Journal of Population Research

2000 - 2025

Current editor(s): Santosh Jatrana, Dharmalingam Arunachalam, Aude Bernard, Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Ann Evans, Michael Haan, Brian Houle, Trude Lappegård and Gordon Carmichael

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Volume 42, issue 2, 2025

Effects of diffusion and education on women’s fertility in India pp. 1-48

Nandan Jha and Neena Banerjee

Cohabitation and child health: understanding the pathways of the impact in Ghana pp. 1-45

Opoku Adabor and Ankita Mishra

Correction: Exploring keys to understanding the challenges of social participation in old age from a generational baby Boomer perspective: a scoping review pp. 1-2

Dolores Majón-Valpuesta and Mélanie Levasseur

A comparative study of premarital fertility knowledge, childbearing intentions, and parenting attitudes among Iranian women and men pp. 1-21

Farideh Khalajabadi Farahani, Maryam Gharacheh, Simin Montazeri, Mojgan Mirghafourvand, Tahereh Sadeghi, Mina Taheri, Shima Haghani and Fahimeh Ranjbar

Empirical analysis of the differences in the drivers of fertility between CEE countries and the rest of the EU pp. 1-25

András Olivér Németh, Petra Németh and László Tőkés

Fertility intentions in the USA: unraveling gender and age dynamics through a cross-sectional lens pp. 1-28

Bosede Odunola Adejugbe and Mufti Nadimul Quamar Ahmed

The influence of developmental idealism on Turkish parents’ intention to continue childbearing pp. 1-47

Serap Kavas and Arland Thornton

Displacements in reported date of birth and differences in age at death in surveys of child mortality: a record linkage study in Guinea-Bissau pp. 1-18

Andreas Møller Jensen, Sanne Marie Thysen, Justiniano Sebastião Durga Martins, Didier Abdel Fernandes, Amabelia Rodrigues, Stéphane Helleringer and Ane Bærent Fisker

Volume 42, issue 1, 2025

Women’s empowerment and live birth registration coverage in Nigeria: a geostatistical assessment pp. 1-20

Ezra Gayawan, Bamidele Mustapha Oseni, Olabimpe Bodunde Aladeniyi, Alaba Ajibola Lamidi-Sarumoh, Tope Alabi, Nkemdilim Patricia Anazonwu, Paul Omoh Olopha and Abayomi Akomolafe

A comparative study of family violence among Hindi-speaking and third-generation English-speaking Australian women pp. 1-20

Heshani S. Silva, Troy E. McEwan and Stephane M. Shepherd

Age patterns of emigration from Egypt and return to it during 2000–2013 pp. 1-15

Soha Metwally and Sayed Mohamed

Deep learning-based mortality surveillance: implications for healthcare policy and practice pp. 1-25

Suryo Adi Rakhmawan, Tahir Mahmood and Nasir Abbas

Exploring keys to understanding the challenges of social participation in old age from a generational baby boomer perspective: a scoping review pp. 1-23

Dolores Majón-Valpuesta and Mélanie Levasseur

Examination of adolescent and youth modern contraceptive users’ perceptions on how religion influences contraceptive use and their rationale and circumstances of use: qualitative evidence from Burkina Faso, Kenya and Niger pp. 1-22

Ilene S. Speizer, Fiacre Bazie, Amelia Maytan-Joneydi, John A. Mushomi, Sanoussi Chaibou, Kindo Boukary, Balki Ibrahim Agali and Julius Rwenyo

Can reliable sub-state emigration estimates be obtained from an administrative population dataset? The case of the Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA) of Australia pp. 1-21

Tom Wilson, Gin Wu, Aude Bernard, Neil Argent and Anthony Kimpton

Multilevel correlates of the severity of intimate partner violence among women in Nigeria: Evidence from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey pp. 1-21

David Aduragbemi Okunlola

A review of research of the relationship between gender equity and fertility in low-fertility settings pp. 1-26

Victor Leocádio, Ana Paula Verona and Simone Wajnman

Barriers to and facilitators of civil registration in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: a qualitative study pp. 1-26

Samuel Mills, Jane Kim Lee, Somkhit Boulidam, Symonekeo S. Thomas and Salika Onsy

Is the age pension in Australia sustainable and fair? Evidence from forecasting the old-age dependency ratio using the Hamilton-Perry model pp. 1-27

Sizhe Chen, Han Lin Shang and Yang Yang

Volume 41, issue 4, 2024

What drives period fertility rates during post-recession spells? pp. 1-26

Georgios Mavropoulos

Varying responses to the introduction of earnings-related benefits: a study of 2004 parental leave reform in Estonia pp. 1-31

Sanan Abdullayev and Allan Puur

Correlates of timing and intensity of reproductive transition among Ethiopian youths: A multistate multilevel analysis pp. 1-17

Tariku Dejene and Eshetu Gurmu

Correction: A life course perspective: women’s childhood background and family formation trajectories in low-fertility South Korea pp. 1-3

Jolene Tan and Shao-Tzu Yu

Forecasting number of births and sex ratio at birth in Iran using deep neural network and ARIMA: implications for policy evaluations pp. 1-21

Nasibeh Esmaeili and Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi

Employment uncertainty and parenthood: quantifying the mediating role of union formation pp. 1-23

Giammarco Alderotti, Alessandra De Rose and Valentina Tocchioni

Women’s educational attainment and sexual coercion by intimate partners: ethnic differences in Vietnam pp. 1-23

Hang Thi Thuy Do and Pataporn Sukontamarn

The evolution of fertility in Greece since the 1960s: a joinpoint regression analysis pp. 1-20

Konstantinos N. Zafeiris, Georgios Kontogiannis and Byron Kotzamanis

War, school dropout and adolescent motherhood in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: evidence from the 2007 and 2013/2014 Demographic and Health Surveys pp. 1-30

Guerschom Mugisho

Volume 41, issue 3, 2024

Empowerment of elder family caregivers in the context of Vietnam: applying the theory of planned behavior pp. 1-20

Quynh An Ngo, Phuong Tran Huy and Thi Mai Phuong Tran

Younger children and mothers’ labour supply in rural India: Evidence from fertility stopping behaviour pp. 1-46

Isha Gupta

How life-table right-censoring affected the Brazilian social security factor: an application of the gamma-Gompertz-Makeham model pp. 1-38

Filipe Costa Souza, Wilton Bernardino and Silvio C. Patricio

Unintended consequences of farm input subsidies: women’s contraceptive usage and knock-on effects on children pp. 1-28

Martin Limbikani Mwale and Tony Mwenda Kamninga

Determinants of unhealthy BMI among women of childbearing age in Bangladesh pp. 1-32

Md Mohsan Khudri, Ahmad Reshad Osmani and Albert Okunade

Regional fertility predictors based on socioeconomic determinants in Slovakia pp. 1-43

Janetta Nestorová Dická and Filip Lipták

A comprehensive health index for India: development, validation, and spatial variation pp. 1-31

Meena Sehgal, Santosh Jatrana and Louise Johnson

Differentials, barriers and enablers of death registration in Nepal: evidence from the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) survey pp. 1-19

Surender Prasad Pandey, Hafizur Rahman Chowdhury and Tim Adair

Volume 41, issue 2, 2024

A life course perspective: women’s childhood background and family formation trajectories in low-fertility South Korea pp. 1-16

Jolene Tan and Shao-Tzu Yu

A scoping review of determinants of indigenous health and health disparities in Taiwan: present evidence and paradigms pp. 1-24

Jen-Hao Chen, Wei-Lin Chen and Cheng-Shi Shiu

Understanding fertility policy through a process-oriented approach: the case of Japan’s decline in births pp. 1-27

Yasuo Takao

Hidden numbers, hidden people: Family violence among South Asian Australians pp. 1-19

Heshani Samantha De Silva, Stephane M. Shepherd and Troy E. McEwan

Health selection, family division of labour and labour market participation of migrant and Australian born couples pp. 1-38

Tinh Doan, Cathy Banwell, Liana Leach and Lyndall Strazdins

Continuum of maternal and new-natal health care: empirical evidence from 10 developing countries in South and South East Asia pp. 1-33

Dil Rahut, Anjali Singh and Tetsushi Sonobe

Bayesian modelling of best-performance healthy life expectancy pp. 1-25

Jackie Li

Volume 41, issue 1, 2024

Exploring the relationship between changes in fertility and disasters: a review of the literature pp. 1-29

Khandaker Jafor Ahmed, Yan Tan and Dianne Rudd

A global and regional assessment of the timing of birth registration using DHS and MICS survey data pp. 1-18

Tim Adair and Hang Li

Estimating the civilian noninstitutional population for small areas: a modified cohort component approach using public use data pp. 1-31

Andrew C. Forrester

Accuracy of small area mortality prediction methods: evidence from Poland pp. 1-20

Agnieszka Orwat-Acedańska

Lung cancer mortality trends among women across Spain: the role of birth cohorts in diverging regional patterns pp. 1-27

Octavio Bramajo

Decomposing the differences in healthy life expectancy between migrants and natives: the ‘healthy migrant effect’ and its age variations in Australia pp. 1-28

Guogui Huang, Fei Guo, Lucy Taksa, Zhiming Cheng, Max Tani, Lihua Liu, Klaus Zimmermann and Marika Franklin

Volume 40, issue 4, 2023

Indigenous fertility in Aotearoa New Zealand: How does ethnic identity affect birth spacing and timing? pp. 1-27

Moana Rarere, Yara Jarallah and Tahu Kukutai

Understanding the social integration process of rural–urban migrants in urban china: a bibliometrics review pp. 1-34

Liyan Huang, Hong Ching Goh and Rosli Said

Investigating the nativity differences in the development of disability in Australia: findings from a nationally representative longitudinal survey pp. 1-42

Santosh Jatrana and Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti

Parental gender preference in the Balkans and Scandinavia: gender bias or differential costs? pp. 1-48

Serhii Maksymovych, William Appleman and Zurab Abramishvili

Correlates and spatial distribution of marital dissolution in Ghana pp. 1-17

Charlotte A. Ofori, Crystal B. Letsa, Philip-Neri Jayson-Quashigah and D. Yaw Atiglo

Demographic, socioeconomic, and cultural factors for the rise in one-person households in developing countries: the case of the Philippines pp. 1-32

Jeofrey Bautista Abalos and Wei-Jun Jean Yeung

Expected length of stay at residential aged care facilities in Australia: current and future pp. 1-30

Jinhui Zhang, Yanlin Shi and Guogui Huang

Parental sex-preferences in South Africa: culture and family composition pp. 1-15

Michel Garenne and Nancy Stiegler

Volume 40, issue 3, 2023

Does diversity matter for development? New evidence of ethnic diversity’s mediation between internal migration and economic growth across Indonesia’s regions pp. 1-21

Aris Ananta, Evi Nurvidya Arifin, Ari Purbowati and Paul J. Carnegie

Factors associated with discordance of actual and preferred living arrangements among older adults: an analytical cross-sectional study in India pp. 1-16

Shobhit Srivastava, T. Muhammad and Priya Saravanakumar

Perceptions towards pronatalist policies in Singapore pp. 1-27

Jolene Tan

Examining the effects of a two-child policy in rural India pp. 1-20

Bidisha Mandal and Wenjun Wu

Homeownership pathways and fertility in urban China pp. 1-15

Yongxiao Du and Hao Dong

Choice of desired family size among young women in Zambia: what matters? pp. 1-18

Million Phiri, Liness Shasha, Emmanuel Musonda, Mikidadi Muhanga and Musonda Lemba

Volume 40, issue 2, 2023

Trends in mortality patterns in two countries with different welfare models: comparisons between Cuba and Denmark 1955–2020 pp. 1-28

Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos Espiñeira, Camila Perera and Ingelise Andersen

The role of male partners in modern contraceptive use by women in South Africa: Does space also matter? pp. 1-23

Kabeya Clement Mulamba

The effect of retirement on health and mortality in the United States pp. 1-22

Yuanrong Xu

Fertility preferences in China in the twenty-first century pp. 1-30

Rui Lu, Anne Gauthier and Gert Stulp

Fertility, employment, and the demographic dividend in sub-Saharan African countries with incipient demographic transition: evidence from Mali pp. 1-15

Cheick Kader M’baye

Are fertility theories still relevant in explaining fertility behaviour in traditional and contemporary societies in sub-Saharan Africa? A systematic review pp. 1-17

Desmond Klu

Systematic review of multilevel models involving contextual characteristics in African demographic research pp. 1-29

Clifford Odimegwu, Marifa Muchemwa and Joshua O. Akinyemi

Volume 40, issue 1, 2023

The measurement of structural ageing – an axiomatic approach pp. 1-22

Michael Cameron

Policy impacts on contraceptive access in the United States: a scoping review pp. 1-72

Laura E. T. Swan

Greece since the 1960s: the mortality transition revisited: a joinpoint regression analysis pp. 1-31

Konstantinos N. Zafeiris

Gender-role attitudes and fertility ideals in Latin America pp. 1-21

Xiana Bueno and Ignacio Pardo

Transition to first marriage in Thailand: cohort and educational changes pp. 1-16

Premchand Dommaraju and Shawn Wong