Through our "Pop Center Seminars" the Center is committed to disseminating to the Harvard community and beyond the most recent and innovative research being conducted in our signature focal areas.
Location: Unless noted all seminars will take place at the Harvard Center for the Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, in Harvard Square.
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 PM.
Attendees: Open to all faculty, research scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and students.
Advanced Readings: Reminders and any advanced readings will be sent out before each session.
No need to RSVP, however, if you have questions, please contact Claudette Agustin at cagustin@hsph.harvard.edu.
Fall 2009 Schedule:
September 21
"Linked Lives: Intergenerational Transmission of Poor Health in India " presented by SV "Subu" Subramanian, Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health.
*** Co-sponsored by the Program on the Global Demography of Aging
Advance Reading: Subramanian/JAMA
October 5
"Building Social Capital through Microfinance" presented by Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Advance Reading: Pande
October 19
"Reproductive Health Laws and the Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Force Participation Around the World" presented by Jocelyn Finlay, Research Associate, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
Advance Readings: 1) Finlay.Female 2) Finlay.BCFF
October 26
"Priority-Setting for Social Development: UNFPA's Current and Future Strategies" presented by Werner Haug, Director, Technical Division, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
November 2
"Induced Innovation and Social Inequality: Evidence from Infant Medical Care" presented by David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Kennedy School of Government
*** Co-sponsored by the Program on the Global Demography of Aging
Advance Reading: Cutler.Meara
November 9
"Some Economic Consequences of the Demographic Transition and Population Aging: Insights from National Transfer Accounts" presented by Ron Lee, Professor of Demography and Economics, University of California, Berkeley
*** Co-sponsored by the Program on the Global Demography of Aging
Advance Reading: Lee.Mason.Macroeco
November 16
"Population Aging and the Generational Economy" presented by Andrew Mason, Professor of Economics, University of Hawaii, and Visiting Faculty (Fall 2009), Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
*** Co-sponsored by the Program on the Global Demography of Aging
Advance Reading: Mason
November 30 -SEMINAR CANCELLED
December 7
"Consequences of Childhood Malnutrition for Cognitive Impairment among Older Adults" presented by Mark Hayward, Director, Population Research Center, and Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
*** Co-sponsored by the Program on the Global Demography of Aging
December 14
"The Curious Case of Physical and Mental Health Disparities" presented by James Jackson, Director and Research Professor, Institute for Social Research, and Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
Winter/Spring 2010
February 8
Title TBD - presented by Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, Department of Economics, MIT.
February 22
Title TBD - presented by Ichiro Kawachi, Ichiro Kawachi, Chair, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
March 1
Title TBD - presented by Nicholas A. Christakis, Professor of Medical Sociology and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and an Attending Physician, Department of Medicine, Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
March 8
Title TBD - presented by Barbara Entwisle, Director of the Carolina Population Center, and Kenan Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
March 22
Title TBD - presented by James Banks, Professor of Economics, University Collage London.
April 5
Title TBD - presented by Marcia Castro, Assistant Professor of Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, HSPH.
April 12
Title TBD - presented by Sara McLanahan, William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University.
May 3
Title TBD - presented by Teresa Seeman, Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health.
May 10
Title TBD - presented by Mark Schuster, Chief, Division of General Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston, and William Berenberg Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
May 17
Title TBD - presented by Alberto Palloni, Samuel Preston Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconson-Madison.