Webinar Series of the Sequence Analysis Association

The SAA is very glad to invite you to its webinar series, which proposes an online platform for people interested in the development of sequence analysis and related methods in the social sciences. The webinar offers presentations on newly published articles and is co-organized by Tim F. Liao and Matthias Studer.

Each webinar lasts for 60–75 minutes and brings together two 20-minute presentations on a similar topic followed by 5–10 minute discussions each. At the end, 15 minutes are reserved for a general discussion on the theme.

The webinar is organized online on an approximately monthly basis on Thursdays at 4 PM CET (Central European Time).

Program (updated regularly)

28^th April 2022 at 4 PM CET: Studying Migration Using Sequence Analysis

Citizenship and education trajectories among children of immigrants: A transition-oriented sequence analysis, Marie Labussière, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100433
Trajectories of Spatial Assimilation or Place Stratification? A Typology of Residence and Workplace Histories of Newly Arrived Migrants in Sweden, Guilherme Kenji Chihaya, Department of Geography, Umeå University, Sweden. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183211037314
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430

Previous Webinars

17^th March 2022 at 4 PM CET: Using Sequence Analysis to Study Household and Generational Structure

A New Perspective on the Generational Structures of Families–Generational Placements over the Life Course, Bettina Huenteler, Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100450
A New Methodological Approach to Study Household Structure From Census and Survey Data, Simona Bignami, Université de Montréal, Canada. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124120986192

24^th February 2022 at 4 PM CET: Mixture Models for Life Course Studies

An overview of mixture modelling for latent evolutions in longitudinal data: Modelling approaches, fit statistics and software,
Gavin van der Nest, Department of Methodology and Statistics, and Care
and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University,
the Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2019.100323
Predicting the stability of early employment with its timing and
childhood social and health-related predictors: a mixture Markov model
approach, Satu Helske, INVEST Research Flagship Center and Department of Social Research, University of Turku, Turku, Finland https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qkcxs/
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430

27^th January 2022 at 4 PM CET: Sequences, Transitions and Risks

Gender and race differences in pathways out of in-work poverty in the US, Emanuela Struffolino, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102585
Unemployment sequences and the risk of poverty: from counting duration to contextualizing sequences, Matthias Pohlig, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwz004

2^nd December 2021 at 4 PM CET: New Approaches to Analyze Sequence Data

The Link Between Previous Life Trajectories and a Later-Life Outcome: A Feature Selection Approach, Danilo Bolano, Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Milan Italy. http://dx.doi.org/10.12682/lives.2296-1658.2020.82
Some Methods for the Analysis of Event Sequence Data from Multiple Respondents, John Levi Martin & James P. Murphy, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124118799387

28^th October 2021 at 4 PM CET: Longitudinal Sequence Indicators

Period measures of life course complexity, Michael Boissonneault, Netherland Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, The Netherlands. https://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2021.44.47
Measuring the nature of individual sequences, Gilbert Ritschard, LIVES Centre and Institute of Demography and Socioeconomics, University of Geneva, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241211036156

30^th September 2021 at 4 PM CET: Multichannel Sequence Analysis

Couples` careers and women`s financial well-being in later life across Europe, Andreas Weiland, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany.
Pathways to the power elite: The organizational landscape of elite careers, Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, department of organization, Copenhagen Business school, Denmark. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119852301

20^th May 2021 at 4 PM CET: Causal Inference and Sequence Analysis

Career trajectories and cumulative wages: The case of temporary employment. Sophia Fauser, Department of Sociology, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2020.100529
Combining propensity score matching and sequence analysis to
study changes in professional and educational trajectories pre- and
post- first childbirth. Sara Kalucza, Department of Sociology, Umeå universitet, Sweden.

29^th April 2021 at 4 PM CET: Multichannel Sequence Analysis

Comparison of Two Approaches in Multichannel Analysis. Kevin Emery and André Berchtold, Centre LIVES, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. http://dx.doi.org/10.12682/lives.2296-1658.2020.85
Life-course-sensitive analysis of group inequalities in old age: Combining Multichannel Sequence Analysis with the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. Carla Rowold, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

25^th March 2021 at 4 PM CET: Comparing groups of sequences

Comparing Groups of Life-Course Sequences Using the Bayesian Information Criterion and the Likelihood-Ratio Test. Tim F. Liao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Anette E. Fasang, Humboldt University of Berlin and WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081175020959401

Recording of the webinar: https://sequenceanalysis.org/2021/04/15/webinars-recording-comparing-groups-of-life-course-sequences-using-the-bayesian-information-criterion-and-the-likelihood-ratio-test-25th-march-2021/

18^th February 2021 at 4 PM CET: Dyadic sequence analysis

Interdependencies in Mothers’ and Daughters’ Work-Family Life Course Trajectories: Similar but Different? Sergi Vidal, Centre for Demographic Studies, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-020-00899-z

Recording of the webinar: https://sequenceanalysis.org/2021/02/18/webinars-recording-of-the-18th-february-2021/

10^th December 2020: Clustering of state sequence: alternative approaches

Robust Typologies in Sequence Analysis: In search of guidelines and a more systematic approach. Stefan B. Andrade, VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research, Copenhagen
Divisive Property-Based and Fuzzy Clustering for Sequence Analysis, Matthias Studer, University of Geneva, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95420-2_13
Clustering Longitudinal Life-Course Sequences using Mixtures of Exponential-Distance Models. Keefe Murphy, Maynooth University, Ireland.

Recording of the webinar: https://sequenceanalysis.org/2020/12/11/webinars-recording-of-the-10th-december-2020/

19^th November 2020: Complexity measures and longitudinal indicators computed from sequence data

Childhood family structure and complexity in partnership life courses. Nicole Hiekel, Department of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102400
Measuring Life Course Complexity with Dynamic Sequence Analysis. David Pelletier, Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02464-y

Recording of the webinar: https://sequenceanalysis.org/2020/11/26/webinars-recording-of-the-19th-november-2020/