Demographic Research

1999 - 2025

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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 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

Volume 52, issue 35, 2025

Expectations’ predictive power regarding international return and onward migration of immigrants pp. 1111-1122

Özge Elif Özer, Clara Mulder, Matthijs Kalmijn and Adrien Remund

Volume 52, issue 34, 2025

Grandchildren’s spatial proximity to grandparents and intergenerational support in the United States pp. 1097-1110

Olivia Healy and Rachel Dunifon

Volume 52, issue 33, 2025

Fertility differences across immigrant generations in the United Kingdom pp. 1051-1096

Jiseon Baek, Francesca Fiori, Hill Kulu and Sarah Christison

Volume 52, issue 32, 2025

The surge in living alone among young and middle-aged adults: A decomposition analysis of the rise in one-person households in Germany, 1991 to 2021 pp. 1037-1050

Anne-Sophie Oehrlein and Christof Wolf

Volume 52, issue 31, 2025

How do fathers and mothers allocate their leisure time? Patterns and inequalities across 13 European countries pp. 1023-1036

Anna Martinez Mendiola

Volume 52, issue 30, 2025

Household structure in Ghana: Exploring dynamics over three decades pp. 971-1022

Josephine Akua Ackah Baafi, Rebecca Sear, Sarah Walters, Estelle McLean, Kofi Awusabo-Asare, Anushé Hassan and Fabian Sebastian Achana

Volume 52, issue 29, 2025

Periods of high uncertainty: How fertility intentions in Russia changed during 2022–2023 pp. 939-970

Elena Vakulenko, Ilya Trofimenko, Valeria Kondrateva and Dmitriy Gorskiy

Volume 52, issue 28, 2025

A parallel kinship universe? A replication of Kolk et al. (2023) with Dutch register data on kinship networks pp. 915-938

Vera de Bel, Karsten Hank, Thomas Leopold and Eszter Bokányi

Volume 52, issue 27, 2025

Family and social resilience: A scoping review of the empirical literature pp. 887-914

Abrar Bawati, Max Thaning, Merve Uzunalioǧlu and Rense Nieuwenhuis

Volume 52, issue 26, 2025

Amish fertility in the United States: Comparative evidence from the American Community Survey and Amish population registries pp. 869-886

Lyman Stone, Stephanie Thiehoff and Cory Anderson

Volume 52, issue 25, 2025

Sociodemographic variation in family structures and geographic proximity between adult children and parents in Europe pp. 849-868

Saverio Minardi

Volume 52, issue 24, 2025

Examining the relationships between education, coresidential unions, and the fertility gap by simulating the reproductive life courses of Dutch women pp. 797-848

Rolf Granholm, Gert Stulp and Anne Gauthier

Volume 52, issue 23, 2025

Can we estimate crisis death tolls by subtracting total population estimates? A critical review and appraisal pp. 741-796

Hampton Gaddy and Maria Gargiulo

Volume 52, issue 22, 2025

Uncovering what matters: Family life-course aspects and personal wealth in late working age pp. 689-740

Nicole Kapelle and Carla Rowold

Volume 52, issue 21, 2025

Decomposing delayed first marriage and birth across cohorts: The role of increased employment instability among men in Japan pp. 635-688

Ryota Mugiyama

Volume 52, issue 20, 2025

Household living arrangements and disparities in hardship pp. 589-634

John Iceland and Jaehoon Cho

Volume 52, issue 19, 2025

Tempo effects in period TFR: Inspecting the role of shape and scale variations in a cohort model pp. 559-588

Stefano Mazzuco and Lucia Zanotto

Volume 52, issue 18, 2025

Uncovering the underlying causes for the narrowing, stalling, and widening Black–White mortality gap from 2000 to 2022 in the United States pp. 535-558

Hui Zheng, Yoonyoung Choi and Taehyun Ethan Kim

Volume 52, issue 17, 2025

Life expectancy by religious affiliation in Finland 1972–2020 pp. 519-534

Julia Klein, Jan Saarela and Martin Kolk

Volume 52, issue 16, 2025

The use of mobile phone surveys for rapid mortality monitoring: A national study in Burkina Faso pp. 479-518

Kassoum Dianou, Abdramane B. Soura, Shammi Luhar, Kelly McCain, Georges Reniers, Bruno Masquelier, Bruno Lankoandé, Ashira Menashe-Oren, Malebogo Tlhajoane and Hervé Bassinga

Volume 52, issue 15, 2025

On the momentum of pseudostable populations pp. 445-478

Gustav Feichtinger, Andreas J. Novák and Roland Rau

Volume 52, issue 14, 2025

Demographic convergence in marriage timing: Intersecting gender and educational expansion pp. 415-444

Hanbo Wu and Luca Maria Pesando

Volume 52, issue 13, 2025

Job creation, job destruction, and fertility in Germany pp. 383-414

Chen Luo and Ewa Jarosz

Volume 52, issue 12, 2025

Gender differences in routine housework among one-person households: A cross-national analysis pp. 369-382

Joan Garcia-Roman

Volume 52, issue 11, 2025

Health expectancies among older adults in China: Results from the 2010 and 2020 population censuses pp. 351-368

Yu Guo, Quanbao Jiang and Li Mei

Volume 52, issue 10, 2025

Infant mortality among US whites in the 19th century: New evidence from childhood sex ratios pp. 303-350

Jesse McDevitt-Irwin and James R. Irwin

Volume 52, issue 9, 2025

The constellations of child fostering in Kenya: Considering location and distance pp. 273-302

Cassandra Cotton and Clement Oduor

Volume 52, issue 8, 2025

Studying multiple causes of death through verbal autopsies: Contribution of an index of similarity pp. 229-272

Ariane Sessego, Kassoum Dianou, Bruno Lankoandé and Géraldine Duthé

Volume 52, issue 7, 2025

The changing inter-relationship between partnership dynamics and fertility trends in Europe and the United States: A review pp. 179-228

Bernice Kuang, Hill Kulu, Ann Berrington and Sindhu Vasireddy

Volume 52, issue 6, 2025

Unmarried motherhood and infant health: The role of intimate partner violence in Colombia pp. 141-178

Stefania Molina

Volume 52, issue 5, 2025

The demography of sexual identity development and disclosure among LGB people in Europe pp. 125-140

Anna Caprinali and Agnese Vitali

Volume 52, issue 4, 2025

Decriminalization of adultery likely changed women’s views on divorce following spousal infidelity in South Korea pp. 111-124

Jiwon Lee and Yool Choi

Volume 52, issue 3, 2025

Jointly estimating subnational mortality for multiple populations pp. 71-110

Ameer Dharamshi, Magali Barbieri, Monica Alexander and Celeste Winant

Volume 52, issue 2, 2025

Studying individuals in same-sex couples using longitudinal administrative data from Canadian tax records: Opportunities and challenges pp. 25-70

Chih-lan Winnie Yang, Xavier St-Denis, Sean Waite and Nicole Denier

Volume 52, issue 1, 2025

A comprehensive database of estimates and forecasts of Spanish sex–age death rates by climate area, income level, and habitat size (2010–2050) pp. 1-24

Celia Sifre-Armengol, Jose M. Pavía and Josep Lledó Benito

Volume 51, issue 46, 2024

Interrogating the quality and completion of mortality mobile phone interviews conducted in Malawi during COVID-19: An examination of interviewer–respondent interactions pp. 1471-1490

Emmanuel Souza, Funny Muthema, Georges Reniers, Stéphane Helleringer, Monica Jamali, Michael Chasukwa, Julio Romero-Prieto, Jethro Banda, Malebogo Tlhajoane, Jacob Saikolo and Boniface Dulani

Volume 51, issue 45, 2024

Improving old-age mortality estimation with parental survival histories in surveys pp. 1429-1470

Bruno Masquelier, Benjamin-Samuel Schlüter, Atoumane Fall, Stéphane Helleringer and Ashira Menashe-Oren

Volume 51, issue 44, 2024

Analyzing regional patterns of mortality data quality and adult mortality for small areas in Brazil, 1980–2010 pp. 1411-1428

Everton Lima, Flavio Freire, Bernardo Lanza Queiroz and Marcos Gonzaga

Volume 51, issue 43, 2024

Left behind single in the partnering market? Entry into cohabiting unions by women and men with low educational attainment across regions of Europe, cohorts 1960 to 1985 pp. 1371-1410

Nadia Sturm and Jan Van Bavel

Volume 51, issue 42, 2024

Fertility quantum and tempo with cubic age-specific birth rates pp. 1351-1370

Robert Schoen

Volume 51, issue 41, 2024

Using online genealogical data for demographic research: An empirical examination of the FamiLinx database pp. 1299-1350

Andrea Colasurdo and Riccardo Omenti

Volume 51, issue 40, 2024

Social-class differences in spacing and stopping during the historical fertility transition: Insights from cure models pp. 1257-1298

Edoardo Redivo, Martin Dribe and Francesco Scalone

Volume 51, issue 39, 2024

The formal demography of kinship VI: Demographic stochasticity and variance in the kinship network pp. 1201-1256

Hal Caswell

Volume 51, issue 38, 2024

Excess mortality associated with HIV: Survey estimates from the PHIA project pp. 1183-1200

Shannon Farley, Stephen McCracken, Stéphane Helleringer, Paul Stupp, Jessica Justman, Vesper H. Chisumpa, Abigail R. Greenleaf, Giles Reid, Connor Wright, James M. Juma, Kay Yuengling and George Bello

Volume 51, issue 37, 2024

Sample selection bias in adult mortality estimates from mobile phone surveys: Evidence from 25 low- and middle-income countries pp. 1167-1182

Sahar Ahmed, Georges Reniers, Bruno Masquelier, David A. Sánchez-Páez, Julio Romero-Prieto and Tom Pullum

Volume 51, issue 36, 2024

Educational trends in cohort fertility by birth order: A comparison of England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland pp. 1125-1166

Bernice Kuang, Hill Kulu, Ann Berrington and Sarah Christison

Volume 51, issue 35, 2024

Interracial couples and intergenerational coresidence: Interracial couples who provide housing assistance to their aging parents pp. 1095-1124

Kate Choi and Jenjira Yahirun

Volume 51, issue 34, 2024

Is single parenthood increasingly an experience of less-educated mothers? A European comparison over five decades pp. 1059-1094

Caroline Berghammer, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Anna Matysiak and Francesca Rinesi

Volume 51, issue 33, 2024

A Bayesian model for age at death with cohort effects pp. 1017-1058

Matteo Dimai and Marek Brabec

Volume 51, issue 32, 2024

Children under 5 in polygynous households in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000 to 2020 pp. 999-1016

Emily Treleaven and Emma Banchoff

Volume 51, issue 31, 2024

Socioeconomic development and Chinese young adults’ propensity to live alone: An extended replication study pp. 965-998

Xin Wang, Hong He, Chenyu Yan and Che Deng

Volume 51, issue 30, 2024

The division of housework and childcare from a dyadic perspective: Discrepancies between partners’ reports across the transition to parenthood pp. 927-964

Tabea Naujoks

Volume 51, issue 29, 2024

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality in Uruguay from 2020 to 2022 pp. 911-926

Catalina Torres, Victoria Prieto Rosas, Gonzalo De Armas and Mariana Paredes

Volume 51, issue 28, 2024

Cash transfers and fertility: Evidence from Poland’s Family 500+ Policy pp. 855-910

Anna Bokun

Volume 51, issue 27, 2024

The changing socioeconomic composition of the Finnish prison population pp. 823-854

Mikko Aaltonen, Sasu Tyni, Pekka Martikainen and Joonas Pitkänen

Volume 51, issue 26, 2024

Higher incomes are increasingly associated with higher fertility: Evidence from the Netherlands, 2008–2022 pp. 809-822

Daniël van Wijk

Volume 51, issue 25, 2024

KINMATRIX: A new data resource for studies of families and kinship pp. 789-808

Thomas Leopold, Charlotte Clara Becker, Zafer Buyukkececi, Marcel Raab and Beyda Çineli

Volume 51, issue 24, 2024

On the relationship between life expectancy, modal age at death, and the threshold age of the life table entropy pp. 763-788

Chiara Micheletti and Francisco Villavicencio

Volume 51, issue 23, 2024

The transition to adulthood in Europe at the intersection of gender and parental socioeconomic status pp. 723-762

Valeria Ferraretto and Agnese Vitali

Volume 51, issue 22, 2024

The pitfalls and benefits of using administrative data for internal migration research: An evaluation of Australia’s Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA) pp. 687-722

Aude Bernard, Tom Wilson, Anthony Kimpton, Neil Argent, Tomasz Zając and Jing Wu

Volume 51, issue 21, 2024

Childlessness in Korea: Role of education, marriage postponement, and marital childlessness pp. 669-686

Misun Lee and Kryštof Zeman

Volume 51, issue 20, 2024

Child anemia and the 2008 food price crisis in Senegal pp. 637-668

Jesse McDevitt-Irwin

Volume 51, issue 19, 2024

Lowest low fertility in Spain: Insights from the 2018 Spanish Fertility Survey pp. 625-636

Mariona Lozano, Qi Cui, Albert Esteve, Ryouhei Mogi and Diederik Boertien

Volume 51, issue 18, 2024

Makeham mortality models as mixtures: Advancing mortality estimations through competing risks frameworks pp. 595-624

Silvio Cabral Patricio and Trifon Missov

Volume 51, issue 17, 2024

The role of sex and age in seasonal mortality – the case of Poland pp. 577-594

Jacek Cypryjański, Urszula Ala-Karvia and Ewa Putek-Szeląg

Volume 51, issue 16, 2024

Tools for analysing fuzzy clusters of sequences data pp. 553-576

Raffaella Piccarreta and Emanuela Struffolino

Volume 51, issue 15, 2024

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s care work and employment in the Middle East and North Africa pp. 501-552

Caroline Krafft, Maia Sieverding and Irene Selwaness

Volume 51, issue 14, 2024

Transitions to adulthood in men and women in rural Malawi in the 21st century using sequence analysis: Some evidence of delay pp. 459-500

Estelle McLean, Amelia C Crampin, Rebecca Sear, Maria Sironi, Emma Slaymaker and Albert Dube

Volume 51, issue 13, 2024

Projection of US adult obesity trends based on individual BMI trajectories pp. 425-458

Nicolas Todd and Mikko Myrskylä

Volume 51, issue 12, 2024

Trajectories of US parents’ divisions of domestic labor throughout the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 377-424

Richard Petts and Daniel Carlson

Volume 51, issue 11, 2024

A multidimensional global migration model for use in cohort-component population projections pp. 323-376

Lucas Kluge, Samir Kc, Dilek Yildiz, Guy Abel, Jacob Schewe and Orlando Olaya-Bucaro

Volume 51, issue 10, 2024

The short- and long-term determinants of fertility in Uruguay pp. 267-322

Zuleika Ferre, Patricia Triunfo and José Ignacio Antón

Volume 51, issue 9, 2024

Data errors in mortality estimation: Formal demographic analysis of under-registration, under-enumeration, and age misreporting pp. 229-266

Carl Schmertmann, Bernardo Lanza Queiroz and Marcos Gonzaga

Volume 51, issue 8, 2024

Using household death questions from surveys to assess adult mortality in periods of health crisis: An application for Peru, 2018–2022 pp. 215-228

José Henrique Costa Monteiro da Silva and Helena Cruz Castanheira

Volume 51, issue 7, 2024

Socio-behavioral factors contributing to recent mortality trends in the United States pp. 191-214

Samuel Preston, Mikko Myrskylä and Yana Vierboom

Volume 51, issue 6, 2024

Climate change and health transitions: Evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar pp. 155-190

Jordan Klein and Anjarasoa Rasoanomenjanahary

Volume 51, issue 5, 2024

Impact of family policies and economic situation on low fertility in Tehran, Iran: A multi-agent-based modeling pp. 107-154

Nasibeh Esmaeili and Mohammad Jalal Abbasi Shavazi

Volume 51, issue 4, 2024

Introducing the Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey 2022 pp. 81-106

Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad and Ruby Cheung

Volume 51, issue 3, 2024

Lessons from the pandemic: Gender inequality in childcare and the emergence of a gender mental health gap among parents in Germany pp. 49-80

Nicole Hiekel and Mine Kühn

Volume 51, issue 2, 2024

Climate change and fertility desires: An experimental study among university students in Belgium and Italy pp. 17-48

Sara Bisi, Jan Van Bavel and Nadia Sturm

Volume 51, issue 1, 2024

Developing and implementing the UN's probabilistic population projections as a milestone for Bayesian demography: An interview with Adrian Raftery pp. 1-16

Monica Alexander and Adrian E. Raftery