Seminars and Conferences

RAND Labor and Population engages in various other activities intended to advance the field and support its research and policy missions.

Seminar Series

• Lunchtime Brown Bag Seminars
• RAND Labor and Population Seminars and RAND Health Economics Seminars
• UCLA Workshop in Economic Applications

Annual Summer Program

• RAND Summer Institute on Aging

Workshop and Conference Programs

Past

• Conference on Healthcare and Socio-Economic Development in Latin America (2011)
• All-California Labor Economics Conference (2011)
• Workshop on Comparative International Research Based on HRS, ELSA and SHARE (2010)
• Workshop on Comparative International Research Based on HRS, ELSA and SHARE (2006)
• Sociology and Demography Seminar Series (2004-2005)
• Joint RAND and UC Berkeley Workshops, Response Errors in Surveys of the Elderly and Internet Interviewing (2004)
• Workshop on Population, Health, and the Environment (2001)
• International Workshop on Health Status Measurement in Social Surveys (1999)
• Conference on New Advances in Welfare Research (1996)

Training researchers is another important part of RAND Labor and Population's commitment to scientific research and analysis. The RAND Fellows in Population Studies and the Study of Aging program enables outstanding junior scholars in demographic and aging research to sharpen their analytic skills, learn to communicate research results effectively, and advance their research agenda.

The division has also sponsored year-long fellowships and shorter study visits for students and researchers from a number of developing countries, including Bangladesh, Cameroon, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, the Gambia, and the Philippines. Many of these students return to their countries to work in universities, government, or international agencies. For over two decades, the program has offered these fellowships and study visits, supported by grants from the Agency for International Development, the Population Council, and the Hewlett Foundation.

Finally, RAND Labor and Population provides support for the annual meeting of the Economic Demography Workshop in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Population Association of America.