Population Studies

1988 - 2025

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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2023, volume 77, articles 3

Partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrants and descendants in the United Kingdom: A multilevel multistate event history approach pp. 359-378

Júlia Mikolai and Hill Kulu

Childbearing across partnerships in Italy: Prevalence, demographic correlates, and social gradient pp. 379-398

Elena Pirani and Daniele Vignoli

Repartnering of women in the United States: The interplay between motherhood and socio-economic status pp. 399-416

Alessandro Di Nallo, Katya Ivanova and Nicoletta Balbo

Socio-economic status and the rise of divorce in Sweden: The case of the 1880–1954 marriage cohorts in Västerbotten pp. 417-435

Glenn Sandström and Maria Stanfors

Climate and fertility amid a public health crisis pp. 437-458

Letícia J. Marteleto, Alexandre Gori Maia and Cristina Guimarães Rodrigues

Preterm birth and educational disadvantage: Heterogeneous effects pp. 459-474

Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Kieron Barclay, Joan Costa-Font, Mikko Myrskylä and Berkay Özcan

Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe pp. 475-496

Jesús-Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, José Manuel Aburto, Iñaki Permanyer, Virginia Zarulli and Fanny Janssen

The impact of Covid-19 on demographic components in Spain, 2020–31: A scenario approach pp. 497-513

Miguel González-Leonardo and Jeroen Spijker

Linking internal and international migration over the life course: A sequence analysis of individual migration trajectories in Europe pp. 515-537

Aude Bernard and Sergi Vidal

Age-specific sex ratios: Examining rural–urban variation within low- and middle-income countries pp. 539-558

Ashira Menashe-Oren and Guy Stecklov

2023, volume 77, articles 2

Correction pp. i-i

The Editors

The contribution of survival to changes in the net reproduction rate pp. 163-178

Tianyu Shen, Ester Lazzari and Vladimir Canudas-Romo

Forecasting of cohort fertility by educational level in countries with limited data availability: The case of Brazil pp. 179-195

Ewa Batyra, Tiziana Leone and Mikko Myrskylä

The relationship between life-course accumulated income and childbearing of Swedish men and women born 1940–70 pp. 197-215

Martin Kolk

Polarized adult fertility patterns following early parental death pp. 217-239

Éva Beaujouan and Anne Solaz

Body mass index in early adulthood and transition to first birth: Racial/ethnic and sex differences in the United States NLSY79 Cohort pp. 241-261

D. Susie Lee, Natalie Nitsche and Kieron Barclay

Uncertain steps into adulthood: Does economic precariousness hinder entry into the first co-residential partnership in the UK? pp. 263-289

Lydia Palumbo, Ann Berrington, Peter Eibich and Agnese Vitali

Children of immigrants: Racial assortative mating and the transition to adulthood pp. 291-309

Maurice Anyawie and Daniel T. Lichter

Parental age gaps among immigrants and their descendants: Adaptation across time and generations? pp. 311-333

Caroline Uggla and Ben Wilson

Number of children and disability pension due to mental and musculoskeletal disorders: A longitudinal register-based study in Norway pp. 335-346

Solveig Glestad Christiansen and Øystein Kravdal

Demographic risk factors, healthcare utilization, and mortality during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in Austria, Germany, and Italy pp. 347-358

Simona Bignami-Van Assche, Daniela Ghio and Nikolaos I. Stilianakis

2023, volume 77, articles 1

Thanks to the 2021 and 2022 reviewers pp. iii-iv

The Editors

Cross-sectional average length of life by parity: Country comparisons pp. 1-14

Ryohei Mogi, Ester Lazzari, Jessica Nisén and Vladimir Canudas-Romo

A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification pp. 15-33

Jiaxin Shi, José Manuel Aburto, Pekka Martikainen, Lasse Tarkiainen and Alyson van Raalte

Sources and severity of bias in estimates of the BMI–mortality association pp. 35-53

Ryan K. Masters

Interaction between childbearing and partnership trajectories among immigrants and their descendants in France: An application of multichannel sequence analysis pp. 55-70

Isaure Delaporte and Hill Kulu

Health outcomes of only children across the life course: An investigation using Swedish register data pp. 71-90

Katherine Keenan, Kieron Barclay and Alice Goisis

Mental health benefits of cohabitation and marriage: A longitudinal analysis of Norwegian register data pp. 91-110

Øystein Kravdal, Jonathan Wörn and Bjørn-Atle Reme

Cultural differences, intergenerational contacts, and the spread of Covid-19: Evidence from Swiss language regions pp. 111-121

Fabrizio Mazzonna and Nicolò Gatti

Sooner, later, or never: Changing fertility intentions due to Covid-19 in China’s Covid-19 epicentre pp. 123-140

Min Zhou and Wei Guo

Is the mortality–fertility nexus gendered? A research note on sex differences in the impact of sibling mortality on fertility preferences pp. 141-151

Emily Smith-Greenaway and Yingyi Lin

Fertility and contraception: The experience of Spanish women born in the first half of the twentieth century pp. 153-162

Miguel Requena, David Reher and Alberto Sanz-Gimeno

2022, volume 76, articles 3

The interplay of race/ethnicity and education in fertility patterns pp. 363-385

Emma Zang, Chloe Sariego and Anirudh Krishnan

Employment uncertainty and fertility intentions: Stability or resilience? pp. 387-406

Arianna Gatta, Francesco Mattioli, Letizia Mencarini and Daniele Vignoli

Contraceptive choice as risk reduction? The relevance of local violence for women’s uptake of sterilization in Colombia pp. 407-426

Signe Svallfors

Internet access and partnership formation in the United States pp. 427-445

Maria Sironi and Ridhi Kashyap

So happy together … Examining the association between relationship happiness, socio-economic status, and family transitions in the UK pp. 447-464

Brienna Perelli-Harris and Niels Blom

Measuring age differences among different-sex couples: Across religions and 130 countries, men are older than their female partners pp. 465-476

Jacob Ausubel, Stephanie Kramer, Anne Fengyan Shi and Conrad Hackett

Maternal nutritional status and offspring childlessness: Evidence from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries in a group of Italian populations pp. 477-493

Matteo Manfredini, Marco Breschi, Alessio Fornasin and Massimo Esposito

Demographic models of the reproductive process: Past, interlude, and future pp. 495-513

Daniel Ciganda and Nicolas Todd

Bride price, dowry, and young men with time to kill: A commentary on men’s marriage postponement in India pp. 515-534

Alaka Malwade Basu and Sneha Kumar

Seasonal variation in infant mortality in India pp. 535-552

Aashish Gupta

Crossing the Divide: Rural to Urban Migration in Developing Countries pp. 553-555

Ronald Skeldon

2022, volume 76, articles 2

The illusion of stable fertility preferences pp. 169-189

Maximilian Müller, Joan Hamory, Jennifer Johnson-Hanks and Edward Miguel

Does women’s health matter for fertility? Evidence from Norwegian administrative data pp. 191-212

Astri Syse, Michael Thomas, Lars Dommermuth and Rannveig Kaldager Hart

Fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa: Does remarriage matter? pp. 213-233

Ben Malinga John and Vissého Adjiwanou

The changing relationship between socio-economic background and family formation in four European countries pp. 235-251

Jarl E. Mooyaart, Aart C. Liefbroer and Francesco Billari

Constructing monthly residential locations of adults using merged state administrative data pp. 253-272

Mark Long, Elizabeth Pelletier and Jennifer Romich

Ready–Willing–Able: Early childhood mortality decline in Turkey pp. 273-293

Rengin Aktar and Alberto Palloni

The gendered widowhood effect and social mortality gap pp. 295-307

Filip Dabergott

Son preference and sex differentials in receipt of key dimensions of children’s healthcare: Evidence from Pakistan pp. 309-328

Batool Zaidi

Sex ratios and gender discrimination in Modern Greece pp. 329-346

Francisco Beltrán Tapia and Michail Raftakis

Quantifying self-rated age pp. 347-361

Georgia Verropoulou, Apostolos Papachristos, George B. Ploubidis and Cleon Tsimbos

2022, volume 76, articles 1

Preferences for a mixed-sex composition of offspring: A multigenerational approach pp. 1-18

Federica Querin

Population-level impact of adverse early life conditions on adult healthy life expectancy in low- and middle-income countries pp. 19-36

Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Alberto Palloni, Yiyue Huangfu and Mary McEniry

The shifting rural–urban gap in mortality over the life course in low- and middle-income countries pp. 37-61

Ashira Menashe-Oren and Bruno Masquelier

Growing up and moving out: Migration and the demographic transition in low- and middle-income nations pp. 63-80

Thomas J. Bollyky, Nick Graetz, Joseph Dieleman, Molly K. Miller-Petrie, Diana Schoder, Sean Joyce, Michel Guillot and Simon I. Hay

Age variations and population over-coverage: Is low mortality among migrants merely a data artefact? pp. 81-98

Matthew Wallace and Ben Wilson

Explaining regional differences in mortality during the first wave of Covid-19 in Italy pp. 99-118

Ugofilippo Basellini and Carlo Giovanni Camarda

Parity disparity: Educational differences in Nordic fertility across parities and number of reproductive partners pp. 119-136

Marika Jalovaara, Linus Andersson and Anneli Miettinen

The relative importance of women’s education on fertility desires in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel analysis pp. 137-156

Endale Kebede, Erich Striessnig and Anne Goujon

Are the birthdates of our ancestors real? Date of birth misregistration in twentieth-century Poland pp. 157-168

Jacek Cypryjański