Talks

Selected invited talks, seminars, and conference presentations. A fuller list appears on the CV.

2027

• DC Health Economics Seminar (scheduled)

2026

• Yale Population Studies Workshop (scheduled)
  Institution for Social and Policy Studies / Center for Empirical Research on Stratification and Inequality, Yale University
  October 30, 2026
• NDIRA big data conference

2025

• Moving Forward by Looking Back: New Evidence that Early Life Shapes our Lifespan
  Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford
  May 2025
• Moving Forward by Looking Back: New Evidence that Early Life Shapes our Lifespan (faculty lecture)
  Uncovering Secrets To Living Longer From Measuring Childhood Experiences (student lecture)
  BYU Economics Visiting Scholar
  May 2025
• American-European Health Economic Study Group
  Oxford
  2025
• Princeton University Notestein Lecture
  Office of Population Research, Princeton University
  2025
• University of California–Berkeley Demography Seminar
  Department of Demography
  2025
• University of Texas Population Research Center
  PRC, Austin, TX
  2025
• University of Texas LBJ School
  LBJ School of Public Affairs, Austin, TX
  2025
• Frontiers in Mortality Workshop
  Population Association of America, Washington, DC
  2025
• Social Science History Association
  SSHA Annual Meeting
  2025

2024

• Promise (or lack thereof) of Biosocial Studies of Aging and ADRD
  PARC Aging Chat, University of Pennsylvania
  February 2024
• Early Life Conditions and Old Age Mortality: Extending Barker
  (video)
  University of Minnesota, Minnesota Population Center
  March 2024
• Prenatal Exposure to Racial Violence and Later-Life Mortality among Males: Evidence from Historical Lynching
  13th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior
  Opatija, Croatia · July 2024
• Dynamic Complementarities between Early- and Late-Life Exposures: Evidence from the Social Security Notch
  Empirical Health Economics Workshop
  Pisa, Italy · July 2024
• Social and Health Policies and Cognitive Impairment
  National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop:
  Identifying Midlife Social Exposures that might Modify Risk for Cognitive Impairment Associated with Early Life Disadvantage
  Washington, DC · August 2024
• University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR)
  2024
• University of Wisconsin–Madison Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies (Holtz / STS)
  2024
• University of Virginia, Batten School
  2024

2023

• Understanding Geographic Disparities in Mortality
  University of Illinois · April 2023
• Early Life Context and Old Age Mortality
  Vanderbilt University · April 2023
• Early Life Context and Old Age Mortality
  University of Tennessee · April 2023
• Estimating causal effects of fertility outcomes: Evidence using a dyadic genetic instrumental variable approach
  European Social Science Genetics Network Conference II · May 2023
• Early Life Context and Old Age Mortality
  Paris School of Economics · May 2023
• Population Association of America Annual Meeting · 2023
• University of Wisconsin (fMRI) · 2023
• University of North Carolina · 2023

2022

• Understanding Geographic Disparities in US Mortality
  Syracuse University (virtual) · February 2022
• Understanding Geographic Disparities in Mortality
  University of Iowa, Public Policy Center · May 2022
• Keynote, Colloquium on Aging
  Institute on Aging, University of Wisconsin–Madison · August 2022

2021

• Combining Social Science and Genetics to Understand Health and Aging
  Interdisciplinary Program in Precision Public Health, Korea University (virtual) · July 2021
• Understanding Sibling Correlations in Education: Molecular Genetics and Family Background
  Conference on Genes, Social Mobility, and Inequalities across the Life-Course, ifo Institute, Munich (virtual) · July 2021
• Understanding Geographic Disparities in US Mortality
  La Follette Seminar, University of Wisconsin–Madison · September 2021
• Integrating Genetics and Economics to Gain Insight of Family Processes
  University of California, Merced, Department of Economics · December 2021
• The Effects of Education on Mortality: Evidence Using College Expansions
  University of California, Berkeley, Department of Demography · December 2021

2020

• The Production of Within-Family Inequality: Insights and Implications of Integrating Genetic Data
  Notestein Seminar, Office of Population Research, Princeton University · September 2020, virtual
  (video)
  MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol · July 2020, virtual

2019

• Intergenerational Health Mobility: Magnitudes and Importance of Schools and Place
  Stanford University, Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford, CA · December 2019
• Promises of Polygenic Scores in the Social Sciences (panel)
  Uses of Polygenic Scores Conference, New York Genome Center / NYU · November 2019
• Intergenerational Transmission with Genetic Measurement
  Vrije Universiteit (Free University), Amsterdam · September 2019
• Decoupling Genetics from Educational Attainments: How Do Socially Mobile Contexts Work?
  ISA Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) Summer Meeting, Princeton, NJ · August 2019
• Classmate Moderation of Genetic Effects on Educational Outcomes
  Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Austin, TX · May 2019
• Health Policy and Genetic Endowments: Understanding Sources of Response to MLDA Laws
  NBER Health Economics Meeting, Cambridge, MA · April 2019

2018

• Genetic Endowments, Educational Attainment and Social Mobility
  Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC · November 2018
• In Utero Exposure Interact with Genetic Factors to Predict Old Age Cognition (video)
  IAPHS Annual Conference, Washington, DC · October 2018
• Peer Effects of Obesity on Child Body Composition
  IAPHS Annual Conference, Washington, DC · October 2018
  ASHEcon Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA · June 2018
• Early Life Exposures, Gene Environment Interactions, and Cognitive Decline in Old Age
  NBER Summer Institute: Aging Workshop, Cambridge, MA · July 2018
  NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Meeting, Denver, CO · April 2018
• Cesarean Section and Children’s Health
  ASHEcon Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA · June 2018
• Providing Evidence for Causal Research Designs using Non-Experimental Data
  Center for Demography and Ecology, Summer Demography Seminar (DemSem), Madison, WI · May 2018
• Genetic Endowments, Educational Attainment, and Social Mobility
  University of Chicago Demography Seminar · May 2018
  University of Texas at Austin, Population Research Center · March 2018
• Separating Measured Genetic and Environmental Effects: Evidence Linking Parental Genotype and Adopted Child Outcomes
  PAA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO · April 2018
• The Policy Implications of Recent Advances in Genomic Science
  University of Texas at Austin, LBJ School of Public Affairs · March 2018

2017

• Uncovering Heterogeneous Effects in Project STAR
  APPAM Annual Conference, Chicago, IL · October 2017
• Genetic Endowments, Educational Attainment and Social Mobility (keynote)
  ISA RC28 Summer Meeting, New York, NY · August 2017
• RDC Project Examples Incorporating Geographic and Birth Date Information
  UW–Madison Summer DemSem · June 2017
• Environmental Shaping of Effects of Individual Endowments in Processes of Social Mobility (video)
  Stanford University, Center for Education Policy Analysis · May 2017
• Genetic Endowments, Educational Attainment and Social Mobility
  NIA-Sponsored Biomarker Network Meeting, Chicago, IL · April 2017
  Penn State, Population Research Institute · March 2017
  University of Georgia, Terry College of Business · March 2017
• Environmental Bottlenecks on Children’s Genetic Potential for Adult Socioeconomic Attainments
  PAA Annual Meeting · April 2017
• Uncovering Heterogeneous Effects in the Head Start Evaluation
  UW–Madison ITP Seminar, Wisconsin Center for Education Research · March 2017
• Gene-Environment Interactions in Social Mobility
  The Ohio State University (Consumer Science, Economics, and EEOB) · February 2017
• The Genome Factor: Reporting back from the field on the ongoing integration of genetics and social science
  UW–Madison Biotechnology Center, Neuroscience and Public Policy Seminar, Paul Bach-Y-Rita Memorial Lecture · February 2017
• Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status: New Evidence of Gene-Environment Interactions
  UW–Madison DemSem · January 2017
• The Social Construction of Race and Genomic Science: A Discussion
  UW–Madison Race & Ethnicity Brownbag · January 2017

2016

• Integrating Biodemographic and Economic Insights in Fertility Research (keynote)
  Essen Health Conference, Essen, Germany · May 2016
• The Determinants and Consequences of Friendship Composition
  IZA Seminar, Bonn, Germany · May 2016
• The Coming Genotocracy? Trends in the Genetics of Spousal Selection in the US
  ZiF Research Group Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany · May 2016
• Gender-Specific Pathways of Peer Influence on Adolescent Suicidal Behaviors
  PAA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC · April 2016

2015

• Trends in Education Mobility Across Time and Place in the US
  University of Minnesota, Inequality and Methods Seminar · December 2015
  UW–Madison La Follette Seminar · October 2015
  ISA RC28 Summer Meeting, Philadelphia · August 2015
• Trends in Education Mobility Across Time and Place in the Early 20th Century US
  University of Iowa Inequality Seminar, Iowa City · October 2015
• Causal Spousal Spillover Effects
  University of Iowa, Department of Economics · October 2015
  UW–Madison Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention · May 2015
  UW–Madison AAE Applied Economics Seminar · February 2015
• Examining the Long Term Mortality Effects of Early Health Shocks
  UW–Madison Wisconsin Research Data Center opening · September 2015
• Genetic Diversity and Economic Outcomes
  Midwest International Development Economics Conference, Madison · April 2015
  UW–Madison AAE Development Economics Seminar · February 2015
• Sexist Peers and Long Term Outcomes
  University of Illinois at Chicago, Sociology · February 2015
• Integrating Genetics and Policy Analysis
  Indiana University, Bloomington · January 2015

2014

• Understanding Cognitive Development Through Gene-Environment Interactions
  UW–Madison Neuroscience and Public Policy Training Seminar · December 2014
• Genetic Diversity and Economic Outcomes
  Southern Economic Association, Atlanta · November 2014
• Regression Discontinuity Designs in Political Science
  UW–Madison MAD Seminar · October 2014
• Genetics × Environment (panel)
  National Institute on Aging / National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC · August 2014
• Extending Gene-Environment Interactions into Policy Domains: The Case of Tobacco Taxation
  University of Chicago, Health Sciences · May 2014
  UW–Madison Population Health Sciences · January 2014
• GWAS (panel) (video)
  HCEO Conference on Genetics and Behavior, Chicago · April 2014
  Integrating Genetics and Social Science Workshop, Syracuse · April 2014
• Physician Value Added
  UW–Madison SMPH, AQORN Seminar · March 2014
• Childhood Environments and Adult Health
  UW–Madison DemSem · March 2014
• The Determinants and Consequences of Friendship Composition
  University of Tennessee, Department of Economics · January 2014

2013

• How do Social Networks Affect Policy Impacts?
  UW–Madison La Follette School · December 2013
• Integrating Genetics and Social Science
  UW–Madison Center for Demography of Health and Aging · November 2013
• Extending Gene-Environment Interactions into Policy Domains: The Case of Tobacco Taxation
  University of Michigan · November 2013
  Columbia University · September 2013
• Understanding the Heterogeneous Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes
  UW–Madison Institute for Research on Poverty · September 2013
• The Determinants and Consequences of Friendship Composition
  UW–Madison AAE Applied Economics Workshop · September 2013
  UW–Madison ITP Seminar · September 2013
  NBER Education/Children’s Spring Meeting, Cambridge, MA · May 2013
  University at Albany, Department of Economics · April 2013
  Atlanta Federal Reserve · June 2013
• Genetic Modulation of the Effects of Tobacco Taxes on Use
  American Cancer Society, Atlanta · June 2013
  Emory University, QuanTM · June 2013
  American Economic Association, San Diego · January 2013
• Learning from the Experience of Friends’ Childbearing
  Yale Health Economics Workshop · May 2013
• Long Term Effects of Occupational Choice on Health
  Yale Medical School, Occupational Medicine · April 2013

2012

• Understanding the Heterogeneous Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes
  Yale Health Economics Workshop · November 2012
• Learning from the Experience of Friends’ Childbearing
  UW–Madison IRP and La Follette · November 2012
  Yale Labor Lunch · March 2012
• Genetic Modulation of the Effects of Tobacco Taxes on Use
  UW–Madison Center for Demography and Ecology · October 2012
  Duke University SSRI · October 2012
  University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill · October 2012
  Cornell University, Policy Analysis and Management · August 2012
  Yale GxE Conference · April 2012
  Yale Health Policy and Administration Colloquium · April 2012
  University of Connecticut, Department of Economics · March 2012
• Merging Social Science Research Designs with Genetic Data
  Columbia University ISERP conference on gene–environment interactions · May 9, 2012
• New Opportunities from Old Data for Gene-Environment Interaction Research
  Exploring the Relevance of Gene-Environment Interactions, New Haven · April 16, 2012
• The Effects of Removing “Key Players” on Adolescent Health Behaviors
  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Annual Meeting, Princeton · April 2012
• The Effects of Soda Taxes on Weight and Consumption Outcomes
  University of Connecticut, Agricultural and Resource Economics · March 2012
• Enhancing Non-Experimental Research Designs in GxE Studies
  Columbia University conference on child development and risky behavior · January 2012

2011

• Genetic Modulation of the Effects of Tobacco Taxes on Use
  National Tax Association, New Orleans · November 2011
  Southeastern Health Economics Study Group, Memphis · September 2011
  Columbia University, Gene-Environment Interactions conference · May 2011
  Columbia Applied Microeconomics Lunch · April 2011
  University of Toronto · March 2011
  University of Guelph · March 2011
  McMaster University · March 2011
  Yale Economics · March 2011
  Tulane University · February 2011
  Louisiana State University · February 2011
  Yale Sociology (CIQLE) · December 2011
• New Evidence of the Consequences of Teenage Parenthood
  Yale Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy · October 2011
• Friendship Networks and Health Behaviors
  York University, European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics · September 2011
  Annual Health Econometrics Workshop, Minneapolis · September 2011
• GxE Research Opportunities using NHANES and WLS
  Columbia University, Gene-Environment Interactions conference · May 2011
• The Effects of Sibling Health on Education Outcomes
  University of Michigan Conference on Child Health · May 2011
• Enhancing the Gene-Environment Interaction Framework: Differential Responses to September 11th
  PAA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC · April 2011
• Long Term Effects of Childhood ADHD on Labor Market Outcomes
  PAA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC · April 2011

2010

• The Social Returns to Obesity
  Southern Economic Association, Atlanta · November 2010
• Long Term Effects of Childhood ADHD on Labor Market Outcomes
  Southern Economic Association, Atlanta · November 2010
• Overview of Disparities in Child Health
  UW–Madison Child Health Conference · October 2010
  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Conference, Madison · October 2010
• Tobacco Use, Taxation, and Self Control in Adolescence
  Queens College, Economics · September 2010
  Cornell University, ASHE Meeting · June 2010
  Columbia University Microeconomics Lunch · December 2010
• Understanding the Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Health
  University of Michigan PSID SES and Health Conference · September 2010
• Friendship Networks and Health Behaviors
  NBER Summer Institute, Health Economics · July 2010
  Cornell University, ASHE Meeting · June 2010
  Yale Applied Micro Lunch · April 2010
  PAA Annual Meeting, Dallas · April 2010
  Cornell University, Policy Analysis and Management · March 2010
  Annual Meeting on the Economics of Risky Behaviors, Atlanta · March 2010
  University of California–Santa Barbara, Economics · February 2010
• Genetic Lotteries within Families
  Integrating Genetics and Social Science Conference, Boulder · June 2010
• Increasing Our Understanding of the Health Income Gradient
  Cornell University, ASHE Meeting · June 2010
• The Effects of Soft Drink Taxation on Soft Drink Consumption and Weight
  PAA Annual Meeting, Dallas · April 2010
• Achievement Effects of the Inclusion of Students with Special Needs
  American Education Finance Association, Richmond · March 2010
• The Medium Term Effects of Low Birth Weight: Evidence from Siblings and Twins
  American Economic Association, Atlanta · January 2010

2009

• The Effects of Soft Drink Taxation on Soft Drink Consumption and Weight
  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Eating Conference, Tucson · December 2009
• Tobacco Use, Taxation, and Self Control in Adolescence
  APPAM Annual Conference, Washington, DC · November 2009
  University of Tennessee, Economics · October 2009
  Yale Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Stress, Self-Control and Addiction · September 2009
  Annual Health Econometrics Workshop, Chicago · October 2009
• Friendship Networks and Health Behaviors
  Yale Health Economics Workshop · November 2009
  Texas A&M, Economics · October 2009
  Baylor University, Economics · October 2009
  University of Texas at Austin, Population Research Center · October 2009
  Yale Health Policy and Administration Colloquium · September 2009
  Lafayette College, Economics · September 2009
  Lehigh University, Economics · September 2009
• The Effect of Classmate Characteristics on Individual Outcomes
  Johannes Kepler University, Linz · July 2009
  Yale Sociology CIQLE Seminar · February 2009
• The Long Run Health Returns to College Quality (poster)
  AcademyHealth, Chicago · June 2009
• Assessing the Effect of Increasing Housing Costs on Food Insecurity (poster)
  AcademyHealth, Chicago · June 2009
• Using the “Genetic Lottery” within Families to Examine the Causal Effect of Health on Academic Achievement
  IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists, Munich · May 2009
  CUNY Seminar in Health and Labor · April 2009
  American Economic Association, San Francisco · January 2009
• Can State Level Policies Influence Children’s Weight?
  Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity · April 2009
• High School Course Content and College Choices
  American Educational Research Association, San Diego · April 2009
• Early Occupation and Health: An IV Approach
  PAA Annual Meeting, Detroit · April 2009
• The Effects of Adolescent Health on Educational Outcomes: Evidence using Genetic Markers
  PAA Annual Meeting, Detroit · April 2009
• Social Interactions and Smoking Decisions
  University of Illinois–Chicago, Institute of Government and Public Affairs · March 2009
• Peer Effects in Health Behaviors
  Bates College, Economics · March 2009

2008

• The Effect of Classmate Characteristics on Individual Outcomes
  Yale Economics Labor Lunch · November 2008
  Georgia State University, Economics · November 2008
• Peer Influences in Alcohol Consumption
  Emory University, Economics · November 2008
  Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC · November 2008
  University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Public Policy · November 2008
• The Effects of Adolescent Health on Educational Outcomes: Evidence Using Genetic Markers
  Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC · November 2008
  NIMH Mental Health Conference, Bethesda · September 2008
  Add Health Users Conference, Bethesda · March 2008
• Does Head Start Participation Influence Parents’ Behavior?
  Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC · November 2008
• The “Bluest Eye” and Pathways to Success
  Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC · November 2008
• Mental Health Spillovers between Working Spouses
  APPAM, Washington, DC · November 2008
• Smoking and Social Interactions
  Southeastern Health Economics Study Group, UNC · October 2008
  American Society of Health Economics, Duke University · June 2008
• Higher Education and Health Investments
  NBER Summer Institute, Health Economics · July 2008
  UW–Madison Wisconsin Longitudinal Study Workshop · June 2008
• Using the “Genetic Lottery” within Families
  Society of Labor Economists, New York · May 2008
  Annual Health Economics Conference, Chicago · March 2008
• Assessing the Effect of Increasing Housing Costs on Food Insecurity
  UW–Madison IRP-Ridge Conference · May 2008
• High School Peer Networks and College Success: Lessons from Texas
  University of Kentucky Poverty Conference · May 2008
  Society of Labor Economists, New York · May 2008
  Princeton THEOP Research Seminar · August 2008
• Is Identification with School the Key Component in the “Black Box” of Education Outcomes?
  American Education Finance Association, Denver · April 2008
  American Economic Association, New Orleans · January 2008
• Race and Ethnic Differences in College Achievement: Does High School Attended Matter?
  American Educational Research Association, New York · April 2008
• Teenage Childbearing and Early Outcomes
  Yale Sociology CIQLE Seminar · 2008