March 2 8:30 am -4:45 pm and March 3 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Invitation Only
Location:
Columbia
Outline
GENETICS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Thursday, March 2
IAB Room 801
8:30
Breakfast
9:00
Peter Bearman
Welcome and Introductory Comments
9:45
Peter Conrad
Genetics and Medicalization
10:30
Break
10:45
Dalton Conley
How to Study Race and Class without Genes? The Case of Medical Inequality
11:30
Joseph Rodgers
Education and Cognitive Ability Measures as Direct or Mediating Influences on Fertility Outcomes: Linear and Biometrical Models fit to Danish Twin Data
12:15
Lunch
1:45
Jeremy Freese and Jui-Chung Allen Li
The Phenotypic Bottleneck and the Role of Genes in the Explanation of Social Outcomes
2:30
Sara Shostak
Identity, Illness, Genetics
3:15
Break
3:30
Hannah Brueckner and Alondra Nelson
The Expression of Biological Concepts of Race
4:15
Discussion
4:45
Break
Friday, March 3
IAB Room 801
8:30
Breakfast
9:00
Guang Guo
Genes, Social Controls, and Adolescent Sexual Behavior
9:45
Mike Shanahan
Neurotransmitter Polymorphisms and the Adolescent Educational Career
10:30
Break
10:45
Molly Martin
Adolescents’ Activity and Inactivity as a Window into Family Organization
