OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Demography is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
National Population Growth Rate, Its Components, and Subnational Contributions: A Research Note	128
Evaluating the Accuracy of 2020 Census Block-Level Estimates in California	86
State-Level Trends in Lifespan Variability in the United States, 1960–2019: A Research Note	48
Nonresident Parent Wealth Among Children	41
A Data Portrait of Cisgender, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming Populations in the United States: A Research Note	36
Diminished Advantage or Persistent Protection? A New Approach to Assess Immigrants' Mortality Advantages Over Time	33
Research Note: COVID-19 Is Not an Independent Cause of Death	33
Childhood Family Instability and Young-Adult Union Experiences: Black–White Differences in Outcomes and Effects	27
Exposure to Childhood Poverty and Racial Differences in Economic Opportunity in Young Adulthood	27
Microsimulation of Household and Marital Transitions Leading to Childlessness Among Dutch Women Born Between 1971 and 2000	25
The Intergenerational Legacy of Indian Residential Schools	24
Pregnancies in the United States by Desire for Pregnancy: Estimates for 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2015	22
Are Rural Areas Holdouts in the Second Demographic Transition? Evidence From Canada and the United States	21
Exposure to Armed Conflict and HIV Risk Among Rwandan Women	21
Toward a Holistic Demographic Profile of Sexual and Gender Minority Well-being	21
Two Decades of Child Welfare System Contact in the Global North: A Research Note on Trends in 44 Countries	21
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Excess All-Cause Mortality in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic	21
Is the Effect Larger in Group A or B? It Depends: Understanding Results From Nonlinear Probability Models	20
Research Note: School Reopenings During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Gender and Racial Equity	20
Trends in Mothers’ Work Schedules in the United States, 1988–2019: Differences by Education, Family Structure, and Race and Ethnicity	20
The Impact of Multiple Births on Fertility: Stopping and Spacing in the United States During the Demographic Transition	20
Life After Loss: A Prospective Analysis of Mortality Exposure and Unintended Fertility	19
Patterns and Life Course Determinants of Black–White Disparities in Biological Age Acceleration: A Decomposition Analysis	18
Revisiting Horizontal Stratification in Higher Education: College Prestige Hierarchy and Educational Assortative Mating in China	18
Forced Migration and the Childbearing of Women and Men: A Disruption of the Tempo and Quantum of Fertility?	17

Refueling a Quiet Fire: Old Truthers and New Discontent in the Wake of COVID-19	17
Modeling Age Patterns of Under-5 Mortality: Results From a Log-Quadratic Model Applied to High-Quality Vital Registration Data	17
Examining Ethnicity: Patterns of Minority Identification Among Children of Interethnic Marriages in China	17
A Framework for Estimating Migrant Stocks Using Digital Traces and Survey Data: An Application in the United Kingdom	17
Educational Differences in Fertility Among Female Same-Sex Couples in Finland	17
Life Expectancy and Health Expectancy in the Twenty-first Century: The Unthinkable, the Inconceivable, and the Unknowable	16
Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities	16
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 Cohorts	16
Husbands' Dominance in Decision-Making About Women's Health: A Spatial Diffusion Perspective in Sub-Saharan Africa	16
Prenatal Care, Son Preference, and the Sex Ratio at Birth	15
Grandchildren's Longevity and Their Grandfathers’ POW Trauma in the U.S. Civil War	15
Differences in All-Cause Mortality Among Transgender and Non-Transgender People Enrolled in Private Insurance	14
Growth in Suicide Rates Among Children During the Illicit Opioid Crisis	14
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 Study	14
Family Planning and Children's Human Capital: Experimental Evidence From Urban Malawi	14
A Research Note on Trends in the Stock and Flow of Child Support Agreements	13
Return Migration and Fertility: French Overseas Emigrants, Returnees, and Nonmigrants at Origin and Destination	13
Revisiting the Occupational Health Impact of Right-to-Work Laws: A Research Note	13
The Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ban in the United States: A Research Note on Increased Deaths Due to Remaining Pregnant	13
Investigating the Structure of Son Bias in Armenia With Novel Measures of Individual Preferences	13
Long-Term Exposure to Neighborhood Policing and the Racial/Ethnic Gap in High School Graduation	13
Sexuality and Demographic Change: Documenting Family Formation Trajectories and Cohort Change in the LGB Population	13
Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce in Sweden, 1920–2015	13
Ranking Age-at-Death Distributions Using Dominance: Robust Evaluation of United States Mortality Trends, 2006–2021	12
Racial Inequality in the Prevalence, Degree, Extension, and Permeation of Incarceration in Family Life	12
A Deportation Boomerang? Evidence From U.S. Removals to Latin America and the Caribbean	12
Defining and Identifying Only Children: A Research Note on the Concept and Measurement Illustrated With UK Survey Data	12
The Missing Mortality Advantage for European Immigrants to the United States in the Early Twentieth Century	12
The Big (Genetic) Sort? A Research Note on Migration Patterns and Their Genetic Imprint in the United Kingdom	12
A Research Note on Maternity Leave and Children's Outcomes: The Case of Parental Teachers	12
Racial, Ethnic, Nativity, and Educational Disparities in Cognitive Impairment and Activity Limitations in the United States, 1998–2016	12
Less Is More? Repartnering and Completed Cohort Fertility in Finland	11
The Social Division of Care Work Time Over Half a Century	11
Socially Connected Neighborhoods and the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections	11
Hidden Heterogeneity: How the White Racial Category Masks Interethnic Health Inequality	11
Does Internal Migration Contribute to the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Inequalities? The Role of Childhood Migration	11
Gender Differences in Self-assessed Measures of Health: How Does the Structure of Self-rated Health Compare Across Transgender and Cisgender Groups?	11
A Research Note on Community Resilience Estimates: New U.S. Census Bureau Data With an Application to Excess Deaths From COVID-19	11
Skin Tone and the Health Returns to Higher Status	11
Birth Spacing and Fertility in the Presence of Son Preference and Sex-Selective Abortions: India's Experience Over Four Decades	11
Explaining Declining Educational Homogamy: The Role of Institutional Changes in Higher Education in Japan	11
Cohort, Policy, and Process: The Implications for Migrant Fertility in West Germany	10
Polygenic Prediction of Education and Its Role in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Cohort Changes Among Finnish Men and Women Born in 1925–1989	10
The Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis, Out-Migration, and Household Change Among Venezuelans in Venezuela and Abroad	10
If Residential Segregation Persists, What Explains Widespread Increases in Residential Diversity?	10
Return Migration Selection and Its Impact on the Migrant Mortality Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data	10
Maternal Migration and Child Fostering Arrangements in Nairobi's Slums	10
Continuity and Change in U.S. Children's Family Composition, 1968–2017	10
The Role of Single Motherhood in America's High Child Poverty	10
Religiosity and Young Unmarried Women's Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior: New Evidence From a Longitudinal Panel of Young Adult Women	10

Sibling Availability, Sibling Sorting, and Subjective Health Among Chinese Adults	9
Household Instability and Girls’ Teen Childbearing	9
Safety Net Spending on Children and the Sources of Household Income Across U.S. States, 1997–2016	9
Research Note: New Evidence on the Motherhood Wage Penalty	9
Who Divorces Whom: Unilateral Divorce Legislation and the Educational Structure of Marriage	9
U.S. Fertility in Life Course Context: A Research Note on Using Census-Held Linked Administrative Records for Geographic and Sociodemographic Subgroup Estimation	9
Toward a New Approach to Creating Population-Representative Data for Demographic Research	9
New Evidence From Census 2020 on the Residential Segregation of Same-Sex Households: A Research Note	8
Growing Income-Based Inequalities in Old-Age Life Expectancy in Sweden, 2006–2015	8
Unequal From the Start? Poverty Across Immigrant Generations of Hispanic Children	8
In the Name of the Father? Fertility, Religion, and Child Naming in the Demographic Transition	8
Relating Period and Cohort Fertility	8
The Emergent Motherhood Mental Health Advantage: Did Pandemic Times Make a Difference?	8
The Crucial Role of Mothers and Siblings in Child Survival: Evidence From 29 Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa	8
Fertility and Labor Supply Responses to Child Allowances: The Introduction of Means-Tested Benefits in France	8
Birth Spacing and Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes Across the Life Course: Evidence From the Utah Population Database	8
Modeling and Forecasting Healthy Life Expectancy With Compositional Data Analysis	8
Cohabitation and Marriage Among Same-Sex Couples in the 2019 ACS and CPS: A Research Note	8
Sexual Orientation Identity Mobility in the United Kingdom: A Research Note	8
The Rise of Sonless Families in Asia and North Africa	8
Gender Inequality Reinforced: The Impact of a Child's Health Shock on Parents' Labor Market Trajectories	8
Cause-of-Death Diversity From a Multiple-Cause Perspective in the United States	8