PAA Appearances of Brown University Faculty, Researchers, and Students
May 6-9, 2026 | st. louis, mo

Thursday, May 7

Session 2. 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: 230
Session Title: Spatial Dimensions of Child Well-being
“Neighborhood and School Racial Change Across Metropolitan Inequality Contexts: Effects on Behavioral and Educational Outcomes for Children”
J. Candipan, Brown University; K. Walsemann, University of Maryland, College Park; N. Hair, University of South Carolina

Session 17. 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: 261
Session Title: Communities, Health, and Well-being
CHAIR 1: Alexandra Cooperstock, Brown University

Session 30. 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 260
Session Title: Wealth Inequality: International Comparative Perspectives
“The Demography of Intergenerational Reproduction of Wealth: Fertility, Marriage, and Assortative Mating”
Y. Huang, Brown University

Session 31. 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 100
Session Title: Parenting and Health
“Workplace Flexibility and State-Level Family Policies: A Multilevel Analysis of Parental Well-being in the United States”
E. Zang, Yale University; Y. Yin, Brown University

Session 39. 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 261
Session Title: Neighborhood Influences on Health and Well-being
CHAIR 1: Jennifer Candipan, Brown University

Session P02. 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 220-227
Session Title: Family Demography
“Rising Divorce in China: Educational Pairings and Couple Dynamics”
Y. Yang, Brown University; Z. Qian, Brown University

Session 52. 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: 265
Session Title: Assortative Mating
DISCUSSANT 1: Emily Rauscher, Brown University

Session 52. 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: 265
Session Title: Assortative Mating
“Matching Across Boundaries: Ethnic and Racial Assortative Mating in Asian America”
Z. Qian, Brown University; Y. Yang, Brown University

Session 61. 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: 242
Session Title: Mortality and Life Expectancy Trends in the United States
“National and State-Level Trends in Latino and Latino Subgroup Life Expectancy, 2006–2022”
M. Garcia, Syracuse University; H. Beltrán-Sánchez, University of California Los Angeles; C. Boen, Brown University; R. Saenz, University of Texas at San Antonio

Session 44. 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: 104
Session Title: Intersecting Inequalities: How Age, Race, Gender, and Place Shape Older Age Well-being
“Beyond Aggregated Health Advantage: Disability Heterogeneity Across Asian American Older Adult Populations”
H. Wang, Syracuse University; C. Garcia, Syracuse University; Y. Zhang, Texas State University; J. H. Kim, Brown University; M. Garcia, Syracuse University

Session P03. 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: 220 - 227
Session Title: Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior and Reproductive Health
“A Study on the Relationship Between Health Insurance and Facility Births in Tanzania”
I. Schultz, Brown University; O. Galarraga, Brown University

Session P03. 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: 220 - 227
Session Title: Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior and Reproductive Health
“Effect of Parental Preference Over Intrahousehold Inequality on Fertility”
Y. Chen, Brown University

Session 70. 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 232
Session Title: Demography, Education, and Social Change
DISCUSSANT 1: Steven Lee, Brown University

Session 79. 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 264
Session Title: Social Policy, Poverty, and Health
DISCUSSANT 1: Courtney Boen, Brown University

Session 84. 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 106
Session Title: Spatial Variation in Population Processes
“Segregation in Acquaintanceship: Space, Homophily, and Network Structure”
D. da Silva Baum, Brown University; R. H. M. Pereira, Institute for Applied Economic Research; D. Feehan, University of California, Berkeley

Session 90. 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 280
Session Title: Climate, Conflict, and Crisis Migration Within and Between Low- and Middle-Income Countries
DISCUSSANT 2: David Lindstrom, Brown University

Session 90. 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 280
Session Title: Climate, Conflict, and Crisis Migration Within and Between Low- and Middle-Income Countries
“Do Mothers Living in Informal Urban Settlements Move After Catastrophic Flooding? Insight From an Unfortunate Natural Experiment in Nairobi”
T. Myroniuk, University of Kansas; B. Mberu, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC); M. White, Brown University; C. Pheiffer, University of Massachusetts Boston; K. Leonard, University of Maryland

Session 91. 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 242
Session Title: Contexts and Consequences of Education
CHAIR 1: Alexandra Cooperstock, Brown University

Session 91. 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 242
Session Title: Contexts and Consequences of Education
“When Wages Rise, Who Goes to College? Impact of Labor Market Shocks on College Attendance”
S. Lee, Brown University

Friday, May 8

Session 124. 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: 261
Session Title: Racial and Socioeconomic Status Segregation and Integration Overflow
DISCUSSANT 1: Alexandra Cooperstock, Brown University

Session P05. 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 220 - 227
Session Title: Education, Work and Economic Inequality
“Poverty Alleviation at High Frequency”
M. Poll,, Brown University

Session 132. 9:30 AM - 10:45 
Room: 231
Session Title: Statistical and Bayesian Methods in Demography
“Beyond Linear Mean-Gap Models: A Generalized Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition of Levels and Change”
D. da Silva Baum, Brown University; E. Field, Brown University; S. Short, Brown University; E. Fanelli, Brown University; M. Zacher, Brown University

Session 135. 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 242
Session Title: Women’s Labor Force Participation and Economic Inequality Across the Life Course
“Female Employment and Job Continuity Around Childbirth: Leveraging Data From the Survey of Income and Program Participation, 1996–2023”
J. Lee, Brown University

Session 147. 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 102
Session Title (Flash): Advances in Spatial Networks, Population Mobility, and Crime
“Beyond Residential Context: Mobility-Based Neighborhood Networks and Academic Outcomes for Children”
J. Candipan, Brown University; B. Levy, University of South Carolina; K. Vachuska, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Session 131. 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 106
Session Title: Life Course Consequences of Family Contexts
“Multigenerational Neighborhood Disadvantage and Incidences of Criminal Justice Contact Across the Life Course”
S. Alvarado, University of Notre Dame; A. Cooperstock, Brown University

Session P06. 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 220 - 227
Session Title: Aging and the Life Course/Children, Youth and Intergenerational Ties
“Incarceration, Epigenetic Aging, and All-Cause Mortality Among U.S. Adults Entering Midlife”
S. Tuder, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; C. Martin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; T. Hargrove, University of Maryland, College Park; C. Boen, Brown University; A. Sorensen D'Alessio, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; K. M. Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; A. Aiello, Columbia University; L. Gaydosh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Session P06. 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 220 - 227
Session Title: Aging and the Life Course/Children, Youth and Intergenerational Ties
“Employment Pattern and Depression for Middle-Aged and Older Natives and Immigrants in the United States”
Y. Jiang, Brown University

Session P06. 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 220 - 227
Session Title: Aging and the Life Course/Children, Youth and Intergenerational Ties
“Female Microentrepreneurship and Child Development”
A. Foster, Brown University; M. Poll, Brown University; H. S. Suh, Washington University in St. Louis

Session P06. 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 220 - 227
Session Title: Aging and the Life Course/Children, Youth and Intergenerational Ties
“Grandparental Support and Child Health Outcomes in Chinese Families”
X. Cao, Brown University

Session P06. 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 220 - 227
Session Title: Aging and the Life Course/Children, Youth and Intergenerational Ties
“The Economic Consequences of the Malaria Vaccine”
M. Poll, Brown University; J. Chinkumba, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences; J. Mfutso-Bengo, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences

Session 155. 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: 100
Session Title: Social Policy and Child Well-being
“Childhood Safety Net Investments and Health Disparities Throughout Childhood”
M. Jackson, Brown University; T. Morrissey, American University; T. Watson, Williams College

Session 155. 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: 100
Session Title: Social Policy and Child Well-being
“Place-Based Education Investment and Racial Disparities in School Discipline”
A. Cooperstock, Brown University; J. Candipan, Brown University

Session 155. 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: 100
Session Title: Social Policy and Child Well-being
“Effects of School Spending on Teen Fertility”
E. Rauscher, Brown University; S. Lee, Brown University

Session 176. 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: 230
Session Title: New Opportunities for Data-Driven Discovery
“From Extraction to Inference: Comparing Rule-Based, Machine Learning, and LLM Approaches for Classifying Social Outcomes in Legal Text”
E. Zang, Yale University; Y. Yin, Brown University; Z. Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; H. Zhang, Brown University

Session 177. 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: 100
Session Title: Public Policy and Population Health
“State Abortion Policies and Inequalities in Female Health and Mortality Risks in the United States, 2010–2022”
C. Boen, Brown University; S. Lee, Brown University; B. Shah, Brown University; N. Gibson, Brown University; T. Yett, Brown University; A. Venkataramani, University of Pennsylvania

Session 179. 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: 261
Session Title: Poverty, Hardship, and Public Policy
DISCUSSANT 1: Margot Jackson, Brown University

Session 179. 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: 261
Session Title: Poverty, Hardship, and Public Policy
“The Effects of Paid Family Leave in New York on Poverty Following Childbirth”
J. Lee, Brown University

Session P07. 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 220 - 227
Session Title: Migration and Immigration/Race and Ethnicity/Gender and Sexual Identity
“Are Chinese Returnees Still Valuable? Changing Social Attitudes Toward Overseas-Educated Chinese Returnees”
Y. Jiang, Brown University

Saturday, May 9

Session 212. 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: 105
Session Title: Structural Racism and the Politics of Population Change
“Preferred Profiles of New Immigrants to NYC During the Migrant Influx of the 2020s: A Conjoint Experiment Revealing the Role of Legal Status in Public Opinion”
L. Steele, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center; J. L. Yiu, CUNY Graduate Center; L. Gallagher, Brown University; P. Kasinitz, City University of New York

Session P08. 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 220-227
Session Title: Data and Methods/Applied Demography/Other
“AI-Powered Analysis of Digital Traces: Causal Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown on Online Nationalism”
J. X. Wang, Cornell University; H. Chen, University of Hong Kong; H. Zhang, Brown University

Session P08. 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 220-227
Session Title: Data and Methods/Applied Demography/Other
“Compositional and Scale Effects: How Foreign Direct Investment Shapes Informal Labor Market in Latin America, 2000–2018”
A. Li, Brown University

Session 244. 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: 260
Session Title: Education and the Changing Health Returns to Human Capital
“Gender Differences in Occupational Strain and Role in the Relationship Between Education and Dementia”
M. Zacher, Brown University; M. Sheftel, Rutgers University

Session 238. 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: 240
Session Title: Intergenerational Mobility: Global Perspectives
“Son Preference, Fertility Decline, and the Demography of Gendered Educational Reproduction in China”
Y. Huang, Brown University