The MigLab is an interdisciplinary working group for researchers, including students, postdocs, visiting scholars, and faculty, who are interested in the social scientific study of migration. It is co-sponsored by the Cornell Population Center and the Brooks School for Public Policy.

MigLab is led by Matt Hall and Shannon Gleeson.

Fall 2025 sessions include:

• Jack Zinda on the distributional impacts of US National Flood Insurance price increases across New York State.
• Nathan Ly on the state administration of migration
• Megan Dias on welcoming policies American cities have adopted for immigrants.
• Reed Eaglesham on How firms make decisions about temporary versus permanent visa sponsorship.
• Tristan Ivory on Double or Nothing
• Katharina Geppert on Gender differences in housework time in mixed- versus same-nativity marriages
• Eugene Lee on Immigrant Student School Belonging
• Nicole Venker on countermapping migration landscapes with Myanmar migrants in Thailand

The Brooks/CPC/CSI Working Group in Gender, Family and Fertility brings together a community of scholars working on topics related to gender, family, and fertility, with an emphasis on intersections with work, social policy, and social inequality. It provides a collaborative space for sharing work in progress and discussing emerging issues in the field, and it aims to foster research connections among participants.

The GFF Working Group is led by Kelly Musick

Fall 2025 Sessions include:

• Jamie Budnick and Kevin Guyan on measuring gender
• Adriana Reyes on intergenerational support and bequest division
• Charlie Townsend on People Prefer to Negotiate with Women, Even When Outcomes Are Identical and Gender is Unknown
• Kelly Musick, Kim Weeden, Zhipeng Zhou, and Sinn Won Han on overwork and gender wage gaps across countries
• Duanyi Yang on Gendered Responses to Overwork Culture: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in the Chinese Tech Industry
• Tristan Ivory, Hao Liang, and Andrea Peña-Vasquez on Double or Nothing: Receiving State Legal Protections and Foreign-Born Female Labor Market Outcomes

SpacePop is a graduate training workshop supporting students doing research in spatial demography, including studies of the spatial distribution of populations and resources, mobility patterns, mobility networks, and spatial inequality. Launched in Fall 2023, the group holds regular meetings to engage student research-in-progress, discuss new methods, and share information about data sources in spatial demographic research. Throughout the year, students have presented working drafts of projects in early stages (focusing on analytic approaches or theoretical framing), as well as drafts of conference submissions, qualifying papers, dissertation chapters, and conference presentations.

SpacePop is sponsored by the Cornell Population Center, and coordinated by Peter Rich and Erin York Cornwell.

The Spatial, Computational, and Real-Time Analytic Methods (SCRAM) Working Group brings together faculty, researcher, postdocs, and graduate students at Cornell, Michigan, the University of Chicago, Ohio State, UT-Austin and beyond.  We are united by our interests in using geographical/spatial data, real-time data, and computational methods for research in social demography, urban sociology, social inequality, and population health.  Monthly virtual meetings (or “Scrambles”) include presentations of working papers and discussion on the use of spatial methods to explore the relevance of social environments and urban mobility for heath and well-being across the life course, including adolescence and later life.  To be added to the mailing list, please email Erin York Cornwell (eyc46@cornell.edu).

The Postdoctoral Social Science Working Group is cosponsored by the Cornell Population Center, the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research,  Cornell Center for Social Sciences, and Center for the Study of Inequality. This group fosters the development of work in progress and research collaborations through monthly lunch meetings. Jiwon Lee is serving as the lead this term. For more information, look HERE.