Pew Research Center at PAA

Pew Research Center will be at this year’s Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Washington. Visit us at booth 505 to meet our experts and to learn more about our work. See below for a list of our experts who will be at the booth, as well as a complete list of their presentations during the conference.

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Pew Research Center Presentations at PAA 2016

Thursday, March 31

8:30-10:00 a.m.
Meet Pew Research Center Experts: David McClendon
Location: Booth 505

• Expertise: International Religious Demography, Marriage and Family
  Recent Research: The Gender Gap in Religion Around the World, Interfaith Marriage and Romantic Relationships in the U.S., Marriage Markets During the Transition to Adulthood

10:00-11:30 a.m.
Meet Pew Research Center Experts: Gretchen Livingston
Location: Booth 505

• Expertise: Family Demography and Fertility
  Recent Research: Childlessness Falls, Family Size Grows Among Highly Educated Women, Four-in-Ten Couples Are Saying “I Do,” Again, The American Family Today

10:15-11:45 a.m
Poster Session Two: Marriage, family households, and unions
Location: Exhibit Hall A

• Record share of Americans have never been married: Why?
  Presenters: Wendy Wang, Senior Researcher
  Related Research: Record Share of Americans Have Never Married

11:30-1:00 p.m.
Meet Pew Research Center Experts: Conrad Hackett
Location: Booth 505

• Expertise: International Religious Demography
  Recent Research: The Gender Gap in Religion Around the World, The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050, The Global Religious Landscape

1:00-2:30 p.m.
Meet Pew Research Center Experts: Renee Stepler
Location: Booth 505

• Expertise: Aging
  Recent Research: Smaller Share of Women Ages 65 and Older Are Living Alone, Hispanic, Black Parents See College Degree as Key for Children’s Success, English Proficiency on the Rise Among Latinos: U.S. born Driving Language Changes

2:30-4:00 p.m.
Meet Pew Research Center Experts: Ana Gonzalez-Barrera
Location: Booth 505

• Expertise: Hispanics, U.S. Immigration
  Recent Research: More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S., ‘Mestizo’ and ‘Mulatto’: Mixed-Race Identities Among U.S. Hispanics, The Path Not Taken: Two-thirds of Legal Mexican Immigrants Are Not U.S. Citizens

2:45-4:15 p.m.
Poster Session Four: Aging, gender, race, and ethnicity
Location: Exhibit Hall A

• The gender gap in religion: A global perspective
  Presenters: David McClendon, Research Associate; Conrad Hackett, Demographer; Anne Shi, Research Associate;
  Carley Murphy, Senior Writer/Editor
  Related Research:The Gender Gap in Religion Around the World
• Age difference in Religious Belief Worldwide
  Presenters: Conrad Hackett, Demographer
  Co-Presenters: Vegard Skirbekk, Columbia University, Norway; Marcin Stonawski, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and Cracow University of Economics, Austria; Michaela Potancokova, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Austria
• Mapping expected change in Muslim and Christian populations, 2010-2050
  Presenters: Conrad Hackett, Demographer
  Co-Presenters: Timmy Huynh, Pennsylvania State University; Vegard Skirbekk, Columbia University, Norway; Marcin Stonawski, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and Cracow University of Economics, Austria; and Michaela Potancokova, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Austria

4:30-6:00 p.m.
Session 89: Methodological issues in race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality
Location: Marriot Salon 3

• Who Is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask: A Comparison of Six Survey Methods to Capture Racial Identity
  Presenters: Eileen Patten, Research Analyst
  Related Research: Who Is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask

Friday, April 1

9:00-10:00 a.m.
Meet Pew Research Center Experts: D’Vera Cohn
Location: Booth 505

• Expertise: U.S. Census, U.S. Family Trends, Immigration
  Recent Research: For 2020, Census Bureau Plans to Trade Paper Responses for Digital Ones, Census Considers New Approach to Asking About Race – by Not Using the Term at all, After Decades of Decline, a Rise in Stay-at-Home Mothers

10:00-11:30 a.m.
Meet Pew Research Center Experts: Phillip Connor
Location: Booth 505

• Expertise: International Migration, Immigration and Religion
  Recent Research: Illegal Migration to EU Rises for Routes Both Well-Worn and Less-Traveled, Faith on the Move – The Religious Affiliation of International Migrants

12:45-2:15 p.m.
Poster Session Eight: Fertility, family planning, sexual behavior, and reproductive health 1
Location: Exhibit Hall A

• Trends in childlessness and family size across educational levels
  Presenters: Gretchen Livingston, Senior Researcher
  Related Research: Childlessness Falls, Family Size Grows Among Highly Educated Women

1:00-2:30 p.m.
Meet Pew Research Center Experts: Jeffrey S. Passel
Location: Booth 505

• Expertise: Unauthorized Immigration, Population Projections
  Recent Research: Unauthorized Immigrant Population Stable for Half a Decade, Modern Immigration Wave Brings 59 Million to U.S., Driving Population Growth and Change Through 2065, Share of Unauthorized Immigrant Workers in Production, Construction Jobs Falls Since 2007

2:45-4:15 p.m.
Session 162: Formation and dissolution of same-sex marriages
Location: Maryland A

• Interfaith Couples, Family Diversity, and Relationship Stability
  Presenters: David McClendon, Research Associate

Poster Session Nine: Health and mortality 3
Location: Exhibit Hall A

• How might differences in immigration experiences for men and women lead to gender disparities in functional limitations for older Mexican immigrants in the U.S.?
  Presenters: Renee Stepler, Research Assistant