The #PAA2025 preliminary program is online: submissions.mirasmart.com/PAA2025/Itin... Make sure you are registered before rates increase in March: www.populationassociation.org/paa2025/reg-...

Can the world support another 2 billion people? That is the UN’s projected increase from now until the peak is reached in 2084. I look at this question in a new paper in Population and Development Review’s 50th anniversary issue. A few highlights: doi.org/10.1111/padr...

New data alert! Monitoring the Future Panel core data for young adults (ages 18-30) from 1976-2021 are now available through the @icpsr.bsky.social @nahdap.bsky.social data portal: bit.ly/MTFcore

🏫When the school year competes with farm work, it becomes a barrier to educating rural children. 🧑‍🌾 But changing the school calendar can help! A summary of research thus far, including my new collaboration in #Madagascar, on the @ifpri.org blog: on.cgiar.org/3P5HNjn @cgiar.org #FCMinitiative

The Dorothy S. Thomas Award is presented annually for the best graduate student paper on the interrelationships among social, economic and demographic variables. Nominations for this and other @popassocamerica.bsky.social awards are due by Jan. 31 2025! #PAA2025 ow.ly/l10X50U2wgH

The 22nd Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MWIEDC) will be held at UIUC March 28–29, 2025. Co-hosted by Ag Econ and Econ. Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social keynote. Always one of my favorite conferences. Deadline for submissions Jan 8, 2025.

The world population grew fast over the last 60 years, but farmers grew fruits and vegetables even faster

Submit your papers for the spring 2025 NBER Gender in the Economy meeting! The theme is "Women in the Digital World". Submission Deadline: 12/9/24 Meeting: 2/28/25 in Cambridge t.co/DGsccq6Blw