Fall 2020 News & Events Despite the unusual nature of current events, the importance of population science and the demographic approach could not be more clear. I am excited to be able to build off the enormous successes of CPC under Kelly Musick’s outstanding leadership, further enrich the community of population research, and expand into new and innovative areas of research, teaching, and engaged outreach. We have an exciting Fall 2020 planned and look forward to reconnecting with students, faculty, postdocs, faculty, researchers and visitors from across campus – and with all the CPC activities now held online – nationally and internationally. Best wishes for a great start to the 2020-21 academic year. Matt Hall, CPC Director

Welcome Reception: September 10, 4:30-5:15 pm Join CPC, the Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI), and the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research in celebrating new and on-going initiatives in the social sciences and share our thanks to recent CPC director, Kelly Musick on Thursday, September 10, 4:30-5:15 pm, Zoom Meeting ID: 957 7736 2025 Passcode: 659750. Link to event details.

Upcoming Seminars and Events

CPC hosts the Innovations in Population Science seminar series with co-sponsorship from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) and CSI. Talks are Fridays, 12-1:15pm virtually. Ariela Schachter (Washington University in St. Louis) will kick off the series with her talk titled, Ancestry, Color, or Culture? How Whites Racially Classify Others in the U.S.. October 2, 12-1:15pm. This year's series also includes Elizabeth Wrigley-Field (University of Minnesota), Stephane Helleringer (New York University, Abu Dhabi), Maarten Bijlsma (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research), Naomi Sugie (Univeristy of California Irvine), Emily Smith-Greenaway (University of Southern California), and Joscha Legewie (Harvard University). Link to CPC's list of seminars and online access.

National Institute on Aging (NIA) Multi-University Aging and Policy Center

Syracuse, Cornell, and SUNY at Albany received a 5-year, $1.5-million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to fund the Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS), headquartered at Syracuse University. Cornell’s team, led by Kelly Musick (PAM) includes Erin York Cornwell (SOC), Rachel Dunifon (PAM), Maria Fitzpatrick (PAM), Dan Lichter (PAM), Corinna Loeckenhoff (Weill Cornell, HD), Anthony Ong (HD), Karl Pillemer (PAM), Adriana Reyes (PAM), and Seth Sanders (ILR). The center will bring together 41 scholars from across the three sites whose research focuses on the demography and economics of aging, organized by the themes of health and well-being and family and intergenerational supports. It will fund innovative pilot projects and will offer a colloquia series, visiting scholars program, grant mentoring program, state-of-the-art methods training, and a research incubator to foster collaborations among CAPS affiliates. Link to September 25th CAPS colloquia event.

COVID-19 Affiliate Research and Outreach Peter Enns (GOV) and Jonathon Schuldt (COMM) received an NSF rapid response grant for Understanding Increased Social Bias During the COVID-19 Crisis in the United States with their first publication in Medium. Laura Giurge with V.K. Bohns (April 2020) wrote the op-ed, 3 Tips to Avoid WFH Burnout in Harvard Business Review.  Philipp Kircher (ILR) joint with Luiz Brotherhood, Cezar Santos and MichéleTertilt recently published An Economic Model of the Covid-19 Pandemic with Young and Old Agents: Behavior, Testing and Policies. Kelly Musick (PAM) with Thomas Lyttelton (Yale) and Emma Zang (Yale) published Before and During COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality by the Council on Contemporary Families. Anthony Ong (HD) with Tara L. Gruenewald (Chapman University) received funding from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences for Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Prosociality During COVID-19. Qi Wang (HD) was awarded a grant from the Cornell Atkinson Center to study social distancing during COVID-19 and its relation to psychological well-being. Erin York Cornwell (SOC), Kate Cagney (Chicago), and Christopher Browning (Ohio State University) received an NSF rapid response grant for their work, How has COVID-19 Affected the Daily Mobility Patterns and Health Outcomes of Urban Older Adults?. Link to COVID-19 affiliate research.

Welcome CPC Affiliates and Members

Max Kapustin (PAM) studies ways to reduce violence in urban settings and improve the life outcomes of disadvantaged youth and adults.

Philipp Kircher (ILR) focuses on labor markets, in particular regarding wage setting and assignment of workers to jobs. Kircher has also worked on epidemics and how individuals change their behavior in response to diseases and policies.

Barum Park (SOC) studies political sociology, social networks, and social mobility with a focus on how several social dimensions intersect to create social structures we care about.

Landon Schnabel (SOC) focuses his research on gender inequality alongside other dimensions of social inequality including sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and class.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Chiara Galli (Ph.D., Sociology, UCLA) is a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow. Galli conducts research on humanitarian paths to legal status in the U.S. immigration process. She is writing a book examining the experiences of Central American unaccompanied minors who apply for asylum in the U.S., focused on the mismatches between youths’ lived experiences of escape from violence and the narrow formal criteria of U.S. asylum case law.

Chris Hess (Ph.D., Sociology, University of Washington) is PAM's newest postdoctoral fellow. Hess's interests focus on residential segregation, housing markets and the changing spatial distribution of place-based inequalities.

Linda Zhao (Ph.D., Sociology, and M.A. Statistics, Harvard) is CPC's newest Frank H. T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow. Zhao conducts research on how network structures influence the integration of immigrant youth and predict social processes that shape police misconduct and crime. Link to CPC Affiliates.

CPC Demography Training Updates

DemSemX was launched this summer to promote cross-center graduate training and scholarly interaction. Events were held in May and again in late August, with 9 U.S. population centers participating: Bowling Green, Brown, Cornell, Michigan, Minnesota, Penn State, UCLA, UT-Austin, and UW-Madison. The events brought together a total of 375 participants from across the U.S. in a plenary session and break-out rooms featuring graduate student presenters and faculty discussants. Look out for our Fall programming! Link to more information.

CPC's graduate training proseminar kicked off the semester with a focus on preparing abstracts for PAA 2021. Next up is an overview of resources available through the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research with additional topics spanning the areas of professional development, traditional demography, methods, computing, and data. Predocs and postdocs welcome. See the full training schedule here.

Graduate Student Spotlight

Tatiana Padilla (Ph.D., PAM, expected May 2023): A SUNY Graduate Diversity scholar, member of the PAM Diversity and Inclusion working group; and serves the Latinx graduate community as an executive board member of the Latinx Graduate Student Coalition. Padilla uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to promote a bi-national understanding of the consequences of U.S. immigration policy and explores the intersectionality of migration experiences and status.   Read more about CPC Graduate Students

Undergraduate Student Spotlight

Jada Kissi (B.A., CALS, expected 2021) is minoring in demography. Kissi is passionate about working in development, specifically addressing the needs of populations that are overlooked on a national or global scale. She has recently studied abroad in Switzerland and met with the World Trade Organization and the OECD. Kissi participated in UT Austin’s Population Research Center REU where she conducted her own research project to investigate the effects of Ghanaian women’s sexual empowerment on the correlation between education and family planning. She plans to attend graduate school. Read more about opportunities for CPC's undergraduate minors.

CPC Demography Minors & Postdocs on the Job Market Karina Acosta Ordonez, Ph.D., City and Regional Planning (expected 2021); Regional Economic Development, Spatial Econometrics, and Demography Etienne Breton, Ph.D., Demography (Princeton University, 2019); PAM Visiting Fellow; Families, Living arrangements, Gender, Inequality, Mixed-methods Research Jocelyn Fischer, Ph.D., Sociology (expected 2021); Gender, Family, Work and the Labor Market, inequality and Social Stratification Sarah James, Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy (Princeton University, 2019); CPC Frank H. T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow: Child and Adolescent Wellbeing; Family and Community Factors in Health Disparities; Sleep Sneha Kumar, Ph.D., Development Sociology (expected 2021); Aging and Health, Labor Migration, Gender, Family Demography, International Development, Social Protection.  Emily Parker, Ph.D., Policy Analysis and Management (expected 2021); Health and Social Policy, Poverty and Inequality, Gender and Family, Spatial Demography Link to all CPC affiliates on the job market.

Call for Applications Coming soon—look out for PAM's call for applications for an open-rank faculty position in Race and Public Policy. The Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cornell is accepting applications from broad areas of research (applications due October 15). CPC encourages applications from scholars working in social demography.

Affiliate Highlights

Steven Alvarado (SOC) published The Complexities of Race and Place: Childhood Neighborhood Disadvantage and Adult Incarceration for Whites, Blacks, and Latinos in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. Francine D. Blau (ILR) with Lawrence M. Kahn, Peter Brummund, Jason Cook, and Miriam Larson-Koester recently published, Is There Still Son Preference in the United States? in the Journal of Population Economics. David Brown (Global Development), Joe Francis (Global Development), and Dan Lichter (PAM) earned the Excellence in Multistate Research Award, given by the Western Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors for their work addressing demographic change in rural U.S..  Shannon Gleeson (ILR) with Sofya Aptekar wrote the op-ed, All Undocumented Immigrants Deserve Citizenship—Not Just “Essential Workers” for In These Times. Don Kenkel (PAM), Alan Mathios (PAM), and Hua Wang (PAM) article, Research claims a link between e-cigarettes and respiratory disease: Not so fast was published in VoxEu. Emily Parker (Ph.D. Candidate in PAM), Sharon Sassler (PAM), and Laura Tach (PAM) paper, Fatherhood and Racial-Ethnic Differences in the Progression of Romantic Relationships was accepted in the Journal of Family and Marriage. Elaine Wethington (HD) is Co-PI and Ithaca Site Leader for Disparities in the Diffusion of Direct-acting Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C among Baby Boomers: A Mixed-Methods Study, funded by the National Institute on Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Disorders. Nicholas Ziebarth (PAM) was recently appointed as the Associate Director of the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures. Link to CPC Affiliates.

Population Studies in Practice: The New York Minute

The New York Minute is published every other month and highlights NYS trends and data sources on varying community development topics. Read the most recent edition, Census 2020 Response Rates Across NYS by Adriana Hernandez, Jan Vink, and Robin Blakely-Armitage. Link to the New York Minute.

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