Events

Application Period Now Open – Deadline February 5
Summer 2026 Session Hosted by University of Minnesota
June 7—19, 2026

Apply Here

The annual call for papers for the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America is out now. The submission deadline is October 5.

This presentation provides an overview of how economists think about early childhood care and education (ECE) interventions, including a synthesis of rigorous evidence on program effectiveness at improving children’s and families’ outcomes. The robust research base on Head Start, the federally funded preschool program for children from low-income households, serves as a foundation. The talk focuses on how to use the evidence on ECE program effects to inform policy and practice – how to build on what we know to move beyond the debate, “Does preschool work?” to a broader understanding of what works, for whom, in what settings, and at scale.

This presentation will focus on the history, theoretical and substantive motivations, empirical contributions, innovations in recent data collection, and preliminary descriptive findings from Wave VI of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health).

We are thrilled to announce that SN&H ’25 will be live and in-person this year from May 13-16 on Duke’s campus in Durham NC and we are now accepting applications for SN&H ’25 Fellowships. (General registration site will be announced shortly).

DUPRI will be hosting a workshop, Multilevel Modeling in R, on April 25. This 4-hour training will cover the basics of running multilevel models in R, including specification and syntax, interpretation and displaying of results, and model checking and comparison. Some prior experience using R is recommended.

Diana Greene Foster will present the 2025 J. Richard Udry Distinguished Lecture.

Topic: Health and Social Consequences of Ending Federal Protections for Abortion in the United States: Lessons from the Turnaway Study

Reception: 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Reading: 5:30 p.m.-7

“The Turnaway Play” is based on abortion research pioneered by Dr. Diana Greene Foster and written by Lesley Lisa Greene.

Join us to learn how existing data resources paired with innovative applications and well-known methodologies can be used to identify valid and replicable population health trends and effects focused on multi-level societal, community, and individual determinants of health disparities in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.