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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: [email protected]
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
46 8 1 44 11
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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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6.7 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.
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