Population Studies and Training Center

Brown at PAA 2025

Every year Brown faculty, postdocs, and trainees present scholarly research papers and/or professional posters at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. In addition, several researchers participate in the conference as chairs, panelists, or discussants. The PSTC compiles an annual list of these participants. Please consider attending sessions of our colleagues and students!

PAA Appearances of Brown University Faculty, Researchers, and Students
April 10-13, 2025 | Washington, DC

Friday, April 11

Session 14. 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: LeDroit Park
Session Title: Policy Contexts and Later-Life Health
DISCUSSANT: Courtney BoenBrown University

Session 18. 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Pentagon
Session Title: Suburban, Exurban, and Rural Communities
“Reimagining Race, Class, and Opportunity in Black Suburbia”
S. KidaneBrown University

Session P22. 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Monument
Session Title: How the International Family of Health and Retirement Studies (HRS) and Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) Can Inform the Strengthening of Health Systems
“Understanding How Health System Design Influences Diagnosis: A Comparative Study Using the HRS, ELSA and SHARE Surveys”
I. PapanicolasBrown University

Session 20 (Flash). 8:00 AM - 9:15 PM
Room: Scarlet Oak
Session Title: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity
“Same Education, Different Unemployment Risks: How Place of Education Influences Employment Chances for Highly Educated Immigrants in the United States”
Y. JiangBrown University

Session 33. 9:30 AM - 10:45 PM
Room: Gallery Place
Session Title: Assortative Mating
DISCUSSANT: Zhenchao QianBrown University

Session 34. 9:30 AM - 10:45 PM
Room: Shaw
Session Title: Abortion in the United States After Dobbs
“Shifting Policies and Temporalities of Care”
A. BasmajianBrown University

Session 35. 9:30 AM - 10:45 PM
Room: LeDroit Park
Session Title: Gender- and Sexuality-Based Violence and the Law
“Pro-Women Antiviolence Centers and the Judicial Emergence of Violence: Evidence From Italy”
E. Fanelli, Brown University

Session 39. 9:30 AM - 10:45 PM
Room: Pentagon
Session Title: Historical Roots of Spatial Inequality
“The Environmental Dimensions of Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) “Redlining” Decisions”
J. TollefsonBrown University

Session P02. 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
Session Title: Children, Intergenerational Relationships/Gender and Sexuality
“Who Benefits From Divorce? Gender Differences in Economic Consequences of Divorce”
Y. Jiang, Brown University

Session 60. 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Judiciary Square
Session Title: Mechanisms of Socioeconomic Inequality in Neighborhood Contexts
DISCUSSANT: Alexandra CooperstockBrown University

Session 65. 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Supreme Court
Session Title: Population Aging and Policy
“Formulating the “Greatest Need”: An Updated Examination of Older Americans Act Title III Funding Formulas”
A. WambachBrown University

Session 70. 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Woodley Park
Session Title: Innovations and Challenges in Data Sources in Low- and Middle-Income Contexts
“The State of Stillbirth Statistics in India”
P. Hathi, University of California, Berkeley; A. Gupta, NYUAD; PriyaBrown University; K. Sharma; V. Paikra

Session 74. 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Mint
Session Title: Educational Change and Demographic Change
“The Contribution of Education to the Growing Gender Divide in Feelings Toward Feminists”
S. ShortE. FanelliM. ZacherD. BaumBrown University

Session 76. 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Gallery Place
Session Title: Families in Asia
“Zero Fertility Desire as an Indicator of Cultural Shift in China”
X. XuBrown University

Session 83. 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Farragut North
Session Title: Education, Health, and Mortality
“Priceless Benefits: Effects of School Spending on Child Mortality”
E. RauscherBrown University; G. MellonBrown University; S. Loeb, Stanford University

Session 84. 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Treasury
Session Title: Disaster-Driven Migration: Twenty Years After Katrina
“Return Migration to New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina: A Long-Term Perspective”
E. FussellBrown University; N. Sastry, University of Michigan; J. Sullivan, U.S. Census Bureau; T. Gardner, US Census Bureau

Session P04. 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
Session Title: Migration, Development, and Environment
“Unsettled Science and Contested Expertise: Science and Expertise in Climate Change Discourse”
Y. Liu, R. Wetts, S. SingalBrown University

Session P04. 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
Session Title: Migration, Development, and Environment
“Moving to Seek a Livelihood: Parent Migration and Child Coresidence in a Young Adult Cohort in South Africa”
C. Ginsburg, University of the WitwatersrandM. WhiteBrown University; C. Pheiffer, University of Massachusetts Boston

Session P04. 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
Session Title: Migration, Development, and Environment
“Residential Segregation in New Hispanic Destinations in the United States, 2000–2020”
H. Liu, University of Texas at San AntonioE. JungBrown University

Session 107. 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: L'Enfant Plaza
Session Title: Families, Law, and Public Policy
“Parent and Child Well-being, Precarious Work, and the Safety Net”
D. Schneider, Harvard UniversityM. JacksonBrown UniversityY. HuangBrown University


Saturday, April 12

Session 118. 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Silver Linden
Session Title: Siblings, Grandparents, and Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
“Son Preference, Sibling Gender Composition, and Parent–Child Relationship Quality Among Adolescents in China”
Y. HuangBrown University

Session 124. 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: L'Enfant Plaza
Session Title: Employment Conditions and Inequalities in Families and at Work
“No Kids, No Care, No Telework: Hiring Penalty Differences When Requesting Telework”
S. BradyBrown University; L. Cerino, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J. Coughlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Session 132. 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Mint
Session Title: Environmental Dimensions of Global Migration
DISCUSSANT: Elizabeth Fussell, Brown University

Session 134. 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Magnolia
Session Title: Mechanisms of Racial Inequality in Neighborhood Contexts
“How the Availability of School Choice Shapes School and Neighborhood Demographic Change”
E. FieldBrown University

Session P05. 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
Session Title: Neighborhoods and Communities/Race and Ethnicity/Legal Institutions
“The Caste and Color Line of Indian Health Care: Problematizing and Reimagining”
A. PriyaBrown University

Session P05. 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
Session Title: Neighborhoods and Communities/Race and Ethnicity/Legal Institutions
“Place-Based and Person-Based Investment in Children and Families”
A. CooperstockBrown UniversityM. JacksonBrown University; E. Parker, Rutgers University; L. Tach, Cornell University

Session P05. 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
Session Title: Neighborhoods and Communities/Race and Ethnicity/Legal Institutions
“Shifting Patterns of Neighborhood Transition: A Comparative Study”
W. Zhang, University of Wisconsin WhitewaterJ. LoganBrown University

Session P05. 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
Session Title: Neighborhoods and Communities/Race and Ethnicity/Legal Institutions
“What Are the Welfare Effects of Removing Single-Family Zoning? Evidence From Oregon”
M. SchaellingBrown University

Session P05. 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
Session Title: Neighborhoods and Communities/Race and Ethnicity/Legal Institutions
“Power Outages in an Era of Climate Change: A Microlevel Examination of the Household and Residential Correlates, 2023”
S. Friedman, University at Albany-SUNYE. FussellBrown University; S. Lin, University at Albany-SUNY; C. Fang, University at Albany-SUNY

Session 139. 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Treasury
Session Title: Statistical Demography: Compositions and Decompositions
“Explaining Disparities at Quantiles: An Augmented Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition”
D. da Silva BaumBrown University; X. Zhou, Harvard University

Session 161. 11:00 AM - 12:15 AM
Room: Dogwood
Session Title: Flash: Demographic Consequences of Carceral Systems
“Investigating the Connection Between the Supervised Society and the Great Migration Slowdown”
A. Rios-GalindoI. NadeauE. FussellF. SeahC. HaimsonJ. EasonBrown University

Session 162. 11:00 - 12:15
Room: Judiciary Square
Session Title: Earnings Inequality, Jobs, and Unions
“A Similarity Index for All Occupations"
A. Martin-Caughey, Brown University

Session 173. 11:00 AM - 12:15 AM
Room: Mint
Session Title: Consequences of Immigration Policy and Border Enforcement
“Estimates of the Annual Number of Undocumented Mexican Migrants Successfully Entering the United States on the Southern Border, 1980–2020”
D. LindstromBrown University; M-L Coubes, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte; K. Donato, Georgetown University

Session P07. 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
Session Title: Education, Work, and Economic Inequality
“‘Education, Not Deportation’: Immigrant Graduate Student Experiences in U.S. Higher Education”
K. EscuderoBrown University; I. Garcia Valdivia, University of Oregon, Eugene

Session P07. 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
Session Title: Education, Work, and Economic Inequality
“Firm Sorting and the Motherhood Earnings Penalty in the United States: New Evidence From Population-Level Birth and Earnings Records”
G. MellonBrown University; T. DiPrete, Columbia University

Session 185. 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: L'Enfant Plaza
Session Title: Kinship Support and Extended Family Relationships
“Does Kin Availability Predict Women’s Chances of Moving? Longitudinal Evidence From Nairobi’s Slums”
T. Myroniuk, University of Missouri; E. Sidze, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)M. WhiteBrown University; B. Mberu, APHRC; S. Madhavan, University of Maryland, College Park

Session 216. 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Tulip
Session Title: Social Policy and Population Health
“Effects of Capital Spending and Student Health in California, 1995–2019”
E. Rauscher, Z. Li, Brown University


Sunday, April 13

Session P09. 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Liberty & Independence Ballrooms
Session Title: Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior, and Reproductive Health
“Demographic Shifts and Fertility Measurement: The Case of South Korea”
B-Y JangBrown University

Session 233. 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Mount Vernon Square
Session Title: Structural Oppression and Health Inequalities
“Hate Crimes Hurt: State-Level Hate Crime Rates and Racial Health Disparities”
S. Lee, C. BoenBrown University

Session 234. 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Magnolia
Session Title: Immigrant Mortality Across Contexts
“Physical and Cognitive Impairments Among Midlife Working-Age Latinos in the United States: Subgroup and Subnational Variation”
E. Parrish, University of PennsylvaniaC. Boen, Brown University; M. Garcia, Syracuse University

Session 236. 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Capitol Hill
Session Title: Spatial Networks and Mobility
“Race, Segregated Urban Mobility, and Socioeconomic Ascent: A Neighborhood Network Approach”
J. CandipanBrown University; N. Brazil, University of California, Davis

Session 242. 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Treasury
Session Title: Causal Inference Methods
“How to Use Image-Based Vignettes in Survey Experiments: An Image-Editing Approach”
H. ZhangBrown University

Session 243. 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Judiciary Square
Session Title: Demography of Education
“Educational Opportunity Gaps, Triage, and the “Promise” of Federal Support”
A. CooperstockBrown University

Session 247. 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Gallery Place
Session Title: Union Dissolution and Health Outcomes
“Unequal Recoveries: Class Disparities in the Short- and Long-Term Impact of Divorce on Mental Well-being”
Y. HuangBrown University

Session 249. 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Mint
Session Title: Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Fertility and Reproductive Processes and Outcomes
“Sociodemographic Predictors of Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC), With and Without Provider Contraceptive Counseling in the 2018–2021 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)”
N. SokolA. WeberBrown University School of Public Health; J. Johnson, The Miriam HospitalA. AlikhaniBrown University School of Public HealthC. VincentAlpert Medical School of Brown University; L. Senderowicz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Session 259. 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: Treasury
Session Title: Demographic Effects of Diverging State and Local Policies
“Heterogeneous and Racialized Impacts of State Incarceration Policies on Birth Outcomes in the United States”
C. BoenBrown UniversityE. Bair; H. Lee, Duke University; A. Venkataramani, University of Pennsylvania

Session 261. 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: Dogwood
Session Title: Poverty, Hardship, and Social Policy
DISCUSSANT: Margot Jackson, Brown University

Session 265. 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: Scarlet Oak
Session Title: Contraceptive Interventions
“Family Planning, Now and Later: Infertility Fears and Contraceptive Take-up”
D. Henning, UCLA; C. Low, WhartonB. SteinbergBrown University; N. Bau, UCLA