Emma Xiaolu Zang
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Selected Graduate Courses and Training:

Sociology and Psychology
PhD level:
2018  Peer Relationship (Steven Asher)
2017  Population Studies (Scott Lynch)
2017  Classical Sociological Theory (James Moody)
2017  Structural Equation Modeling (Scott Lynch) (Audit)
2016  Applied Bayesian Statistics (Scott Lynch)
2016  Advanced Demographic Methods (Scott Lynch)
2016  Meta-Analysis (Harris Cooper)  (Audit)
2015  Introduction to Social Networks (James Moody)
2015  Fertility (Philip Morgan and Yong Cai)


Masters level:
2014  Social Stratification in China (Xiaogang Wu)
2011  Medical Sociology (Piet Bracke)
2011  Social Demography (Bart Van de Putte)
2011  Big Structures and Huge Comparisons: A Historical Sociology of China, 1700-2000 (James Lee)


Economics and Public Policy:
PhD level:
2017  Economics of Discrimination and Inequality (Patrick Bayer)
2017  Labor Market and Development (Robert Garlick)
2017  Human Capital and Economic Development (Robert Garlick)
2017  Using Data to Analyze and Evaluate Public Policy (Elizabeth Ananat) (Audit)
2016  Panel Data (Shakeeb Khan) (Audit)
2016  Applications in Labor and Family Economics (Marjorie McElroy) 
2016  Intra-Household Distributions (Marjorie McElroy)
2016  Econometrics II (Matthew Masten and Jia Li)
2015  Econometrics I (Federico Bugni)
2015  Political Economy of Public Policy (I, II)  (Billy Pizer and Frederick Mayer)

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Masters level:
2016  Applied Econometrics in Microeconomics (Daniel Xu)
2015  Time Series Analysis (Takuya Ura)
2014  Microeconomics and Public Policy Making (Charles Clotfelter)
2014  Advanced Statistics (Seth Sanders)


Mathematics and Statistics:
Masters level:
2017  Advanced Stochastic Modeling (Jeff Miller) 
2016  Applied Stochastic Processes (Rick Durrett)
2016  Predictive Modeling (Rebecca Steorts)
2011  Categorical Data Analysis (Tom Loeys)
2011  Principles of Statistical Data Analysis (Oliver Thas, Els Goetghebeur, Stefan Van Aelst and Stijn Vansteelandt) 


Undergraduate level:
2015  Advanced Calculus (Henry Adams)
2015  Probability (Jonathan Mattingly)
2014  Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (Clark Bray)
2014  Calculus I, II, III (Wenjing Liao)


Additional Training
2022  Alzheimer's Association Interdisciplinary Summer Research Institute
2022  
Summer Institute on Biological Approaches in the Social Sciences, Russell Sage Foundation
2021  Proposal Development Summer Institute, Russell Sage Foundation
2020 
Berkeley Formal Demography Workshop - Bayesian Models
2019  Social Networks & Health, the Duke Network Analysis Center 
2018  Bayesian Population Projections (Adrian Raftery and Hana Sevcikova)
2018  Text Analysis using R Training Session, 
Duke Population Research Institute
2017  RAND Summer Institute Mini-Medical School for Social Scientists
2017  RAND Summer Institute Demography, Economics, Psychology, and Epidemiology of Aging
2016  Berkeley Formal Demography Workshop 
- Fertility
2016  Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop

2012  China Multi-Generational Panel Data Series (CMGPD) Workshop