The RWJF Health & Society Scholars program is proud to announce that the following individuals, associated with the HSS program (identified in bold type below), are participating in sessions at this meeting. Please note that titles listed in ALL CAPS are session titles and all others are individual paper sessions. A complete session listing noting dates and times is currently available at https://paa.confex.com/paa/2016/meetingapp.cgi/Home/0 and specific session locations will be published in the final program.
You Make Me Sick: Peer Network Processes of Adolescents’ Healthy Lifestyles
Comparing the Benefits of Cohabitation and Marriage for Health and Happiness in Mid-Life: Is the Relationship Similar Across Countries?
The Consequences of Partnered Childbearing for Mothers' Mid-Life Health
Wealth and Unintended First Births
Allison Aiello, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Carolina Population Center
Financial Stressors during the Great Recession and Increases in Interleukin-6 Levels
Allison Aiello, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Carolina Population
Intergenerational Education Mobility and Depressive Symptoms in a Latino Community
Allison Aiello, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Carolina Population
Variation in a Novel Measure of Immune Status by Sociodemographic Characteristics and Health Status: Findings from the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study
Dawn Alley, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Is Obesity Becoming More Disabling over Time? Evidence from the Nhanes 1988-2012
Can We Increase Neighborhood Disorder Estimation Accuracy By Incorporating Spatially Located Covariates in Kriging Models?
Segregation in Place: Aging, Age-Dependent Mobility, and Long-Term Racial Succession
CHILD Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in RURAL Bangladesh: A Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis
Women's Empowerment as a Protective Factor Against Intimate Partner Violence in Bangladesh: A Qualitative Exploration of the Process and Limitations of Its Influence
A Closer Look at Family Influences on Adolescent Sexual Activity in Ghana: Prospective Effects of Between- and within-Person Variation in Five Dimensions of Youth-Parent Relationships
ECONOMY, LABOR FORCE, EDUCATION, AND INEQUALITY
Session Chair: Sigal Alon, Tel Aviv Univeristy
Discussant:
Jennie Brand, University of California, Los Angeles
Returns to Higher Education
The Social and Economic Context of Worker Displacement
Clustering, Stability, and Change in Tobacco and Alcohol Use and BMI Among Older U.S. Adults
Cross-National Comparison of Sex Differences in Morbidity in Wealthy Nations: The Role of Labor Force Trajectories
Housing Voucher Receipt and Housing Instability in the Post-Recession Period
Is Beef What’s for Dinner? Exploring and Explaining Intersectional Differences in Dietary Practices Among U.S. Adults
REPRODUCIBLE RESEARCH AND REPLICATION
Improving Household Participation in a Vector Control Campaign: A Pragmatic Randomized Field Trial of Behavioral Economic Interventions
Under Covered? Cohort Changes in Time to Vaccination Among California School Children
The Prevalence of and Barriers to Bystander Intervention on Behalf of Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence Victims
COMBINING DATA TO PRODUCE BETTER ESTIMATES
Session Chair: John Warren
Health Across Urban Dimensions in China
BIODEMOGRAPHY, HEALTH, AND MORTALITY
Session Chair: Thomas McDade
Discussant:
Jennifer Dowd, CUNY Institute for demographic research (CIDR) US
Is Obesity Becoming More Disabling over Time? Evidence from the Nhanes 1988-2012
The Early Life Origins of the Relationship Between Midlife Obesity and Cognitive Functioning in Later Life
Climate Events and Short Term Migration in Matlab, Bangladesh
Indigenous Health in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Multilevel and Longitudinal Analysis
Theories of Racial Inequality and Health Disparities
Cesarean Section, the Gut Microbiome and Children’s Health: Investigating Causal Linkages
Consequences of Childbearing on Delinquency and Substance Use
Gender-Specific Pathways of Peer Influence on Adolescent Suicidal Behaviors
GENETICS, EPIGENETICS, AND AGING
Session Chair: Jason Boardman
Multigenerational Effects of Early Life Health Shocks
The Effects of Peer Networks on Delinquency Across Immigrant Generations
CHILDREN AND MIGRATION
Segregation and Residential Attainment Among Immigrants
THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH
Session Chair: Kate A. Cagney
Which Settings Provide the Most Americanized and Healthiest Diets? How Home, School, and Other Meals Shape the Diets of Mexican Children of Immigrants
Early Life Influences on Population Differences in Aging-Vector Trajectories of Functional Limitations
EARLY-LIFE EXPOSURES AND HEALTH: INTEGRATING BIOMARKER DATA
Session Chair:
Jenna Nobles, University of Wisconsin, Madison
EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON HEALTH BEHAVIORS
Session Chair: Dean Lillard
Too Scared to Move?: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of State-Level Immigration Policies and Obesity Among Latinos in the United States
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
Session Chair: Yasamin Kusunicki, University of Michigan
RACE, GENDER, AND SES IN LATIN AMERICA
Discussant: Ellis Monk, University of Chicago
ETHNIC AND RACIAL VARIATION IN HEALTH BEHAVIORS AND HEALTH
Predictors of Men’s Use of HIV Testing Services in Low-Income Countries: The Role of Masculinity
Exploring Relationship Dynamics Between Citizens and the Police Via Twitter
METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN FERTILITY AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH IN LOW AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
Session Chair:
Hedy Lee, University of Washington
Discussant: Athena Pantazis, University of Washington
RACE AND ETHNICITY: POLICIES, PATTERNS, AND PROCESSES
Session Chair: Annie Ro, University of California, Irvine
Discussant:
Hedy Lee, University of Washington
How Work and Family Transitions Are Associated with Stress-Related Immunity Dysfunction Among Young Adult Women
SOCIOECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE, HEALTH, AND MORTALITY AMONG YOUNG AND MIDDLE AGED ADULTS
Session Chair: Wesley James, University of Memphis
EFFECTS OF BEHAVIOR ON HEALTH AND MINORITY
Discussant: Jamie Lynch, St. Norbert College
Maternal Age, Family Income Dynamics, and Child Investment
The Fertility Patterns of Women Who Breastfeed
Does Increasing Income Lead to Greater Childhood Obesity? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Does the Association Between Mothers' Employment and Availability for Their Adolescent Children Vary By Family Structure?
Collective Health Lifestyles and Life Course Plasticity in Women’s Smoking
Trends in Black-White Differences in Low Birth Weight and Neonatal Mortality
Variation in Adolescents’ Physical Weight Perceptions: The Gendered and Aged Context of State Level Body Size Reference Norms
ADULT MORTALITY
Session Chair: Arun Hendi, University of Pennsylvania
Do Origins Influence Work Disability? a Comparison of Native and Foreign-Born Americans
The Contribution of Weight Status to Black-White Differences in Mortality and Life Expectancy
HEALTH DISPARITIES IN EARLY AND MID-LIFE
Session Chair: Richard Rogers, University of Colorado, Denver
Trends in US Women's Physical Functioning by Education Level, 1997-2014
Why Are Educational Differences in Mortality Large in Some U.S. States but Small in Others?
The Epidemiological Transition in the United States: Volatility and Variability in the Age- and Cause-Patterning of Death
Do Minimum Wages Improve Early Life Health?
Estimating the Causal Effect of Intimate Partner Violence on Women’s Contraceptive Use: An Application of Marginal Structural Models to Cohort Data from Rakai, Uganda
Time Use and Mental Distress Among Mothers in Rural India
Twenty-Five Year Trends in the Prevalence of Early Marriage Among Women in 35 Sub-Saharan African Countries
CHILDREN AND MIGRATION
EARLY-LIFE EXPOSURES AND HEALTH: INTEGRATING BIOMARKERS
Session Chair:
Jenna Nobles, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Understanding the Impact of Compositional Changes in Maternal and Geographic Characteristics on Declining Infant Mortality Rates in the United States, 1990-2013
CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
CHILD Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in RURAL Bangladesh: A Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis
How Prominent Is Residential Selection? Understanding the Residential Patterns of Low Income Families into Neighborhoods of High Opportunity
Diagnosing Kids on the Clinical Margins: Relationships Between Early Childhood ADHD Diagnoses, Social Adjustment/Behavioral Course, and Academic Achievement Among Children with Less Severe ADHD-Related Behaviors
Assessing the Relationship Between Subjective and Objective Dementia Probabilities Using Genetic Risk Scores
Demographic Correlates of Site-Specific Genome-Wide DNA Methylation in Costa Rica
Predicting Survival: Telomere Length Versus Conventional Predictors
Racial and Socioeconomic Variation in Genetic Markers of Telomere Length
Migration of Adult Children to the U.S. and Depression Among Older Mexican Adults: Considering Time-Varying Treatment and Outcome
Demographic Divergence, School Choice, and the Changing Relationship Between Neighborhoods and Schools
Fragmentation or Diversification? Ethno-Racial Change and the Social and Economic Diversity of Communities
Migration of Adult Children to the U.S. and Depression Among Older Mexican Adults: Considering Time-Varying Treatment and Outcome
INCARCERATION AND FAMILY LIFE
Session Chair: Becky Petit, University of Texas, Austin
Individual and Spillover Consequences of Parental Health Limitations for Parenting
SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT AND CHRONIC DISEASE
Session Chair: Robbee, Wedow, University of Colorado, Boulder
The Epidemiological Transition in the United States: Volatility and Variability in the Age- and Cause-Patterning of Death
Multiethnic Neighborhoods on the Ground: Resources, Constraints, and Sense of Community
EARLY LIFE EXPOSURES, AGING, AND MORTALITY
Session Chair: Jason Thomas, Pennsylvania State University
Early Life Influences on Population Differences in Aging-Vector Trajectories of Functional Limitations
COMMUNITY AND POLICY INFLUENCES ON CHILDREN
Session Chair, Lori Kowaleski-Jones, University of Utah
Discussant: Rebecca Ryan, Georgetown University