Harvard Pop Center at PAA 2026: Friday, May 8, 2026
POSTER SESSION: Education, Work and Economic Inequality
POSTER: “Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Health Behavior: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey (2003-2023),” presented by HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliate Laura Chen.
POSTER: “The Changing Distribution of Time Spent ‘Caring’: Trends from the American Time Use Survey in 2003 to 2024,” presented by HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliates Nayun Eom and Dylan Nguyen.
POSTER: “The Unintended Consequences of Cultural Matching: Organizational Voids and Gendered Risks,” presented by HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliate Yinan Wang and colleague.
POSTER: “When is a College Degree the Great Equalizer? The Role of School-to-Work Linkages across Fields of Study,” presented by HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliate Jen-Chen Chao.
SESSION: LGBTQ+ Health
“Sleep inequities at the intersections of racialized, gender, and sexual identity in the U.S.: An intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA),” presented by HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliates Dougie Zubizarreta and Laura Chen, Faculty Member S. Bryn Austin, and colleagues.
SESSION: Race, Education, and Economic Change
“Declining Significance of Race, Nativity, and Place of Education: Asian Americans’ Earnings Disadvantage in the 21st Century,” presented by Harvard Bell Fellow Shiro Furuya and HCPDS Faculty Member Xiang Zhou.
POSTER SESSION: Aging and the Life Course/Children, Youth and Intergenerational Ties
“Lifetime dementia risk and labor market outcomes,” presented by HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliate Ralph Lawton and colleague.
“College access and later-life cognition in the US Health and Retirement Study,” presented by HCPDS Director Rita Hamad, Faculty Member Maria Glymour, and colleagues.
SESSION: Families, Law, and Public Policy
“Paid Family Leave and Parent Mental Health: Evidence from Administrative Data and Insurance Claims,” presented by Harvard Bell Fellow Tom Lindman.
SESSION: Non-Communicable Diseases and Multimorbidity in LMICs
“Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence and Cumulative Incidence in Rural South Africa, 2014/15–2021/22,” presented by HCDPS Faculty Member Steven Tollman and colleagues.
SESSION: New Opportunities for Data-Driven Discovery
“The Skill-Task Gap: Assortative Matching and Earnings Inequalities,” presented by HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliate Aleksei Opacic.
SESSION: Public Policy and Population Health
“Embodying Structural Equity: Title IX and the Imprint of Policy on Women’s Bones,” presented by HCPDS Affiliate Emily Dore, and Graduate Student Affiliate Ann Caroline Danielsen and colleagues.
SESSION: Older Workers, Longer Working Lives, and Health
“Too Poor to Die but Too Young to Retire? Effects of Job Lock on Subsequent Health of Older Working Adults,” presented by HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliate Laura Chen.
SESSION: Biology and Population Health
“Sustained impacts of stress on thyroid function and cardio-metabolic health: 20 years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami,” presented by HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliate Ralph Lawton and colleagues.
FLASH SESSION: Population Health Trends Over Time
“Association between Poverty and Birth Outcomes, 2012–2022,” presented by HCPDS Director Rita Hamad, HCPDS affiliates Daniel Collin and Emily Dore, and colleagues.
SESSION: Subjective Determinants of Well-Being in Later Life
“A Positive Outlook and the Aging Mind: Optimism and Cognitive Health in Older Women,” presented by Harvard Bell Fellow Hayami Koga and HCPDS Faculty Member Laura Kubzansky.
SESSION: Surviving and Thriving Under New Funding & Research Priorities
HCPDS Faculty Member Christina Cross is a panelist.
POSTER SESSION: Migration and Immigration/Race and Ethnicity/Gender and Sexual Identity
POSTER: “The Color of the Condemned: An investigation of the relationship between skin tone and initial security classification assignments in Michigan state prisons,” presented by HCPDS Graduate Student Affiliate Hannah Craig.