1985-1987 - Population Studies Center - University of Michigan

1985-86, and Maxine Weinstein in 1986-87. Recenttitles include:"Does Higher Fertility for the Poor IncreaseIncome Inequality?""Population Aging in the People's Republic ofChina""The Demand for Adopted Children""Black Migrants to the South: Their Social andEconomic Characteristics""The Demography of the Early Roman Empire:An Outline"9i"Comparative Analysis of Early Fertility: FurtherAdvances with the WFS""Genetics and Demography of a Human Isolatein Northwest Argentina"Maxine Weinstein and Arland Thornton present a Brown Bag seminar onchanging household patterns in Taiwan.Other educational experiences include the weeklyeconomic demography seminar held at the Center.Visitors who have made presentations include RobertWillis of the Economics Research Center at NORC, SivGustafsson of the University of Stockholm, T. PaulSchultz of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University,Sheila Johansson of Stanford University, and DovChernichovsky of the World Bank. Interest in mathematicaldemography fostered a series of noon seminarsat the Center in 1985 on topics such as indirect mortalityestimation, migration matrices, and a model offecundability.Formal presentations also complement the Center'straining program. The Hawley Lecture Series, sponsoredjointly by the U-M Department of Sociology andthe University of North Carolina, honors Amos H.Hawley, chairman of the U-M Sociology Departmentfrom 1952 to 1961 and now at the University of NorthCarolina. The eighth Hawley Lecture was held in AnnArbor on November 7,1985, when Professor SidneyGoldstein of Brown University spoke on "Forms ofMobility and Policy Implications: A Comparison ofThailand and China." November 6,1987, Ansley Coaleof Princetdn University presented "Marriage andChildbearing in China Since 1940" as the tenth lecturein the series; the presentation was part of the Universityof Michigan's celebration of the 100th anniversaryof the National Institutes of Health.Center trainees have the opportunity to take shortsummer courses offered by the University's Institutefor Social Research and Interuniversity Consortium forPolitical and Social Research (ICPSR). These coversuch topics as sampling, survey design and instrumentation,and advanced methods of statistical analysis. Incooperation with the Population Studies Center, ICPSRrecently included courses geared to population specialists,such as methods of demographic estimation forsmall areas, taught by John F. Long of the CensusBureau, and techniques of demographic projection,taught by David Swanson of Bowling Green StateUniversity. Opportunities for internships at offcampuslocations, such as the International LaborOffice in Geneva, Centers for Disease Control inAtlanta, or extended field work abroad, are alsoavailable.In February 1985, David B. McMillen of the U. S.Bureau of the Census presented a series of lectures andseminars on the Bureau's Survey of Income andProgram Participation (SIPP) to acquaint both studentsand faculty with this new source of information onincome distribution in the United States. Interest at theUniversity led to Mr. McMillen's return in 1985 and1986 for shortcourses at ICPSR.The major support for American pre-doctoralstudents has come from training grants from theNational Institute of Child Health and Human Developmentfor sociology and economics students specializingin population studies. In September 1987, theCenter's separate programs in social and economicdemography were combined under a five-year renewalgrant from NICHD. The NICHD award also supportsone post-doctoral fellow each year. Recent recipientsof post-doctoral fellowships have been Paul D. Frenzen,Mariah D. R. Evans, and Ann Riley.A complementary training proposal to the NationalInstitute on Aging was also approved in 1987, addingsupport for two pre-doctoral students and one postdoctoralfellow and expanding the Center's training20 Population Studies Center