Submission System Opens August 5 The Call for Papers for the PAA 2027 Annual Meeting is available! We look forward to a full and rigorous scientific conference in Seattle next spring, March 31 through April 3. The submission system will open tomorrow, August 5 and the deadline for...
New in 2026! PAA is excited to introduce a new virtual workshop series to be held in early fall 2026. We invite submissions from individuals or groups to conduct three-hour workshops to help support the year-round education of PAA members and the larger demography field. Workshop...
Thank you to Sinem Esengen, PhD Candidate at the Ohio State University for this recap. (Find Sinem on PAA Engage , X or Bluesky ) During the plenary session, “NIH and the Future of Population Research: A Conversation with the NIH Director,” Jay Bhattacharya addressed questions...
APC, APDU, COPAFS, ICPSR, and PAA Statement on Commerce’s Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products On June 4, 2026 the Department of Commerce issued a new order “Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products” (DAO 216-26) that limits the types of privacy protection methods that...
On June 9, the House Appropriations Committee approved its version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) bill in a party-line vote, 34 to 28. The bill covers funding for federal science and statistical agencies important to the population sciences,...
It has been a particularly challenging few months for the National Science Foundation (NSF), between a massive, proposed budget cut in the Administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget, the President’s dismissal of the entire National Science Board (NSB), and an effort to eliminate the Social,...
Demography , a Subscribe to Open journal published by Duke University Press, met its subscription funding target by the March 31, 2026, deadline, and so all articles published in the 2026 calendar year will be Open Access in perpetuity. DUP, which relies on institutional subscriptions to...
The Nominations Committee is pleased to put forward the following slate for the 2026 PAA Election. The Nominations Committee includes Jennifer Glick, Pennsylvania State University, Alison Gemmill, University of California, Los Angeles, and Kevin Thomas, Rice University. As stated in Article IV...
The Population Association of America (PAA) and Association of Population Centers (APC) share the scientific research community’s concerns regarding recent actions taken by the Administration threatening the integrity of the National Science Foundation (NSF) overall and the NSF Social,...
Attending the 2026 PAA Conference? Be sure to visit Verasight at Booth #402, where conference attendees can take advantage of a complimentary opportunity to field one survey question in Verasight’s next nationally representative omnibus survey. Every participating attendee will have their...