Demographic Research

1999 - 2026

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Volume 54, issue 11, 2026

Partnership patterns and living arrangements of LGBTQ+ identifying US adults: Estimates from a probability-based survey pp. 351-370

Christopher Julian, Gayle Kaufman and D'Lane Compton

Volume 54, issue 10, 2026

Academic expectations and university enrolment of migrant-origin students in Italy: Evidence by migrant generation and origin group pp. 309-350

Eleonora Trappolini, Francesca Di Patrizio and Cristina Giudici

Volume 54, issue 9, 2026

Probabilistic projections of distributions of kin over the life course pp. 263-308

Joe Butterick, Jakub Bijak, Erengul Dodd, Peter W F Smith and Jason Hilton

Volume 54, issue 8, 2026

Brothers, sisters, and the legacy of sibship: Childhood coresiding siblings and late-life cognitive decline in the United States pp. 215-262

Yiang Li

Volume 54, issue 7, 2026

Learning and reproductive health: Do early cognitive skills contribute to better sexual and reproductive health outcomes among adolescents in Ethiopia? pp. 177-214

Fatima Zahra, Erica Soler-Hampejsek and Nicole Haberland

Volume 54, issue 6, 2026

He said, she said: How third-party presence shapes infertility reporting in couples pp. 159-176

Ester Lazzari, Nadja Milewski and Jasmin Passet-Wittig

Volume 54, issue 5, 2026

The demography of loneliness: Rethinking social connections in population research pp. 133-158

Hisrael Passarelli-Araujo

Volume 54, issue 4, 2026

Local dialect proficiency and migrants’ identity integration: A case of Shanghai pp. 87-132

Simin Zhang and Muzhi Zhou

Volume 54, issue 3, 2026

Tracking the decline of first marriage in South Korea: Timing, quantum decline, and pandemic disruptions pp. 71-86

Sam Hyun Yoo

Volume 54, issue 2, 2026

“Family-Anchored” transitions to adult life in Mexico pp. 37-70

Federica Becca and Albert Esteve

Volume 54, issue 1, 2026

Cumulative risk, center-based childcare and socio-emotional difficulties in early childhood: Evidence from Hungary pp. 1-36

Zsuzsanna Veroszta, Zsolt Spéder and Krisztina Kopcsó

Volume 53, issue 41, 2025

Shifting spousal age gaps in Kenya and Ghana: Does education matter? pp. 1281-1312

Afua Durowaa-Boateng and Endale Kebede

Volume 53, issue 40, 2025

Couple migration patterns, gender power relationships and later-life depression in China pp. 1235-1280

Jingwen Zhang, James Nazroo and Nan Zhang

Volume 53, issue 39, 2025

The scale of transnational family separation: Evidence from the United Kingdom pp. 1221-1234

Claudia Brunori

Volume 53, issue 38, 2025

Sexual orientation on Zoe: A global analysis of a lesbian dating app pp. 1207-1220

Francesco Rampazzo, Milan Kovačič and Canton Winer

Volume 53, issue 37, 2025

First reproductive experience: A survey module pp. 1173-1206

Eva Beaujouan, Shalini Singh, Alice Goisis, Daniel Dvořák, Martin Kreidl, Heini Väisänen, Jasmin Passet-Wittig, Darina Kmentová, Anna Šťastná, Jitka Slabá and Barbora Hubatková

Volume 53, issue 36, 2025

Unrealized fertility in demography pp. 1145-1172

Sara Yeatman and Emily Smith-Greenaway

Volume 53, issue 35, 2025

Fewer children, better futures: How war shapes family choices pp. 1113-1144

Hector Cebolla-Boado and Dulce Manzano

Volume 53, issue 34, 2025

Educational outcomes in stepfamilies: A comparative analysis of cohabitation and remarriage pp. 1101-1112

Anna Tegunimataka and Jonas Helgertz

Volume 53, issue 33, 2025

Immigrant labor market dynamics in Germany by family status pp. 1063-1100

Chia Liu and Hill Kulu

Volume 53, issue 32, 2025

Gender disparities in death registration during the COVID-19 pandemic in an urban African setting pp. 1045-1062

Orsola Torrisi, Ane Fisker, Amabelia Rodrigues, Stéphane Helleringer, Sabine Margarete Damerow and Didier Abdel Fernandes

Volume 53, issue 31, 2025

Uncertainty, resilience, and fertility: Perceived capacity to overcome loss of employment and fertility intentions in Sweden, 2021 pp. 1003-1044

Oskar Lindström

Volume 53, issue 30, 2025

Childhood left-behind experiences and premarital cohabitation: Evidence from China pp. 969-1002

Junhao Kou and Yutong Li

Volume 53, issue 29, 2025

Reassessing the U-shaped relationship between gender equality and fertility: A replication and extension of Kolk’s (2019) study using comprehensive gender equality measures pp. 937-968

Haohao Lei

Volume 53, issue 28, 2025

Mapping son preference in India, 2002–2021: Spatial patterns and trends using model-based small area estimation pp. 915-936

Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Sabu Padmadas, Abhishek Singh, Kaushalendra Kumar, Fiifi Amoako Johnson, Ashish Singh and Nikos Tzavidis

Volume 53, issue 27, 2025

Early unintended childbearing and unsecured debt in the United States pp. 897-914

Clifford Ross, Mieke Thomeer, Shantay Williams and Joseph Wolfe

Volume 53, issue 26, 2025

A parametric survival model for child mortality using complex survey data pp. 821-896

Taylor Okonek, Katie Wilson and Jon Wakefield

Volume 53, issue 25, 2025

Neighbors’ social attitudes predict variations in live births among the Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, United States pp. 773-820

Anna Shetler and Cory Anderson

Volume 53, issue 24, 2025

Feminicide as a determinant of Mexican female life expectancy in the 21st century pp. 753-772

Itzel Diaz-Juarez and Victor Garcia-Guerrero

Volume 53, issue 23, 2025

The role of parenthood and gender in shaping circulation patterns of Ukrainian migration to Poland pp. 705-752

Agata Górny, Govert Bijwaard and Magdalena Grabowska

Volume 53, issue 22, 2025

Online obituaries as a complementary source of data for mortality in Canada pp. 661-704

Pietro Violo and Nadine Ouellette

Volume 53, issue 21, 2025

Analysing migrant fertility using machine learning techniques: An application of random survival forest to longitudinal data from France pp. 629-660

Isaure Delaporte, Hill Kulu and Andrew Ibbetson

Volume 53, issue 20, 2025

Socio-economic differences in ART treatment success: Evidence from Italy pp. 611-628

Marco Cozzani, Daniele Vignoli, Valentina Tocchioni, Maria Elisabetta Coccia, Emilia Giusti, Sara Landini and Francesca Piazzini

Volume 53, issue 19, 2025

Modelling the age and sex profiles of net international migration pp. 569-610

James Raymer, Patrick Gerland, Sara Hertog, Tianyu Shen and Qing Guan

Volume 53, issue 18, 2025

Universal yet local: Estimating county-level fertility ideals and intentions in China pp. 525-568

Donghui Wang, Yongai Jin and Tao Liu

Volume 53, issue 17, 2025

Gendered adolescent time use in Japan, Korea, Finland, and the United Kingdom across three decades pp. 511-524

Grace Chang and Man-Yee Kan

Volume 53, issue 16, 2025

The partnership context of first parenthood – and how it varies by parental class and birth cohort in the United Kingdom pp. 465-510

Alessandro Di Nallo

Volume 53, issue 15, 2025

Gendered labor market adjustments around marital and cohabiting union transitions during Europe’s early cohabitation diffusion pp. 419-464

Alícia Adserà and Federica Querin

Volume 53, issue 14, 2025

Should we be concerned about low fertility? A discussion of six possible arguments pp. 373-418

Øystein Kravdal

Volume 53, issue 13, 2025

Unpacking the black box of latent class analysis using qualitative life history interviews: A data-linked explanatory approach examining sexual behavior in rural South Africa pp. 343-372

Nicole Angotti, Enid Schatz, Brian Houle and Sanyu Mojola

Volume 53, issue 12, 2025

The distortion of fertility due to migration: A comparative analysis of migrants in the Netherlands and stayers in Poland pp. 325-342

Nasim Ahamed Mondal, Agnieszka Fihel and Weronika Kloc-Nowak

Volume 53, issue 11, 2025

Attitudes toward child well-being in diverse families across Europe pp. 307-324

Anne Solaz, Laura Bernardi, Dimitri Mortelmans, Anne-Rigt Poortman and Anja Steinbach

Volume 53, issue 10, 2025

The partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants in the United Kingdom: An intersectional life course approach using three-channel sequence analysis pp. 261-306

Julia Mikolai and Hill Kulu

Volume 53, issue 9, 2025

Where do we go from here? Partnership-parenthood trajectories of cohabitation as first union during young adulthood in the United States pp. 245-260

Wenxuan Huang and Jessica A. Kelley

Volume 53, issue 8, 2025

Education, religion, and male fertility in sub-Saharan Africa: A descriptive analysis pp. 219-244

Afua Durowaa-Boateng

Volume 53, issue 7, 2025

The impact of population heterogeneity on the age trajectory of neonatal mortality: A study of US births 2008–2014 pp. 187-218

Jonas Schöley

Volume 53, issue 6, 2025

Trends in Indigenous fertility in Canada, 2001–2021 pp. 175-186

Yue Teng, Rachel Margolis and Howard Ramos

Volume 53, issue 5, 2025

The formal demography of kinship VII: Lifetime kin overlap within and across generations pp. 123-174

Hal Caswell and Lotte de Vries

Volume 53, issue 4, 2025

The protective role of parental work intensity for children in poverty in the United States pp. 84-122

Alicia García-Sierra

Volume 53, issue 3, 2025

Special times? How COVID-specific concerns disrupted fertility desires in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 47-82

Yining Milly Yang and Grace Kao

Volume 53, issue 2, 2025

Modifying model life tables to derive mortality curves for countries with excess mortality pp. 21-46

Lina María Sanchez-Cespedes

Volume 53, issue 1, 2025

Using sequence analysis to visualize exposure to pregnancy in the postpartum period pp. 1-20

Dana Sarnak, Alison Gemmill, Wenxuan Huang and Linnea Zimmerman