Demography

Papers
(The median citation count of Demography is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
National Population Growth Rate, Its Components, and Subnational Contributions: A Research Note104
Nonresident Parent Wealth Among Children45
State-Level Trends in Lifespan Variability in the United States, 1960–2019: A Research Note41
Diminished Advantage or Persistent Protection? A New Approach to Assess Immigrants' Mortality Advantages Over Time36
Toward a Holistic Demographic Profile of Sexual and Gender Minority Well-being33
A Data Portrait of Cisgender, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming Populations in the United States: A Research Note33
Exposure to Childhood Poverty and Racial Differences in Economic Opportunity in Young Adulthood32
Research Note: COVID-19 Is Not an Independent Cause of Death32
Childhood Family Instability and Young-Adult Union Experiences: Black–White Differences in Outcomes and Effects31
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Excess All-Cause Mortality in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic31
Evaluating the Accuracy of 2020 Census Block-Level Estimates in California28
The Intergenerational Legacy of Indian Residential Schools27
Pregnancies in the United States by Desire for Pregnancy: Estimates for 2009, 2011, 2013, and 201527
Two Decades of Child Welfare System Contact in the Global North: A Research Note on Trends in 44 Countries26
Beyond Lifelong Marriage and Spousal Coresidence: A Research Note on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Late-Life Family and Living Arrangements26
Is the Effect Larger in Group A or B? It Depends: Understanding Results From Nonlinear Probability Models25
Editorial Note Regarding Begum et al. (2018), Hammar et al. (2025), and Begum et al. (2025)24
The Impact of Multiple Births on Fertility: Stopping and Spacing in the United States During the Demographic Transition22
Antibiotic Pollution and Infant Mortality in India: A Research Note22
A Research Note on Loneliness as a Driver of International Migration: Prospective Evidence From the Netherlands21
Are Rural Areas Holdouts in the Second Demographic Transition? Evidence From Canada and the United States20
Exposure to Armed Conflict and HIV Risk Among Rwandan Women20
Trends in Mothers’ Work Schedules in the United States, 1988–2019: Differences by Education, Family Structure, and Race and Ethnicity20
Patterns and Life Course Determinants of Black–White Disparities in Biological Age Acceleration: A Decomposition Analysis19
Kin Propinquity, Residential Mobility, and the Persistence of Segregation18
The Growth and Diversity of Older Undocumented Immigrants in the United States17
Does Early Childhood BCG Vaccination Improve Survival to Midlife in a Population With a Low Tuberculosis Prevalence? Quasi-experimental Evidence on Nonspecific Effects From 32 Swedish Birth Cohorts16
Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities16
Refueling a Quiet Fire: Old Truthers and New Discontent in the Wake of COVID-1916
Long-Term Effects of Local-Area New Deal Work Relief in Childhood on Educational, Economic, and Health Outcomes Over the Life Course: Evidence From the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study16
Educational Differences in Fertility Among Female Same-Sex Couples in Finland16
Differences in All-Cause Mortality Among Transgender and Non-Transgender People Enrolled in Private Insurance16
Examining Ethnicity: Patterns of Minority Identification Among Children of Interethnic Marriages in China16
Life Expectancy and Health Expectancy in the Twenty-first Century: The Unthinkable, the Inconceivable, and the Unknowable16
Grandchildren's Longevity and Their Grandfathers’ POW Trauma in the U.S. Civil War15
Mothers and Maternal Grandmothers Kept Children Alive During Slavery: Evidence From the Surinamese Slave Registers, 1830–186315
Prenatal Care, Son Preference, and the Sex Ratio at Birth14
Family Planning and Children's Human Capital: Experimental Evidence From Urban Malawi13
Bringing Age Back In: Accounting for Population Age Distribution in Forecasting Migration13
Growth in Suicide Rates Among Children During the Illicit Opioid Crisis13
Long-Term Exposure to Neighborhood Policing and the Racial/Ethnic Gap in High School Graduation13
A Research Note on Trends in the Stock and Flow of Child Support Agreements12
Revisiting the Occupational Health Impact of Right-to-Work Laws: A Research Note12
A Deportation Boomerang? Evidence From U.S. Removals to Latin America and the Caribbean12
Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce in Sweden, 1920–201512
Sexuality and Demographic Change: Documenting Family Formation Trajectories and Cohort Change in the LGB Population12
Return Migration and Fertility: French Overseas Emigrants, Returnees, and Nonmigrants at Origin and Destination12
More Education and Fewer Children? The Contribution of Educational Enrollment and Attainment to the Fertility Decline in Norway11
A Research Note on Maternity Leave and Children's Outcomes: The Case of Parental Teachers11
Skin Tone and the Health Returns to Higher Status11
The Missing Mortality Advantage for European Immigrants to the United States in the Early Twentieth Century11
Racial, Ethnic, Nativity, and Educational Disparities in Cognitive Impairment and Activity Limitations in the United States, 1998–201611
The Big (Genetic) Sort? A Research Note on Migration Patterns and Their Genetic Imprint in the United Kingdom11
The Social Context of Spatial Choice: Activity Locations and Residential Segregation11
Racial Inequality in the Prevalence, Degree, Extension, and Permeation of Incarceration in Family Life11
Defining and Identifying Only Children: A Research Note on the Concept and Measurement Illustrated With UK Survey Data11
Hidden Heterogeneity: How the White Racial Category Masks Interethnic Health Inequality11
Ranking Age-at-Death Distributions Using Dominance: Robust Evaluation of United States Mortality Trends, 2006–202110
Severe Tornadoes and Infant Birth Weight in the United States10
The Social Division of Care Work Time Over Half a Century10
Does Internal Migration Contribute to the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Inequalities? The Role of Childhood Migration10
Socially Connected Neighborhoods and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections10
Maternal Migration and Child Fostering Arrangements in Nairobi's Slums10
Less Is More? Repartnering and Completed Cohort Fertility in Finland10
If Residential Segregation Persists, What Explains Widespread Increases in Residential Diversity?9
A Commentary on “Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach” by Begum, Grossman, and Islam (2018)9
Who Divorces Whom: Unilateral Divorce Legislation and the Educational Structure of Marriage9
New Evidence From Census 2020 on the Residential Segregation of Same-Sex Households: A Research Note9
Polygenic Prediction of Education and Its Role in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Cohort Changes Among Finnish Men and Women Born in 1925–19899
Infant Mortality Expectation and Fertility Behavior in Rural Malawi9
Gender Differences in Self-assessed Measures of Health: How Does the Structure of Self-rated Health Compare Across Transgender and Cisgender Groups?9
A Research Note on Community Resilience Estimates: New U.S. Census Bureau Data With an Application to Excess Deaths From COVID-199
Safety Net Spending on Children and the Sources of Household Income Across U.S. States, 1997–20169
Sibling Availability, Sibling Sorting, and Subjective Health Among Chinese Adults9
Explaining Declining Educational Homogamy: The Role of Institutional Changes in Higher Education in Japan9
The Role of Single Motherhood in America's High Child Poverty9
The Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis, Out-Migration, and Household Change Among Venezuelans in Venezuela and Abroad9
Research Note: New Evidence on the Motherhood Wage Penalty9
Toward a New Approach to Creating Population-Representative Data for Demographic Research9
Household Instability and Girls’ Teen Childbearing9
Return Migration Selection and Its Impact on the Migrant Mortality Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data9
U.S. Fertility in Life Course Context: A Research Note on Using Census-Held Linked Administrative Records for Geographic and Sociodemographic Subgroup Estimation8
Sexual Orientation Identity Mobility in the United Kingdom: A Research Note8
Net Worth Poverty in Childhood: Duration, Timing, and Educational Outcomes8
Worker-Driven Social Responsibility and Infant Health8
Beyond Income: Health, Wealth, and Racial Welfare Gaps Among Older Americans8
A Note From the New Editors of Demography8
Cohabitation and Marriage Among Same-Sex Couples in the 2019 ACS and CPS: A Research Note8
The Emergent Motherhood Mental Health Advantage: Did Pandemic Times Make a Difference?8
Single Parenthood, Gender, and Mortality8
Who Partners With Whom in Diverse Societies? A Multigroup Perspective on Union Formation and Religious Boundaries in the Netherlands8
Gender Inequality Reinforced: The Impact of a Child's Health Shock on Parents' Labor Market Trajectories7
Fertility and Labor Supply Responses to Child Allowances: The Introduction of Means-Tested Benefits in France7
Can Incorporating Parity Information Improve the Reliability of Completed Cohort Fertility Projections? Insights From a Bayesian Generalized Additive Model Approach7
Family Norms and Declining First-Marriage Rates: The Role of Sibship Position in the Japanese Marriage Market7
Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers7
Cause-of-Death Diversity From a Multiple-Cause Perspective in the United States7
Causal Effects of Education on Marriage and Fertility in Japan: A Research Note on a Quasi-Experimental Approach Utilizing Zodiac Superstition as an Exogenous Shock7
Increasing Educational Inequality in Biological Aging Among U.S. Adults Aged 50–79 From 1988–1994 to 2015–20187
The Fall of Violence and the Reconfiguration of Urban Neighborhoods7
Maternal Age, Early Childhood Temperament, and Youth Outcomes7
Modeling and Forecasting Healthy Life Expectancy With Compositional Data Analysis7
Stop, in the Name of COVID! Using Social Media Data to Estimate the Effects of COVID-19-Related Travel Restrictions on Migration7
Birth Spacing and Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes Across the Life Course: Evidence From the Utah Population Database7
Income Sources Across Childhood in Families With Nonresident Fathers7
Contraceptive Use and Discontinuation Among Adolescent Women in 55 Low- and Middle-Income Countries7
Impaired Cognitive and Behavioral Functioning in Childhood and Economic Outcomes in Adulthood6
Does Schooling Have Lasting Effects on Cognitive Function? Evidence From Compulsory Schooling Laws6
Reassessing Chronic Strain: A Research Note on Women's Income Dynamics After Divorce and Separation6
The Longevity Benefits of Homeownership: Evidence From Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Male Birth Cohorts6
How Long Will You Be a Widow? Determinants, Trends, and Income Gradient in Widowhood Duration6
Cumulative Effect of Retirement on Mortality6
Mothers' Social Status and Children's Health: Evidence From Joint Households in Rural India6
The Formal Demography of Peak Population6
Population and Poverty in Ireland on the Eve of the Great Famine6
Indirect Estimation of the Timing of First Union Dissolution With Incomplete Marriage Histories6
Do Immigrants Experience Morbidity and Disability Disadvantages at Older Ages? A Research Note6
Dynamic Family Size Preferences During the COVID-19 Mortality Crisis: A Research Note6
Intergenerational Clustering of Under-Five Mortality: A Cohort Perspective in Low- and Middle-Income Countries6
Social Mobility Across the Pacific: An Analysis of Japanese Americans in the Continental United States6
The Earnings Assimilation of Unauthorized Immigrants6
Polygyny and Fertility: Continuity or Change in Sub-Saharan Africa6
Assessing Electronic Health Records for Describing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: A Research Note5
Mobility-Based Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas5
Deportations and Latino Segregation: The Residential Impacts of Interior Immigration Enforcement5
Decomposition of Differentials in Health Expectancies From Multistate Life Tables: A Research Note5
Caste Inequality in Occupational Exposure to Heat Waves in India5
The Effect of Parental Loss on Social Mobility in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden5
State Immigration Policy Contexts and Racialized Legal Status Disparities in Health Care Utilization Among U.S. Agricultural Workers5
Social Spending and Educational Gaps in Infant Health in the United States, 1998–20175
Later, Fewer, None? Recent Trends in Cohort Fertility in South Korea5
Defining Childlessness Among Middle-Aged and Older Americans: A Research Note5
Barker's Hypothesis Among the Global Poor: Positive Long-Term Cardiovascular Effects of in Utero Famine Exposure5
Understanding Geographic Disparities in Mortality4
Youth Caregivers of Adults in the United States: Prevalence and the Association Between Caregiving and Education4
Ryder's Lost Legacy? A Research Note on Cohort Analysis in Social Research4
A Bayesian Cohort Component Projection Model to Estimate Women of Reproductive Age at the Subnational Level in Data-Sparse Settings4
Goodbye Norway: Top-Earners Selection Into Return and Onward Migration4
Parenthood and Couples’ Division of Paid Labor: The Role of Prebirth Breadwinner Couple Type in European Cross-National Perspective4
Physical and Mental Health Disparities at the Intersection of Sexual and Gender Minority Statuses: Evidence From Population-Level Data4
The Unequal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Infant Health4
An Experimental Approach to Assessing Young Women's Childbearing Preferences: A Research Note on the United States4
Responses to Sexual and Gender Identity Measures in Population-Level Data by Birth Cohort: A Research Note4
The Dangers of Drawing Cohort Profiles From Period Data: A Research Note4
Expansion, Compression, Neither, Both? Divergent Patterns in Healthy, Disability-Free, and Morbidity-Free Life Expectancy Across U.S. Birth Cohorts, 1998–20164
The Rising Importance of Stock-Linked Assets in the Black–White Wealth Gap4
Fertility Decline and Educational Progress Among African Women and Children4
Changes in Family Structure and Increasing Care Gaps in the United States, 2015–20504
Racial Inequalities in Adolescents' Exposure to Racial and Socioeconomic Segregation, Collective Efficacy, and Violence4
Gender Disparities in Increased Parenting Time During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Research Note4
Decomposing the Drivers of Population Aging: A Research Note4
Understanding Household Dynamics From the Ground Up: A Longitudinal Study From a Rural South African Setting4
Determinants of Disparities in Early COVID-19 Job Losses4
Mass Education and Women's Autonomy: Evidence From Latin America4
Government Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Depressive Symptoms Following Widowhood4
The Grandchildren of Immigrants in Western Europe: Patterns of Assimilation Among the Emerging Third Generation4
Loneliness at Older Ages in the United States: Lonely Life Expectancy and the Role of Loneliness in Health Disparities4
The Mediating Role of Intergenerational Stratification in the Long Arm of Childhood Income3
How Parental Incarceration Shapes the Timing and Structure of Fertility for Children of Incarcerated Parents3
The Influence of Developmental Idealism on Fertility3
The Impact of Childhood Mortality on Fertility in Rural Tanzania: Evidence From the Ifakara and Rufiji Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems3
Accounting for Race Response Change in Population Projections: A Research Note3
The Migration of Lynch Victims' Families, 1880–19303
A Generational Shift: Race and the Declining Lifetime Risk of Imprisonment3
The Effects of Communal Violence on Women's Marital Outcomes3
Eight Decades of Educational Assortative Mating: A Research Note3
Make It or Break It? Pregnancy Scares and Romantic Relationship Dissolution3
Contraceptive Behavior Dynamics and Unintended Pregnancy: A Latent Transition Analysis3
The Effects of Adult Children's Unemployment on Parental Mental Health: Geographical Distance as a Moderator3
Socioeconomic Status, Genotype, and the Differential Effects of Parental Separation on Educational Attainment3
Retirement Makes You Old? Causal Effect of Retirement on Biological Age3
Latina/o Postsecondary Education: Trends in Racial/Ethnic Education Gaps and the Role of Citizenship in Access to Higher Education3
Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Have Disparate Impacts on U.S.-born Children of Asian and Latino Immigrants3
Research Note: A Novel Sullivan Method Projection Framework With Application to Long COVID3
Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home Environments3
Migration, Gender, and Families: The Effects of Spousal Migration on Women's Empowerment3
Epigenetic Aging Helps Explain Differential Resilience in Older Adults3
Acknowledgment of Reviewers3
A Research Note on the Demographic Potential of Polygyny: Evaluating an Age-Related Summary Indicator3
Demography's Changing Intellectual Landscape: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Leading Anglophone Journals, 1950–20203
Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages? Causal Evidence From Nonparametric Bounds3
Probabilistic County-Level Population Projections2
Why Are So Many U.S. Mothers Becoming Their Family's Primary Economic Support?2
Sexualities and Geographic Mobility Between Childhood and Adulthood in the United States2
Child Migration in Eastern and Southern Africa: Tied and Orphaned2
Who Cares? Unpaid Caregiving by Sexual Identity, Gender, and Partnership Status Among U.S. Adults2
Widow and Widower Mortality in India: A Research Note2
Temporary Employment and First Births: A Path Analysis of the Underlying Mechanisms Using Australian and German Panel Data2
Adult Children of the Prison Boom: Family Troubles and the Intergenerational Transmission of Criminal Justice Contact2
Paradox Between Immigrant Advantages in Morbidity and Mortality: Dynamic Patterns and Tentative Explanations2
Cohorts’ Working Life Expectancies and Working Years Lost in 21 European Countries2
Bayesian Projection of Extant Refugee and Asylum Seeker Populations2
Institutional Context Shapes the Physical Health of College Graduates Differently for U.S. White, Black, and Hispanic Adults2
The Demographic and Socioeconomic Consequences of Restricting Access to Marriage for Young Immigrant Women in Denmark2
Longevity, Linked Lives, and Generational Time: Does Changing Late-Life Activity Impact Older Adults’ Help to Their Adult Children?2
Extreme Heat, Birth Outcomes, and Socioeconomic Heterogeneity2
The Contribution of Educational Expansion to Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation in England and Wales, Finland, and Italy (Turin)2
Acknowledgment of Reviewers2
The Influence of Early-Life Health Conditions on Life Course Health2
Labor of Love: Immigrant–Native Intermarriage and Labor Force Outcomes Across European Union Member States2
Daily Diversity Flows: Racial and Ethnic Context Between Home and Work2
Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration2
Understanding Internal Migration: A Research Note Providing an Assessment of Migration Selection With Genetic Data2
Reconstructing Prospective Intergenerational Educational Mobility in 12 Countries2
Is It Daddy Time Yet? Trends and Variation in Men's Employment Hours Around Childbirth: 1989–20202
The Limits of Predicting Individual-Level Longevity: Insights From the U.S. Health and Retirement Study2
“Outside the Skin”: The Persistence of Black–White Disparities in U.S. Early-Life Mortality2
Has Generational Progress Stalled? Income Growth Over Five Generations of Americans2
Homecoming After Brexit: Evidence on Academic Migration From Bibliometric Data2
Socioeconomic Differences in Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use for Achieving U.S. Women's Family Planning Goals: “Right Time” Births2
Negotiating Work and Family Spheres: The Dyadic Effects of Flexible Work Arrangements on Fertility Among Dual-Earner Heterosexual Couples2
Acknowledgment of Reviewers2
Experiences of Poverty Around the Time of a Birth: A Research Note2
Sexual Fluidity: Implications for Population Research2
Learning to Value Girls: Balanced Infant Sex Ratios at Higher Parental Education in the United States, 1969–20182
Mortality by Cause of Death in Brazil: A Research Note on the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Contribution to Changes in Life Expectancy at Birth2
The Swedish Kinship Universe: A Demographic Account of the Number of Children, Parents, Siblings, Grandchildren, Grandparents, Aunts/Uncles, Nieces/Nephews, and Cousins Using National Population Regis2
Acknowledgment of Reviewers2
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