Dissertation Research Grants (aka mini-grants) to UC Berkeley Graduate Students in the Ph.D. programs in
Agricultural & Resource Economics, Business, Demography, and Economics. The maximum award is $1,000.
NB: Students applying for support for Xlab projects should direct their request to the Xlab. Grants may be used
to cover specific out-of-pocket expenses associated with gathering data, traveling to research sites, or
conducting interviews in support of a Ph.D. dissertation. Grant awards are limited to one per academic year
and two per life-time. Preference will be given to those who have not previously received an IBER mini-grant.
Deadline: October 15, 2012. No awards will be made before that date. Applicants can expect a response by
October 25th.
Procedures: Download and fill out the application form. It will ask applicants to do the following:
1.
Write a short (2 pages or less) proposal
2.
Have your advisor write a brief (1 page or less) letter of support, indicating
why s/he supports your request as essential to you doctoral research and whether s/he feels you have
adequately explored other possible funding sources.
3.
Items 1 and 2 should be sent BY YOUR ADVISOR, along with the application, to:
Bob Barde, Deputy Director, Institute of Business and Economic Research, 371 Stephens Hall, MC=1922.
barde@haas.berkeley.edu Questions can be addressed to Deputy Director Bob Barde. IBER also maintains a list
of present and past Dissertation Research Award recipients and their projects.
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation’s 2013 doctoral dissertation fellowship:
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and
significant study of religious and ethical values in all areas of human endeavor. Eligible proposals have religious
or ethical values as a central concern, and come from fields within the humanities and social sciences.
Ph.D. and Th.D. candidates who will be in the final year of dissertation writing during the 2013-2014 academic
year may apply. The stipend for the Newcombe Fellowship is $25,000 for a twelve-month period of
dissertation writing. Deadline is November 15, 2012. Please see the website for further information
www.woodrow.org/newcombe.
AWARDS
PAPOR Student Paper Award: Calling for papers for The Pacific Chapter of the American Association for Public
Opinion Research's (PAPOR) Seventh Annual Student Paper Competition. Thewinner will receive
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4.
a cash award of $500
5.
travel expenses to the December 6-7, 2012 PAPOR Annual Conference in San
Francisco, CA
6.
a spot on the conference program to present the paper
Second prize winner will receive
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a cash award of $250
Both winners receive one year free membership in PAPOR recognition at the conference from the top public
opinion scholars and professionals of PAPOR. In addition all entries will be considered for the Poster Session at
the Conference, so students will have a chance to present their research.?? Papers related to survey, public
opinion, or market research are welcomed. Specific topics sought include:
substantive findings about public opinion, statistical techniques, methodological issues, new technologies or
methodologies, or theoretical issues in the formation, change or measurement of public opinion. ??We
encourage entries from any fields that employ survey and opinion research, including political science,
communication, psychology, sociology, marketing as well as survey methods. ??Eligible papers will be
authored by graduate or undergraduate students, currently attending colleges and universities in PAPOR's
geographic region. Entries should not exceed 30 pages total.
The entries will be judged by a panel of survey and public opinion researchers selected from PAPOR's
membership. If a winning paper is co-authored, travel fees will be paid for one author, but conference
registration will be provided for all authors. ??Email your paper by October 15th to: Philip Brenner, PAPOR
Student Paper Chair at studentpaper@papor.org. Please include your name, mailing address, telephone
number, and e-mail address. Feel free to email in advance with questions about the submission process. ??For
more information about the conference and how to apply, please see
http://www.papor.org/studentaward.html, or visit our website:
http://www.papor.org/
PAA Awards: Please consider nominating a colleague for one of the 2013 PAA Awards.
The awards are:
Robert J. Lapham Award. This award is presented for distinguished contributions to population research, the
application of demographic knowledge to improve the human condition, and service to the population
profession.
Harriet B. Presser Award. This award honors a record of sustained contribution in gender and demography.
Irene B. Taeuber Award. This award is granted in recognition of either an unusually original or important
contribution to the scientific study of population or an accumulated record of exceptionally sound and
innovative research.
Dorothy S. Thomas Award. This award is presented annually for the best graduate student paper on the
interrelationships among social, economic and demographic variables.
Click on the links above or visit the Awards page on the PAA website
(www.popassoc.org) for more information about these awards, how to submit a nomination, and deadlines for
submission.
WORKSHOP and TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
1. [D-Lab]: Social Network Analysis: a Shadow Course Course Description (www.coursera.org/course/sna)
Taught at the University of Michigan and available at coursera.org, this course uses Gephi to teach network
analysis through “online interactive demonstrations and hands-on analysis of real-world data sets will focus on
a range of tasks: from identifying important nodes in the network, to detecting communities, to tracing
information diffusion and opinion formation.”
(Shadow) Course Format
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The course has two parts: an online, interactive lecture and an in-person discussion section. Each week, the
class will watch relevant online lecture videos, each between 8 and 12 minutes in length, that contain 1-2
integrated quiz questions.
Taught by a team of graduate students at the Social Science D-Lab, the “shadow course” will meet every Friday
from 3pm to 5pm in the Doe Computer Lab (105 Doe) to watch the lectures, conduct hands-on exercises,
review the material, answer questions, and explore topics relevant to the participants’ own research.
About the Instructor
Lada Adamic is Associate Professor in the School of Information and the Center for the Study of Complex
Systems at the University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford and has taught
"Networks: Theory and Application"
there since 2006. She has received an NSF Career Award to fund her research on the social dynamics of
information, and a University of Michigan Henry Russell award in recognition of her teaching and research.
Course Schedule (lectures available online the preceding Monday; lectures begin 9/24) Week 1 (9/28): What
are networks and what use is it to study them?
Week 2 (10/5): Random network models: Erdos-Renyi and Barabasi-Albert Week 3: (10/12) Network centrality
Week 4: (10/19) Community Week 5: (10/26) Small world network models, optimization, strategic network
formation and search Week 6: (11/2) Contagion, opinion formation, coordination and cooperation Week 7:
(11/9) Cool and unusual applications of SNA Week 8: (11/16) SNA and online social networks Recommended
Background No math or programming prerequisites for the class. Optional assignments use the R statistical
programming language. The course will use Gephi, an open-source network analysis tool available online at
www.gephi.org/ If you are interested in attending this 8-week series, please email dlab@berkeley.edu to
register and then enroll online at www.coursera.org/course/sna
2. “Data Resources @Berkeley” a series of lunchtime seminars offered by UC DATA, the DLab, and ISSI. These
seminars highlight and showcase exemplary local or locally developed (UC Berkeley) data, labs, tools and
resources of interest to social scientists. Seminars will take place from noon to 1pm in the Wildavsky room of
ISSI, in the Anna Head complex at Channing & Bowditch. (Light refreshments and snacks provided). This event
is free, wheelchair accessible and open to the public.
For wheelchair access please call 510-642-0813 one day prior to the event. Go to www.ucdata.berkeley.edu
for more information.
Next Monday, Sept 24, Noon - 1pm, will be the second talk in this series, with Karin Mac Donald, Director of
the Election Administration Research Center discussing the Statewide Database.
The Statewide Database (SWDB) is the redistricting database for the state of California. In 2001 and 2011,
these data were used for state legislative and local redistricting following the decennial Census as mandated
by law. Data collection and processing for the redistricting are ongoing tasks conducted over a ten year period
of time, starting with the collection of the census at the beginning of each decade.
With each election between redistrictings, updated data sets are available as a free, public resource as soon
they are processed. The Statewide Database emerged from a database that was originally created for
California's State Assembly, to be used in the redistricting of 1981. In 1993, the California Legislature voted to
house the database permanently at the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at U.C. Berkeley. In 2009, the
Statewide Database moved to a new home in an off-campus building at Berkeley Law.http://
swdb.berkeley.edu
Future Data Lab seminars:
Monday, October 1, noon - 1pm; Shachar Kariv “The XLab” [http://xlab.berkeley.edu] Monday, October 8,
noon - 1pm Kevin Koy “Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF)”
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Monday, October 15, noon - 1 pm (preliminary) J. Merrill Shanks, “Survey Documentation & Analysis (SDA)”
[http://sda.berkeley.edu] Monday, October 22, noon- 1pm, Jon Stiles, “California Census Research Data Center
(CCRDC).”
Monday, October 29, noon - 1 pm (preliminary), Paul Waddell, “UrbanSim OR Bay Area Land Use data”
Monday, November 19, noon - 1 pm (preliminary). John Wilmoth, “Resource: Human Mortality Database The
Human Mortality Database (HMD){http://www.mortality.org]
September 16, 2012
Hi everybody,
We’re pleased to announce that Popcenter affiliate Professor Brenda Eskenazi received the John Goldsmith
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Epidemiology from the International Society of
Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), a society of more than 1,000 scientists worldwide. The premiere award of
the ISEE honors environmental epidemiologists who serve as models of excellence in research, unwavering
promotion of environmental health, and integrity. Eskenazi, the Jennifer and Brian Maxwell Professor of
Maternal and Child Health and Epidemiology, received the award in part for her contributions to the field of
environmental epidemiology through her work founding and directing the Center for Environmental Research
and Children’s Health. She has conducted numerous studies worldwide on environmental exposures to
children.
We don’t just tout the work of our faculty but also our future: demography graduate student Alma Vega has
been featured in a recent Graduate Division article on NSF grant recipients at UC Berkeley:
http://grad.berkeley.edu/news/egrad/september-2012/nsf_fellowships/
Events and other announcements follow. Have a great week,
Shana tovah,
Leora
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Events
Wednesday, September 19, 12-1p.m. Demography Brown Bag: Maggie Frye. For details about the talk, contact
Monique; Monique@demog.berkeley.edu. Demography Seminar room, 2232 Piedmont Ave.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 4:10 PM “Obama, the Tea Party, and the Future of American Politics:
Jefferson Memorial Lecture” with Theda Skocpol, Harvard University. Alumni House, Toll Room
Monday, September 17, 2012 , 4-5:30 PM. Seminar 271, Development: "Credit Constraints and the Racial Gap
in Post-Secondary Education in South Africa," with David Lam, University of Michigan. 648 Evans Hall
Tuesday, September 18 | 12:40-2 p.m. |”The Impact of Hospital Unions on Hospital Staffing, Wages, and
Outcomes”Joanne Spetz, Professor, Faculty Researcher, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies &
School of Nursing , UCSF | Colloquium | 714C University Hall. RSVP recommended: dions@berkeley.edu.
Funding
New OpNET Program grant: Basic social and behavioral research on culture, health, and wellbeing (R24)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-LM-12-002.html. This grant is for infrastructure support to
develop, strengthen, and evaluate transdisciplinary approaches and methods for basic behavioral and/or social
research on the relationships among cultural practices/beliefs, health, and wellbeing. It’s due December 17,
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which means we’d have to start on it very soon. Both Bob Barde and I are ready to support this effort. A
multidisciplinary team working on a general approach to understand the relationships between culture, health
and well-being. For example, about pets and (as) family. It’s $125k-$150k per year, so summer months and a
one-day conference to share research results over two years. Eminently doable. I may even have a a
sociologist-collaborator to work with, though not at Cal.
NIDA Grant: HIV/AIDS, Drug Use, and Vulnerable Populations in the US (available as an R21, R01). This grants
are designed to foster research to identify the role(s) that drug abuse plays in fueling the epidemic in
vulnerable groups (racial/ethnic minorities, men who have sex with men (MSM), youth) in the United States
and to develop effective interventions to prevent new infections and to improve the health and well-being of
those living with HIV/AIDS. This FOA will support studies in vulnerable populations to: 1) understand the
contribution of drug abuse (both injection and non-injection) to the acquisition and/or transmission of HIV; 2)
study disease progression and disease outcomes; 3) develop and/or improve prevention and treatment
interventions, particularly comprehensive, integrated interventions; 4) improve the availability, delivery and
quality of evidence-based prevention and treatment services across a variety of settings; and 5) address
organizational, structural, and/or community level factors including social, drug-using, and sexual networks
associated with health disparities. Visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-281.html for the
R01 and http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-12-280.html for the R21.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Call for proposals - Groves conference - Boston - June 2-6. The Groves conference is soliciting paper and
workshop proposals for presentation at the Annual Groves Conference for Marriage and Families, which
address the interface of families and the criminal justice system. The conference theme addresses a broad area
of justice scholarship and includes topics such as: the effects of incarceration on families, social policy, prisoner
reentry, children of incarcerated parents in the social welfare system, jail/prison diversion programs,
restorative justice, undocumented immigration, the aging of incarcerated populations, and mental health and
incarceration. Proposals that deal with families and justice in other related areas will also be considered.
Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2012. For more information, please visit: www.ncfr.org/news/callproposals-groves-conference
Penn State’s 7th annual De Jong Lecture in Social Demography will be held on the University Park campus on
November 12. Dr. Emilio Parrado (University of Pennsylvania) will present, “The social process of Mexican
women's migration to the US: An intersectionality approach.” In spite of the fact that women comprise over
forty-six percent of the Mexican immigrant population, research on the social process of Mexican migration to
the US remains dominated by the male experience. Building on intersectionality theory Parrado and his coauthor, Dr. Chenoa Flippen, elaborate on how gender, family, and migration dynamics intersect to produce
divergent processes of Mexican migration to the US for men and women. Discussants include Dr. Katherine
Donato (Vanderbilt University) and Dr. Jennifer Van Hook (Penn State). For more information and to register
for the free conference, visit http://www.pop.psu.edu/events/2012/djl/2011-deJong-lecture
September 9, 2012
Hi everybody,
The deadline for submissions to the PAA is September 21. The PAA will be in New Orleans April 11-13 2013 so
you want to go. You only have to submit a 150 word abstract!! Visit
http://www.populationassociation.org/sidebar/annual-meeting/ for more information.
It’s also time to remind people – or inform new arrivals to Cal – that the Popcenter website has information
about grants and other research resources. Do check it out: http://popcenter.berkeley.edu.
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Speaking of newly arrived researchers, I’d like to introduce to you Dr. Daniel (Danny) Schneider, who is a
Robert Wood Johnson Fellow and will transition to assistant professor in Sociology. Danny is a family
sociologist and demographer whose research focuses on the family as a key mechanism in the production of
race, class, and gender inequalities. The first strand of his work centers on wealth, marriage, and inequality,
and traces how the unequal distribution of wealth by race and class creates disparities in marriage. The
second strand of my research examines how gender inequalities in market work reverberate in the home,
principally in the gendered performance of housework. The third strand of my work examines how poor
families manage their finances both in the United States and abroad. While he and his family are here in
Berkeley, his website is still at Princeton – visit it for more information: http://scholar.princeton.edu/djschnei.
Events and other announcements follow. Have a great week,
Leora
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Events
Wednesday, September 12, 12-1p.m. Demography Brown Bag: Luis Rosero-Bixby (School of Statistics and
Health Research Institute (INISA), University of Costa Rica), “Biomarkers and Mortality in Elderly Costa Ricans”
Demography Seminar room, 2232 Piedmont Ave.
Wednesday September 12, 12-2p.m. Danielle Lussier, Grinnell College, “Attitudes Toward Gender Inequality
Among Muslims: A Survey Experiment” M. Steven Fish, Political Science Department. 201 Moses.
Monday, September 10, 4-6p.m. Carol Benedict, Professor, Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service and the
Department of History, Georgetown University Bourgeois Decadence or Proletarian Pleasure? Women, Men,
and Smoking in China across the 1949 Divide. IEAS conference room, 6th floor Location: 2223 Fulton Street,
Berkeley, CA 94720(Center for Chinese Studies (CCS), Institute of East Asian Studies)
Monday, September 10, 2-3:30 p.m. Peter Lindert, (University of California, Davis; Department of Economics,
Berkeley Economic History Laboratory) Seminar 211, Economic History: "American Incomes 1774-1860"
597 Evans Hall
Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.,Development Lunch: "The social dilemma of microinsurance: A
framed field experiment on free-riding and cooperation in microcredit groups" Speaker: Berber Kramer,
Tinbergen Institute and VU University Amsterdam,
Evans Hall, room 648.
Thursday, September 13, 12-1p.m. Faculty Research Seminar. Dr. Jennifer Ahern: Her research focuses on
how aspects of people’s communities shape their health and health behaviors.110 Barker Hall.
Thursday, September 13, 2012, 11:10 a.m. - 12:40 p.m., Seminar 235, Financial Economics: "Understanding
Peer Effects in Financial Decisions: Evidence from a Field Experiment." Speaker: Noam Yuchtman, UC Berkeley
Haas School of Business, Cheit Hall, room C210
Friday, September 14, 2012. "The Weight of Uncertainty: Immigration Policies and Emotions", with Leisy
Abrego, Chicana/o Studies, Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies UCLA. 119 Moses Hall ("Harris
Room").
Funding
1. Forward Promise Innovation Grants: Promoting Opportunities for the Health and Success of Young Men of
Color. This grant is a new initiative of the Robert Woods Foundation which aims to improve the health of
middle school-and high school-aged boys and young men of color, as well as their opportunities for success in
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school, work, and life. Grantees will receive awards of up to $500,000 each for up to 30 months. Deadline:
October 10, 2010, 3:00pm EDT. For more information:
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21406&cid=XEM_A6362
2. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research
This research program develops and supports a new generation of creative health policy thinkers and
researchers within the disciplines of economics, political science and sociology by selecting up to nine highly
qualified individuals for two-year fellowships at one of three nationally prominent universities with the
expectation that they will make important research contributions to future U.S. health policy. Scholars will
receive stipends of $89,000 each year from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Foundation. Deadline:
October 16, 2012, 3:00p.m. EDT. For more information:
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21405&cid=XEM_A6362
3. Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO)
HFCO supports research, policy analysis and evaluation projects that provide policy leaders timely information
on health care policy, financing and organization issues. There are two types: small grants for projects
requiring $100,000 or less and projected to take up to 12 months or less and large grants for projects more
than $100,000 and/or projected to take longer than 12 months. Deadline is open. For more information:
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21392&cid=XEM_A6362
Research Opportunities
Understanding Society – new data from the Innovation Panel offer exciting research opportunities.
Data from waves 1 to 4 of the Understanding Society Innovation Panel are now available to download. The
panel is principally used to implement experiments and test questions, procedures and methods in a context
that is similar to the main Understanding Society survey and other household panel surveys. With adults and
young people from 1500 households it has a sample size sufficiently large to enable quantitative evaluation.
Four waves of data have been collected so far, and all are now available to download from the Economic and
Social Data Service.
The first four waves of the panel included innovative studies aiming at improving survey processes, at reducing
non-response, non-response bias and attrition, and examining statistical issues for data analysis. The panel
survey is developed in part through an annual competition in which researchers can propose questions and
experiments. The call for proposals is announced annually in spring. The experiments and methodological tests
that have been carried in waves 1 to 4 are described in the online User Manual. Wave 5 is currently in the field
and includes the world's first testing of online vs face-to-face interviewing on an established face-to-face
sample.
Further information including how to access the data, questionnaires, working papers, methodological
research and experiments can be found on the
Understanding Society website at
www.understandingsociety.org.uk/design.
If you would like to talk to someone about using the data or
would like to subscribe for updates about the Innovation Panel and Understanding Society, email us at
info@understandingsociety.org.uk.
Conference by Center for Sustainable Resource Development: Friday, September 21
Are you interested in climate change, family planning, the status of women, appropriate technologies, African
cultures, or nutrition? If you are, you may want to attend a conference on Friday September 21 hosted by the
Center for Sustainable Resource Development in the College of Natural Resources, Berkeley’s Bixby Center for
Population, Health and Sustainability, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and our African partner, the
African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP).
We call it the OASIS conference (Organizing to Advance Solutions in the Sahel) and it brings together experts
from African, the Berkeley campus and from elsewhere in North America and Europe.
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We are doing a final outreach to UCB students, postdocs, and faculty who are working or doing research in this
area, or for whom the Sahel is an area of particular interest. If you would like to receive the conference
schedule and registration form, please email Claire Norris at cnorris@berkeley.edu by September 14.
For Graduate Students
September 10, 2012, 12:10 - 1 p.m.Seminar E295, Survey of Research: Demography
, Evans Hall, room 597
Speaker: Ronald Lee
September 10, 2012, 1:10 - 2 p.m., Seminar E295, Survey of Research: Development
Evans Hall, room 597
Speakers: Frederico Finan, Bryan Graham, Jeremy Magruder, Ted Miguel, Andres Rodriguez-Clare, Elisabeth
Sadoulet.
September 10, 2012, 2 - 3:30 p.m., Seminar 211, Economic History: "American Incomes 1774-1860" Speaker:
Peter Lindert, UC Davis
Evans Hall, room 597.a
September 4, 2012
Hello Everybody,
Now that the semester is back in full swing, we are back to our work of developing innovative and ideally
interdisciplinary funded research efforts. I would again like to encourage all who are do not regularly attend
talks in other departments and schools to do so at least once this semester. Every week I list seminars and
colloquia of potential interest to Popcenter affiliates: Surely there is one that will appeal to you. And you
never know how another discipline will inform you.
Also, there is always information for your graduate students. Pass it on to them, or have them ask me to put
them on the mailing list .
Events and other announcements follow.
Have a great week,
Leora
EVENTS
Wednesday, September 5, 12-1 PM. Demography Brown Bag: Ryan Edwards (Economics, Queens College and
the Graduate Center, CUNY), “The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Life-Cycle Impacts” Cookies and
refreshments served. Demography Seminar room, 2232 Piedmont Ave.
Tuesday September 4 | 12:40-2 p.m Health Services Research Colloquium: “How Effective are California Public
Health Departments at Preventing Mortality?” with Timothy Brown, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Health, Policy
& Mgmt, SPH. | 714C University Hall
Wednesday, September 511 am - noon, Center for Global Public Health, UC Berkeley CGPH speaker on
mHealth Public Health Solutions in Nicaragua: “eHealth and mHealth Public Health Solutions in LimitedResource Settings: Case studies in Nicaragua” with Heather Zornetzer, MPH (UC Berkeley): Program
Coordinator, ICT for Health, Sustainable Sciences Institute, Nicaragua
434 Barker Hall.
Thursday, Sept. 6, 4-6 PM. Bay Area Colloquium on Population: Aaron Cicourel (Professor Emeritus of
Medicine and Sociology, UC San Diego). Aaron Wildavsky Conference Room, 2538 Channing (SW Corner of
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Bowditch and Channing). Optional get-together for dinner. To RSVP write to Monique Verrier,
Monique@demog.berkeley.edu.
Friday, Sep. 7, 2012, 12-1:30 PM. ARE Dept Seminar: Anna D'Souza, USDA-ERS. “Food Insecurity in Vulnerable
Populations: Coping with food price shocks in Afghanistan,” 201 Giannini Hall.
Friday September 7 | 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Dissertation Talk: Tools and Strategies for Social Data Analysis, Wesley
Willett, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley EECS. 354 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
FUNDING
NIH GRANT Tobacco Control Regulatory Research: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)
encourages biomedical, behavioral, and social science research that informs the development and evaluation
of regulations on tobacco product manufacturing, distribution, and marketing. Three grant vehicles: (1) R03
(small grant – typically secondary data analysis) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-268.html ;
(2) R21 (3-year innovative research) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-266.html.; and (3) R01
(up to 5 year large project) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-267.html
Secondary Analyses and Archiving of Social and Behavioral Datasets in Aging (R03). The purpose of this FOA
is to solicit R03 applications for up to two years for (1) secondary analysis of data on aging in the areas of
psychology, behavioral genetics, economics, demography or (2) archiving and dissemination of data sets to
enable secondary analysis. Due Feb. 14, 2013. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-13009.html
RESEARCH
1. Research Expertise: Why you should update your research expertise listing for the VCR’s website: This
website is handy for finding out who does what research, which facilitates interdisciplinary and
transdisciplinary research collaborations. So take a few minutes and visit
http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty-expertise. Find your profile and then click on the Update Your Profile
button.
2. Immigration data base: One of our earliest pilot grants was to Ilene Bloemraad, who, with graduate student
Catherine Barry, created a database of data sets with immigration variables. This summer we make it much
more searchable. Check it out (and send me helpful comments to improve it or to add another data set):
http://www.popcenter.berkeley.edu/resources/migration_data_sets/data_by_region.php
3. PAA 2013 Submissions due September 21. Visit the website,
http://www.populationassociation.org/sidebar/annual-meeting/ for more information.
ON THE WEB
Webinars: “Integrating Economic Analysis into NIH Funded Research” The purpose of this webinar is to
encourage collaboration between biobehavioral investigators and economists so that the results of clinical
trials and studies are designed to promote appropriate and prompt implementation. Incorporation of health
economics expertise on the effects of financial and organizational incentives and constraints on the behavior
of various stakeholders (including private research and development companies, health care provider
organizations, and patients) can expedite implementation of clinical, behavioral, and organizational
interventions that have been shown in experimental or clinical settings to be effective in promoting health and
well-being.The Webinar will be held on September 11, 2012 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. You must
register in advance to receive the URL for the web meeting. You may register for the webinar at
https://webmeeting.nih.gov/cfhealtheconomics/event/event_info.html.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
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Job Listings List: All students with demog.berkeley.edu accounts (and anyone else who signs up under a
personal account) have access to the archives of the job postings that come out regularly:
http://lists.demog.berkeley.edu/pipermail/jobs/. To sign up for the list, go to:
http://lists.demog.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/jobs.
Applied sociology opportunity for MA-level: The Public Health Prevention Service (PHPS) is a 3-year training
service and fellowship for master’s level health professions, which focuses on public health program
management and provides experience in program planning, implementation, and evaluation by working with
CDC and other state and local health organizations.
http://www.cdc.gov/phps/
http://www.cdc.gov/eis/index.html
Call for Apps- Postdoctoral Fellowships: The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (Pop
Ctr) announces calls for applications for three postdoctoral fellowships all to begin in 2013:
1.The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars 2-year interdisciplinary program.
Application Deadline: September 21, 2012.
For more information, visit: http://www.healthandsocietyscholars.org/; and
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/t
2. The David E. Bell Fellowship: Opportunities for research and leadership training in a flexible, 1 or 2 year nondegree program for researchers and practitioners in the field of population and development. Application
Deadline is November 30, 2012. For more information, visit:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/t
3. The Mortimer Spiegelman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Demographic
or 2013, the Pop Ctr will accept either one fellow for a 12 month appointment or two fellows for a six month
appointment (each). http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/trai
August 26, 2012
Hi everybody,
We are interested increasingly in supporting what NICHD’s Director, Dr. Guttmacher, calls “transdisciplinary”
research, or research that steps outside of disciplinary boundaries for a true synergistic synthesis of
perspectives, thereby expanding our knowledge. Because the literature these days is so expansive, it’s
increasingly too difficult for one scholar to have a solid handle on important facets of a topic. Collaborations
are the new frontier.
To that end, we will be having scholar forums this year, where 2 or 3 panelists from different disciplines will
address a shared topic. Stay tuned and if you have suggestions, please offer them! I will also be posting
events of interest from other centers around campus – not just ISSI, but also CITRIS, BIE (Berkeley Institute of
the Environment) and others. We also will help you find scholars in other disciplines for your innovative
research project.
Events and other announcements follow. Have a great semester!
Leora
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EVENTS
4:15-6 PM, Sept 1, 2011: BacPop (Bay Area Population Colloquium): "Sources of inequality in Africa: A 26country study”, with Alexander Weinreb of UT Austin. After the seminar, those interested generally continue
the discussion of dinner at a nearby restaurant. Please confirm your attendance at the seminar and the dinner
by e-mailing Monique Verrier, Monique@demog.berkeley.edu. Monique will also have a copy of the paper.
The seminar meets in the Aaron Wildavsky Room, 2538 Channing.
August 29 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Seminar: Development and Planning |"The Effects of International Migration on the
Living Standards of Migrant-Source Households in Developing Countries: Evidence from Ethiopian DiversityVisa (DV) Lottery Migrants to the US" , with Teferi Mergo. 608-7 Evans Hall.
September 1 | 8-9 p.m. |"Globaloney: The Dangerous Myths of Globalization", Robert Reich, Professor of
Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy. International House, Chevron Auditorium. Fee.
http://events.berkeley.edu/?event_ID=43590&date=2011-09-01&tab=lectures.
Sept 2 | 12-1 p.m. |Labor Lunch: "The Impact of the 2008 Youth Minimum Wage Reform in New Zealand".
Featured Speaker: Dean Hyslop, Victoria University of Wellington. 608-7 Evans Hall
Climate Change Conference, Oct. 5-6 (co-sponsored by the Popcenter and the Berkeley Institute on the
Environment): Climate change is one of the most important and pressing issues our society faces today.
Understanding climate change and its impact on human health, agricultural production systems, and quality of
life in general is a major research priority, particularly as it relates to the most vulnerable segments of the
population. Researchers are currently helping to develop efficient and timely policies that address mitigation
and adaptation to climate change. The activity is open to the campus community at large. UC Faculty and
researchers are encouraged to participate as panelist in this two day symposium highlighting state of the art
research being conducted on the U.C. Berkeley campus. Space is limited, let us know if you are interested to
attend and/or present your work!
Where: Faculty Club-Seaborg Room
When: October 5 and 6, 2011
Contact: Federico Castillo. Email: f.castillo@berkeley.edu, phone: 510 643 -2748
(flyer attached for redistribution)
CALL FOR PAPERS
PAA due September 23. www.popassoc.org.
Popcenter Pilot Grants accepted any time.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
NIH
Behavioral and Social Genomics of Aging: Opportunities in the Health and Retirement Study (R01)
(PA-11-318) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-11-318.html
The Health and Retirement Study (HRS; see at http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/ ) is a longitudinal, nationally
representative sample of the US population aged 50 years and older (plus spouses) with an oversample of
African and Hispanic Americans and a total sample size of over 20,000. Using funds from the American
Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the HRS is currently conducting genome-wide scans of DNA samples from
approximately 20,000 participants, using the Illumina HumanOmni 2.5 Quad chip. It is anticipated that the
genotype data for the first 13,000 subjects will be released to the public via dbGaP in the Fall of 2011, with
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data from the remaining participants to be released by the end of 2012. This FOA encourages applications
taking advantage of the newly available genetic data to advance our understanding of how genetic, behavioral,
and psychosocial factors affect the health and well-being of older Americans
Economic Research Incentives for Efficient use of Preventive Services (R01)
(RFA-RM-11-012). http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-11-012.html
This FOA solicits R01 applications for economic research on the role of incentive arrangements in promoting
efficient use of preventive services and interventions, specifically considering both costs and health outcomes.
The objective of the research program is to advance general knowledge about how incentives can be
structured to improve both health and cost outcomes through more efficient use of preventive services; it is
not primarily to advance specific knowledge about any particular preventive intervention or prevention of any
particular health condition. This FOA is a component of the Common Fund initiative on Health Economics for
Health Care Reform ( http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/healtheconomics).
Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
(R01: PAR-11-314); http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-314.html
(R21: PAR-11-315): http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-315.html
“Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R01)”) is intended to increase the breadth
and scope of topics that can be addressed with systems science methodologies beyond those encouraged by
existing open FOAs. This FOA calls for research projects that are applied and/or basic in nature (including
methodological and measurement development), have a human behavioral and/or social science focus, and
feature systems science methodologies …. The pathways between the social, economic, and environmental
causes of poor health are complex and interconnected. Models and other novel analytic tools can elucidate
these pathways and relationships and be used to assess the benefits and harms of policy and intervention
options. Examples of potential topics are:
 Study features of complex social/environmental health behavior problems (e.g., physical inactivity,
unhealthy diet, and sun exposure) in order to identify leverage points for intervention.
 Examine multi-level effects of health promotion and disease prevention interventions, for example, to
investigate whether the effects of interventions aimed at the individual level have effects on the
network in which individuals are embedded.
TRAINING
Responsible Conduct of Research Seminar Series, a new year-long series for the entire campus. NIH defines
RCR as "the practice of scientific investigation with integrity. It involves the awareness and application of
established professional norms and ethical principles in the performance of all activities related to scientific
research." The RCR Seminar Series will give graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and staff the
knowledge and tools to guide them through the increasingly complex ethical issues that they will face during
their careers. See the attached flyer for dates and other details. Takes place weekly, Monday at noon, in 177
Stanley Hall.
DATA
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A new article in Science looked at race, ethnicity and R01 success. From the abstract: “We investigated the
association between a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 applicant’s self-identified race or ethnicity
and the probability of receiving an award by using data from the NIH IMPAC II grant database, the Thomson
Reuters Web of Science, and other sources. Although proposals with strong priority scores were equally likely
to be funded regardless of race, we find that Asians are 4 percentage points and black or African-American
applicants are 13 percentage points less likely to receive NIH investigator-initiated research funding compared
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with whites. After controlling for the applicant’s educational background, country of origin, training, previous
research awards, publication record, and employer characteristics, we find that black applicants remain 10
percentage points less likely than whites to be awarded NIH research funding. Our results suggest some
leverage points for policy intervention.” Full text: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6045/1015.full
August 22, 2012
Hello everybody,
Once again we kick off the academic year with many events and announcements.
This fall the Dept of Demography is offering a new course, The Politics of
Population Policies - Demography 260, Time: Monday, 3:30 - 6 p.m. It’s taught by Ruth Dixon-Mueller and
John Wilmoth, and promises to be an important and engaging course. The description is: Controversies about
population trends have been with us since ancient times. Whether it is a question of population growth, high
or low fertility, population aging, or international migration, there have been diverse opinions about whether
current trends are desirable and, if not, about how to alter their trajectories. Such opinions have influenced
events and discussions in the political arena, often leading to government policies with effects (intentional or
not) on various population processes. More details can be found in the class flier:
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/courses/documents/Demog260Fall2012.pdf.
Are you teaching anything of interest to students of population? Let me know and I’ll circulate it.
You may have noticed a slew of emails about new regulations regarding conflict of financial interest. We are in
the process of digesting these in order to develop some clear and streamlined processes, and will let you know
more about this matter soon.
Finally, there will also be a fall newsletter coming out within the next week…be sure to take a look when it’s
circulated.
Events and announcements follow.
Have a great semester,
Leora
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EVENTS
Wednesday, August 29, 12-1 PM. John Wilmoth and Nadine Ouelette (Demography, UC Berkeley), Maximum
human life span: will the records be unbroken? Cookies and refreshments served. Demography seminar
room, 2232 Piedmont Avenue.
Monday, August 27, 2012 | 4-5:30 p.m. Seminar 271, Development: "Trade, Institutions and Ethnic Tolerance:
Evidence from South Asia" Saumitra Jha, Stanford University. 648 Evans Hall. Download paper:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/17235495/complementaritiestoleranceApr2012final.pdf.
Thursday, August 30, 2012, 2-4 PM. Seminar 251, Labor: "Measuring the Effect of the Timing of First Birth"
Jane Leber Herr, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy; Visiting Scholar, NBER | 648 Evans Hall.
Paper:
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/moretti/e251_f12/herr.pdf
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Friday, August 31 | 4-6 p.m. | Colloquium | Trends in Educational Attainment in China over the 20th Century.
With Donald Treiman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus, UCLA; Faculty Associate, California
Center for Population Research, UCLA. Panelist/Discussant: Julian Chow, School of Social Welfare, UC
Berkeley. Location: Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)
Save the Date - Upcoming events
Friday September 21, 2012 Population and Environment Symposium. Join an interdisciplinary team to discuss
the critical reciprocal relationship of demographic factors and the environment. To be held at UC Berkeley. For
more information, contact Claire Norris, cnorris@berkeley.edu, to get on the mailing list about this event.
Upcoming BacPops: http://demog.berkeley.edu/announcements/bacpop.shtml.
GRANTS
Forward Promise Innovation Grants: Promoting Opportunities for the Health and Success of Young Men of
Color is a new initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that aims to improve the health of middle
school- and high school-aged boys and young men of color, as well as their opportunities for success in school,
work, and life. Deadline October 10 for brief proposal; December 17 for full proposal. For more information:
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21406&cid=XEM_A6316
Russell Sage Visiting Scholar Program. Each year, the Russell Sage Foundation invites a number of scholars to
its New York headquarters to investigate topics in social and behavioral sciences. The Foundation particularly
welcomes groups of scholars who wish to collaborate on a specific project during their residence at Russell
Sage. While Visiting Scholars typically work on projects related to the Foundation's current programs, a
number of scholars whose research falls outside the Foundation's active programs also participate. For more
information, http://tinyurl.com/95hx73x.
WEBINAR
August 30, 2012, 12-1:30 PM CDT (2 hours later than PDT) time. “AAPOR Webinar – Population-Based Survey
Experiments: How To Do Them and What They're Good For.”
Population-based survey experiments are an invaluable tool for policy researchers and social scientists
struggling to pin down causality outside of the laboratory.
Thanks to technological advances in recent years, experiments can now be administered to random samples of
the population to which a theory applies, thus enabling researchers to draw strong conclusions about causality
using representative samples of the population of interest to a given theory or hypothesis. The goal of this
webinar is to familiarize researchers with this exciting new methodology and to provide a concise and
accessible overview of its strengths and weaknesses. Most importantly, using creative examples drawn from
across many disciplines, researchers will come away with a sense of the unique possibilities offered by this
methodological approach along with practical advice on how to get started. Taught by Diana Mutz, of Stanford
University.
Register now!
http://www.aapor.org/source/education/webinar_details.cfm?mtg=WEB0812. Can’t make the exact time?
You can purchase the recorded webinar and materials for later review.
SYMPOSIA, CONFERENCES
PAA Call for Papers for the 2013 Annual Meeting in New Orleans: The Population Association of America
Annual Meeting will be held April 11-13, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Call for Papers (PDF) is available now.
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Submissions are made online at the 2013 Annual Meeting Program Website. Deadline for submissions is
September 21, 2012. For more information, visit: http://paa2013.princeton.edu/ and
http://www.populationassociation.org/sidebar/annual-meeting/
Emerging Methods in Family Research: Penn State’s 20th Annual Symposium on Family Issues will be held
October 8-9, 2012 on the University Park campus. For more information and to register, visit
http://www.pop.psu.edu/events/national-symposium-on-family-issues. The symposium will focus on four
methodological issues: strategies for quantitative analysis of family development and change, approaches to
analyzing families as systems, approaches to measuring family dynamics, and new directions in the
implementation and evaluation of family-focused social policies and preventive interventions.
The Symposium is known for an interdisciplinary approach to topics of interest to family scholars as well as a
focus on policies. For more information visit the web site or contact Carolyn Scott css7@psu.edu
American Public Health Association Annual Meeting October 27-31. Even if this isn’t your ‘usual’ conference,
this year it’s in San Francisco, and it is by its nature an interdisciplinary event. Check out the preliminary
program:
https://apha.confex.com/apha/140am/webprogram/start.html
ON THE WEB
The US Census launches a “how do we know” page: http://www.census.gov/how/. “As America prepares for
the 2012 Economic Census, the U.S. Census Bureau has created an embeddable infographic displaying many of
the ways they track the economic health of the country. The graphic cites facts dealing with manufacturing,
services, retail trade, construction, government and much more as seen through the numerous economic
programs and surveys conducted by the Census Bureau. Many of these economic statistics will be available on
a new mobile app being released next week. Other "How Do We Know?" infographics include information on
the Census Bureau's history of data collection, our nation's veterans and the American Community Survey.”
(Source:
NCFR (National Council on Family Relations)
The U.S. Census announced the launch of their first ever API (application programming interface). An API
enables software developers to write programs using their data. And they plan to launch further APIs as their
update continues. The new API serves up both 2010 Census and American Community Survey statistics for
every neighborhood in the U.S. Users of all varieties will benefit by creating new ways and tools to explore the
data they want to, rather than the government restricting its use through PDFs and impossible to download
formats. And - it will be usable on mobile devices. Visit the US Census blog for more information:
http://blogs.census.gov/2012/07/25/pardon-our-dust-census-gov-transformation/
(Source: NCFR (National Council on Family Relations)
The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a publication, Focus, which
features several essays by scholars on factors affecting poverty levels, trends and experience in the United
States. An example is “Effect of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on the New York City poverty
rate,”
by Mark Levitan and Daniel Scheer. For the current online edition, go to
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc291.pdf.
July 30, 2012
Hi everybody,
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It’s been a quiet summer in Berkeley but things have been humming behind the scenes. Below are a number
of grant opportunities and conferences, some with deadlines in the fairly near future. Many grants provide
opportunities for scholars at all levels of their career, including graduate students. Because it’s a bit long, I’ve
also included a .pdf of this Summer News (along with some other attachments), for your ease of printing and
reading.
If any of these grant programs – or some other idea that doesn’t seem to fit – is something you want to
pursue, then send me email and we can talk. I can and will help you with as much of the application process as
possible. You won’t be on your own – it’s a team effort.
Have a great summer.
Leora
Ps: stay tuned for the Popcenter Newsletter, coming to your inbox soon!
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NIH REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
NIH seeks feedback about the current format of the Biosketch and whether the new design sufficiently
presents the researcher’s capabilities (e.g., personal statement, limit of 15 peer-reviewed articles). For more
information, click on http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-12-115.html.
NIH GRANTS
Secondary Analyses of Comparative Effectiveness, Health Outcomes and Costs in Persons with Multiple
Chronic Conditions (R21)
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for short-term projects involving secondary analysis
aimed at the following goals:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-13-003.html
 To assess the public health and health cost impact of specific combinations of two or more conditions
in defined older populations,
 To identify potential differences in effectiveness and safety of different treatment regimens for
patients with specific combinations of two or more conditions,
 To examine alterations in safety or effectiveness of a treatment for one condition related to the
presence of one or more specific coexisting condition.
 To identify and address methodological issues relevant to analyses of the health impact of multiple
chronic conditions such as validity of data and confounding by indication.
Secondary Analyses and Archiving of Social and Behavioral Datasets in Aging (R03)
(RFA-AG-13-004)
National Institute on Aging
Office of Research on Women's Health
Application Receipt Date(s): October 19, 2012
The purpose of this FOA is to solicit one-year R03 applications for (1) secondary analysis of data on aging in the
areas of psychology, behavioral genetics, economics, demography or (2) archiving and dissemination of data
sets.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-13-004.html
Comparative Physiological Studies of Aging (R03): http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-13005.html. Due October 19, 2012. The purpose of this FOA is to stimulate comparative approaches toward
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understanding the molecular pathways contributing to differences in aging rates, lifespan and healthspan in
vertebrate species.
OTHER GRANTS
The Russell Sage Foundation has launched a new initiative to examine the performance of the U.S. political
system during the recent period of rising inequality called “The Politics of Inequality.”. We invite proposals for
research projects on a range of issues, including legislative performance, political responsiveness and
polarization. For more information, read our Request for Proposals (http://tinyurl.com/7xpx4oz), or contact
Senior Program Officer James Wilson. The deadline for proposals is September 1, 2012.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research program develops and supports a
new generation of creative health policy thinkers and researchers within the disciplines of economics, political
science and sociology. Each year the program selects up to nine highly qualified individuals for two-year
fellowships at one of three nationally prominent universities with the expectation that they will make
important research contributions to future U.S. health policy. October 16, 2012 (3 p.m.)—Deadline for receipt
of applications. For more information: http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21405
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Invites Applications for New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF
Programming — Junior Investigator Program
Up to ten two-year grants of up to $100,000 will be awarded to investigators' home institutions for programs
designed to enhance the research capacity of scholars from underrepresented groups....
Deadline: August 29, 2012 (Brief Proposals). http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21399
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: The Health Impact Project: Advancing Smarter Policies for Healthier
Communities, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts,
encourages the use of health impact assessments (HIA) to help decision-makers identify the potential health
effects of proposed policies, projects, and programs, and make recommendations that enhance their health
benefits and minimize their adverse effects and any associated costs. Also health impact:
http://www.healthimpactproject.org/project/opportunities
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21404&cid=XEM_A6187
The Agency for Health and Research Quality, AHRQ, also has a variety of training and mentored research
grant programs, using the same vehicles (F32, K01, etc.) as NIH. They also have an R36 which is a pre-doctoral
award, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-09-212.html For more information about AHRQ grant
programs, see http://www.ahrq.gov/fund/training/trainix.htm#Programs.
California Endowment Invites Applications for Innovative Ideas Challenge Funding is available to nonprofit
organizations with innovative ideas to address persistent and emerging health issues that impact underserved
communities in California. The deadline is September 2. There are a number of faculty on campus who have
won these grants. Due date is September 1. For more information:
http://www.calendow.org/grants/index.html?&ItemID=506
Kaiser Permanente Invites Applications for Community-Based Interventions to Increase HIV Testing and HIV
Care Utilization Grant Program. Kaiser Permanente has announced the Community-Based Interventions to
Increase HIV Testing and HIV Care Utilization Grant Program as part its effort to improve the health and wellbeing of racial and ethnic minorities and to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare and health
outcomes, with a focus on HIV disease. The grant program is designed to help improve early identification of
new HIV cases and to increase HIV care access and maintenance of newly diagnosed individuals in minority
communities disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic. The program's three main goals are to prevent
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new HIV infections; to identify HIV positive patients sooner, get them into high quality HIV care sooner, and
ensure they remain in such care; and to reduce disparities among minority populations disproportionately
impacted by HIV disease (particularly the gay, African-American, and Latino communities). Awards will be
made to community-based projects that focus on reducing new HIV infections through identification of HIV
infection among recently infected adolescents and adults and on increasing access to and utilization of HIV
care, particularly among newly diagnosed adolescents and adults. Applications will be considered from
nonprofit organizations, including but not limited to community health groups; organizations serving targeted
minority populations; groups that focus on minority health, education, national, and/or community
partnerships; and groups that represent minority-focused health professionals. Applicants must have the
ability to work with multiple ethnic and racial populations and have the capacity to collaborate with other
organizations that represent targeted minority populations. Four awards of $250,000 over two years ($125,000
per year) will be made. For complete program guidelines and application procedures, contact the Kaiser
Permanente Community Benefit Department. For this program, contact: John Edmiston, National Manager,
Community Engagement
Kaiser Permanente: Community Benefit Department
One Kaiser Plaza, 21B, Oakland, CA 94612
Email: john.l.edmiston@kp.org; Tel: 510.271.6381
EVENTS
Climate Change and Population Forum, Friday, September 21: Malcolm Potts has been busy working on
actionable research regarding climate change and population processes. With co-sponsorship from Bixby
Center and College of Natural Resources, there will be a conference on the Sahel on Friday 21 Sept on the Clark
Kerr Campus.* There will be significant African partners in attendance. The goal is to bring the best science to
review the demography and the climate threat (involving Michael Wehner of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab who
is a leader in the field in Africa). The goal is to spell out achievable actions that need to be taken in agriculture
and water conservation, family planning and in desperately needed improvements in the status of women and
girls.
PAPOR Short Course - Telling a Better Story with Your Data - August 8, 2012
Course Preview: No successful analyst, author, or researcher ever posted a bunch of numbers and said “Here
is some data. Hope you find something interesting.” Data must be analyzed, challenged, and ultimately a
story must be delivered through text, charts, graphs, audio, video, maps, and information graphics. This short
course will feature presentations designed to help you tell a better story with your data.
 The first presentation, by Cole Nussbaumer founder of www.storytellingwithdata.com, will focus on
the basics of effective data visualization. From Cole’s presentation you will walk away with practical
tips on how to better communicate stories out of numbers and choose and format the right chart type
to make your data speak to your audience.
 The second presentation, presented remotely by Matt Ericson, Deputy Graphics Director at the New
York Times, will focus on showing some of the data visualization tools they have developed to explain
the news for both a print and interactive environment. Matt’s presentation will expose you to what is
possible when you incorporate additional tools such as audio, video, and maps to tell your story, as
well as adding interactivity to your visualizations for story telling in an online world.
 The final presentation will focus on the design process and best practices for standalone infographics.
This session will focus on the anatomy and design of a successful information graphics in which a single
image containing graphics, text, and statistics lets your audience easily understand the message or the
story being delivered and invites them to learn more about the topic.
The audience for this short course is everyone who needs to tell a story with data and the fundamentals on
how to design the story you want to tell. You do not need to be a Graphics Professional to enjoy this course
(this is not a course in PhotoShop or Illustrator) and we will not focus on the mechanics of implementing these
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design principles. Discounts available for early bird registration, students, and PAPOR members. Training
begins at noon, with optional included networking lunch starting at 11:30 AM.
Registration is online with a discount through July 31, onsite thereafter.
PAPOR Member: $55/$70
Non PAPOR Member (Includes 2012 membership): $70/ $85
Student $20/ $20
THERE IS A WEBINAR OPTION FOR THOSE UNABLE TO TRAVEL
The Future of the Federal Statistical System in an Era of Open Government Data
George Washington University, Washington, DC. September 12 - 13, 2012
On the cutting edge of the future of our federal statistics, the Association of Public Data Users is focusing its
2012 conference on the future of public data in an environment of increasingly tight budgets and rapidly
expanding technologies. No matter the specific content of your data, rapid changes in access to “big data” are
changing the types of information we can capture, and “open data” is creating tremendous new opportunities
for marrying available administrative records in ways that were never tried before. What does this mean for
the data sources you care about? Census, BLS, BEA, or whatever the agency – all are exploring these trends.
Organizers seek wide involvement to help data producers as they navigate these uncertain times. For more
information: http://apdu.org/events/conference/apdu-2012/
The 2nd annual Bay Area SWS Symposium will take place from noon to 5:30 pm September 28, 2012 date at
the RTI offices in San Francisco. This email is the official call for submissions. Everyone is encouraged to submit
and present. If you submit, we will find a place for you in the symposium! In order to give everyone the
opportunity to present, there will be a mix of 5-minute presentations and invited panels. 5-minute
presentations can include polished research, works in progress, and thematic presentations covering issues
such as work-life balance, methodology, teaching, the job market, sociology outside of the academy, etc. The
5-minute presentations will run back-to-back (6-8 at a time) with no Q&A period, and then will be followed by
a long break during which the audience and presenters can follow-up with one another. Invited panels will
cover topics of interest to participants not otherwise covered in the 5-minute presentations—you’ll get a
chance to identify topics of interest to you in the submission form. It’s a great opportunity to network with
local sociologists.
Attached to this email are submission instructions and the submission form. Please look over both
attachments and fill out the submission form. Submissions should be received by August 27, 2012 and sent to
Sarah Cowan (Demography/Sociology graduate student), sarahkcowan@berkeley.edu with the subject line:
SWS Symposium. Sarah will reply to confirm she has received your submission. Questions? Email Sarah.
In addition, Popcenter’s Leora Lawton will present a short workshop, “Alternatives to an Academic Career;” a
discussion of NIH grants and other funding opportunities.
The Global Health & Innovation Conference, 2013 at Yale is currently accepting abstracts for presentation at
the conference. The abstract deadline is August 31.
Saturday, April 13 - Sunday, April 14, 2013
The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's largest global health conference and social
entrepreneurship conference. This conference annually convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers, students, and
professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship. To
submit an abstract or register, go to the conference website: http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The PAA Annual Meeting will be held April 11-13, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Call for Papers (PDF) is
available now. Submissions are made online at the 2013 Annual Meeting Program Website:
http://paa2013.princeton.edu/ . Deadline for submissions is September 21, 2012.
Information is also posted for:
Travel Awards: http://www.populationassociation.org/sidebar/annual-meeting/travel-awards/
Member-Initiated Meetings: http://www.populationassociation.org/sidebar/annual-meeting/httpwwwpopulationassociation-orgattachment_id2717/
The PAA Board of Directors wishes to encourage broad participation in the Annual Meeting. If you would like
to serve as a session Chair or Discussant at the 2013 Annual Meeting, please indicate your interest by sending
an email to stephanie@popassoc.org. In order to appear on the program, presenters must register for the
meeting. Registration fees are posted on the PAA website. Registration will open in January 2013. Check the
PAA website throughout the year for updated meeting information.
AWARDS
Call for nominations for the Mattei Dogan Foundation Prize for Comparative Research in Demography
Deadline for Nominations: 30 November 2012
This Award honors a scientist of high international renown for the contribution of his or her work to the
development of studies of population that draw on perspectives of different disciplines and for the importance
that this work has accorded to international comparisons. The award is given to a scholar in mid-career to
honor work already completed but also to encourage active researchers to continue their research. The award
will be presented during the IUSSP 27th International Population Conference in Busan, Korea. The Awardee
will be invited to give a short talk during the conference. The Mattei Dogan Foundation offers a cash prize of $
3,500 to the Awardee.
Eligibility: All IUSSP members who are nominated following the procedure listed below are eligible except for
current IUSSP Council members. No age limit exists but nominees should ideally be in mid-career.
Nomination Procedure: Candidates must be nominated by IUSSP members; no self nominations will be
accepted. Documentation includes the following.
1) A nomination letter signed by at least six (6) IUSSP members of at least three (3) different nationalities.
2) Two (2) letters of recommendation by prominent population scientists who did not sign the nomination
letter.
3) A curriculum vitae that includes a complete list of the nominee’s publications.
Nomination materials should arrive at the IUSSP Secretariat by email, fax or post on or before 30 November
2012 and should be addressed to Mary Ellen Zuppan, IUSSP Executive Director (zuppan@iussp.org), 3-5 rue
Nicolas, 75980 Paris Cedex 20, France. If sending original materials by fax or post, please send electronic copies
by email to facilitate communications with selection committee members.
Nomination materials will be reviewed by the Selection committee appointed by the IUSSP Council. The winner
of the award will be announced in February 2013.
For more information on the Mattei Dogan Foundation Prize for Comparative Research in Demography please
visit our website at http://www.iussp.org/Awards/mdaward.php .
June 1, 2012
Hello everybody,
Now that the summer is in full swing it’s time to think about how to use this summer productively (as well as
for rejuvenation and rest, of course). Applying for a Pilot Grant is one way, and we have funds available,
particularly if they will lead to a fall grant submission. Visit the Popcenter website to download the call for
proposals and the guidelines (http://popcenter.berkeley.edu).
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Upcoming also is a one-day special event on campus, the UC Berkeley-UCLA Miniconference, this year with
the theme of Population and Education. The flyer is attached, and you can see that the line-up is stellar.
Please rsvp online by end-of-day Monday June 4 (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/37NF56X) or just let me
know if you haven’t already. There is no registration fee, lunch is provided and an optional dinner follows. The
flyer is attached.
Grant-related news items follow. Have a great weekend.
Leora
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REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
NIH seeks feedback about the current format of the Biosketch and whether the new design (e.g., personal
statement, limit of 15 peer-reviewed articles) sufficiently presents the researcher’s capabilities. For more
information, click on http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-12-115.html. I’ll take feedback,
too.
GRANTS
Kaiser Permanente Invites Applications for Community-Based Interventions to Increase HIV Testing and HIV
Care Utilization Grant Program. Kaiser Permanente has announced the Community-Based Interventions to
Increase HIV Testing and HIV Care Utilization Grant Program as part its effort to improve the health and wellbeing of racial and ethnic minorities and to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare and health
outcomes, with a focus on HIV disease. The grant program is designed to help improve early identification of
new HIV cases and to increase HIV care access and maintenance of newly diagnosed individuals in minority
communities disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic. The program's three main goals are to prevent
new HIV infections; to identify HIV positive patients sooner, get them into high quality HIV care sooner, and
ensure they remain in such care; and to reduce disparities among minority populations disproportionately
impacted by HIV disease (particularly the gay, African-American, and Latino communities). Awards will be
made to community-based projects that focus on reducing new HIV infections through identification of HIV
infection among recently infected adolescents and adults and on increasing access to and utilization of HIV
care, particularly among newly diagnosed adolescents and adults. Applications will be considered from
nonprofit organizations, including but not limited to community health groups; organizations serving targeted
minority populations; groups that focus on minority health, education, national, and/or community
partnerships; and groups that represent minority-focused health professionals. Applicants must have the
ability to work with multiple ethnic and racial populations and have the capacity to collaborate with other
organizations that represent targeted minority populations. Four awards of $250,000 over two years ($125,000
per year) will be made.
For complete program guidelines and application procedures, contact the Kaiser Permanente Community
Benefit Department.
Contact:
Kaiser Permanente
John Edmiston
National Manager, Community Engagement
Community Benefit Department
One Kaiser Plaza, 21B
Oakland, CA 94612
Email: john.l.edmiston@kp.org
Tel: 510.271.6381
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RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION: The Politics of Inequality
The Russell Sage Foundation has launched a new initiative to examine the performance of the U.S. political
system during the recent period of rising inequality. We invite proposals for research projects on a range of
issues, including legislative performance, political responsiveness and polarization. For more information, read
our Request for Proposals (http://tinyurl.com/7xpx4oz) , or contact Senior Program Officer James Wilson. The
deadline for proposals is September 1, 2012.
May 7, 2012
Hello everybody,
AS you know, my constant rally is to encourage both pilot and external funding ideas. In addition to providing
funds to advance research, for your own financial well-being, and that of the University through indirect costs,
support is also important for graduate students, both in terms of salaries, fee remissions and hands-on
experience. Look for ideas everywhere. For example, I attended talk recently about cash incentives for weight
loss. Tucked into this talk was a brief discussion about the 1,000 page Accessible Care Act (health care reform
legislation). In this law there is a clause informally known as the ‘Safeway’ provision, where the CEO of
Safeway Stores said they’d kept their healthcare costs flat by incenting employees to be healthy (see:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/13/BUKC185K2D.DTL and
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124476804026308603.html) . As it turns out, Safeway’s healthcare costs rose
noticeably after that, and the way they kept costs flat was through increasing costs shifted to employees in the
form of higher premiums, co-pays and deductibles. Nevertheless, this completely untested policy became part
of the Act. There are undoubtedly more in there, beckoning inquiry and evaluations.
Events and other announcements follow. Have a great week.
Leora
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EVENTS
Monday, May 7, 2012, 4-5. “HIV Prevention With Latinos: Theory, Research, and Practice”: A book talk with
author and editor, Kurt Organista. | Haviland Hall, Social Welfare Library.
Friday, May. 11, 2012. 12-1:30 PM. “India 1960-2010: Structural Change, the Rural Nonfarm Sector, and the
Prospects for Agriculture,” with Hans Binswanger, Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, Tshwane
University of Technology, Tshwane, South Africa. ARE Departmental seminar,
CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
Experiments and methodological innovation for longitudinal studies: Academics and researchers are now
invited to submit proposals for experimental or methodological studies to be incorporated on the
Understanding Society Innovation Panel wave 6. Data collection will take place in spring 2013. Studies could
relate to questionnaire content, the design of survey instruments or to survey design features. The deadline
for proposals is 15 May 2012. Information about the criteria for proposals and application procedure are
available here: http://www.understandingsociety.org.uk/design/innovation/content.aspx
PAA 2013 in New Orleans – Call for Program Proposals. The Program Organizing Committee has begun
planning for the PAA 2013 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, which will be held April 11-13. We
would like to encourage your suggestions for standard and/or invited sessions, ideas for improving the poster
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sessions, and ideas for improving any aspect of the meetings. Please visit the Annual Meeting website,
http://paa2012.princeton.edu/ and follow the instructions under “Suggestions for 2013.” When you fill the
suggestion’s form don’t feel constrained by the topic categories; if you have an idea that doesn't fit these
topics just select 'Other Topics' and send it in. Deadline for suggestions is May 11, 2012.
NIH Requests Input for the Fogarty International Center, which is updating its strategic plan. To anticipate and
set priorities for global health research and research training, FIC requests input from scientists, the general
public, and interested parties. The goal of this strategic planning process is to identify current and future needs
and directions for global health research and research training. The existing FIC strategic plan can be viewed
at: http://www.fic.nih.gov/About/Pages/Strategic-Plan.aspx.
Comments are specifically, but not exclusively, requested on the following topics:
 What are specific gaps, needs and opportunities in global health research that should be addressed by
Fogarty in the next 5-10 years?
 What are specific gaps, needs, and opportunities in global health research training that should be
addressed by Fogarty in the next 5-10 years?
 Are there specific gaps and/or opportunities related to the use of information and communication
technologies (ICT), mobile technologies (mHealth), and distance learning in research and researching
training?
 What are specific gaps, needs, and opportunities related to research and research training in chronic,
non-communicable diseases?
 What are specific gaps, needs, and opportunities related to research and research training in infectious
diseases?
 How can Fogarty strengthen the research-enabling environment at research institutions in low and
middle income countries?
 How can Fogarty encourage more collaboration in research and research training among institutions in
low and middle income countries?
GRADUATE STUDENTS
May 18, Friday, 3-5 PM. Workshop on NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants, with Prof. Cathryn Carson. For
more information, including the Program Solicitation and other relevant forms, visit:
http://cstms.berkeley.edu/current-events/nsf-dissertation-improvement-grant-workshop/
April 23, 2012
Hello everybody,
Last week Cal economist and BPC affiliate Enrico Moretti was in the New York Times regarding the buzz about
his work on the geography of manufacturing labor force. At a recent Demography Brown Bag Enrico shared
this work, presenting evidence that manufacturing will not likely be coming back to the US in a big way.
Rather, the innovation sector is likely to take its place as our future engine of employment growth. Skills of US
workers will need to be more high tech, and therefore, something we might not have in abundance. He has
looked at other aspects of workers as well. In a recent paper with David Card, Alexandre Mas and Emmanuel
Saez, UC Berkeley employees were tapped for an experiment on whether knowing others’ salaries (now public
knowledge) affected their job satisfaction and likelihood of job searching. Those who found out they were
below median for their peers were less satisfied and more likely to look for a job. In another paper Moretti
found that the positive response to a movie’s quality and the subsequent increase in attendance
to that movie is explained by social learning theory. In fact, a look at his CV
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shows that the importance of social settings, connections and knowledge on economic behavior runs through
his recent work. Learn more about his research by checking visiting his website:
http://econ.berkeley.edu/faculty/835.
Robert Groves, who took over the helm at the US Census, has announced he’s leaving the Census to become
Provost at Georgetown.
Finally, we are in the final week for reservations for the Demography dept PAA dinner. If you haven’t signed up
and want to attend, let me know by Friday April 27,
5 PM.
Events and other announcements follow.
Have a great week,
-Leora
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EVENTS
Wednesday, April 25, 12-1:00 PM. Demography Brown-Bag: PAA presentations by
graduate students and others. Demography Dept seminar room, 2332 Piedmont.
Refreshments and cookies served.
Monday, April 23, 2012, 4-6 PM, “A Resource in Refugees: U.S. health disparities and
the rise of global health” with Johanna Crane, Univ. of Washington. 125 Li Ka
Ching Center.
Tuesday April 24 | 2-4 p.m. Psychology & Economics seminar: "Incentives and Weight Loss," Kevin Volpp,
Wharton School. 648 Evans Hall.
Tuesday April 24 | 12-1 p.m. Social Policy and Healthy Aging among Older Chinese Immigrants in the United
States, Sweden, and Japan. With Andrew Scharlach (Social Welfare), Winston Tseng (SPH), and Kazumi
Hoshino, Visiting Scholar. Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor).
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 4-5:30 p.m. “Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration and the American Welfare
State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal.” Cybele Fox Sociology. Wildavsky Conference Room, ISSI,
2538 Channing.
Wednesday April 25, 2012, 4 - 5:30 p.m. Development Seminar: "A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Provider
Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China," Grant Miller, Stanford University.
Evans Hall, room 648
Wednesday April 25 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Colloquium : “Just Water? Social Disparities and Drinking Water Quality in
California's San Joaquin Valley” with Carolina Balazs,
PhD, Energy and Resources Group, U.C. Berkeley | 110 Barrows Hall.
Wednesday, April 25, 3:30-4:45 pm. ISSI and UC DATA present, “Access to Data Collected by the Census
Bureau,” with Jon Stiles, Data Archivist. A great deal of research infrastructure has been built around the
packaging and dissemination of data collected by the Census Bureau. This presentation will identify and
demonstrate resources to discover, access and explore a variety of Census microdata and aggregate data, as
well as resources which add value to and extend those products.
Wildavsky Conference Room, ISSI, 2538 Channing Way (corner of Channing and Bowditch)
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Thursday April 26, 2012, 2 - 4 p.m. Labor Seminar: "The integration of regions and nations as a revision of
social space: superadditivity and impossibility results"
Oded Stark, Universities of Bonn, Klagenfurt, and Vienna | 648 Evans Hall.
Friday, April 27, 12-1:30 PM. Labor Lunch "Parental Leave Reforms and Women's Employment in Japan" with
Yukiko Asai, University of Tokyo and Keio University. 648 Evans Hall.
Friday, April2 7, 12-1:30 PM. Are gifts and loans between households voluntary?
With Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University, Dept of Economics. 201 Giannini Hall.
Paper: http://are.berkeley.edu/documents/seminar/loans.pdf.
OFF CAMPUS EVENTS:
April 30, 2012, Stanford Center for Population Research (SCPR) presents “Patterns of Life Expectancy among
the Elderly in Three Chinese Cities” with Edward Jow-Ching Tu
- Senior Lecturer of Demography at the Division of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology. Location: Stanford University, Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall, 616 Serra St., 3rd floor.
RSVP by 5 PM April 29:
http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/events/patterns_of_life_expectancy_among_the_elderly_in_three_chine
se_cities/
FUNDING
NIA announces a September 25 2012 (and several more dates through May 2013) a P01 grant funding
opportunity. A PO1 is defined as follows: “The applications may
address scientific areas relevant to the NIA mission. Each P01 submitted in
response to this FOA must include at least three related research projects that share a common central theme,
focus, and/overall objective.” The mission includes Genetic, biological, clinical, behavioral, social, and
economic research related to the aging process, diseases and conditions associated with aging, and other
special problems and needs of older Americans.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-066.html. I’d like to see UC Berkeley submit a fundable
application.
USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Seeks Proposals on Preventing Childhood Obesity to
support research, education and extension aimed at reducing the prevalence of childhood obesity across the
nation. In fiscal year 2012, NIFA plans to award $5 million in grants in this challenge area. The long-term goal
of USDA-sponsored obesity research is to reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children
and adolescents. This year's funding is focused on generating knowledge of the behavior, social and/or
environmental factors that influence childhood obesity and then developing and implementing prevention
programs for children and adolescents. Research and programs should be aimed at obesity in children ages 2
through 19. Each application will go through a competitive selection process based on scientific merit and
reviewed by an external panel of peer reviewers. For more information, visit
http://nifa.usda.gov/fo/childhoodobesityafri.cfm DEADLINE IS JUNE 5.
TRAINING:
Two ICPSR Summer Courses at Cal:
More information and registration is at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/
1. July 9 – 13, 2012 (5-day workshop): Causal Inference in the Social Sciences:
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Matching, Propensity Scores and Other Strategies, with Dominik Hangartner, London School of Economics and
Marco Steenbergen, University of Bern. This course provides an introduction to statistical methods used for
causal inference in the social sciences. Using the potential outcomes framework of causality, we discuss
designs and methods for data from randomized experiments and observational studies. In particular, the
designs and methods covered in the course include (propensity score) matching, instrumental variables,
difference-in-difference, synthetic control, and regression discontinuity. Examples are drawn from across the
social science disciplines
2. August 6 - 9, 2012 (4-day workshop): The R Statistical Computing Environments:
The Basics and Beyond with John Fox, McMaster University. The goal of this four-day workshop is to introduce
R and R programming. Each day will combine five to six hours of lectures and demonstrations with two to
three hours of hands-on labs. We will begin with a basic overview of, and introduction to, R including statistical
modeling - in effect, using R as a statistical package. After that, the workshop picks up where the basic material
leaves off, and provides the background required to use R seriously for sophisticated data analysis and
presentation. Topics to be covered in the workshop include an introduction to R programming, the design of
custom statistical graphs, and unlocking the power of the R statistical programming environment.
ON THE WEB:
NIH e-Source: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
(OBSSR) recently launched a web-based interactive anthology which will provide behavioral and social
scientists with the latest research methods
and tools to address emerging challenges in public health. The free resource,
known as e-Source (http://www.esourceresearch.org) was done in collaboration with the New England
Research Institutes. OBSSR's mission is to stimulate behavioral and social science research throughout the NIH
and to integrate these disciplines to improve the understanding, treatment, and prevention of disease.
According to OBSSR director Robert M. Kaplan, "The behavioral and social sciences research community has
long needed an easily accessible, low-cost central resource for standardized methods." The program's goal is
to demonstrate the potential of behavioral and social science research, focusing on applying research findings
to public health activities and the potential to enhance biomedical research. It is also a useful training
resource for biological scientists, providing them with a basic foundation for collaborations with behavioral
and social scientists.
Canadian Research: For those interested in Canadian population data:
http://www.popdata.bc.ca/
April 15, 2012
Hello everybody,
Congratulations to Lee Riley (Epidemiology) who is PI on a new NIH grant to establish a training support
center in partnership with Yale, Stanford and Florida International University. From their application, “The
main objective of the program is to generate a new and young cadre of global health researchers, educators,
and professionals who will be prepared to address the new challenges in global health that arise from our
constantly changing planet, in particular, those challenges that emerge from the world's burgeoning human
settlements known as slums that have developed in urban and rural communities of many low and middleincome countries. Slum-specific factors associated with chronic, non-communicable, as well as infectious
diseases, environmental health hazards, risks specific to women and children, intentional and unintentional
injuries, and mental disorders are poorly understood, and there are not many researchers dealing with these
issues.”
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Do you have a data set that you have collected that is now available for the use by others? If so, please let
me know. If possible, include a URL to it or information about it. I would like to add it to the Popcenter
website:
http://www.popcenter.berkeley.edu/research/data_collection_and_dissemination.shtml.
Events and other announcements follow.
Have a great week,
-Leora
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EVENTS
Wednesday, April 18, 12-1:00 PM. Demography Brown-Bag: PAA presentations by graduate students and
others. Demography Dept seminar room, 2332 Piedmont. Refreshments and cookies served.
Monday, April 16, 2012, 4-6 PM, “Migrant Farmworker Injury: Statistics, Events, Temporality” with Seth
Holmes, SPH. 221 Kroeber Hall
April 16 | 2-3:10 p.m. “Social-Ecological Perspectives on Behavior Change: Multi-Method Approaches to
Promoting Healthy Adolescent Development” with Emily Ozer, SPH. 9 Durant Hall.
http://iber.berkeley.edu/BCRN/index.html
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4-6 p.m. “Islamophobia in The Netherlands and Anti-Black Racism.” Sandew Hiro,
International Institute of Scientific Studies, Amsterdam. | 223 Moses Hall
Tuesday April 17 | 2-4 p.m. Psychology & Economics seminar: "Are Investors Really Reluctant to Realize their
Losses? Trading Responses to Past Returns and the Disposition Effect" David Hirshleifer, UC Irvine. 648 Evans
Hall.
April 16, 2012, 4 - 5:30 p.m. Development Seminar “Incentives to Teach Badly: After-School Tutoring in
Developing Countries" Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University, Evans Hall, room 648.
Wednesday, April 18, 3:30-4:45 pm. ISSI and UC DATA present, “National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent
Health (Add Health),” with Su Li, Statistician, UC Berkeley School of Law, UC Berkeley. This presentation will
introduce a large dataset of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in grades 7-12 in the U.S. during
the 1994-1995 school year. The respondents have been interviewed four times so far since the data collection
was launched. And the most recent wave was in 2008. Also to be discussed are the data structure, weighting
and the rich information that is included in the dataset. Wildavsky Conference Room, ISSI, 2538 Channing Way
(corner of Channing and Bowditch)
April 19, 2012, 2 - 4 p.m."Labor: "Matching models: a survey" Pierre-André Chiappori, Columbia University.
Labor Seminar | 648 Evans Hall.
April 20, 2012, Colloquium on Race, Ethnicity and Immigration: Cybelle Fox, Sociology: "Three Worlds of
Relief: Race, Immigration and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal" 119
Moses Hall. http://igs.berkeley.edu/programs/seminars/raceandethnicity.html
FUNDING
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Research Program On Migration And Health: PIMSA is pleased to announce its 10th Request for Proposals for
Research and Dissertation Awards. This cycle will be open to researchers from any of the University of
California campuses, all California State University campuses, all State University of New York campuses,
University of Arizona, all University of Minnesota campuses, University of New Mexico, University of Texas at
El Paso, working in collaboration with researchers from the National Council for Science and Technology
(CONACYT for its Spanish acronym) accredited institutions in all Mexican states and Universidad National
Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), or from Mexico’s Secretariat of Health research institutions. LOI is due May 4.
For details, please visit:
http://hia.berkeley.edu/index.php?page=announcement
WEBINAR:
April 19, 10 AM PDT: “How are Children Faring: What the New Supplemental Poverty Measure Tells Us” A
special webinar sponsored by PAA and the Association of Population Centers (we’re a member) will take place
on Thursday, April 19 at 1:00 pm ET.. There are three outstanding speakers:
Dr. David Johnson, U.S. Census Bureau; Dr. Timothy Smeeding, University of Wisconsin and Dr. Jane
Waldfogel, Columbia University To register for the event please visit:
http://populationassociation.webex.com.
SAVE THE DATE!
Friday, April 27th 2012 - 3rd Annual Evidence-to-Action Symposium: The Road from Conflict to Recovery,
1:00 to 5:00 pm - Berkeley City Club. This symposium highlights research on programs intended to rebuild civil
institutions, promote governance, and reduce violence in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Liberia.
The speakers include economists from the UC & Stanford, along with public sector partners who are
translating evidence into impact. Topics include:
-- Kenya's 2007 Post-Election Violence (Pascaline Dupas, Stanford)
-- Counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan (Eli Berman, UC San Diego and Joe Felter, Ret., US Army)
-- Community-Driven Development in Sierra Leone (Edward Miguel, UC Berkeley; Katherine Casey, Stanford;
Yongmei Zhou, World Bank; and Herbert McLeod, Advisor, Government of Sierra Leone)
-- Liberia's reconciliation process (Steve Radelet, USAID and Carrie Hessler-Radelet, Peace Corps) To register,
please visit http://cega.berkeley.edu/events/e2a2012/.
FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
Survey Methods for Hard to Reach Populations: The H2R 2012 conference offers a Student Travel Award for
students in graduate programs in statistics, survey methodology, demography, ethnography, or allied
disciplines related to topical sections of the conference. Support is offered for students to attend the
International Conference on Methods for Surveying and Enumerating Hard to Reach Populations. The
conference will be held, October 31 to November 3, 2012 in New Orleans, LA. Awards will be granted to cover
expenses up to $500. Please send your application materials to Frauke Kreuter (fkreuter@survey.umd.edu) by
June 1, 2012.
The application forms can be found here:
http://www.amstat.org/meetings/h2r/2012/pdfs/H2RTravelAwardApplication.pdf
For further information about the conference please contact: H2R2012@amstat.org.
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