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I want to share some cool things that have been happening in my population-focused classes and working groups. These are things that made me happy and excited about ideas and have nothing to do with epidemics. Wanted to share these earlier but distractions... #poptwitter
Cool thing 1 is from my amazing #population grad seminar. We ended the quarter by reading a set of 6 just-wow papers by newly minted PhDs. Theme song: “This is how we do it.”
Hot take: Rather than trying to ape Bongaarts (impossible!) or launch the next PSID (expensive!), PhD students in demography should be coached to emulate exactly this: Great question, creative use of secondary data, clear writing. Listing the papers here, in no particular order.
Everybody loved "Extended Family Households among Children in the United States: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and Socio-Economic Status" by @christinajcross Family complexity. Boom. @harvardsoc @UMSociology @umpsid https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00324728.2018.1468476?journalCode=rpst20
This paper doesn’t use a dataset at all; shows what we gain from reading Goode carefully. @LucaMPesando, students wanted to know the origin story of this one! Did it begin as a course paper? @PennPSC https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01494929.2019.1589619
So you wanna make a causal claim? Behrman, Julia Andrea. 2015. “Does Schooling Affect Women’s Desired Fertility? Evidence From Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia.” Demography 52(3):787-809. @DHSprogram @NYUSociology @NUsociology https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-015-0392-3
Couldn't skip the binary blasting “Looking at Population Health Beyond ‘Male’ and ‘Female’: Implications of Transgender Identity and Gender Nonconformity for Population Health” by @DanyaLagos @UChicagoSoc @UTPopCenter https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30255426
Because everyone young adult needs more cohort-perspective-on-fertility in their lives! “Women’s Educational Attainment and Fertility among Generation X in the United States.” @DrEmmaZang @YaleSoc @DukeSociology https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00324728.2019.1658799?journalCode=rpst20
Population’s Young Author’s Prize winner Xu, Kim Qinzi. 2019. “Changing Patterns and Determinants of First Marriage over the History of the People’s Republic of China.” Population-e 74(3):205–35. @InedFr
@Demography_ANU https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_POPU_1903_0219--changing-patterns-and-determinants-of.htm
@Demography_ANU https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_POPU_1903_0219--changing-patterns-and-determinants-of.htm
Other recent, #earlycareer papers we read during the quarter – and discussed specifically as career-launching papers – included @ashleystreet @rykemasters @smithgreenaway @AVerdery and Feliz Garip.
This made me want to teach an entire class on first papers (sole-authored) by demographers we read and rely on today! What was yours? @MikeHoutNY @EnglandPaula @jrgoldstein1 @VanHookJenny @je_nobles @mdhayward @srhayford @marcyjcarlson @rkellyraley @JennieBrand1 @RebeccaSear
In case this didn't go without saying: All of #poptwitter, consider yourself tagged. @s are illustrative, not exhaustive. @drjenndowd @tomtom_m @FCBillari @helleringer143 @CSchmert @SonaldeDesai @ProfLMarteleto @ErnestoFLAmaral @margolis_r @HistDem @rsfrankl @marciacastrorj
Touche, Stuart! @stuartbasten @drjenndowd @TrevonDLogan @IanTimaeus @cbpolis @eecoast @sinafala @kbguzzo @PhBocquier @CoreySparks1 @AudreyDorelien @DavidLam_UMich @collinfpayne @juemos @jnaidoo_econ @monjalexander @SE_Mamelund
