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.
PAA welcomes your submissions for the PAA 2026 Annual Meeting and looks forward to a full and rigorous scientific conference next spring! PAA currently has no plans for a hybrid conference and sessions will be in-person in St. Louis, Missouri.
Please note a few important items:
- All accepted presenters will be required to pre-register for the conference by February 4, 2026.
- Individuals can only serve as a presenting author twice on the program (but can have additional roles such as chair or discussant).
- Organizers will not review papers from authors with whom they have a conflict of interest (close collaborators or current students/postdocs). As such, please do not submit your abstract to someone with whom you may have a conflict of interest.
- Unfortunately, PAA cannot accommodate schedule requests; if your paper or poster is accepted, it could be scheduled any time during the annual meeting dates (Thursday, May 7; Friday, May 8; or Saturday, May 9.)
Topics
- Aging and the Life Course
- Applied Demography
- Children, Youth and Intergenerational Ties
- Data and Methods
- Demography of Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Demography, Public Policy and Legal Institutions
- Education, Work and Economic Inequality
- Family Demography
- Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior and Reproductive Health
- Gender and Sexual Identity
- Health and Health Behavior
- Migration and Immigration
- Mortality and Morbidity
- Neighborhoods, Communities and Urbanization
- Race and Ethnicity
- Spatial and Environmental Demography
- Other
Two Presentation Rule
The PAA Board of Directors has instituted a two-presentations rule, i.e., each person is limited to a maximum of two presentations (summed across regular oral sessions, flash sessions and poster sessions).
A further rule is a limit of four appearances in total, encompassing the roles of presenter, chair, and discussant. But there is no limit on how many times a person can appear on the program as a co-author. Single-authored papers must be presented by the author. For multiple-authored papers, at the time of submission a presenter must be designated; once all sessions are finalized (that is, all papers and posters have been accepted or rejected), there will be a short time interval when presenter status can be revised.
Note that for the purpose of the two-presentations rule, the roles of chair and discussant do not count; instead, there is a limit of four presentations in the roles of presenter, chair, and discussant inclusive.