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Director’s Note The highlight of 2014 was the 5-year celebration of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy. We hosted a delightful celebratory party in April, just as the spring academic term was ending.

Photos of the event are included in this issue. We also produced a 5-year report, which if you have not seen, is available on our website: www.uleth.ca/ prenticeinstitute/news/prentice-institute-five-yearreport It has been a busy five years indeed, and we are only beginning. With the many successes we have had and the recognition locally, regionally, nationally and internationally we have received, we anticipate a very bright future for the Prentice Institute.

The awarding of scholarship funds by the Society of Edmonton Demographers to the Prentice Institute for graduate studies in Population and Demography is a welcome indication of our growing prominence in Population Studies. We were honoured that Peter Kellett, a Prentice Institute Ph.D. student was officially awarded the first SED Scholarship in March in Edmonton at the 22nd Kalbach Conference.

A second banner event of spring 2014 were the successful defenses of two of our Masters students, Celeste Barnes and Tanya Byrne. Celeste is continuing her studies, working toward a Ph.D., while Tanya is employed in Calgary.

As usual for active researchers in global population, we present our research and work with collaborators across Canada and the world. Our travels in 2014 have taken us to China, Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, Cuba, Mexico, Greece, Turkey, Iran, and various countries in Africa.

Our New Postdoctoral Fellow Ye (Oscar) Liu joined the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy and the Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge, as a Post-doctoral fellow in November 2013.

He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in China and in 2013, his Ph.D. in Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include migration, urban labour market and spatial analysis and modelling. He is currently working on wage inequality and wage determinants in China by using China 2005 Population Sample Survey Data.

Welcome Oscar!

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Our New Postdoctoral Fellow

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Five Year Celebration

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Prentice Institute Outreach

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Prentice Institute Ph.D. Student

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Prentice Institute Research Assistant

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In the News

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In the News...continues

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Brown Bag Seminars

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Mission Statement The Prentice Institute does research on the changing human population and its potential impacts on social and economic issues, and communicates its findings widely.

The Prentice Institute and its research collaborators seek to understand longterm changes in the human and economic environments, within a historical context, with particular attention to the role human actions play in influencing those outcomes.

We conduct and integrate research on the dynamics of Canadian and global demography and their impacts on economic wellbeing through migration, culture, trade and natural resource availability.

We communicate widely the output of our work and that of others to stimulate further research and to enable individuals, governments, and corporations to make better-informed decisions. We educate students and future researchers.

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Five Year Celebration For five years The Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy has been conducting, integrating and stimulating research. Our reach is global with our nine international Research Affiliates and our 25 University of Lethbridge Affiliates providing relevant, world-class research. Under the leadership of our Director, Professor Susan McDaniel, The Prentice Institute addresses the many challenges faced in both the Canadian and global population. The research of the numerous disciplines represented by the Institute reaches deeply into the long-term consequences of our human story, how we interact in our societies, in our economies, and in our environments.

These five years have seen much collaboration, many millions in research funding and many of our researchers acknowledged by their peers as leaders in their various disciplines. Dozens of books, hundreds of research articles and book chapters, dozens of research reports and projects, and hundreds of conference presentations are all evidence of the success of our various research teams. Along with active academic research and publication, many of our Affiliates are engaged in flourishing programs of graduate education. Mentoring the next generation of Masters and Ph.D.’s is another layer of passing knowledge on. It doesn’t stop at the door of academia: our Research Affiliates are actively involved in public outreach and education.

The Prentice Institute has, in the past five years, been the host of a lecture series which attract students, faculty, staff and members of the community to the wide variety of subjects. We have been fortunate to come together with a number of community partners and our interaction with them has been one of our many highlights. Many of our Affiliates are called on to speak as experts in their disciplines and can be found as active members of our community in the news and public speaking forums.

We, at The Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy, have had an amazing five years. We live in a complex and global world and we are excited to be in a position of knowledge and growth, ready to help meet the challenges of both the present and the future. We look forward to many more years of association with our Affiliates, the University, and our community.

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Congratulations to

Un ivers ity o f Lethbridg e so cio lo g ist Dr. S usan A. McDaniel a ppo inted Ch a ir of CCA’s Scientif ic Adviso ry Co mmittee

Dr. Susan McDaniel one of Alberta’s 50 most influential people 2014

The Co uncil o f Canad ian Ac ad e mies is p leas ed to anno u nc e th e ap p o intmen t o f Susa n A. McDan iel, FR SC, as Chair o f the Scie ntif ic Ad v iso ry Co mmittee ( SAC) f o r the Co uncil o f Canad ian Acad emi es. Th e Co uncil wo uld also like to ex tend a sin cer e tha nk s to To m Brzusto ws ki, FRSC, FCAE, f o r the f ulf illment o f his ro le as Chai r si nc e 2 0 10 .

Dr. McDaniel p re vio u sly ser ved as Vi ce Chai r o f SAC .

“...when Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People wield their influence, things happen.

They shape our province’s destiny.”

The list of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People is published in the July issue of Alberta Venture.

albertaventure.com/rankings

Prentice Institute Outreach

In February 2014, at the O-Sho Family Restaurant, the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy held its third Café Conversation community outreach event.

Two previous Café Conversation events were on global health and on climate change/ challenges. The February panel shared findings from grant-sponsored research looking into whether there are labour or skills shortages in Canada now or in the near future. The event was attended by university faculty and students as well as a number of people from the community, including prominent business people.

The Labour/Skills Shortage Conundrum in Canada Panelists included:

Dr. Bonnie Watt-Malcolm, Ph.D. Associate Professor Secondary Education University of Alberta

Dr. Susan McDaniel, Ph.D. FRSC, Canada Research Chair in Global Population & Life Course, Prentice Research Chair in Global Population & Economy & Professor of Sociology, University of Lethbridge

Heather McIntosh-Rivera, BMgt Master of Arts Candidate University of Lethbridge

moderated by Alexander Darku

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hidden, but in another way it’s completely in our face,” says Kellett. “Men don’t want to talk about being depressed, but we see and feel the results of it. When left undiagnosed and untreated, men’s depression has a huge impact on the overall health of society. We need to be able to identify men’s depression and understand all the social contexts that are tied to it.”

Peter Kellett wants to change the way we think about depression.

You can find the full article here: www.uleth.ca/prenticeinstitute/news/ shedding-new-light-dark-subject

Peter presented his research at the “Aging Across Borders: A Transnational Look at Just Social Policies of Care” Symposium held in late January 2014 at the University of Southern California. ~ Peter was awarded the Society of Edmonton Demographers Graduate Student Scholarship. He is the first recipient of this award so it is a particular honour. Peter’s name will go down in history as he sets precedent for those that follow.

The scholarship was presented to Peter at this years Warren Kalbach Conferenced in Edmonton held in March where he presented a research paper. Congratulations again, Peter.

Prentice Institute Research Assistant Rebecca Deutsch, awarded the competitive Chinook Summer Research Award, began working at the Prentice Institute in May 2014 for the summer as a research assistant.

Rebecca is currently majoring in Sociology at the University of Lethbridge. Over the past semester her interests have been increasingly drawn to the way that ideas about bodies are involved in the conceptualization of individuality and individual rights. Her curiosity lies in whether or not different approaches to bodies based on gender or race contribute to increased or decreased levels of violence. She has been exploring the work of Foucault, Durkheim and Butler. At the Prentice Institute Rebecca is involved in the big Gender Migration and the Work of Care project, looking at available literature on supply and demand, income inequality, and various other aspects of care work.

Welcome Rebecca.

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Photo by Rob Olson in UofL SAM Volume 5, Issue 2, Spring 2014

“The issue of men’s depression is relatively

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In the News Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, Bonnie Lee, Faculty of Health Sciences Associate Professor, developed a new model for couples counselling, Congruence Couples Therapy. In March 2014, she hosted a national workshop at the University of Lethbridge on this model for problem gamblers. It proved to be a big success.

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Prentice Institute Affiliate and University of Lethbridge Women and Gender Studies professor officially launched her new book Pinay on the Prairies late January 2014 at a special event held at the U of L’s Penny Building. “This book is, I would say, the first one to work on Filipino women, their migration pattern and experiences in a more nuanced way outside of Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto,” states Bonifacio.

Susan A. McDaniel, Amber Gazso, and Seonggee Um. 2013. “Generationing Relations in Challenging Times: Americans and Canadians in Mid-Life in the Great Recession,” Current Sociology 61(3):301-321.

Greece still has a long way to go. Trevor Harrison, Prentice Institute Associate Director, Lethbridge Herald, May 22, 2014.

As the country heads into elections, Greeks hoping worst of financial crisis is behind them.

Susa n McDa niel pu sh es th e p ro verb ia l sn o wb a ll.. www.pre sspro g res s.ca “ A stu d y h ead ed b y th e Pren tice In st itu te r es ea rch er Dr. S u sa n McDan iel h a s fo u nd th a t th e nu mb er o f temp o ra ry fo reig n wo r ker s h a s in crea s ed d ra ma tica lly, f ro m 8 9 ,0 00 p er yea r in 2 00 0 to 21 3 ,0 00 in 2 01 2. An d TFWs, a p p ro ved to wo rk in Ca n a da b y th e fed era l g o vern men t, a re b ein g u sed p rima rily in lo wer p a yin g jo b s, p a rticu la rly in th e h o sp ita lity, a n d fo od an d b evera g e in d u stries."

This wa s t he b e gin ni ng o f seve ral r ico ch et a rti cle s, a b a n o n TFW’s in var io us co mp anie s a cro ss Canad a a nd a ne w lo o k at what i s b ei ng ref e rred to as Can ad a's sl av e mark et.

Ottawa To Cut Size And Scope Of Temporary Foreign Worker Program CBC News | June 20, 2014 Few provinces track complaints by temporary foreign workers CBC News Thousands of temporary foreign workers hired at minimum wage shows program is 'off the rails': AFL Ed mo n ton Jou rn a l Temporary foreign worker program 'completely out of hand' CBC News Restaurant owners seek meeting with PM over foreign worker freeze CBC News

THERE ARE ENOUGH EMPLOYEES IN THE WORKFORCE: TRAINING THEM IS KEY

April 10, 2014 @Globe_Education When it comes to the current debate on skills and employment in Canada, however, it may be the “unknown knowns” that are most important...

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ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS, SOLVING THE RIGHT PROBLEMS. As we rethink our labour market policy we need to improve the collection and analysis of data, and we must also engage employers and educational institutions in an analysis of skills. Tyler Meredith Policy Options, April 9, 2014. www.irpp.org You can find the Prentice Institute highlighted on the UofL New Research website and landing page along with several other centres and institutes considered among the best in Canada here: www.uleth.ca/research/prentice-institute-global-population-and-economy

"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind." --- Marston Bates 5

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In the News… continues Congratulations to two of our Prentice Institute students who successfully completed their Final Masters Thesis Defenses Name of Candidate: Ms. Tanya Byrne April 14, 2014 Title of Thesis: Household Adaptive Capacity and Current Vulnerability to Future Climate Change in Rural Nicaragua Name of Candidate: Ms. Celeste Barnes April 17, 2014 Title of Thesis: Coastal Population Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise and Tropical Cyclone Intensification Under Global Warming

Income Inequality and Infant Mortality: A Panel Analysis of Canadian Provinces (1979-2009) Adébiyi Germain Boco Prentice Institute for Global Population & Economy University of Lethbridge

Research objective Prentice Research ContextAffiliate Abdie Kazemipur’s new book: 

Most past studies, looking across countries, states/provinces, and metropolitan areas, has found positive and statistically significant associations

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Evidence for a cross-sectional relationship between income and health is strong but is probably biased by substantial confounding (Gunasekara et al

between income inequality and overall mortality (Lynch and Kaplan 1997). However, in recent years more robust statistical methods using larger To examine whether annual changes in and richer data sources have generally pointed to little or no relationship between inequality and mortality (Mayer and Sarin 2005; Spencer 2004). income inequality are associated with To those who study the integration of immigrants in Western countries, both Muslims and Canada annual changes in infant mortality rates  Ross et al.

(2000) conducted data analysis, using data and vital statistics, toas report that income inequality (median share ofand are seen to be exceptions to thea cross-sectional rule. Muslims arecensus often perceived unwilling to integrate, in the period 1979-2009 in Canadian income) in the state or province and metropolitan area is associated with mortality in the United States but not in Canada. provinces.

Canada is portrayed as a model for successful integration. Kazemipur explores the intersection of Longitudinal data with repeated income inequality and systematic health measures on the same individuals can be analysed to control completely for these two types 2012). of exceptionalism, revealing the deficiencies that must be addressed to time-invariant confounding, giving a more accurate estimate of the impact of changes in income inequality on health (Gunasekara et al 2014). avoid the European scenario in Canada. A fresh account of the lives and experiences of Muslim immigrants in Canada, this book gets at the roots of the so-called Muslim question in Canada.

Data and Method Data

Table 1. Definitions and sources of the

Method of Estimation

variables used the analysis Abdolmohammad Kazemipur is a in professor of sociology at the University of Lethbridge.

The panel data used that contains 10 Canadian provinces for the years 1979-2009 were obtained from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Socio-economic Information Management (CANSIM) database (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/). The data analyzed were extracted from:

Variable Infant mortality rate

Definition Infant mortality corresponds to the death of a child under one year of age (per thousand live births)

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Data sources Statistics Canada CANSIM Table 102-0030

To test the relationship between income inequality and infant mortality across provinces, I use a panel data specification (following Avendano 2012; Leigh and Jencks 2007; Wooldridge, 2002). I estimated a series of regression models with province-level fixed effects. The equation of interest:

Printed in Canada, UBC Press 2014, The University of British Columbia, www.ubcpress.ca Provincial income inequality (Gini coefficient of adjusted household income) Low Income Intensity

(1): Statistics Canada. Table 102-0030 - Infant mortality, by sex and birth weight, Canada, provinces and territories, annual, CANSIM (database). (accessed: 2014-02-10).

(2): Statistics Canada. Table 202-0705 - Gini coefficients of market, total and after-tax income, by economic family type, annual (number), CANSIM (database). (accessed: 2014-02-10) .

(3): Statistics Canada. Table 202-0804 - Persons in low income, by economic family type, annual, CANSIM (database). (accessed: 201402-10).

The Gini coefficient is a number between zero and one that measures the relative degree of inequality in the distribution of income. The coefficient would register zero (minimum inequality) for a population in which each family (or unattached individual) received exactly the same income and it would register a coefficient of one (maximum inequality) if one family (or unattached individual) received all the income and the rest received none.

Percentage of households using more than 54.7% of their income on food, housing and clothing.

Mjt = α + β(G)jt + γZjt + δj + ρt + εjt (Eq. 1)

where M is the infant mortality rate in province j in year t, G stands for the Gini coefficient of income inequality, Z is Low Income Intensity, δ is a province-level fixed effect, ρ is a year fixed effect, and ε is an error term. Standard errors are clustered at the province level to take account of possible withinprovince serial correlation. Provinces are equally weighted.

The regression coefficient of interest throughout the paper is β, the effect of income inequality on infant mortality.

Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy Seed Grant recipients: Statistics Canada CANSIM Table 202-0705 Statistics Canada CANSIM Table 202-0804

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Prentice Institute Research Affiliate William Ramp as principal investigator and Trina Filan as co-investigator were awarded a Prentice Seed Grant in March of 2014. The title of their project, Mapping Social and Organizational Networks within the Summary of findings Lethbridge, Alberta Food System. Results

and conclusion

Figure will 1. Over time trend of income inequality 2. Descriptive Statistics 1979-2009engage in developing and With the assistance of the seed grant, this project essentially helpTable community members (A) and infant mortality (B)  This study found no income inequality effects on infant mortality at the provincial level in Canadasystem for strengthening the local food to identify points of commonality, collaborate in effective knowledge and skill sharing, the period 1979-2009. and identify resource needs and avenues for filling those needs.

Table 3. Fixed-Effects Regression Predicting Infant Mortality Rate in Canada Provinces (1979–2009)

Figure 2. Scatter Plot of Gini Coefficient and Infant Mortality Rates in Canadian Provinces, 1979-2009

Model 1

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AB BC MB NB NL NS ON PE QC SK

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Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births

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Houshold Adjusted Income Gini Coefficient

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There is an initial negative association between Gini coefficient of adjusted household income and infant mortality rate, but this relation became positive and nonsignificant as soon as variables measuring percentage of persons in low income and year are introduced into the model. Rising income inequality during those three decades did not lead to a concomitant increase in infant death, noting that infant mortality rates fell sharply over this time period.

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Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births

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Number of Standard Minimu Maxi observations Mean deviation m mum

Variable

AB BC MB NB NL NS ON PE QC SK

Dependent Variable

Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births

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Adjusted household income inequality (Gini coef. X100)

310 32.7

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Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births

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Note: Annual province level observations of Gini coefficient (adjusted household income) and Infant mortality rate, a total of 310 observations from 10 Canadian provinces.

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Looking forward to the findings from this project in a future Prentice Brown Bag event.

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1995 Year

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(A): Income inequality for ten provinces : 1979-2009

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1995 Year

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(B): Infant mortality rate for ten provinces: 1979-2009

NOTE. AB: Alberta; BC: British Columbia; MB: Manitoba; NB: New Brunswick; NL: Newfoundland and Labrador; NS: Nova Scotia; ON: Ontario; PE: Prince Edward Island; QC: Quebec; SK: Saskatchewan.

Percentage of persons in low income

310 16.9

3.3

7.8 27.1

Sources: Statistics Canada CANSIM Table 102-0030; Table 202-0705 and Table 202-0804 (see Table 1).

Model 2

Model 3

Robust Robust Std. Std. Variables Coef.

Err. Coef.

Err. Coef.

Adjusted household income inequality (Gini coefficient × 100) -0.697*** 0.106 0.048 0.114 0.057 Low Income Intensity -0.008 Year (fixed effects) Yes Yes Province-level (Fixed effects) Yes Yes Yes Observations 310 310 310 R2 0.29 0.81 0.81 Constant 29.652*** -3.484 9.762** -3.623 9.643**

Robust Std. Err.

0.113 -0.058

-3.502

Statistics Canada CANSIM Table 102-0030; Table 202-0705 and Table 202-0804 (see Table 1).

Notes: Robust standard errors clustered in province level.

‘Yes’ indicates that variable is included in the model, but coefficients are omitted from Table.

Model 1 includes the Gini coefficient and province level fixed effects.

Model 2 includes the Gini coefficient coefficient, year fixed effects, and province level fixed effects Model 3 includes the Gini coefficient, year fixed effects, province level fixed effects, and the measure of Low Income Intensity.

Our former Prentice Seed Grant recipients include Prentice Institute Research Affiliates Glenda Bonifacio and Bonnie Lee. 

These results are consistent with previous research that were viewed as the “Canada paradox”. Canada seems to have some attributes, which protect it from some of the impacts of provincial- and metropolitan-level income gaps (Ross et al. 2000).

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Acknowledgments

I am grateful to The Prentice Institute for Global Population & Economy at the University of Lethbridge for providing support in printing, transporting, and posting this poster.

Please take the time to check out all of our affiliates publications, news releases, conferences and opportunities on the Prentice Institute website www.uleth.ca/prenticeintsitute Contact information 

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Avendano, M. 2012. "Correlation or causation? Income inequality and infant mortality in fixed effects models in the period 1960–2008 in 34 OECD countries." Social Science & Medicine 75:754-760.

Gunasekara, F.I., K. Richardson, K. Carter, and T. Blakely. 2014. "Fixed effects analysis of repeated measures data." International Journal of Epidemiology 43:264-269.

Gunasekara, I.F., K.N. Carter, I. Liu, K. Richardson, and T. Blakely. 2012. "The relationship between income and health using longitudinal data from New Zealand." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 66:e12.

Leigh, A. and C. Jencks. 2007. "Inequality and mortality: Long-run evidence from a panel of countries."

Journal of Health Economics 26:1-24.

Lynch, J.W. and G.A. Kaplan. 1997. "Understanding How Inequality in the Distribution of Income Affects Health." Journal of Health Psychology 2:297-314.

Mayer, S.E. and A. Sarin. 2005. "Some mechanisms linking economic inequality and infant mortality." Social Science & Medicine 60:439-455.

Ross, N.A., M.C. Wolfson, J.R. Dunn, J.-M. Berthelot, G.A. Kaplan, and J.W. Lynch. 2000. "Relation between income inequality and mortality in Canada and in the United States: cross sectional assessment using census data and vital statistics." BMJ 320:898-902.

Spencer, N. 2004. "The effect of income inequality and macro-level social policy on infant mortality and low birthweight in developed countries – a preliminary systematic review." Child: Care, Health and Development 30:699-709.

Wooldridge, J.M. 2002. Advanced panel data methods. Econometric analysis of cross section and panel data.

Cambridge: MIT Press.

Findings highlight the need to examine the impact of more specific social policies on infant mortality.

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Adébiyi Germain Boco Prentice Institute for Global Population & Economy University of Lethbridge E-mail: germain.boco@uleth.ca

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Brown Bag Seminars We had a well rounded and informative array of Brown Bag lectures this Spring Semester and are working on our Winter Sessions. We encourage all of you to watch our webpage for upcoming Brown Bag events.

The Prentice Institute Brown Bag Series – Spring 2014 Friday 23 May 2014 Maids or Mentors? The Effects of Live-in Foreign Domestic Workers on School Children’s Educational Achievement in Hong Kong Sam Hak Kan Tang, Business School University of Western Australia Thursday 3 April 2014 The Secret Ingredient: Food and Culture Identity in Hong Kong Bonnie Lee, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, UofL Friday 21 March 2014 A Tale of Two (Global) Cities: London, New York, and the Rise of Finance Capital Trevor Harrison, Prentice Institute Associate Director, Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science, UofL

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Thursday 6 February 2014 Social Justice in the City: Measuring and Addressing Food Security and Poverty in Lethbridge Trina Filan, Ph.D., Assist. Professor, Women and Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science, UofL Mary Nugent, RN, BScN, MSc. (Nursing) Nursing Instructor, Faculty of Health Sciences, UofL Rev’d Canon Erin Phillips, Chaplain, Ecumenical Campus Ministry, Incumbent, Anglican Church of the Ascension, Coaldale, AB John Usher, Ph.D., Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, President of the UofL Faculty Association, Prof. Faculty of Management, and Pres. Lethbridge Food Bank

Friday 24 January 2014 Youth Bulge in Selected Asian Populations: Gender, Migration and Development Glenda Bonifacio, PhD, Prentice Institute Research Affiliate, Associate Professor Department of Women and Gender Studies, UofL

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Prentice Institute Affiliate Jan Newberry, Associate Professor of Anthropology Jan Newberry has conducted ethnographic research in Java, Indonesia, since 1992. She has been a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore (2007/8) and a Fellow at KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies at Leiden (2009). She is the author of Back Door Java: State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java (2006, Broadview/University of Toronto), which appeared in translation in 2013 (Yayasan Pustaka Obor and KITLV-Jakarta). Her work has appeared in Economy and Society, Anthropologica, Modern Asian Studies, and Ethics and Social Welfare. Her current research concerns early childhood education and childhood in Indonesia and Alberta.

She has longstanding interest in community, state, gender, economy, urban anthropology, and space.

Jan Newberry is one of seven core members of the Institute for Child and Youth Studies. (I-CYS) is a multidisciplinary research institute committed to examining what children and youth mean as social, demographic, artistic, legal, and existential categories. While strongly grounded in the humanities and social sciences, I-CYS connects scholars working in all disciplines and faculties at the University of Lethbridge and beyond.

Back row (L-R): Dr. Louise Barrett, Canada Research Chair (Tier1) in Cognition, Evolution and Behaviour; Dr. Amy von Heyking: Dr. Jan Newberry, I-CYS co-director; Dr. Sergio Pellis, Board of Governors Research Chair Front row (L-R): Dr. Janay Nugent; Dr. Elizabeth Galway; Dr. Kristine Alexander, I-CYS co-director and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Child and Youth Studies.

Above group photo by Sharon Aschaiek and Illustration by Elena Ballam, Southern Alberta Magazine (SAM), Spring 2014 www.ulethbridge.ca/unews/sam

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