Conference on Population, Poverty and Inequality
Ann Arbor (MI), United States, 27-29 June 2019
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Research Conference on Population, Poverty and Inequality
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor (MI), United States, 27-29 June 2019
Organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population, Poverty and Inequality
Chairs: Jocelyn E. Finlay (Harvard University) and Murray Leibbrandt (University of Cape Town).
Steering Committee Members: Esther Leah Achandi (University of Dar es Salaam), Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute), Kathleen Beegle (World Bank), Anda David (Agence Française de Développement), Marlene Lee (Population Reference Bureau), Marcelo Neri (Center for Social Policies Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil), Nkechi Owoo (University of Ghana), Eliya Zulu (African Institute for Development Policy).
Council Liaison: David Lam (University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research).
With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Provisional Conference Agenda
Scientific Programme
Welcome address [Room 1430]
Thursday 27 June 2019, 08:30 - 09:00
Plenary 1: Shocks: Using disasters to study population, poverty and inequality [Room 1430]
Thursday 27 June 2019, 09:00 - 10:30
Chair: Murray Leibbrandt (University of Cape Town)
Keynote speaker: Duncan Thomas (Duke University)
Discussants: Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan)
Discussants: Jocelyn Finlay (Harvard University)
Discussants: Dean Yang (University of Michigan)
Session 1A: Intersections between Development, Gender, and Household Formation [Room 6050]
Thursday 27 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Kathleen Beegle (World Bank)
Discussant: Andrew Foster (Brown University)
Gender and Household Formation in a High-Inequality Developing Country
Amy Thornton (University of Cape Town)
Martin Wittenberg (University of Cape Town)
Difference of children's schooling between poor households headed by women and those headed by men in Burkina Faso: what influence of living standard index?
Alis BAMBARA (Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP))
Madeleine WAYACK-PAMBE
(Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population/ Université Ouaga I Pr Joseph Ki-Zerbo)
Marriage Market Responses in the Wake of a Natural Disaster in India
Shreyasee Das (Temple University)
Shatanjaya Dasgupta (Beloit College)
Land Tenure and Missing Women: Evidence from North India
Apoorva Lal (Stanford University)
Session 1B: Inclusive Development [Room 1430]
Thursday 27 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: David Lam (University of Michigan)
Discussant: Eliya Zulu (African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP))
Household partition in a north Indian village (1958-2009)
Floriane Bolazzi (Università degli Studi Di Milano)
Marco Fregoni (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Who's in, who's out? Return Migration in Times of Crisis
Anda David (Agence Française de Développement)
Rafael De Arce (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Ramon Mahia (universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Electoral Quotas, Redistribution, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from India
Venkat Nadella (Indian Institute of Science)
Migration-induced Transfer of Norms and Increased Religiosity
Khandker Wahedur Rahman (University of Minnesota)
Session 2A: Demographics and Labor Market Outcomes [Room 6050]
Thursday 27 June 2019, 13:30 - 15:00
Chair: ()
Discussant: Kathleen Beegle (World Bank)
Fertility and Womens Labor Force Participation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Jocelyn Finlay (Harvard University)
Evolution of Women's Lifetime Earnings in Response to Early Fertility Shocks
Ali Abboud (University of Southern California)
Economic sector, demographic composition, educational attainment, and earnings in Brazil
Ernesto Amaral (Texas A&M University)
Samantha H. R. Faustino (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais),
Guilherme Q. Gonçalves (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais),
Bernardo L. Queiroz (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Gender Differentials in the Informal Labour Market of Cameroon
Fiennasah Akem (University of Dschang)
Ebenezer Lemven Wirba (University of Bamenda)
Francis Menjo Baye (University of Yaoundé II)
Session 2B: Spatial Dynamics and Poverty Change [Room 1430]
Thursday 27 June 2019, 13:30 - 15:00
Chair: Murray Leibbrandt (University of Cape Town)
Discussant: Nkechi S. Owoo (University of Ghana)
Spatial Econometric Analysis of Household Poverty in Mauritania
El Moctar Laghlal (Université d'Orléans - Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans)
Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Disability in India: 2001-2011
Ramya Naraharisetti (University of Michigan)
Marcia Castro (Harvard University)
The Dynamics of Spatial and Local Inequalities in India
Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute)
David Garces Urzainqui (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Metropolitanization, population redistribution, and the changing geography of poverty in the United States
Matthew Brooks (Pennsylvania State University)
Jaclyn L.W. Butler (Pennsylvania State University),
J. Tom Mueller (Pennsylvania State University),
Brian C. Thiede (Pennsylvania State University)
Session 3B: Exploring Child Health Through Natural Experiments [Room 1430]
Thursday 27 June 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Chair: Jocelyn Finlay (Harvard University)
Discussant: Taryn Dinkelman (Notre Dame University)
Growing Pains: Season-Specific In Utero Rainfall Shocks Impact Child Growth in Rural Rwanda
Jarrad Farris (Michigan State University)
Maria Porter (Michigan State University),
Songqing Jin (Michigan State University),
Mywish K. Maredia (Michigan State University)
Institutional Births and Early Child Health: Evidence from Ghana?s Free Delivery Policy
Willa Friedman (University of Houston)
Anthony Keats (Wesleyan)
A Drop of Love? Rainfall Shocks and Spousal Abuse: Evidence from Rural Peru
Victor Saldarriaga (Paris School of Economics)
Juan-José Díaz (Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo - GRADE)
Differential in the disease pattern and its effect over household out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure: An analysis of fifteen agro-climatic zones in India
Sumit Kumar Das (National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences)
Laishram Ladusingh (Bodoland University, India)
Session 3A: Fertility and Contraceptive Use [Room 6050]
Thursday 27 June 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Chair: Nkechi S. Owoo (University of Ghana)
Discussant: ()
Preferred Sons are 'Rotten': Giving to One's Parents in the Lab in China
Maria Porter (Michigan State University)
Dandan Zhang (Peking University),
Xiaobo Zhang (Peking University and International Food and Policy Research Institute (IFPRI))
Fertility Response to Business Cycles:
Sena Coskun (University of Mannheim)
Husnu Dalgic (University of Mannheim)
Is Fertility Behavior in Africa Different?
Claus Portner (Seattle University)
Corruption and Inequality in Contraceptive Use
Arnstein Aassve (Bocconi University)
Letizia Mencarini, Francesco Gandolfi, Francesco Mattioli (Bocconi University)
Session 4A: Reproductive Health and Fertility Behavior [Room 6050]
Friday 28 June 2019, 09:00 - 10:30
Chair: Jocelyn Finlay (Harvard University)
Discussant: ()
The Causal Effect of Improved Access to Postpartum Family Planning: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Urban Malawi
David Canning (Harvard University)
Mahesh Karra (Boston University)
Economic Returns of Family Planning and Fertility Decline in India, 1991 to 2061
Srinivas Goli (International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS))
Devender Singh (United Nations Population Fund), K.S. James (International Institute for Population Sciences), Venkatesh Srinivasan (United Nations Population Fund), Rakesh Mishra (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Md Juel Rana (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Srikanth Reddy (International Institute for Population Sciences)
Attitudes toward abortion, social welfare programs, and gender roles in the U.S. and South Africa
Elizabeth Mosley (Emory University)
Barbara Anderson (University of Michigan)
Lisa Harris (University of Michigan)
Paul Fleming (University of Michigan)
Amy Schulz (University of Michigan)
Diverging Destinies in Sub-saharan Africa?
Kirsten Stoebenau (American University)
Sangeetha Madhavan (University of Maryland),
Emily Smith-Greenaway(University of Southern California)
Mehmet Sermen (North Carolina State University)
Sacha St-Onge Ahmad (University of Maryland)
Session 4B: Mobility, Poverty and Inequality [Room 1430]
Friday 28 June 2019, 09:00 - 10:30
Chair: Anda David (Agence Française de Développement)
Discussant: Marcelo Neri (FGV Social - Fundação Getulio Vargas)
Migration Dynamics, Poverty, and Inequality: A Research based on Population Dynamics Data of Taiwan Indigenous Peoples
Ji-Ping Lin (Academia Sinica)
Exploring pattern, reasons and determining factors of circular Mobility and Migration in India
Rabiul Ansary (Regional Institute of Education, Bhubaneswar)
Exploring the Dynamics of Household- Level Consumption Inequality in Ghana
Nkechi S. Owoo (University of Ghana)
Robert Osei (Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana);
The role of demographic and income events in poverty dynamics: Evidence on the impact of births using South African panel data
Rocco Marco Zizzamia (African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR))
Murray Leibbrandt (Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town)
David Lam (Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan)
Session 5A: Food Security [Room 6050]
Friday 28 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Kathleen Beegle (World Bank)
Discussant: Andrew Foster (Brown University)
The Curse of Plenty: Early Childhood Roots of the Rise in Chronic Disease
Gauri Shastry (Wellesley College)
Sheetal Sekhri (University of Virginia)
Gauri Kartini Shastry (Wellesley College)
The changing landscape of the African agricultural value chain: Perspectives on Food sovereignty of smallholder subsistence farmers
Esther Achandi (The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI))
Cudjoe Korkor (The Graça Machel Trust)
Through their Eyes and Mouths: Inequality in access to food in urban poor settings, Nairobi, Kenya
Elizabeth Kimani-Murage (African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC))
Teresia Njoki (APHRC, Kenya), David Osogo (APHRC, Kenya), Hilda Akinyi (APHRC, Kenya), Melanie Warwick (Loughborough University, UK), Claudia Mitchelle (McGill University, Canada), Nyovani Madise (AFIDEP), Paula Griffiths (Loughborough University, UK)
Construction of Multidimensional Poverty Index for the Refugee Population in Turkey
Ilgi Bozdag (UNHCR)
Session 5B: Education [Room 1430]
Friday 28 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: David Lam (University of Michigan)
Discussant: Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan)
Educational Expansion and Health Disparities in a Rapidly Changing Society: The Case of Ethiopia
Jeong Hyun Oh (The University of Chicago)
The Educational Impact of Expanded Contraceptive Access
Amanda Stevenson (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Katie R. Genadek (US Census Bureau),
Sara Yeatman (University of Colorado Denver),
Stefanie Mollborn (University of Colorado Boulder),
Jane Menken (University of Colorado Boulder)
Natural Disasters, Mortality, Fertility, and Educational Attainment in Africa
Johannes Norling (Mount Holyoke College)
Session 6A: Internal Migration [Room 6050]
Friday 28 June 2019, 13:30 - 15:00
Chair: Esther Achandi (The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI))
Discussant: Anda David (Agence Française de Développement)
Internal migration and labour market outcomes in South Africa
Julia Garlick (University of Iowa)
Murray Leibbrandt (University of Cape Town), James Levinsohn (Yale University)
Anticipatory Migration and Local Labor Responses to Rural Climate Shocks
Esteban J. Quiñones (Mathematica)
Human Capital, Internal Migration and Structural Transformation in Africa
Jorge Aguero (University of Connecticut)
Barriers to Labor Migration for the Rural Poor: Experimental Evidence from a Vocational Training Program in Bangladesh
Abu Shonchoy (Florida International University)
Tomoki Fujii (Singapore Management University),
Selim Raihan (University of Dhaka).
Session 6B: Inequality and Child Health [Room 1430]
Friday 28 June 2019, 13:30 - 15:00
Chair: Mary Ellen Zuppan (IUSSP)
Discussant: Willa Friedman (University of Houston)
The Impact of Women's Education on Under-5 Mortality, Low Birth Weight, and Prevalence and Severity of Child Anemia: Evidence from Guatemala and Bolivia
Lucrecia Mena Melendez (University of California, Los Angeles)
District Level Meso Scale Nexus of Poverty and Child Malnutrition Across India
Junaid Khan (International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS))
Child's health and relatives' employment in South Africa: the gendered effect beyond parents
Arlette Simo Fotso (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development)
Somefun Dolapo Oluwaseyi (University of the Witwatersrand), Clifford Odimegwu (University of the Witwatersrand)
Status of Young Mother's Nutrition by Wealth and Education and its Association with Birth Weight in India
Anuja Banerjee (International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS))
Junaid Khan (International Institute for Population Sciences),
Aparajita Chattopadhyay (International Institute for Population Sciences)
Plenary 2: From research to policy: influencing decisionmakers [Room 1430]
Friday 28 June 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Chair: ()
Discussion leaders: Eliya Zulu (African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP))
Discussion leaders: Marcelo Neri (FGV Social - Fundação Getulio Vargas)
Discussion leaders: Kathleen Beegle (World Bank)
Discussion leaders: Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University)
Plenary 3: Economic Development and Gender Equality: Exceptions to the Rule [Room 1430]
Saturday 29 June 2019, 09:00 - 10:30
Chair: Jocelyn Finlay (Harvard University)
Keynote speaker: Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University)
Discussants: Kathleen Beegle (World Bank)
Discussants: Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute)
Discussants: Nkechi S. Owoo (University of Ghana)
Session 7A: Inequality and Demographics: New Approaches [Room 6050]
Saturday 29 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Eliya Zulu (African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP))
Discussant: Murray Leibbrandt (University of Cape Town)
Linking Socioeconomic Inequality, Indoor Air pollution and Cognitive Abilities among older adults in India and China: Evidence from WHO-SAGE
Ritu Rani (international Institute for Population Sciences)
Demographic Changes and the Labor Income Share
Ekrame Boubtane (Paris School of Economics / CERDI, Université Clermont Auvergne)
Hippolyte d'Albis (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)), Coulibaly Dramane (University Paris Nanterre)
Top incomes? impacts on inequality, growth, and social welfare: Demographic implications of combining surveys and income tax data in Brazil
Marcelo Neri (FGV Social - Fundação Getulio Vargas)
Marcos Hecksher (IPEA and IBGE)
National Income Inequality and Adolescent Motherhood: A Multilevel Analysis in 36 Sub-Saharan African Countries
Adebiyi Boco (University of Lethbridge)
Session 7B: Work in the Context of Women's Lives [Room 1430]
Saturday 29 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Esther Achandi (The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI))
Discussant: Jocelyn Finlay (Harvard University)
The Effect of a Large-Scale Workfare Program on Child Marriage in India
Ashley O'Donoghue (Clark University)
Magda Tsaneva (Clark University)
The end of the grind or the beginning of the end? Inequalities in the impact of retirement on women?s health in the UK
Laura Sochas (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))
Ludovico Carrino (King's College London)
Mauricio Avendano (King's College London)
The Skills to Pay the Bills: Returns to On-the-job Soft Skills Training
Achyuta Adhvaryu (University of Michigan)
Namrata Kala (MIT Sloan), Anant Nyshadham (Boston College)
What Determines Women's Labor Supply? Market Productivity, Home Productivity and Social Norms
Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute)
Monisankar Bishnu (ISI, Delhi)
Kanika Mahajan (Ashoka University)