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Pew Research Center at the Population Association of America

The Population Association of America's annual conference this week includes posters and papers by Pew Research Center authors. The posting includes links to their work.

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Pew Research Center at the Population Association of America

The Population Association of America's annual conference this week includes posters and papers by Pew Research Center authors. The posting includes links to their work.

The annual conference of the Population Association of America is being held this week, with more than 200 sessions on a variety of U.S. and international topics. Among the papers and posters are several from Pew Research Center data analysts. They include:

  •  Bridge and Barrier – Contextualizing Religion and Immigrant Occupational Attainment • Phillip Connor, Pew Research Center; Matthias Koenig, University of Göttingen
  • Still Losing My Religion: Disaffiliation Is No Longer Just for the Young • David McClendon, University of Texas at Austin; Conrad Hackett, Pew Research Center
  •  Religious Demography of Emerging Economies. Age Structures and Fertility in the BRIC Countries and the Global Religious Consequences of Their Economic Growth • Marcin Stonawski, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Cracow University of Economics; Vegard Skirbekk, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); Michaela Potancokova, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital; Conrad Hackett, Pew Research Center; Brian J. Grim, Pew Research Center and Boston University
  • The Growth in Wealth Inequality in the Great Recession • Rakesh Kochhar, Pew Hispanic Center
  •  Selection in Times of Crisis: Exploring Selectivity of Mexican Return-Migration in 2005-2010 • Claudia Masferrer,McGill University; Jeffrey S. Passel, Pew Hispanic Center; Carla Pederzini, Universidad Iberoamericana
  •  Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Intermarriage—New Facts, New Attitudes • Wendy Wang, Pew Research Center;Jeffrey S. Passel, Pew Hispanic Center