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Many of the functions of the printed PAA Affairs newsletter are now being accomplished on the PAA website, including announcements, government affairs updates, conferences, and job postings. The remaining content, primarily long-form articles such as those in the current “Data Points” and “Perspectives” sections, will now be published here, as a blog. 

Response to Member Plagiarism Accusation

By PAA Web posted 23 days ago
As many of you may already know, last week activist Christopher Rufo reported online that an “anonymous” plagiarism complaint against PAA member Christina Cross had been filed at Harvard. PAA repudiates the targeted bullying of junior scholars of color in academia. Strong statements of support by the ...

Population Scientists Take to Capitol Hill for 2024 Advocacy Day

By PAA Web posted 03-07-2024
On March 5, the Population Association of America (PAA), in collaboration with the Association of Population Centers (APC), sponsored its 2024 Advocacy Day in which population scientists from 12 states conducted almost 60 meetings with key congressional staff. The delegation included Dr. Lisa Berkman, ...

Call for Nominations to PAA Leadership

By PAA Web posted 02-22-2024
PAA is led by members who volunteer their time and expertise to guide the organization and meet the needs of our field. Let's take advantage of the diverse perspectives and expertise of our membership by nominating yourself or a colleague for a PAA leadership position. PAA Secretary-Treasurer Search ...

Moving within Border: Addressing the Potentials and Risks of Mass Migrations in Developing Countries

By PAA Web posted 01-29-2024
Moving within Border: Addressing the Potentials and Risks of Mass Migrations in Developing Countries This book highlights the attention that policymakers, activists, and the public should pay to internal migration. Although prominent research has analyzed particular types of internal migration, ...

John Edwin Knodel (1940-2024)

By PAA Web posted 01-23-2024
One of the Population Association of America’s (PAA) most steadfast supporters, one of demography’s most productive scholars, and one of his generation’s most generous mentors, Professor John E. Knodel, died on January 10, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from aspiration pneumonia and congestive heart failure. ...

Health and Medical Geography in Africa – Methods, Applications and Development Linkages

By PAA Web posted 11-14-2023
Yemi Adewoyin, University of Nigeria, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Published by Springer Through its direct and indirect impacts on labour productivity, population health and wellbeing matter for the social and economic development of households and national ...

Socio-Demographic Perspectives on the Covid-19 Pandemic

By PAA Web posted 10-10-2023
Socio-Demographic Perspectives on the Covid-19 Pandemic , ed. David A Swanson and Richard R. Verdugo (Information Age Publishing, 2023) This exciting new volume undertakes socio-demographic analyses of four major topics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic: Data Issues; Statistical Modeling; ...

2023 PAA Election Results

By PAA Web posted 08-29-2023
Congratulations to the new PAA officers and board and committee members. Thank you to the members who voted in this election, and a huge thank you to all candidates who were willing to participate. All terms begin January 1, 2024, except for the Nominations Committee (terms begin immediately). ...

PAA 2024 Call for Papers

By PAA Web posted 08-15-2023
We welcome your submissions for the PAA 2024 Annual Meeting and look forward to a full and rigorous scientific conference next spring in Columbus, Ohio! PAA currently has no plans for a hybrid conference and sessions will be in-person in Columbus. The Call for Papers is now available. The submissions ...

Undergraduate Programming at PAA 2023

By PAA Web posted 05-01-2023
With generous support from the W.T. Grant Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, two groups of current/recent undergraduates participated in the PAA 2023 Annual Meeting! Coordinated by PAA’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee (chaired by Tyson Brown, Duke University) and ...

2023 Nominees for PAA Offices

By PAA Web posted 02-14-2023
The Nominating Committee is pleased to put forward the following slate for the 2023 PAA Election. The Nominating Committee is comprised of Pamela Herd (Georgetown University), Hedwig Lee (Washinton University Saint-Louis) and Jenny Trinitapoli (University of Chicago). President Irma ...

Population Growth of Asians and Pacific Islanders in California: Causes and Consequences

By PAA Web posted 01-24-2023
by Prabhakara Narasandra (Publish America, 2021). California has been the most populous state in the United States since the 1970 census, when the population of California exceeded that of New York. During the past decade, Latinos and Asians accounted for virtually all of California’s population growth. ...

David Swanson Elected as Fellow of Mississippi Academy of Sciences

By PAA Web posted 01-17-2023
PAA member (and frequent PAA Affairs contributor) David Swanson was recently elected as a fellow of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences . This illustrious position recognizes his tremendous professional achievements and services and is awarded for life. Congratulations to Dr. Swanson! #announcements ...

Race in the Machine: A Novel Account

By PAA Web posted 01-17-2023
Race in the Machine: A Novel Account by Quincy Thomas Stewart (Stanford University Press 2023). In a narrative full of social significance and poetically decorated with monks, vampires, and mythical statistics, Race in the Machine presents a world where the stories we use to explain race all ...

First PAA Applied Demography Conference in Annapolis

By PAA Web posted 01-17-2023
In just 3 weeks, colleagues and applied demographers will meet in Annapolis, Maryland, for the first in-person PAA Applied Demography Conference! Program co-chairs Mike Cline, North Carolina Office of State Budget & Management, and Muntasir Masum, Pennsylvania State University, are excited to provide ...

Population Levels, Trends, and Differentials: More Important Population Matters

By PAA Web posted 01-10-2023
This book is a broad collection of short and concise chapters addressing important issues relating to population levels, trends, and differentials authored by Joseph Chamie. In addition to traditional population concerns, such as growth, composition, fertility, mortality, and migration, the articles ...

Thank You to Our Volunteer Leaders

By PAA Web posted 01-10-2023
Thank you to all of the volunteers who finished their term in 2022. A special thank you goes out to Robert A. Hummer, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, who exited the Board as the immediate Past President. Thank you to these members who finished their term on the Board of Directors as well ...

Child Labor in India: an Empirical Study

By PAA Web posted 10-27-2022
by N.R. Prabhakara. India has five million working children between the ages of 5 and 14, which is more than two percent of all children in this group. Despite legal prohibitions, several socio-economic situations ranging from poverty, high fertility, and a non-responsive education system to poor ...

Congratulations to Steve Ruggles – 2022 MacArthur Fellow

By John Weeks posted 10-13-2022
Many PAA members will have heard by now that our very own Steve Ruggles is a 2022 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, commonly known as the “Genius Award.” All of us at PAA wish to congratulate Steve for this hugely impressive and important honor. Read below for details. Description ...

Fertility Transitions in the Developing World

By PAA Web posted 09-19-2022
Fertility Transitions in the Developing World by John Bongaarts and Dennis Hodgson (Springer, 2022). This open access book provides an overview and analysis of the causes and consequences of the massive and highly consequential transition in reproductive behavior that occurred in Asia, Latin America, ...

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