Global Terrorism Index 2019 ANU launch
Symposium
IEP's 2019 Global Terrorism Index presentation at the Australian National University, Canberra About this Event The Institute for Economics and Peace invites you to attend the presentation of the 2019 Global Terrorism Index at the Australian National University in Canberra. Speakers…
Inaccurate politicians. Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Five Countries
Seminar
One of the ways in which democratic representation potentially comes about is politicians following up on their perceptions of what the people want. A precondition is, naturally, that their public opinion perceptions are accurate. But are they? We tackle this question in a comparative study…
Current trends in Nordic mortality
Seminar
In 2014, Sweden lost its place among the world’s top ten leading countries in terms of female life expectancy for the first time since records began. It reflects longstanding and ongoing shifts in mortality that increasingly separate the Swedish mortality experience from the mortality pattern of…
Humanizing HIV Surveillance? Assoc Prof Martin French
Workshop
Dr. Martin French, Sociology & Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. This workshop presents preliminary portions of an in-progress book manuscript on HIV surveillance. Written primarily for an audience of advocates and activists engaged in the global movement to end HIV…
More than Unigrams Can Say: Detecting Meaningful Multi-word Expressions from Political Texts
Seminar
Almost universal among existing approaches to text mining is the adoption of the bag of words approach, counting each word as a feature without regard to grammar or order. This approach remains extremely useful despite being an obviously inaccurate model of how observed words are generated in…
The Impact of the Salmon Bias on the Migrant Mortality Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data
Seminar
The migrant mortality advantage (MMA) has been observed in many immigrant-receiving countries, but its underlying factors remain poorly understood. This paper examines the role of out-migration selection effects (the “salmon bias” hypothesis) in explaining the MMA, using a rich, unique data set…
The components of change in population growth rates: between revisers and revisionists
Seminar
To understand the relative contributions of demographic components (fertility, mortality, migration) to changes in populations’ age structures, demographers have made extensive use of the variable-r model. Whether the current trends in global population aging are predominantly driven by fertility (…