CAF at PAA 2026
Check out the CAF appearances on the Population Association of America (PAA) 2026 program!
The Center for Aging Families will be represented by 22 affiliates (indicated in bold) in 32 conference sessions.
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DATE |
PRESENTER(S) |
PROGRAM#
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SESSION |
TITLE |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Kara Joyner, Roshanak Zargar, Christopher Julian, Krista Westrick-Payne, Lee Brady, Wendy Manning |
12 8:00 - 9:15 AM |
Structural Oppression and Health | Sexual Identity and Health across Adulthood: The Role of Structural Heterosexism |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Gabrielle Juteau, Wendy Manning |
P02 10:30 - 12:00 PM |
Family Demography | Stepfamily Complexities and Stepfamily Integration Across Four Domains |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Jaycob Applegate, Gabrielle Juteau, Susan Brown |
P02 10:30 - 12:00 PM |
Family Demography |
Lacking Family of Origin: A Portrait of Sole Family Survivorship Across 29 Western Countries |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Francesca Marino, Kei Nomaguchi |
P02 10:30 - 12:00 PM | Family Demography |
Trends in Health and Well-Being of U.S. Men by Resident Father Status, 1997 – 2018 |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Di Wang, Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Robert Frase, Sunjeong Gyeong |
P02 10:30 - 12:00 PM | Family Demography |
Impact of Mothers’ Financial Support to Adult Children on Relationship Quality with Children’s Spouses |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Mieke Thomeer, Rin Reczek |
P02 10:30 - 12:00 PM | Family Demography |
Mothers’ Relationships with Adult Children and Their Cognitive Functioning at Midlife |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Rachael Ioele, Kelly Balistreri |
45 11:00 - 12:15 PM |
Race/Ethnicity, Immigration and Child Well-being |
Racial/Ethnic Variations in Breastfeeding: Does Military Status Matter? |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Kristen Gustafson, Wendy Manning, Claire Kamp Dush |
57 11:00 - 12:15 PM |
Gender, Sexuality, and Mental Health |
Pandemic Era Changes in Depressive Symptoms by Gender and Sexual Identity |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Claire Kamp Dush, Ann Meier, Hyunjae Kwon, Wendy Manning |
63 11:00 - 12:15 PM |
New Data and Insights on Family Formation and Couple Dynamics |
Dyadic Time Diary and Experience Sampling Method Evidence on Couples’ Time Together from the National Couples’ Health and Time Study |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Sinem Esengen, Sarah Hayford, Maria Gallo, JaNelle Rick |
P03 1:15 - 2:45 PM |
Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior and Reproductive Health | Variation in U.S. Men's and Women's Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception by Religious Affiliaton, Beliefs, and Attendance, 2022-2023 |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Discussant 1: Wendy Manning |
72 1:30 - 2:45 PM |
Intimate Relationships and Health | |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Isha Patel, Samuel Nemeth, Patricia Thomas |
87 3:15 - 4:30 PM |
Flash: Social Connectedness across the Lifecourse | Educational Differences in the Impact of Community Belonging on Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Discussant 1: Rin Reczek |
96 3:15 - 4:30 PM |
Queer Family Demography | |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Karen Guzzo, Sarah Hayford |
94 3:15 - 4:30 PM |
Parenting: Cultural Norms and Ideals |
Parenthood as Capstone Plus? A New Life Course Model for the Transition to Parenthood |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Allen Mallory |
P04 3:15 - 4:30 PM |
Health and Health Behavior |
Initiation Patterns of Sex and Alcohol Use Among Adolescents by Sexual Orientation |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Kelly Balistreri, Rachael Ioele, Molly Craig |
P04 4:30 - 6:00 PM |
Health and Health Behavior |
Navigating Uncertainty: Parent Reports of Child Flourishing Across the Pandemic (2018 – 2023) |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Monica Longmore, Sara Roza, Wendy Manning, Grady Schulz, Audrey Simon, Peggy Giordano |
P04 4:30 - 6:00 PM |
Health and Health Behavior |
Direct and Vicarious Discrimination: Independent, Comparative, and Combined Effects on Self-Rated Physical Health among Black, White, and Hispanic Adults |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Jenjira Yahirun, Jaycob Applegate, Krysia Mossakowski, Mark Hayward |
P04 4:30 - 6:00 PM |
Health and Health Behavior |
Exploring the Link Between Offspring Education and Older Parents’ Health Literacy: Unexamined Pathways to Cognitive Health |
| Thursday
5/07 |
Hope Xu Yan, Melissa Milkie, Liana Sayer, Kei Nomaguchi |
96 4:45 - 6:00 PM |
Flash: Gender, Families, and Unpaid Labor |
Changing Patterns of Housework: How Employment Configurations Shape Married Women’s and Men’s Domestic Labor in 21st Century America |
| Friday
5/08 |
Wencheng Zhang, Hui Liu, Merril Silverstein |
108 8:00 - 9:15 AM |
Flash: The Demography of Care for Older Adults |
Capturing Between- and Within-Family Differences in Adult children’s Support to Parents: Sibling’s Influences |
| Friday
5/08 |
Liang Cai, Christopher Browning, Luc Anselin |
124 8:00 - 9:15 AM |
Racial and Socioeconomic Status Segregation and Integration Overflow |
Trajectories of Racial and Ethnic Inequality Across the 50 Largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States, 1990–2020: Demographic Landscape and Organizational Resources |
| Friday
5/08 |
Sara Roza, Wendy Manning, Monica Longmore, Lauren Newmyer, Peggy Giordano |
119 8:00 - 9:15 AM |
New approaches in measurement of fertility preferences and desires |
Gray Spaces in Fertility Desires: The Relationship Between Fertility Ambiguity, Parenting Stress, and Parent-Child Conflict |
| Friday
5/08 |
Lawrence Berger, Trisha Chanda, Rachel Dwyer, Jason Houle, Alec Rhodes |
P05 8:30 - 10:00 AM |
Overdue: Improving Survey Measurement of Debt in Low-Income Populations |
Education, Work and Economic Inequality |
| Friday
5/08 |
Chair 1: Shawn Bauldry |
132 9:30 - 10:45 AM |
Statistical and Bayesian Methods in Demography | |
| Friday
5/08 |
June Postalakis, Christopher Browning, Bethany Boettner, Jodi Ford, Baldwin Way, Catherine Calder |
148 9:30 - 10:45 AM |
Biomarkers, Race/Ethnicity, and Social Processes |
Exposure to White Neighborhoods, Gender, and Physiological Stress Among Urban Black Youth |
| Friday
5/08 |
Ann Meier, Hyunjae Kwon, Claire Kamp Dush, Katerina Marcoulides, Wendy Manning |
138 9:30 - 10:45 AM |
Parenthood & Wellbeing |
Are the Parents Alright? Parental Well-Being After the Pandemic |
| Friday
5/08 |
Kei Nomaguchi, Francesca Marino |
138 9:30 - 10:45 AM |
Parenthood & Wellbeing |
Education Gradients in Maternal Stress: A Population Study in the U.S. |
| Friday
5/08 |
Mingyue Ma, Hui Liu |
141 9:30 - 10:45 AM |
Gender Inequality |
Gendered Income Trajectories and Health Disparities at Midlife: Evidence from the NLSY79 Cohort |
| Friday
5/08 |
Discussant 2: Allen Mallory
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143 9:30 - 10:45 AM |
LGBTQ+ Health | |
| Friday
5/08 |
Claire Kamp Dush, Wendy Manning, Katerina Marcoulides |
143 9:30 - 10:45 AM |
LGBTQ+ Health |
Trajectories of Mental Health in a Tumultuous Period |
| Friday
5/08 |
Christopher Browning, Taehyun Kim, Bethany Boettner, June Postalakis, Catherine Calder |
147 9:30 - 10:45 AM |
Flash: Advances in Spatial Networks, Population Mobility, and Crime |
Family Supervision, Residential Neighborhood Context, and Time Spent in Advantaged Neighborhoods Among Urban Black Youth |
| Friday
5/08 |
Morgan Poole, Kei Nomaguchi |
P06 10:30 - 12:00 PM |
Aging and the Life Course/Children, Youth and Intergenerational Ties |
Paternal Incarceration and Adolescents’ Daily Activities |
| Friday
5/08 |
Xueqian Chen, Sarah Hayford, Victor Agadjanian |
P06 11:00 - 12:15 PM |
Family Change and Intergenerational Relations in Global Contexts |
Repositioning Women’s Roles: Mothers-in-Law, Intergenerational Dynamics, and Midlife Well-being in Rural Mozambique |
| Friday
5/08 |
Mary Shenk, Yubraj Acharya, Lauren Newmyer, Young-ji Lee, Nurul Alam |
184 3:00 - 4:15 PM |
Covid, Respiratory Shocks, and Fertility |
COVID-19 as a Disruption Shock: Four Pathways Through which the Pandemic Affected Fertility Preferences and Intentions |
| Friday
5/08 |
Dean Lillard |
184 3:00 - 4:15 PM |
Covid, Respiratory Shocks, and Fertility |
The Effect of COVID Lockdowns, Curfews, and Business Closures on Contraceptive Use and Sexual Behavior |
| Friday
5/08 |
Jenjira Yahirun, Grecia Garcia-Castellon, Kammi Schmeer |
P07 3:00 - 4:30 PM |
Migration and Immigration/Race and Ethnicity/Gender and Sexual Identity |
Im/migration to Mexico: Identifying Compositional Shifts within Mexico and at the Southern Border |
| Saturday
5/09 |
Alec Rhodes, Lawrence Berger, Rachel Dwyer, Jason Houle |
199 8:30 - 9:45 AM |
Economic Instability, Unemployment, and Social Policy |
Cash Transfers and Credit: Evidence From the Alaska Permanent Fund |
| Saturday
5/09 |
Julie Skeldon, Lauren Newmyer |
214 8:30 - 9:45 AM |
Abortion Attitudes, Stigma, and Reproductive Decision-Making |
Abortion Attitudes and Contraceptive Use Among Young Adult Women |
| Saturday
5/09 |
Wendy Manning, Karen Guzzo, Gabrielle Juteau, Claire Kamp Dush, Michelle Eilers |
P08 9:00 - 10:30 AM |
Data and Methods/Applied Demography/Other |
Measuring Couples’ Fertility Goals: An Assessment of Partner Proxy and Direct Reports |
| Saturday
5/09 |
Discussant: Shawn Bauldry |
216 10:00 - 11:15 AM |
Causal Inference in Population Research | |
| Saturday
5/09 |
Julia Drew, Dongjuan Xu |
P09 11:00 - 12:30 PM |
Mortality and Morbidity/Demography of Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
Assessing Trends in Underlying vs. Contributing Causes of Fall and ADRD-related Death and Impacts on Cause of Death Incidence Estimation for Older Adults in the U.S. |
| Saturday
5/09 |
Craig Caudill, Lauren Henley, Robert Nelson, Jeffrey Wing, Helen Meier |
P09 11:00 - 12:30 PM |
Mortality and Morbidity/Demography of Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
Beyond the Factory Walls in the Cigarette Capital of the World: Black Tobacco Labor Activism and Stroke Mortality in 20th-Century Richmond, Virginia |
| Saturday
5/09 |
Susan Brown, I-Fen Lin, Nat Bankey, Francesca Marino |
241 11:30 - 12:45 PM |
Life Course Dynamics of Union Formation and Dissolution |
Depressive Symptoms and Divorce in Later Life |
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