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Seminars and Speakers

CPC Seminars ARE HELD on Fridays, 1:25-2:40PM in MVR 2250 (unless otherwise noted). 

For additional information contact population@cornell.edu

CPC Seminars | Fall 2025

10/3/25 TILL VON WACHTER | UCLA
Shareholder Power and the Decline of Labor
Innovations in Population Science
Co-sponsor: Labor Economics

10/17/25 CASEY BREEN | UT-AUSTIN
Black-White Mortality Crossover: New Evidence from Social Security Records
Innovations in Population Science
Co-sponsor: CSI

10/23/25 CECILIA RIDGEWAY |STANFORD
STATUS: What is it? Why Does it Matter for Race & Gender Inequality?
4:30-6:00 PM |Ives 115
ILR Cook-Gray Lecture

11/7/25 KATE TIERNEY | WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Is IVF the Solution to U.S. Low Fertility? (And Why That’s the Wrong Question)
Innovations in Population Science
Co-sponsor: CSI

12/5/25 JESSICA FINLAY | UC-BOULDER
Advancing Cognability: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Neighborhoods and Cognitive Health across the Life Course
Innovations in Population Science


MORTALITY AND CRIMINAL SYSTEM CONTACT CONFERENCE

9.26.25 | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM | Statler Hotel Amphitheater
Keynote: 10:45 – 11:30 AM | Evelyn Patterson

CPC Rhodes Conference

Co-sponsors: Georgetown University and Cornell

CPC Newsletter

Archived CPC Seminars

CPC Seminars | Fall 2024

Jessi Streib (September 6) The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College.

Jennifer Candipan (September 20 Neighborhood Racial Change & Racial Stratification in Schools.

Jennifer Barber (October 4) Neighborhood Racial Change and racial Stratification in Schools.

Christina Cross (November 1) The Open Secret: Why the Two-Parent Family Is No Cure-All for Racial Inequality.

 

CPC Seminars | Spring 2024

Richard Alba (March 15) will present Does Assimilation Still Matter? 

Orly Clerge (March 22) Youth, Race & Mobility in the 21st Century: A Focus on Black Millennials.

Orsola Torrisi (April 12) will present Family Dynamics in Armed Violence & Conflict: A Focus on Reproductive Health & Contraception.

Laura Lindberg (April 26) will present Stigma, Sensitivity, & Surveys: Measuring Abortion Post-Dobbs.

Megan Hyland (May 3) will present the first CPC Honorary Student Colloquium on The Role of State & Federal Policies in the Health Care Experiences of Older Adults.

N. Meltem Daysal (May 17) will present Antidepressant Use & School Performance: Evidence from Danish Administrative Data.

CPC Seminars | Fall 2023

Henrik Kleven (MONDAY September 18) will present Micro vs Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort at 423 ILR Conference Center.

Ravaris Moore (September 22) will present on work Police Shootings, Civilian Crime Reporting Delays, and Changing Implicit Sentiment Toward Police at 102 Mann Library.

Luca Maria Pesando (September 29) will present Dynamics of School Expansion and Sociocultural Changes in Inter-Caste Marriage in India

Dan Bouk (October 20) will present Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them at 396 Statler Hall.

CPC Seminars | Spring 2023

Elizabeth Martin (February 17) will present Sheltered from the Storm? Political Environment and Economic Insecurity in US States, 1999-2019.

A. Nicole Kreisberg (March 24) will present TBD.

CPC Seminars | Fall 2022

Krystale Littlejohn (September 23) will present Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics

Bryan Sykes (October 14) will present on work TBA

Jeremy Fiel (October 21) will present Opportunity Seeking across Segregated Schools: Unintended Effects of Automatic Admission Policies on High School Segregation

Siwei Cheng (November 4) will present The Geography of Income Polarization and its Intergenerational Consequences

Archived CAPS Seminars

The Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS) is a consortium between Syracuse University, the Cornell Population Center, and the School of Public Health of the University at Albany.

CAPS Events

Jennifer Dowd (September 27, 2024) Progress Stalled? The Uncertain Future of Mortality & Healthy Aging in the US & UK.

Lisa Berkman (October 25, 2024) The Keynote Address: CAPS Annual Conference.

Coady Wing (February 2, 2024) Getting Started with Event Study Designs: Basic Concepts and New Innovations. 

Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (March 8, 2024) Projections of Human Kinship for All Countries.

CAPS-CPR Data Users Conference on U.S. State Policies, Population Health, and Aging. (May 21, 2024).

Gopi Shah Goda (September 8, 2023) The Interplay between Research and Policy: Lessons from the White House.

Jessica Ho (September 22, 2023) Causes of America’s Lagging Life Expectancy: An International Comparative Perspective.

Lauren Brown (October 6, 2023) Biosocial Aging: Measurement, Equity, and Ethics. 

Hui Zheng (October 27, 2023) Understanding American Health Trends: Deaths of Despair, Racial Disparities, and The Declining Health in Boomers to Millennials.

January 27, 2023 at 12:00pm – CAPS/CPR Seminar: Atheendar Venkataramani

February 24, 2023 at 12:00pm- CAPS Seminar: Norma Coe

March 31, 2023 at 10:00am – CAPS Methodology Workshop

April 21, 2023 at 12:00pm – Rachel Margolis