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We found dramatic increases in dementia caregiving burden in the US and China from 1990 and 2022. The burden is projected to continue to grow in the next three decades.

Big congratulations! Arne Kalleberg

New paper out on kinship network and dementia care

So well deserved

Congratulations to UCLA’s Prof. Judith Seltzer, who has won the #PAA24 inaugural Sara McLanahan Award in recognition of her extraordinary lifetime contributions to the study of family change, the well-being of children and families, and related social policies.

The #PAA2024 Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement goes to Jenna Nobles - Congratulations, Jenna!

Our presentation on racial disparities in dementia caregiving using new time-varying kinship stochastic models @ Hal Caswell today at 11 am in TAFT D

Presentation today: foreign educated high skill immigrants have significant disadvantages in career development than their US educated counterparts. A US degree is the ticket to economic incorporation. PAA #PAA2024

Congratulations Ellen Bryer & Alex Adames!

Looking forward to presenting my work on (1) a new LLM algorithm for occupational autocoding w/ Jiahui Xu Lynda Laughlin & Megan Wisniewski and (2) the life course earnings trajectory development of immigrants Allison Dunatchik Rebecca Schut U.S. Census Bureau Sociology at Penn PennPSC

Next Colloquium! Monday 4/8 | 12-1pm EST | PSC Commons (McNeil 403)

PennPSC Demography students and Sociology at Penn students present the talks they are preparing for the PAA conference in two weeks in Columbus, Ohio.

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And they still showed the magnitude was 4.7. When I googled the earthquake 20 min later, the website already changed the magnitude to 4.8.

Congratulations, Ben!!! So proud of you🙌

Join us virtually tomorrow at 14.30 CET for the analytical sociology seminar with Stephen Raudenbush from the University of Chicago!

🔹All Causal Inference is Local: Sociological Thinking About Social Experiments🔹

More info:
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Congrat! We need more comparative mobility studies.

'Approximately two-thirds of the inequality btw poor & well-off families is passed on to the next generation. This extreme persistence cannot be attributed to any single factor...the US is exceptional w respect to virtually all factors governing intergenerational persistence.'

SICSS-Penn submissions are due on March 15 this Friday! Two weeks of intensive training on computational methods.

A fantastic panel on global history & Chinese history: theory & methodology on March 7 at 9 am eastern time

In this recent JAMA Network Open paper, researchers reported an RCT that found Tai Chi more effective than aerobic exercise in reducing blood pressure after 12 months. Does that mean we ought to switch from aerobic exercise to Tai Chi?
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