Population Association of America

Founded in 1931, the Population Association of America (PAA) "is a nonprofit, scientific, professional organization established to promote the improvement, advancement and progress of the human race through research of problems related to human population."


 * "In December 1930, 13 people “immediately concerned with research and work in the field of population” met in the New York University office of Henry Pratt Fairchild, professor of sociology and advocate of immigration restriction. They were planning the formation of the Population Association of America (PAA). Margaret Sanger, who had procured funds for the endeavor, was there along with Eleanor Jones, president of the American Birth Control League. Harry Laughlin had come in from the Eugenics Record Office on Long Island, and Louis Dublin and Alfred Lotka had traveled downtown from the actuarial offices of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. O.E. Baker, a geographer at the Department of Agriculture, was up from Washington, D.C. Lowell Reed, population biologist from John Hopkins University, and P.K. Whelpton, agricultural economist from the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population problems, rounded out the academic contingent. Representatives from several foundations were also present. A tentative constitution was drafted and a list of some 70 names drawn up. These would receive letters inviting them to a “Second Conference” in May 1931 at which the Association would formally be established.”


 * Population Association of America: Officers 1991-Present
 * Population Association of America: Board of Directors 1991-Present

Directors (2007)
Accessed December 2007:


 * President Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
 * President-elect Greg J. Duncan, Northwestern University
 * Past President Alberto Palloni, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * Vice President Greg J. Duncan, Northwestern University
 * Vice President-elect Elizabeth Thomson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 * Secretary-Treasurer John Iceland, University of Maryland


 * Ann K. Blanc, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
 * Lynne M. Casper, University of Southern California
 * Paula S. England, Stanford University
 * Myron P. Gutmann, University of Michigan
 * Robert A. Hummer, University of Texas-Austin
 * Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania
 * Daniel T. Lichter, Cornell University
 * Wendy Manning, Bowling Green State University
 * Robert D. Mare, University of California-Los Angeles
 * Susan E. Short, Brown University
 * Duncan Thomas, University of California-Los Angeles
 * Mary C. Waters, Harvard University

Contact

 * Web: http://www.popassoc.org

Related Sourcewatch

 * Robert Higgs
 * Peter J. Donaldson
 * Population Reference Bureau
 * Linda A. Jacobsen
 * Julie DaVanzo
 * Charles F. Westoff - former president (in 1974)
 * Samuel H. Preston - former president