Demographic Research

06/04/2023

Asian Americans show a preference for STEM occupations. They view it as a pathway to upward mobility. Do they use the same criterion for mate selection? They probably do. It is also why their occupational homogamy rates are high. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/18/

23/03/2023

New paper by Jani Turunen, Maria Brandén, and Karin Lundström analyzes how the geographical distance between children and parents, the year after a parental , has changed during a 40-year period in Sweden, and whether this is related to changes in child custody . https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/17/default.htm

22/03/2023

Fertility postponement delays parenthood, while improvements in longevity increase the time parents can expect to live with their children. Want to find out more about how this affected parenthood expectancy? Have a look at our latest publication by Erich Striessnig and Alessandra Trimarchi: https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/16/

21/03/2023

Beaujouan, Zeman, and Nathan found that, in most high-income countries, the increased fertility of mothers at older ages was not sufficient to offset the negative effect of delayed first births on completed cohort fertility. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/15/default.htm

16/03/2023

The decline in marriage and increases in cohabiting unions during childbearing ages represent a major change in family structures and family dynamics. Jalovaara & Andersson looked at of period trends in union prevalence, entries, and exits by educational level for men and women in Finland. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/14/default.htm

10/03/2023

How do period demographic conditions define population aging? Data from 236 countries from 1950 to 2100 reveal a general pattern with declining births, insufficient deaths at older ages, and a limited impact from migration. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/13/

07/03/2023

Excess deaths due to COVID-19 eliminated most of the Hispanic mortality advantage relative to the non-Hispanic white population. Life expectancy loss ranged from 0.6 to 6.7 years among males and 0.6 to 3.6 years among females by Hispanic country/region of origin. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/12/

28/02/2023

Evidence for human mortality plateau was claimed in a 2018 article Science Magazine. Replication on French data shows this finding is not universal: the plateau can't be proven yet. Check out the new paper by Linh Hoang Khanh Dang and colleagues.
https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/11/default.htm

22/02/2023

Family patterns of Pakistanis in the UK are more conservative compared to ancestral natives with little change over time and between immigrant generations, but there is heterogeneity in trajectories. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/10/

21/02/2023

What do we know about international retirement migration? A literature review by Esma Betül Savaş, Juul Spaan, Kène Henkens, Matthijs Kalmijn, and Hendrik P. van Dalen on methodologies and findings on retirement migration to new countries is out today! https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/9/

16/02/2023

Is there a s*x preference for children in Europe? Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska and Magdalena Grabowska’s answer: Yes, and surprisingly it is a daughter preference, which is found among women with one child, particularly in Central and Eastern European countries.
https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/8/default.htm

15/02/2023

In their latest study, Francesca Tosi, Francesco Scalone, and Rosella Rettaroli find that historical progress in the epidemiological conditions in Italy positively contributed to the long-term increase in male adult height, although abrupt improvements in living conditions might have reversed such a process in the short term. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/7/

03/02/2023

Are universities waiting halls for partner formation? This paper shows that higher-educated women are more likely to be single after leaving home than lower-educated women. The size of this educational gradient differs greatly between men and women, and between countries.
https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/6/default.htm

02/02/2023

In today’ publication Christina Diaz, Jennifer Lee are looking at Segmented assimilation and mobility among men in the early 20th century: “We assess changes in human capital among immigrant-origin men (1910-1930) using the IPUMS Multigenerational Longitudinal Panel. We find evidence for classical assimilation/mobility. To the extent segmented assimilation occurs, it emerges in low attainment among German youth.”

The graphic show predicted difference in occupational education score between father and son.

01/02/2023

Our first publication in the new data description category introduces „The Human Multiple Births Database (HMBD): An international database on twin and other multiple births” by Catalina Torres, Arianna Caporali, and Gilles Pison. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/4/

27/01/2023

Based on ESS_Survey data Jana Klímová Chaloupková explores home-leaving pathways among young adults in 29 countries. The long-term solo-living pathways are associated with being in education and high SES background.
https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/3/

10/01/2023

Daniel Lois and Oliver Arránz Becker find that homophily in child status reduces the likelihood that social network relationships will be discontinued over time. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/2/

06/01/2023

Demographers’ intuition for life expectancy values (LEV) derives from a constant mortality thought-experiment. How do we interpret changes in LEV during temporary mortality shocks then? See Patrick Heuveline’s reflections here https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/1/

20/12/2022

Internal migration is known to be selective by education – but how do levels of selectivity vary by nativity status in Europe? International migrants are selected by education – but is there selectivity on internal migration in host countries? https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol47/34/

19/12/2022

Racial and ethnic minorities, except non-Hispanic Asians, were more likely to report loss of employment income, food scarcity, housing insecurity, and unmet needs for mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the trend continues. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol47/33/default.htm

16/12/2022

In today’s publication, Matteo Manfredini analyzes the role of hospitals in an Parma, Italy during the Spanish flu and its effect on the risk of dying at home. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol47/32/default.htm

14/12/2022

What are the differences in the effect of adolescent fertility on high school completion for men and women? Viviana Salinas and Valentina Jorquera show that adolescent maternity has a more detrimental effects than adolescent paternity in Chile. . https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol47/31/

09/12/2022

Jerônimo Muniz and Stanley R. Bailey found that 16% of individuals living in the six largest metropolitan areas of Brazil shifted their reported race between 2002 and 2012. This racial response shift, however, had little impact on white-to-nonwhite earnings . https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol47/30/default.htm

08/12/2022

Margherita Moretti and Cosmo Strozza present new evidence on inequalities in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) for Italians 65+. The same level of DFLE at the national level for women and men hides great geographical and social inequalities. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol47/29/default.htm

08/12/2022

Wiebke Schulz is looking at the extent to which children experience educational disadvantages when their parents separate and finds that "children from lower educational backgrounds face higher risks of educational failure than children from higher educational backgrounds, especially at lower educational thresholds". https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol47/28/default.htm

06/12/2022

Using US consumer trace data for 2006-2020, this paper shows that adjusted household counts at County, and tract levels deviate from ACS estimates by an amount roughly equivalent to the ACS margins of error. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol47/27/

01/12/2022

Applying model-based Small-Area Estimation (SAE) techniques, Singh et al. find that there is considerable heterogeneity in son preference across Indian districts, often masked by state-level average estimates. ➡️

Volume 47 (2022) - Article 26 | Pages 793–842

30/11/2022

Does changing opinion on gender roles matter for marriage? Using panel data from Germany, Daniele Florean finds that all other things being equal, respondents who frequently change attitudes towards gender roles marry later. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol47/25/default.htm

18/11/2022

A new study explores variations in the never-married population. Applying latent class analysis on a set of family-related attitudes that are salient to singles in Singapore, Jolene Tan finds four distinct subgroups. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol47/24/

09/11/2022

In this paper, Nader Mehri aims to contribute to the multistate life table methods literature by providing a flexible, valid, and user-friendly program to estimate multistate life table quantities and their variabilities in Stata.

Volume 47 (2022) - Article 23 | Pages 695–726