Demography Daze 2024

Demography Daze returns for 2024! Demography Daze, an annual workshop that brings together Duke and Carolina population scholars, postdocs and students to encourage idea exchange and incentivize collaborative population research will resume this year. Carolina Population Center (CPC) will host the 10th annual Demography Daze on Friday, September 6 from 1:00PM - 5:15PM. A reception will follow. Please join us!

Conference Moderators: Scott Lynch (DUPRI) and Karen Guzzo (CPC)

1:00-2:30: General Session I. Policies and Population Processes (15 min presentations)

  • Beth Gifford (Duke): Deepening Population Studies by Harnessing Local Resources to Better Understand Child Maltreatment: Identifying Opportunities to Improve Services, Policies, and Outcomes
  • Conghe Song (UNC): Rural Outmigration and its Impacts on the Environment
  • Miyuki Hino (UNC): Residential Mobility and Exposure to Climate Hazards in North Carolina
  • Warren Lowell (Duke): When are They Insecure? Housing Arrangements and Residential Mobility Among Families with Children.

2:30-2:45: Break

2:45-3:30: Flash Talk Session (5 min presentations)

  • Samuel Baxter (UNC): Public Enemy: Hypertension and Men’s Health Equity in the United States
  • Hannah Postel (Duke): Subgroup Disparities in Automated Census Record Linkage
  • Arkadev Ghosh (Duke): Links and Legibility: Making Sense of Historical U.S. Census Automated Linking Methods
  • Elizabeth Korver-Glenn (UNC): Still Separate and Unequal: Persistent Residential Segregation and Inequality in Subsidized Housing
  • Giovanna Merli (Duke): Recruiting Binational Samples of Ghanian Migrants to the U.S. to Study Immigrant Health
  • Guang Guo (UNC): Theories for the Fertility Declines in Modern Times

3:30-3:45: Break

3:45-5:15: General Session II. Social and Health Disparities (15 min presentations)

  • Karen Guzzo (UNC): Women's Reproductive Health Experiences and Fertility Goals
  • Herman Pontzer (Duke): The Marathon Moms Study: Physical Activity and Health Outcomes in Pregnancy
  • Sean Sylvia (UNC): The Effect of a Digitally-Facilitated Home Visiting Intervention on Maternal and Child Health in Rural China: A Randomized Controlled Trial
  • David Rigby (Duke): Sundown Towns and the Contemporary Racialized Organization of Population Health Exposures
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