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In Ghana and Kenya large spouse age gaps (ten years and above) are falling. The decline in Ghana is driven by more educated men; in Kenya there is a shift in partner selection. Smaller gaps, more equity. #GenderEquity #Agegap @demographyvienna.bsky.social www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Using unique couple-level data, we identified six life-course couple migration patterns in China. We found that wives who reunited with their migrant husbands have fewer depressive symptoms in later life than left-behind wives. 📄👉 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Using UKHLS data, @claudiabrunori.bsky.social shows that transnational separation is widespread among childhood immigrants, underscoring the need for targeted survey questions and more research of its consequences. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

A global study of 913k Zoe users shows lesbian (48%) and bisexual (40%) identities dominate worldwide, while younger generations show rising diversity, with 6.6% pansexual, 3.4% queer, and 0.7% asexual. Sexuality is evolving globally. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

New survey module captures people’s first reproductive experiences (timing, outcomes, events) to quantify reproductive difficulties and successes, calculate Time to Pregnancy in the general population, and link this experience to broader life course factors. @fertdem.bsky.social bit.ly/4iR9ryH

Unrealized fertility—having fewer children than desired—is common across the globe yet has been under-studied. A new paper in Demographic Research reviews what’s known and argues for a more coherent approach to its study across contexts. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Wars that leave families some agency can transform parenting: fewer children, better care, improved survival. Conflict isn’t always only destruction. @hcebolla.bsky.social @cchscsic.bsky.social @csic.es #Demography #Conflict #ChildDevelopment www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

How do grades differ for children in stepfamilies formed through cohabitation compared to remarriage? This study fills a research gap by highlighting the educational disparities between children in cohabiting and remarried stepfamilies. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Using GSE Panel, Liu & Kulu examine immigrant labor market trajectory alongside their family and legal status in Germany, showing women’s convergence in their propensity to participate in the labor market across immigrant groups upon the birth of a child. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

"We document large gender disparities in death registration in Guinea-Bissau. Gender differences in education explain most of the gap, with financial motives driving male registration and low awareness hindering both." www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

While resilience to job loss has been linked to fertility intentions, new evidence indicates that uncertainty about coping with job loss lowers fertility intentions more than poor reemployment prospects for Swedish men in childless couples. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Childhood left-behind experiences in China increase the odds of premarital cohabitation in adulthood. The effects vary by timing, and further analyses show heterogeneity by parental migration type and gender. #LifeCourse #LeftBehindChildren #Cohabitation www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Latest 📄: "Reassessing the U-shaped relationship between gender equality and fertility: A replication and extension of Kolk’s (2019) study using comprehensive gender equality measures" Read it here 👉 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

"This study is the first of its kind to examine trends in son preference by parity across Indian districts in the last two decades using data from four consecutive rounds of large-scale national household surveys conducted between 2002 and 2021." www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Long arm consequences of unintended childbearing in the US? Women with early unintended births report more unsecured debt at midlife. New research using the NLSY79. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... @cliffordross.bsky.social

“We frame child mortality estimation as a survival analysis problem, and incorporate statistical techniques for complex survey designs to produce full child mortality schedules suitable for countries with no vital registration data.“ www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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We are happy to announce an Open Call for papers on the topic of ‘De/Re-institutionalization of Asian Families.‘ Submissions will be open from November 1, 2026 until February 28, 2026. Please find out more about this planned collection www.demographic-research.org/files/202510...

Among an Amish population in the United States, variations in household fertility are linked with neighbors’ identities and residential proximity, highlighting nuanced social and spatial patterns. 📄👉 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Feminicide is reshaping Mexico’s demographic future. Between 2000 and 2019, nearly 50,000 women were murdered. #Feminicide #Mexico #Demography #GenderViolence

📄 by Górny, Bijwaard & Grabowska on the impact of family situation and familial events on circular migration patterns, focusing on parenthood and gender, focusing on Ukrainian migration to Poland: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Obituaries shared online by funeral homes in Quebec & Ontario (CA) cover only a portion of recorded deaths, but their age and gender distributions closely match those of the general population, making them a supplement to conventional mortality datasets. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Delaporte, Kulu & Ibbetson apply random survival forest (RSF) to longitudinal data from the Trajectories and Origins survey to analyse the predictors of having a first, second, and third birth among immigrants and their descendants in France. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Paper by Cozzani et al. explores a possible mechanism underlying ART birth disparities & highlights that these disparities do not appear to arise from treatment success, at least when treatments are performed in widely subsidized public context in Italy. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

A simple model for estimating the age and sex profiles of net international migration is developed in this paper. The model can be applied to any country situation, with or without data, or modified to incorporate new data or assumptions. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

New study maps China's fertility ideals and intentions: Ideals show north-south cultural split, intentions reveal coastal-inland economic divide. Local variation is key. #Fertility #China www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Distinct time use patterns of adolescents from Japan, Korea, UK, and Finland across 3 decades. Persistent gender gaps in East Asia reflect persistent adult gender inequality, but gender gaps are not necessarily smaller in more gender equal societies. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

When do people become parents—and in what unions? @aledinal.bsky.social studies the risks of first parenthood (15–50) by union status and parental class across cohorts. Read more: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... #FamilyFormation #ReproducibleResearch

“We explore how transitions from cohabitation to marriage affected working time and income in Europe in the 1990s, as cohabitation was emerging. We find a widening gender gap since women worked less after marrying, even if cohabiting before.” www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Should we be concerned about low fertility? Øystein Kravdal discusses six possible arguments in this reflection: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

A new paper shows how an innovative ‘data-linked explanatory analysis’ using surveys and life history interviews can be used to help account for population-level patterns in studies using person-centered techniques to understand health behaviors. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Polish women’s fertility in the Netherlands surges post-migration, especially for family migrants, but drops after four years. Tempo distortions mask varied childbearing patterns, most evident for those moving in peak reproductive years. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Europeans perceived non-traditional families as less favourable to child’s well-being but two thirds view same-sex and step families as comparable to mother-and-father family. Women are more open to alternative family forms than men. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

"Using an intersectional life course approach & multi-channel sequence analysis we show that family and employment are mutually supportive life domains among migrant men, whilst they are competing and often incompatible among migrant women." www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

What comes after #cohabitation for young adults? Using sequence analysis, the study maps 6 partnership-parenthood trajectories following cohabitation as first unions among early Millennials in the US, highlighting its diverse roles in family formation. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Polygamous men have more children—just like women. But unlike women, education doesn’t consistently lower fertility for men in Sub-Saharan Africa: 📄👉 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... #male_fertility #demography #education #Sub-Saharan_Africa @demographyvienna.bsky.social

Hidden population heterogeneity: Using highly stratified neonatal cohort lifetables @jschoeley.com shows how mortality selection acts on the observed distribution of frailties and provides a test for the selection hypothesis of "ontogenescence". www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

From 2001 to 2021, Indigenous fertility in Canada declined from replacement level to 1.54. Inuit rates remain highest. The gap with non-Indigenous Canadians narrowed, pointing to convergence. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

When the lives of relatives overlap, interactions across generations are richer and more important. This paper shows how to calculate the lifetime overlap in a kinship network from basic demographic information. #Kinship www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

New study shows that parental work intensity moderates the link between poverty and children’s development. Parental work intensity acts as a resilience mechanism, especially for girls and Hispanic children. #Poverty #ChildDevelopment www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

How did American adults change their #fertility desires during #COVID-19—and why? New research shows that pandemic-specific concerns, like fear of infection and social distancing, shaped fertility desires beyond economic or emotional hardship. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

IPC 2025 Alongside editors from other journals, our Deputy Editor Agnieszka Fihel had the pleasure to represent Demographic Research📖 at the session ‘Meet the Editors’. They discussed how young scholars can contribute to the scientific community as authors, reviewers and, one day, editors.

Lina María Sanchez-Cespedes presents a simple method to adjust model life tables to estimate mortality curves with excess mortality and their backward projections. It enables the estimation of the decrease in life expectancy due to external causes. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

“We used sequence analysis to reveal five distinct postpartum pregnancy exposure patterns in Ethiopia. This approach offers holistic understanding of postpartum fecundity and measuring unmet need for family planning.” www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

By linking survey data with longitudinal #register data, study examines the predictive power of immigrants’ #migration expectations in the Netherlands and finds that expectations such as return or onward migration are strong predictors of actual behavior. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Most U.S. grandchildren live close to a grandparent: almost half live within 10 miles and 13% live within 1 mile of a grandparent. When families live closer, they spend more time helping one another, playing important roles in each other’s lives. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

“We examine first, second, and third birth rates amongst those who moved to the UK as children, were born in the UK to two foreign-born parents, or were born to one foreign-born and one UK-born parent.” @jiseonbaek.bsky.social www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

The number of one-person #households in #Germany has steadily increased since reunification. A #decomposition of German #Microcensus data from 1991 to 2021 suggests shifting mechanisms driving this trend in both East and West Germany. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Who gets the privilege of free time? Across Europe, fathers enjoy more leisure time than mothers, especially in Southern and Eastern countries. New research across 13 countries shows persistent gender gaps in parental leisure. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...