IBS Speaker Series: The Economic Geography of Environmental Regulation
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
IBS Speaker Series: A conversation on foreign policy at the time of Covid and after the withdrawal from Afghanistan
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
Equity in Research Workshop Series : Training 2 – Data Collection
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
What Can High Resolution Data Tell Us About Urban-Rural Mortality Disparities Among Coloradans?
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
IBS Speaker Series: The changing populations and economic fortunes of small places in the United States
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
Equity in Research Workshop Series : Training 3 – Data Analysis
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
IBS Speaker Series: What Urban Science can tell you about the cities of the present, past and future
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
IBS Speaker Series – Special Presentation! Why the social sciences and genetics need each other.
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
IBS Speaker Series: “Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences: Credos and Controversies”
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
