Population Studies

1988 - 2026

Current editor(s): John Simons, Francesco Billari, James J. Brown, John Cleland, Andrew Foster, John McDonald, Tom Moultrie, Mikko Myrsklä, Alice Reid, Wendy Sigle-Rushton, Ronald Skeldon and Frans Willekens

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2026, volume 80, articles 2

Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks pp. 199-213

Annette Baudisch and Antonino Polizzi

Women’s education and fertility in select countries of Africa and Asia: Moderation by quality of education pp. 215-237

Shuang Chen

Cohort fertility differences between men and women in a developed population: Evidence from Spain pp. 239-256

Miguel Requena and David S. Reher

The population structure of the Amish, a rapidly growing ethnic religion in North America pp. 257-280

Cory Anderson and Stephanie Thiehoff

Too many men? Subnational population imbalances and men’s childlessness in Finland pp. 281-301

Henrik-Alexander Schubert and Christian Dudel

Trends in fertility preferences among Italian young adults pp. 303-320

Francesca Luppi, Daniela Bellani and Alessandro Rosina

Shifting the reproductive window: The contribution of ART and egg donation to fertility rates in the UK pp. 321-333

Luzia Bruckamp and Ester Lazzari

Trend breaks in life expectancy in the United States over 120 years and potential sources of future gains pp. 335-352

Jiaxin Shi and Jason Fletcher

Changes in numerators and denominators of death rates and their contributions to changes in life expectancy pp. 353-366

Wen Su, Mike Hollingshaus and Vladimir Canudas-Romo

The risk of being Giovanni or Maria: Naming practices and child mortality during the demographic transition pp. 367-387

Alessandra Minello and Gianpiero Dalla-Zuanna

The role of deaths following childbirth in sex differences in mortality pp. 389-404

George C. Alter

Childlessness trends at different ages by educational attainment for men and women in Finland: A research note pp. 405-414

Marika Jalovaara and Anneli Miettinen

2026, volume 80, articles 1

Long-term fertility trends by birth order in Britain: Comparison between England & Wales and Scotland pp. 1-23

Hill Kulu, Bernice Kuang, Sarah Christison and Ann Berrington

Health in early adulthood and fertility: A study based on the 1958 British cohort pp. 25-42

Eleonora Trappolini, Alyce Raybould and Giammarco Alderotti

The fertility desires–intentions gap in the United States pp. 43-61

Luca Badolato

Belonging to the neighbourhood, residential mobility, and the transition to parenthood pp. 63-81

Brian Buh, Eva Beaujouan and Ann Berrington

Ancestral marriage cultures and first partnership choices of the children of immigrants pp. 83-104

Kenneth Aa Wiik, Janna Bergsvik, Jennifer A. Holland and Michael J. Thomas

Explaining immigrant–native differences in health at birth: The role of immigrant selectivity in Spain pp. 105-122

Alessandro Ferrara and Marco Cozzani

Multistate analysis and decomposition of disability-free life expectancy trends at mid-to-older ages in Italy, 2004–19 pp. 123-138

Margherita Moretti, Tim Riffe and Angelo Lorenti

Return migration of Dutch pensioners abroad: Intentions and behaviour in a three-year follow-up study pp. 139-157

Juul Spaan, Kène Henkens and Matthijs Kalmijn

Child trafficking from south-west to south-east China: An investigation of Fujian Province as a final destination pp. 159-177

Annan Jin, Gang Li, Shuyan Xue, Yushan Huang, Yuting Li and Qifan Nie

Evaluating the impact on the sex ratio at birth of a Chinese pilot programme prohibiting prenatal sex selection pp. 179-198

Yudan Cheng and Jichao Li

2025, volume 79, articles 3

Intergenerational transmission of fertility in Great Britain: A parity-specific investigation using the 1970 British Cohort Study pp. 445-462

Katherine Keenan, Júlia Mikolai, Rebecca King and Hill Kulu

Fertility dynamics through historical pandemics and COVID-19 in Switzerland, 1871–2022 pp. 463-478

Katarina L. Matthes, Mathilde Le Vu and Kaspar Staub

Disparities by sex, race/ethnicity, and education in trends in the disability burden in the United States, 1996–2018 pp. 479-501

Shubhankar Sharma, Jo Mhairi Hale and Alessandro Feraldi

Towards more horizontality in families? Sibling associations in socio-economic status in the Barcelona area in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries pp. 503-524

Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora and Gabriel Brea-Martinez

Unwanted fertility and impacts on self-rated health of women in India pp. 525-549

Esha Chatterjee and Johny K D

Reassessing general explanations for long-run change in internal migration: Insights from Norway pp. 551-574

Ian Shuttleworth, Stefan Leknes and Michael J. Thomas

The contributions of immigration to demographic change across cities and regions in Australia pp. 575-593

James Raymer, Qing Guan, Yao Jiang and James O’Donnell

Thirty years of ‘strange bedmates’: The ICPD and the nexus of population control, feminism, and family planning pp. 595-615

Leigh Senderowicz and Rishita Nandagiri

The gendered role of occupational characteristics in lifelong singlehood across Italian birth cohorts pp. 617-635

Beatrice Caniglia, Anna Zamberlan and Paolo Barbieri

How many children do couples have when they break up? Educational stratification in parity at separation pp. 637-648

Zuzana Zilincikova, Gordey Yastrebov and Thomas Leopold

A new test of an old hypothesis: The link between women’s perceptions of mortality conditions and their perceptions of modern healthcare amid demographic transition pp. 649-658

Emily Smith-Greenaway

2025, volume 79, articles 2

Family trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in three European countries: A multistate approach in comparative research pp. 203-223

Hill Kulu, Julia Mikolai, Isaure Delaporte, Chia Liu and Gunnar Andersson

Structural labour market change, cognitive work, and entry to parenthood in Germany pp. 225-251

Honorata Bogusz, Anna Matysiak and Michaela Kreyenfeld

Living in precarious partnerships: Understanding how young men’s and women’s economic precariousness contribute to outcomes of first cohabitation pp. 253-281

Lydia Palumbo, Ann Berrington and Peter Eibich

Temperature and fertility: Evidence from Spain pp. 283-297

Risto Conte Keivabu, Marco Cozzani and Joshua Wilde

Differentiation and destandardization of family life courses: Theoretical and empirical links to sociopolitical regime types pp. 299-314

Okka Zimmermann, Dirk Konietzka and Marco Deppe

Spatial disparities in cause-specific mortality in Ukraine: A district-level analysis, 2006–19 pp. 315-336

Pavel Grigoriev, Nataliia Levchuk, Pavlo Shevchuk, Svitlana Poniakina and Sebastian Klüsener

Estimating adult mortality based on maternal orphanhood in populations with HIV/AIDS pp. 337-357

Bruno Masquelier and Ian M. Timæus

Party penalty or party premium? ‘Party Swedes’ in Norway and their income before, during, and after migration pp. 359-384

Andrea Monti and Marianne Tønnessen

African households: National and subnational trends from censuses and surveys pp. 385-405

Maria Pohl, Albert Esteve and Juan Galeano

The strictly Orthodox Jewish population in the United Kingdom: Assessment of the census undercount using an alternative estimation system pp. 407-428

L. Daniel Staetsky

Another sexual revolution? Evidence of huge growth in the LGB+ population from Australian longitudinal data pp. 429-443

Fiona Shalley and Thomas Wilson

2025, volume 79, articles 1

Thanks to the 2023 and 2024 Reviewers pp. i-ii

The Editors

Multimorbid life expectancy across race, socio-economic status, and sex in South Africa pp. 1-26

Anastasia Lam, Katherine Keenan, Mikko Myrskylä and Hill Kulu

A modal age at death approach to forecasting adult mortality pp. 27-43

Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, Paola Vázquez-Castillo and Trifon I. Missov

When do mothers bury a child? Heterogeneity in the maternal age at offspring loss pp. 45-57

Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Ugofilippo Basellini and Emilio Zagheni

Child fostering and maternal migration in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 59-80

Cassandra Cotton

Change in the perceived reproductive age window and delayed fertility in Europe pp. 81-101

Ester Lazzari, Marie-Caroline Compans and Eva Beaujouan

Microfoundations of the weakening educational gradient in fertility pp. 103-122

Daniel Ciganda, Angelo Lorenti and Lars Dommermuth

Fatherhood timing and men’s midlife earnings: A within-family study of Finnish cohorts born in 1938−50 pp. 123-139

Hanna Remes, Elina Einiö, Kaarina Korhonen, Juha Luukkonen and Pekka Martikainen

Drivers of contraceptive non-use among women and men who are not trying to get pregnant pp. 141-165

Jasmin Passet-Wittig and Detlev Lück

Anomalous distributions of birthdates across days of the month: An analysis using Spanish statistical records pp. 167-185

Josep Lledó, Jose M. Pavía and Carles Simó-Noguera

Method for redistributing ill-defined causes of death pp. 187-197

Pavel Grigoriev, Florian Bonnet and Elsa Perdrix

Use and Misuse of the United States Census: The Role of Data in the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II pp. 199-202

Steve Smallwood