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Anne Shepherd: An appreciation Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 The Editors
Published in Population Studies: A Journal of Demography (Vol. 78, No. 1, 2024)
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Cameroon’s slow fertility transition: A gender perspective Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Jean Christophe Fotso, John G. Cleland, Elihou O. Adje
We interrogate the proposition that men’s attitudes have constrained the fertility transition in Cameroon, where fertility remains high and contraceptive use low despite much socio-economic progres...
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Unequal before death: The effect of paternal education on children’s old-age mortality in the United States Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Hamid Noghanibehambari, Jason Fletcher
A growing body of research documents the relevance of parental education as a marker of family socio-economic status for children’s later-life health outcomes. A strand of this literature evaluates...
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Change in the perceived reproductive age window and delayed fertility in Europe Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ester Lazzari, Marie-Caroline Compans, Eva Beaujouan
While extensive literature documents the massive fertility delay of recent decades, knowledge about whether and how attitudes towards the timing of births have changed in Europe remains limited. Us...
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Grandparental support and maternal depression: Do grandparents’ characteristics matter more for separating mothers? Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Niina Metsä-Simola, Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Hanna Remes, Mine Kühn, Pekka Martikainen
Grandparental support may protect mothers from depression, particularly mothers who separate and enter single parenthood. Using longitudinal Finnish register data on 116,917 separating and 371,703 ...
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Home-based work and childbearing Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Beata Osiewalska, Anna Matysiak, Anna Kurowska
We examine the timely yet greatly under-researched interplay between home-based work (HBW) and women’s birth transitions. Past research has shown that HBW may facilitate and/or jeopardize work–fami...
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Has it always paid to be rich? Income and cause-specific mortality in southern Sweden 1905–2014 Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Enrico Debiasi, Martin Dribe, Gabriel Brea Martinez
Socio-economic differences in mortality are among the most pervasive characteristics of Western societies. While the mortality gradient by income is well established for the period after 1970, know...
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Is there an association between family members’ season of birth that could influence birth seasonality? Evidence from Spain and France Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Adela Recio Alcaide, César Pérez López, Miguel Ángel Ortega, Luisa N. Borrell, Francisco Bolúmar
The number of births varies by season. Research on birth seasonality has shown that women’s season of birth somehow influences that of their children, but factors underlying the intergenerational t...
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Educational composition effect on the sex gap in life expectancy: A research note based on evidence from Australia Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Wen Su, Jennifer Welsh, Rosemary J. Korda, Vladimir Canudas-Romo
Life expectancy for females has exceeded that of males globally this century. There is considerable within-country variation in life expectancy related to education. Sex gaps in life expectancy can...
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Who eats last? Intra-household gender inequality in food allocation among children in educationally backward areas of India Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Dipanwita Ghatak, Soham Sahoo, Sudipa Sarkar, Varun Sharma
The practice of women eating after men is a common gender-inequitable food allocation mechanism among adults in Indian households and has been associated with poor health and nutritional outcomes f...
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Kinship and socio-economic status: Social gradients in frequencies of kin across the life course in Sweden Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Linus Andersson, Martin Kolk
The influence of kin on various outcomes is heavily debated. However, kinship size itself conditions the probability of potential effects. Socio-economic gradients in the prevalence, variance, and ...
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Infant and child mortality in the Netherlands 1935–47 and changes related to the Dutch famine of 1944–45: A population-based analysis Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Ingrid J. J. de Zwarte, Peter Ekamper, L. H. Lumey
Precise estimates of the impact of famine on infant and child mortality are rare due to lack of representative data. Using vital statistics reports on the Netherlands for 1935–47, we examine the impact of the Dutch famine (November 1944 to May 1945) on age-specific mortality risk and cause of death in four age groups (stillbirths, <1 year, 1–4, 5–14) in the three largest famine-affected cities and
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A growing divide: Trends in social inequalities in healthy longevity in Australia, 2001–20 Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Kim Qinzi Xu, Collin F. Payne
This study examines two decades of change in social inequalities in life and health expectancy among older adults in Australia, one of the few countries that escaped an economic recession during the global financial crisis. We compare adults aged 45+ across three measures of individual socio-economic position—education, occupation, and household wealth—and use multistate life tables to estimate total
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Trends in chronic childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh for small domains Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Sumonkanti Das, Bernard Baffour, Alice Richardson
Chronic childhood undernutrition, known as stunting, is an important population health problem with short- and long-term adverse outcomes. Bangladesh has made strides to reduce chronic childhood un...
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Age-specific sex ratios: Examining rural–urban variation within low- and middle-income countries Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Ashira Menashe-Oren, Guy Stecklov
The balance of men and women in society, captured by sex ratios, determines key social and demographic phenomena. Previous research has explored sex ratios mainly at birth and up to age five at nat...
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Linking internal and international migration over the life course: A sequence analysis of individual migration trajectories in Europe Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Aude Bernard, Sergi Vidal
Because internal and international migration are typically conceptualized and measured separately, empirical evidence on the links between these two forms of population movement remains partial. Th...
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Climate and fertility amid a public health crisis Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Letícia J. Marteleto, Alexandre Gori Maia, Cristina Guimarães Rodrigues
One line of enquiry in demographic research assesses whether climate affects fertility. We extend this literature by examining the ramifications of climate conditions on fertility over a period of ...
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Estimating age-specific mortality using calibrated splines Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Sigurd Dyrting, Andrew Taylor
Demographers have developed a number of methods for expanding abridged mortality data into a complete schedule; however, these can be usefully applied only under certain conditions, and the presence or absence of one or more additional sources of incompleteness can degrade their relative accuracy, lead to implausible profiles, or even cause the methods to fail. We develop a new method for expanding
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Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Jesús-Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, José Manuel Aburto, Iñaki Permanyer, Virginia Zarulli, Fanny Janssen
Much less is known about the sex gap in lifespan variation, which reflects inequalities in the length of life, than about the sex gap in life expectancy (average length of life). We examined the co...
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Demographic risk factors, healthcare utilization, and mortality during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in Austria, Germany, and Italy Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Simona Bignami-Van Assche, Daniela Ghio, Nikolaos I. Stilianakis
At the population level, there is limited empirical evidence on the characteristics of individuals who were hospitalized because of Covid-19, the role of hospitalization in mortality risk, and how both evolved over time. Through the analysis of surveillance data for 7 million people in Austria, Germany, and Italy, we investigate: (1) the demographic characteristics and outcomes of individuals hospitalized
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Partnership trajectories preceding medically assisted reproduction Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Alina Pelikh, Hanna Remes, Niina Metsä-Simola, Alice Goisis
The number of people who undergo medically assisted reproduction (MAR) to conceive has increased considerably in recent decades. However, existing research into the demographics and the partnership histories of this growing subgroup is limited. Using unique data from Finnish population registers on nulliparous women born in Finland in 1971–77 (n = 21,129; ∼10 per cent of all women) who had undergone
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The recent decline in period fertility in England and Wales: Differences associated with family background and intergenerational educational mobility Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 John Ermisch
During 2010–20, period fertility in England and Wales fell to its lowest recorded level. The aim of this paper is to improve our understanding of the decline in period fertility in two dimensions: differentials by the education of a woman's parents (family background) and by a woman's education in relation to that of her parents (intergenerational educational mobility). The analysis finds a substantial
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Fertility patterns and sex composition preferences in immigrant–native unions in Sweden Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Annika Elwert
Intermarriage between immigrants and native individuals highlights the need to study childbearing as a joint decision of couples, because fertility preferences are likely to differ for the two partners involved. This study focuses on Sweden, where the majority population holds a relative preference for daughters but many immigrants come from countries with son preferences. Using longitudinal registers
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Number of children and disability pension due to mental and musculoskeletal disorders: A longitudinal register-based study in Norway Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Solveig Glestad Christiansen, Øystein Kravdal
Earlier research has documented a relationship between parity and all-cause mortality, as well as parity and cause-specific mortality (e.g. cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality). Less is known about the relationship between parity and two very common (but less deadly) types of disorder: mental and musculoskeletal. We examine the association between parity and risk of disability pensioning from
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Pandemics and socio-economic status. Evidence from the plague of 1630 in northern Italy Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Guido Alfani, Marco Bonetti, Mattia Fochesato
This paper investigates the biological, socio-economic, and institutional factors shaping the individual risk of death during a major pre-industrial epidemic. We use a micro-demographic database fo...
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Increases in child marriage among the poorest in Mali: ‘Reverse policies’ or data quality issues? Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Ewa Batyra, Luca Maria Pesando
Child marriage is associated with adverse outcomes related to women’s well-being. Many countries have introduced laws banning this practice, and a number of studies have evaluated their impact. Sca...
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Did the 1918 influenza pandemic cause a 1920 baby boom? Demographic evidence from neutral Europe Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Hampton Gaddy, Mathias Mølbak Ingholt
In 1919–20, the European countries that were neutral in the First World War saw a small baby bust followed by a small baby boom. The sparse literature on this topic attributes the 1919 bust to individuals postponing conceptions during the peak of the 1918–20 influenza pandemic and the 1920 boom to recuperation of those conceptions. Using data from six large neutral countries of Europe, we present novel
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Social cartography and satellite-derived building coverage for post-census population estimates in difficult-to-access regions of Colombia Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Lina Maria Sanchez-Cespedes, Douglas Ryan Leasure, Natalia Tejedor-Garavito, Glenn Harry Amaya Cruz, Gustavo Adolfo Garcia Velez, Andryu Enrique Mendoza, Yenny Andrea Marín Salazar, Thomas Esch, Andrew J. Tatem, Mariana Ospina Bohórquez
Effective government services rely on accurate population numbers to allocate resources. In Colombia and globally, census enumeration is challenging in remote regions and where armed conflict is oc...
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The contribution of survival to changes in the net reproduction rate Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Tianyu Shen, Ester Lazzari, Vladimir Canudas-Romo
The net reproduction rate (NRR) is an alternative fertility measure to the more common total fertility rate (TFR) and accounts for the mortality context of the population studied. This study is the first to compare NRR trends in high- and low-income countries and to decompose NRR changes over time into fertility and survival components. The results show that changes in the NRR have been driven mostly
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Flexible transition timing in discrete-time multistate life tables using Markov chains with rewards Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Daniel C. Schneider, Mikko Myrskylä, Alyson van Raalte
Discrete-time multistate life tables are attractive because they are easier to understand and apply in comparison with their continuous-time counterparts. While such models are based on a discrete time grid, it is often useful to calculate derived magnitudes (e.g. state occupation times), under assumptions which posit that transitions take place at other times, such as mid-period. Unfortunately, currently
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Thanks to the 2021 and 2022 reviewers Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-28
Published in Population Studies: A Journal of Demography (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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Children of immigrants: Racial assortative mating and the transition to adulthood Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Maurice Anyawie, Daniel T. Lichter
Few studies have followed immigrant-origin individuals from adolescence to adulthood or examined their spousal choices. Using longitudinal data from Add Health, we present a life-course model that examines the differences in racial assortative mating between children of immigrants and non-immigrants. The results reveal substantial variation in racial endogamy from generation to generation. Racial endogamy
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Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination, and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780–1839 Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Eric B. Schneider, Sören Edvinsson, Kota Ogasawara
While there is strong evidence that maternal smallpox infection can cause foetal loss, it is not clear whether smallpox infections were a demographically important cause of stillbirths historically. In this paper, we use parish-level data from the Swedish Tabellverket data set for 1780–1839 to test the effect of smallpox on stillbirths quantitatively, analysing periods before and after the introduction
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Cognitive impairment and partnership status in the United States, 1998–2016, by sex, race/ethnicity, and education Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Shubhankar Sharma, Jo Mhairi Hale, Mikko Myrskylä, Hill Kulu
Cognitively impaired adults without a partner are highly disadvantaged, as partners constitute an important source of caregiving and emotional support. With the application of innovative multistate...
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Sources and severity of bias in estimates of the BMI–mortality association Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Ryan K. Masters
Estimates of mortality differences by body mass index (BMI) are likely biased by: (1) confounding bias from heterogeneity in body shape; (2) positive survival bias in high-BMI samples due to recent weight gain; and (3) negative survival bias in low-BMI samples due to recent weight loss. I investigate these sources of bias in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1988–94 and
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Is the mortality–fertility nexus gendered? A research note on sex differences in the impact of sibling mortality on fertility preferences Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Emily Smith-Greenaway, Yingyi Lin
Research guided by demographic transition theory has shown that exposure to mortality influences women’s fertility preferences and behaviours. Despite the myriad contexts, methodological approaches, and linkages featured in past studies, they have shared a focus on women, leaving questions on the gendered salience of mortality exposures for adults’ fertility-related outcomes unanswered. In this research
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The (temporary) Covid-19 baby bust in Mexico Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Adan Silverio-Murillo, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Jose Roberto Balmori de la Miyar, Judith Senyancen Méndez Méndez
In this paper, we investigate whether fertility and newborn health changed during the Covid-19 pandemic in Mexico. We use national administrative data and an event-study design to examine the impac...
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Women’s fertility and allostatic load in the post-reproductive years: An analysis of the Indonesian Family Life Survey Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Tiziana Leone, Heini Väisänen, Firman Witoelar
We know little about the effects of the reproductive health burden in contexts where unsafe abortions, miscarriages, stillbirths, and low-quality maternal care are common. The aim of this study is ...
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Cultural differences, intergenerational contacts, and the spread of Covid-19: Evidence from Swiss language regions Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Fabrizio Mazzonna, Nicolò Gatti
The Covid-19 pandemic displayed large variations between and within countries in the speed of contagion and in observed fatality rates. This work sheds light on the role of social ties in old age, exploiting the high cultural variation between German-speaking and Latin- (French- and Italian-) speaking regions in Switzerland. We show that older adults in Latin-speaking regions exhibit a larger social
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Repartnering of women in the United States: The interplay between motherhood and socio-economic status Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Alessandro Di Nallo, Katya Ivanova, Nicoletta Balbo
We examine the socio-economic differentials in mothers’ and non-mothers’ repartnering behaviours following the dissolution of a co-residential (marital or cohabiting) union. Based on five waves of ...
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Socio-economic status and the rise of divorce in Sweden: The case of the 1880–1954 marriage cohorts in Västerbotten Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Glenn Sandström, Maria Stanfors
An established negative association between socio-economic status (SES) and divorce has applied to most Western nations since 1960. We expected a positive association between SES and divorce for lo...
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Childbearing across partnerships in Italy: Prevalence, demographic correlates, and social gradient Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Elena Pirani, Daniele Vignoli
Studies of childbearing across partnerships—having children with more than one partner—have generally focused on countries with relatively high separation rates. We complement this previous researc...
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Partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrants and descendants in the United Kingdom: A multilevel multistate event history approach Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Júlia Mikolai, Hill Kulu
We study the interrelationships between partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrant women and female descendants of immigrants using the UK Household Longitudinal Study. We propose a novel ...
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Correction Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-11-16
Published in Population Studies: A Journal of Demography (Vol. 77, No. 2, 2023)
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The impact of Covid-19 on demographic components in Spain, 2020–31: A scenario approach Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Miguel González-Leonardo, Jeroen Spijker
While considerable attention has been paid to the impact of Covid-19 on mortality and fertility, few studies have attempted to evaluate the pandemic’s effect on international migration. We analyse ...
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The relationship between life-course accumulated income and childbearing of Swedish men and women born 1940–70 Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Martin Kolk
This study uses income accumulated over ages 20–60 to examine whether richer or poorer individuals have more children. Income histories are calculated using yearly administrative register data from contemporary Sweden for cohorts born 1940–70. Differences by parity and income distribution are examined separately by sex. There is a strong positive gradient between accumulated disposable income (and
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Body mass index in early adulthood and transition to first birth: Racial/ethnic and sex differences in the United States NLSY79 Cohort Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 D. Susie Lee, Natalie Nitsche, Kieron Barclay
Studies show that body mass index during early adulthood (‘early BMI’) predicts the transition to first birth, but early childbearers tend to be omitted from such studies. This sample selection distorts the prevalence of childlessness, and particularly the racial/ethnic heterogeneity therein, because first birth timing differs by race/ethnicity. We imputed pre-parenthood early BMI for a larger sample
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The interplay of race/ethnicity and education in fertility patterns Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Emma Zang, Chloe Sariego, Anirudh Krishnan
This study examines the interplay between race/ethnicity and educational attainment in shaping completed fertility in the United States for women born 1961–80. Using data from the National Survey of Family Growth, 2006–17, we apply multilevel, multiprocess hazard models to account for unobserved heterogeneity and to estimate (1) cohort total fertility rates, (2) parity progression ratios, and (3) parity-specific
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Fertility and contraception: The experience of Spanish women born in the first half of the twentieth century Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Miguel Requena, David Reher, Alberto Sanz-Gimeno
New data based on retrospective interviews with older informants enable us to review the history of contraceptive use among Spanish women over much of the twentieth century. This source is unique because it includes cohorts of women whose reproductive lives took place before, during, and after the baby boom. Traditional contraceptive methods (withdrawal and periodic abstinence) were central to the
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Measuring age differences among different-sex couples: Across religions and 130 countries, men are older than their female partners Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Jacob Ausubel, Stephanie Kramer, Anne Fengyan Shi, Conrad Hackett
Cross-national studies of age patterns among couples have tended to compare the ages at which men and women first marry, but few have analysed age differences between current spouses or cohabiting partners (i.e. partner age gaps). We address this gap in the literature by using recent census and survey data to analyse age differences between current partners in 130 countries. Worldwide, men are an average
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Seasonal variation in infant mortality in India Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Aashish Gupta
Investigating seasonal variation in health helps us understand interactions between population, environment, and disease. Using information on birth month and year, survival status within the first year of life, and age at death (if applicable) of more than 330,000 children observed in four rounds of India’s Demographic and Health Surveys, I estimate period mortality rates between birth and age one
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Forecasting of cohort fertility by educational level in countries with limited data availability: The case of Brazil Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Ewa Batyra, Tiziana Leone, Mikko Myrskylä
The Brazilian period total fertility rate (PTFR) dropped to 1.8 in 2010 (1.5 among those with high education). Due to shifts in fertility timing, the PTFR may provide a misleading picture of fertility levels. The consequences of these changes for the cohort total fertility rate (CTFR)—a measure free from tempo distortions—and for educational differences in completed fertility remain unknown. Due to
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Uncertain steps into adulthood: Does economic precariousness hinder entry into the first co-residential partnership in the UK? Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Lydia Palumbo, Ann Berrington, Peter Eibich, Agnese Vitali
This study uses prospective data spanning 27 years (1991–2018) to explore the relationship between economic precariousness and transitions to first co-residential partnership among Britons aged 18–34 across three dimensions: age, historical time, and sex. Economic precariousness is measured using eight objective and subjective indicators, including income, employment, housing, and financial perceptions
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Maternal nutritional status and offspring childlessness: Evidence from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries in a group of Italian populations Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Matteo Manfredini, Marco Breschi, Alessio Fornasin, Massimo Esposito
The role of maternal nutrition in affecting offspring fertility, through alteration of foetal programming, has been demonstrated in animal-based experiments. However, results from human populations appear inconsistent and sometimes contradictory, likely because they have been based on single famine events. In this paper, we adopt a different approach. We combine official annual time series of daily
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Polarized adult fertility patterns following early parental death Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Éva Beaujouan, Anne Solaz
Death of a parent during childhood has become rare in developed countries but remains an important life course event that may have consequences for family formation. This paper describes the link between parental death before age 18 and fertility outcomes in adulthood. Using the large national 2011 French Family Survey (INSEE–INED), we focus on the 1946–66 birth cohorts, for whom we observe entire
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Constructing monthly residential locations of adults using merged state administrative data Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Mark C. Long, Elizabeth Pelletier, Jennifer Romich
In any month, administrative data collected by government agencies contain a fraction of the polity’s adults, namely those who have interacted with government agencies in that month. For researchers and policymakers who want to evaluate questions that require a spatial location of the whole population of adults at a given time (e.g. job–residence spatial mismatch, impacts of local policies), these
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Bride price, dowry, and young men with time to kill: A commentary on men’s marriage postponement in India Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Alaka Malwade Basu, Sneha Kumar
Rising numbers of young unmarried men in India reflect a marriage squeeze that goes beyond the shortage of brides created by sex-selective abortion. We describe a decline in men’s marriageability caused by their falling economic prospects at the same time as families of brides are increasingly seeking grooms with stable employment. We group young men into those without jobs or much education, those
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Preterm birth and educational disadvantage: Heterogeneous effects Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Kieron Barclay, Joan Costa-Font, Mikko Myrskylä, Berkay Özcan
Although preterm birth is the leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality in advanced economies, evidence about the consequences of prematurity in later life is limited. Using Swedish regist...
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The illusion of stable fertility preferences Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Maximilian W. Müller, Joan Hamory, Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Edward Miguel
Fertility preferences have long played a key role in models of fertility differentials and change. We examine the stability of preferences over time using rich panel data on Kenyan women’s fertility desires, expectations, actual fertility, and recall of desires in three waves over a nine-year period, when respondents were in their 20s. We find that although desired fertility is quite unstable, most
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A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification Population Studies (IF 2.828) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Jiaxin Shi, José Manuel Aburto, Pekka Martikainen, Lasse Tarkiainen, Alyson van Raalte
The study of the mortality differences between groups has traditionally focused on metrics that describe average levels of mortality, for example life expectancy and standardized mortality rates. Additional insights can be gained by using statistical distance metrics to examine differences in lifespan distributions between groups. Here, we use a distance metric, the non-overlap index, to capture the