Demography

Papers
(The median citation count of Demography is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
National Population Growth Rate, Its Components, and Subnational Contributions: A Research Note40
State-Level Trends in Lifespan Variability in the United States, 1960–2019: A Research Note35
Research Note: COVID-19 Is Not an Independent Cause of Death35
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Excess All-Cause Mortality in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic34
Beyond Lifelong Marriage and Spousal Coresidence: A Research Note on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Late-Life Family and Living Arrangements33
A Data Portrait of Cisgender, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming Populations in the United States: A Research Note30
Evaluating the Accuracy of 2020 Census Block-Level Estimates in California28
Diminished Advantage or Persistent Protection? A New Approach to Assess Immigrants' Mortality Advantages Over Time28
Exposure to Childhood Poverty and Racial Differences in Economic Opportunity in Young Adulthood28
Pregnancies in the United States by Desire for Pregnancy: Estimates for 2009, 2011, 2013, and 201525
Nonresident Parent Wealth Among Children22
Childhood Family Instability and Young-Adult Union Experiences: Black–White Differences in Outcomes and Effects22
Antibiotic Pollution and Infant Mortality in India: A Research Note21
The Intergenerational Legacy of Indian Residential Schools21
Two Decades of Child Welfare System Contact in the Global North: A Research Note on Trends in 44 Countries20
Exposure to Armed Conflict and HIV Risk Among Rwandan Women20
A Research Note on Loneliness as a Driver of International Migration: Prospective Evidence From the Netherlands20
Editorial Note Regarding Begum et al. (2018), Hammar et al. (2025), and Begum et al. (2025)19
Are Rural Areas Holdouts in the Second Demographic Transition? Evidence From Canada and the United States18
Patterns and Life Course Determinants of Black–White Disparities in Biological Age Acceleration: A Decomposition Analysis18
Wildfires and Birth Outcomes: Evidence From Spain18
Trends in Mothers’ Work Schedules in the United States, 1988–2019: Differences by Education, Family Structure, and Race and Ethnicity18
The Impact of Multiple Births on Fertility: Stopping and Spacing in the United States During the Demographic Transition18
Refueling a Quiet Fire: Old Truthers and New Discontent in the Wake of COVID-1917
The Growth and Diversity of Older Undocumented Immigrants in the United States17
Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities16
Educational Differences in Fertility Among Female Same-Sex Couples in Finland16
Kin Propinquity, Residential Mobility, and the Persistence of Segregation16
Decomposing Differences in Cohort Health Expectancy by Cause and Age With Longitudinal Data15
Dynamic Contributions of Chronic Diseases to the Widening Educational Gap in Disability and Mortality, 2002–2018: A Research Note15
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 Cohorts14
Mothers and Maternal Grandmothers Kept Children Alive During Slavery: Evidence From the Surinamese Slave Registers, 1830–186314
Life Expectancy and Health Expectancy in the Twenty-first Century: The Unthinkable, the Inconceivable, and the Unknowable14
Assortative Agreement: A Reply to Gonalons-Pons and Schwartz14
Bringing Age Back In: Accounting for Population Age Distribution in Forecasting Migration14
Prenatal Care, Son Preference, and the Sex Ratio at Birth13
Growth in Suicide Rates Among Children During the Illicit Opioid Crisis13
Sexuality and Demographic Change: Documenting Family Formation Trajectories and Cohort Change in the LGB Population13
Family Planning and Children's Human Capital: Experimental Evidence From Urban Malawi13
Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce in Sweden, 1920–201513
Revisiting the Occupational Health Impact of Right-to-Work Laws: A Research Note13
Grandchildren's Longevity and Their Grandfathers’ POW Trauma in the U.S. Civil War13
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 Agreements13
A Research Note on Maternity Leave and Children's Outcomes: The Case of Parental Teachers12
Return Migration and Fertility: French Overseas Emigrants, Returnees, and Nonmigrants at Origin and Destination12
The Social Context of Spatial Choice: Activity Locations and Residential Segregation12
Research Note on the Role of Infertility and Medically Assisted Reproduction on the Realization of Ideal Family Size in Japan12
Racial Inequality in the Prevalence, Degree, Extension, and Permeation of Incarceration in Family Life12
More Education and Fewer Children? The Contribution of Educational Enrollment and Attainment to the Fertility Decline in Norway12
Racial, Ethnic, Nativity, and Educational Disparities in Cognitive Impairment and Activity Limitations in the United States, 1998–201612
A Deportation Boomerang? Evidence From U.S. Removals to Latin America and the Caribbean12
Less Is More? Repartnering and Completed Cohort Fertility in Finland11
Does Internal Migration Contribute to the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Inequalities? The Role of Childhood Migration11
Defining and Identifying Only Children: A Research Note on the Concept and Measurement Illustrated With UK Survey Data11
The Effect of the Great Recession on U.S. Fertility: Causal Estimates From a Novel Cohort Discontinuity Design11
The Big (Genetic) Sort? A Research Note on Migration Patterns and Their Genetic Imprint in the United Kingdom11
The Social Division of Care Work Time Over Half a Century11
Ranking Age-at-Death Distributions Using Dominance: Robust Evaluation of United States Mortality Trends, 2006–202111
Severe Tornadoes and Infant Birth Weight in the United States11
Maternal Migration and Child Fostering Arrangements in Nairobi's Slums10
A Research Note on Community Resilience Estimates: New U.S. Census Bureau Data With an Application to Excess Deaths From COVID-1910
Hidden Heterogeneity: How the White Racial Category Masks Interethnic Health Inequality10
Gender Differences in Self-assessed Measures of Health: How Does the Structure of Self-rated Health Compare Across Transgender and Cisgender Groups?10
The Role of Single Motherhood in America's High Child Poverty10
Skin Tone and the Health Returns to Higher Status10
A Commentary on “Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach” by Begum, Grossman, and Islam (2018)10
If Residential Segregation Persists, What Explains Widespread Increases in Residential Diversity?10
Explaining Declining Educational Homogamy: The Role of Institutional Changes in Higher Education in Japan9
Infant Mortality Expectation and Fertility Behavior in Rural Malawi9
Research Note: New Evidence on the Motherhood Wage Penalty9
Polygenic Prediction of Education and Its Role in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Cohort Changes Among Finnish Men and Women Born in 1925–19899
Return Migration Selection and Its Impact on the Migrant Mortality Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data9
The Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis, Out-Migration, and Household Change Among Venezuelans in Venezuela and Abroad9
Sexual Orientation Identity Mobility in the United Kingdom: A Research Note8
Worker-Driven Social Responsibility and Infant Health8
The Emergent Motherhood Mental Health Advantage: Did Pandemic Times Make a Difference?8
New Evidence From Census 2020 on the Residential Segregation of Same-Sex Households: A Research Note8
Who Divorces Whom: Unilateral Divorce Legislation and the Educational Structure of Marriage8
Who Partners With Whom in Diverse Societies? A Multigroup Perspective on Union Formation and Religious Boundaries in the Netherlands8
Safety Net Spending on Children and the Sources of Household Income Across U.S. States, 1997–20168
Toward a New Approach to Creating Population-Representative Data for Demographic Research8
Net Worth Poverty in Childhood: Duration, Timing, and Educational Outcomes8
Cause-of-Death Diversity From a Multiple-Cause Perspective in the United States7
Cohabitation and Marriage Among Same-Sex Couples in the 2019 ACS and CPS: A Research Note7
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
Modeling and Forecasting Healthy Life Expectancy With Compositional Data Analysis7
Single Parenthood, Gender, and Mortality7
U.S. Fertility in Life Course Context: A Research Note on Using Census-Held Linked Administrative Records for Geographic and Sociodemographic Subgroup Estimation7
Mobility Framing Effects in Migration Surveys: A Research Note With Experimental Evidence From Senegal7
Household Instability and Girls’ Teen Childbearing7
Stop, in the Name of COVID! Using Social Media Data to Estimate the Effects of COVID-19-Related Travel Restrictions on Migration7
Income Sources Across Childhood in Families With Nonresident Fathers7
Fertility and Labor Supply Responses to Child Allowances: The Introduction of Means-Tested Benefits in France7
Beyond Income: Health, Wealth, and Racial Welfare Gaps Among Older Americans7
Gender Inequality Reinforced: The Impact of a Child's Health Shock on Parents' Labor Market Trajectories7
Sibling Availability, Sibling Sorting, and Subjective Health Among Chinese Adults7
A Note From the New Editors of Demography7
Can Incorporating Parity Information Improve the Reliability of Completed Cohort Fertility Projections? Insights From a Bayesian Generalized Additive Model Approach7
How Long Will You Be a Widow? Determinants, Trends, and Income Gradient in Widowhood Duration6
Maternal Age, Early Childhood Temperament, and Youth Outcomes6
Do Immigrants Experience Morbidity and Disability Disadvantages at Older Ages? A Research Note6
Impaired Cognitive and Behavioral Functioning in Childhood and Economic Outcomes in Adulthood6
Contraceptive Use and Discontinuation Among Adolescent Women in 55 Low- and Middle-Income Countries6
The Fall of Violence and the Reconfiguration of Urban Neighborhoods6
Polygyny and Fertility: Continuity or Change in Sub-Saharan Africa6
Dynamic Family Size Preferences During the COVID-19 Mortality Crisis: A Research Note6
Effect of First Births on Women's Employment in a Low-Income Context: Research Note Using Panel Data From Nepal6
Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers6
Cumulative Effect of Retirement on Mortality6
Mothers' Social Status and Children's Health: Evidence From Joint Households in Rural India5
Social Mobility Across the Pacific: An Analysis of Japanese Americans in the Continental United States5
Assessing Electronic Health Records for Describing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: A Research Note5
Later, Fewer, None? Recent Trends in Cohort Fertility in South Korea5
Does Schooling Have Lasting Effects on Cognitive Function? Evidence From Compulsory Schooling Laws5
Challenging Prevailing Stereotypes About Gender Differences in Health Reporting: Evidence Using Biomarker Data From the Health and Retirement Study5
Deportations and Latino Segregation: The Residential Impacts of Interior Immigration Enforcement5
Social Spending and Educational Gaps in Infant Health in the United States, 1998–20175
Family Norms and Declining First-Marriage Rates: The Role of Sibship Position in the Japanese Marriage Market5
Mobility-Based Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas5
Decomposition of Differentials in Health Expectancies From Multistate Life Tables: A Research Note5
The Formal Demography of Peak Population5
Caste Inequality in Occupational Exposure to Heat Waves in India5
Barker's Hypothesis Among the Global Poor: Positive Long-Term Cardiovascular Effects of in Utero Famine Exposure5
Intergenerational Clustering of Under-Five Mortality: A Cohort Perspective in Low- and Middle-Income Countries5
Indirect Estimation of the Timing of First Union Dissolution With Incomplete Marriage Histories5
The Earnings Assimilation of Unauthorized Immigrants5
The Longevity Benefits of Homeownership: Evidence From Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Male Birth Cohorts5
Reassessing Chronic Strain: A Research Note on Women's Income Dynamics After Divorce and Separation5
Population and Poverty in Ireland on the Eve of the Great Famine5
Racial Inequalities in Adolescents' Exposure to Racial and Socioeconomic Segregation, Collective Efficacy, and Violence5
Ryder's Lost Legacy? A Research Note on Cohort Analysis in Social Research4
Physical and Mental Health Disparities at the Intersection of Sexual and Gender Minority Statuses: Evidence From Population-Level Data4
State Immigration Policy Contexts and Racialized Legal Status Disparities in Health Care Utilization Among U.S. Agricultural Workers4
The Grandchildren of Immigrants in Western Europe: Patterns of Assimilation Among the Emerging Third Generation4
The Unequal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Infant Health4
Goodbye Norway: Top-Earners Selection Into Return and Onward Migration4
Changes in Family Structure and Increasing Care Gaps in the United States, 2015–20504
Decomposing the Drivers of Population Aging: A Research Note4
Responses to Sexual and Gender Identity Measures in Population-Level Data by Birth Cohort: A Research Note4
Government Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Depressive Symptoms Following Widowhood4
Understanding Household Dynamics From the Ground Up: A Longitudinal Study From a Rural South African Setting4
Understanding Geographic Disparities in Mortality4
An Experimental Approach to Assessing Young Women's Childbearing Preferences: A Research Note on the United States4
Youth Caregivers of Adults in the United States: Prevalence and the Association Between Caregiving and Education4
Fertility Decline and Educational Progress Among African Women and Children4
Eight Decades of Educational Assortative Mating: A Research Note3
Cohorts’ Working Life Expectancies and Working Years Lost in 21 European Countries3
Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home Environments3
Demography's Changing Intellectual Landscape: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Leading Anglophone Journals, 1950–20203
The Impact of Childhood Mortality on Fertility in Rural Tanzania: Evidence From the Ifakara and Rufiji Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems3
Retirement Makes You Old? Causal Effect of Retirement on Biological Age3
Migration, Gender, and Families: The Effects of Spousal Migration on Women's Empowerment3
Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Have Disparate Impacts on U.S.-born Children of Asian and Latino Immigrants3
Make It or Break It? Pregnancy Scares and Romantic Relationship Dissolution3
The Rising Importance of Stock-Linked Assets in the Black–White Wealth Gap3
The Dangers of Drawing Cohort Profiles From Period Data: A Research Note3
Research Note: A Novel Sullivan Method Projection Framework With Application to Long COVID3
Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages? Causal Evidence From Nonparametric Bounds3
A Generational Shift: Race and the Declining Lifetime Risk of Imprisonment3
Accounting for Race Response Change in Population Projections: A Research Note3
Acknowledgment of Reviewers3
The Migration of Lynch Victims' Families, 1880–19303
The Mediating Role of Intergenerational Stratification in the Long Arm of Childhood Income3
Contraceptive Behavior Dynamics and Unintended Pregnancy: A Latent Transition Analysis3
The Influence of Developmental Idealism on Fertility3
Parenthood and Couples’ Division of Paid Labor: The Role of Prebirth Breadwinner Couple Type in European Cross-National Perspective3
How Parental Incarceration Shapes the Timing and Structure of Fertility for Children of Incarcerated Parents3
Temporary Employment and First Births: A Path Analysis of the Underlying Mechanisms Using Australian and German Panel Data3
Overlooked Potential? Childcare Services and Ukrainian Refugee Mothers in Germany3
Socioeconomic Status, Genotype, and the Differential Effects of Parental Separation on Educational Attainment3
The Effects of Adult Children's Unemployment on Parental Mental Health: Geographical Distance as a Moderator3
A Research Note on the Demographic Potential of Polygyny: Evaluating an Age-Related Summary Indicator3
The Effects of Communal Violence on Women's Marital Outcomes3
Epigenetic Aging Helps Explain Differential Resilience in Older Adults3
A Bayesian Cohort Component Projection Model to Estimate Women of Reproductive Age at the Subnational Level in Data-Sparse Settings3
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