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IPR Hosts 13th Annual BGSU/OSU Graduate Student Conference on Population

November 8, 2019

IPR Hosts 13th Annual BGSU/OSU Graduate Student Conference on Population

BGSU and OSU Students

On Friday, November 1, 2019, the Institute for Population Research hosted the 13th Annual BGSU/OSU Graduate Student Conference on Population. The event was jointly sponsored by the Center for Family and Demographic Research (BGSU) and Institute for Population Research (OSU). The conference featured presentations on the topics Health & Well-Being, Family Formation and Risky Behaviors, and Social Policy and Economic Well-Being. The program also included flash sessions on Social Relations and Well-Being and Race/Ethnicity and Health.

Congratulations to the conference awardees:

Anna Church, OSU – “The Good and the Bad: What County Outliers Can Tell Us About Infant Mortality Rates in the United States”

Kagan Mellencamp, BGSU – “Depressive Symptoms Trajectories Following Child Death in Later Life: Variation by Race-Ethnicity”

Lisa Carlson, BGSU – “Mechanisms Behind the Fatherhood Wage Premium: Do They Apply Equally Across the Four Major US Regions?”

Katerine Y. Ramirez Nieto, OSU - “Assessing Intergenerational Mobility, Transmission of Education for Immigrants in the United States” and “Childhood Migration Effects on Fertility, Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey”