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Program Summary

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

1   Opening ceremony

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

2   Macro and micro determinants of poverty dynamics
3   Demographic and prospective transitions of the Arab world population
4   Maternal and perinatal health
5   Internal migration and urbanisation: processes and patterns (1)
6   Family dynamics and networks
7   Consequences of armed conflict on children and on youth
8   The international migration of highly skilled workers
9   Prospects for the family support of older people and their implications
10   Measuring hard-to-count populations and sensitive issues
11   Methodological and measurement advances in fertility research
12   Darwinian approaches to explaining demographic transition

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

13   Population ageing and intergenerational relations
14   Internal migration and urbanization in the Arab world
15   The social context of adolescent sexual behaviour
16   Sex differences in health and survival: perspectives from humans and non-human species
17   Dimensions of mortality in the past
18   The impact of union dynamics on child wellbeing
19   Transnational communities, social networks and international migration
20   Demography of minority and migrant cultural groups
21   Using demography in business and public sectors
22   Abortion in India
23   Intergenerational transmission of resources and reproductive trajectories (1)

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

P-1   Poster Session 1: reproductive health, HIV-AIDS, poverty and gender

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

24   New theoretical frameworks in demography
25   Observation of demographic and social facts in the Arab world: opportunities and challenges
26   Institutional contexts and actors engaged in the practice of abortion in Southern countries
27   HIV, anti-retroviral therapies and counselling: access, sustainability and behavioural issues
28   Timing of childbearing
29   Water and population: impact on health and mobility
30   Measuring integration: political debates, scientific and methodological issues
31   Population ageing, labour productivity and pension systems
32   The health transition in the 19th/20th century: historical approaches
33   Trends in disability and their implications
34   Modelling components of population change

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

35   HIV/AIDS and STDS
36   Policies and approaches for social justice and poverty alleviation in the Arab world
37   Measuring maternal mortality through the 2010 round of population censuses
38   Workforce ageing: consequences and responses
39   Childlessness in developed countries
40   Women's empowerment: measures and determinants
41   Factors affecting destination choices of internal migrants
42   Adolescent life courses in developing countries
43   Two decades of demographic masculinization in Asia: impact and policy response
44   The role of highly skilled workers in socio-economic development
45   Gender violence

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

46   After Cairo: issues and challenges for a new Population and Development Agenda (UNFPA Plenary)

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

47   Contraception: choice, compliance, continuation and switching
48   Migration in the Arab world: specific profiles
49   Adolescent and intergenerational fertility patterns
50   The AIDS epidemic: methodological advances
51   Union dissolution and remarriage
52   Population forecasting: new approaches and uses in policy
53   Migration and left behind family and community (2)
54   The demography of indigenous populations
55   Family relations in a context of population ageing
56   Gender inequality, in death as in life?
57   Incorporating biological indicators in demographic studies

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

58   Sexual behaviour
59   Dividends of the demographic transition in the Arab world: general cases and exceptions
60   Reproductive morbidity
61   Mortality today: national and cross-national reviews
62   New methodological approaches to study the contemporary family
63   Comparative fertility in low fertility settings
64   Spatial approaches to understanding inequality in health and poverty
65   Labour activity among older adults and intergenerational transfers
66   Obtaining data on special populations: survey techniques and sampling methodologies for developing countries
67   Transitions in family life: new links of nuptiality and fertility
68   Vulnerable minorities

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

P-2   Poster Session 2: fertility, family and children

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

69   Forecasting, methods and data
70   Demography and conflicts in the Arab world
71   Cost-effectiveness of reproductive health interventions in reducing maternal and abortion-related morbidity and mortality
72   Policies in low-fertility countries
73   New methods and new insights in mortality research
74   Population impact on deforestation in developing countries
75   Theories in demography
76   Religion, culture and health
77   Men's involvement in children's lives
78   Child health, education and nutrition
79   Public policy, education and household welfare

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

80   The economic aspects of population ageing
81   International migration in the Arab world
82   Low fertility: present and future
83   Adolescent transition to adulthood in a changing context in developing countries
84   Mortality differentials by socioeconomic status: What about the women?
85   Demography of armed conflict
86   Unintended pregnancies
87   Poverty and health in the life cycle
88   History of the family
89   New data and methods for studying international migration and transnational networks
90   Indirect methods of demographic estimation: new techniques for new realities

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

91   Key population challenges in the Arab world (Moroccan plenary)

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

92   Union formation and marriage
93   Europe and the Maghreb: demographic ties. (Association Maghrébine pour l'Etude de la Population & European Association for Population Studies)
94   Children and youth
95   The gender division of household labour
96   Sex differences in risk factors, disability and mortality
97   Population distribution processes and environmental change
98   Consequences of internal migration for families left behind
99   Comparative fertility in high fertility settings
100   HIV and demographic measurement
101   Improving abortion and post-abortion services
102   A decline of violence? Measurement and empirical issues

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

103   Economic impact of reproductive health
104   Maternal health in the Arab world
105   Family, health and well-being of older people in poorer countries
106   Internal migration, poverty and economic development
107   Men and children: childbearing and childrearing
108   Environment-induced migrants (1)
109   Gender-based violence
110   Health, mortality and longevity
111   Safer sex, HIV/AIDS and contraception: the place of condoms
112   International migration of women
113   Gender, educational achievement and the marriage market

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

P-3   Poster Session 3: migration, environment and spatial demography

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

114   International Migration
115   Health equity and policy in the Arab countries
116   Children living outside of marriage: issues and implications
117   Education and labour force
118   Causes of death: the proximate determinants of mortality
119   Probabilistic population projection
120   Abortion in West Africa: attitudes, practice and incidence
121   Vulnerability, health and human Rights
122   Biodemography
123   Fertility and migration
124   Poverty, inequality and social exclusion

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

125   Migration and co-development (1)
126   Policies and approaches to gender and empowerment of women in the Arab world: achievements revisited
127   Training Session: Getting published: Negotiating the peer-review process
128   The contribution of the demographic transition to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
129   A graceful exit? Health and mortality of the elderly
130   Religion, traditional beliefs and fertility
131   Maternal and perinatal health: quality of care
132   The impact of policies on fertility and female employment
133   Contextual factors influencing HIV testing and treatment
134   Internal migration and urbanization: processes and patterns (2)
135   GIS: integrating spatial and social demography

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

136   International migration and the economic crisis (IUSSP Plenary)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 01
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

137   Reproductive health
138   Moroccan immigration and transnational networks
139   Depopulation: Trends and the impact of policies
140   Training Session: Research to Action: communicating evidence to effect change
141   Combating childhood mortality
142   Poverty and fertility linkages
143   Demographic transformations, convergences and inequalities in Latin America: what the future holds? (Latin American Population Association)
144   Educational achievement and the labour market (2)
145   Marital trajectories and social interactions
146   HIV testing as the gateway to treatment
147   New techniques for estimating migration

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 01
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

148   The demographic, economic, societal, and policy impacts of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
149   High fertility societies, stagnation in the fertility decline: Where, why and future prospects?
150   Policies and population
151   Population and environment: local and regional planning challenges
152   International migration and transnational families and households
153   Advances in longitudinal analyses in population research
154   Changing demographic landscape in Asia (Asian Population Association)
155   Measuring poverty
156   Innovative approaches in life table application
157   Charting the course of an individual AIDS epidemic and understanding its determinants
158   New perspectives on the historical fertility transition

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 01
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

P-4   Poster Session 4: health and ageing

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 01
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

159   Fertility
160   The 25th anniversary of the DHS: Data make a difference
161   Gender, educational achievement and the marriage market
162   Population pressure, resource use and environmental degradation
163   Family context and work-life balance
164   The timing of fertility and family transitions in Europe
165   Internal migration, poverty and development
166   Inter-generational transmission of vulnerability
167   Trends and patterns of morbidity
168   Maternal and perinatal health: determinants
169   Understanding demographic and health dynamics in developing countries using longitudinal data

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 01
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

170   Interrelations between population and climate change
171   Demographic impacts of the economic crisis
172   The transition to adulthood among second generation migrants: navigating between two cultures
173   Gender inequalities and low fertility: the effects of policies
174   Before marriage: engagement in contemporary societies
175   Assessing the quality of qualitative data for population research
176   The root causes of internal migration: Are they primarily economic? (2)
177   The risks of poverty to health and family well-being
178   Lost lives: infant mortality
179   Contraceptive use: implications for policies and programmes
180   Educational differentials and health outcomes: causality or correlation? (Session merged with Session 78)

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 01
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

181   Population and climate change (IUSSP Plenary)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 02
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

182   The institutional context of low fertility
183   Mortality differentials in multi-ethnic societies
184   Educational achievement and the labour market (1)
185   Progress or deterioration in gender equality
186   Spatial demography
187   Life course analysis: linked lives in longitudinal perspective
188   Gender and migration
189   Displaced persons, refugees and vulnerability
190   Roles of family members and health providers in abortion in Southern countries
191   Environment and mobility
192   Marriage and family organization in the past

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 02
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

193   The gap between desired and achieved fertility
194   Divorce and remarriage in North and West Africa
195   International labour migration: trends, policies and legal issues
196   Socio-economic inequality and mortality
197   Mapping fertility decline
198   Improving the usefulness of 2010 Population Census round. (International Statistical Institute)
199   Female labour force participation, fertility and public policy
200   Ethical issues in demographic research
201   A historical demography of epidemics
202   Measuring mortality differentials by SES and gender in developing countries. A methodological challenge
203   Labour market, income and family strategies

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 02
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

P-5   Poster Session 5: contexts

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 02
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

204   The root causes of internal migration: Are they primarily economic? (1)
205   High fertility societies
206   Educational attainment of second generation immigrants
207   Environment and health
208   Spatial clustering of health and mortality outcomes
209   The quantum and tempo of life cycle events
210   International migration: methods and data
211   Religion, culture and ethnicity
212   Implications of imbalanced sex ratios in societies of the past
213   The role of men in reproductive health
214   Policy responses to ageing populations

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 02
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

215   Will the Second Demographic Transition be global?
216   Vulnerability and human rights
217   Demographic processes and outcomes for children in sub-Saharan Africa
218   Women's status and investment in children's health and education
219   Social context, social support, health and mortality
220   Data collection and data quality
221   Migration and codevelopment (2)
222   Religion, culture and reproduction
223   Spreading the disease: the demography of diffusion and transmission of contagious agents in the past
224   Environment-induced migrants (2)
225   Intergenerational transfers of resources and reproductive trajectories (2)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 02
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

226   Closing ceremony

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