PRI Affiliates on the Program for the Population Association of America 2006 Annual Meeting
PRI affiliates will be presenting papers and posters and serving as session chairs and discussants at the Population Association of America (PAA) 2006 Annual Meeting. Following is a list of PRI affiliates on the program. For the full program, see the PAA 2006 Web site.
Thursday, March 30
Poster Session 1: Fertility, Family Planning, Reproductive Health
8:00 AM–10:00 AM
A Quantitative and Qualitative Investigation of the Role of Gender-Power Relations on Women’s Contraceptive Choice in Nepal • Bina Gubhaju, Pennsylvania State University
Session 10: Family Instability and Child Well-Being
8:30 AM–10:20 AM
1. Risk and Resilience and the Transition to Cohabitation, Parenting, and Marriage During the Emerging Adulthood Stage of Development • Alan Booth, Pennsylvania State University; Beth Rustenbach, Pennsylvania State University
Session 11: Migration, Immigration, and Population Shifts within the U.S.
8:30 AM–10:20 AM
4. Welfare Rules, State Economics, and Life Course Transitions in the Interstate Migration of Immigrants • Gordon F. De Jong, Pennsylvania State University; Deborah Roempke Graefe, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew S Hall, Pennsylvania State University
Session 21: Youth Educational Inequality
10:30 AM–12:20 PM
Discussant: Michelle L. Frisco, University of Wisconsin at Madison and Iowa State University [currently at Penn State]
4. Neighborhood and School Factors in the School Performance of Immigrants’ Children • Suet-ling Pong, Pennsylvania State University; Lingxin Hao, Johns Hopkins University
Session 22: Social and Environmental Consequences of Migration
10:30 AM–12:20 PM
1. Work, Welfare, and the Financial Well-Being of Poor Women after Migration • Shelley K. Irving, Pennsylvania State University
Poster Session 2: Family, Households, Unions; Data, Methods, Study Design
11:30 AM–1:30 PM
Female Headship: Comparing Peruvian and Vietnamese Households • Rukmalie Jayakody, Pennsylvania State University
Social Change and Ethnic Variation in Seasonality of Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa • Tom O. Owuor, Pennsylvania State University
Do Grandparent-Headed Households Promote Intergenerational Income Transfers and Residential Stability in Children’s Lives? • Anastasia R. Snyder, Pennsylvania State University; Diane K. McLaughlin, Pennsylvania State University; Jill L. Findeis, Pennsylvania State University; Alisha J. Coleman, Pennsylvania State University
Session 39: Advances in Methodology
1:30 PM–3:20 PM
1. Mortality Selection and Cohort Differences in Patterns of Cognitive Aging • Duane Alwin, Pennsylvania State University; Ryan McCammon, University of Michigan; Linda Wray, Pennsylvania State University; Willard Rodgers, University of Michigan
Session 42: Influences of Health on Socioeconomic Status
1:30 PM–3:20 PM
Chair: George Farkas, Pennsylvania State University
4. Weight and Fertility: Complex Links between Overweight, Childbearing and Socioeconomic Status • Margaret M. Weden, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Michelle L. Frisco, University of Wisconsin at Madison and Iowa State University [currently at Penn State]; Ju-Hong Lee, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Session 45: Comparative Perspectives on Gender Inequality
1:30 PM–3:20 PM
1. Gender Inequality: An Assessment of World Trends in Economic, Political, Health, and Educational Gender Differences • Shawn F. Dorius, Pennsylvania State University
Poster Session 3: Children and Youth, Adolescence, Parenting, Transition to Adulthood, Life Course
3:00 PM–5:00 PM
Who Are the Language Minority Students of the ECLS-K? Demographic Predictors of English Language Acquisition • Rachel E. Durham, Pennsylvania State University
Friendship Network Structure and Quality and Adolescent Sexual Relationships • Beth Rustenbach, Pennsylvania State University
Nonresident Fathers and Adolescent Problem Behavior: Explaining the Link • Mindy E. Scott, Pennsylvania State University
Session 52: Health Disparities among Youth
3:30 PM–5:20 PM
2. Teenagers’ Smoking Trajectories from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood • Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, Pennsylvania State University
4. Inequality and Infant Health: A Multilevel Approach to Disentangling Correlates of Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Disparities in Low Birth Weight Infants • P. Johnelle Smith, Pennsylvania State University
Session 53: Biology and Demography
3:30 PM–5:20 PM
Chair: Alan Booth, Pennsylvania State University
Discussant: Robert Schoen, Pennsylvania State University
Session 54: Spatial Demography: How and Why Space Matters
3:30 PM–5:20 PM
Discussant: Stephen Matthews, Pennsylvania State University
Session 56: Methodological Innovations in Fertility Research
3:30 PM–5:20 PM
1. The Estimation of Unwanted Fertility: Development of a New Method • John B. Casterline, Pennsylvania State University; Laila El-Zeini, American University in Cairo
Session 63: Key Demographic Changes among the U.S. Latino Population
3:30 PM–5:20 PM
4. Educational Attainment in New and Established Latino Metropolitan Destinations • Katherine C. Stamps, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie A. Bohon, University of Georgia
Friday, March 31
Poster Session 4: Inequality, Labor Force, Education, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Religion, Policy
8:00 AM–10:00 AM
Contingent Work and Nonstandard Employment: Prevalence and Outcomes • Alisha J. Coleman, Pennsylvania State University; Diane K. McLaughlin, Pennsylvania State University
Prospects for Change: Adolescent Male Perspectives on Marital Gender Relations in Ghana • Ashley E Frost, Pennsylvania State University; F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo, Pennsylvania State University
Session 66: Contraception
8:30 AM–10:20 AM
Discussant: John B. Casterline, Pennsylvania State University
Session 68: Race and Ethnic Inequality
8:30 AM–10:20 AM
3. Segregation and Scale: The Use and Interpretation of Spatial Segregation Profiles for Investigating the Causes, Patterns, and Consequences of Residential Segregation • Sean F. Reardon, Stanford University; Stephen Matthews, Pennsylvania State University; David O'Sullivan, University of Auckland; Glenn Firebaugh, Pennsylvania State University; Chad R. Farrell, University of Alaska at Anchorage
Session 75: Children’s Impacts on Parents’ Lives
8:30 AM–10:20 AM
Chair: Deborah Roempke Graefe, Pennsylvania State University
Session 76: Legacies of the Past: Early Childhood Conditions and Adult Outcomes
8:30 AM–10:20 AM
3. Parental Overweight, Adolescent Overweight, and Adult Overweight • Gary Sandefur, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Jessica Jakubowski, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Caroline L. Faulkner, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Molly A. Martin, Pennsylvania State University
Session 79: Life Course Perspectives on Migration
8:30 AM–10:20 AM
Chair: Nancy S. Landale, Pennsylvania State University
Session 87: Cohabitation
10:30 AM–12:20 PM
1. Couple Beliefs about Father Involvement and the Union Transitions of Unmarried Parents • Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott, Pennsylvania State University
Session 90: Demography of Poverty
10:30 AM–12:20 PM
1. The Spatial Distribution of Poverty in Chile: Stasis and Change in the Neoliberal Era • Leif Jensen, Pennsylvania State University
Session 91: On the Nature of Intergenerational Transfers
10:30 AM–12:20 PM
4. Competition for Resources: A Reexamination of Sibship Sex Composition Models of Parental Investment in Japan • Kristen Schultz Lee, Pennsylvania State University
Session 93: Racial/Ethnic Formations and Immigration
10:30 AM–12:20 PM
3. From Puerto Rican to Pan-Ethnic in New York City • Sal Oropesa, Pennsylvania State University; Nancy S. Landale, Pennsylvania State University; Meredith Greif, Pennsylvania State University
Session 103: Population and Environment: Water and Land Resources
12:30 PM–2:20 PM
4. Child Malnutrition and the Environment: How Women's Work in Collecting Environmental Goods Affects Children's Health in Malawi • Flora J. Nankhuni, Harvard University; Jill L. Findeis, Pennsylvania State University
Poster Session 6: Migration, Urbanization, Neighborhood and Residential Context
2:00 PM–4:00 PM
A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Immigrant Behavior in Northern Orkney, 1851-1901 • Corey S Sparks, Pennsylvania State University
Session 127: Internal Migration and Geographic Dispersion of U.S. Immigrants
2:30 PM–4:20 PM
Discussant: Barrett A. Lee, Pennsylvania State University
Session 129: Does Community Matter for Health?
8:30 AM–10:20 AM
4. The Relationship between Attitudes toward Work and Suicide in Sweden • Julianne Ohlander, Pennsylvania State University
Session 145: Demographic Impacts on Parental Time with Children
10:30 AM–12:20 PM
1. Changing Effects of Education on Parents’ Time with Children • Satvika Chalasani, Pennsylvania State University
Session 148: Children’s Impacts on Fathering Behaviors
10:30 AM–12:20 PM
2. The Antecedents and Consequences of Adolescents’ Relationships with Stepfathers and Nonresident Fathers • Valarie King, Pennsylvania State University
Session 155: The Spatial Scale of Residential Segregation
10:30 AM–12:20 PM
2. Patterns and Correlates of Racial Residential Segregation: A Spatially Refined Approach • Barrett A. Lee, Pennsylvania State University; Glenn Firebaugh, Pennsylvania State University; Chad R. Farrell, University of Alaska at Anchorage; Sean F. Reardon, Stanford University; David O'Sullivan, University of Auckland
Saturday, April 1
Session 161: Racial Disparities in Health and Health Insurance
12:30 PM–2:20 PM
Discussant: Linda Wray, Pennsylvania State University
Session 172: Shifts in Gendered Power and Fertility Consequences
12:30 PM–2:20 PM
1. Women's Schooling and Men’s Dominance: Competing Influences on Female Bodies • Laurie DeRose, University of Maryland; F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo, Pennsylvania State University
Session 174: Familial Influences on Children’s Educational Outcomes
12:30 PM–2:20 PM
1. Does Family Structure Matter in the Educational Attainment Process? • Duane Alwin, Pennsylvania State University; Ryan McCammon, University of Michigan; Rachel E. Durham, Pennsylvania State University
3. The Relationships of Time-Varying Family Structure and Poverty Status to Child Trajectories of Mathematical Achievement • Kristin Burnett, Pennsylvania State University
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