PRI Researchers to Present at the XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference
PRI faculty and students will be presenting their work at the 2009 International Population Conference to be hosted by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Sept. 27-Oct. 2, 2009 in Marrakech, Morocco. For the full program, see the IUSSP 2009 web site.
Mon., Sept. 28
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. - Session 16: Sex differences in health and survival: perspectives from humans and non-human species
Sex differences in healthy aging and mortality in heterogeneous stock (HS) mice (Melissa Hardy, Pennsylvania State University; Mira M. Hidajat, Pennsylvania State University; Gerald McClearn, Pennsylvania State University; Roger McCarter, Pennsylvania State University)
12:00-1:30 p.m. - Poster Session 1: Reproductive health, HIV-AIDS, poverty and gender
145. The consequences of unintended fertility for maternal and child health in India (Abhishek Singh, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Satvika Chalasani, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Koenig, Johns Hopkins University; Bidhubhusan Mahapatra, Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT))
Tues., Sept. 29
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. - Session 64: Spatial approaches to understanding inequality in health and poverty
Poverty and maternal health in Ghana: a spatial analysis of exclusion from care (Zoe Matthews, University of Southampton; Angela Baschieri, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); Philomena E. Nyarko, University of Ghana; Faustina Frempong-Aiguah, University of Ghana; Peter Gething, University of Southampton; Fiifi Amoako-Johnson, University of Southampton; Peter Atkinson, University of Southampton; Francis Nii-Amoo Dodoo, Pennsylvania State University; Jane C. Falkingham, University of Southampton)
3:30-5:00 p.m. - Session 87: Poverty and health in the life cycle
Socioeconomic inequalities in child health in India (Satvika Chalasani, Pennsylvania State University)
Wed., Sept. 30
8:30-10:00 a.m. - Session 99: Comparative fertility in high fertility settings
Socioeconomic progress and fertility transition in the developing world: evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys (Amanda Kreider, Pennsylvania State University; David Shapiro, Pennsylvania State University; Malika Sinha, Pennsylvania State University; Catherine Varner, Pennsylvania State University)
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. - Session 110: Health, mortality and longevity
Are there educational differentials in the rectangularization of the human survival curve? (Dustin C. Brown, University of Texas at Austin; Mark D. Hayward, University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer Karas Montez, University of Texas at Austin; Robert A. Hummer, University of Texas at Austin; Mira M. Hidajat, Pennsylvania State University)
12:00-1:30 p.m. - Poster Session 3: Migration, environment and spatial demography
132. Migration and employment transitions among Nicaraguans in Costa Rica and the United States: what matters where? (Leila Rodriguez, Pennsylvania State University; Juan Carlos Vargas, Universidad de Costa Rica)
3:30-5:00 p.m. - Session 135: GIS: integrating spatial and social demography
The spatial dimensions of population growth and decline: using GIS and remote sensing to understand landscape and demographic history in Orkney, Scotland (Timothy M. Murtha, Pennsylvania State University; James W. Wood, Pennsylvania State University; Patricia L. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University; Stephen Matthews, Pennsylvania State University)
Fri., Oct. 2
8:30-10:00 a.m. - Session 188: Gender and migration
Gender and household effects on employment transitions among Nicaraguan immigrants in the United States (Leila Rodriguez, Pennsylvania State University; Juan Carlos Vargas, Universidad de Costa Rica)
8:30-10:00 a.m. - Session 192: Marriage and family organization in the past
Dissolution of extended-family households in Northern Orkney, Scotland, 1851-1901 (Julia A. Jennings, Pennsylvania State University; Corey S. Sparks, University of Texas at San Antonio; James W. Wood, Pennsylvania State University; Patricia L. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University; Timothy M. Murtha, Pennsylvania State University; Stephen Matthews, Pennsylvania State University)
12:00-1:30 p.m. - Poster Session 5: Contexts
143. Gender, education, and the labor market in Kinshasa (David Shapiro, Pennsylvania State University; Roger Pongi, University of Kinshasa; Mark Gough, Bates White LLC)
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