The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science will be back at this year’s Population Association of America conference in Washington DC, 10-13 April. Find us at our demographic talks listed below and at booth 112.
Join us for another packed programme of presentations and poster sessions as we continue to disrupt and realign demography to tackle the most challenging demographic and population problems of our time. Take a look at the programme below for an overview of our sessions at PAA 2025. All times listed are in Eastern Daylight Time
You can find us at booth 112 where you can chat to the team, learn about our different programmes, and collect some Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science goodies.
Thursday 10 April
Celebrate the start of PAA 2025 with us at booth 112 in the Liberty & Independence Ballrooms, 18:00-21:00, and collect a #InDataWeTrust temporary tattoo and pin badge. Simply follow and tag us in a photo on X or BlueSky of you showing off the temporary tattoo and badge.
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Time |
Session |
Presenter |
Title |
Location |
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14:00 – 14:15 |
Frontiers in Mortality (Member Initiated Meeting) |
The genetics of reproductive traits and their relationship with health and longevity |
Westin - Meeting Room 7 |
Friday 11 April
Our researchers will open PAA 2025 with presentations on a variety of different topics including population research, gender inequality, families in Asia, and education, health and mortality. There will also be poster sessions in the Liberty & Independence Ballrooms on nowcasting digital gender gaps, health and health behaviour, and migration.
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Time |
Session |
Presenter |
Title |
Location |
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8:30 – 10:00 |
Poster: Aging and the Life Course/Applied Demography |
Nowcasting Global Digital Gender Gaps Using Social Media Data |
Liberty & Independence Ballrooms |
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9:30 – 10:45 |
Methods and Analysis of Linked Data |
Woodley Park |
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9:30 – 10:45 |
Consequences of Caregiving for Gender Inequality at Work |
Eastern Market |
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11:00 – 12:15 |
Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
Chair |
Dupont Circle |
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13:45 – 15:15 |
Poster: Health and Health Behavior |
Uncovering Clusters of Social Conditions and Chronic Diseases: Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach Thin Privilege? Changing Socioeconomic Trends in Obesity and Healthy BMI |
Liberty & Independence Ballrooms |
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14:00 – 15:15 |
Flash: Digital and Computational Demography |
Chair |
Dogwood |
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14:00 – 15:15 |
Historical Policies and Health |
Discussant |
LeDroit Park |
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14:00 – 15:15 |
Flash: Migration, Population Composition, and Mortality |
Scarlet Oak |
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14:00 – 15:15 |
Families in Asia |
Gallery Place |
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14:00 – 15:15 |
Education, Health, and Mortality |
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Farragut North |
Saturday 12 April
Our researchers will present on a variety of different topics including gender inequality, violence and population health, reproductive outcomes, and housing and health. There will also be poster sessions in the Liberty & Independence Ballrooms on neighbourhoods and communities, and the demography of Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
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Time |
Session |
Presenter |
Title |
Location |
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8:30 – 10:00 |
Poster: Neighborhoods and Communities/Race and Ethnicity/Legal Institutions |
Testing Migration Theories at the Spatial and Structural Level with Random Networks |
Liberty & Independence Ballrooms |
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8:00 – 9:15 |
Obesity, Behavior, and Novel Weight-Loss Medications |
Chair |
Gallery Place |
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8:00 – 9:15 |
Statistical Demography: Bayesian Methods |
Discussant |
Treasury |
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9:30 – 10:45 |
Gender Inequality and Women’s Status in Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
3G Internet, Intimate Partner Violence, and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence From Nigeria |
LeDroit Park |
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9:30 – 10:45 |
Violence and Population Health |
Gallery Room |
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10:30 – 12:00 |
Poster: Mortality and Morbidity/Demography of Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
Liberty & Independence Ballrooms |
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11:00 – 12:15 |
Autonomy, Empowerment, and Reproductive Outcomes |
Fertility impacts of 3G mobile expansion: Evidence from Nigeria |
Eastern Market |
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11:00 – 12:15 |
Housing and Health |
Gallery Room |
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11:00 – 12:15 |
Multinational Studies of Mortality |
Chair |
Magnolia |
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11:00 – 12:15 |
Fires, Fields, and Fetal Development: Exploring the Interconnectedness of Environmental Exposures |
Prenatal Exposure to Extreme Heat and Infant Mortality: Evidence From Mali |
Mount Vernon Square |
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14:00 – 15:15 |
Spatial Data Collection and Methods |
Chair |
Treasury |
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14:00 – 15:15 |
Economic, Social, and Policy Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
U.S. COVID-19 School Closures Were Not Cost-Effective, but Other Measures Were |
Supreme Court |
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14:00 – 15:15 |
Invited session: Covid-19 5 Years On: What Have We Learned? |
Monument |
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15:30 – 16:45 |
Invited session: Lessons of the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Did our Field Contribute and How Do We Prepare for Future Crises? |
Chair Perspective from Running a Population Center that Made Outsized Contributions to Pandemic Mortality |
Monument |
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16:00 – 17:30 |
Poster: Family Demography |
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The Interplay Between Childlessness and Kinlessness in Europe: A Microsimulation Approach |
Liberty & Independence Ballrooms |
Sunday 13 April
Our researchers will conclude PAA 2025 with talks on marriage and health, mortality and morbidity, and health outcomes.
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Time |
Session |
Presenter |
Title |
Location |
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9:00 – 10:15 |
Marriage and Health |
L'Enfant Plaza |
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9:00 – 10:15 |
Epidemic and Pandemic Mortality and Morbidity |
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Union Station |
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10:30 – 11:45 |
Union Dissolution and Health Outcomes |
Revenge Bodies? How Eating Habits and Weight Perception Change During Marital Separation |
Gallery Place |