27 April 2017 - 29 April 2017
Chicago, USA
IIASA at the PAA Annual Meeting 2017
The Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA) provides a forum for demographers, sociologists, economists, public health professionals, and other individuals interested in research and education in the field of population. In 2017 the conference is taking place between 27-29 April in Chicago, USA.
Researchers from IIASA's World Population Program will present and discuss new research in presentations and poster sessions at this important event.
For detailed information to the PAA 2017 please visit the event website.
IIASA contributions at the PAA
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Session 6: Estimation and Projection Methods, 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
- 6-1: Bayesian Reconstruction of Multistate Populations • Dilek Yildiz, Guy Abel, Anne Goujon, Guillermo Vinué Visús, Samir K.C., Markus Speringer, Michaela Potancokova, Ramon Bauer
- 6-3: Constrained Mortality Extrapolation to Old Age: An Empirical Assessment • Dalkhat Ediev
Poster Session P3: Data, Methods, and Professionalization, 12:45 PM-2:15 PM
- P3-16: Migration Curves: Using Twitter Data to Illustrate the Temporal Contours of Population Flows • Lee Jude Fiorio, Guy Abel, Jixuan Cai, Emilio Zagheni, Guillermo Vinué Visús, Ingmar Weber
- P3-51: Simplifying the Complex: Alternative Measures of Bilateral Migration • Wei Qi, Guy Abel, Raya Muttarak
Session 65: Population and Aging and the Demographic Dividend, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
- 65-4: The Conventional and Prospective Median Population Ages May Lead in Exact Opposite Directions • Sergei Scherbov, Dalkhat Ediev, Warren C. Sanderson
Session 92: Aging: Economics, Genomics and Equity, 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
- 92-2: Probabilistic Population Aging • Warren C. Sanderson, Sergei Scherbov, Patrick Gerland
Session 97: Fertility Change: Explaining the Unexpected, 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
- 97-2: Too Educated to Want More Children? Education and Changing Fertility Intention in a Low Fertility Context: The Case of Thailand • Thananon Buathong, Erich Striessnig, Maria Rita Testa, Raya Muttarak
Session 101: Global Perspectives on Health and Mortality, 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
- 101-3: Educating the Preston Curve: Assessing Interactions within the Education-Income-Health Triangle • Wolfgang Lutz, Endale Birhanu Kebede
Session 111: Segregation and Attitudes Around the World, 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
- 111-1: Intergenerational Transmission of Attitudes Toward Migration As a Potential Antagonist of the Demographic Metabolism • Nadia Steiber, Erich Striessnig, Samir K.C.
Friday, April 28, 2017
Session 124: Linking Spatial and Population Data III: Climate Change and Population Change, 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
- 124-1: Examining the Link Between Climate, Conflict and Cross-Border Migration Using Heckman Selection with Gravity Model • Guy Abel, Michael Bottrager, Jesus Cespo Cuaresma, Raya Muttarak
Poster Session P6: Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior, and Reproductive Health 2, 8:15 AM-9:45 AM
Session 141: Dynamics of Internal Migration: A Global View, 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
- 141-1: Who Is Moving? Exploring Internal Migration By Gender and Education Across 58 Countries • Guy Abel, Raya Muttarak
Session 143: Forced Migration, 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
- 143-1: Family Context of Married Refuge Seeking Persons: Who Arrived with the Partner? Who Left Children behind? Insights from Syrian and Iraqi Persons Arriving in Austria in 2015 • Isabella Buber-Ennser, Zakarya Al Zalak, Judith Kohlenberger, Bernhard Rengs
Session 154: Sustainable Development Goals and Demography, 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
- 154-1: Challenges to Meeting the SDG Targets of Universal Upper Secondary Education in China • Wu Yingji, Samir K.C.
- 154-4: Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals Leads to Lower World Population Growth • Guy Abel, Bilal Barakat, Samir K.C., Wolfgang Lutz
Session 162: Contemporary Fertility Transitions, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
- 162-1: Exploring the Link Between Structural Adjustment Programs, Educational Discontinuities and Stalled Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa • Endale Birhanu Kebede, Anne Goujon, Wolfgang Lutz
Poster Session P9: Children and Youth; Education, 2:45 PM-4:15 PM
- P9-37: Religious Differences in Educational Attainment Worldwide • David M. McClendon, Conrad Hackett, Michaela Potancokova, Marcin Stonawski, Vegard Skirbekk, Caryle Murphy
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Poster Session P11: Migration, Urbanization, Population, Development, and Environment, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
- P11-89: Explaining the Link Between Education and Green Behavior in the Philippines: The Role of Knowledge and Climate Change Perception • Roman Hoffmann, Raya Muttarak
Session 246: Methodological Innovations in Family Demography: Analytic Approaches, 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
- 246-1: The Mechanics of the Baby Boom. Unveiling the Role of the Epidemiological Transition • Patrick Sabourin, Samuel Vézina, Danielle Gauvreau, Benoît Laplante
Publications
- Wittgenstein Centre Data Explorer
- Abel G, Barakat B, KC S, & Lutz W (2016). Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals leads to lower world population growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (50): 14294-14299. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1611386113.
- Ediev D, Sanderson W, & Scherbov S (2016). The Formal Demography of Prospective Age: The Relationship Between the Old-Age Dependency Ratio and the Prospective Old-Age Dependency Ratio. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-16-024
- Ediev D (2016). Constrained mortality extrapolation to old age: An empirical assessment. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-16-011
- Buber-Ennser I, Kohlenberger J, Rengs B, Al Zalak Z, Goujon A, Strießnig E, Potančoková M, Gisser R, et al. (2016). Human Capital, Values, and Attitudes of Persons Seeking Refuge in Austria in 2015. PLoS ONE 11 (9): e0163481. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0163481.
- Speringer M, Goujon A, KC S, Eder J, Potancokova M, Bauer R (2015) Validation of the Wittgenstein Centre Back-projections for Populations by Age, Sex, and Six Levels of Education from 2010 to 1970. IIASA Interim Report IR-15-008 (04 15).
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