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 […]
This Thursday, join us for a panel discussion in which experts from across the United States discuss questions including: What are the barriers to conducting abortion-related research today? What have we learned from the data so far? Where are the data gaps and how can we fill them?Two years ago this month, the Dobbs decision […]
