March 22, 2016 | News | PAA 2016

MPIDR at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2016

Several MPIDR researchers will present their work at the Meeting of the Population Association of America, which takes place in Washington, D.C., from March 31 – April 2, 2016. The Institute will also have an exihibition booth.

The Population Association of America (PAA) is a non-profit, scientific, professional organization promoting  research on population issues. The Association has nearly 3,000 members, including demographers, sociologists, economists, and public health professionals.

The Annual Meeting of the Association is one of the most important meetings for population researchers and has more than 2,000 people participating each year.
You may meet some of the MPIDR staff at the exhibition booth of the MPIDR, booth number 414 (exhibit floor plan), where you can also get general information about the Institute and about job opportunities at the Institute.

Wednesday, 30 March 2016

09:30 AM - 12:30 PM - MADISON B
Workshop: The Human Mortality Database: Expanding Research Opportunities
Magali Barbieri (Institut National d‘Études Démographiques (INED) and University of California, Berkeley) and Dmitri Jdanov (MPIDR) 

02:00 PM - 06:00 PM - POPULATIONS REFERENCE BUREAU OFFICES
Workshop: Data Visualisation and Demography
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Minnesota Populati­on Center and Population Reference Bureau 

Thursday, 31 March 2016

08:15 AM - 09:45 AM - EXHIBIT HALL A
P1-23: “Homicide, Health, and Deviations from Best Practices Mortality: Mortality in Mexican States, 1990-2010”
Jose Manuel Aburto and Tim Riffe (MPIDR)

08:15 AM - 09:45 AM - EXHIBIT HALL A
P1-32: “Disparities in Cognitive Impairment of U.S. Older Adults by Race and Ethnicity”
Carlos Diaz-Venegas (MPIDR) 

08:15 AM - 09:45 AM - EXHIBIT HALL A
P1-70: “A Best Practices Composite Lifetable for the United States”
Tim Riffe (MPIDR), Adrien Remund (University of Geneva), Magali Barbieri (Institut National d‘Études Démographiques (INED) and University of California, Berkeley) and Celeste Winant (University of California, Berkeley) 

08:30 AM - 10:00 AM - MARRIOTT SALON 3
14-3: “Internal and International Migrations Across the Urban Hierarchy in Albania”
Mathias Lerch (MPIDR) 

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM - MARRIOTT SALON 1
37-3: “Complementing the Evaluation Toolkit of Mortality Forecasts with Measures of Lifespan Disparity”
Christina Bohk, Marcus Ebeling and Roland Rau (MPIDR) 

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM - MARRIOTT SALON 1
37-4: “Bayesian Inference to Estimate Mortality from Incomplete Historical Data”
Francisco Villavicencio (University of Southern Denmark), Trifon I. Missov (MPIDR), and Fernando Colchero (University of Southern Denmark) 

12:45 PM - 02:15 PM - EXHIBIT HALL A
P3-4: “Family Social Capital: Measuring Support Capacity within a Family Network”
Kristen Cyffka and Frans Willekens (MPIDR) 

01:00 PM - 02:30 PM - MARRIOTT SALON 2
39: “Complex Demographic Modeling”
Tim Riffe (MPIDR) 

02:45 PM - 04:15 PM - EXHIBIT HALL A
P4-26: “Recent Trends in US Working Life Expectancy By Sex, Education, and Race and the Impact of the Great Recession”
Christian Dudel and Mikko Myrskyla (MPIDR) 

04:30 PM - 06:00 PM - DELAWARE B
91-4: “Does Prenatal Sex Bias Substitute Postnatal Sex Bias? Decomposing the Fertility and Mortality Effects of Changes in Child Sex Ratios Across the World“
Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford and MPIDR) 

Friday, 01 April 2016

08:30 AM - 10:00 AM - DELAWARE A
98-1: “A Cohort Perspective of the Effect of Unemployment on Fertility”
Hector Pifarre i Arolas (MPIDR) 

08:30 AM - 10:00 AM - WASHINGTON ROOM 3
103-1: “Changing Sex Differences in Socioeconomic Gradients of Mortality in Wealthy Countries 1970-2010: The Role of Smoking”
Alyson van Raalte (MPIDR), Mark Hayward (University of Texas at Austin), Johan Mackenbach (Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam) and Pekka Martikainen (University of Helsinki) 

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM - EXHIBIT HALL A
P7-6: “Can We Verify the Existence of a Human Mortality Plateau Given Current Data and Current Models?”
Laszlo Nemeth, Trifon I. Missov and Maxiej J. Danko (MPIDR) 

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM - WASHINGTON ROOM 4
123-3: “Methods to Estimate Mortality Curves in Small Areas: An Application to Municipality Data in Brazil”
Everton E.C. Lima (Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)), Bernardo L. Queiroz (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)), Trifon I. Missov (MPIDR) and Adam Lenart (Max Planck Odense Center and University of Southern Denmark)


10:15 AM - 11:45 AM - WASHINGTON ROOM 1
126: “Population Perspectives on Cognitive Function and Mental Health”
Carlos Diaz-Venegas (MPIDR) and Brian Downer (University of Texas Medical Branch)

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM - EXHIBIT HALL A
P7-76: “A Non-Parametric Approach to Decompose the Young Adult Mortality Hump By Causes of Death”
Adrien Remund (Institut National d‘Études Démographiques (INED)), Tim Riffe (MPIDR) and Carlo Giovanni Camarda (Institut National d‘Études Démographiques (INED))

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM - MARRIOTT SALON 1
133-2: “A Unified Framework of Demographic Time”
Tim Riffe (MPIDR), Jonas Schöley, (Max-Planck Odense Center on the  Biodemography of Aging) and Francisco Villavicencio (University of Southern Denmark) 

02:45 PM - 04:15 PM - EXHIBIT HALL A
P9-28: “Care for Money? - Linking Old Age Survival, Transfers and Social Support within the Family”
Tobias Vogt and Fanny Kluge (MPIDR)  

02:45 PM - 04:15 PM - EXHIBIT HALL A
P9-42: “Location-Scale Models in Demography: A Generalization of the Parametric Models of Mortality”
Ugofilippo Basellini (MPIDR), Vladimir Canudas-Romo (Max Planck Odense Center), and Adam Lenart (Max Planck Odense Center and University of Southern Denmark)

02:45 PM - 04:15 PM - EXHIBIT HALL A
P9-33: Modeling and Forecasting Age at Death Distributions
Carlo Giovanni Camarda (Institut National d‘Études Démographiques (INED)) and Ugofilippo Basellini (MPIDR) 

02:45 PM - 04:15 PM - VIRGINIA B
171-2: “Exact Poisson Confidence Intervals for Life Expectancy”
Michelle Deville (University of California), Tim Riffe (MPIDR) and Andrew Noymer (University of California) 

02:45 PM - 04:15 PM - WASHINGTON ROOM 2
164-2: “Novel Loci and Pathways Significantly Associated with Longevity”
Yi Zeng (Duke University and Peking University), Chao Nie and Xiaomin Liu (Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), Shenzhen) and James Vaupel (MPIDR and Max Planck Odense Center) 

Saturday, 02 April 2016

09:00 AM - 10:30 AM - VIRGINIA B
179-3: “Secular Changes in the Association Between Advanced Maternal Age and the Risk of Low Birth Weight: A Cross-Cohort Comparison in the UK”
Daniel C. Schneider, Mikko Myrskyla (MPIDR) and Alice Goisis (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)) 

12:30 PM - 02:00 PM - WASHINGTON ROOM 2
209-2: “Accounting for Temporal Variation in Morbidity”
Alyson van Raalte and Tim Riffe (MPIDR)

12:30 PM - 02:00 PM - WASHINGTON ROOM
209-3: “On the Plausibility of Socioeconomic Mortality Gradients Derived from Linked Data: A Demographic Approach”
Mathias Lerch (MPIDR), Adrian Spoerri (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine), Domantas Jasilionis (MPIDR), Diego Ramiro-Fariñas (Spanish National Research Council) and Francisco Viciana (Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia)

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