Poster Winners from PAA 2026

Congratulations to the winners of the Poster Sessions. You can see all poster papers on the program.

P01 - Demography, Public Policy and Legal Institutions/Neighborhoods, Communities and Urbanization/Spatial and Environmental Demography

03 - Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives and Teenage Pregnancies in Norway: A Register-Based Study
Martin Flatø*, Norwegian Institute of Public Health & University of Oslo; Jacqueline Cohen, Norwegian Institute of Public Health; Kari Furu, Norwegian Institute of Public Health; Dana Kristjansson, Norwegian Institute of Public Health; Ellen Øen Carlsen, Norwegian Institute of Public Health; Vegard Skirbekk, Norwegian Institute of Public Health & University of Oslo


18 - Push–Pull, Herd Effects, and Spatial Context in U.S. Internal Migration: Evidence From County-to-County Flows
Nereyda Ortiz Osejo, Texas A&M University; Ernesto Amaral*, Texas A&M University


39 - Testing Reciprocal Pathways Between Jails and Distress by County Urbanicity
Allison Dwyer Emory*, University at Buffalo; Sophia Olsinski, University at Buffalo; Devon Skufca, University at Buffalo


40 - Neighborhood Knowledge in the Digital Age: Racial Patterns in AI Housing Recommendations
Megan Evans*, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Noli Brazil, University of California, Davis


58 - Latino Collective Action in the United States, 1990–2009: The Impacts of Legislative and Repressive Threats
Yanming Kuang*, Indiana University; Dina Okamoto, Indiana University; Kim Ebert, North Carolina State University

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P02 - Family Demography

10 - The Effect of Intergenerational Family Financial Dynamics on LGBQ Homeownership
Noah Balderrama*, Northwestern University

44 - Changes in Milestones of Adulthood
Paul Hemez*, U.S. Census Bureau; Jonathan Vespa, US Census Bureau

47 - When Adult Children Live at Home: Coresidence, Parental Well-being, and Relationship Quality
Emma Goldstein*, University of Minnesota

57 - Who Does “Model” in the Model Migration Schedule Represent? Racial-Ethnic and Gender Inequalities in U.S. Internal Migration
Julie Kim*, University of Washington

94 - The Duration of Widowhood in the United States
Sven Wilson*, Brigham Young University; Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA; Joseph Price, Brigham Young University; Robert Pollak, Washington University in St. Louis; Joshua Nicholls, Brigham Young University; Samantha Adamson, Brigham Young University; Charles Hutchinson, UCLA

P03 - Fertility, Family Planning, Sexual Behavior and Reproductive Health

13 - Don’t Want, Don’t Need, Can’t Get: Testing a New Framework for Measuring Contraceptive Access
Leigh Senderowicz, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Emma Romell*, University of Oxford; Rachel Hodapp, University of Wisconsin--Madison; Fiona Weeks


17 - Children by Choice, Not Chance: Family Planning Associations and Fertility in Britain
Nicola Barban*, University of Bologna; Elisabetta De Cao, University of Bologna; Marco Francesconi, University of Essex; Sara Tozzi, University of Bologna


25 - Reproductive Health Across the Life Course: Linking Early Menarche to Disease and Risky Behaviors
Brianna Chan*, University of California, Santa Barbara; Elizabeth Ackert, University of California, Santa Barbara; Fiona Hass, University of California, Santa Barbara


44 - Who Achieves Their Fertility Goals? Chronic Health Conditions and Stratified Reproduction
Lindsay Cannon*, University of Wisconsin–Madison


45 - Uncertain Contingencies: Fertility in the Context of Chronic Disease
Lindsay Cannon*, University of Wisconsin–Madison


62 - Low-Risk Cesareans Across the United States: A Decomposition of Individual- and County-Level Factors by Race/Ethnicity
Abhery Das*, University of Illinois Chicago; Samantha Gailey, Michigan State University; Alison Gemmill, University of California Los Angeles; Aline Vandenbroeck, University of Illinois Chicago; Brenda Bustos, University of California, Irvine; Tim Bruckner, UC Irvine, Public Health

P04 - Health and Health Behavior 

9 - Child Protective Services Contact and Maternal Mental Health
Loren Beard*, Harvard University; Won Choi, University of Texas at Austin


19 - Health Expectancy Among Roma Populations in Europe: A Cross-National Analysis
Lina Lasar*, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Marc Luy, Vienna Institute of Demography; Tamara Vaz , Vienna Institute of Demography


40 - The Stratification of Mental Health Penalties for Parenthood
Sander Wagner*, University of Oxford; Pascal Achard, CREST; Andrea Tilstra, University of Oxford; Mark Verhagen


57 - End-of-Life Planning Preparations, Subjective Life Expectancy, and Life Expectancy Across Family Structure
Huijing Wu*, Academia Sinica; Chi-Tsun Chiu, Academia Sinica


69 - Four Public Health Interventions to Improve Cardiovascular Health Worldwide: A Modeling Study
William Garcia*, University of Washington, Seattle, USA; Obehioye Aimiosior, Resolve to Save Lives, New York, USA; Liz Drummond, Resolve to Save Lives, New York, USA; Nicole Ide, Resolve to Save Lives, New York, USA; Bolanle Banigbe, Resolve to Save Lives, New York, USA; Laura K. Cobb, Resolve to Save Lives, New York, USA; Matti Marklund, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, USA; Goodarz Danaei, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA; Kuni Matsushita, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, USA; Lawrence J. Appel, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, USA; Scott J. Pilla, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, USA; Kathryn Foti, School of Public Health, The University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA; Andrew E. Moran, Resolve to Save Lives, New York, USA; David Watkins, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

P05 - Education, Work and Economic Inequality

1 - Understanding How Non-Instructional Support Systems Support Student Outcomes in an Urban School District
Autumn Horne*, Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University; Annie Pham, Rice University; Gabriela Sanchez-Soto, Rice University

15 - Overdue: Improving Survey Measurement of Debt in Low-Income Populations
Lawrence Berger, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Trisha Chanda, University of Wisconsin Madison; Rachel Dwyer, Ohio State University; Jason Houle*, Dartmouth College; Alec Rhodes, Purdue University

31 - The Dual Impact of Inequality and Poverty on Violent and Property Crime: A Typological Approach to Intersectional Economic Structures in the United States, 1990–2019
Chin-Han Chan*, Dep. of Sociology, University at Albany, SUNY

34 - Perceived Penalties for Women at Work: Evidence From a Conjoint Survey Experiment in China
Cheng Cheng*, Singapore Management University; Yang Zhou, Central University of Finance and Economics

43 - Blueberry Exports and Gender Violence
Nicolas Pazos-Navarro*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

50 - Air Pollution Burden Around the World: Distributions, Inequalities, and the Economic Benefits of Clean Air
Angelo Dos Santos*, University of Pennsylvania; Oscar Morales, University of Pennsylvania; Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania; Emily Hannum, University of Pennsylvania; Fan Wang

P06 - Aging and the Life Course/Children, Youth and Intergenerational Ties 

28 - Cognitive Aging and Environmental Risk: The Association of Air Pollution With Cognitive Performance Among Older Adults in Chile
Catalina Bravo*, University of Pennsylvania


32 - College Access and Later Life Cognition in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study
Jillian Hebert*, Washington University in St. Louis; Amanda Irish, Washington University in St. Louis; Aayush Khadka, Meta; Rita Hamad, Harvard School of Public Health; Maria Glymour, Boston University ; Anusha Vable, Washington University in St. Louis


43 - The Dynamics of Population Mixing: A Simulation Approach
Aaron Gullickson*, University of Oregon; Aliya Saperstein, Stanford University


77 - A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effect of Administrative Burden and Information Costs on Social Inequalities in Early Childcare Access in France
Laudine Carbuccia*, CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris; Carlo Barone, CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris; Arthur Heim, Paris School of Economics; Coralie Chevallier, Department of Cognitive Science, PSL University


92 - To Protect and Serve? Child Protection Interventions and Their Effects on Parents’ Involvement with the Criminal Legal System
Jenna Shelton*, Washington University in St. Louis; Sarah Font, Washington University in St. Louis; Ann Shun Swanson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

P07 - Migration and Immigration/Race and Ethnicity/Gender and Sexual Identity

1 - Migration and the Life Course in the Context of Social Change
Katharina Klaunig*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

29 - African Asylum Seekers in New York City: A Qualitative Analysis of Migration From the Continent to the United States
Sauda Muhammad*, CUNY Graduate Center; Dialika Sall, Lehman College; Heba Gowayed, Hunter College; Sauda Muhammad, CUNY Graduate Center; Ethan Mayer-Rich, CUNY Graduate Center

32 - Flooding and Residential Mobility: Longitudinal Evidence From North Carolina
Helena Garcia*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Miyuki Hino, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Isabel Kwass-Mason, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Elizabeth Frankenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Katherine Anarde, North Carolina State University ; Antonia Sebastian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

52 - The Color of the Condemned: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Skin Tone and Initial Security Classification Assignments in Michigan State Prisons
Hannah Craig*, Harvard University

61 - “Where Have the Middle-Wage Workers Gone?” Technology and Gendered Pathways in a Polarizing Labor Market
Youngmin Chu*, University of Minnesota

75 - Assessing the Use of Open-Ended Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Responses in Population-Based Surveys: Lessons From Chile
Cristian Valenzuela-Mendez*, Northwestern University

P08 - Data and Methods/Applied Demography/Other

26 - Deriving the Under-5 Mortality Curve From Summary Birth Histories: An Integrated Brass Under-5 Log-Quad Approach
José Henrique Monteiro Da Silva*, University of Pennsylvania


32 - Validating Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence Measures in Three National Surveys: Lesotho DHS 2023–24, Nigeria DHS 2023–24, and Zambia DHS 2024
Kerry MacQuarrie*, Data Points Demography; Jeffrey Edmeades, Demografix and (ex)Avenir Health/DHS Program; Livia Montana, University of Southern California, CESR; Samson Olusina Bamiwuye, Obafemi Awolowo University; Masebeo Koto, Lesotho Ministry of Health; Mathato Nkuatsana, Lesotho Ministry of Health


39 - Forced Displacement of People Experiencing Homelessness: Housing and Movement Outcomes After Encampment Clearances
Brandon Morande*, University of Washington; Kim Serry, Evergreen Treatment Services REACH; Amy Hagopian, University of Washington; Zack Almquist, University of Washington


51 - Defining Change for Chinatowns in California
Natalee Chin*, Penn State


66 - Early-Life Mortality Measurement in India: Insights From Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Patterns
Natasha D'cruze*, University of Pennsylvania

P09 - Mortality and Morbidity/Demography of Low- and Middle-Income Countries

6 - Trends in State Policy Contexts and Mental Health, 1993–2021
Blake Powell*, Vanderbilt University; Rachel Donnelly, Vanderbilt University

19 - County-Level Poverty and Evolving Impact on Black–White Youth Firearm Mortality Inequities in the United States, 1990–2023
Allison Lind*, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Susan M. Mason, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

35 - Variation in Population Exposure Estimates and Heat-Related Illness According to Heatwave Definition and Properties in North Carolina
Sarah Ulrich*, UNC-Chapel Hill

45 - Parental Monetary Investment in Unstable Context: How Is Educational Disruption Related to Family Investments in Children’s Learning?
Olga Murasova*, University of Wisconsin-Madison