Demographic Research

1999 - 2025

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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

Volume 50, issue 47, 2024

Using Respondent-Driven Sampling to measure abortion safety in restrictive contexts: Results from Kaya (Burkina Faso) and Nairobi (Kenya) pp. 1387-1422

Lonkila Moussa Zan, Clémentine Rossier, Adama Baguiya, Ramatou Ouedraogo, Martin Bangha, Onikepe Owolabi and Caron Kim

Volume 50, issue 46, 2024

Between money and intimacy: Brideprice, marriage, and women’s position in contemporary China pp. 1353-1386

Yifeng Wan

Volume 50, issue 45, 2024

Predictive utility of key family planning indicators on dynamic contraceptive outcomes: Results from longitudinal surveys in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Uganda, and Côte d'Ivoire pp. 1301-1352

Amy Tsui, Georges Guiella, Rosine Mosso, Phil Anglewicz, Saifuddin Ahmed, Dana Sarnak, Fredrick Makumbi and Peter Gichangi

Volume 50, issue 44, 2024

The Average Uneven Mortality index: Building on the ‘e-dagger’ measure of lifespan inequality pp. 1281-1300

Marco Bonetti, Ugofilippo Basellini and Andrea Nigri

Volume 50, issue 43, 2024

Open science practices in demographic research: An appraisal pp. 1265-1280

Ugofilippo Basellini

Volume 50, issue 42, 2024

Uncovering disability-free grandparenthood in Italy between 1998 and 2016 using gender-specific decomposition pp. 1247-1264

Margherita Moretti, Alessandra De Rose and Elisa Cisotto

Volume 50, issue 41, 2024

Two-dimensional contour decomposition: Decomposing mortality differences into initial difference and trend components by age and cause of death pp. 1223-1246

Dmitri A. Jdanov, Vladimir Shkolnikov and Domantas Jasilionis

Volume 50, issue 40, 2024

Decomposition analysis of disparities in infant mortality rates across 27 US states pp. 1185-1222

Benjamin Sosnaud

Volume 50, issue 39, 2024

Which definition of migration better fits Facebook ‘expats’? A response using Mexican census data pp. 1171-1184

Tania Varona, Claudia Masferrer, Victoria Prieto Rosas and Martín Pedemonte

Volume 50, issue 38, 2024

International completeness of death registration pp. 1151-1170

Ariel Karlinsky

Volume 50, issue 37, 2024

The effect of migration and time spent abroad on migrants’ health: A home/host country perspective pp. 1113-1150

Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Eralba Cela and Eleonora Trappolini

Volume 50, issue 36, 2024

Incorporating subjective survival information in mortality and change in health status predictions: A Bayesian approach pp. 1071-1112

Apostolos Papachristos and Dimitrios Fouskakis

Volume 50, issue 35, 2024

Pathways and obstacles to parenthood among women in same-sex couples in Spain pp. 1039-1070

Diederik Boertien, Clara Cortina and Mariona Lozano

Volume 50, issue 34, 2024

Are highly educated partners really more gender egalitarian? A couple-level analysis of social class differentials in attitudes and behaviors pp. 1005-1038

Liat Raz-Yurovich and Barbara S. Okun

Volume 50, issue 33, 2024

Migration, daily commuting, or second residence? The role of location-specific capital and distance to workplace in regional mobility decisions pp. 967-1004

Thomas Skora, Heiko Rüger and Knut Petzold

Volume 50, issue 32, 2024

Gone and forgotten? Predictors of birth history omissions in India pp. 929-966

Sharan Sharma, Sonalde Desai, Debasis Barik and Om Prakash Sharma

Volume 50, issue 31, 2024

A new look at contraceptive prevalence plateaus in sub-Saharan Africa: A probabilistic approach pp. 899-928

Mark Wheldon, Vladimíra Kantorová, Joseph Molitoris and Aisha Dasgupta

Volume 50, issue 30, 2024

Standardized mean age at death (MADstd): Exploring its potentials as a measure of human longevity pp. 871-898

Markus Sauerberg and Marc Luy

Volume 50, issue 29, 2024

The intergenerational transmission of migration capital: The role of family migration history and lived migration experiences pp. 827-870

Aude Bernard and Francisco Perales

Volume 50, issue 28, 2024

Mortality modelling with arrival of additional year of mortality data: Calibration and forecasting pp. 797-826

Kenny Kam Kuen Mok, Jinhui Zhang, Yanlin Shi and Chong It Tan

Volume 50, issue 27, 2024

The influence of parental cancer on the mental health of children and young adults: Evidence from Norwegian register data on healthcare consultations pp. 763-796

Øystein Kravdal, Bjørn-Atle Reme, Rannveig Hart and Jonathan Wörn

Volume 50, issue 26, 2024

The importance of education for understanding variability of dementia onset in the United States pp. 733-762

Hyungmin Cha, Mark D. Hayward, Chi-Tsun Chiu and Mateo Farina

Volume 50, issue 25, 2024

The importance of correcting for health-related survey non-response when estimating health expectancies: Evidence from The HUNT Study pp. 667-732

Fred Schroyen

Volume 50, issue 24, 2024

How lifespan and life years lost equate to unity pp. 643-666

Annette Baudisch and José Manuel Aburto

Volume 50, issue 23, 2024

Age-heterogamous partnerships: Prevalence and partner differences by marital status and gender composition pp. 625-642

Tony Silva and Christine Percheski

Volume 50, issue 22, 2024

Subnational contribution to life expectancy and life span variation changes: Evidence from the United States pp. 583-624

Wen Su, Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Alyson van Raalte and José Manuel Aburto

Volume 50, issue 21, 2024

Religion and contraceptive use in Kazakhstan: A study of mediating mechanisms pp. 547-582

Maxim Kan

Volume 50, issue 20, 2024

Differences in mortality before retirement: The role of living arrangements and marital status in Denmark pp. 515-546

Serena Vigezzi and Cosmo Strozza

Volume 50, issue 19, 2024

Housework time and task segregation: Revisiting gender inequality among parents in 15 European countries pp. 503-514

Joan Garcia-Roman and Ariane Ophir

Volume 50, issue 18, 2024

Mortality inequalities at retirement age between migrants and non-migrants in Denmark and Sweden pp. 473-502

Julia Callaway, Cosmo Strozza, Eleonora Mussino, Sven Drefahl and Ilya Kashnitsky

Volume 50, issue 17, 2024

Racial classification as a multistate process pp. 457-472

Jerônimo Muniz, Aliya Saperstein and Bernardo Lanza Queiroz

Volume 50, issue 16, 2024

The big decline: Lowest-low fertility in Uruguay (2016–2021) pp. 443-456

Wanda Cabella, Mariana Fernández-Soto, Gabriela Pedetti and Ignacio Pardo

Volume 50, issue 15, 2024

Losing the female survival advantage: Sex differentials in infant and child mortality in Pakistan pp. 411-442

Batool Zaidi

Volume 50, issue 14, 2024

Religious affiliation and child mortality in Ireland: A country-wide analysis based on the 1911 Census pp. 393-410

Lucia Pozzi, Liam Kennedy, Michail Raftakis and Francesco Scalone

Volume 50, issue 13, 2024

Cohort fertility of immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union pp. 377-392

Gustavo Shifris and Barbara S. Okun

Volume 50, issue 12, 2024

Ageing and diversity: Inequalities in longevity and health in low-mortality countries pp. 347-376

Cosmo Strozza, Graziella Caselli, Viviana Egidi and Maria Rita Testa

Volume 50, issue 11, 2024

Longevity à la mode: A discretized derivative tests method for accurate estimation of the adult modal age at death pp. 325-346

Paola Vazquez-Castillo, Trifon Missov and Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher

Volume 50, issue 10, 2024

Measuring short-term mobility patterns in North America using Facebook advertising data, with an application to adjusting COVID-19 mortality rates pp. 291-324

Lindsay Katz, Michael Chong and Monica Alexander

Volume 50, issue 9, 2024

Fertility decline, changes in age structure, and the potential for demographic dividends: A global analysis pp. 221-290

Markus Dörflinger and Elke Loichinger

Volume 50, issue 8, 2024

War and mobility: Using Yandex web searches to characterize intentions to leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine pp. 205-220

Athina Anastasiadou, Douglas R. Leasure and Artem Volgin

Volume 50, issue 7, 2024

Immigrant mortality advantage in the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 185-204

Eugenio Paglino and Irma T. Elo

Volume 50, issue 6, 2024

The optimal transition to a stationary population for concentrated vitality rates pp. 171-184

Gustav Feichtinger and Stefan Wrzaczek

Volume 50, issue 5, 2024

Does the fulfillment of contraceptive method preferences affect contraceptive continuation? Evidence from urban Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal pp. 131-170

Carolina Cardona, David Bishai and Phil Anglewicz

Volume 50, issue 4, 2024

Mind the gap: Exploring urban–rural differences in US inter-county migration decisions pp. 115-130

Anqi Xu

Volume 50, issue 3, 2024

Leaving and returning to the parental home during COVID times in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom pp. 101-114

Francesca Luppi, Alessandro Rosina and Emiliano Sironi

Volume 50, issue 2, 2024

How do environmental stressors influence migration? A meta-regression analysis of environmental migration literature pp. 41-100

Shuai Zhou and Guangqing Chi

Volume 50, issue 1, 2024

Lives saved, lives lost, and under-reported COVID-19 deaths: Excess and non-excess mortality in relation to cause-specific mortality during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden pp. 1-40

Eleonora Mussino, Gunnar Andersson, Sunnee Billingsley, Sven Drefahl, Matthew Wallace and Siddartha Aradhya