Duke University - Economics

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Perkins Library Breedlove Room.

Two inextricably linked phenomena lie at the heart of African American social history in the twentieth century: The first is "black-white economic convergence" that accompanied the decline in discriminatory barriers and narrowing of the black-white gap in human capital. The second is "the great migration" - the movement of millions of African Americans from the South to the North,

3:45 PM - 5:15 PM, Social Sciences 111

"Radical, Religious, and Violent: Economics and Terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan"

Eli Berman is a professor of economics at UC San Diego, research director for international security studies at IGCC, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include economic development and conflict, the economics of religion, labor economics, technological change, economic demography, and applied econometrics.

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Perkins Library Breedlove Room.

Ethnography and Collaborative Family Research Opportunities at DuPRI SSRI at Duke University currently houses two of the largest longitunal ethnographic datasets on poverty and family life in the country: Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study and the Family Life Project. In this presentation, I will describe the datasets in great detail and discuss opportunities for secondary analysis of these data and for research

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Perkins Library Breedlove Room.

Nordic data registers are a source of longitudinal life histories for entire populations. Particularly problematic for family scholars is the fact that no register exists for cohabiting partnerships. A new database, Sweden in Time: Activities and Relations (STAR), includes information to estimate cohabitation, and thus separation of cohabiters, when partners have a child together. Although

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, John Hope Franklin Center 240.

(joint with DGHI)

The Duke Population Research Institute (DuPRI), an affiliate of SSRI, is dedicated to the conceptual unification of the demographic sciences. We host a regular Thursday afternoon speaker series presenting innovative research during the academic year that all members of the Duke community are invited to attend.