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2018 ANNUAL REPORT

September 2017 to August 2018

September 30, 2018

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CPD Contact:

Sarah Brauner-Otto

Director, Centre on Population Dynamics

Associate Professor,

Department of Sociology

McGill University

Tel: 514-398-7276

Email: sarah.brauner-otto@mcgill.ca

The CPD received Senate Approval as an official McGill Research Centre on May 12, 2012

Contents

1. Mission, Objectives, Research Priorities and Programs ..................................................................................... 3

Research.................................................................................................................................................................. 3

Themes .................................................................................................................................................................... 3

Research Axes ......................................................................................................................................................... 4

Graduate Option in Population Dynamics .............................................................................................................. 4

2. Major Achievements ........................................................................................................................................... 4

3. Academic or Research Mission ........................................................................................................................... 5

4. Research Centre Plans ........................................................................................................................................ 6

6. Appendices .............................................................................................................................................................. 7

6.1 Centre Members ............................................................................................................................................... 7

6.2 CPD Students Members and Trainees .............................................................................................................. 8

6.3 Graduate Option in Population Dynamics 2017-2018 .................................................................................... 10

6.4 Centre Activities and Events: Weekly Speaker Series ..................................................................................... 11

6.5 Centre Activities and Events: PopDataViz 2017 .............................................................................................. 13

6.6 CPD Future Plans: CanD3 Training Program overview .................................................................................... 19

6.7 Centre Members’ Publications ....................................................................................................................... 20

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1. Mission, Objectives, Research Priorities and Programs Mission

The CPD mission is to engage in collaborative interdisciplinary research across a variety of fields related

to population studies and to provide high-quality training in advanced quantitative methods. The Centre

is committed to the following objectives:

1. To enhance faculty research through greater collaboration across disciplines

2. To promote an intellectual forum for work on population dynamics

3. To offer administrative support for securing and managing grants

4. To provide technical statistical and computational support

5. To increase access to various types of administrative and survey data

6. To attract, fund, and train graduate students

Research

The Centre on Population Dynamics (CPD) was founded in 2012 by the departments of Economics,

Sociology and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health. It brings together professors, post-

doctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduates working within the field of population dynamics

from nine (9) disciplines, including computer science, demography, economics, epidemiology,

geography, management, public health, psychiatry, and sociology (See Appendix 6.1 and Appendix 6.2

for a full breakdown of members and students).

Our Centre’s name reflects its emphasis on 1) changes over time and transitions over the life course and

2) interactions between key demographic events and socio-economic conditions. Within this broader

area of population dynamics, we focus on five main research axes: 1) Family Dynamics, 2) Social and

Economic Determinants of Health, 3) Education, Skill Acquisition, and Labour, 4) Migration, and 5)

Aging. These five axes represent a core of overlapping interests among our diverse members spanning

eight academic departments and three faculties at McGill, and four universities. Moreover, they

encompass a host of critical contemporary issues facing many societies around the globe. As such, the

Centre is generating policy-relevant research and will continue to establish links with key policy-making

organizations in Canada and in other countries.

Themes

Three overarching themes characterize the research of CPD members:

1. Applied Quantitative Methods. Our statistical analyses draw on similar types of data including survey

data, administrative data, and simulated data. Given our emphasis on life course analyses, several of

our data labs contain rare longitudinal data sets, and both our training and research focus on

longitudinal data analysis methods, such as event history analysis, fixed and random effects, growth

curves, growth mixture and latent transition models, and sequence analysis. In addition, we facilitate

training in new methods for “big data” such as population analytics, digital demography, and

computational science. Lastly, we share a keen interest in methods that allow for causal inference.

2. Life Course Perspective. Reflecting the emphasis on population dynamics, CPD members share a

theoretical framework as much of our research takes a life course perspective. We are particularly

interested in how dynamic processes operate over the life course and how period and cohort effects

shape individual’s life trajectories.

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3. Global in Scope: Our research is not geographically limited, but rather it gives equal attention to

issues of family dynamics, health, labor, migration, and aging in both developed countries and

developing countries. Comparative studies across countries and sharing of theoretical and

methodological research techniques across regions is also encouraged.

Research Axes

The Centre on Population Dynamics pursues its research along five key axes in the field of population

dynamics.

1. Family Dynamics. Key research topics: Definition of cohabitation, marriage and family;

composition and structure of families; impact on family health, wealth and happiness; family and

society.

2. Social and Economic Determinants of Health. Key research topics: Socio-economic impacts on

sexual and reproductive health, child health, and health inequalities.

3. Education, Skills Acquisition, and Labour. Key research topics: Economic growth; design and

effects of labour market institutions; investments in and returns of education; education and

employment policy.

4. Migration. Key research topics: Economic, political, spatial, cultural, social, and health

integration of immigrants; transformations of sending and receiving countries.

5. Aging. Key research topics: Processes of aging; economic, social and health needs of older

adults; social networks and aging; interactions between social and physiological processes.

Graduate Option in Population Dynamics

The CPD offers the Population Dynamics Option (PDO). This is a cross-disciplinary, cross-faculty

graduate program offered as an option within 5 existing master’s and doctoral programs in the

departments of Sociology, Economics, and Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health

(EBOH) at McGill University. See Appendix 6.3.

2. Major Achievements Please summarize the major achievements of the Centre, including any advances in knowledge, relevant publications, or

international collaboration. A full list of publications, events etc. may be included as an appendix.

Seminar series. The 2017-2018 featured another engaging season of the Social Statistics and Population

Dynamics weekly seminar series with 18 population researchers from Montreal, the rest of Canada, the

US, Netherlands and Japan presenting original research from across our five axes and the major

disciplines of our Centre (Appendix 6.4).

Graduate Option in Population Dynamics. On the training front, we had 2 successful MA completions

this year of the CPD’s graduate option in Population Dynamics, bringing total PDO completions since

2013 to seven (7). Additionally, there are another 10 doctoral students and one master’s student currently

enrolled in the option, and several others, doctoral and master’s, considering enrollment. (See Appendix

6.2).

Training workshop. On the theme of population research and data visualization, the CPD organized a

popular, three-day training and networking event for 41 students and faculty: PopDataViz 2018 (See

Appendix 6.4 for a summary and infographic, the CPD news webpage for further details, the full event

program here, and the CPD data visualization resource page). The instructor, Professor Kieran Healy

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(Sociology, Duke University) is an international leader in data visualization for the quantitative and

computational social sciences. The event was extraordinarily popular, with 60 registrants during the first

72 hours with minimal promotion of the event.

This event was funded by a $24,009 SSHRC Connection Grant led by Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, with CPD

co-applicants Shelley Clark, Thomas Soehl, and Derek Ruths. Notably, the CPD was able to attract 13

different co-sponsorships including several McGill units, Statistics Canada, UQAM, and the Université

de Montréal (démographie) for a total of 125% matching funds.

PopDataViz’s 41 participants reflected the full range of the interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, and

professional diversity of its 13 co-sponsors and included 5 Statistics Canada analysts, 6 faculty members,

4 Research Associates, 2 data librarians, 2 postdocs, 5 Master’s students, and 17 PhD students from Bio

Ethics, Computer Science, Demography, Economics, Epidemiology, Library Science, Management,

Nutrition, Public Health, Political Science, Psychiatry, and Sociology.

PAA conference practice. The CPD also held its annual conference preparation session on April 18th for

CPD students (2 doctoral, 1 master’s student, and 1 postdoc) attending the annual meeting of the

Population Association of America (PAA) to practice presenting their papers and posters and receive

faculty feedback.

CPD Training initiative: Under the leadership of Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, the CPD is developing a new

CPD graduate student training initiative called: Population Analytics in an Aging Society: Developing

talent to inform data-driven decision-making. See Section 4 for an integrated description of the 2017-

2018 activities and 2018-2019 planned activities related to this exciting, new initiative.

Chisasibi population study. CPD members Sarah Brauner-Otto, Zoua Vang, and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée

completed a population projection for the Eeyou Istchee Cree community of Chisasibi to assist in local

planning efforts for housing, infrastructure, education, and related community services.

New Members: The membership approved the addition of three new Associate Members: 1) Nicolas

Gendron-Carrier (Assistant Professor, Economics, McGill University). His research interests are in

labour and urban economics. 2) Peter McMahan (Assistant Professor, Sociology, McGill University). He

specializes in statistical modeling and computational methodologies. 3) Nancy Ross (Professor,

Geography; Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Geo-Social Determinants of Health, Associate Vice-

Principal, Research and Innovation, McGill University). Her research interests are in social-spatial

determinants of health.

Publications. Finally, CPD members have continued to be prolific researchers, publishing over 100

articles in leading journals in demography, epidemiology, sociology, and economics. (Appendix 6.7).

3. Academic or Research Mission Description of how activities align with Academic or Research Mission of McGill faculties this year and plans for subsequent

year.

By advancing rigorous, innovative quantitative social science and health research, the CPD fills an

essential research and training niche at McGill University. Within the Faculty of Arts, it consolidates a

critical mass of quantitative social science researchers and graduate students. To date, the CPD has

developed collaborative relationships with other major McGill research centres and institutes including

the Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID), the Centre for the Study of Democratic

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Citizenship (CSDC), the Institute for Health and Social Policy (IHSP), the McGill Global Health

programs, the Centre for Social and Cultural Data Science (CSCDS), and the McGill Observatory on

Health and Social Services Reforms. Through these relationships, the CPD has conducted cross-

disciplinary training (e.g. CPD graduate option in Population Dynamics), multidisciplinary activities

(e.g. the popular weekly Social statistics & Population Dynamics Seminar series), and special training

events (social media data, data visualization), in addition its members’ individual and team programs of

research. Moreover, the CPD is well-positioned to contribute to evidence-based policy development with

the new Max Bell School of Public Policy and the School of Population and Global Health and Public

Policy. The Faculty of Arts has identified the CPD as a candidate for the Royal Victoria Hospital project,

as part of the Quantitative and Computational Social Science Unit (QCSSU) within its proposed Max

Bell School of Public Policy Hub. Finally, the research and training activities of the CPD align with the

McGill’s Strategic Research Plan, fitting perfectly under the SRP area of excellence: strengthening

public policy and organizations, and creating a deeper understanding of social transformation and

supporting health care in the key areas of social statistics, demography, global health, health services,

outcomes and translational research, aging, .

4. Research Centre Plans Please indicate how the Research Centre has: 1) Tackled or plans to tackle issues in a manner that may not otherwise have

been achievable without the research centre; 2) Increased or is planning to increase the scale and focus of research

activities; 3) Facilitated multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, or international collaborations

Building on CPD faculty and student interests, and the success of two 2017 CPD training events–social

media and demographic methods (May) and PopDataViz2017 (December)–Amélie Quesnel-Vallée is

leading a CPD partnered research training initiative. The initiative is comprised of two components: 1)

the formation of the Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making (CanD3) and 2) the

development and funding of a partnered, 2-month training program: Population Analytics in an Aging

Society: Developing talent to inform data-driven decision-making. See Appendix 6.6 for a one-page

overview of the initiative.

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6. Appendices

6.1 Centre Members

CPD members

Director:

Sarah Brauner-Otto (Sociology, McGill)

Full Members:

Simona Bignami (Démographie, Université de Montréal)

Sébastien Breau (Geography, McGill)

Matthieu Chemin (Economics, McGill)

Shelley Clark, (Sociology, McGill)

Aniruddha Das (Sociology, McGill)

Frank Elgar (Psychiatry and Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill)

Franque Grimard (Economics, McGill)

Sam Harper (Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill)

Jay Kaufman (Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill)

Fabian Lange (Economics, McGill)

Sonia Laszlo (Economics, McGill)

Céline Le Bourdais (Sociology, McGill)

Tony Masi (Desautels Faculty of Management)

Arijit Nandi (Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health and Institute for Health and Social

Policy McGill)

Amélie Quesnel-Vallée (Sociology and Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill)

Eran Shor (Sociology, McGill)

Michael Smith (Sociology, McGill)

Thomas Soehl (Sociology, McGill)

Erin Strumpf (Economics and Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill)

Zoua Vang (Sociology, McGill)

Associate Members:

Francesco Amodio (Economics and Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill)

Chris Barrington-Leigh (Institute for Health and Social Policy and School of the Environment, McGill)

Jill Baumgartner (Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and Institute for Health and

Social Policy, McGill)

Rebecca Fuhrer (Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill)

Nicolas Gendron-Carrier, (Economics, McGill)

Michael Haan (Sociology, Western University)

Dana Hamplová (Sociology, Charles University)

Matissa Hollister (Desautels Faculty of Management, Organizational Behaviour)

Évelyne Lapierre-Adamcyk, (Démographie, Université de Montréal)

Solène Lardoux (Démographie, Université de Montréal)

Thomas LeGrand (Démographie, Université de Montréal)

Mathieu Maheu-Giroux (Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill)

Rachel Margolis (Sociology, Western University)

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Peter McMahan (Sociology, McGill)

Theodore Papageorgiou (Economics, McGill)

Nancy Ross (Geography, McGill)

David Rothwell (Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State)

Brian Robinson (Geography)

Derek Ruths (Computer Science, McGill)

Axel van den Berg (Sociology, McGill)

Morton Weinfeld (Sociology, McGill)

Seungmi Yang (Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill)

6.2 CPD Students Members and Trainees

*CPD Trainees taking the Option in Population Dynamics (11)

All others: CPD Student members (44)

Table 1: CPD Student Members and Trainees (September 2018)

First Name Family Name Program Dept

Yacine Boujija PhD Demographie

Véronique Deslauriers PhD Demographie

Charles-Olivier Simard PhD Demographie

Willy Yakam PhD Demographie

Firmin Zinvi PhD Demographie

Floriane Kamgaing PhD Demographie

Mariam El Sheikh MScPH EBOH

Natalee Hung MScPH EBOH

Nabella Jivraj MScPh EBOH

Ornella Wafo MScPH EBOH

Walid Al-Soneidar PhD EBOH

Foluso Ishola PhD EBOH

Samia Qureshi PhD EBOH

Asma Ahmed PhD EBOH

Brice Lionel Batomen Kuimi PhD EBOH

Sazzad Hasan PhD EBOH

Coralie Wong PhD EBOH

*Diego Capurro PhD EBOH

Mabel Carabali PhD EBOH

*Helen Cerigo PhD EBOH

*Oduro Oppong-Krumah PhD EBOH

Pauley Tedoff PhD EBOH

Tanya Murphy PhD EBOH

Jan Oledan MA Economics

Adam Aberra PhD Economics

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First Name Family Name Program Dept

Ali Abidi PhD Economics

Yaya Diallo PhD Economics

Thomas Kokossou PhD Economics

Adam Aberrra PhD Economics

Peta-Gay Campbell PhD Economics

Ailin He PhD Economics

Shweta Mital PhD Economics

Qi Xu PhD Economics

Xian Zhang PhD Economics

Xiaodi Alice Zhu PhD Economics

Jie Ma PhD Economics

Niall Harney MA Geography

Megan Wylie MA Geography

Holly Cronin PhD Geography

Lucy Lu PhD Geography

Thierry Gagné PhD Santé publique

*Jenan Williams MA Sociology

*Amal Al-Ashtal PhD Sociology

*Patricia Elungata PhD Sociology

*Annie (Xiaoyu) Gong PhD Sociology

*Madeleine Henderson PhD Sociology

*Sakeef Karim PhD Sociology

*W. Zachary Marshall PhD Sociology

*Marianne Paul PhD Sociology

*Ian Van Haren PhD Sociology

Daniel Sailofsky PhD Sociology

Colby Pereira PhD Sociology

Winnie (Chih-lan) Yang PhD Sociology

Charles Plante PhD Sociology

Erin Dwyer Undergad Sociology & Math

Table 1: Summary of CPD Student Members and Trainees by Program, Discipline & Member Type

PhD MA/MSc undergrad Student member Trainee

Démographie (Unv. Montréal) 6 6

Epidemiology 13 10 3

Economics 12 1 13

Geography 2 2 4

Public Health 1 4 5

Sociology 12 1 1 6 8

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6.3 Graduate Option in Population Dynamics 2017-2018

The Population Dynamics Option (PDO) is a cross-disciplinary, cross-faculty graduate program

offered as an option within 5 existing Master’s and doctoral programs in the departments

of Sociology, Economics, and Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health (EBOH) at

McGill University. The 5 programs are:

M.A. (non-thesis) in Sociology

Ph.D. in Sociology

M.A. (non-thesis) in Economics

M.Sc. in Public Health in EBOH

Ph.D. in Epidemiology in EBOH

REGISTRATION: Students enter the option through one of the participating departments and must

meet the Master’s or Ph.D. requirements of that unit. While students are encouraged to enter the option

at the time of registration into their MA or PhD program, they may also enter the option after they have

begun their program, provided they are able to meet all of the option requirements.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Required courses, as per the program through which the student enters the PDO. See below

required courses per program.

• Attendance at least five of the talks per term given in the Social Statistics and Population

Dynamics Seminar;

• Dissertations (for Ph.D. students) and Research Paper/Projects (for Master’s students) must be on

a topic relating to population dynamics, approved by the PDO coordinating committee.

BENEFITS:

• Specialized training in population research

• Annotation on your transcript demonstrating that you completed this specialized option in

Population Dynamics

REQUIRED COURSES: Graduate students in SOCIOLOGY and EBOH will take two required

courses in Sociology (SOCI 626: Demographic Methods and SOCI 545: Sociology of Population and

one course from an approved list of courses in Sociology, Economics, or EBOH, all of which are

worth three credits each. Due to restrictions in the Economics program, graduate students in

Economics are required to take SOCI 626 along with ECON 742 Empirical Microeconomics and one

approved complementary course.

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6.4 Centre Activities and Events: Weekly Speaker Series

2016-17 Social Statistics and Population Speaker Series

Throughout both the fall and winter semesters the CPD organized and hosts a weekly seminar series.

Domestic and international population researchers present original research on a broad range of

population research topics in disciplines including demography, economics, epidemiology, geography,

sociology, management, and computer science. The organizers of this series were Sam Harper,

Francesco Amodio & Fabian Lange. They were supported by Geneviève Brunet-Gauthier. The speakers

and topics of the event were as follows:

Sept. 20 Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak,

Department of Economics,

School of Management, Yale

University

"Demand Estimation with Strategic

Complementarities and an Application to

Sanitation in Bangladesh"

Sept. 27 Samuel Bazzi, Department of

Economics, Boston University

"Unity in Diversity? Ethnicity, Migration, and

Nation Building in Indonesia"

Oct. 4 Daniel T. Lichter, Department

of Policy Analysis and

Management, Institute for the

Social Sciences, Cornell

University

"The Changing Spatial Scale of Residential

Segregation in a Multiracial Society"

Oct. 11 Stephen Raudenbush,

Department of Sociology,

University of Chicago

"Some New Theory and Evidence on

Neighborhood Segregation, Schooling, and

Inequality"

Oct. 18 Tom Van Ourti, Applied Health

Economics, Erasmus University

Rotterdam

"It runs in the family – influenza vaccination

and unintended spillover effects"

Oct. 25 Erin Strumpf, Departments of

Economics & Epidemiology,

Biostatistics and Occupational

Health, McGill University

"Early-term pregnancy loss: Using

administrative health data to estimate its

prevalence, distribution, and effects on health

care utilization and costs"

Nov. 1 Ken Smith, Department of

Family and Consumer Studies,

University of Utah & Population

Science, Huntsman Cancer

Institute

"Eggs and Exits: How Ages at the Start and

the End of Reproduction Affect Adult Sex-

and Cause-Specific Mortality in the 19th and

20th Centuries"

Nov. 8 Dana McCoy, Harvard Graduate

School of Education, Harvard

University

"Measuring early childhood development at a

global scale: Evidence from the Caregiver-

Reported Early Development Index"

Nov. 15 Matthew Fox, Department of

Epidemiology, Boston

"The need for and effectiveness of

differentiated HIV care in South Africa"

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University School of Public

Health

Nov. 22 Scott Weichenthal,

Epidemiology, Biostatistics and

Occupational Health, McGill

University

"Mass Concentrations and Beyond: The Role

of Particle Oxidative Potential in Air Pollution

Epidemiology"

Jan 24 Paul Grootendorst, School of

Public Policy and Governance,

Leslie Dan Faculty of

Pharmacy, University of

Toronto

"Trends in medical cannabis use in Canada,

2001-2016"

Jan 31 Hiroaki Matsuura, Provost &

Vice-President (Academic),

Shoin University

"Constitutional social and environmental

human rights and child health outcomes in 15

Latin American countries"

Feb. 7 Marie Connolly, Department of

Economics, Université du

Québec à Montréal

"Social Mobility Trends in Canada: Going up

the Great Gatsby Curve"

Feb. 14 Jon Unruh, Department of

Geography, McGill University

"Establishing Claims for Land and Property

Restitution During the Syrian War"

Feb. 21 Christopher Rauh, Department

of Economics, Université de

Montréal

"Socio-Economic Gaps in University

Enrollment: The Role of Perceived Pecuniary

and Non-Pecuniary Returns"

Feb. 28 Michael Baker, Departments of

Economics, University of

Toronto

"The Short and the Tall of the Returns to

Height"

Mar. 14 Hawre Jalal, Department of

Health Policy and Management,

University of Pittsburgh

"Modeling the changing dynamics of the

opioid epidemic in the US"

Mar. 21 Sandip Sukhtankar, Department

of Economics, University of

Virginia

CANCELLED

Mar. 28 Hans-Peter Kohler, Department

of Sociology, University of

Pennsylvania

CANCELLED

Apr. 4 Claudia Olivetti, Department of

Economics, Boston College

"Mothers, Peers and Gender-Role Identity"

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6.5 Centre Activities and Events: PopDataViz 2017

PopDataViz2017 Inter-sectoral, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Data Visualization for Population Research

Proof-of-Concept Briefing Note

Rationale We are witnessing an era where the unprecedented volume, variety and velocity of data

offer tremendous opportunities to provide key insights on urgent social, economic and health issues.

However, challenges also arise with such new opportunities, for instance regarding issues of data

veracity. Accordingly, many argue that the primary obstacle confronting the judicious use of these data

is not the vast accumulation of information, but rather, its interpretation and use (Birkinshaw 2014).

Astute interpretation and application of information requires well-developed analytical and critical

skills – of which data visualisation is a crucial component.

Population researchers have historically made important research contributions to public, private and

civil society sector strategic planning and policy making. Their interdisciplinary field is defined by long-

standing traditions of theoretical and empirical research anchored in the three key population

dynamics processes of fertility, migration and mortality. The field is further buttressed by rigorous

methodological and statistical training around population data. However, to date the field lacks formal

data visualization training that is tailored to population concerns, addresses the evolving population

data landscape, and is adapted to the full range of dissemination and knowledge mobilization purposes

of academic and applied population researchers.

Goal The goal of PopDataViz training is to facilitate interdisciplinary and intersectoral co-learning,

exchange and collaboration on the visualisation of population research findings to improve their

application and use in evidence-based policy and practice.

Event and Approach Our pilot event, PopDataViz2017, was a three-day, training workshop on data

visualization using R/R Studio which took place December 13-15, 2017 at McGill University. It was

conceived as a proof-of-concept to develop an on-going series of training activities for population

researchers in Montreal and beyond.

PopDataViz2017 was spearheaded by the Centre on Population Dynamics (CPD) in collaboration with

the Centre for Social and Cultural Data Science (CSCDS). Using a partnership, intersectoral and

interdisciplinary approach, PopDataViz2017 was financed through funding from a SSHRC Connection

grant and co-sponsorship by 12 partnering units at four institutions: UQAM (Groupe de recherche sur le

capital humain de l'ESG), Université de Montréal (Départment de démographie and Quebec inter-

University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS/CIQSS)), Statistics Canada, and McGill University (Eight

units - Centre on Population Dynamics, Centre for Social and Cultural Data Science, Centre for the Study

of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC)/ Centre pour l'étude de la citoyenneté démocratique(CÉCD),

Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, Institute for Health and Social

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Policy (IHSP), Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID), McGill Observatory on Health

and Social Services Reform and Office of Innovation and Partnerships).

PopDataViz2017’s 41 participants reflected the full range of interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, and

professional diversity of these 13 partners and included 5 Statistics Canada analysts, 6 faculty

members, 4 Research Associates, 2 data librarians, 2 postdocs, 5 Master’s students, and 17 PhD

students from Bio Ethics, Computer Science, Demography, Economics, Epidemiology, Library Science,

Management, Nutrition, Public Health, Political Science, Psychiatry, and Sociology.

Pre-workshop preparation We provided participants who were new to R and R Studio software with a

free 2-hour “Intro to R” workshop a week before the workshop, taught by the Tim Elrick of the McGill

Geographic Information Centre financed by PopDataViz. Additionally, to provide maximum support to

learners, six experienced R user graduate students were hired to trouble shoot and assist participants

during the workshop and the two evening and Friday morning practice sessions. We also prepared a

data visualization resource webpage on the CPD website with academic and professional articles,

guides to R, data visualization galleries, and links to leading data journalists and other data visualization

professionals.

Data Visualization Training Curriculum The workshop provided 15 hours of data visualization training

on the first two days of the event by leading data visualization scholar Professor Kieran Healey

(Sociology, Duke University). Topics included using R/R Studio, fundamental issues in visualizing data

(e.g. human visual perception, visual tasks, honesty, judgement etc.), ggplot, layering plots,

transforming data, geoms, models, maps, refining and finalizing plots.

Applications – Government, Policy, and Media Two activities addressed the application of data

visualization to dissemination and knowledge mobilization: 1) a noon-hour lecture on Data visualization

and the UN Data revolution and 2) a noon-hour panel discussion of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of

Data Visualization for Population Research with panelists from McGill Graphic Design, McGill Media

Relations, Sociology and Statistics Canada provided four different perspectives on how data

visualizations can address multiple purposes and research multiple audiences.

Experiential Learning Exercises Three activities gave participants with experiential learning

opportunities. 1) They had six hours of supported practice sessions (two evenings and one morning). 2)

They were invited to participate in a Hack-a-thon competition using data from either their own

research projects or with data provided by PopDataViz; 3) Dragon’s Den session to provide feedback on

participants’ data visualizations and choose winners among the Hack-a-thon competitors. The Dragons

represented McGill Graphic Design, McGill Media Relations, Computer Science/Centre on Cultural and

Social Data Science, and Statistics Canada.

Proof-of-Concept 1) Demonstration of potential interest: Because of limited space, we only advertised through one single email to co-sponsoring partners. Over 60 people registered within the first 72 hours of the announcement. This rapid response to narrowly defined advertising suggests that there is considerable pent up demand. 2) Evaluation of training concept: Participant evaluations were very enthusiastic and we continue to get inquiries about future training on this topic. Given the overwhelmingly positive response, we are looking forward to taking this proof-of-concept experience and expanding this valuable training in population research over the coming months.

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PopDataViz2017 was hosted and organized by:

Thanks to our generous co-sponsors:

• Centre on Population Dynamics (CPD), McGill University

• Centre for Social and Cultural Data Science (CSCDS), McGill University

• Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC)/ Centre pour l'étude de la citoyenneté

démocratique (CÉCD)

• Départment de démographie, Université de Montréal

• Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University

• Groupe de recherche sur le capital humain de l'ESG UQAM/ Research Group on Human Capital of

UQAM's School of Management

• Institute for Health and Social Policy (IHSP), McGill University

• Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID), McGill University

• McGill Observatory on Health and Social Services Reform

• McGill Associate Vice-Principal of Innovation, Office of Innovation and Partnerships

• Quebec inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS)

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

• Statistics Canada

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6.6 CPD Future Plans: CanD3 Training Program overview

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6.7 Centre Members’ Publications

Print (not online view) articles, books and book chapters published between September 1, 2017 and August

31, 2018. CPD members are in bold and CPD student members and postdoctoral fellows are underlined.

1. Abdollahpour, I., Nedjat, S., Mansournia, M. A., Sahraian, M. A., Kaufman, J. S. (2018).

Estimating the marginal causal effect of fish consumption during adolescence on multiple

sclerosis: A population-based incident case-control study. Neuroepidemiology. 50(3-4):111-118.

PMID: 29734162.

2. Adjiwanou, V., Bougma M. and LeGrand, T. (2018). The effect of partners' education on

women's reproductive and maternal health in developing countries. Social Science and Medicine.

197:104-115.

3. Amodio, F. and Chiovelli, G. (2018). Ethnicity and violence during democratic transitions:

Evidence from South Africa. Journal of the European Economic Association 16(4), 2018, 1234-

1280.

4. Arkolakis, C., Papageorgiou, T., Timoshenko, O. A. (2018). Firm learning and growth.

Review of Economic Dynamics. 27:146-168.

5. Arthur, M. A. M., Earle, A., Raub, A., Vincent, I., Atabay, E., Latz, I., Kranz, G., Nandi, A.,

and Heymann, J. (2018). Child marriage laws around the world: implications for gender equality.

Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy. 39:51-74.

6. Banack, H. R., Harper, S., and Kaufman, J. S. (2018). Accounting for selection bias in

studies of acute cardiac events. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 34(6):709-716.

7. Banack HR, Harper, S, and Kaufman, J. S. (2018). Accounting for selection bias in studies

of acute cardiac events. Candian Journal of Cardiology. 34(6):709-716. PMID: 29801736.

8. Barrington-Leigh, C. P., (2017). The role of subjective well-being as an organizing concept

for community indicators," in M Holden, R Phillips and C Stevens (Eds.) Community Quality of

Life and Wellbeing: Best Cases VII, (pp. 19-34), Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

9. Barrington-Leigh, C. P. and Wollenberg, J. (2018). Informing policy priorities using

inference from life satisfaction responses in a large community survey. Applied Research in

Quality of Life, DOI:10.1007/s11482-018-9629-9.

10. Barsties, L., Walsh, S. D., Huijts, T., Bendtsen, P., Molcho, M., Buijs, T., Vieno, A., Elgar,

F. J., and Stevens, G. (2017). Alcohol consumption among first- and second-generation

immigrant and native adolescents in 23 countries: Testing the importance of origin and receiving

country alcohol prevalence rates. Drug and Alcohol Review. 36:769-778, DOI:

10.1111/dar.12624.

11. Batomen Kuimi, B. L, Oppong-Nkrumah, O., Kaufman, J. S., Nazif-Munoz, J. I., and

Nandi, A. (2018). Child labour and health: a systematic review. International Journal of Public

Health. 63(5):663-672. PMID: 29353312.

12. Benesch, S., Ruths, D., Dillon, K. P., Saleem, H., and Wright, L. (2017). Vectors for

counterspeech on Twitter. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Abusive Language Online

(Association for Computational Linguistics). 57-62. DOI: 10.18653/v1/W17-3009

13. Bouba Djourdebbé, F., Dos Santos, S., Legrand, T. and Soura, A. B. (2018). Morbidité des

enfants en zones urbaines africaines. Le case de l’observatoire de population de Ouagadougou

(Burkina Faso). European Scientific Journal. 14(11):163-193.

14. Brauner-Otto, S.R. & Geist, C. 2018. Uncertainty, doubts, and delays: Economic

circumstances and childbearing expectations among emerging adults," Journal of Family and

Economic Issues, 39(1): 88-102.

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15. Brauner-Otto, S. R. and Axinn W.G. (2017). Natural resource collection and desired family

size: A longitudinal test of environment-population theories. Population and Environment 38(4):

381-406. DOI 10.1007/s11111-016-0267-6.

16. Breau, S., Shin M., and Burkhart N. (2018). Pulling apart: new perspectives on the spatial

dimensions of neighbourhood income disparities in Canadian cities. Journal of Geographical

Systems. 20: 1-25.

17. Breau, S., Toy B., Brown M., Macdonald R., and Coomes O. T. (2018). In the footsteps of

Mackintosh and Innis: Tracking Canada’s centre of economic gravity since the Great Depression.

Canadian Public Policy. 44(4): 1-25.

18. Bushnik, T., Yang, S., Kaufman, J. S., Kramer, M. S., and Wilkins, R. (2017).

Socioeconomic disparities in small-for-gestational-age birth and preterm birth. Health Reports.

28(11):3-10. PMID: 29140535.

19. Carabali, M., Austin, N., King, N. B., Kaufman, J. S. (2018). The Zika epidemic and

abortion in Latin America: a scoping review. Global Health Research and Policy. 3:15. PMID:

29750204.

20. Cavanaugh, A. and Breau S. (2017). Locating geographies of inequality: publication trends

across OECD countries, 1980-2014. Regional Studies. DOI:10.1080/00343404.2017.1371292.

21. Chemin, M. (2018). Informal groups and health insurance take-up evidence from a field

experiment. World Development. 101:54-72. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.08.001.

22. Chen, H., Li, O., Kaufman, J. S, Wang, J., Copes, R., Su, Y., and Benmarhnia, T. (2018).

Do air quality alerts influence public health? A regression discontinuity analysis in Toronto,

Canada. Lancet Planetary Health 2(1), e19-e26.

23. Chzhen, Y., Bruckauf, Z., Toczydlowska, E., Elgar, F. J., Moreno-Maldonado, C., Stevens,

G. W. J. M., Sigmundová, D., and Gariépy, G. (2018). Multidimensional poverty among

adolescents in 38 Countries: Evidence from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children

(HBSC) 2013/14 Study. Child Indicators Research. 11:729-753. DOI: 10.1007/s12187-017-9489-

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24. Clark, S., Paul, M. Aryeetey, R. and Marquis R. (2018).An assets-based approach to

promoting girls’ financial literacy, savings, and education. Journal of Adolescence. 68:94-104

(DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.07.010).

25. Cohen, S., Liu, A., Gurvitz, M., Guo, L., Therrien, J., Laprise, C., Kaufman, J. S.,

Abrahamowicz, M., Marelli, A. J. (2018). Exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation from cardiac

procedures and malignancy risk in adults with congenital heart disease. Circulation.

137(13):1334-1345. PMID: 29269389.

26. Conklin, A. I., Ponce, N. A., Crespi, C. M., Frank, J., Nandi, A., Heymann, J. (2018).

Economic policy and the double burden of malnutrition: cross-national longitudinal analysis of

minimum wage and women’s underweight and obesity. Public Health Nutrition. 21(5):940-947.

DOI: 10.1017/S1368980017003433.

27. Corscadden, L., Levesque, J. F., Lewis, V., Strumpf, E. C., Breton, M., and Russell, G.,

(2018). Factors associated with multiple barriers to access primary care: an international analysis.

International Journal for Equity in Health. 17:28.

28. Das, A. (2018). Are men’s religious ties hormonally regulated? Adaptive Human Behavior

and Physiology. 4:306-320.

29. Das, A. (2017). “Inflammaging” and estradiol among older U.S. women: A nationally

representative longitudinal study. Biodemography and Social Biology, 63, 295-308.

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30. Diop, M., Strumpf, E. C., Datta, G. D. (2018). Measuring colorectal cancer incidence: the

performance of an algorithm using administrative health data. BMC Medical Research

Methodology. 18:38.

31. Elgar, F. J., Canale, N., Wohl, M., Lenzi, M., & Vieno, A. (2018). Relative deprivation and

disordered gambling in youths. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 72:589-594.

32. Engle-Warnick, J., and Laszlo, S. (2017). Learning-by-doing in an ambiguous environment.

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 55(1): 71-94.

33. Esposito, T., Delaye, A., Chabot, M., Trocme, N., Rothwell, D. W., Helie, S., & Robichaud,

M. (2017). The effects of socioeconomic vulnerability, psychosocial services, and social service

spending on family reunication: A multilevel longitudinal analysis. International Journal of

Environmental Research and Public Health. 14(9):1040-1055.

34. Falconer, J., and Quesnel-Vallée, A. (2017). Pathway from poor self-rated health to

mortality: Explanatory power of disease diagnosis. Social Science and Medicine Oct(190): 227–

36. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.08.008.

35. Fell, D. B., Platt, R. W., Basso, O., Wilson, K., Kaufman, J. S., Buckeridge, D. L., and

Kwong, J. C. (2018). The relationship between 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza during pregnancy

and preterm birth: a population-based cohort study. Epidemiology 2018; 29(1): 107–16. PMID:

28930786

36. Flohr, C., Henderson, A. J., Kramer, M. S., Patel, R., Thompson, J., Rifas-Shiman, S. L.,

Yang, S., Vilchuck, K., Bogdanovich, N., Hameza, M., Martin, R. M., and Oken, E. (2018).

Effect of an intervention to promote breastfeeding on asthma, lung function, and atopic eczema at

age 16 years follow-up of the PROBIT randomized trial. JAMA Pediatrics. 2018;172(1):e174064.

DOI:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.4064

37. Frederiksen, A., Lange F., and Kriechel, B. (2018). Subjective performance evaluations and

employee careers. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations. 134:408-429.

38. Frenz, P., Kaufman, J. S., Nazzal, C., Cavada, G., Cerecera, F., and Silva, N. (2017).

Mediation of the effect of childhood socioeconomic position by educational attainment on adult

chronic disease in Chile. International Journal of Public Health. 62(9):1007-1017. PMID:

28656323.

39. Gariépy, G., Riehm, K., Whitehead, R., Doré, I., and Elgar, F. J. (2018). Teenage night owls

or early birds? Chronotype and the mental health of adolescents. Journal of Sleep Research,

e12723.

40. Gariépy, G., Sentenac, M. Jannsen, I., and Elgar, F. J. (2018). School start time and the

healthy weight of adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health. 63:69-73.

41. Harper, S., Kaufman, J. S., Cooper, R.S. (2017). Declining United States life expectancy: A

first look. Epidemiology. 28(6):e54-e56. PMID: 28445248.

42. Hernandez, E., Margolis, R., and Hummer, R. (2018). Educational attainment, gender, and

health behavior changes after a gateway diagnosis. Journal of Aging and Health. 30(3): 342-364.

DOI: 10.1177/0898264316678756.

43. Heymann, J., Sprague, A. R., Nandi, A., Earle A., Batra, P., Schickedanz, A., Chung, P., and

Raub, A. (2017). Paid parental leave and family wellbeing in the Sustainable Development Era.

Public Health Reviews 15;38:21. doi: 10.1186/s40985-017-0067-2.

44. Hiers, W., Soehl T.G. and Wimmer A. (2017) National trauma and the fear of foreigners:

How past geopolitical threat heightens anti-immigrant sentiment today. Social Forces 96:361-88.

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45. Jahagirdar, D., Harper, S., Heymann, J., Swaminathan, H., Mukherji, A., Nandi, A. (2017).

The effect of paid maternity leave on early childhood growth in low-income and middle-income

countries. BMJ Global Health. 2:e000294. DOI:10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000294.

46. Jurgens, D., McCorriston, J., and Ruths, D. (2017). An analysis of individuals’ behavior

change in online groups. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Informatics

(SocInfo). 1-24.

47. Kaufman, J. S. (2017). The irrelevance of getting stronger or weaker with age. Obesity.

25(12):2015-2016. PMID: 29178581.

48. Khan, M., Rothwell, D. W., Cherney, K., and Sussman, T. (2017). Understanding the

financial knowledge gap: A new dimension of inequality in later life. Journal of Gerontological

Social Work, 60(6-7):487-503.

49. Koski, A., Strumpf, E. C., Kaufman, J. S., Frank, J., Heymann, J., and Nandi, A. (2018).

The impact of eliminating primary school tuition fees on child marriage in sub-Saharan Africa: A

quasi-experimental evaluation of policy changes in 8 countries. PLoS One 13(5):e0197928.

PMID: 29795648.

50. Kramer, M. S., Davies, N., Oken, E., Martin, R. M., Dahhou, M. Zhang, X., Yang, S. Infant

feeding and growth: putting the horse before the cart. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

107(4):635-639.

51. Kuimi, B. L., Oduro-Oppong, N., Nazif-Muñoz, J.I., Kaufman, J.S., and Nandi, A. (2018).

Child labor and health: a systematic review. International Journal Public Health. 63(5), 663-672.

52. Labrecque, J. A., Kaufman, J. S., Balzer, L. B., Maclehose, R. F., Strumpf, E. C.,

Matijasevich, A., Santos, I. S., Schmidt, K. H., and Barros, A. J. D. (2018). Effect of a conditional

cash transfer program on length-for-age and weight-for-age in Brazilian infants at 24 months

using doubly-robust, targeted estimation. Social Science and Medicine. 211:9-15. PMID:

29879565.

53. Leung, M., Perumal, N., Mesfin, E., Krishna, A., Yang, S., Johnson, W., Bassani, D. and

Roth, D. E. (2018) Metrics of early childhood growth in recent epidemiological research: A

scoping review. PLoS ONE 13(3): e0194565. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194565

54. Lian, Q., Su, Q., Elgar, F. J., Liu, Z., and Zheng, D. (2018). The association between chronic

bullying victimization with weight status and body self-image: a cross-national study in 39

countries. PeerJ, 6, e4330.

55. Livingstone, A. M. and Weinfeld, M. (2017). Black students and high school completion in

Quebec and Ontario: A multivariate analysis. Canadian Review of Sociology. 54:2, pp. 174-197.

56. Madhavan, S, Beguy, D. and Clark, S. (2018). Measuring extended families over time in

informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: Retention and data consistency in a two-round survey.

Demographic Research. 38: 1339-1358. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.44.

57. Madhavan, S., Clark, S., Araos, M., and Beguy, D. (2018). Distance or location?: How the

geographic distribution of kin networks shapes support given to single mothers in urban Kenya.

The Geographical Journal, 184(1):75–88. DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12230.

58. Mah, S. M., Sanmartin, C., Harper, S., Ross, N. A. (2018). Childbirth-related hospital

burden by socioeconomic status in a universal health care setting International Journal of

Population Data Science. 3(1). https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v3i1.418.

59. Maheu-Giroux, M., Baral, S., Vesga, J. F., Diouf, D., Diabaté, S, Alary M., Abo, K., and

Boily, M.C. (2018). Anal intercourse among female sex workers in Côte d’Ivoire: prevalence,

frequency, determinants, and model-based estimates of its population-level impact on HIV

transmission. American Journal of Epidemiology. 187(2):287-297. DOI:10.1093/aje/kwx244.

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60. Maheu-Giroux, M. and Joseph, S. A. (2018). Moxidectin for deworming: from trials to

implementation. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 18(8):817-819. DOI: 10.1016/S1473-

3099(18)30270-6.

61. Mansournia, M. A., Etminan. M., Danaei, G., Kaufman, J. S., Collins, G. (2017). Handling

time varying confounding in observational research. BMJ 16;359:j4587. PMID: 29038130.

62. Maxwell, L., Nandi, A., Benedetti, A., Devries, K., Wagman, J., and García Moreno, C.

(2017). Intimate partner violence and pregnancy spacing: results from a meta-analysis of

individual participation time-to-event data from 29 low-and-middle-income countries. BMJ

Global Health 28(11):3-10.

63. Margolis, R. and Wright, L. (2017). Healthy grandparenthood: How long is it and how is it

changing? Demography. 54(60): 2073-2099. DOI: 10.1007/s13524-017-0620-0.

64. Margolis, R. and Wright, L. (2017). Older adults with three generations of kin: Prevalence,

correlates and transfers. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social

Sciences. 72(6):1067-1072. DOI:10.1093/geronb/gbv158.

65. Martin, D., Miller A., Quesnel-Vallée, A., Caron N., Vissandjé B., and Marchildon G.

(2018). Canada's universal health-care system: achieving its potential. The Lancet. Canada

Series.11-28. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30181-8.

66. Maxwell, L., Brahmbhatt, H., Ndyanabo, A., Wagman, J., Nakigozi, G., Kaufman, J. S.,

Nalugoda, F., Serwadda, D., and Nandi, A. (2018). The impact of intimate partner violence on

women's contraceptive use: Evidence from the Rakai Community Cohort Study in Rakai, Uganda.

Social Science and Medicine. 209:25-32. PMID: 29783092.

67. McLinden, T., Moodie, E. E. M., Hamelin, A-M., Harper, S., Rossi, C., Walmsley, S. L.,

Rourke, S. L., Cooper, C., Klein M.B., Cox J. (2018). Methadone treatment, severe food

insecurity, and HIV-HCV co-infection: A propensity score matching analysis. Drug and Alcohol

Dependence. 185:374-380.

68. McLinden, T.A., Moodie, E. E. M., Harper, S., Hamelin, A-M., Anema, A., Aibibula, W.,

Klein, M. B., Cox, J. (2018). Injection drug use, food insecurity, and HIV-HCV co-infection: a

longitudinal cohort analysis. AIDS Care 30(10):1322-1328.

69. Mylotte, D., Rushani, D., Therrien, J., Guo, L., Liu, A., Guo, K., Martucci, G., Mackie, A. S.,

Kaufman, J. S., and Marelli, A. (2017). Incidence, predictors, and mortality of infective

endocarditis in adults with congenital heart disease without prosthetic valves. American Journal

of Cardiology 120(12): 2278-2283. PMID: 29103604.

70. Nandi, A., Jahagirdar, D., Dimitris, M., Labrecque, J., Strumpf, E. C., Kaufman, J. S.,

Vincent, I., Atabay, E., Harper, S., Earle, A., and Heymann, J. (2018). The impact of parental

and medical leave policies on socioeconomic and health outcomes in OECD countries: A

systematic review of the empirical literature. Milbank Quarterly. 96(3):434-471.

71. Nazif-Muñoz, J., Blank, A. and Shor, E. The effectiveness of child restraint legislation in

reducing occupant child injuries in Israel. Injury Prevention.1-7. DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2017-

042458

72. Newell, A. Schang, D. Margolin, and D. Ruths. (2017). Assessing the verifiability of

attributions in news text. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language

Processing. 754-763.

73. Papageorgiou, T. (2018). Large firms and within firm occupational reallocation. Journal of

Economic Theory. 174:184-223.

74. Pföertner, T. K., Elgar, F. J., Rathmann, K., & Richter, M. (2017). The Great Recession and

adolescent health and inequalities in adolescent health in North America, Europe, and Israel. In I.

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Schoon & J. Bynner (Eds.), Young People’s Development and the Great Recession: Uncertain

Transitions and Precarious Futures. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.

75. Ponce, N., Shimkhada, R., Raub, A., Daoud, A., Nandi, A., Richter, L., and Heymann, J.

(2017). The association of minimum wage change on child nutritional status in LMICs: A quasi-

experimental multi-country study. Global Public Health. 13(9):1307-1321. DOI:

10.1080/17441692.2017.1359327.

76. Quesnel-Vallée, A., and Carter, R. (2018). Improving accessibility to services and increasing

efficiency through merger and centralisation in Québec. Health Reform Observer – Observatoire

des Réformes de Santé. 6(1): Article 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13162/hro-ors.v6i1.3216.

77. Rathmann, K., Pföertner, T. K., Elgar, F. J., Hurrelmann, K., & Richter, M. (2017). The

Great recession, adolescent smoking and smoking inequalities: What role does youth

unemployment play in 24 European countries? Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 19:1284-1291.

https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntw298.

78. Richardson, D. B., Kinlaw, A. C., Keil, A. P., Naimi, A. I., Kaufman, J. S., and Cole, S. R.

(2018). Inverse-probability weights for the analysis of polytomous outcomes. American Journal

of Epidemiology. 187(5):1125-1127. PMID: 29390115.

79. Richardson, R., Nandi, A., Jaswal, S., and Harper, S. (2017). Are work demands associated

with mental distress? Evidence from women in rural India. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric

Epidemiology 52:1501-11.

80. Riddell, C. A., Harper, S., Cerdá, M., and Kaufman, J. S. (2018). Comparison of rates of

firearm and nonfirearm homicide and suicide in black and white non-hispanic men, by U.S. State.

Annals of Internal Medicine. 168(10):712-720. PMID: 29710093.

81. Riddell, C. A., Hutcheon, J. A., Strumpf, E. C., Abenhaim, H. A., Kaufman, J. S. (2017).

Inter-Institutional variation in use of caesarean delivery for labour dystocia. Journal of Obstetrics

and Gynaecology. 39(11):988-995. PMID: 28916125

82. Riddell, C.A., Kaufman, J. S., Strumpf, E. C., Abenhaim, H.A., Hutcheon, J.A. (2017).

Cervical dilation at time of caesarean delivery in nulliparous women: a population-based cohort

study. BJOG 124(11):1753-1761. PMID: 27561206

83. Riddell, C.A., Morrison, K.T., Kaufman, J. S., and Harper, S. (2018). Trends in the

contribution of major causes of death to the black-white life expectancy gap by US state. Health

& Place 52:85-100. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.04.003.

84. Riehm, K., Latimer, E, Quesnel-Vallée, A, Stevens W.J.M., Gariépy, G. and Elgar, F.J.

(2018). Does the Density of the Health Workforce Predict Adolescent Health? A Cross-sectional,

Multilevel Study of 38 Countries. Journal of Public Health. DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdy096.

85. Rothwell, D. W. and Robson, J. (2018). The prevalence and composition of asset poverty in

Canada: 1999, 2005, and 2012. International Journal of Social Welfare. 27(1):17-27.

86. Rothwell, D. W., Wegner-Lohin, J., Fast, E., de Boer, K., Trocme, N., Fallon, B., and

Esposito, T. (2018). Explaining the economic disparity gap in rates of substantiated child

maltreatment in Canada. Journal of Law and Social Policy. 28:39-60.

87. Rothwell, D. W. & McEwen, A. (2017). Comparing child poverty risk by family structure

during the 2008 recession. Journal of Marriage and Family. 79(5):1224-1240.

88. Saeed, S., Strumpf, E. C., Moodie, E., Young, J., Nitulescu, R., Cox, J., Wong, A.,

Walmsley, S., Cooper, C., Vachon, M., Martel-Laferrière, V., Hull, M., Conway. B., Klein, M. B.

(2017). Disparities in direct acting antivirals uptake in hiv-hepatitis c co-infected populations in

Canada. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 20(3).

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89. Shakiba, M., Mansournia, M. A., Salari, A., Soori, H., Mansournia, N., Kaufman, J. S.

(2018). Accounting for time-varying confounding in the relation between obesity and coronary

heart disease: Analysis with g-estimation, the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study.

American Journal of Epidemiology. 187(6):1319-1326. PMID: 29155924.

90. Shapiro, G. D., Bushnik, T., Wilkins, R., Kramer, M. S., Kaufman, J. S., Sheppard, A. J.,

and Yang, S. (2018). Adverse birth outcomes in relation to maternal marital and cohabitation

status in Canada. Annals of Epidemiology. 28(8):503-509.e11. PMID: 29937402

91. Sheppard, A. J., Shapiro, G. D., Bushnik, T., Wilkins, R., Perry, S., Kaufman, J. S., Kramer,

M. S., Yang, S. (2017). Birth outcomes among First Nations, Inuit and Métis populations. Health

Reports. 28(11):11-16. PMID: 29140536

92. Smith, M. R., Waite, S., and Durand, C. (2017). Gender differences in the earnings produced

by middle range education: The case of Canadian ‘colleges’. Social Science Research. 66: 140-

153.

93. Smith-Greenaway, E and Clark, S. (2018). Women’s marriage behavior following a

premarital birth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Marriage and Family, 80(1): 256–270.

(DOI:10.1111/jomf.12433).

94. Smith-Greenaway, E and Clark, S. (2017). Variation in the link between parental divorce

and children’s health disadvantage in low and high divorce settings. Social Science & Medicine –

Population Health, 3:473-486. (DOI:10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.04.004).

95. Su, Q., Chen, Z., Li, R., Elgar, F. J., Liu, Z., & Lian, Q. (2018). Association between early

menarche and school bullying. Journal of Adolescent Health. 63(2): 213–218.

96. Stovitz, S. D., Banack, H. R., and Kaufman, J. S. Paediatric obesity appears to lower the risk

of diabetes if selection bias is ignored. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

72(4):302-308. PMID: 29374028.

97. Sreeramareddy, C.T., Harper, S., and Ernsten, L. (2018). Educational and wealth inequalities

in tobacco use among men and women in 54 low-and-middle-income countries. Tobacco Control.

27(1):26-34.

98. Tavitian-Exley, I., Boily, M.C., Heimer, R., Uusküla, A., Levina, O., and Maheu-Giroux, M.

(2018). Polydrug use and HIV risk heterogeneity among people who inject drugs: a latent class

analysis. AIDS and Behavior. 22(4):1329-1340. DOI 10.1007/s10461-017-1836-0.

99. Tavitian-Exley, I., Maheu-Giroux, M., Platt, L., Heimer, R., Uusküla, A., Levina, O.,

Vickerman, P., and Boily, M. C. (2018). Differences in risk behaviors and HIV status between

primary amphetamines and opioid injectors in Estonia and Russia. International Journal of Drug

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