Wednesday, May 6, 2020

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Invited Experts:

Organizers:

Population, climate change and food security

World Population Deputy Program Director Raya Muttarak is organizing a cyberseminar on 18-25 May 2020 in the context of the Population and Environment Networks (PERN) that she is also chairing.


Population dynamics are at the center of the climate change-population-food security nexus. On the one hand, not only does population growth contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, it also drives demand for food. Likewise, rising incomes come with changing diets toward animal-based products, which are typically more resource-intensive and display higher environmental impacts. Population size and composition thus influence both climate change and food security. On the other hand, the impacts of climate change on human wellbeing and livelihoods are already being felt. Climate change may affect food security directly by reducing crop yields and available farming land and through adverse impacts on livestock health. Indirect effects of climate change on food security may be observed through reductions in agriculture income, conflict, or impacts on global “breadbaskets” that result in increasing (or volatile) international, national and local food prices. The level of vulnerability and ability to respond and adapt to climate change and subsequent food insecurity varies and reflects individual farmer and community factors as well as broader scale economic, governmental and policy responses. Population dynamics and characteristics thus matters both in terms of population impacts on climate change and food security and in terms of determining who is vulnerable.

Despite the central role demography plays in climate change and food security research, the topics remain understudied among demographers. The understanding of current and future population size, composition and spatial distribution as well as differentials in dietary patterns, vulnerability and adaptive capacity will help policy planning for future climate change. This cyberseminar will focus on the applications of methodological tools and concepts in demography, geography, economics, systems analysis, and other related fields in analyzing the population-climate change-food security nexus. We will explore empirical work and future scenarios that consider the impact of population on climate and food systems and the impact of climate and weather factors and food security on population subgroups and communities. The cyberseminar provides a platform for dynamic engagement between scientists from different disciplinary communities to advance the conversation centered on the nexus of population-climate change-food security.

Raya Muttarak is chairing the Population and Environment Networks (PERN) and is the main organizer of this series. In her research at IIASA, Muttarak focuses on the intersection of social inequality, differential vulnerability and environmental change. Her research has recently been published in Science and Nature.

Hugo Valin, researcher at IIASA's Ecosystems Services and Management Program, will be speaker at this event. At IIASA, Valin is currently involved in the development of the partial general equilibrium model GLOBIOM, used to analyze land use change at the global scale. His main topics of research concern emissions from agriculture and land use change. In particular, he extensively studied the impact of biofuels policies with respect to land use change, GHG balance, agricultural prices, and welfare impacts. He is also working on the implication of productivity changes on agriculture land and the prospect of future food demand in relation with various socio-economic prospective scenarios. His final area of research concerns the link between climate change and crop productivity, and their potential impact for food security.


For more information regarding participation please visit the event website.

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

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Согласие на чтение лекций в Казахстане дал ещё давно, около года назад. О пандемии тогда никто и не думал, а кто мог подумать — помалкивал, по крайней мере, не слышно было. Время подошло, тем не менее. Хорошо, что с ОНФ конфликтов не возникло, но возник конфликт внутри себя — стало ссыкотно, но Казахстан отменил полёты (пассажиров без разрешения их МИДа), так что облом. Что ни делается — не делается, и это к лучшему, но где-то через недельку Казахстан вынырнул вновь, на это раз онлайн.

Поскольку слово — не воробей, пришлось призадуматься. Одна лекция у меня была изготовлена, но надо было делать что-то ещё. Звонок из Нур Султана разбудил, спросонок пообещал 5 лекций, остальное — семинарами. В переписке ещё возникло недопонимание по часам, но это — мелочи жизни. Самое интересное впереди. Через некоторое время они порекомендовали зум, тут почувствовал, что они сами плохо представляют себе о чём речь, и как это будет выглядеть. Пршлось принимать решение самому — я его и принял.

Оказалось, что зум можно записывать и выкладывать на ютуб. Были ещё варианты с курсами Денисенко и Калмыковой, но они не прошли. Первый принадлежит институту Гайдара, второй толи МГУ, толи ещё какое-то хитрое условие. Тем не менее решение было принято, оставлось наладить обратную связь. Ну, почта всегда есть, она была на крайняк. Планировал через блог, но получилось хираватка. Результатом сомнений и поисков стали ютубканал и гуглгруппа.

Онлайн был организован следующим образом: записывал лекцию, разбивая её на смысловые эпизоды, как сериал — LxEy x-сезон, y-эпизод. Это направление кажется перспективным, поскольку клиповое мышление и проч. хрень. Поучилось так как получилось, то-есть, хреново, по первости даже презенташка от лекции отрвалась, потом это ещё раз было, но перезаписывать не стал — ибо нех. После записи, грузил на ютуб и сообщал в группе. Презентацию надо было делать web-доступной, но это не сложно в гугледоках. Туда перешёл уже довольно давно, экономя дисковое пространство. Из трудностей: надо следить, чтобы не отрывалась презенташка от лекции, по плохому — никогда не уверен, что оно выйдет так как нужно, но потом заметил, что в углу экрана лектор присутствует, а это значит: запись и презентации и голоса.

Сейчас уже лекции закончил. Встроенные в лекции вопросы тоже закончил, осталось доклады прочитать (ещё не написаны), и оппонирование посмотреть.


Saturday, March 7, 2020

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Денисов Борис Петрович
Лаборатория экономики народонаселения и демографии, 
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Monday, April 16, 2018

Google Scholar and Academia Alerts

[PDF] Migration, legality, and fertility regulation: Abortion and contraception among migrants and natives in Russia
V Agadjanian, SH Yoo - Demographic Research, 2018
Background: Migrant-vs.-native differentials in reproductive behavior are typically
examined through the prism of socioeconomic and cultural constraints that
characterize the migration process and experiences. However, the literature seldom …

Saturday, June 3, 2017

strategic planning in Russia

it does exist, although the quality is very low, but the tern they use is SP
for instance:
Отчет о ходе реализации в 2015 году Стратегии социально-экономического развития Сибири до 2020 года, утвержденной распоряжением Правительства Российской Федерации от 5 июля 2010 г. № 1120-р
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Monday, April 24, 2017

wishlist #2

43-2 The U.S. Transgender Health Landscape: A Multilevel Analysis of Self-rated Health in 27 States

Thursday, April 27, 2017: 10:30 AM
Salon A-2 (Hilton Chicago)
Danya Raquel Lagos Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Drawing from a 27-state subsample of the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), I evaluate the association between gender identity and self-rated health between cisgender, transgender, and gender non-conforming groups. Because policies and socioeconomic factors vary widely across states, this study employs multilevel logistic estimation to account for variation among individuals within states. The analysis finds distinct health disparities between gender identity groups, with gender non-conforming individuals reporting the highest odds for poor health, followed by transgender women, transgender men, cisgender women, and cisgender men, respectively. Most of these differences are explained by a combination of socioeconomic, behavioral, and support network factors. However, the higher odds of poor health among gender-nonconforming respondents persist despite these controls, and may be due to differences in social support similar to those experienced by bisexuals.

P5-12 Social-Institutional Structures That Matter: An Exploratory Analysis of Sexual/Gender Minority Status and Income in Japan

Thursday, April 27, 2017
Salon D (Hilton Chicago)
Daiki Hiramori Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
While most previous studies examining the effects of sexual orientation on earnings rely on lesbian women, gay men, and their heterosexual counterparts in Western societies, this paper argues that focusing on different stratification processes withinsexual/gender minorities as well as social-institutional structures of a society is indispensable to the study of sexuality stratification. Using the LGBT Workplace Environment Survey 2015, this study explores the association between sexual/gender minority status and income in Japan. The results show that there is a negative association between being a sexual/gender minority and income among both designated females at birth and designated males at birth. The results suggesting the lesbian premium found in Western economies are not observed in Japan. In addition, the findings indicate that the processes through which sexuality stratification operates depend on various categories of sexual/gender minorities such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, transgender, and a local transgender category in Japan “X-gender.”

43 Sexual and Gender Minorities, Health, and Mortality

Thursday, April 27, 2017: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Salon A-2 (Hilton Chicago)
Objectives:
Synopsis:
Discussants:
Kyler J. Sherman-Wilkins and Gilbert Gonzales
Session Chair:
Gilbert Gonzales
10:45 AM
Marriage, Partnerships, and Health Status: Differences by Sexual Orientation in the BRFSS-SOP
Bridget GormanRice UniversityAlexa SolazzoRice UniversityJustin T. DenneyRice University
11:00 AM
A Nationally-Representative Analysis of Mortality Risk in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Unions in the United States
Andrew FenelonUniversity of Maryland, College ParkChristina DragonCenters for Medicare and Medicaid ServicesCorinne ReczekThe Ohio State UniversityHui LiuMichigan State University


wishlist: reports to hear

55-3 Probabilistic Population Projections for Countries With Generalized HIV/AIDS Epidemics

Thursday, April 27, 2017: 1:40 PM
Salon A-5 (Hilton Chicago)
David J. Sharrow University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Jessica Godwin Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Yanjun He University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Sam Clark The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Adrian Raftery Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
The UN issues probabilistic population projections for all countries to 2100 by simulating future levels of total fertility and life expectancy from Bayesian hierarchical models, and combining the results using the cohort-component projection method. However, projections for the 40 countries with generalized HIV/AIDS epidemics used Spectrum/EPP model, a complex 15-compartment model designed for short-term projections of quantities relevant to policy for the epidemic. We propose a simpler approach that is more compatible with the existing UN methodology for other countries. Changes in life expectancy are projected probabilistically using a time series regression model on current life expectancy, HIV prevalence and ART coverage. These are converted to age- and sex-specific mortality rates using a new family of model life tables designed for countries with HIV/AIDS epidemics which are input to the cohort-component method. The method performed well in out-of-sample cross-validation, and gives similar results to Spectrum/EPP projections in the short run.


25-2 Probabilistic Projection of Subnational Total Fertility Rates

Thursday, April 27, 2017: 10:35 AM
Joliet Room (Hilton Chicago)
Hana Sevcikova University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Adrian Raftery Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Patrick Gerland United Nations Population Division, New York, NY
We consider the problem of probabilistic projection of the total fertility
rate (TFR) for subnational units. We seek a method that is consistent
with the UN's recently adopted Bayesian method for probabilistic TFR
projections for all countries, and works well for all countries.
We assess various possible methods using subnational TFR data for 47 countries.
We find that the method that performs best in terms of out-of-sample
predictive performance and also in terms of reproducing the within-country
correlation in TFR is a method that scales the national trajectory by
a subregion-specific scale factor that is allowed to vary slowly over time.
This supports the hypothesis of Watkins (1990, 1991) that within-country
TFR converges over time in response to country-specific factors,
and extends the Watkins hypothesis to the last 50 years and to a much
wider range of countries around the world.

74-4 Comparing Artificial Neural Network and Cohort-Component Models for Population Forecasts

Thursday, April 27, 2017: 3:45 PM
Joliet Room (Hilton Chicago)
Viktoria Riiman Center for Business and Economic Research, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Amalee Wilson Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Reed M Milewicz Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Peter Pirkelbauer Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Artificial neural network (ANN) models are rarely used to forecast population in spite of their growing prominence in other fields. We compare the forecasts generated by ANN long short-term memory models with population projections from traditional cohort-component method (CCM) for counties in Alabama. The evaluation includes forecasts for all 67 counties that offer diversity in terms of population and socioeconomic characteristics. When comparing predicted values with total population counts from the 2010 decennial census, the CCM used by the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama in 2001 produced more accurate results than a basic multi-county ANN model. Only when we use single-county models or proxy for a forecaster's experience and personal judgment with potential economic forecasts, results from ANN models improve. The results indicate the significance of forecaster's experience and judgment for CCM and difficulty, but not impossibility of substituting these insights with available data.

P3-45 Immigration Forecasts: A Bayesian Semiparametric Approach for Seasonal Data

Thursday, April 27, 2017
Salon D (Hilton Chicago)
Alice Milivinti University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Giacomo Benini University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Immigration is the main driver of population change in developed countries. Nevertheless, a
common sense around its unpredictability has left migration forecasts relatively underdeveloped
vis-à-vis other types of population projections. Using high-frequency data, this paper proposes
a new procedure specifically designed to capture seasonal irregularities generated by trend-cycle
interactions. The resulting estimation strategy identifies a class of structural parameters which
reflect the non-constant nature of the immigration flows while introducing prior information
derived from subjective expectations. The outcome is an efficient symbiosis between Bayesian
probability and semiparametric flexibility, which outperforms in terms of forecast accuracy a
set of alternatives

23-1 Socially Embedded Preferences, Environmental Externalities, and Reproductive Rights

Thursday, April 27, 2017: 8:30 AM
Continental B (Hilton Chicago)
Aisha Dasgupta United Nations Population Division, New York, NY
Partha Dasgupta Department of Economics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
We review a class of adverse environmental externalities that accompany consumption and procreation. We also identify externalities that are traceable to socially embedded preferences for family size. Those preference structures can give rise to a heightened demand for children, exacerbating the environmental externalities households impose on future generations. Our analysis exposes weaknesses in basing family planning programmes entirely on individuals' reproductive rights. We use ecological data to obtain a feel for the size of global environmental externalities. We estimate the world population the biosphere can support at the standard of living enjoyed in high middle-income countries. Today's and future global population projections far exceed our estimate, implying that the UN's Sustainable Development Goals are unsustainable. We conclude that family planning has been undervalued by national governments and international agencies. Our purpose is to pose questions that continue to be neglected in the development literature. We do not make policy recommendations.

P3-84 Brass Relational Logit Model and Life Table Construction

Thursday, April 27, 2017
Salon D (Hilton Chicago)
Lei LU Freelancer, Beijing, China
The Brass Relational Logit Model (BRLM) has been one of the most commonly used methods for (model) life table construction and mortality estimates. BRLM can be used as a statistical model, by which the two parameters (alpha and beta) can be estimated from statistical data. In the meantime, the logit model can also be used as a two-parameter analytic model, by which the relationship between two life tables can be studied mathematically.
In this paper, the author discusses three issues related to (model) life table construction with the Brass relational logit model, i.e. (i) some basic analytic properties of the Brass relational logit model, (ii) the analytic relationships between the alpha parameter and various life table indicators, and (iii) the analytic effects of the death distribution factor (i.e. a(x,n) ) on various life table indicators. Some of the analytic relationships/equations developed in this paper can be used for mortality estimation and projection purposes.

55 HIV/AIDS: Methods and Impact

Thursday, April 27, 2017: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Salon A-5 (Hilton Chicago)
Objectives:
Synopsis:
Session Chair: Mark E. McGovern

26 Demographic Applications in the Private and Public Sectors

Thursday, April 27, 2017: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Astoria Room (Hilton Chicago)
Objectives:
Synopsis:
Discussant: Beth Jarosz
Session Chair: Mike Cline

132 Statistical Methods in Population Research

Friday, April 28, 2017: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Williford C (Hilton Chicago)
Objectives:
Synopsis:
Discussant: Scott M. Lynch
Session Chair: Shooshan Danagoulian

146 Health and Mortality Projections

Friday, April 28, 2017: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Salon A-1 (Hilton Chicago)
Objectives:
Synopsis:
Discussant: Simona Bignami
Session Chair: Vinod Mishra
Program in general