Dan Simon, a Sociology graduate student affiliated with the CU Population Center, is co-author on this article recently accepted for publication.
Houle, Jason N., Fenaba Addo, and Daniel H. Simon. “Young, Black, and (Still) In the Red: Parental Wealth, Race, and Student Loan Debt.” Forthcoming, Race and Social Problems
Amanda Barrientez (SOCY DEPT) has received a $1,000 graduate student award from the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) to fund her dissertation research investigating the traumatic life histories of men who were previously involved gang members and are currently incarcerated.
Amanda Barrientez and David Pyrooz took part in an panel hosted by the Gang Reduction Initiative of Denver (GRID), a network of federal, state, and local governmental agencies, local businesses, schools, and community-based, grassroots, and faith-based organizations that has been in operation since 2010. GRID is a comprehensive model organized around prevention, intervention, suppression, and community mobilization. The panel involved academics from local universities and practitioners, including judges, corrections agencies, directors of juvenile and adult parole and probation, and city leaders. The panel was brought together to enhance academic-practitioner relationships and to gather knowledge on the current state of research related to gang dynamics.
Lori Hunter has accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of the journal Global Environmental Change.
Lori Hunter was an invited panelist at a Tuesday conference at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU. The conference theme was “Will Climate Change Health?” and Lori spoke on the connections between climate, migration and health.
A new research article by Nnenia Campbell, Lucy McAllister and Liam Downey, “Invisible While in Plain Sight: The World Bank in the New York Times”, has been accepted for publication in the journal, Sociology of Development.
The new Natural Hazards library catalog interface is now online! It’s got lots of great new features and the Hazards Center and the IBS tech team have worked super hard to create it. Read more here: http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/dr/archives/dr651.html#three
Access the library directly here: http://hazlib.colorado.edu/
Andrei Rogers' latest book has just been published: "Applied Multiregional Demography: Migration and Population Redistribution", (Dordrecht: Springer), 2015.
This book reconsiders conclusions reached in the literature
regarding several fundamental common sense demographic
questions in migration and population redistribution, including:
Are the proximate sources of urban population growth mostly
due to migration or natural increase? Is it mostly migration or
“aging-in-place” that has been driving Florida’s elderly
population growth? Do the elderly return “home” after
retirement more than the non-elderly do? Are the migration and
settlement patterns of the foreign-born different from those
of the native-born? Do simple poulation projection models
outperform complex ones? Does longer life lead to longer
ill-health?
For each demographic question it reconsiders, the book
illustrates how an inappropriate model specification can bias
findings to favor a possibly incorrect conclusion. It shows how
a multiregional analysis can better illuminate the dynamics that
underlie the observed population totals and lead to a more
informed conclusion.
