• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Prof. Melinda Mills (University of Oxford) , Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Wednesday at 5pm
• Organising department: Nuffield College

Wednesday 6 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Promise and the Peril of Using Social Influence to Reverse Harmful Traditions
  Sonja Vogt (University of Bern)

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Historical Legacies and Contemporary Realities: Misperceptions of Social Mobility and Their Redistributive Implications
  Fangqi Wen (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Geospatial data integration for mapping population distributions, demographics and dynamics
  Andy Tatem (University of Southampton)

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Marriage and its aftermath: Some implications of bridewealth payment for women's wellbeing
  Francis Ni Dodoo (Pennsylvania State University)

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Extreme inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemporary UK population
  Loïc Yengo (Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland)

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - WHO GETS SICK AND WHY?: HOW RACIAL INEQUALITY “GETS UNDER THE SKIN"
  Tyson Brown (Duke University)

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - TOWARDS OPEN SOCIETIES: CHANGES IN CAREER MOBILITY DURING MODERNIZATION
  Ineke Maas (Free University of Amsterdam)

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - DOES FASTING AFFECT SUPPORT FOR ISLAMIST POLITICAL PARTIES? EVIDENCE FROM RAMADAN
  Ozan Aksoy (UCL)

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - DEADLY DEFAULTING: WHY CAN’T ADOLESCENTS TAKE LIFESAVING MEDICATION, AND WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?
  Lucie Cluver (Nuffield College)

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - THE LEGACY OF LONGEVITY: PERSISTENT INEQUALITIES IN UK LIFE EXPECTANCY 1500-2016
  Charles Rahal (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - IF ONLY THIS COULD BE MY LAST: A RE-CONSIDERATION OF THE BRITISH FERTILITY TRANSITION
  This seminar is now CANCELLED
  Alice Reid (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 29 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - TRUST IN SCIENCE AND EXPERTS DURING THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK IN ITALY
  Ridhi Kashyap (Nuffield College), Valentina Rotondi (Nuffield College)
• 16:00 - Trust in science and experts during the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy
  This seminar will take place online.
  Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford), Valentina Rotondi (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)

Monday 4 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - 'If only this could be my last': a re-consideration of the British fertility transition
  Alice Reid (Universiy of Cambridge)

Wednesday 6 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - COVID-19 induced economic hardship and mental health symptoms contain steep occupational gradients
  This seminar will take place online.
  TBA
• 16:00 - COVID-19 Induced Economic Hardship and Mental Health Symptoms Contain Steep Occupational Gradients
  This seminar will take place online.
  Dirk Witteveen (Nuffield College)

Wednesday 18 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Inequalities in Access to Urban Infrastructure, Social Justice, and Urban Governance
  Trivik Verma (Delft University of Technology)

Wednesday 25 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Re-Conceptualizing Measurement of Fertility Preferences: Evidence from the US
  Julia Behrman (Northwestern University)

Wednesday 1 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Mendelian Inheritance and Two Instances of Statistical Magic
  Augustine Kong (Leverhulme Centre of Demographic Science)

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Climate Change and Fertility
  Joshua Wilde (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - New Evidence on Pandemic Excess Mortality in India
  Aashish Gupta (Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science)

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Prenatal Demography: The Production of Birth Cohorts and the Study of Social Processes
  Jenna Nobles (University of Wisconsin)

Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Racial Disparities in Infant Outcomes: Insights from, and for, Formal Demography
  Monica Alexander (University of Toronto)

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Body mass index and gene expression patterns indicative of disease: a longitudinal analysis
  ONLINE only
  Michael Shanahan (University of Zurich)

Tuesday 30 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Upward Mobility, Gender, and Progressive Politics
  Delia Zollinger (University of Zurich)

Wednesday 16 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The equalising potential of language: can gender-inclusive language change behaviour?
  Anica Waldendorf (Nuffield College)

Wednesday 23 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Why does Parenting vary by Socioeconomic Status? New Insights from Computational Text Analysis
  Pat Hastings (Colorado State University (Nuffield College Visitor))

Wednesday 30 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - How religion fades: The three stages of religious decline around the world
  Jörg Stolz (University of Lausanne (Nuffield College Visitor))

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Schools and Learning Inequalities – A Theoretical Model of Quantitative and Qualitative School Effects.
  Said Hassan (Nuffield College)

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - When Powers Collide: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters
  Zachary Parolin (Bocconi University [Nuffield College Visitor])

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Influence of Ingroup Preferences on Neighborhood and Organization Choice
  Dingeman Wietz (UCL)

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Harvesting the family tree: kinship, capital and big business
  Maren Toft (University of Oslo)

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Social and Ethnic Biases in Primary Education
  Valentina Perinetti Casoni (University of Bristol)