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Congratulations to Jennifer Karas Montez, who has been appointed the next Editor-in-Chief of the American Sociological Association’s Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Her three-year term will begin on January 1, 2027.

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

Congratulations to Janet Wilmoth who was appointed Distinguished Professor of Sociology. Distinguished Professors are members of the professorate who have achieved exceptionally distinguished stature in their academic specialties and have a substantive and sustained impact on their fields.

Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting –April 10-13, 2025 in Washington, DC

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 2025 Population Association of America Annual Meeting.

List of Presentations

Friday, April 11, 2025

8:00 AM-9:15 AM
Room: LeDroit Park
Life Course Exposure to State Policy Liberalism Contexts and Later-Life Cognitive Health
Jason Wong, Yale University; Emma Zang*, Yale University; Jennifer Karas Montez, Syracuse University

8:00 AM-9:15 AM
Room: Mint
Does Despair in Young Adulthood Predict Mortality?
Iliya Gutin, Syracuse University; Lauren Gaydosh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

11:00 AM-12:15 PM
Room: Supreme Court
Major Trends in the Demography of Aging: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) P30 Centers
CHAIR: Jennifer Karas Montez, Syracuse University

2:00 PM-3:15 PM
Room: LeDroit Park
Redlining Policy and Later-Life Mortality: An Analysis of the Linked HRS-1940 Census Data
Samantha Friedman, University at Albany-SUNY; Janet Wilmoth, Syracuse University; Miriam Mutambudzi; Rui Li, University at Albany, SUNY; Jin-Wook Lee, University at Albany, SUNY

2:00 PM-3:15 PM
Room: Farragut North
Unpacking Explanations for the Tightening Association Between Education and Health
Jennifer Karas Montez, Syracuse University; Julia Finan*, Syracuse University; Scott Landes, Syracuse University; Anna Zajacova, University of Western Ontario

3:30 PM-4:45 PM
Room: Silver Linden
A Lasting Impression: Early Arrests and Attitudes Toward the Law
Lili Dodderidge, Cornell University; Erin York Cornwell, Cornell University

Saturday, April 12, 2025

8:00 AM-9:15 AM
Room: Scarlet Oak
The Well-being of Frontline Workers Following the COVID-19 Pandemic
Emily Wiemers, Syracuse University; Halim Yoon, Syracuse University; I-Fen Lin, Bowling Green State University; Janecca Chin, Bowling Green State University; Vincent Hotz, University of Chicago

8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
Power Outages in an Era of Climate Change: A Microlevel Examination of the Household and Residential Correlates, 2023
Samantha Friedman, University at Albany-SUNY; Elizabeth Fussell, Brown University; Shao Lin, University at Albany, SUNY; Chunxu Fang, University at Albany, SUNY

9:30 AM-10:45 AM
Room: Monument
Contexts of Extended Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Emily Wiemers, Syracuse University

9:30 AM-10:45 AM
Room: Monument
State Policy Contexts and Working-Age Adult Mental Health Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Iliya Gutin, Shannon Monnat, Jennifer Karas Montez, Emily Wiemers, Douglas Wolf. Syracuse University

9:30 AM-10:45 AM
Room: Capitol Hill
Parental Dementia and Mental Health Trajectories of Black and White Adult Children
Haowei Wang, Syracuse University

9:30 AM-10:45 AM
Room: Mount Vernon Square
Extreme Temperature and Chronic Pain Among Older Adults: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Survey
Feinuo Sun*, University of Texas at Arlington; Kai Zhang, University at Albany

9:30 AM-10:45 AM
Room: Dogwood
Gendered Work–Family Pathways and Midlife Health Among College Leavers
Paula Fomby, University of Pennsylvania; Meiying Li, Cornell University; Kelly Musick, Cornell University

9:30 AM-10:45 AM
Room: Eastern Market
Use and Consequences of Paid Maternity Leave Across Two American Cohorts Camille Portier, EUI (European University Institute); Vida Maralani, Cornell University

11:00 AM-12:15 PM
Room: L’Enfant Plaza
The Enduring Gender Gap in Care Expectations for Daughters and Sons
Sarah Patterson*, University of Michigan; Adriana Reyes, Cornell University

2:00 PM-3:15 PM
Room: Congress
Race, Place, and Economic Inequality
(CHAIR) Tse-Chuan Yang, University at Albany, SUNY

3:30 PM-4:45 PM
Room: Tulip
U.S. State Policy Contexts, County Economic Contexts, & Working-Age Mortality, 1990– 2019
Iliya Gutin, Syracuse University; Shannon Monnat, Syracuse University; Jennifer Karas Montez, Syracuse University; Emily Wiemers, Syracuse University; Douglas Wolf, Syracuse University

3:30 PM-4:45 PM
Room: Magnolia
U.S. State & County Contributors to Growing Geographic Disparities in Working-Age Mortality
Jennifer Karas Montez, Syracuse University; Shannon Monnat, Syracuse University; Iliya Gutin, Syracuse University; Emily Wiemers, Syracuse University; Douglas Wolf, Syracuse University

Sunday, April 13, 2025

9:00 AM-10:15 AM
Room: Magnolia
Physical and Cognitive Impairments Among Midlife Working-Age Latinos in the United States: Subgroup and Subnational Variation
Elise Parrish*, University of Pennsylvania; Courtney Boen, Brown University; Marc A. Garcia, Syracuse University

10:30 AM-11:45 AM
Room: Treasury
Causal Inference Methods
CHAIR: Lawrence Wu, New York University
DISCUSSANT: Seth Sanders, Cornell University
DISCUSSANT: Tyler Mccormick, University of Washington

Poster Presentations

Friday, April 11, 2025

Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Theme: Aging and the Life Course/Applied Demography

• Intergenerational Support and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Planning for Retirement
  Adriana Reyes, Cornell University; Nekehia Quashie, University of Rhode Island; Yinan Yao, City University of New York; Jessica Hardie, Hunter College, CUNY
• Racial/Ethnic Gaps in Pandemic-Related Economic Hardship Among Older Adults: Examining the Role of Local Inequalities
  Emily Wiemers, Syracuse University; Anna Wiersma Strauss, Syracuse University; Marc A. Garcia, Syracuse University; I-Fen Lin, Bowling Green State University; Halim Yoon, Syracuse University; Janecca Chin, Bowling Green State University; Judith Seltzer, University of California, Los Angeles; Vincent Hotz, University of Chicago
• Intergenerational Support and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Planning for Retirement
  Adriana Reyes, Cornell University; Nekehia Quashie, University of Rhode Island; Yinan Yao, City University of New York; Jessica Hardie, Hunter College, CUNY
• Latino–White Inequality and the Earned Income Tax Credit
  Kate Strully, SUNY University at Albany; Christopher Lowenstein, Stanford University; David Rehkopf, Stanford University
• Trends Over Time in Parental Sex Preferences for Children and Gender Gaps in Education
  Vida Maralani, Cornell University; Chae Kim, Cornell University

Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
3:45 PM-5:15 PM
Theme: Migration, Development, and Environment

• “Immigrant Health Paradox” in Self-care Disability in Later Life: Insights From Multinational Comparison
  Zoya Gubernskaya, University at Albany, SUNY
• Assailing Asylum: Social and Structural Determinants of Asylum Grant Rates to the United States, 1990–2023.
  Vicente Mata, Cornell University; Bryan L. Sykes, Cornell University

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Theme: Data and Methods/Other

• Measuring Rationalization Bias in Sex Preferences for Children in a Cross-National Perspective
  Vida Maralani, Cornell University; Jack Donnellan*, Cornell; Chae Kim, Cornell University
• Predictive Modeling of Cognitive Function: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques
  Cheng-Hsi Yang, The Pennsylvania State University; Muntasir Masum, University at Albany – SUNY; Suman Saha, The Pennsylvania State University; Mahfuza Farooque, The Pennsylvania State University