---
title: "Pew Research Center at the Population Association of America"
description: "The Population Association of America's annual conference this week includes posters and papers by Pew Research Center authors. The posting includes links to their work."
date: "2012-05-01"
authors:
  - name: "D’Vera Cohn"
    job_title: "Former Senior Writer/Editor"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/dvera-cohn/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2012/05/01/pew-research-center-at-the-population-association-of-america/"
---

# Pew Research Center at the Population Association of America

The annual conference of the [Population Association of America](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/) is being held this week, with more than 200 sessions on a variety of U.S. and international topics. Among the papers and posters are several from Pew Research Center data analysts. They include:

- [] [Bridge and Barrier – Contextualizing Religion and Immigrant Occupational Attainment](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/73) • [Phillip Connor](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/73), *Pew Research Center*; [Matthias Koenig](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/73), *University of Göttingen*
- *[Still Losing My Religion: Disaffiliation Is No Longer Just for the Young](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P1) • [David McClendon](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P1), *University of Texas at Austin*; [Conrad Hackett](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P1), *Pew Research Center**
- **[] [Religious Demography of Emerging Economies. Age Structures and Fertility in the BRIC Countries and the Global Religious Consequences of Their Economic Growth](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P5) • [Marcin Stonawski](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P5), *International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Cracow University of Economics*; [Vegard Skirbekk](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P5), *International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)*; [Michaela Potancokova](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P5), *Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital*; [Conrad Hackett](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P5), *Pew Research Center*; [Brian J. Grim](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P5), *Pew Research Center and Boston University***
- ***[The Growth in Wealth Inequality in the Great Recession](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/182) • [Rakesh Kochhar](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/182), *Pew Hispanic Center****
- ****[] [Selection in Times of Crisis: Exploring Selectivity of Mexican Return-Migration in 2005-2010](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P3) • [Claudia Masferrer](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P3),*McGill University*; [Jeffrey S. Passel](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P3), *Pew Hispanic Center*; [Carla Pederzini](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P3), *Universidad Iberoamericana*****
- *****[] [Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Intermarriage—New Facts, New Attitudes](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P4) • [Wendy Wang](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P4), *Pew Research Center*;[Jeffrey S. Passel](http://paa2012.princeton.edu/sessions/P4), *Pew Hispanic Center******