RSS FeedUpcoming EventsDemography Brown Bag Seminar: “Genetic Evolutionary Demography and Senescence: Concepts and Challenges”, April 3https://events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event/240461-demography-brown-bag-seminar-genetic-evolutionary-dem

Ken Wachter has held a joint appointment in Demography and Statistics at Berkeley since 1979. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Statistics from Cambridge in 1974, completing a thesis on random matrix eigenvalues under the supervision of David Kendall and John Kingman.

After time at Bell Laboratories, at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, and teaching at Harvard, he came to Berkeley originally as a Miller Fellow. His books include Statistical Studies of Historical Social Structure (1978), Height, Health, and History (1990), and the collection Between Zeus and the Salmon (1997). “A Mutation-Selection Model for General Genotypes with Recombination”, written with Steve Evans and David Steinsaltz, was published as a Memoir of the American Mathematical Society.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1999, he serves on the Editorial Board of PNAS handling social sciences. His wife is a CAL alumna and his poodle Ambrose an enthusiastic CAL fan.

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Demography Brown Bag Seminar: “Managing Migration Crises: Evidence from Surge Facilities and Unaccompanied Minor Children Flows”, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event/241331-demography-brown-bag-seminar-managing-migration-crise

Climate change, political turmoil, and economic instability worldwide suggest that managing migration surges will be a permanent challenge for many economies. In response to the record arrival of unaccompanied migrant children at the southern border, the Biden administration used surge facilities to expedite the processing of children. We assess the effectiveness of this strategy and document reductions in the time children spent under government custody. A counterfactual analysis reveals that, in their absence, the average time to reunification would have risen from 37 to 50 days. Migration surges involving unaccompanied children underscore the urgency of identifying efficient and humanitarian strategies.  

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Demography Brown Bag Seminar: “The Fertility of Refugees in Germany”, May 1https://events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event/243224-demography-brown-bag-seminar-the-fertility-of

Dr. Andreas Backhaus is a Postdoctoral Researcher on Ageing, Mortality and Population Dynamics.

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