An Overview of Instrumental Variables (IVs) in the Social Sciences
Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Bollen, Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Professor of Psychology & Sociology, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
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The Perils of Precarity: The Impacts of Insecure Work on Individuals and Families in Industrial Societies
Speaker: Dr. Arne Kalleberg, Professor of Sociology, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
No Control Group, No Problem? Using Natural Experiments to Evaluate National-Level Nutrition Initiatives in the U.S. and Mexico
Speaker: Dr. Lindsey Smith, Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition, UNC-CH; CPC Training Program Alumna
Longitudinal and Multilevel Methods for the Multinomial Logit Model
Speaker: Dr. David Guilkey, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Economics, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Early Environments, Inflammation, and the Perpetuation of Health Disparities within and Across Generations
Speaker: Dr. Thomas McDade, Professor of Anthropology & Director, Laboratory for Human Biology Research, Northwestern University; CPC Training Program Alumnus
The Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and Unemployment
Speaker: Dr. Jennie Brand, Associate Professor of Sociology, UCLA; CPC Training Program Alumna
Competing Risk Data Analysis
Speaker: Dr. C. Suchindran, Professor of Biostatistics, UNC-CH; Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Selection In Utero and Quality of Surviving Males in Historical and Modern Societies
Speaker: Dr. Tim-Allen Bruckner, Assistant Professor of Public Health & Planning, Policy and Design, University of California, Irvine
The Theory of Change and Response: A New Agenda for Research on Population and Development in Africa
The Theory of Change and Response: A New Agenda for Research on Population and Development in Africa Dr. Yves Charbit, Professor Emeritus of Demography, University of Paris, Descartes
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Duncan Thomas investigates the inter-relationships between health, human capital and socio-economic status with a focus on the roles that individual, family and community factors play in improving levels of health and well-being across the globe.