1985-1987 - Population Studies Center - University of Michigan

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R CELEBRATIONIn June1986, the Population Studies Center commemorated its 25th anniversary with a reunion in Ann Arbor.Over half of the Center's former students,staff, and faculty returnedto campus for a five day celebration whichincluded both formal and informal festivities. The scholarly aspect of the celebration was a symposium on populationresearch with substantial policy implications in which many of the Center's accomplished alumni participated.Symposium in Celebration of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Population Studies CenterJune 12-14,1986Frontiers of Social Demography and Population Policy:The Research AgendaFriday, June 13Session I - Fertility and NuptialityChair: Eva Mueller9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m."Marriage and Childbearing Late in theDemographic Transition." Larry Bumpass,Department of Sociology, University ofWisconsin-Mad ison."Fertility Transition in Developing Societies:Research Priorities." John Casterline, Departmentof Sociology, Brown University.Other presenters: Charles Calhoun, The UrbanInstitute, on birth expectations, childreneverbom, and desired family size; MuhammadFaour, American University of Beirut, onrecent fertility trends in Lebanon; KathyLondon, National Center for Health Statistics,on changing patterns of children's involvementwith divorce; Sara Millman, Departmentof Sociology, Brown University, on insightsfrom collective goods theory for achieving asocially optimal level of childbearingDiscussants: Ronald Freedman, Department ofSociology, Population Studies Center,University of Michigan, and N. KrishnanNamboodiri, Department of Sociology, OhioState UniversityFriday, June 132:00 - 5:00 p.m.Session II - Migration and UrbanizationChair: William M. Mason"Regional and Metropolitan Growth andDecline in the United States: Charting theContents of Redistribution." William H. Frey,U-M, and Alden Speare, Department of Sodology,Brown University."How Large is Too Large? Implications of theOptimum City Size Literature for PopulationPolicy and Research." Mark Montgomery,Department of Economics and Office ofPopulation Research, Princeton University.Other presenters-. Allen Beck, U. S. Bureau ofJustice Statistics, on a macro-demographicapproach to migration; Paul K. C Liu,Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica,Taiwan, on urban growth and employmentrestructuring in Taiwan; Paul Voss, Departmentof Rural Sociology, University ofWisconsin - Madison, on applied migrationanalysesat the the Applied PopulationLaboratory at the University of WisconsinDiscussants: Barry Edmonston, Department ofSociology, University of Connecticut, andLinda Swanson, U. S. Department of AgricultureSaturday, June 149:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m.Session III - Socioeconomic-DemographicInteractionsChair: Deborah Freedman"The State of the Field and Prospects forResearch on on Interactions betweenEconomic and Demographic Factors." RonaldD. Lee, Graduate Group in Demography,University of California - Berkeley."Socioeconomic'DemographicInteractions inDeveloped Countries: Examples fromSociology and Economics." Linda J. Waiie,The Rand Corporation.Other presenters: PaulP. L. Cheung, Departmentof Sociology, National University ofSingapore; John Goodman, Division ofResearch and Statistics, Federal ReserveBoard; Arland Thornton, Institute for SocialResearch and Population Studies Center, U-M; Boone Turchi, Department of Economics,University of North CarolinaDiscussion leaders: Robert Kleinbaum, Divisionof Societal Analysis, General MotorsCorporation, and Herbert Smith, Departmentof Sociology, Indiana UniversityThe Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration 43
On Monday, June 16, a workshop —The Demographic Transition in AsiaandItsImplications —focussed onvariations in the timing,degree, andrates of change in fertility andmortality levels in Asiaand developingcountries in otherregions, bycountry and within country.Formerstudents makingpresentationsincluded Makota Nohara Atoh, E. B.Attah, Muhammad Faour,Ik Ki Kim,and Osman Nur. Theydrew on theirresearch investigating the relative importanceofmajor factors,as wellastherelativemagnitutde andmajorchanges in theproximate determinantsof fertility andmortality. The panel,conductedby AlbertI. Hermalin, alsoexplored the consequencesof fertilitydeclines on development, governmentprograms, and social-structural andcultural institutions.Ron and Deborah Freedman and JohnCasterline look at Center memorabilia at theWelcoming Reception on June 12.Other occasions for returning alumstorenew friendships with formercolleagues and makenew friendsincluded luncheon roundtables atthe Michigan Union designedto berelevant tothe current research ofthe returning alumni. Topicsincluded theDemography of Aging,Demographic Analysis of HealthIssues,and the Creation and UseofProjections and Estimates.William M. Mason conducted ashortcourse on Contextual andMultilevelAnalysis onthemorningof Tuesday, June 17. The seminarpresented highlights from thesummerworkshopProfessor Masonhasoffered through the U-M ICPSR.BUI Mason conducts a workshopon multilevel analysis.iCenter staf and alumni fromabroador those conductingresearch onpopulation issues indeveloping countries met foraninformal workshop, "ForgingCollaborations in PopulationResearch,"onthe afternoonofJune 17 attheMichiganUnion.\V1Before leaving on Tuesday, the workshop groupposes for a group picture.44 Population Studies Center
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