Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting –
May 6-9, 2026 in St. Louis Missouri
The Population Association of America’s annual meeting is the premier conference of demographers and social and health scientists from the United States and abroad. Here demographers at all career stages are afforded the opportunity to present their research in oral and poster sessions, hear others’ findings, and network with their peers.
CAPS affiliates will present their work at the 2026 Population Association of American Meeting.
List of Presentations
Session Title: Intergenerational Family Inequalities (Oral)
Title: Inequalities in Intergenerational Family Support in Life and Death
Authors: Adriana Reyes (Cornell University), Thelonious Goerz (Cornell University)
Date/Time: May 7, 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM, Room 100
Session Title: Life Course Perspectives on Migration and Health (Flash)
Title: Age at migration, education, and self-rated health trajectories after age 50 in the U.S. and the U.K.
Authors: Zoya Gubernskaya (University at Albany), Xiaoyu Yao (University at Albany)
Date/Time: May 7, 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM, Room 102
Session Title: Migration, Health, and Mortality in Europe (Oral)
Chair: Zoya Gubernskaya (University at Albany)
Date/Time: May 7, 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM, Room 240
Session Title: Health Behaviors and Lifestyles (Oral)
Discussant: Iliya Gutin (Syracuse University)
Date/Time: May 7, 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM, Room 264
Session Title: Family Demography (Poster)
Title: Caregivers’ Attitudes About Public/Private Responsibility for Helping with Personal Care
Authors: Jinghan Tang (University of Michigan), Sarah Patterson (University of Michigan), Adriana Reyes (Cornell University)
Date/Time: May 7, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM, Rooms 220-227
Session Title: Influencing Policy Through Media: Crafting and Placing Effective Op-Eds (Invited Session)
Title: Experience of Writing and Placing and Op-Ed
Author: Colleen Heflin, Syracuse University
Date/Time: May 7, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM. Room 101
Session Title: Global and Comparative Analyses of Mating (Flash)
Title: Trends in U.S. Female Educational Hypogamy by Rurality and Race, 2008-2023
Authors: Zhihao Pan (Syracuse University), Shannon Monnat (Syracuse University)
Date/Time: May 7, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, Room 103
Session Title: Intersecting Inequalities: How Age, Race, Gender, and Place Shape Older Age Well-being (Oral)
Title: Beyond Aggregated Health Advantage: Disability Heterogeneity Across Asian American Older Adult Populations
Authors: Haowei Wang (Syracuse University), Catherine Garcia (Syracuse University), Yan Zhang (Texas State University), Jeung Hyun Kim (Brown University), Marc A. Garcia (Syracuse University)
Date/Time: May 7, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, Room 104
Session Title: Consequences of Spousal Bereavement (Oral)
Title: Living after Loss: Spousal Bereavement and Trajectories of Subjective Age and Subjective Life Expectancy
Authors: Cayley Ryan-Claytor (University of Michigan), Emily Smith-Greenaway (University of Southern California), Ashton Verdery (Pennsylvania State University), Haowei Wang (Syracuse University), Sarah Patterson (University of Michigan)
Date/Time: May 7, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, Room 105
Session Title: Climate Change Across the Life Course (Oral)
Title: Two Generations at Risk: Excessive Heat, Violence Against Women, and Son Preference in West Africa
Authors: Vida Maralani (Cornell University), Alvaro Padilla Pozo (Cornell University)
Date/Time: May 7, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, Room 106
Session Title: Mortality and Life Expectancy Trends in the United States
Title: National and State-level Trends in Latino and Latino Subgroup Life Expectancy, 2006-2022 (Oral)
Authors: Marc A. Garcia (Syracuse University), Hiram Beltran-Sanchez (University of California, Los Angeles), Courtney Boen (Brown University), Rogelio Saenz (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Date/Time: May 7, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, Room 242
Session Title: Intersecting Inequalities: How Age, Race, Gender, and Place Shape Older Age Well-Being (Oral)
Title: Exploring factor associated with age segregation by race groups in US counties: A longitudinal perspective, 2005-2022
Author: Tse-Chuan Yang (University at Albany), Stephen Matthews (Pennsylvania State University), Jiahao Zhang
Date/Time: May 7, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, Room 104
Session Title: Demography, Education, and Social Change (Oral)
Chair: Vida Maralani (Cornell University
Date/Time: May 7, 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Session Title: County-and State-Level Determinants of Demographic and Health Outcomes (Oral)
Discussant: Iliya Gutin (Syracuse University)
Date/Time: May 7, 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM, Room 230
Session Title: The Demography of Care for Older Adults (Flash)
Title: Older Adults’ Expectations of Living in Nursing Home Declined during the Pandemic
Authors: Soohyun Kim (Syracuse University), Yulya Trusknovsky (Syracuse University), Emily Wiemers (Syracuse University)
Date/Time: May 8, 8:00 – 8:15 AM, Room 102
Session Title: The Demography of Care for Older Adults (Flash)
Title: Capturing Between-and Within-Family Differences in Adult children’s Support to Parents: Sibling’s Influences
Authors: Wencheng Zhang (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Hui Liu (Purdue University), Merril Silverstein (Syracuse University)
Date/Time: May 8, 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM, Room 102
Session Title: Policy and Cognitive Health (Oral)
Discussant: Marc A. Garcia (Syracuse University)
Chair: Adriana Reyes (Cornell University)
Date/Time: May 8, 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM, Room 105
Session Title: Education, Work and Economic Inequality (Poster)
Title: The Time Use of Frontline Workers Following the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Emily Wiemers (Syracuse University), Halim Yoon (Syracuse University), I-Fen Lin (University of Missouri-Columbia), Janecca Chin (University of Missouri-Columbia), V. Joseph Hotz (University of Chicago), Judith Seltzer (University of California, Los Angeles), Eungin Choi (Syracuse University)
Date/Time: May 8, 8:30 – 10:00 AM, Rooms 220-227
Session Title: Data Availability and Access (Flash)
Title: Who Helps During a Crisis? Enhancing the Health and Retirement Study’s Coverage of Time and Money Help
Authors: I-Fen Lin (University of Missouri-Columbia), Judith Seltzer (University of California, Los Angeles), Janecca Chin (University of Missouri-Columbia), Emily Wiemers (Syracuse University), V. Joseph Hotz (University of Chicago)
Date/Time: May 8, 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM, Room 103
Session Title: Early-Life Structural Inequality and Health Across the Life Course (Oral)
Title: Early-Life Residential Segregation and Cognitive Impairment: A Life Course Study, 1940-2016
Authors: Seung-won Emily Choi (Texas Tech University), Tse-Chuan Yang (University at Albany), Zhenmei Zhang (Michigan State University), Mark Hayward (University of Texas at Austin)
Date/Time: May 8, 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM, Room 105
Session Title: Food Insecurity, Inequality, and the U.S. Food Environment (Oral)
Title: Silver Years, Empty Plates: Food Insecurity in a Changing America
Authors: Colleen Heflin (Syracuse University), William Clay Fannin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Date/Time: May 8, 9:30 AM – 10:35 AM, Room 230
Session Title: Lifestyle and Cognitive Health (Oral)
Discussant: Haowei Wang (Syracuse University)
Date/Time: May 8, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, Room 104
Session Title: Parenthood, Family Roles, and Women’s Labor Force Participation (Oral)
Title: Did the introduction of individual taxation increase women’s labor force participation in Sweden
Authors: Ann-Zofie Duvander (Stockholm University), Sunee Billingsley (Stockholm University), Kelly Musick (Cornell University)
Date/Time: May 8, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM, Room 241
Session Title: Economic Inequality-Patterns, Causes, and Effects (Flash)
Title: Refundable Tax Credits and Income Inequality Across the United States
Authors: Kate Strully (University at Albany), Heeyoung Lee (University at Albany), Christopher Lowenstein (Standford University), David Rehkopf (Stanford University)
Date/Time: May 9, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM, Room 102
Session Title: Gender, Parenthood, and the Structure of Work Across Countries (Oral)
Title: Greedy Work and Wage Gaps by Gender and Parenthood Across High-Income Countries
Authors: Kelly Musick (Cornell University), Kim Weeden (Cornell University), Zhipeng Zhou (Cornell University), Sinn Won Han (Yonsei University)
Date/Time: May 9, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM, Room 230
Session Title: Social, Political, and Structural Determinants of Health and Mortality (Oral)
Title: U.S. State Policy Index for Population Health Analyses
Authors: Jennifer Karas Montez (Syracuse University), Iliya Gutin (Syracuse University), Shannon Monnat (Syracuse University)
Date/Time: May 9, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM, Room 241
Session Title: Data and Methods/Applied Demography/Other (Poster)
Title: Time Help Received During Crisis: Variations by Older Adults” Cognitive Functioning
Authors: I-Fen Lin (University of Missouri-Columbia), Judith Seltzer (University of California, Los Angeles), Janecca Chin (University of Missouri-Columbia), Emily Wiemers (Syracuse University), V. Joseph Hotz (University of Chicago)
Date/Time: May 9, 9:00 – 10:30 AM, Rooms 220-227
Session Title: Intergenerational Relationships (Flash)
Title: From Gendered Expectations to Gendered Care Realities for Older Adults with Dementia
Authors: Adriana Reyes (Cornell University), Sarah Patterson (University of Michigan)
Date/Time: May 9, 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM, Room 102
Session Title: Mortality and Morbidity/Demography of Low-and Middle-Income Countries (Poster)
Title: Geographic Disparities in Mortality from Alzheimer’s Disease
Authors: Igor Akushevich (Duke University), Arseniy Yashkin (Duke University), Stanislav Kolpakov (Duke University), Zoya Gubernskaya (University at Albany), Julia Kravchenko (Duke University School of Medicine)
Date/Time: May 9, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Rooms 220-227
Session Title: State Policies and Demographic Outcomes (Oral)
Chair: Iliya Gutin (Syracuse University)
Title: Child Care Subsidy Policy Changes and Parental Employment and Earnings Outcomes
Authors: Colleen Heflin (Syracuse University), William Clay Fannin (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Taryn Morrissey (American University)
Date/Time: May 9, 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM, Room 231
Session Title: State Policies and Demographic Outcomes (Oral)
Title: State Safety Nets and Parental Well-Being
Authors: Jessica Su (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Kelly Musick (Cornell University), Hyo Joo Lee (Cornell University)
Date/Time: May 9, 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM, Room 231
Session Title: Determinants of Low Fertility (Oral)
Title: A Remote Work Baby Boom? Remote Work and Fertility in the United States
Author: Siyao Lu (Yale University), Emma Zang (Yale University), Kelly Musick (Cornell University)
Date/Time: May 9, 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM, Room 263