Here is a schedule of SRC researchers at the 2026 Population Association of America Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. All times are Central Daylight Time.
ISR Reception
Friday, May 8, 2026 | 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Landmark 4 at the Marriott St. Louis Grand
800 Washington Ave, St. Louis, MO 6310
The Institute for Social Research (ISR), in partnership with the University of California, Los Angeles, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin – Madison, and Brown University, is hosting a reception to create space for social scientists to engage with each other and strengthen our connections across the field at the 2026 PAA Annual Meeting in St. Louis. If you are attending the conference, please join fellow social science enthusiasts for drinks and light refreshments.
Please RSVP here if you plan to attend!
Exhibitors from the Survey Research Center and Institute for Social Research include: Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) (booth 305), Health and Retirement Study (HRS) (booth 406), Monitoring the Future Study (booth 207), National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) (booth 204), National Health & Aging Trends Study (booth 408), National Neighborhood Data Archive (booth 205), Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) (booth 303).
Looking for something to do or somewhere to eat between sessions? Check out our Your St. Louis To Do List (According to ISR’s Bob Kaikati) (PDF)!
Thursday, May 7, 2026
8:00-9:15 – Joe LaBriola, Robert Manduca, Pablo Mitnik, California’s Proposition 13 and Demographic Inequalities in Property Taxation, Room 232
8:30-10:00 – Lily Borak, Adrienne Epstein, Nadia Diamond-Smith, Poster: Emily Treleaven, Poster: Impacts of climate change on birth outcomes: combined and individual effects of drought and air pollution, Rooms 220 – 227.
9:30-10:45 – Muqi Guo, Tsai-Chin Cho, Alden Gross, Lindsay Kobayashi, Age at menopause and cognition in later life – a cross-nation comparison study between China and India, Room 102
9:30-10:45 – Liang Cai, Chunwu Zhu, Kathleen Cagney, Neighborhood Social, Physical, and Network Conditions Shape Older Adults’ Everyday Safety, Room 261
10:30-12:00 – Jinghan (Effy) Tang, Sarah Patterson, Adriana Reyes, Poster: Caregivers’ Attitudes About Public/Private Responsibility for Helping with Personal Care, Rooms 220-227
11:00-12:15 – Cayley Ryan-Claytor, Emily Smith-Greenaway, Ashton Verdery, Haowei Wang, Sarah Patterson, Living after Loss: Spousal Bereavement and Trajectories of Subjective Age and Subjective Life Expectancy, Room 105
1:30-2:45 – Robert Manduca (chair), Session: Employment & Economic Well-being in Later Life, Room 105
1:30-2:45 – Hantao Jiang, Connor Martz, Jessica Faul, Colter Mitchell, Allison Aiello, Kathleen Harris, Chantel Martin, Lauren Gaydosh, Linking Social Phenotypes and Biological Aging: A Life Course Analysis from Three Harmonized U.S. Studies, Room 104
1:30-2:45 – Emily Treleaven (discussant), Session: Mating Implications for Women and Children, Room 265
4:45-6:00 – Emily Treleaven (discussant), Session: Infant Health and Mortality: Social, Political, and Structural Drivers, Room 231
Friday, May 8, 2026
8:00-9:15 – Robert Manduca, The Price of Macro-Segregation: Racial Disparities in Property Taxes and Local Government Fiscal Capacity, Room 261
8:00-9:15 – Eric Klopack, Silvin Knight, Claire Potter, Mateo Farina, Jessica Faul, Cathal Mccrory, Amy Jayne McKnight, Colter Mitchell, Bharat Thyagarajan, Rose-Anne Kenny, Bernadette McGuinness, The links between childhood conditions and epigenetic aging across three countries: Concordant and discordant results from Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the US, Room 267
9:30-10:45 – Margaret Levenstein (chair), Flash Session: Data Availability and Access, Room 103
9:30-10:45 – Sarah Patterson, Kelsi Caywood, Esther Friedman, Vicki Freedman, Who Should Care for an Older Adult in Need? Expectations by Relationship and the Presence of Dementia, Room 232
9:30-10:45 – Isabel Brooks,
4:45-6:00 – Emily Treleaven, Margaret Frye, Rainfall Change, Fertility and Kin Co-residence, Room 280
10:30-12:00 – Grace Noppert, Philippa Clarke, Poster: Subjective Neighborhood Physical Disorder and Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Bioenergetics: Results from the Study of Muscle, Mobility & Aging (SOMMA), Room 220-227
10:30-12:00 – Edward Huntley, Joshua Goode, Allison LaMonica, Hannah Dees, Colter Mitchell, Poster: Sleep Duration and Problems as Predictors of Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Youth, Room 220-227
3:00-4:15 – Ryan Tung, Trey Smith, Joshua Goode, Dan Notterman, Luke W. Hyde, Christopher S. Monk, Colter Mitchell, Timing-dependent associations between childhood internalizing symptoms and DNA methylation, Room 102
3:00-4:15 – Colter Mitchell (chair), Helen Meier (discussant), Session: Biology and Population Health, Room 267
3:00-4:30 – Anoushka Patel, Emily Treleaven, Dirgha Ghimire, Poster: When Do Fathers Migrate? An Analysis of Child-Level Predictors of Exposure to Parental Labor Migration in a Migrant-Sending Area, Rooms 220-227.
3:00-4:15 – Erika Beidelman, Xuexin Yu, Federica Pennino, Amanda Sonnega, Rachel Donnelly, Yuan Zhang, Longitudinal Associations Between Job Insecurity and Cognitive Function: Evidence of Spousal Effect Modification in the Health and Retirement Study, Room 242
Saturday, May 9, 2026
10:00-11:15 – Sarah Patterson (chair), Session: Population Aging, Disability, and Gender, Room 104.
10:00-11:15 – Adriana Reyes, Sarah Patterson, From Gendered Expectations to Gendered Care Realities for Older Adults with Dementia, Room 102.
10:00-11:15 – Muqi Guo, Sneha Mani, Alden Gross, Carrie Karvonen‐Gutierrez, Alexis Reeves, Kenneth Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi, Age at Natural Menopause and Cognitive Aging in U.S. Women: Educational Attainment as a Modifiable Resilience Factor, Room 266.
10:00-11:15 – Joshua Goode (chair), Jessica Faul (discussant), Session: Biomarkers of Dementia and Exposures, Room 260
10:00-11:15 – Esther Friedman, James Murphy, Sarah Edgington, David Kennedy, Regina Shih, Are Social Network Characteristics Associated with Caregiver Loneliness? A Comparison of Family Caregivers to Older Adults With and Without Dementia, Room 232.
11:00-12:30 – Craig Caudill, Lauren Henley, Robert Nelson, Jeffrey Wing, Helen Meier, Poster: Beyond the Factory Walls in the Cigarette Capital of the World: Black Tobacco Labor Activism and Stroke Mortality in 20th-Century Richmond, Virginia, Rooms 220-227
11:30-12:45 – P. Linh Nguyen, Brady West, Revisiting Interviewer Effects in a Multilingual Context, Room 103
11:30-12:45 – Alexandra Killewald (chair), Session: Assets, Debt, and Stratification, Room 241.