Population Association of America, The 2014 Annual Meeting, Boston

The 2014 meeting of Population Association of America was held on May 1-3 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Nearly 2,200 participants had attended the meeting which consists of more than 200 oral sessions, 9 poster sessions and 15 invited sessions. Six IPSS researchers had attended the meeting and presented either papers or posters listed below;

In oral sessions:
　Futoshi ISHI (Director, Department of Population Dynamics Research)　“Analyzing the Trends of the Modal Age at Death Using the Linear Difference Model” (in the session: Models for Mortality Analysis)
　Miho IWASAWA (Department of Population Dynamics Research)　“The Role of Gender Preference to the Third Birth in Japan: Magnitude, Trends and Implications” (in the session: Fertility Intentions and Influences Upon)

In poster sessions:
　Miho IWASAWA (Department of Population Dynamics Research)　“Remarriage in Japan: A First Look” (coauthored with Prof. Raymo at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
　Keita SUGA (Department of International Research and Cooperation)　“A Multistate Lifetable Analysis for the Effects of the 1st Marriage and Marital Reproduction on Fertility in Singapore”
　Setsuya FUKUDA (Department of Population Dynamics Research)　“Achieving Desired Family Size in Japan: Socio-Demographic Causes of the Discrepancies”
　Yu KOREKAWA (Department of Population Dynamics Research)　“Immigrant Occupational Attainment in Japan and Its Determinants; Is It a “Structured Settlement”?”
　Kenji KAMATA (Department of Population Structure Research)　“Regional Childcare Availability and Individual Reproductive Behavior: A Multilevel Analysis of Second Births in Japan”,
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　“Spatial Variations in Covariates on Marriage and Marital Fertility: Geographically Weighted Regression Analyses in Japan”.