More than 35 PSTC affiliates will be presenting their research in paper and poster sessions at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, taking place April 11-13 in Austin. 

April 11

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

Thursday, April 11, 8-9:30 am

The Effect of Food Insecurity on Fertility Preferences in Tanzania • Kira DiClemente, Brown University; Kathryn Grace, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Trace Kershaw, Yale School of Public Health; Debbie Humphries, Yale School of Public Health

Session 23: Racial/Ethnic Identity

Thursday, April 11, 8:30-10 am

Chair: Chinyere Agbai, Brown University

Discussant: Zhenchao Qian, Brown University

Session 24: Immigrant Integration and Incorporation

Thursday, April 11, 8:30-10 am

The Higher Educational Trajectories of Undocumented Youth • Nicole Kreisberg, Brown University

Poster Session 2: Children and Youth

Thursday, April 11, 10-11:30 am

Do Household Composition and Family Demographics Influence Nutritional Status among 3-7 Year Old Children in the Samoan Island of Upolu? • Courtney Choy, Brown University; Stephen McGarvey, Brown University; Christina Soti-Ulberg, Samoa Ministry of Health; Take Naseri, Samoa Ministry of Health; Muagututia Sefuiva Reupena, Samoa Bureau of Statistics; Rachel Duckham, Deakin University; Nicola Hawley, Yale School of Public Health

Are New Universities Helping the Poor Get More Education? • Pablo Garriga, Brown University

The Unintended Consequences of Medical Adaptation to Academic Pressure: ADHD Diagnoses, Socioeconomic Status, and Children's Later Well-Being • Jayanti Owens, Brown University

Session 28: Urbanization and Urban Change

Thursday, April 11, 10:30 am-12 pm

Impact of Migration on Children’s Cognitive Development and School Enrollment in China: A Comparison by Rural and Urban Origin • Zhen Liu, Brown University

Session 30: Forced Migration

Thursday April 11, 10:30 am-12 pm

Social Determinants of Forced and Unforced Migrations between Africa and Europe • Mao-Mei Liu, University of California, Berkeley; PSTC Visiting Scholar

Session 37: Gender Inequality over Place and Time

Thursday, April 11, 10:30 am-12 pm

Can Radio Serial Dramas Change Attitudes about Gender Equality? Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey of Youth in Ethiopia • Megan Klein Hattori, University of Massachusetts Boston; David P. Lindstrom, Brown University; Tefara Belachew, Jimma University, Department of Population and Family Health; Mulusew Gerbaba, Jimma University, Department of Population and Family Health

Poster Session 3: Population, Development & the Environment; Data & Methods; Applied Demography

Thursday, April 11, 12:30-2 pm

Assessing Indicators of Chronic Child Undernutrition Using Machine Learning Techniques • Kevin Mwenda, Brown University; Guixing Wei, Brown University

Session 53: Internal Migration, Health, and Well-Being

Thursday, April 11, 1-2:30 pm

Migration, Urban Living, and Health in Transitioning Contexts: A Fixed-Effects Analysis of Blood Pressure and Self-Reported Health Using Nationally Representative Panel Data from South Africa • Chantel Pheiffer, Brown University; Michael J. White, Brown University

Session 67: Capturing Hard to Measure Outcomes in Sexual and Reproductive Health

Thursday, April 11, 1-2:30 pm

A New Method for Recording Responses to Questions about Traumatic Sexual Life Events: Evidence of the Use of the Non-Verbal Response Card Method in a Survey of Adolescents in Rural Burkina Faso • Guy Harling, University College London; Mamadou Bountogo, Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna; Ali Sié, Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna; Till Barnighausen, Harvard University; David P. Lindstrom, Brown University

Session 70: Gender, Sexuality, and Population Health

Thursday, April 11, 1-2:30 pm

Gender Attitudes and U.S. Women's Health • Susan E. Short, Brown University; Rebecca Wang, Brown University

Poster Session 4: Marriage, Family, Households, & Unions

Thursday, April 11, 2:30-4 pm

Does Individual Social Change Occur? The Case of Female Genital Cutting in Egypt • Hilary Barker, Brown University

Are the More Educated Less Likely to Divorce? Changing Educational Gradient of Divorce in China • Haoming Song, Brown University

Session 78: Collecting Data on Migrant Populations

Thursday, April 11, 3-4:30 pm

Discussant: David P. Lindstrom, Brown University

Poster Session 5: Health & Mortality 1

Thursday, April 11, 4:30-6 pm

Prevalence of Comorbid Conditions and Utilization Patterns among Medicaid Expansion Enrollees • Xinqi Li, Brown University

Session 102: Innovative Approaches, Data, and Analytical Strategies in the Study of Migration

Thursday, April 11, 5-6:30 pm

Some Limits of Demographic Surveillance and Lessons from following a Highly Mobile Population • Mark Gross, Brown University; Rebecca Wang, Brown University; Carren Ginsburg, University of the Witwatersrand; Mark Collinson, University of the Witwatersrand; Michael J. White, Brown University

Session 105: Empirical Assessments of Linked Human-Ecological Adaptive Responses to Climate Change

Thursday, April 11, 5-6:30 pm

Comparing Weather-Related Hazards and Their Effects on Population Change in the United States, 1980-2012 • Elizabeth Fussell, Brown University; Sara Curran, University of Washington, Seattle; Jacqueline Meijer-Irons, University of Washington, Seattle; Matt Dunbar, University of Washington, Seattle; LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington, Seattle

Session 119: Marriage, Assortative Mating and Inequality

Thursday, April 11, 5-6:30 pm

Spousal Earnings Association and Earnings Inequality among Married Couples in Urban China from 1988 to 2013: the Role of High-Earning Couples • Yifan Shen, Brown University

April 12

Poster Session 6: Health & Mortality & Aging

Friday, April 12, 8-9:30 am

Disruption in Primary Care and Patient Outcomes: Evidence from Physician Retirement • Xuan Zhang, Brown University

Session 123: Flash Session: Causes and Consequences of Educational Inequalities

Friday, April 12, 8:15-9:45 am

School Funding and State-Level Racial Inequality of Educational Achievement • Emily Rauscher, Brown University

Poster Session 7: Migration & Urbanization

Friday, April 12, 10-11:30 am

Health Care Utilisation and Internal Migration in Rural and Urban South Africa • Carren Ginsburg, University of the Witwatersrand; Mark Collinson, University of the Witwatersrand; Francesc Gomez-Olive, Harvard University; Mark Gross, Brown University; Sadson Harawa, University of the Witwatersrand; Mark Lurie, Brown University; Keith Mukondwa, University of the Witwatersrand; Rebecca Wang, Brown University; Michael J. White, Brown University

Session 147: Contraceptive Behavior in Developed Countries

Friday, April 12, 10:15-11:45 am

Effect of Increased Provider Payments for Provision of Immediate Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: Evidence from South Carolina’s Medicaid Policy Change • Maria Steenland, Brown University; Anna Sinaiko, Harvard School of Public Health; Jessica Cohen

Poster Session 8: Economy, Labor Force, Education & Inequality

Friday, April 12, 12:30-2 pm

Compulsory Education in Argentina: Effects on Crime • Carolina Lopez, Brown University

Session 169: Temporary and Circular Migration

Friday, April 12, 1-2:30 pm

Instability in Migrant Parent Absences and Educational Outcomes of Left-behind Children • Rebecca Wang, Brown University

Poster Session 9: Marriage, Family, Households, & Unions; Gender, Race & Ethnicity

Friday, April 12, 2:30-4 pm

The Entrance of Social Fathers into the Family • Amanda Zagame, Brown University

Persistence of Gender: Women’s Empowerment, Wealth, and Community Norms in Rural India • Ieva Zumbyte, Brown University

Session 194: Policies, Programs and Their Impacts on Health and Mortality

Friday, April 12, 2:45-4:15 pm

Discussant: Andrew Foster, Brown University

Session 197: Families and Inequality

Friday, April 12, 2:45-4:15 pm

Public Investments, Private Investments and Class Gaps in Child Development • Margot Jackson, Brown University; Daniel Schneider, University of California, Berkeley

April 13

Poster Session 10: Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior & Reproductive Health 2

Saturday, April 13, 9-10:30 am

Low Fertility in Japan: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach • Mary Brinton, Harvard University; Yun Zhou, Brown University.

The Impact of a Cash Transfer Program on Contraception Utilization in Ecuador: A Regression Discontinuity Approach • Maria Carolina Velasco Molina, Brown University; Omar Galarraga, Brown University; Stavroula Chrysanthopoulou, Brown University

Session 209: Female Schooling, Employment, and Demography

Saturday, April 13, 9:15-10:45 am

Shaped by Culture or Institutions? Preferences for Work and Family Life among Young Indians • Ieva Zumbyte, Brown University

Session 211: Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in the United States

Saturday, April 13, 9:15-10:45 am

Pre-Conception, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Characteristics of Women Who Experience Severe Maternal Morbidity • Julia A. Drew, Minnesota Population Center; Susan E. Short, Brown University; Risa Griffin, Ipas

Poster Session 11: Health & Mortality 2

Saturday, April 13, 11 am -12:30 pm

Blood Pressure and BMI among Adult Migrants and Non-Migrants from Agincourt, South Africa • Stephen McGarvey, Brown University; Francesc Gomez-Olive, Harvard University; Mark Gross, Brown University; Carren Ginsburg, University of the Witwatersrand; Mark Collinson, University of the Witwatersrand; Stephen Tollman, University of the Witwatersrand; Michael J. White, Brown University

Toward an Earlier Measure of Opportunity: Trends in Inequality of Infant Health • Emily Rauscher, Brown University

Increasing Mortality of White Americans, a Systematic Deviation from Gompertz Law, and a Trend Break in Cohort Health • Nicholas Reynolds, Brown University

Session 236: The Demography of Authorized Migration

Saturday, April 13, 11:15 am–12:45 pm

The Great Equalizer? Education, Gendered Social Ties, and the Occupational Attainment of Highly Skilled Immigrants • Elizabeth Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania; Nicole Kreisberg, Brown University

Session 238: Flash Session: Social Policy and Child Well-Being

Saturday, April 13, 1-2:30 pm

Conditional Cash Transfers and Parental Investment in Daughters: Evidence from India • Sagar Wadhwa, Brown University