[Brownbag] Demography Brown Bag Presentation, 10/2: Jeronimo Muñiz

[Monique Marie VERRIER]

Please join us for a Demography Brown Bag Presentation. At noon on *Wednesday,
October 2. *

Jeronimo Muñiz (Sociology, University of British Columbia) will
present, "Racial
Fluidity and its Impact on Income Inequality over Time."

Demography Brown Bag Presentations are held at 2232 Piedmont Avenue, room
100 from noon-1pm.

Please see the abstract, below, and flyer attached.

Hope to see you there.

Monique


*Abstract*
Using longitudinal data from the six largest metropolitan areas of Brazil,
I present estimates of
racial fluidity and inequality across the earnings distribution between
the years 2002 and 2012. I find that
racial inequality is highest at the top income quantiles, that it has
legitimately decreased over that decade
because of improvements in income distribution (and not because of racial
reclassification), and that
between 5 % and 50 % of the sample have changed their race over nine months
– depending on the
year and on one’s position in the income distribution. Using counterfactual
simulations, I also show that,
despite substantive racial fluidity, inequality estimates between whites
and nonwhites would be between
8 % and 15 % higher than what was indeed observed, if only those who did
not change their racial
classification were considered in the calculation of the racial gap.


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For the fall 2019 brown bag schedule, go here:
https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/popsci.html


The Demography Brown Bag Seminars take place on Wednesdays from 12:10 to
1:00, in room 100 of the Demography building, 2232 Piedmont Ave. Please try
to arrive before 12:10 so we can start promptly at the scheduled time.
Regular and decaffeinated coffee will be available, as well as cookies and
hot water for tea. Administrative inquiries may be addressed to the
Demography Office at 642-9800, or monique at demog.berkeley.edu. If you would
like to inquire about presenting a seminar yourself, or have suggestions
for other potential speakers, please contact Liz Vasile at
evasile at berkeley.edu. Visit our webpage for an up-to-date list of future
Brown Bag Seminars visit our website at
https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/popsci.html. Funding
partially provided by the Berkeley Population Center and The Center for the
Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA).

http://www.populationsciences.berkeley.edu/news/berkeley-demography-brown-bag-talks

-- 
Monique Verrier
Graduate Student Services Advisor
Department of Demography, UC Berkeley
Ph: 510-642-9800
Hours: Monday and Tuesday 9-5, Wednesday 9-3
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