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Picture of Marta Tienda
Marta Tienda
PAA President

By all accounts the 2002 Annual Meeting was a great success!

It also marked a smooth transition from a paper to a web-based submission and review process.

This website maintains a complete record of the scientific program of the PAA 2002 meeting. Use the navigation bar above to access the program by topic, day and time, or participant, with links to all the sessions and abstracts.

Organizing Committee

The co-chairs of the 2002 Program Committee were Marta Tienda, PAA President-elect and John Knodel, PAA Vice President-elect. They named an organizing committee of people affiliated with their home institutions, Princeton University and the University of Michigan.

Elizabeth Armstrong
Bill Axinn
Ann Biddlecom
Deborah Carr
Anne Case
Sara Curran
Angus Deaton
Jane DeLung
Tom Espenshade
Kathy Ford
William Frey
Noreen Goldman
Josh Goldstein
David Lam
Scott Lynch
Rebecca Maynard
Sara McLanahan
Mary Beth Ofstedal
Chris Paxson
Nancy Reichman
Germán Rodríguez
Burt Singer
Pamela J. Smock
Arland Thorton
James Trussell
Mark VanLandingham
Bruce Western
Charles Westoff
Robert J. Willis

April 30, 2001 . Deadline for receipt of suggestions for the 2002 Annual Meeting

July 31, 2001 . Call for papers, with list of topics and organizers, sent to all PAA members

October 1, 2001 . Deadline for submitting papers or abstracts to organizers

November 15, 2001 . Session organizers notify authors of accepted papers and forward promising papers to Program Committee Co-Chairs

December 15, 2001 . Author notification for abstracts or papers accepted in overflow regular sessions or poster sessions

February 15, 2002 . Final date to make online revisions to abstracts of accepted papers

April 13, 2002 . Deadline for receipt of completed papers by session chairs and discussants

May 9-11, 2002 . 2002 Annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia