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Mar 26, 2018

The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America will be held April 26-28 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown. Listed below are the sessions presented by CPC Faculty Fellows, postdoctoral scholars, predoctoral and undergraduate trainees, and staff members. Names of Faculty Fellows are linked to their CPC profile page. The PAA 2018 Annual Meeting Final Program lists all sessions and locations.

 

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Poster Session 1: Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior, and Reproductive Health 1

8:00-9:30 AM | Plaza Exhibit


Do Adolescent Perceived Survival Expectations Predict Sexually Transmitted Infections in Young Adulthood?

Megan Barry (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

Nicole Fran Kahn (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

Carolyn T. Halpern (CPC Fellow)

 

Contraceptive Methods and Intimate Partner Violence in Zambia: To Conceal or Not to Conceal?

Wei Chang (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

 

Assessing Social Norms and Attitudes around Family Planning in Urban Nigeria: Employing a Vignette Approach

Katherine LeMasters (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

Courtney McGuire (Project Personnel)

Lisa M. Calhoun (Project Personnel)

Ilene S. Speizer (CPC Fellow)

 

Paper Session 1

8:30-10:00 AM | Governor’s Square 15

 

Adolescent Risk Behaviors and Health | Director’s Row I | (2)

Discussant: Lauren Gaydosh (Post-Doctoral Scholar)

Session Chair: Carolyn T. Halpern (CPC Fellow)

 

Climate and Population | Plaza Court 8 | (4)

Discussant: Maia Call

Session Chair: Lori Hunter

Climate Shocks Change Fertility Decision-making Patterns in Indonesia | 8:50AM

Samuel Sellers

Clark Gray (CPC Fellow)

 

The Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) Program: Introduction, Project Examples, and User Experiences | Director’s Row H | (21)

Session Chair: Barbara Downs

The Effect of Ethnic Enclaves on Job Matching and Wage Growth: Evidence Using Co-Worker and City of Birth Networks in the LEHD | 9:50AM

Ted Mouw (CPC Fellow)

 

Paper Session 2

10:30 AM-12:00 PM | Plaza Ballroom A

 

Incorporating Biology into Social Research | Director’s Row H | (36)

Discussant: Morgan Levine

Session Chair: Jennifer B. Dowd

Biological Age in Taiwan: Measurement and Prediction | 10:30AM

Lauren Gaydosh (Post-Doctoral Scholar)

Daniel Belsky

Dana A. Glei

Noreen Goldman

Heart Health and Individual Differences: Mechanisms for the Observed Relationship | 11:10AM

Benjamin W. Domingue

Elizabeth M. Lawrence

Jason D. Boardman

Kathleen Mullan Harris (CPC Fellow)

Robert A. Hummer (CPC Fellow)

               

Mixed Methods in Demography | Plaza Court 2 | (40)

Discussant: Paul J. Fleming

Session Chair: Lisa D. Pearce (CPC Fellow)

 

Poster Session 3: Population, Development and Environment; Data and Methods

12:30-2:00 PM | Plaza Exhibit

 

Agricultural Technology Adoption among Inhabitants of the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon

Samuel Sellers

Richard E. Bilsborrow (CPC Fellow)

 

The Role of Social Capital in the Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Household Wellbeing

Marlous de Milliano (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

 

The Add Health Parent Study: A Preliminary Statistical Portrait

Katsuya Oi (Post-Doctoral Scholar)

V. Joseph Hotz

Kathleen Mullan Harris (CPC Fellow)

Linqi Zhang

 

Paper Session 3

1:00-2:30PM | Plaza Court 6

 

Genetics in Social Science Research | Plaza Court 6 | (58)

Discussant: Patrick Turley

Session Chair: Jennifer B. Dowd

The Influence of Peer Genes and Peer Behavior on Smoking Outcomes: Evidence from Add Health | 1:20PM

Ramina Sotoudeh

Dalton Conley

Kathleen Mullan Harris (CPC Fellow)

Education, Smoking, and Cohort Change: Environmental Moderation of Genetic Correlation and Pleiotropic Effects | 2:00PM

Robbee L. Wedow          

Meghan Zacher

Kathleen Mullan Harris (CPC Fellow)      

Benjamin W. Domingue

Jason D. Boardman

 

Labor Force Dynamics across the Life Course | Governor’s Square 11 | (61)

Discussant: Angela Bruns

Session Chair: Sarah M. Seelye

Labor Force Participation: The Long-Term Effects of Employment Trajectories on Wages | 1:00PM

Katherine Weisshaar (CPC Fellow)

Tania Cabello-Hutt

 

Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconmic Disparities in Mental Health | Tower Court C | (66)

Discussant: Christine A. Bachrach

Session Chair: Cynthia G. Colen

Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms across Early- and Mid-Life among US Young Adults | 1:40PM

Taylor Hargrove (Post-Doctoral Scholar)

Robert A. Hummer (CPC Fellow)

Lauren Gaydosh (Post-Doctoral Scholar)

Carolyn T. Halpern (CPC Fellow)

Jon M. Hussey (CPC Fellow)

Eric Whitsel

Nancy Dole (Deputy Director of Research Services)

Kathleen Mullan Harris (CPC Fellow)      

 

Poster Session 4: Children and Youth

2:30-4:00 PM | Plaza Exhibit

 

Religious Roots and Consequences of Women’s Work-Family Configurations in Adulthood

Claire Chipman (Project Personnel)

 

Do You Consider Your Weight Healthy? : The Association between Perceived Weight throughout Early Life and Self-Rated Health in Adulthood

Iliya Gutin (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

 

Paper Session 4

3:00-4:30 PM | Plaza Court 1

 

Education and Health | Governor’s Square 17 | (73)

Discussant: Stella Min

Session Chair: Miles G. Taylor

Educational Disparities in Cigarette and E-Cigarette Use from Young to Middle Adulthood |   

3:00PM

Elizabeth M. Lawrence

Robert A. Hummer (CPC Fellow)

Carolyn T. Halpern (CPC Fellow)

Jon M. Hussey (CPC Fellow)

Eric Whitsel

Nancy Dole (Deputy Director for Research Services)

Kathleen Mullan Harris (CPC Fellow)

 

Family Contexts and Well-Being in Youth and Early Adulthood | Director’s Row H | (75)

Discussant: Anna S. Mueller

Session Chair: Michelle Frisco

Long-Term Protective Effects of Adolescent Family Relations: Gendered Trajectory of Depression into Adulthood | 3:40PM

Ping Chen (Research Services)

Kathleen Mullan Harris (CPC Fellow)

 

Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families | Plaza Ballroom C | (78)

Discussant: Annie Ro

Discussant: Kelly Stamper Balistreri

Session Chair: Claire Altman

Food Insecurity among Latino Youth: Who Is at Risk and What Are the Consequences? |3:40pm

Stephanie Potochnick

Krista M. Perreira (CPC Fellow)

Donglin Zeng

Linda VanHorn

Martha Daviglus

Linda Gallo

Julia Bravin

Carmen Isasi

Sheila Castaneda

 

Opportunities for Foundation Funding in Demography and Population Sciences| Director’s Row J | (82)

Discussant: Krista M. Perreira (CPC Fellow)

Session Chair: Kate Cagney

Panelist: Joseph Brown

Panelist: Claire Gibbons

Panelist: Aixa N. Cintron-Velez

Panelist: Anjali Adukia

 

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Health | Governor’s Square 12 | (85)

Discussant: Gary Gates

Session Chair: Claire M. Kamp Dush

Is Gender-Typed Behavior Associated with Sexual Orientation? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health | 3:00PM

Nicole Fran Kahn (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

Carolyn T. Halpern (CPC Fellow)

 

Spatial Distribution of Diseases and Mortality | Governor’s Square 10 | (89)

Discussant: Patrice Sparks

Session Chair: Ying Huang

Geographic Divergence in Early Life Mortality: Moving Beyond Diet and Smoking | 3:00PM

Nathan T. Dollar (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

Richard G. Rogers

Elizabeth M. Lawrence

David B. Braudt (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

Iliya Gutin (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

Samuel Fishman (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

Robert A. Hummer (CPC Fellow)

 

Vulnerability and Resilience in Population-Development-Environment Research | Plaza Court 4 | (92)

Discussant: Esther O. Lamidi

Session Chair: Katherine J. Curtis

Climate Change and Multidimensional Vulnerability to Child Undernutrition: Evidence from Ethiopia | 3:20PM

Heather Randell

Clark Gray (CPC Fellow)

Kathryn Grace

 Does Women’s Empowerment Reduce the Negative Effect of Climate Change on Child Health? Empirical Evidence from Households in India | 4:00PM

Varun Goel (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

Manuel Hernandez

Lisa Fouladbash

Sandeep Kandikuppa

Karly Schmidt

Clark Gray (CPC Fellow)

 

Poster Session 5: Health and Mortality 1

4:30-6:00 PM | Plaza Exhibit

 

Early Life Non-Cognitive Resources and Health Behaviors in Young Adulthood

Moira Pauline Johnson (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

 

Cultural Orientation across Generations and Depressive Symptoms among US Latinos

Julia B. Ward

Anissa I. Vines

Mary N. Haan

Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes (Post-Doctoral Scholar)

Erline E. Miller

Allison Aiello (CPC Fellow)

 

Social Context Interacting with Birthweight Gene Influences Life-Course Outcomes

Guangyu Tong

Guang Guo (CPC Fellow)

 

Forest Cover and Infant Mortality in Indonesia

Averi Chakrabarti (Graduate Research Assistant)

 

Gender gaps in cholesterol levels among Indonesians are very large: Roles of behavioral, socio-economic and other health indicators

Ralph Lawton

Elizabeth Frankenberg (CPC Fellow & Director)

Cecep Sumantri

Duncan Thomas

Teresa E. Seeman 

 

Paper Session 5

5:00-6:30PM | Governor’s Square 11

 

Disparities in Birth Outcomes in the U.S | Governor’s Square 11 | (94)

Discussant: Krista M. Perreira (CPC Fellow)

Discussant: Cynthia G. Colen

Session Chair: Joseph T. Lariscy

Session Chair: Nancy E. Reichman

 

Food Security in Africa | Plaza Court 8 | (97)

Discussant: Valerie Mueller

Session Chair: Clark Gray (CPC Fellow)

 

Network Analysis in Demography | Plaza Court 7 | (103)

Discussant: Jimi Adams

Session Chair: Zack W. Almquist

Data Collection for Network Sampling Approaches for Rare and Hard to Reach Populations: Lessons Learned | 5:00PM

                                Giovanna Merli

                                Ted Mouw (CPC Fellow)

 

Friday, April 27, 2018

 

Poster Session 6: Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior, and Reproductive Health 2

8:00-9:30AM | Plaza Exhibit

 

Genetic and Socio-Demographic Influences on Childlessness

Renske Verweij

Melinda Mills

Nicola Barban

Felix Tropf

Guang Guo (CPC Fellow)

Harold Groningen

 

Fertility Intentions, Contraceptive Use, and Unmet Need: Longitudinal Examination of Changing Intentions and Behaviors in Urban Senegal

Veronica Escamilla (Project Personnel)

Ilene S. Speizer (CPC Fellow)

Peter M. Lance (Project Personnel)

 

Characterizing Pregnancy Scares and Their Association With Perceived Infertility

Seri Anderson (Pre-Doctoral Trainee)

Carolyn T. Halpern (CPC Fellow)

 

Paper Session 6

8:15-9:45AM | Governor’s Square 15

 

Dynamics of Contraceptive Methods Mixes in Developing Countries | Plaza Ballroom A | (111)

Discussant: Megan Klein Hattori

Session Chair Michelle Poulin

Women’s Perspectives on Amenorrhea as a Contraceptive Side Effect | 9:15AM

Amelia MacKenzie

Si�n L. Curtis (CPC Fellow)

Rebecca Callahan

Elizabeth Tolley

Ilene S. Speizer (CPC Fellow)    

 

Emerging Methods in Subnational Population Estimates | Plaza Court 3 | (113)

Discussant: Carl P. Schmertmann

Session Chair: Lauren A. Bowers

Challenges of Measuring Maternal Mortality Trends at Subnational Level in a Developing Country: An Illustrated Example of Bangladesh, 2001-2010 | 9:15AM

Saifuddin Ahmed

Kavita Singh Ongechi (CPC Fellow)

Allisyn Moran

Kenneth H. Hill

 

Extreme Events and Health Risks | Plaza Court 5 | (114)

Discussant: James Elliott

Session Chair: Elizabeth Fussell

Mortality Risks in a Population Exposed to a Disaster | 8:55AM

Elizabeth Frankenberg (CPC Fellow & Director)

Cecep Sumantri

Duncan Thomas

 

Gene-Environment Interplay in Population Health | Director’s Row E | (118)

Discussant: Lauren Gaydosh (Post-Doctoral Scholar)

Session Chair: Benjamin W. Domingue

The Intergenerational Transmis