Population Association of America, The 2015 Annual Meeting, San Diego

The 2015 meeting of Population Association of America was held on April 30 - May 2 in San Diego, California, USA. The meeting consists of more than 230 oral sessions and 9 poster sessions. Five IPSS researchers had attended the meeting and presented either papers or posters listed below;

In oral sessions:
　Reiko Hayashi (Director, Department of International Research and Cooperation)　“Assessment of the Disability Indicator Available through IPUMS International for the Calculation of Healthy Life Expectancy”
　Setsuya Fukuda (Department of Research Planning and Coordination)　“The New Socioeconomic Marriage Differentials in Japan”

In poster sessions:
　Masakazu Yamauchi (Department of Population Structure Research)　“An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Fertility Measurement Choice on Subnational Population Projections: A Case Study of 47 Prefectures in Japan”
　Keita Suga (Department of International Research and Cooperation)　“How Much Do Mortality Differentials Affect an Accuracy of a Population Projection? Evidence from a Projection for Japanese Municipalities”
　Kenji Kamata (Department of Population Structure Research)　“Spatiotemporal Analysis of Marriage and Marital Fertility in Japan: Using Geographically Weighted Regression 1980-2010”