DUPRI @ PAA 2024

Every year, scholars and students from DUPRI present research papers, prepare professional posters, and serve as panel discussants at Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. This year's PAA Annual Meeting will take place in Columbus, Ohio from April 17-20. Below is a list of all DUPRI scholars and students participating in PAA sessions. You can also download the list of sessions here.


Thursday, April 18 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Session Type: Oral
Final Session Number: 5
Room: Franklin B

Session Title: Environmental/Climate Change, Natural Disaster, and the Well-being of Children and Youth

Discussant 1: Sara Curran, University of Washington
Chair 1: Lingxin Hao, Johns Hopkins University

Long-Term Impacts on Cardiometabolic Health Risks of Exposure to a Large-Scale Natural Disaster During Early Childhood
E. Frankenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; N. Ingwersen, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; D. Thomas, Duke University.


Thursday, April 18 | 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Session Type: Poster
Final Session Number: P01
Room: Regency Ballroom

Session Title: Aging and the Life Course

The Well-being of Older Adults in the Midst of Extreme Environmental Events in North Carolina
B. Stoutamire, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; E. Frankenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; D. Thomas, Duke University; C. Sumantri, SurveyMETER.


Thursday, April 18 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session Type: Poster
Final Session Number: P02
Room: Regency Ballroom

Session Title: Health, Health Behaviors, and Healthcare

Religious Beliefs Do Not Buffer the Effects of Chronic Stressor Exposure on Health
I. Bouklas, Duke University.


Thursday, April 18 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Session Type: Oral
Final Session Number: 43
Room: Franklin D

Session Title: Employment Dynamics and Public Policy

Discussant 1: Megan Bea, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair 1: Julie Cai, Center for Economic and Policy Research

Family Correlations in Essential Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic
E. Wiemers, Syracuse University; I-F Lin, Bowling Green State University; H. Yoon, Syracuse University; J. Chin, Bowling Green State University; V. J. Hotz, Duke University; J. Seltzer, University of California, Los Angeles.


Thursday, April 18 | 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Session Type: Poster
Final Session Number: P03
Room: Regency Ballroom

Session Title: Mortality and Morbidity

Revisiting the Weathering Hypothesis: Skin Tone Stratification and Risk of Low Birth Weight Among Non-Hispanic Black Mothers in the United States
A. Stolte, Duke University.


Thursday, April 18 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Session Type: Oral
Final Session Number: 74
Room: Delaware A

Session Title: Political, Economic, and Institutional Antecedents of Morbidity and Mortality

Discussant 1: Xinyan Cao, Brown University
Chair 1: Amal Harrati, Mathematica

Understanding the Health Decline of Americans: Boomers to Millennials
H. Zheng, The Ohio State University / University of Hong Kong; j. dirlam, The University at Albany; Y. Choi, The Ohio State University; L. George, Duke University.


Thursday, April 18 | 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Session Type: Oral
Final Session Number: 94
Room: Marion

Session Title: Segregation and Spatial Inequality

Discussant 1: Jackelyn Hwang, Stanford University
Chair 1: Elizabeth Roberto, Rice University

Measures of Microsegregation
M. Ruef, Duke University; A. Grigoryeva, Harvard University.


Thursday, April 18 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Session Type: Poster
Final Session Number: P04
Room: Regency Ballroom

Session Title: Migration, Immigration, and Race/Ethnicity

Using a Linked Dataset to Study the Spatial and Social Integration of Immigrants From China in a New Area of Destination
Y. Xu, Duke University; G. Merli, Duke University; T. Mouw, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; J. Reiter, Duke University.


Thursday, April 18 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Session Type: Poster
Final Session Number: P04
Room: Regency Ballroom

Session Title: Migration, Immigration, and Race/Ethnicity

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Infant Family Needs: Insights From 12 Years of Family Connects Data
Y. Bai, Duke University; H. Milojevich, Duke University; B. Goodman, Duke University; K. Dodge, Duke University.


Friday, April 19 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Session Type: Oral
Final Session Number: 99
Room: Franklin A

Session Title: Innovative Modeling of New Demographic Data Sources

Discussant 1: Rebecca Johnson, Dartmouth College
Chair 1: Scott Lynch, Duke University


Friday, April 19 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Session Type: Oral
Final Session Number: 113
Room: Fayette

Session Title: Racialized Spaces

Discussant 1: Heather O'Connell, Louisiana State University
Chair 1: Elizabeth Roberto, Rice University

Fatal Police Violence and the Maintenance of Racialized Space
D. Rigby, Duke University; M. Esposito, Washington University in St. Louis; H. Lee, Duke University.


Friday, April 19 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Session Type: Oral
Final Session Number: 97
Room: Taft B

Session Title: Cognitive Aging and Dementia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Discussant 1: Brian Downer, University of Texas Medical Branch
Chair 1: Joseph Saenz, Arizona State University

Long-Term Impacts of Natural Disaster Exposure on Memory Function
R. Lawton, Harvard University; E. Frankenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; D. Thomas, Duke University.


Friday, April 19 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Session Type: Oral
Final Session Number: 107
Room: Union B

Session Title: Politics, Policies, and the Health of Marginalized Populations

Discussant 1: Zhe (Meredith) Zhang, California State University Los Angeles
Chair 1: Yezhen Li, University of Pennsylvania

Male Twinning After the 2008 Obama Election: A Test of Symbolic Empowerment
A. Stolte, Duke University; A. Gemmill, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; H. Lee, Washington University in St. Louis; B. Bustos, University of California, Irvine; J. Casey; T. A. Bruckner, University of California, Irvine; R. A. Catalano, UC Berkeley.


Friday, April 19 | 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Session Type: Poster
Final Session Number: P05
Room: Regency Ballroom

Session Title: Neighborhoods, Environment, Spatial Demography, and Data and Methods

Early Origin of Racial Health Disparities: The Effect of Structural Racism and Black–White Health Inequalities in Middle and Later Life
Y. Xu, Duke University.


Friday, April 19 | 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Session Type: Poster
Final Session Number: P05
Room: Regency Ballroom

Session Title: Neighborhoods, Environment, Spatial Demography, and Data and Methods

Population Age Structure and Forest Growth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
C. Allen, University of Washington; S. Adamo, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN); K. Chang, Duke University; S. Curran, University of Washington; J. Fay, Duke University; J. Vincent, Duke University; Y. Wang, ETH Zurich.


Friday, April 19 | 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Session Type: Poster
Final Session Number: P05
Room: Regency Ballroom

Session Title: Neighborhoods, Environment, Spatial Demography, and Data and Methods

Development of an Exact Theory of Decomposing Population Attributable Fractions and Application to Decomposition of Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
I. Akushevich, Duke University; A. Yashkin, Duke University; M. Kovtun, Duke University; K. Arbeev, Duke University; J. Kravchenko, Duke University School of Medicine; A. Yashin, Duke University.


Friday, April 19 | 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Session Type: Oral
Final Session Number: 119
Room: Knox

Session Title: Tax Policy, Demography, and Economic Well-being

Discussant 1: Megan Curran
Discussant 2: Sophie Collyer, Columbia University
Chair 1: Christopher Wimer, Columbia University

The Earned Income Tax Credit, Net Worth Poverty, and Educational Achievement
L. Gennetian, Duke University; C. Gibson-Davis, Duke University; L. Keister, Duke University.


Friday, April 19 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session Type: Poster
Final Session Number: P06
Room: Regency Ballroom

Session Title: Family Demography

Catastrophic Health Care Expenditures and Children: The Protective Effect of Health Insurance Coverage
S. Qiu, Duke University.


Friday, April 19 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session Type: Poster
Final Session Number: P06
Room: Regency Ballroom

Session Title: Family Demography

Intergenerational Assistance of Money and Time During the COVID-19 Pandemic
I-F Lin, Bowling Green State University; E. Wiemers, Syracuse University; J. Chin, Bowling Green State University; A. Wiersma Strauss, Syracuse University; J. Seltzer, University of California, Los Angeles; V. J. Hotz, Duke University.


Friday, April 19 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Session Type: Oral
Final Session Number: 147
Room: Franklin D

Session Title: Environmental and Climate Influences on Morbidity and Mortality

Discussant 1: Jessica Finlay
Discussant 2: Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Chair 1: Lori Hunter, University of Colorado Boulder

The Direct and Indirect Impact of Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants on the Risk and Disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease and Co-Existing Morbidity
I. Akushevich, Duke University; A. Yashkin, Duke University; J. Kravchenko, Duke University School of Medicine.


Friday, April 19 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Session Type: Oral
Final Session Number: 136
Room: Franklin A

Session Title: Innovative Applications of Satellite and Spatial Data

Discussant 1: Yingzhi Xu, Duke University
Chair 1: Scott Lynch, Duke University


Friday, April 19 | 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Session Type: Oral
Final Session Number: 158
Room: Garfield

Session Title: Consequences of Criminal Legal Contact for Family Life

Discussant 1: Allison Dwyer Emory, University at Buffalo
Chair 1: Becky Pettit, University of Texas

The Consequences of Sibling Criminal Legal System Contact for Family Life
S. Wakefield, Rutgers University; G. Baker, Duke University; C. Wildeman, Duke University.


Friday, April 19 | 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Session Type: Oral
Final Session Number: 169
Room: Fayette

Session Title: Housing Tenure and Instability

Discussant 1: Nick Graetz, Princeton University
Chair 1: Aarti Bhat

Measuring Insecurity: Dynamics of Housing Arrangements and Residential Mobility Among Children
W. Lowell, Duke University.


Friday, April 19 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Session Type: Poster
Final Session Number: P08
Room: Regency Ballroom

Session Title: Education, Employment, and Inequality

Racial Differences in Effects of Parental Resources on Children’s College Attendance and Its Financing
E. Wiemers, Syracuse University; V. J. Hotz, Duke University.