DUPRI @ PAA 2026

Every year, scholars and students from DUPRI present research papers, prepare professional posters, and serve as panel discussants at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. This year's PAA Annual Meeting will take place in St. Louis, Missouri from May 6-9. Below is a list of all DUPRI scholars and students participating in PAA sessions.


Thursday, May 7 | 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Session Title: Flash: Social Connectedness in Later-Life Across Diverse Contexts
Session Type: Flash
Room: Room 103
Chair 1: Flavia Andrade, University of Illinois
Final Session Number: 24

Does Contextual Social Trust Improve Productive Aging? A Multilevel Study of 22 European Countries
Z. Chen, Duke University; W. Ling, The University of Hong Kong; S. Wang, National University of Singapore.


Thursday, May 7 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session Title: Family Demography
Session Type: Poster
Room: Rooms 220 - 227
Final Session Number: P02

Social Sterilization: The Effect of Wealth Inequality on Fertility Intentions and Outcomes
S. Qiu, Duke University; C. Gibson-Davis, Duke University.


Thursday, May 7 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Session Title: Race/Ethnicity, Immigration and Child Well-being
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 230
Discussant 1: Po-Chun Huang, University of Texas at San Antonio
Discussant 2: Luna Chandna, Portland State University
Chair 1: Han Liu, University of Texas at San Antonio
Final Session Number: 45

Risk of Child Welfare Involvement among Children of Kalaallit Inuit Origin in Denmark and Greenland
M. Nielsen, ROCKWOOL Foundation; P. Fallesen, Rockwool Foundation; M. Eiermann; B. Bryan, Rice University; C. Wildeman, Duke University.


Thursday, May 7 | 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Session Title: Demographic Dimensions of Inequality and Social Mobility
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 231
Discussant 1: Xiaowen Han, University of Minnesota
Chair 1: Juanita Chinn, National Insititues of Health
Final Session Number: 85

Wealth Inequality and Social Mobility in the United States
C. Gibson-Davis, Duke University; S. Qiu, Duke University.


Thursday, May 7 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Session Title: Race/Ethnicity, Criminal Legal System Contact, & Population Processes
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 266
Discussant 1: Daniela Kaiser, University of California, Irvine
Chair 1: Naomi Sugie, University of California, Los Angeles
Final Session Number: 103

Change Over Time in Correctional Regimes in U.S. States: The Joint Roles of Probation and Incarceration
A. Pittman, Duke University; D. Hibi, Washington University in St. Louis; I. Bouklas, Duke University; M. Cao, Duke University; F. Fairfax, Duke University; D. Rigby, University of Michigan; T. Bruckner, University of California, Irvine; H. Lee, Duke University.


Thursday, May 7 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Session Title: Fertility and Reproductive Health during Conflict
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 267
Discussant 1: Marcos Rangel, Duke University
Chair 1: Giulia La Mattina, University of South Florida
Final Session Number: 98


Thursday, May 7 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Session Title: Contexts and Consequences of Education
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 242
Discussant 1: Andrea Velasquez, University of Colorado, Denver
Chair 1: Alexandra Cooperstock, Brown University
Final Session Number: 91

Do School Suspensions Matter for Academic Performance in Middle School and High School?
J. Baron, Duke University; N. Nguyen, Duke University; D. Thomas, Duke University; L. Zhu, Duke University.


Thursday, May 7 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Session Title: Flash: Climate, Environmental Change, and Population Health
Session Type: Flash
Room: Room 104
Chair 1: Jasmin Abdel Ghany, University of Oxford
Final Session Number: 101

Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Alzheimer’s Disease Risk: The U.S. Study of Medicare Beneficiaries
J. Kravchenko, Duke University School of Medicine; I. Akushevich, Duke University; H. K. Lyerly, Duke University School of Medicine.


Thursday, May 7 | 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Session Title: Impact of Tax Credits on Reducing Child Poverty: The National Academies Report
Session Type: Invited Session
Room: Room 101
Chair 1: V. Joseph Hotz, University of Chicago
Final Session Number: 106

Panelist: L. Gennetian, Duke University.


Thursday, May 7 | 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Session Title: Health and Health Behavior
Session Type: Poster
Room: Rooms 220 - 227
Final Session Number: P04

How Prior Adversity Shapes Mental Health After Shocks
K. Shartle, Duke University; M. Escobar Carias, University of Melbourne; V. Baranov, University of Melbourne; S. Haight, University of Georgia; Y. Pan, University of Chapel Hill; A. Frost, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; A. Kachoria, University of North Carolina; S. Bhalotra, University of Warwick; A. Bibi, Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning ; J. Maselko, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


Friday, May 8 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Session Title: Educational Pathways: Persistence, Attrition, and Attainment
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 241
Discussant 1: Dafna Gelbgiser, Tel Aviv University
Chair 1: Sofia Duenas, University of Notre Dame
Final Session Number: 113

From Care to Classroom: Mental Health Reform and Education
R. Marques, Duke University.


Friday, May 8 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Session Title: Consequences of Immigration Policy
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 263
Discussant 1: Hannah Postel, Duke University
Chair 1: Julia Gelatt, Migration Policy Institute
Final Session Number: 121


Friday, May 8 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Session Title: Race-making and Official Statistics
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 100
Discussant 1: Aliya Saperstein, Stanford University
Chair 1: Jeronimo Muniz, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Final Session Number: 125

Who Counts as Indigenous? The Politics of Official Ethnoracial Classification Technologies in Mexico, 2000-2024
B. Guemez, Duke University.


Friday, May 8 | 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Session Title: Statistical and Bayesian Methods in Demography
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 231
Discussant 1: Scott Lynch, Duke University
Chair 1: Shawn Bauldry, Purdue University
Final Session Number: 132


Friday, May 8 | 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Session Title: Life after Deportation or Return
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 263
Discussant 1: Claudia Masferrer, El Colegio de Mexico
Discussant 2: Erin Hamilton, University of California, Davis
Chair 1: Nicole Denier, Colby College
Final Session Number: 144

Cash Transfers for Forced Returnees: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Honduras
A. Andino, Duke University; D. Masterson, University of California Santa Barbara; H. Postel, Duke University; J. Ruiz, Inter-American Development Bank; C. van der Werf, Inter-American Development Bank; A. Velasquez, University of Colorado Denver; K. Zelaya, Inter-American Development Bank.


Friday, May 8 | 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Session Title: Disparities in fetal and child mortality
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 260
Discussant 1: Paige Park, University of California, Berkeley
Chair 1: Diane Coffey, Population Research Center, UT Austin
Final Session Number: 144

Immigrant Differences in the Risk of Stillbirth in the United States
D. Sarnak, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; A. Stolte, University of Virginia; B. Bustos, University of California, Irvine; H. Lee, Duke University; J. Casey; R. catalano, University of California, Berkeley; T. Bruckner, UC Irvine, Public Health; A. Gemmill, University of California Los Angeles.


Friday, May 8 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session Title: Aging and the Life Course/Children, Youth and Intergenerational Ties
Session Type: Poster
Room: Rooms 220 - 227
Final Session Number: P06

From Placement to Poverty? Associations Between Out-of-Home Placement and Adult Poverty
A. S. Anker, ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Unit; P. Fallesen, Rockwool Foundation; J. Jensen, Rockwool Foundation; C. Wildeman, Duke University.


Friday, May 8 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session Title: Aging and the Life Course/Children, Youth and Intergenerational Ties
Session Type: Poster
Room: Rooms 220 - 227
Final Session Number: P06

Direct and Indirect Effects of Ambient Air Pollution on Alzheimer’s Disease Risk: The Mediating Role of Comorbidities
I. Akushevich, Duke University; A. Yashkin, Duke University; L. Tupler, Duke University; M. Ouyang, Duke University School of Medicine; H. K. Lyerly, Duke University School of Medicine; J. Kravchenko, Duke University School of Medicine.


Friday, May 8 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Session Title: Race, Ethnicity, Migration & Family Life
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 231
Discussant 1: Han Liu, University of Texas at San Antonio
Chair 1: Kara Joyner, University of Texas at San Antonio
Final Session Number: 159

Who Claims Indigeneity? Intergenerational Patterns of Ethnic Classification in Contemporary Mexico
B. Guemez, Duke University.


Friday, May 8 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Session Title: Research Agenda for Improving Economic and Social Mobility in the United States
Session Type: Invited Session
Room: Room 101
Chair 1: Florencia Torche, Princeton University
Final Session Number: 171
Panelist: T. Brown, Duke University.


Friday, May 8 | 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Session Title: Poverty, Hardship, and Public Policy
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 261
Discussant 1: Margot Jackson, Brown University
Discussant 2: Elizabeth Martin, Syracuse University
Chair 1: Taehyun Kim, The Ohio State University
Final Session Number: 179

Effects on Maternal Bandwidth of Monthly Unconditional Cash Starting at Birth Among U.S. Families with Low Income
L. Gennetian, Duke University.


Friday, May 8 | 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Session Title: Poverty, Hardship, and Public Policy
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 261
Discussant 1: Margot Jackson, Brown University
Discussant 2: Elizabeth Martin, Syracuse University
Chair 1: Taehyun Kim, The Ohio State University
Final Session Number: 179

State-level Cash-Assistance Policy Design Matters for Child Outcomes
M. Rangel, Duke University; L. Gennetian, Duke University; D. Thompson, RAND; L. Basurto, Cornell University; P. Shukla, Duke University; K. Evans, Duke University.


Friday, May 8 | 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Session Title: Biology and Population Health
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 267
Discussant 1: Helen Meier, University of Michigan
Chair 1: Colter Mitchell, University of Michigan
Final Session Number: 186

Sustained Impacts of Stress on Thyroid Function and Cardiometabolic Health: Twenty Years After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
R. Lawton, Harvard University; D. Thomas, Duke University; E. Frankenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; C. Sumantri, SurveyMETER; T. Seeman; E. Crimmins, University of Southern California; D. Hochbaum, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.


Friday, May 8 | 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Session Title: Public Policies and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 240
Discussant 1: Danielle Crookes, Northeastern University
Chair 1: Maria Elena Young, University of California, Merced
Final Session Number: 191

Drug reform policies and mental health among Black Americans
A. Das, University of Illinois Chicago; M. Esposito, University of Minnesota; H. Lee, Duke University; L. Andersen, Rockwool Foundation.


Friday, May 8 | 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Session Title: Subjective Determinants of Well-Being in Later Life
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 105
Discussant 1: Jonathan King, NIH/NIA
Chair 1: Na Yin, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research & Baruch College
Final Session Number: 173

Lancet Commission on Hearing Loss: Novel Tools to Measure Stigma
J. West, Duke University School of Medicine; M. Stockton, University of Pennsylvania; H. Francis, Duke University School of Medicine; R. Stelmach, RTI International; E. Troutman Adams, RTI International; J. Kraemer, Georgetown University; K. Saalim, RTI International; M. Wallhagen, UCSF; M. Nyarko, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; N. Boafo, Speech and Hearing Center; N. Akua Owusu, Speech and Hearing Center; E. Gyamera, Educational Assessment and Research Center; S. Smith, Duke University School of Medicine; L. Nyblade, RTI International.


Friday, May 8 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Session Title: Migration and Immigration/Race and Ethnicity/Gender and Sexual Identity
Session Type: Poster
Room: Rooms 220 - 227
Final Session Number: P07

Extended Deep Learning Models for Time-to-Event Data: Applications for Analyses of Disparities in Prostate Cancer Risk Using Medicare Data
I. Akushevich, Duke University; S. Kolpakov, Duke University; A. Yashkin, Duke University; K. Andreev, United Nations; J. Kravchenko, Duke University School of Medicine.


Saturday, May 9 | 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Session Title: Public Policy and Population Health in Developing Countries
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 231
Discussant 1: Zhiqiu Ye, University of Florida
Chair 1: Siyao Lu, Yale University
Final Session Number: 198

Minding Mothers: Perinatal outcomes and specialty mental health clinics expansion
M. Rangel, Duke University; R. Marques, Duke University.


Saturday, May 9 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Session Title: Historical and Contemporary Mechanisms of Migration
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 242
Discussant 1: Dylan Connor, Arizona State University
Chair 1: Jenna Nobles, University of California, Berkeley
Final Session Number: 228

Who Goes Where and Why? Destination Choice of International Migrants From Ghana
I. Chang, Duke University; M. G. Merli, Duke University; C. Flippen, University of Pennsylvania; J. Behrman, University of Pennsylvania; L. Kandilige, University of Ghana; I. Elo, University of Pennsylvania; A. Bawah, University of Ghana.


Saturday, May 9 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Session Title: Biomarkers of Dementia and Exposures
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 260
Discussant 1: Jessica Faul, University of Michigan
Chair 1: Joshua Goode, University of Michigan
Final Session Number: 226

The Impact of Exposure to Financial Stresses on Cardiovascular Health Risks Over the Short and Long Term: Evidence From the Great Recession
D. Thomas, Duke University; T. Seeman; A. Karlamangla, UCLA; S. Merkin, UCLA.


Saturday, May 9 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Session Title: Public Policy and Child Outcomes
Session Type: Oral
Room: Room 105
Discussant 1: Cynthia Osborne, Vanderbilt University
Discussant 2: Christopher Wimer, Columbia University
Chair 1: Natasha Pilkauskas, University of Michigan
Final Session Number: 215

The Earned Income Tax Credit, Net Worth Poverty, and Children’s Well-being: New Causal Evidence
M. Perez, Duke University; L. Gennetian, Duke University; C. Gibson-Davis, Duke University; L. Keister, Duke University.


Saturday, May 9 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Session Title: Meet the Editors
Session Type: Invited Session
Room: Room 101
Chair 1: M. Giovanna Merli, Duke University
Final Session Number: 231

Editor, "Demography"
H. Lee, Duke University.

Editor, "Demography"
M. Rangel, Duke University.


Saturday, May 9 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Session Title: Mortality and Morbidity/Demography of Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Session Type: Poster
Room: Rooms 220 - 227
Final Session Number: P09

Geographic Disparities in Mortality from Alzheimer’s Disease
I. Akushevich, Duke University; A. Yashkin, Duke University; S. Kolpakov, Duke University; Z. Gubernskaya, University at Albany, SUNY; J. Kravchenko, Duke University School of Medicine.


Saturday, May 9 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Session Title: Flash: Data Challenges and Innovations in Low- and Middle-Income Contexts
Session Type: Flash
Room: Room 103
Chair 1: Rene Iwo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Final Session Number: 235

Adult - and Self-reported Assessment of Children’s and Adolescents’ Anxiety: Evidence From a Large Sample in India
K. Shartle, Duke University; L. Gorla, Duke University; J. Lansford, Duke University; J. Maselko, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


Saturday, May 9 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Session Title: Flash: Transnational and Domestic Migration and Health
Session Type: Flash
Room: Room 102
Chair 1: Tyler Myroniuk, University of Kansas
Final Session Number: 247

Under Pressure? Forced Migration and Public Health
R. Marques, Duke University.


Saturday, May 9 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Session Title: Flash: Transnational and Domestic Migration and Health
Session Type: Flash
Room: Room 102
Chair 1: Tyler Myroniuk, University of Kansas
Final Session Number: 247

Health Selectivity among African Migrants to the US: Evidence from Linked Origin and Destination Samples in the Ghana Migrant Health Study
M. G. Merli, Duke University; C. Flippen, University of Pennsylvania; A. Bawah, University of Ghana; J. Behrman, University of Pennsylvania; I. Elo, University of Pennsylvania; I. Chang, Duke University; P. Asuming, University of Ghana; P. Kyei, University of Ghana; L. Kandilige, University of Ghana.