Hopkins Population Center

Robert Moffitt, PhD Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University Abstract: Most countries, including the US, measure poverty by the fraction of households with income below a specified threshold. Income measures have been criticized on a number of grounds. An alternative measure favored by some economists measures poverty as the fraction whose consumption—as defined using […]

Michael Bader, Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of 21CC (co-sponsored with 21CC) Abstract: In the face of changes to the American population since the Civil Rights Movement, we will tend to explain patterns of racial change based on theories developed in the early and middle of the 20th century. According to these theories White flight, […]

SNF Agora Institute, Sociology, and Hopkins Population Center Co-Sponsored Seminar Dr. James EvansMax Palevksy Professor of Sociology, Director of Knowledge Lab, and Founding Faculty Director ofComputational Social Science at the University of Chicago and the Santa Fe Institute Abstract The wisdom of crowds hinges on the independence and diversity of their members’ information andapproach. Here […]

Dr. Anqi Liu, Assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Whiting School of Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University Abstract The unprecedented prediction accuracy of modern machine learning beckons for its application in a wide range of real-world applications, including many socially-critical ones like healthcare, education, and hiring.  A key challenge in […]

Instructor: Wenxuan Huang, PhD Sequence analysis has been widely applied in life course research to understand the temporal pattern of life events (e.g., employment, marriage, and fertility) by scrutinizing timing, duration, and order. As a holistic approach, sequence analysis “brings course back to the life course research.” This short course will provide an introduction of […]

Dr. Feinian Chen will give a talk on "Adolescents’ Gender Beliefs in India: Does Mothers’ Empowerment Matter?"

Jennie E. Brand, Ph.D. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jeffrey-a-grigg-memorial-lecture-tickets-815543020127 Each year, millions of high school students consider whether to continue their schooling and attend and complete college. Despite strong evidence that a college degree yields far-reaching benefits, some critics of higher education increasingly argue that college “does not pay off” and that some students - namely, disadvantaged prospective college […]