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2019 Feb 14

Robbee Wedow: The new genetics of sexual orientation: How large-scale genetic data can help us understand our social world

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies 9 Bow Street

Social Demography Seminar (SDS) presentation by Robbee Wedow, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University.

 

Abstract

While large-scale genetic data have transformed the biological sciences, these data are only now beginning to...

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2019 Jan 31

Deborah Carr: Love hurts? Family relationships and older adults’ emotional well-being

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies 9 Bow Street

Social Demography Seminar (SDS) presentation by Deborah Carr, PhD, professor and department chair of sociology at Boston University.

Abstract:

Social relationships are a well-documented correlate of health and well-being, although emerging...

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2018 Oct 23

Book Launch: Jason Beckfield - Political Sociology and the People’s Health

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard Square, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies is celebrating the Associate Director’s New Book with a Reception and Book Signing Event.

Political Sociology and the People’s Health by Jason...

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2018 Dec 06

Christine Percheski: Widening inequalities? Gender, resources during childhood, and adult family formation in the United States

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies 9 Bow Street

Social Demography Seminar presentation by Christine Percheski, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University.

 

*co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality

 

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