Population Council Research that makes a difference

"Women's contributions to the cost of marriage in Egypt: The role of education and employment" (abstract)

Session 3: Marriage Change in Developing Countries (Thurgood Marshall South, Mezzanine Level)

Maia Sieverding and Asmaa Elbadawy

Wendy Baldwin, Chair and Discussant

"Can family planning programs affect high desired family size in sub-Saharan Africa?" (abstract)

Session 8: Family Planning, Reproductive Health, and Fertility in Africa (Coolidge, Mezzanine Level)

"What's population policy got to do with it: Fertility change in Pakistan" (abstract)

Session 20: Population Policy (Thurgood Marshall East, Mezzanine Level)

"Short-run impacts of the 2008 reform in the Chilean privatized pension system" (abstract)

Session 29: Population Aging, Fiscal Impacts, and Economic Growth Around the World (Wilson A, Mezzanine Level)

"Meanings and timing of leaving home for young people in the slums of Nairobi" (abstract)

Session 46: Transition to Adulthood in Sub-Saharan Africa (Hoover, Mezzanine Level)

Thaddaeus Egondi, Donatien Beguy, Caroline Kabiru, Kanyiva Muindi, and Chi-Chi Undie

"Adolescent births and schooling outcomes in Mexico: More than correlation?" (abstract)

Session 64: Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries (Hoover, Mezzanine Level)

"Getting published: Negotiating the peer-review process"

Panel Session (McKinley)

Poster Session 4
8:00–10:00 am

Exhibit Hall C, Exhibition Level

"Community involvement to increase utilization of maternal health services: Experiences from rural Bangladesh" (Poster no. 35)

Tasnima Kibria, Ubaidur Rob, Moshiur Rahman, and Mohammad Masudul Alam

Lung Vu*, Waimar Tun, Andrew S. Karlyn, Sylvia Adebajo, and Babatunde Ahonsi

"Maternal health care utilization and child health outcomes among HIV-positive adolescent girls in Kenya" (abstract)

Session 77: Reproductive Health Services and Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa (Virginia Suite AB, Lobby Level)

Francis Obare, Harriet Birungi, Anke van der Kwaak, and Jane Harriet Namwebya

"Gender differences in school effects on learning and enrollment outcomes in rural Malawi" (abstract)

Session 105: Education Quality in the Developing World: Factors Affecting Student Achievement (Taft, Mezzanine Level)

"Public opinion about abortion-related stigma among Mexican Catholics and implications for unsafe abortion" (abstract)

Session 111: Abortion II (Thurgood Marshall South, Mezzanine Level)

"Has fertility decline contributed to reducing gender inequality in Bangladesh?" (abstract)

Session 116: Fertility Decline and Changing Gender Relations (Coolidge, Mezzanine Level)

"Transitions to adulthood in rural Malawi: A comparison of the timing and sequencing of major life events using different modes of data collection" (abstract)

Session 118: School, Work, and Fertility Transitions in Southern Africa (Hoover, Mezzanine Level)

Poster Session 6
2:00–4:00 pm

"Adolescents' work and schooling in Malawi" (Poster no. 13)

Satvika Chalasani*, Barbara Mensch, and Mark Montgomery

Geeta Nanda, Sidney Ruth Schuler, Jane Alaii, James Foreit, and Elisabeth Rottach

"Marriage and first-birth intervals in early- and late-marrying societies: An exploration of determinants" (abstract)

"Sources of fertility decline in South Asia: A regional analysis" (abstract)

Session 127: Family Planning, Reproductive Health, and Fertility in Asia (Thurgood Marshall North, Mezzanine Level)

Oral Session
8:30–10:20 am

"Demographic explanations for the recent rise in Europe's fertility" (abstract)

Session 161: Measurement of Fertility in Low-Fertility Contexts (Truman, Mezzanine Level)

John Bongaarts and Tomas Sobotka

Poster Session 7
9:00–11:00 am

Exhibit Hall C, Exhibition Level

"Weak commitment to modern contraceptive methods: A reason for low prevalence in Pakistan?" (Poster no. 47)

"Household wealth and child health in India" (abstract)

Session 167: Infant/Child Mortality: International Research (Washington 1, Exhibition Level)

"A quiet revolution in condom use in urban India" (abstract)

Session 182: Methods of Contraception: Some Interesting Trends and Differentials (Thurgood Marshall East, Mezzanine Level)