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Spring 2012

Note: All relevant papers are in PDF format unless otherwise noted.

The CDHA Graduate Training Seminar in Demography (Soc 995) combines three series:

  1. Professional Development Meetings for graduate students
  2. Perspectives In Demography: methodological and substantive training sessions
  3. Next Generation Research by graduate students and postdocs.

These meetings are open to all.
We meet at 9:30-10:45 AM in Room 8417 William H. Sewell Social Science Building.

Friday, January 27
Professional Development: Succeeding after Graduate School
Marcy Carlson, UW Sociology and CDE
Jim Raymo, UW Sociology and CDE

Friday, February 3
Perspectives in Demography: Overview of Survey Methodology
Nora Cate Schaeffer, UW Survey Center, UW Sociology and CDE

Friday, February 10
Perspectives in Demography: Some Guidelines for Writing Survey Questions
Jen Dykema, UW Survey Center
Nora Cate Schaeffer, UW Survey Center, UW Sociology and CDE

Friday, February 17
Perspectives in Demography: The View from a Survey Shop: Practical Lessons for Collecting Data
John Stevenson, UW Survey Center

Friday, February 24
Next Generation Research: Exploring the Racial Wealth Gap: Consequences of Men's Family
Kim Turner, UW Sociology

Friday, March 2
Next Generation Research: "Bad jobs" for Marriage: (Changes in) Relationships between Job Quality and Union Formation
So-Jung Lim, UW Sociology

Friday, March 9
No meeting

Friday, March 16
Professional Development: Designing Conference Posters
Nancy L. Karls, UW Writing Center

Friday, March 23
Perspectives in Demography: Demographic Decomposition
Christine Schwartz, UW Sociology and CDE

Friday, March 30
No meeting

Friday, April 6
No meeting (Spring Break)

Friday, April 13
Perspectives in Demography: Fixed and Random Effects Models
Jenna Nobels, UW Sociology and CDE

Friday, April 20
Perspectives in Demography: Prep session for Chao Fu's DemSem presentation This seminar is cancelled due to a scheduling conflict.
Jim Walker, UW Economics and CDE

Friday, April 27
Perspectives in Demography: PAA practice and Prep session for DiNardi's DemSem presentation
Jim Walker, UW Economics and CDE

Friday, May 4
No meeting (PAA)

Friday, May 11
Next Generation Research: Chronic Pain Trajectories
Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, UW Sociology


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