PAS 2024 Annual Meeting

Programme E-Booklet

Updated 15 May 2024

Programme details and travel information available in our programme e-booklet below.

Conference Programme Schedule

DAY 1: Thursday, 16 May 2024

  Time Details   Venue
  8:00 - 9:00 Registration
Book Exhibit		   2F Foyer
  9:00 - 9:45 Opening & Welcome
Emcee: Dr Tan Poh Lin
Secretary, Population Association of Singapore
Prof Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
President, Population Association of Singapore
A/Prof Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan
Co-Director, NUS Centre for Family and Population Research		   Auditorium
  Speech by Minister Indranee Rajah
Minister in the Prime Minister's Office
Second Minister for Finance
Second Minister for National Development

Presentation of Token of Appreciation
Phototaking		  
  9:45 - 10:15 Morning Tea
Poster Exhibit & Networking Session		   2F Foyer
  10:15 - 11:15 Keynote Speech by Prof Wolfgang Lutz
The Applicability and Intercultural Acceptability of the “Years of Good Life” Indicator in Measuring Sustainable Well-Being
Deputy Director General for Science at International Institute for Applied System Analysis
Founding Director, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital		   Auditorium
  Keynote Speech by Dr Sabine Henning
Asia and the Pacific At A Crossroads – Challenges and Opportunities of Demographic Change for Inclusive and Sustainable Societies
Chief, Sustainable Demographic Transition Section, Social Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
  11:15 - 11:30 Presentation of Tokens of Appreciation
  11:30 - 11:45 CFPR 10th Anniversary Celebration
Cake-cutting
Group Phototaking Session
  11:45 - 12:45 Lunch
Book Exhibit		   2F Foyer
  12:45 - 14:15 Parallel Sessions A1    
  A1-1 Active Ageing in Singapore   Auditorium
  A1-2 Gender and Health   Clove
  A1-3 Marriage and Fertility   Lemongrass
  A1-4 Migration and SES Differences   Basil
  A1-5 Innovative Methods in Population Research   Lavender
  14:15 - 14:30 Break   2F Foyer
  14:30 - 16:00 Parallel Sessions A2    
  A2-1 Children, Youth, and Health   Auditorium
  A2-2 Family Policies in Singapore   Clove
  A2-3 Impact of COVID-19   Lemongrass
  A2-4 Marital Dissolution and Its Consequences   Basil
  A2-5 Health and Support in Late Adulthood   Lavender
  16:00 - 16:15 Afternoon Tea
Book Exhibit		   2F Foyer
  16:15 - 17:45 Parallel Sessions A3    
  A3-1 Ageing and Family   Auditorium
  A3-2 Gender Inequalities   Clove
  A3-3 Linked Lives   Lemongrass
  A3-4 Special Panel: 30 Years of ICPD in China   Basil
  A3-5 Fertility Transitions in Asia   Lavender
  17:45 - 18:30 Movement to The Scholar Chinese Restaurant    
  18:30 - 20:30 Networking Dinner (Registered Participants Only)   The Scholar Chinese Restaurant

DAY 2: Friday, 17 May 2024

  Time Details   Venue
  8:00 - 9:00 Book Exhibit   2F Foyer
  9:00 - 10:30 Plenary Session - Singapore’s Population and Family Development: Insights from CFPR-Led Research
- Highlights of Singapore Longitudinal Early Development Study (SG-LEADS)
Prof Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
- Gender Inequality and Subjective Well-Being Amongst Professional Women in East and Southeast Asia: A Study of Eight Societies
A/Prof Vincent Chua
- Lifelong Education for Aging Productively (LEAP) in Singapore
A/Prof Feng Qiushi
- Childless Aging in Singapore
A/Prof Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan
- Q&A
Moderator: Dr Kriti Vikram, CFPR Co-Deputy Director		   Auditorium
  10:30 - 10:45 Morning Tea   2F Foyer
  10:45 - 12:15 Parallel Sessions B1    
  B1-1 Ageing in Singapore: Models and Theories   Clove
  B1-2 Environment, Disaster and Health   Lemongrass
  B1-3 Family Inequalities   Basil
  B1-4 Households, Early Life and Culture   Lavender
  12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
Book Exhibit		   2F Foyer
  13:15 - 14:15 Annual General Meeting
- Annual PAS Reports & Updates
- Best Student Paper Award
- Early Career Award

Presidential Address
A Comparative Research on Living Alone and Mental Well-being among Older Adults in Korea and Denmark
Prof Wei-Jun Jean Yeung		   Auditorium
  14:15 - 14:30 Break   2F Foyer
  14:30 - 16:15 Plenary Session - Tsao Foundation Symposium: Issues of Women as They Grow Older
- Singapore’s Shadow Report to 6th Periodic Review of Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Dr Supriti Bezbaruah
- Older Women and Financial Security
Dr Susana Harding
- Older Women & Health
⁠Dr Preeti H. Wasnik
- Panel Discussion + Q&A
Moderator: Dr Aw Su

Closing Remarks
Lucky Draw		   Auditorium
  16:00 - 16:15 Conclusion of Conference
Prof Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
President, Population Association of Singapore
A/Prof Vincent Chua
Co-Director, Centre for Family and Population Research		    
  16:15 - 16:30 Break   2F Foyer
  16:30 - 18:00 Parallel Sessions B2    
  B2-1 Activity and Contributions at Old Age   Auditorium
  B2-2 Child Health and Development   Clove
  B2-3 Gender and Reproductive Health   Lemongrass
  B2-4 Kinship and Intergenerational Relations   Basil
  B2-5 Migration Intention and Decision   Lavender
End of Conference

Parallel Sessions

DAY 1: Thursday, 16 May 2024

A1 Parallel Sessions: 12:45 - 14:15
  Session Title   Paper Title   Speakers/ Authors  
  A1-1 Active Ageing in Singapore   Inequalities in Older Adults' Lifelong Learning: How Socio-Economic Status Shapes Participation and Benefits   Shu Yee Chin, Jolin Chua Yi Xin, Nathan Widjaja, Rahul Malhotra, Shannon Ang  
  Personal mastery at older ages is associated with higher health expectancy: A longitudinal study from Singapore   Abhijit Visaria, Rahul Malhotra, Angelique Chan, Chi-Tsun Chiu, Stefan Ma  
  Elderly Learning Pathways in Singapore: A Latent Class Analysis study   Yuanying Liu, Yan Mo, Qiushi Feng  
  Venue: Auditorium Ideal Later Life in Singapore: The Lay Choice over the Activity, Disengagement and Continuity Theories   Bryan Tan, Mo Yan, Qiushi Feng  
  A1-2 Gender and Health   Gender Differences in Adolescent Sexual Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviours in Vocational High Schools in China: at Baseline and at Change after a Year   Chen Minne  
  Education and Non-Communicable Diseases in India: An Exploration of Gendered Heterogeneous Relationship   Jhumki Kundu, Srinivas Goli, K.S James  
  Venue: Clove The Health Toll of Sexual Harassment on Women and Girls in India: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Panel Survey   Kriti Vikram, Vineeta Sinha  
  A1-3 Marriage and Fertility   Unlocking the Secrets of Low Fertility in India: A Study of Fertility Preferences a Women's Choice or State Compliance?   Roni Sikdar, Dhananjay W. Bansode  
  Time Period and Birth Cohort Differences on the Marriage and Childbearing in China, 1982-2022   Yanhui Zou, Hongyan Liu  
  Differences in Modern Marriage Concepts between Chinese Men and Women during the Second Population Transition: Index Construction and Empirical Results   Zhili Wang  
  Venue: Lemongrass The Change in Fertility Intention of Chinese Women   Yu Jiang, Hongyan Liu  
  A1-4 Migration and SES Differences   Parental Socioeconomic Disparities and Child Survival Rates in China: A Closer Look at Rural-oriented Migration   Xinyan (Joyce) Cao  
  Economic Effects of Internal Migration on Receiving Prefectures in Japan: From a Labor Productivity Perspective   Xiaofei Wang  
  Hukou Reforms, Migration and Urbanization in China   C. Cindy Fan  
  Venue: Basil Neighborhood Satisfaction in Shanghai: Native-migrant difference and the effects of urban service mix and accessibility   Chi Zhang  
  A1-5 Innovative Methods in Population Research   The nexus between maternal antenatal care attendance, newborn postnatal care and neonatal mortality in India: a matched case-control study   Wahengbam Bigyananda Meitei, Abhishek Singh  
  A Comparison of Life Entropy in India v/s USA : An Exploration of Shannon Fractionalization Indices   Ajay Kumar, Suryakant Yadav, Chandan Kumar, Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham, Perianayagam Arokiasamy, Dilip Thandassery Ramachandran  
  Modelling municipal solid waste generation in Macau: A synthetic approach   Qing Lan, Haonan Guo, Tianji Cai  
  Venue: Lavender How ageing population affects healthcare expenditure in India? A Bayesian VAR analysis   Javed Alam  
      Evaluating the multidimensional nature of psychosocial functioning and its predictors using latent class analysis (LCA) among Indian adults   Neha Shri, Saurabh Singh  
     
A2 Parallel Sessions: 14:30 - 16:00
  Session Title   Paper Title   Speakers/ Authors  
  A2-1 Children, Youth, and Health   Work-Schedule Instability and Workers’ Health and Wellbeing in China   Ya Guo  
  Temporal Windows and Trauma of Time: Examining the Long-Term Mental Health Impact of Childhood Father Absence Experience   Qixin Cai  
  Venue: Auditorium Temporal Changes in Health and Health Inequity in China from 2008 to 2021: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis   Siyuan Liu  
 
  A2-2 Family Policies in Singapore   Understanding the Association between Marriage and Fertility Intentions: A Comparative Quasi-Experimental Study in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore   Zheng Mu, Adam Ka-Lok Cheung, Lake Lui  
  Types and intersections of economic and family instability among low-income single-parent households in Singapore: An exploratory study   Jennifer Koh, Jin Yao Kwan, Stella Teo, Ning Chai  
  Family leave-taking behavior and its impact on family dynamics in Singapore   Nanxun Li, Wei-Jun Jean Yeung  
  Venue: Clove   Material Precarity in Highly-Skilled Binational Families in Singapore   Kalpana Vignehsa, Ruby Thiagarajan  
  A2-3 Impact of COVID-19   The impact of teleworking on well-being among working women: Evidence from panel data from Singapore   Jeremy Lim-Soh, Jolene Tan, Poh Lin Tan  
  Revisiting Time availability and Time Use: Evidence from the COVID-19 Lockdown in Singapore   Poh Lin Tan, Emma Zang, Zitong Wang  
  Navigating Health Dynamics: Communicable Diseases and Gig Workers in Urban Contexts   Pooja Kalbalia, Chandan Roy  
  Venue: Lemongrass   Navigating Im/mobilities: Spatio-Temporality of Cross-Border Familyhood Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic   Tuen Yi (Jenny) Chiu, Ruby YS Lai  
  A2-4 Marital Dissolution and Its Consequences   Marital Dissolution in India: Patterns and Correlates   Harihar Sahoo, Manas Ranjan Pradhan, Manoj Alagarajan, Madhurima Sharma, Sunandita Das  
  How do masculine norms shape the experiences and challenges of single fathers in Singapore?   Shantini Rajasingam  
  Divorce in Asia   Premchand Dommaraju, Shu Hu  
  Venue: Basil   Stepfamily Living: What Hurts, What Helps   Nabilah Mohammad, Charlene Fu, Justin Lee  
  A2-5 Health and Support in Late Adulthood   Measuring the Risk of Multimorbidity in India   Ajay Kumar, Suryakant Yadav  
  The Influence of Gender Equality on Aged Parents' Support in Japan   Nobutaka Fukuda  
  Oral Health, Social Engagement, Health Satisfaction, and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults   Pildoo Sung  
  Venue: Lavender Longitudinal Trajectories of Caregiving Burden and Benefits among Informal Caregivers of Older Adults: A Systematic Review   Yongjing Ping, Wei Zhong, Jeremy Lim, Truls Ostbye, Rahul Malhotra  
      Young adult children's family formation transitions and intergenerational exchange with parents in China   Jinhan Liu  
     
A3 Parallel Sessions: 16:15 - 17:45
  Session Title   Paper Title   Speakers/ Authors  
  A3-1 Ageing and Family   Projecting Work-Life Trajectories and Retirement Expectations at Age 50: Estimates for Germany   Linda Vecgaile  
  Loneliness in the Very Old Mexican American Immigrants: How do Acculturation and Intergenerational Ties Matter?   Jeung Hyun Kim  
  Financial Stability Among Bereaved Women in South Korea: A Study of Within-Family Transfers, Income, and Pensions   Christine Mair, Dahye Kim, Jeremy Lim-Soh  
  Venue: Auditorium   Gendered Strategic Family Responses: Health Shocks and Intergenerational Relationships in Multi-child Chinese Families   Yang Zhang, Jiaowei Gong, Tianrong Tang, Ting Li  
  A3-2 Gender Inequalities   Stereotypes and Inequality: Students’ Experience with Sex Education by Sex and Geographical Location in Vocational High Schools in China   Chen Minne  
  Gender Differences in STEM Persistence: The Role of Grade Growth and Biased Assessments of Brilliance   Siqi Han, Claudia Buchmann  
  Exploring Educational Expenditure: The Role of Socioeconomic Differences and Child’s Gender   Nopphawan Photphisutthiphong, Pataporn Sukontamarn  
  Venue: Clove   Integration of Female Marriage Migrants with Young Children in Singapore   Shuya Lu, Wei-Jun Jean Yeung  
  A3-3 Linked Lives   Parental Involvement and Marital Outcomes: A Comparative Analysis of China and Japan   Manting Chen, Paul Yip  
  Linked Lives: An Extended Dyadic Perspective on Income Trajectories in China   Cheng Cheng, Yang Zhou  
  Natal Families’ Influence on Work-family Conflicts of Wives in urban China   Menghan Zhao, Yang Zhang  
  Venue: Lemongrass   The future is yours, mine and ours: Exploring parents’ and adolescents’ hope and aspirations in low-income single-parent households in Singapore   Ning Chai, Jin Yao Kwan, Jennifer Koh, Stella Teo  
  A3-4 Special Panel: 30 Years of ICPD in China Achievements of China in Implementing ICPD   Wei Chen, Hao Zhou, Jinju Liu, Yuanyuan Duan  
  Poverty Alleviation and Rural Revitalization in China since 1994   Gang Zhang  
  Support Policy on Family Development in China since 1994   Wang Hui  
  Venue: Basil   A Fairer, Healthier and Safer Environment - Public Service, Ecological Protection and Disaster Reduction Policy in China Since 1994   Yi Shi  
  A3-5 Fertility Transitions in Asia Catalyzing Informed Family Planning: Empowering Juang Women in India   Prasanna Kumar Mudi  
  Disappearing of the two-child norm in Hong Kong over 1997-2022   Mengni Chen, Muzhi Zhou  
  Too far to walk: Transportation Barrier, Maternal and Child Healthcare Services Utilisation and Outcomes in India   Shabnam  
  Venue: Lavender   Understanding the ‘inverted-U shaped’ relationship of agricultural land use change and fertility transition in districts of India, 1961-2011   Arjun Jana  

DAY 2: Friday, 17 May 2024

B1 Parallel Sessions: 10:45 - 12:15
  Session Title Paper Title   Speakers/ Authors  
  B1-1 Ageing in Singapore: Models and Theories   Impact of caregiving demands and caregiver-care recipient relationship on the caregiving experience of informal caregivers of older adults   Ha Linh Quach, Jeremy Lim-Soh, Nur Diyana Bte Azman, Rahul Malhotra  
  “I (Am) Scared I Will Hurt Him and Then I Will Regret It Forever”: Caregiver Perspectives on Elder Abuse Risk in Singapore   Kheng Chuan Tan, Ingrid Wilson, Katijah Dawood, Wilson Mack  
    Two paths to Community Care for Older Adults: Comparing Korea and Singapore’s Long-Term Care Evolution   Jeremy Lim-Soh, Dahye Kim, Yugyeong Eo, Angelique Chan  
  Venue: Clove Comparison of loneliness and social network between older adult informal caregivers and non-caregivers in Singapore   Ting Yong, Rahul Malhotra, Abhijit Visaria  
  B1-2 Environment, Disaster and Health   Moving to the Green? The Importance of Private, Semi-Private and Neighborhood Green Spaces in Residential Relocations across the Life Course   Tetiana Dovbischuk, Stefanie Kley  
  Gendered Impact of Climate Variability on Rice Farming in India: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Literature   Poushaly Talukdar  
  Early-Life War Exposure and Risky Health Behaviors in Late Adulthood: Exploring the Roles of Social Networks Among Vietnamese Men   Timothy Low, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan  
  Venue: Lemongrass   Birth order, early-life war exposure and health outcome for Older Vietnamese war survivors   Timothy Low, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan  
  B1-3 Family Inequalities   Examining the Role of Modernization and Urbanization in Family Changes in India: Evidence from Panel Data Analyses   Tapas Dey  
  Educational Mobility and Subjective Well-Being from an Intergenerational Perspective   Yanwen Wang  
  Untangling social capital: Exploring factors influencing the activation of social capital among low-income single-parent families in Singapore   Stella Teo, Jin Yao Kwan, Jennifer Koh, Ning Chai  
  Venue: Basil   Has it become easier or harder to be homeowners in urban China? The divergence of two types of homeownership rates since 2008   Ling Zhu, Runhui Tian  
  B1-4 Households, Early Life and Culture   The Lasting Impact of Early Life Experience—Kindergarten Enrollment and Children’s Development in Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills in China   Mengdi Shi, Airan Liu  
  The Impact of Historical Heritage on Social Integration: Evidence from Shanghai   Yuxuan Hu  
  Venue: Lavender   Temporal-Spatial Patterns of One-Person Households: 2000-2020   Jie Hua, Ting Li  
     
B2 Parallel Sessions: 16:30-18:00
  Session Title   Paper Title   Speakers/ Authors  
  B2-1 Activity and Contributions at Old Age How helping you helps me: A longitudinal analysis of volunteering and pathways to quality of life among older adults in Singapore   Shannon Ang, Rahul Malhotra  
  Exploring Rural-Urban Differences in the Association between Internet Use and Cognitive Functioning among Older Adults in China   Xinfang Yu, Shannon Ang, Yang Zhang  
  Strategic Bequest Motive: Evidence from India and Korea   Shweta Kalla Baxi, Sarthak Gaurav, Usha Ananthakumar  
  Venue: Auditorium   Transitioning into Older Adulthood in China: health outcomes of work, caregiving, and the combined double burden   Xinyi Chen  
  B2-2 Child Health and Development   Age-specific Decomposition of the Change in Under-five Mortality in India, 1998-2021   Wahengbam Bigyananda Meitei, Abhishek Singh  
  The Effects of Foreign Teachers on Students' Non-Academic Outcomes   Kelvin KC Seah, Caleb Ong  
  Under-five Mortality Transition in India between 1993 and 2021: A Gender Perspective   Avnish Pal  
  Venue: Clove An epidemiological paradox in Singapore: low-birth-weight births among marriage migrants   Shuya Lu  
  B2-3 Gender and Reproductive Health   Determinants of husband's engagement in family planning as partner: Evidence from a district-level study in Uttar Pradesh, India   Sanjiv Singh, Arupendra Mozumdar, Kaushalendra Kumar Singh, Puneet Mishra  
 
  Investigating the Interviewer's Impact on the Reporting Discrepancies of Pre-Marital Sexual Relationships in India: A Gender Perspective of NFHS Data Quality   Saurabh Singh  
  Venue: Lemongrass   A Life Course Approach to the Study of Psychosocial and Reproductive Stress on the Risk of Premature and Early Menopause in India   Kriti Vikram, Sampurna Kundu  
  B2-4 Kinship and Intergenerational Relations   Women‘s Coalition: the Practice of Gendered Intergenerational Co-parenting in China   Manting Chen, Yixi Wu  
  Trends and patterns of family structure in India: A perspective of three decades   Sourav Mondal, Manas Ranjan Pradhan  
  Women's Empowerment in Matrilineal and Patrilineal Tribal Families: Evidence from Northeast India   Piyasa Mal, Nandita Saikia  
  Venue: Basil   The Demography of Only Children in Contemporary China   Yingyi Lin  
  B2-5 Migration Intention and Decision   Migration Intentions in a Politically Divided Context: The Interactive Roles of Affective Polarization and Dyadic Political Attitudes   Adam Cheung, Lake Lui  
  Attach or Not Attach: Understanding Later-Life Return Migration Intention through Multiple Place Attachment   Karen Ka Han Li, Lucy P. Jordan  
  Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Impoverished Ethnic Minority’s Migration Decision   Xinhong Fu  
  Venue: Lavender   Impact of International Migration on Health Expenditure and the Choice of Access to Healthcare Services in Tamil Nadu, India   Valatheeswaran Chinnakkannu