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LCDS at PAA 2023: Friday 14 April
The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science have another packed day of talks and posters on the second day of presentations at this year’s Population Association of America conference. More info and other daily programmes can be found here. You can also find us at booth 504 to learn more about our work and get your hands on some snazzy goodies!

On Friday 14 April, our researchers will present on a variety of different topics including COVID-19, mortality and morbidity, and network methods. There will also be poster sessions on spousal violence in India, online dating applications, and labour market consequences of motherhood.
More info to follow shortly, please check this page and our PAA 2023 overview page regularly for updates. In the meantime, check out our programme for Thursday 13 April and Saturday 15 April.
LCDS programme at PAA: Friday 14 April
All times in ET, in person only. Grey shadowing indicates poster session. Programme subject to change, please refer to the PAA programme.
Time | Speaker | Session: Talk title | Location |
08:00 – 09:15 | Aashish Gupta | Risk Factors and Inequalities in COVID-19 Mortality: Excess Mortality in India in 2020 | Strand 4 |
08:30 – 10:00 | Aashish Gupta Francesco Rampazzo | Family, Children, and Intergenerational Relations: Hindu–Muslim Differences in Spousal Violence in India It’s a Match! A Global View on the Use of Online Dating Applications | Elite Hall A |
09:30 – 10:45* | Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: Implications of Rising Female Reproductive-Age Mortality for Fertility in the United States, 2010–2019 | Strand 2 | |
11:00 – 12:15** | Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Unequal Resilience to Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cause-of-Death Analysis of Life Expectancy Changes in Nine High-Income Countries | Strand 4 | |
11:00 – 12:15 | Micol Morellini | Network Methods: Beyond the Missing Link: Harnessing Social Network Analysis to Investigate Competing Migration Theories | Bolden 1 |
13:00 – 14:30 | Education, Employment, and Inequality: Labor Market Consequences of Motherhood in France and Germany: Changes in Employment and Wage Penalties Over Time | Elite Hall A | |
13:30 – 14:45*** | Aashish Gupta | Methodological Innovations in Mortality: Pandemic Excess Deaths in Rural Bihar | Strand 3 |
15:00 – 16:15 | Mexican and Latin American Mortality in the Context of COVID-19: Changes in Death Structure by Causes in Mexico during the Pandemic of COVID-19 | Strand 10 A | |
15:00 – 16:15**** | Aashish Gupta | Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Social Disadvantage and Child Mortality in India, 1993–2019 | Bolden 6 |
*At 9:30-10:45, Jasmin Abdel Ghany will Chair Fertility and COVID-19 (Bolden 4).
** At 11:00-12:15, Jenn Dowd will Chair Unraveling the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Health (Strand 11A). She will also Chair Methodological Innovations in Mortality at 13:30-14:45 (Strand 3) and Reassessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mortality at 15:00-16:15 (Strand 3).
*** At 13:30-14:45, a paper involving José Manuel Aburto will be presented at Epidemics of Violence and COVID-19 Drive Life Expectancy Losses in Mexico, 2015–2020 (Strand 10 A).
**** At 15:00-16:30, a paper and poster Violence Exposure and Women’s Fertility Desires in Mexico involving José Manuel Aburto and Ginevra Floridi will be presented at the poster session in Elite Hall A.