Professor Leiwen Jiang and colleagues from the Asian Demography Research Institute ADRI at Shanghai University attended the 2019 annual conference of the Population Association of America (PAA).
The conference was held in Austin, Texas, April 10th-13th. Seven people from (ADRI) attended. They introduced the research, teaching, training and international exchange achievements of ADRI, as well as its role as the headquarters of the Asian Meta Centre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis.
The Population Association of America is an internationally renowned professional organization in the field of demography, and its annual conference is one the world’s most prominent academic conferences in the field. The papers admitted by the conference are all strictly selected. The annual conferences not only gather the world's top experts and scholars in the field of demography, they also serve as an important platform for displaying the latest research results on demography. Major achievements in demography during in the past year are reviewed at the conference, making it a major source for information in the field of demography worldwide. The 2019 conference included more than 200 sub-forums and more than 10 poster-forums, with more than 1000 experts and scholars, government officials, and NGO personnel from around the world. ADRI presented the following seven papers. The details of the papers and their fora are as follows (in alphabetical order).
Baptista, Emerson
Poster Session 3
Population, Development, & the Environment; Data & Methods; Applied Demography
Internal Migration Flows in Brazil Using Circular Visualization • Emerson Baptista, Asian Demographic Research Institute; Járvis Campos, UFRN; Guy J. Abel, Asian Demographic Research Institute.
Poster Session 6
Health & Mortality & Aging
Spatial Variations of Dengue Fever in Brazil • Emerson Baptista, Asian Demographic Research Institute; Samir KC, Shanghai University.
Heo, Nayoung
Session 127
Transnational Migrants and Their Family Life in Asia
Determinants of Remittance Behavior Among Female Marriage Immigrants in South Korea • Nayoung Heo , Asian Demographic Research Institute; Doo-Sub Kim, Hanyang University.
Jiang, Leiwen
Poster Session 3
Population, Development, & the Environment; Data & Methods; Applied Demography
The Subnational Urbanization Projections for China, India, and the United States • Leiwen Jiang, Population Council and Shanghai University; Hamidreza Zoraghein, University of Denver.
Li, Zhen
Poster Session 7
Migration & Urbanization
Entry Into First Marriage and Marital Outcomes of Rural Migrants in China: The Influence of Initiation of Economic Migration by Men and Women • Zhen Li, Shanghai University.
Sun, Liangliang
Poster Session 3
Population, Development, & the Environment; Data & Methods; Applied Demography
Household Demographic Characteristics, Consumption Structure and Regional Differences in China • Liangliang Su, Asian Demographic Research Institute; Leiwen Jiang, Population Council and Shanghai University.
Wu, Jinjing
Poster Session 11
Health & Mortality 2
The Educational Differences in Systolic/Diastolic Blood Pressure Trajectories Over the Life Course and Across Birth Cohorts in Transitional China • Jinjing Wu, Asian Demographic Research Institute.