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Numerous ISR Faculty members will share their reseach at the The Population Association of America’s (PAA) annual meeting, April 18-20, 2024 in Columbus, Ohio. The PAA annual meeting is the premier conference of demographers and social and health scientists from the United States and abroad.

Please join us at PAA Reception on Thursday, April 18th, from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at the Hyatt Regency Columbus (350 N High St, Columbus, OH) in the McKinley Room. Refreshments will be served and good company will be abundant! Please RSVP at your earliest convenience. Feel free to bring a friend or anyone who might be interested in connecting with others. This will be a casual event. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

Thursday Apr 18, 2024

Time	Session Title	Talk Title	Room	ISR Faculty
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM	New Data Sources and Measurement Strategies	Measuring health retrospectively	Madison	Sarah Burgard, Lucie Kalousova, Janet Wang, Ebony Johnson, Erin Ice
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM	History and the Political Economy of Inequality	Racial Inequality in the GI Bill Home Loan Guaranty Program: Findings From Newly Digitized Administrative Records	Delaware A	J. Trent Alexander
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM	History and the Political Economy of Inequality	The Mortgage Interest Deduction and the White–Black Wealth Gap, 1984–2021	Delaware A	Joe LaBriola
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Aging and the Life Course	Families Are Messy, Aren’t They? : Defining Family and Care Expectations Among Family Caregivers	Regency Ballroom	Sarah Patterson
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Aging and the Life Course	A Life Course Study of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Accelerated Aging	Regency Ballroom	Joshua Goode, Rachel Hsu, Edward Huntley, Colter Mitchell
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Aging and the Life Course	Disability Among Middle Age and Older Immigrants: Examining Differences by English Language Proficiency, Citizenship, and Years in United States	Regency Ballroom	Shane Burns
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Aging and the Life Course	Bridge Employment or Encore Career? Examining Predictors that Distinguish Later Life Career Transitions	Regency Ballroom	Yun Taek Oh
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Aging and the Life Course	Confidants and Caregivers: The Overlap Between Social Networks and Care Networks and Implications on Well-being for Older Adults	Regency Ballroom	Sarah Patterson
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Aging and the Life Course	The Aging Immune System and All-Cause Mortality: A Biodemographic Approach to Understanding the Importance of the Immune System in Aging Processes	Regency Ballroom	Grace Noppert
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Families and Inequalities	The Depth of Disadvantage: Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in the Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty	Delaware C	Davis Daumler
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Exploring New Mechanisms of Childhood Disparities	Utilizing Longitudinal Methylation Analyses to Connect Environment to Health, Development, and Aging	Franklin A	Colter Mitchell, Joshua Goode, Erin Ware, Jessica Faul, Helen Meier
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Historical Structural Racism and Minority Health Disparities	Historical Violence and Racial Variation in Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: A Test of the Weathering Hypothesis	Union D	Maggie Hicken
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Historical Structural Racism and Minority Health Disparities	Historic Structural Racism and Accelerated Biological Aging Across the Life Course	Union D	Helen Meier, Jessica Faul, Maggie Hicken, Colter Mitchell
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Health, Health Behaviors, and Healthcare	Did Politics Trump Health? Political Conservatism as a Fundamental Cause of Disease in the COVID-19 Pandemic	Regency Ballroom	Spencer Allen
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Health, Health Behaviors, and Healthcare	The Impacts of Layoffs on Dietary and Drinking Behaviors Across the Life Course: Evidence From China, 1993–2011	Regency Ballroom	Esther Friedman
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM	Aging and Intergenerational Relationships	Life Course Reciprocity: Do Parental Investments Influence Adult Children’s Support of Their Parents?	Taft B	Sarah Patterson
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM	Families, Law, and Public Policy	Rights at Odds: Gender Essentialism, Market Primacy, and Women’s Work–Family Conflict in an Autocracy	Garfield	Yun Zhou
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM	Families, Law, and Public Policy	The 2021 Child Tax Credit, the Living Arrangements, and Housing Affordability of Families With Low Incomes	Garfield	Natasha Pilkauskas, Katherine Michelmore, Nicole Kovski
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM	Environmental Influences on Mortality and Morbidity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	Urban-Rural Disability Disparities Among Older Adults in Middle-Income Countries	Franklin A	Shane Burns
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Mortality and Morbidity	Accelerated Aging and Neuroendocrine Functioning	Regency Ballroom	Colter Mitchell, Christopher Monk
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM	Mental Health in Later Life	Depressive Symptoms Are Associated With DNA Methylation Age Acceleration in a Cross-Sectional Analysis of Adults Over Age 50 in the United States	Taft B	Freida Blostein, Erin Ware
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM	Migration, Immigration, and Race/Ethnicity	A Geographic Perspective on the Rise in Charcoal Consumption in Malawi, 2004–2020	Regency Ballroom	Pam Jagger
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM	Migration, Immigration, and Race/Ethnicity	Historical Influences on Literacy Among American Indians	Regency Ballroom	Arland Thornton, Linda Young-DeMarco

Friday Apr 19, 2024

Time	Session Title	Talk Title	Room	ISR Faculty
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM	Reproductive (In)justice in Knowledge and Culture	Research Roadmap on Adolescent Abortion Access Policy	Union A	Julie Maslowsky, Laura Lindberg
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM	Cognitive Aging and Dementia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	Sustained Midlife Household Food Insecurity and Subsequent Memory Function and Rate of Decline in Rural South Africa, 2004–2022	Taft B	Lindsay Kobayashi
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM	Cognitive Aging and Dementia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	Effects of Pension Eligibility Expansion on Men’s Cognitive Decline and Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia	Taft B	Lindsay Kobayashi
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM	Exploring the Broader Context of COVID-19: Results From the Social, Behavioral, and Economic COVID Coordinating Center	COVID-19 in a Vulnerable Population: Results from the Study of Adolescent to Adult Neural Development	Fairfield	Helen Meier(Margaret Levenstein, discussant; John Kubale, Chair)
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM	Exploring the Broader Context of COVID-19: Results From the Social, Behavioral, and Economic COVID Coordinating Center	Using Long-Term Histories of Business Turnover and Neighborhood SES to Understand Community Risk and Resilience to the Social and Economic Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic	Fairfield	Philippa Clarke(Margaret Levenstein is a discussant in this session; John Kubale UM is chair)
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Neighborhoods, Environment, Spatial Demography, and Data and Methods	Neighborhood Disorder and Allostatic Load Among Older Non-Hispanic Black and White Adults: An Inverse Probability Weighting Approach	Regency Ballroom	Viktoryia Kalesnikava
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM, poster	Neighborhoods, Environment, Spatial Demography, and Data and Methods	Making Sense of Middle Eastern North African and South Asian Ethnic Neighborhoods	Regency Ballroom.	Angubeen Khan
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Novel Perspectives on Late-Life Employment	Predictors of Occupational Licensing and Certification in Later Work Lives	Taft B	Yun Taek Oh(Sarah Burgard, discussant)
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Flash: Economic Inequality—Patterns, Causes, and Effects	Population Aging and Income Inequality in the United States, 1968–2019	Taft D	Janet Wang, Robert Manduca
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Flash: Economic Inequality—Patterns, Causes, and Effects	Wealth Inequality and Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic	Taft D	Joe Labriola, Jake Hays
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Kinship, Family Trajectories, and Wealth	Intergenerational Ties, Family Formation Trajectories, and Marital Timing: A Longitudinal Exploration Using Sequence and Event History Analyses	Delaware B	Emma Banchoff
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Tax Policy, Demography, and Economic Well-being	Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Crowd Out Financial Assistance From Parents?	Knox	Katherine Michelmore
9:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Tax Policy, Demography, and Economic Well-being	More Than Just Work: Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Affect the Quantity, Quality, and Type of Employment Faced by Single Mothers?	Knox	Katherine Michelmore, Natasha Pilkauskas
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Family Demography	Relative Earnings and Work-to-Family Conflict: An Examination of Job Demands and Resources, Family Demands, and Gender	Regency Ballroom	Vanessa Lang
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Family Demography	Childbearing, Child-Rearing, and Family Size at the Nexus of an Ideal Elite Family in Kampala, Uganda	Regency Ballroom	Charles Katulamu
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM	Flash: Education and Inequality in the United States	Plugging the [Brain] Drain: Evidence From the LinkedIn Profiles of College Graduates	Taft D	Nicholas Martens
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM	Family Caregiving	Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Reduce Caregiving for One’s Parents?	Garfield	Katherine Michelmore (Esther Friedman, session chair)
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM	Housing: Institutions and Policy	Residential Land Use Regulations and Child Homelessness	Fayette	Joe LaBriola
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM	Policy Shocks and Abortion	Can Increasing Access to Contraception Mitigate the Effects of Dobbs? Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial	Delaware C	Vanessa Lang
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health	Attitudes Toward and Perspectives on Abortion in Uganda: Development of an Abortion Positionality Framework	Regency Ballroom	Charles Katulamu
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health	African Birth Timing: Educational Differentiation Across Time, Educational Access, and Family Planning Effort	Regency Ballroom	Margaret Frye
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Biosocial Approaches to Morbidity and Mortality	Epigenetic Biomarkers of Socioeconomic Status Are associated With Age-Related Chronic Diseases and Mortality in Older Adults	Franklin D	Jessica Faul, Scott Ratliff, Wei Zhao, Jennifer Smith
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Biosocial Approaches to Morbidity and Mortality	Associations Between Cardiovascular Disease, Cognition, Kidney Function, and Polyepigenetic Scores of Atherosclerosis in the Health and Retirement Study	Franklin D	Colter Mitchell, Jessica Faul
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM	Innovations in Spatial Data Collection and Analysis	Rethinking Rurality: Evidence From GPS Location Tracking in North Carolina	Franklin A	Kate Cagney
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Flash: New Developments in Spatial Demography	Geographic Variation in Marriage Decline Across U.S. Counties, 1990–2017	Morrow	Emily Parker, Jake Hays
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Spatial Demography of Environmental Risks	n/a	Knox	Elizabeth Fussell
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM	Innovative Approaches to Understanding Late-Life Health Disparities	Increasing Child’s Education Improves Parent’s Dementia Risk and Educational Gradients: A Two-Generation Approach	Taft B	Kenneth Langa
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM	Education, Employment, and Inequality	Exploring Racialized Experiences of Black Creatives in the Platform Gig Economy: Challenges, Opportunities, and Navigation Strategies	Regency Ballroom	Erykah Benson
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM	Education, Employment, and Inequality	U.S. States, Labor Supply, and the Inequality-Generating Process Since the 1990s	Regency Ballroom	Chalem Bolton
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM	Education, Employment, and Inequality	Food Insecurity and the COVID-19 Pandemic: National Estimates and Trends	Regency Ballroom	Noura Insolera
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM	Education, Employment, and Inequality	Second Chances or Growing Gaps? Educational Upgrading in Adulthood and Black–White Economic Inequality in Midlife	Regency Ballroom	Jane Furey
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM	Education, Employment, and Inequality	The Legacy of Advantage: Multigenerational Home Wealth Transmission	Regency Ballroom	Catalina Anampa Castro

Saturday Apr 20, 2024

Time	Session Title	Talk Title	Room	ISR Faculty
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Children, Intergenerational Relationships, and Gender and Sexuality	Childhood Maltreatment and Accelerated Epigenetic Aging: Examining Cumulative Risk and Developmental Sensitivity	Regency Ballroom	Colter Mitchell, Helen Meier
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM	Inequality in Early Childhood	Exploring the Relationship Between Birthweight and Father’s International Migration Status in Nepal	Union C	Uttam Sharma, Dirgha Ghimire, Emily Treleaven