Harvard Pop Center at PAA: Saturday, April 12, 2025
SESSION: Family Formation and Dissolution Among Older Adults
Shiro Furuya, Harvard Bell Fellow, HCPDS serves as Chair.
SESSION: Intergenerational Mobility in Education and Income
“Gender Earnings Convergence and Changing Pathways Toward Intergenerational Family Income Persistence,” is presented by HCPDS graduate student affiliate Nino Cricco.
SESSION: Neighborhoods and Communities/Race and Ethnicity/Legal Institutions
“Who Gets What? The Importance of Race and Place in Toxic Facility Siting,” is presented by HCPDS graduate student affiliate Major Eason.
“Unpacking Rural Heterogeneity: How Contexts Shape Health Behaviors in Diverse Rural Communities,” is presented by HCPDS graduate student affiliate Jen Cruz and colleagues.
SESSION: Statistical Demography: Compositions and Decompositions
“Explaining Disparities at Quantiles: An Augmented Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition,” presented by HCPDS faculty member Xiang Zhou.
SESSION: Psychosocial Resources, Stress, and Health Inequities
“A Triple Trust Penalty? The Majority–Minority Gap in Subjective Well-being,” presented by HCPDS faculty member Ichiro Kawachi and colleague.
SESSION: Family/Social Ties and Cognitive Aging
“Does my Child’s Education Reduce my Risk of Dementia?” presented by Harvard Bell Fellow Erika Meza, HCPDS faculty member Maria Glymour, and colleagues.
SESSION: Mortality and Morbidity/Demography of Low- and Middle-Income Countries
“Worms, Longevity, and the Hygiene Hypothesis,” presented by HCPDS graduate student affiliate Ralph Lawton.
“Estimating Maternal Mortality for Small Areas Using Defective Data: An Application to Brazil,” presented by HCPDS faculty member Marcia Castro and colleagues.
SESSION: Education, Work, and Economic Inequality
“Black–White Economic Inequality Over the Lifetime: An Intersectional Decomposition Across Six Cohorts of Individuals and Families,” presented by HCPDS graduate student affiliate Charlotte O’Herron and colleague.
“Changing Distributions and Economic Rewards of College Majors and the Slowing Convergence of the Gender Wage Gap, 2003–2021,” presented by HCPDS graduate student affiliate Jen-Chen Chao.
SESSION: Spatial Data Collection and Methods
“Validation of a Geospatial Aggregation Method for Congressional Districts and Other U.S. Administrative Geographies,” presented by HCPDS faculty member S V Subramanian and colleagues.
SESSION: Youth Bulge and Demographic Dividend
“Family Planning and Women’s Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence From Urban Malawi,“ presented by HCPDS faculty member David Canning and colleagues.
SESSION: Social Policy and Population Health
“Estimating the Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Laws on Worker Outcomes in the U.S. Service Sector, 2017–2023,” presented by HCPDS faculty member Daniel Schneider and colleagues.
SESSION: Machine Learning Approaches in Mortality Research
“Risk Factors for Adult Mortality in the United States: A Machine Learning Approach,” presented by HCPDS faculty member David Canning.
SESSION: Measuring Kinship Networks and Ties to Kin
“Estimating Extended Family Co-Residence in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: A Cautionary Note,” presented by HCPDS graduate student affiliate Brian Xiao.
POSTER SESSION: Family Demography
POSTER: Assortative Mating Across Multiple Status Dimensions by HCPDS graduate student affiliates Yinan Wang and Nino Cricco.