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NIA Program Announcement – Retirement Economics
January 13, 2005Jan 13, 2005 The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for research on retirement economics. The research objectives of this Program Announcement include, but are not limited to: (1) the determinants of retirement behavior, (2) the variation in work … Read more
Steve Wernke TV appearance
November 30, 2004Nov 30, 2004 Steve Wernke’s wife Tiffiny Tung is going to appear on an upcoming Discovery Channel series, Mummy Autopsy, as a regular investigator and he may appear a time or two as well as a consultant. Dr. Tung is … Read more
World Development Indicators on the Network
October 21, 2004Oct 21, 2004 World Development Indicators 2004 is now available on the network and can be found at R:WDI2004. Use of this data from the server requires a setup program to be run on the users’ workstations. Please write to … Read more
East-West Center Summer Seminar on Population, 2005
October 18, 2004Oct 18, 2004 The East-West Center (EWC) in Honolulu, Hawaii is seeking participants for its 36th Summer Seminar on Population, to be held May 31-June 30, 2005 at EWC. In 2005, the three Summer Seminar workshop topics are:1. Evaluating the … Read more
Nang Rong Projects Data Release
October 14, 2004Oct 14, 2004 The Nang Rong Projects are releasing for public use much of the Social Survey Data, including most of the 1984, 1994, and 2000 household census data as well as most of the 1994-95 and 2000-01 migrant follow-up … Read more
Symposium on Inequalities in Population Call for Papers
October 7, 2004Oct 7, 2004 The Research Committee on Sociology of Population (RC41) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) is pleased to announce that it will hold its mid-Congress symposium on September 15 and 16, 2005, in Malta. The general theme of … Read more
CPC Receives Obesity Center Grant
October 1, 2004Oct 1, 2004 The Carolina Population Center has been awarded a grant under NIH’s prestigious National Center for Research Resources Program. The grant will be used to establish an Inter-Disciplinary Obesity Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Read more
Global Tobacco Surveillance System Data Release
September 27, 2004Sep 27, 2004 The CDC Office on Smoking and Health’s Global Tobacco Control Program announces the first release of data collected under the Global Tobacco Surveillance System, a collaboration of WHO, CDC, and research coordinators from the participating countries. One … Read more
Demography and Economics of Aging Research Center
September 27, 2004Sep 27, 2004 The Demography and Economics of Aging Research (DEAR) program promotes research and research training on the demography and economics of aging at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). The program has been supported by … Read more
2004-05 Program on Latent Variable Models in the Social Sciences
August 26, 2004Aug 26, 2004 Latent variables are widespread in the social sciences. Whether it is intelligence or socioeconomic status, many variables cannot be directly measured. Factor analysis, latent class analysis, structural equation models, error-in-variable models, and item response theory illustrate models … Read more