8th Annual Mini-PAA Conference

This Conference will include various poster presentations, followed by presentations on topics related to demography, and then another time span of various poster presentations. Each session/presentation will be presented by various graduate students associated with the Population Research Institute and the Graduate Program in Demography.

This event is a great opportunity for graduate students to practice presentations ahead of the actual PAA conference 2021 held virtually.

The Pennsylvania State University Population Research Institute and Graduate Program in Demography are proud to sponsor the mini-PAA Conference for 2021

10:30 am  

Session 1: Introduction 

10:35 am 

Age, period, and cohort patterns in the use of drugs with elevated overdose risk in the US, 1979-2018. 

Kira England, Ashton Verdery, Liying Luo, Shannon Monnat  

(Discussant: Dr. Louisa Holmes) 

10:55 am 

The intersection of time and place: Cohort patterns and regional differences in obesity among blacks and whites, 1976-2018. 

 

Liying Luo, Emma Zang, Jaihui Xu  

(Discussant: Dr. Steven Haas) 

11:05 am 

The relationship between suspension and dropout in three cohorts of youth in the United States.  (FLASH TALK) 

Brittany Freelin  

(Discussant: Hannah Ahn) 

11:20 am 

Transition to open questions 

11.35 am 

SHORT BREAK 

11:40 am 

Session 2: Poster Session Introduction  

11:42 am 

Place and perception: Connections between activity space and beliefs in Chitwan, Nepal.  

Anna Shetler, Scott Yabiku  

11:44 am 

The contribution of varying female community autonomy levels to child nutritional status.  

Marco Faytong Haro  

11:46 am 

Anomaly in the education-health gradient in gestational outcomes in the U.S.   

Aarti Bhat, Alexis Santos  

11:48 am 

The generational boundaries of educational advantage: Does great-grandparent education predict great-grandchild early academic achievement?  

Megan Evans, JD Daw, S. Michael Gaddis  

11:50 am 

Poster Breakout rooms with transitions between room prompts sent at 12.00 pm and 12.10 pm 

12.20 pm 

SHORT BREAK  

12:30 pm 

Session 3: Introduction  

12:35 pm 

The effect of integrated management of neonatal and childhood illness policy on mortality: Evidence from Zimbabwe.  

Nigel James, Yubraj Acharya  

(Discussant: Dr. Nancy Luke) 

12:55 pm 

Wives’ relative income and teen sex risk latent classes: Evidence from a developing setting. 

 

Luis Alonso Quijano Ruiz, Marco Faytong Haro  

(Discussant: Saman Naz) 

1:15 pm 

Open questions  

1:30 pm 

Session 4: Introduction  

1:35 pm 

Operationalizing Gentrification. (FLASH TALK) 

 

Charles Boynton  

(Discussant: Megan Evans) 

1:50 pm 

The changing landscape of affordable housing in the rural and urban United States, 1990-2016. 

Matthew Brooks  

(Discussant: Dr. John Iceland) 

2:10 pm 

Open questions 

2:25 pm 

Wrap-up 

2:30 pm 

End