
Summary of Congressional Action during “Lame Duck” Session
Summary of Congressional Action during “Lame Duck” Session

PAA & APC Convey Urgent Priorities to Trump Transition Team
PAA & APC Convey Urgent Priorities to Trump Transition Team

NIA/VA Requesting Comments on Alzheimer’s disease research collaborations until January 16.
The NIA has recently released a Request for Information (RFI) on new research collaborations between the NIA and the VA on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD Related Dementias (ADRD): https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-AG-16-083.html. The purpose of the RFI....

PAA Makes Recommendations to Evidence Based Policy Commission
PAA Makes Recommendations to Evidence Based Policy Commission

PAA extends its thanks to everyone who participated in #GivingTuesday. It was inspiring to see many in our community contribute to the PAA Fund. Tuesday, we surpassed our goal for the day receiving $3,900 in....

2017 Call for Award Nominations
PAA is pleased to announce its annual call for award nominations for 2017. The following awards are open for nominations. Recipients will be honored at the 2017 PAA Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. All....

For several decades there has been an ongoing effort to write about and maintain the history of the Population Association of America. The effort was launched by Anders Lunde, who spent most of his professional....

Congratulations to the 2017 election winners: President-elect: Wendy Manning, Bowling Green University Vice President-elect: John Iceland, Pennsylvania State University Board of Directors: Jeffrey Morenoff, University of Michigan Jenna Nobles, University of Wisconsin-Madison Krista Perreira, University....

This article investigates whether and how having a child impacts an individual’s subjective well-being, while taking into account heterogeneity in family attitudes. People with different family orientations have different values, gender attitudes, preferences toward career....

Same-Sex and Different-Sex Cohabiting Couple Relationship Stability
Relationship stability is a key indicator of well-being, but most U.S.-based research has been limited to different-sex couples. The 2008 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) provides an untapped data resource....

The rise of cohabitation in family process among American young adults and declining rates of marriage among cohabitors are considered by some scholars as evidence for the importance of society-wide ideational shifts propelling recent changes....
PAA seeks to promote scientific excellence, nurture the growth of population science through graduate training, and expand the reach and relevance of demographic research. In recognition of this important work, five major foundations have awarded the PAA with grants totaling $1,000,000 with the expectation that the membership will match these contributions.

2017 Annual Meeting at Hilton Chicago April 27 – 29 Join us in Chicago, April 27-29 for our annual meeting where researchers, professors and more Population Associations of America members learn, teach and converge on....

IUSSP International Population Conference
About the Conference Statistics South Africa, on behalf of the Republic of South Africa, will host the 28th International Population Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) in Cape Town,....
Timothy Smeeding is one of five distinguished scholars who were elected as fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Science for 2017. A world leader in the analysis of poverty, economic and intergenerational mobility, inequality, and consumption and wealth, Smeeding was founding director of the Luxembourg Income Study (1983), and is the Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he led the Institute for Research on Poverty from 2008 to 2014.
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