Join CSDE scholars this week, during the PAA! CSDE is represented throughout the program and it’s great to see!
Follow this link to view a handy list by date for all CSDE faculty, staff, and students participating at the #PAA2021. The link to join the PAA meetings is here and you will need to register. Once into the site, you can search by last name to find these authors’ sessions or look up the oral session, flash session, or poster session. We’ve also created a downloadable PDF with this same information for your ease of reference.
CSDE Alum Dr. Xinguang Fan (Peking University) and CSDE Trainee Maria Vignau Loria (Sociology) have won the IPUMS Global Health Research Award for their recently published article in Demographic Research titled Intimate Partner Violence and Contraceptive Use in Developing Countries: How Does the Relationship Depend on Context? Fan and Loria resolve a puzzle in prior research on intimate partner violence (IPV): Why is the relationship between IPV and contraceptive use negative in some countries and positive in others? Using 30 IPUMS DHS samples from 17 countries, the authors demonstrate that the relationship between IPV and family planning is modified by macro contextual factors, including legal prohibitions and national levels of female empowerment. This study stands out not just for answering an important social science question but also in its creative use of the broad range of information collected in the DHS, including variables on contraceptive use and type, family size preferences, husband-wife disagreement on fertility goals, various indicators of women’s status (e.g., education, employment, decision-making), and domestic violence. In addition, the authors draw on IPUMS DHS variables to determine the direction of causality: from the experience of IPV to increased contraceptive use, rather than from contraceptive use to increased incidence of IPV.ta from IPUMS DHS, with informative maps displaying findings across countries and regions.
CSDE Affiliate Karen Fredriksen Goldsen provided a keynote lecture on Science to Impact: Linking Lives to Disrupt the Cycle of Social Isolation in the Midst of COVID-19, as part of the UW School of Social Work’s Leading Lights Speaker Series on April 1st, 2021. If you missed the presentation, the recording is now available on YouTube.
On May 10 at 3pm (Pacific), Dr. Brian O’Neill will be speaking about his research on climate and demographic dynamics. O’Neill is the Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute and studies the relationship between future societal development, emissions and climate change impacts. The institute is a partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. It brings together expertise in research, modeling and analysis to advance scientific understanding of the ways in which human, energy and environmental systems interact. The Zoom link for the talk can be found here. More information about the Computational Demography Working Group talks can be found here.
The purpose of this FOA is to support interdisciplinary community-engaged research designed to reduce or eliminate infections and sepsis as causes of pregnancy- related or associated morbidity and mortality (PRAMM) in regions of the United States with high rates of maternal mortality. This FOA is to support research primarily focused on PRAMM health disparities in areas with highest maternal morbidity and mortality. For more information, see here.
At the upcoming 2021 PAA meeting, 24 CSDE Trainees and 16 CSDE Affiliates are scheduled to participate as presenters, chairs, coauthors, and discussants. Our scholars tackle a wide range of demographic issues, represented in the varied presentations listed here.
This year’s conference is happening entirely online from May 5-8. There is still time to register for the conference at this link. CSDE has supported Trainees and Fellows by awarding PAA registration awards to Courtney Allen, Matt Fowle, Jessica Lapham, Neal Marquez, and Crystal Yu. CSDE Trainees also participated in a PAA workshop led by Christine Leibbrand last Fall, where they received feedback from CSDE Affiliates on drafts of their submissions.