Demography Daze 2025

Demography Daze returns for 2025! Demography Daze, an annual workshop that brings together Duke and Carolina population scholars, postdocs and students to encourage idea exchange and incentivize collaborative population research will resume this year. DUPRI will host the 11th annual Demography Daze on Friday, September 26 from 1:00PM - 5:00PM in Gross Hall room 330. A reception will follow. Please join us!

Conference Moderators: Hedwig Lee (DUPRI) and Karen Guzzo (CPC)

1:00 - 2:15: General Session I. Social, Economic, and Health Disparities

• Jessie West · Duke · Assistant Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  The Impact of Hearing Loss on Hospitalizations among U.S. Adults with Heart Failure
• Lisa Pearce · UNC · Professor and Chair of Sociology
  Measuring Families as Networks
• Hanzhang Xu · Duke · Associate Professor in the School of Nursing
  Characterizing Family Structure, Care Utilization, and Well-Being among Persons with ADRD: A Global Perspective
• Melanie Escue · UNC Pembroke · Assistant Professor of Sociology & Shaohu Zhang · NC A&T · Assistant Professor of Computer Science
  Insights from an Interdisciplinary NC Collaboratory Project: The Influence of the Built Environment on Health in NC

2:15 - 2:30: Break

2:30 - 3:15: Flash Talk Session

• Paul Delamater · UNC · Associate Professor of Geography
  Enhancing an Individual-Level Synthetic Population Dataset for North Carolina
• Hema Shah · Duke · PhD Candidate in Economics
  Class Rank and Student Disability Classification
• Kate Bundorf · Duke · Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
  How Does Managed Care Affect Contraception Use? The Case of North Carolina Medicaid
• Jane Fruehwirth · UNC · Professor of Economics
  Lasting Effects: An Econometric Framework for Resilience
• Sarah Komisarow · Duke · Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
  School-Based Support for Children’s Mental Health: Evidence from North Carolina

3:15 - 3:30: Break

3:30 - 5:00: General Session II. Policies and Demographic Processes

• Wenhao Jiang · Duke · Assistant Professor of Sociology
  Economic Crisis and the Discipline of Work Time
• Justin Sola · UNC · Assistant Professor of Sociology
  Won’t You Be my Neighbor? Mapping Spatial Preferences
• Arkadev Ghosh · Duke · Assistant Professor of Economics
  The Melting Pot: Industrialization and Integration in America
• Tara Templin · UNC · Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
  The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Food Prices, and Obesity in Mexico