[Poscgrad] Fwd: 5/7/24 SPP Research Seminar

[Jennifer Merolla]

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From: Mark Long <mark.long at ucr.edu>
Date: Tue, May 7, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: 5/7/24 SPP Research Seminar
To: Mark Long <mark.long at ucr.edu>
Cc: Robert Clark <roclark at ucr.edu>, Jennifer Merolla <merolla at ucr.edu>,
Tuppett M Yates <tuppett at ucr.edu>, Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera <ggonzale at ucr.edu>,
marcelle.chauvet at ucr.edu <marcelle.chauvet at ucr.edu>


Hi all,

Sorry for the late notice: Prof. Link's seminar has been *postponed to next
Tuesday, May 14, from 1-2:30pm.*  If you previously distributed our flyer,
can you please pass along this notice of rescheduling?

thank you,
Mark

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Mark C. Long, MPP <https://spp.ucr.edu/mpp>, Ph.D.

Dean & Professor, School of Public Policy

University of California, Riverside
INTS 4133 | 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521

Direct: (951) 827-2316  Website: spp.ucr.edu  <https://spp.ucr.edu/>

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On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 8:34 AM Mark Long <mark.long at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Please feel free to forward this information to your faculty and doctoral
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> Mark C. Long, MPP <https://spp.ucr.edu/mpp>, Ph.D.
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> Dean & Professor, School of Public Policy
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> University of California, Riverside
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> Direct: (951) 827-2316  Website: spp.ucr.edu  <https://spp.ucr.edu/>
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> From: SPP Deans Office <spp-dean at ucr.edu>
> Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 3:58 PM
> Subject: 5/7/24 SPP Research Seminar
> To: <spp-faculty at ucr.edu>
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> SPP Research Seminar
>
> With Seminar Speaker:
>
> * Bruce Link *
>
> *Professor of Public Policy and Sociology*
>
> Tuesday, May 7 2024
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> Time: 12pm-1:30pm | Location: INTN 4023
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>
> * Do Childhood Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Traits Account for Racial and
> Socioeconomic Health Inequalities in Adult Life? *
>
> *A Prospective Life Course Study*
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> *Abstract:*
>
> A prominent body of scholarship assigns traits such as intelligence,
> self-confidence, and self-control central roles in the emergence of health
> inequalities by socioeconomic status and race. Strongly stated versions of
> these explanations claim that traits like these not only influence one’s
> socioeconomic attainment, but also affect other life chances including
> one’s capacity to live a long and healthy life. In this formulation health
> inequalities by race and socioeconomic status emerge in the repeated
> expression of these valuable traits across the life course. Because such
> traits develop early in life, policy needs to focus on the critical period
> of early childhood so that deficits in these traits can be addressed among
> disadvantaged groups. Despite the prominence of this thesis, the life
> course data needed to rigorously test it has not been available. The
> opportunity to implement such a test arose in the context of a study we
> conducted of approximately 50-year-old black and white study participants
> (N=605) whose mothers were first recruited into the Child Health and
> Development Studies when they were pregnant with the participant. The data
> contain the requisite prospectively ascertained life-course measures of
> health, socioeconomic status and cognitive and non-cognitive traits to
> allow a strong test of trait explanations for health inequalities. Results
> show no evidence that traits are independently associated with adult health
> or that they account for race or SES inequalities in health. We need to
> look elsewhere to understand why health inequalities by race and SES are
> such prominent social facts
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> Boxed lunch provided to the first 17 in attendance
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> Space is limited
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Jennifer L. Merolla, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
University of California, Riverside
merolla at ucr.edu
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