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.

DATE

PRESENTER(S)

PROGRAM#
TIME

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
Chair1: Rin Reczek

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

Updated: 04/22/2026 03:27PM