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From 2010 to 2020, China’s good health life expectancy at age 60 rose from 9.63 to 11.66 years. Gender gaps narrowed, but urban–rural disparities widened. Is this due to lower mortality or health improvements? Read more in this study! www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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“Childhood sex ratios shed new light on infant mortality for the 19th-century US. Contrary to previous research, we find that infant mortality among US whites was far lower than in contemporary Europe." www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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Combining geo-coded, survey, & interview data, cassandracotton.bsky.social & Oduor's study highlights kinship linkages and child fostering over time and space & paint a picture of child fostering complexities & how they rely on the constellations of available kin scattered across geographical space.

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This study is a first attempt to use verbal autopsies to estimate the burden of multimorbidity in mortality where official cause-of-death statistics are lacking. A step towards better understanding the cumulative health burdens in LMICs. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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📣 Les invitamos al diálogo que tendremos con Amand Blanes del Centre D'Estudis Demogràfics sobre #Proyecciones #Demográficas ( #Population #Projections) 📅 4 de febrero 2025 ⏰ 9 AM UTC-6 📽️ bit.ly/tendencias-4... ¡Les esperamos!

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"Partnerships evolve over time, groups, and through the life course, shaping families, households and, in turn, populations. This user-friendly resource helps researchers across disciplines explore these changes and their impact on births." @bernicerunsonboba.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social

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"This paper examines the evolving inter-relationships between partnership dynamics and fertility across European countries and the United States and puts forward an analytical strategy to systematise these relationships." #childbearing #family_complexity www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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Research by @stefaniamolina.bsky.social examines the role of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the association between mothers' partnership status and infant health in Colombia. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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A first systematic description of the age at self-disclosure and coming out for LGB individuals across Europe. While the age of coming out is decreasing, substantial country-level variation persists, with higher ages observed in Central Europe. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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In 2015, South Korea repealed its adultery law, ending criminal penalties for extramarital affairs. Analysis shows that decriminalization likely impacted Korean women’s views on spousal infidelity as grounds for divorce. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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Ameer Dharamshi, @monjalexander.bsky.social, Celeste Winant & Magali Barbieri introduce a Bayesian model for jointly estimating subnational mortality for multiple populations. Method used to produce USMDB county-level life tables (usa.mortality.org). www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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Kicking off 2025 with this piece that’s been years in the making 🙏 Studying individuals in same-sex couples using longitudinal administrative data from Canadian tax records: Opportunities and challenges.

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In a new paper just published in Demographic Research, we demonstrate how administrative data (Canadian tax data) open possibilities for studying partnership histories, income, and family dynamics of people across sexual minority status. Read here! www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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Happy new year! My yearly reminder to researchers studying Africa/Black people to cite Black/African scholars. If you say you are doing work on "'x' in Africa", your review is incomplete if you don't reference at least a few African scholars- see starter pack below. #Econsky #Academicsky #Blacksky

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The Sustainable Ageing Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies announces its first conference! 11-12 September 2025 Padua, Italy Deadline for submissions: 21 March 2025 See the attached call for papers for further details tinyurl.com/4u7ajh8c @valeriabordone.bsky.social

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"Tax data opens new opportunities for studying partnership histories, income and family dynamics of people across gender and sexual minority status. Using Canadian tax data, we find that ... (1/2) www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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Happy new year, everyone!! We are kicking off the new Volume with this new data description by Celia Sifre-Armengol, Jose M. Pavía, and Josep Lledó Benito: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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The DemRes editorial team is slowly backing out of the office and locking the door for the last time this year. We wish all of you a happy holiday season and hope to see you again fresh-faced, rosy-cheeked, and bushy-tailed 😉 in the new year!!

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Contrary to common perception, both qualitative & quantitative data suggest that questions in mortality surveys rarely trigger emotional distress among respondents. Therefore, they should be approached in the same way as any other survey question #RaMMPS www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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Innovative methods to measure mortality beyond age 50 in LMICs are needed. This study evaluates the potential of parental survival histories, in which respondents provide data on their parents’ ages, and if deceased, their age at death and date of death. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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This paper by Everton Lima et al. proposes an alternative for estimating #mortality for small areas in countries with limited data. The estimates show how data quality and adult mortality are evolving over time and are related to #socioeconomic factors. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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Left behind single in the partnering market? Nadia Sturm and Jan Van Bavel study the “Entry into cohabiting unions by women and men with low educational attainment across regions of Europe, cohorts 1960 to 1985” www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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“The cubic parameterization can simplify the representation of age curves of fertility rates while capturing their essential features.“ Read more in Bob Schoen’s paper here: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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Did you miss the @demresjournal.bsky.social deadline for the exciting Special Collection on "Families' Resilience, Socioeconomic Crises & Child Well-Being"? We have good news! 🙂 New deadline: January 15th, 2025 Submit & share! 👇👇 www.demographic-research.org/files/202411...

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The big genealogical database #FamiLinx, which contains extensive demographic and #kinship information, offers much promise for demographic research but careful sample #selection is necessary. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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🎯 Call for Papers extended! A. Baranowska-Rataj, W. Schulz & P. Gracia invite you to submit your paper to SC on Family Resilience, Child/Youth Well-Being & Global Socioeconomic Crises. New Deadline: January 15, 2025 More information: bit.ly/4fXtf0C Please share widely & submit, submit, submit!!

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The historical #fertility transition began with stopping, and then involved both stopping and spacing, with similar patterns across #social classes. Evidence from applying cure models to #microdata from Southern Sweden. New publication 👉https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/51/40

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Chance outcomes of survival and reproduction create differences among individuals in the number and ages of their kin. These differences can now be calculated with a new formal demographic model of kinship networks. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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General population household survey findings conducted in multiple countries in Africa between 2015–2019 indicate households where PLWH resided experienced excess mortality relative to other households. 📄 www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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