Demography publishes research in several disciplines, including the social sciences, geography, history, biology, statistics, epidemiology, and public health.
The new issue of Demography includes commentaries & pieces on immigrant lifespans, LGB parenthood aspirations, flood risk & immobility, the safety net around childbirth, parental time & kids’ development, sex ratio & elderly employment in China … & more. read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
In “Childcare in Transition,” @anushehassan, @RebeccaSear et al. show children were less likely to get “low- and high-intensity care from their fathers & paternal kin” in the town vs. the village; maternal kin gave similar care in either locality. @LSHTMread.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
“Youth Subjective Life Expectancy & Early Labor Market Choices”: @finamor_lucas investigates SLE among young workers, finding that it correlates well w/ future pension contributions and formal work engagement. @EconFGVSP@TheIFSread.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
In “Does Context Matter for Parenthood Aspirations and Realized Fertility of LGB Individuals?” Gioia Geremia uses HILDA data to assess whether aspirations have changed across cohorts and if there are differences by sexual identity & gender. @CEDemografiaread.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
“Is All Parental Time Equally Effective?” Using LSAC data, @HLeForner shows that “mothers’ monitoring behavior has a more beneficial effect on children's socioemotional skills” & fathers’ monitoring has more impact on verbal skills. @RennesUniv@CNRSread.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
In “Flood Risk & Uneven Patterns of Immobility,” @katherineathom uses PSID & flood data to assess n'hood risk & prob. of moving: h'holds in risk areas are ↓ likely to move than those w/o risk, esp renters & Black and low-income homeowners. @NYUSociologyread.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
“The Glass Is Half Full”: Heflin, Morrissey & Kim, assuming full uptake of safety net benefits, find “inadequate support to low-income families at childbirth” & recommend more research on the long-term health of mothers & newborns. @SyracuseU@AmericanUread.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
In “A Comprehensive Evaluation of Population Forecast Error for San Diego County,” Schroeder et al consider forecast horizon, rate of growth, & population size & demonstrate that length of the forecast horizon is positively correlated w/ forecast accuracy. read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
"MSE Workflow for Mortality Analysis in Conflict Settings": @thegargiulian presents a workflow for “estimating conflict mortality using multiple heterogeneous & statistically biased lists of victims” & applies it to 1985-2018 Colombia. @PSG_LSHTMread.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
In “Equally Available to Anyone,” @dldmag & @HistDem describe the story of the invention of the 1st microdata sample in interactions between Census Bureau staff & the PAA & how that collaboration “can be a model for preserving broad access" going forward. read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
“Pregnancy Intentions, Race and Ethnicity, and Infant Outcomes”: For Black & Hispanic mothers, Nicholas Mark shows that outcomes for wanted pregnancies were “often statistically indistinguishable” from those for pregnancies wanted later or unwanted. @UWSocread.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
In “Rising Sex Ratio & Labor Supply of the Urban Elderly in China,” Yunyi Kuang & Liqiu Zhao show that high sex ratios can result in ↑ marriage costs for the groom’s family, leading to ↓ parental wealth & the need for elderly fathers to continue working. read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
Trending in #Demography:
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1) Immigrant Fertility, Canada 2001–21
2) Life expectancy in England & Wales falling behind
3) Migration information campaigns (@JournalCMS)
4) Ideal Family Size in Japan (@ReadDemography)
5) Young Asylum Seekers in “Waithood”
In “Within Families, Across Borders,” Minardi, @paul_puschmann & @nicolabarban use crowdsourced genealogies to assess migration & lifespan for cohorts born 1850-1890: migrants had shorter lives than the US-born but longer lives than the origin pops. @Uniboread.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
In “Reliability of Repeated Measures of Retrospective Parity,” Guzzo, @wmannin et al use Add Health data & show that 1 in 5 parents reported a different parity between survey waves, split equally btw “losing” and “finding” a birth. @UNCPopCenter@cfdr_bgsuread.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
“Maternal Employment & Children’s Cognitive Ability”: Jia Wang & @JimRaymo find that regular employment among less educated mothers had a negative impact on cognitive scores & call for research that considers broader gender norms & work-family patterns. read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
In “Influence of Societal Changes on the Contribution of Genetics to Fertility Behavior,” Agnes Fauske examines the heritability of age at 1st birth & no. of children across Norwegian generations from the 1950s onward, finding diffs. by gender & outcome. read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
In “Proving Their Loyalty,” Jeff Chan employs a triple-differences model to show that immigrants who served in the US military during World War II were more likely than others to marry native-born partners & become naturalized citizens. @LazaridisSchoolread.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
“The Role of Infertility & Medically Assisted Reproduction on the Realization of Ideal Family Size”: @LazzariEster, Shohei Yoda, @FukudaSetsuya & @JimRaymo find that for MAR-conceived births, the gap btw ideal & achieved was reduced by roughly one third. read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…