Events Calendar

https://youtu.be/bTpuoZndFy4 Recording of the talk given on 8/30/21 by Andrew Philips. Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95260579117.us/j/95260579117 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Andrew Philips Abstract: Scholars regularly connect major violent domestic and international events—like armed conflict, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and extreme weather—to financial market volatility and negative returns. Yet, major violent events matter to financial markets not ... Read more

IBS is excited to host a series of four workshops aimed at examining and promoting equity across the different stages of the research process. The workshops will be led by Dr. Kristine Andrews, a renowned expert on this topic. Training 1 will introduce concepts of racial equity, the 5 guiding principles underlying this work, and ... Read more

Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95260579117 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Speaker: Taylor Jaworski Abstract: Substantial improvements in air quality over the last 50 years have also been accompanied by costs of economic adjustment for sectors targeted by environmental regulation. This paper develops a spatial general equilibrium model to quantify the benefits, costs, and welfare implications of environmental regulation due ... Read more

YouTube Link: A recording of the talk given by Professor Federiga Bindi on September 27th. https://youtu.be/HI18qOqtGuI Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95260579117 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Speaker: Federiga Bindi Abstract: While there was no alternative to the withdrawal from Afghanistan, its modalities and the lack of results obtained in 20 useless years of war severely brings into question ... Read more

IBS is excited to host a series of four workshops aimed at examining and promoting equity across the different stages of the research process. The workshops will be led by Dr. Kristine Andrews, a renowned expert on this topic. Training 2 will focus on the data collection phase of a research study: including equity concerns ... Read more

YouTube Link: A recording of the talk given by Cyrus Hester on October 4th. https://youtu.be/CJ35eRgpPNk Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95260579117 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Speaker: Cyrus Hester Abstract: For much of the Twentieth Century, generations of Americans enjoyed longer and healthier lifespans than their predecessors. Tragically, this no longer appears to be the case for many rural Americans. ... Read more

Recording of talk on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9dBqAhfg1-0 Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95260579117 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Speaker: Dylan Connor Abstract: Despite the portrayal of rural people and places as being among the major victims of recent economic change in the United States, rural communities have been left out of most research on the topic. This urban-centric research focus has ... Read more

IBS is excited to host a series of four workshops aimed at examining and promoting equity across the different stages of the research process. The workshops will be led by Dr. Kristine Andrews, a renowned expert on this topic. Training 3 will focus on the data analysis phase of a research study: including quantitative and ... Read more

View the recording of this talk here: https://youtu.be/59Dozfw3dDk Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95260579117 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Speaker: Luis Bettencourt Abstract: The confluence of worldwide urbanization and of bigger data of many kinds and from many places is enabling a new, more systematic, and more scientific understanding of human societies and of cities in particular. In this talk, ... Read more

Zoom Link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/97433416901 Speaker: Melinda Mills, Keynote Speaker for the Integrating Genetics and the Social Science (IGSS) Annual Conference. Abstract: This talk first reflects on what genetics can offer the social sciences and vice versa, but also the advantages of working together. It delves into examples that have produced novel measures and better prediction of ... Read more

A recording of the talk can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ODbgUxDBy8 Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95260579117 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Speaker: Derek Briggs Abstract: “Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.”  This was the credo articulated by Edward Thorndike in 1918 to make the case ... Read more

https://youtu.be/AvxMBgAqI-0 Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95260579117 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Speaker: Anand Sokhey Abstract: Anand will be presenting his forthcoming book (The Knowledge Polity: Teaching and Research in the Social Sciences, Oxford UP). In The Knowledge Polity, Paul A. Djupe, Amy Erica Smith, and Anand Edward Sokhey envision academics as members of a polity where the primary output is ... Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7czIuj_tY Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95260579117 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Speaker: Priyanka de Souza (CU Denver) Abstract: In the year 2016 alone, air pollution was responsible for ~ 7 million premature deaths. 90% of these deaths occurred in the Global South. How can countries in the Global South improve air quality? This talk takes a multipronged approach to ... Read more

IBS is excited to host a series of four workshops aimed at examining and promoting equity across the different stages of the research process. The workshops will be led by Dr. Kristine Andrews, a renowned expert on this topic. Training 4 will focus on equitable communication tips. It will also explain how equity can be ... Read more

https://youtu.be/F_1qRPxFKSo Zoom link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95260579117 – email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for password. Speaker: Leslie Root Abstract: How do we measure fertility in the US, and why does it matter? This talk will present an overview of what we know and don’t know about fertility, and discuss exciting efforts in the CUPC to use large administrative data sources to ... Read more