Demographic Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Demographic Research is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
International completeness of death registration40
Measuring short-term mobility patterns in North America using Facebook advertising data, with an application to adjusting COVID-19 mortality rates33
How do environmental stressors influence migration? A meta-regression analysis of environmental migration literature32
Can we estimate crisis death tolls by subtracting total population estimates? A critical review and appraisal30
Variable-r in sex ratios: Formulas in honor of Jim Vaupel20
Point estimation of certain measures in organizational demography using variable-r methods20
Childbearing intentions among Egyptian men and women: The role of gender-equitable attitudes and women’s empowerment20
Uncovering the underlying causes for the narrowing, stalling, and widening Black–White mortality gap from 2000 to 2022 in the United States18
Accuracy of wives' proxy reports of husbands' fertility preferences in sub-Saharan Africa16
Which definition of migration better fits Facebook ‘expats’? A response using Mexican census data16
The formal demography of kinship VI: Demographic stochasticity and variance in the kinship network15
The formal demography of kinship V: Kin loss, bereavement, and causes of death15
The bootstrap approach to the multistate life table method using Stata: Does accounting for complex survey designs matter?15
Contraceptive use and fertility transitions: The distinctive experience of sub-Saharan Africa14
Using online genealogical data for demographic research: An empirical examination of the FamiLinx database14
To what extent were life expectancy gains in South Africa attributable to declines in HIV/AIDS mortality from 2006 to 2017? A life table analysis of age-specific mortality14
Diverse pathways in young Italians’ entrance into sexual life: The association with gender and birth cohort14
Migration and demographic disparities in macro-regions of the European Union, a view to 206014
Healthy longevity from incidence-based models: More kinds of health than stars in the sky14
Spatial heterogeneity in son preference across India’s 640 districts: An application of small-area estimation13
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s care work and employment in the Middle East and North Africa13
Gone and forgotten? Predictors of birth history omissions in India13
Incorporating subjective survival information in mortality and change in health status predictions: A Bayesian approach12
Periods of high uncertainty: How fertility intentions in Russia changed during 2022–202312
Solo living in the process of transitioning to adulthood in Europe: The role of socioeconomic background12
Children under 5 in polygynous households in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000 to 202011
On the relationship between life expectancy, modal age at death, and the threshold age of the life table entropy11
Who moves out and who keeps the home? Short-term and medium-term mobility consequences of grey divorce in Belgium11
Transitions to adulthood in men and women in rural Malawi in the 21st century using sequence analysis: Some evidence of delay10
Advanced or postponed motherhood? Migrants’ and natives’ gap between ideal and actual age at first birth in Spain10
Leaving and returning to the parental home during COVID times in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom10
Programmatic access to open statistical data for population studies: The SDMX standard9
Influenza mortality in French regions after the Hong Kong flu pandemic9
The educational gradient in young singlehood: The role of gender and the gender climate9
The surge in living alone among young and middle-aged adults: A decomposition analysis of the rise in one-person households in Germany, 1991 to 20219
On the momentum of pseudostable populations9
World population aging as a function of period demographic conditions9
Assessing the demographic impact of migration on the working-age population across European territories9
The formal demography of kinship III: Kinship dynamics with time-varying demographic rates9
A dyadic approach to the study of perceived subfecundity and contraceptive use9
Interracial couples and intergenerational coresidence: Interracial couples who provide housing assistance to their aging parents9
The Spanish flu and the health system: Considerations from the city of Parma, 19189
Measuring the concentration of urban population in the negative exponential model using the Lorenz curve, Gini coefficient, Hoover dissimilarity index, and relative entropy9
The effect of migration and time spent abroad on migrants’ health: A home/host country perspective9
Standardized mean age at death (MADstd): Exploring its potentials as a measure of human longevity8
Early life exposure to cigarette smoking and adult and old-age male mortality: Evidence from linked US full-count census and mortality data8
The question of the human mortality plateau: Contrasting insights by longevity pioneers8
Household transitions between ages 5 and 15 and educational outcomes: Fathers and grandparents in Peru8
Early life patterns of criminal legal system involvement: Inequalities by race/ethnicity, gender, and parental education7
Racial classification as a multistate process7
A survey of baby booms and busts in 20th century Spain7
Religious affiliation and child mortality in Ireland: A country-wide analysis based on the 1911 Census7
Do the consequences of parental separation for children’s educational success vary by parental education? The role of educational thresholds7
‘Silver splits’ in Europe: The role of grandchildren and other correlates7
Dynamics of the coefficient of variation of the age at death distribution7
Subnational variations in births and marriages during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea7
Separation as an accelerator of housing inequalities: Parents’ and children’s post-separation housing careers in Sweden7
Variations in male height during the epidemiological transition in Italy: A cointegration approach7
Subnational contribution to life expectancy and life span variation changes: Evidence from the United States7
Gender and educational inequalities in disability-free life expectancy among older adults living in Italian regions7
Gender division of housework during the COVID-19 pandemic: Temporary shocks or durable change?6
Health expectancies among older adults in China: Results from the 2010 and 2020 population censuses6
Exploring the mortality advantage of Jewish neighbourhoods in mid-19th century Amsterdam6
Increases in shared custody after divorce in the United States6
Describing the Dutch Social Networks and Fertility Study and how to process it6
Going "beyond the mean" in analysing immigrant health disparities6
Attitudes toward work and parenthood following family-building transitions in Sweden: Identifying differences by gender and education6
Internal migration and the de-standardization of the life course: A sequence analysis of reasons for migrating6
English fertility heads south: Understanding the recent decline6
Estimating mortality from census data: A record-linkage study of the Nouna Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Burkina Faso6
The contributions of stochastic demography and social inequality to lifespan variability5
Job creation, job destruction, and fertility in Germany5
Uncovering disability-free grandparenthood in Italy between 1998 and 2016 using gender-specific decomposition5
The quality of fertility data in the web-based Generations and Gender Survey5
Amish fertility in the United States: Comparative evidence from the American Community Survey and Amish population registries5
A register-based account of period trends in union prevalence, entries, and exits by educational level for men and women in Finland5
Using household death questions from surveys to assess adult mortality in periods of health crisis: An application for Peru, 2018–20225
Joint physical custody of children in Europe: A growing phenomenon5
The association between childlessness and voting turnout in 38 countries5
Gender differences in self-reported health and psychological distress among New Zealand adults5
A parallel kinship universe? A replication of Kolk et al. (2023) with Dutch register data on kinship networks5
Two-dimensional contour decomposition: Decomposing mortality differences into initial difference and trend components by age and cause of death5
Proximity to mother over the life course in the United States: Overall patterns and racial differences5
Losing the female survival advantage: Sex differentials in infant and child mortality in Pakistan5
The division of housework and childcare from a dyadic perspective: Discrepancies between partners’ reports across the transition to parenthood5
Does race response shift impact racial inequality?5
Union formation under conditions of uncertainty: The objective and subjective sides of employment uncertainty5
A world apart: Levels and determinants of excess mortality due to COVID-19 in care homes: The case of the Belgian region of Wallonia during the spring 2020 wave5
The dynamic role of household structure on under-5 mortality in southern and eastern sub-Saharan Africa5
Is the accuracy of individuals' survival beliefs associated with their knowledge of population life expectancy?5
A new look at contraceptive prevalence plateaus in sub-Saharan Africa: A probabilistic approach4
Parental socioeconomic status and the timing of first marriage: What is the role of unmarried cohabitation? Results from a cross-national comparison4
Higher incomes are increasingly associated with higher fertility: Evidence from the Netherlands, 2008–20224
When investment backfires: Unbalanced sex ratios and mental health among boys in rural areas4
Trajectories of US parents’ divisions of domestic labor throughout the COVID-19 pandemic4
Life expectancy by religious affiliation in Finland 1972–20204
A multidimensional global migration model for use in cohort-component population projections4
Age-heterogamous partnerships: Prevalence and partner differences by marital status and gender composition4
Left behind single in the partnering market? Entry into cohabiting unions by women and men with low educational attainment across regions of Europe, cohorts 1960 to 19854
Women’s health decline following (some) unintended births: A prospective study4
The changing inter-relationship between partnership dynamics and fertility trends in Europe and the United States: A review4
Disentangling the Swedish fertility decline of the 2010s4
Probabilistic forecasting of maximum human lifespan by 2100 using Bayesian population projections4
Moving towards gender equality in China: The influence of migration experiences on rural migrants’ gender role attitudes4
War and mobility: Using Yandex web searches to characterize intentions to leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine4
Socio-behavioral factors contributing to recent mortality trends in the United States4
Interrogating the quality and completion of mortality mobile phone interviews conducted in Malawi during COVID-19: An examination of interviewer–respondent interactions4
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality in Uruguay from 2020 to 20223
Religion and contraceptive use in Kazakhstan: A study of mediating mechanisms3
Tempo effects in period TFR: Inspecting the role of shape and scale variations in a cohort model3
Lowest low fertility in Spain: Insights from the 2018 Spanish Fertility Survey3
Household structure in Ghana: Exploring dynamics over three decades3
Demographic convergence in marriage timing: Intersecting gender and educational expansion3
Can status exchanges explain educational hypogamy in India?3
Now-casting Romanian migration into the United Kingdom by using Google Search engine data3
Bayesian implementation of Rogers–Castro model migration schedules: An alternative technique for parameter estimation3
Are parents and children coresiding less than before? An analysis of intergenerational coresidence in South Korea, 1980–20153
Fertility quantum and tempo with cubic age-specific birth rates3
Differences in mortality before retirement: The role of living arrangements and marital status in Denmark3
Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy loss within the Hispanic population3
Socioeconomic development and Chinese young adults’ propensity to live alone: An extended replication study3
Lessons from the pandemic: Gender inequality in childcare and the emergence of a gender mental health gap among parents in Germany3
Using Respondent-Driven Sampling to measure abortion safety in restrictive contexts: Results from Kaya (Burkina Faso) and Nairobi (Kenya)3
Analyzing hyperstable population models3
Decomposing delayed first marriage and birth across cohorts: The role of increased employment instability among men in Japan3
Race, class, and marriage: Components of race differences in men’s first marriage rates, United States, 1960–20193
Women's employment transitions: The influence of her, his, and joint gender ideologies3
Ultra-Orthodox fertility and marriage in the United States: Evidence from the American Community Survey3
Religion and union dissolution: Effects of couple and municipal religiosity on divorce and separation3
Does the fulfillment of contraceptive method preferences affect contraceptive continuation? Evidence from urban Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal3
Adolescent fertility and high school completion in Chile: Exploring gender differences3
The use of mobile phone surveys for rapid mortality monitoring: A national study in Burkina Faso3
Couples' paid work, state-level unemployment, and first births in the United States3
Age, period, and cohort effects contributing to the Great American Migration Slowdown3
The pitfalls and benefits of using administrative data for internal migration research: An evaluation of Australia’s Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA)3
The Average Uneven Mortality index: Building on the ‘e-dagger’ measure of lifespan inequality3
Projecting the sexual minority population: Methods, data, and illustrative projections for Australia3
The vanishing advantage of longevity in Nicoya, Costa Rica: A cohort shift2
The Own-Children Method of fertility estimation: The devil is in the detail2
A Bayesian model for the reconstruction of education- and age-specific fertility rates: An application to African and Latin American countries2
An age–period–cohort approach to disentangling generational differences in family values and religious beliefs: Understanding the modern Australian family today2
Frailty at death: An examination of multiple causes of death in four low mortality countries in 20172
Parental status homogeneity in social networks: The role of homophilous tie selection in Germany2
Exploring the role of legal status and neighborhood social capital on immigrant economic integration in Los Angeles2
Use of standard verbal autopsies to improve the mortality data capacity of civil registration and vital statistics systems in low- and middle-income countries: Analysis of key issues2
Culture portability from origin to destination country: The gender division of domestic work among migrants in Italy2
Educational pairings and fertility decline in Brazil: An analysis using cohort fertility2
Introduction to the Special Collection on The new roles of women and men and implications for families and societies2
The demography of sexual identity development and disclosure among LGB people in Europe2
The intergenerational transmission of migration capital: The role of family migration history and lived migration experiences2
Adolescence in flux: Unmasking 30 years of change in subnational parity-specific adolescent fertility in Mexico2
How do mothers work? Kin coresidence and mothers' work in Latin America2
Mortality modelling with arrival of additional year of mortality data: Calibration and forecasting2
Extramarital fertility in low- and middle-income countries2
Race and agriculture during the assimilation era: Evidence from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians2
A comprehensive database of estimates and forecasts of Spanish sex–age death rates by climate area, income level, and habitat size (2010–2050)2
The contribution of smoking-attributable mortality to differences in mortality and life expectancy among US African-American and white adults, 2000–20192
Stability in children’s residential arrangements and distance to nonresident parents in the 10 years after parental separation2
The big decline: Lowest-low fertility in Uruguay (2016–2021)2
Infant mortality among US whites in the 19th century: New evidence from childhood sex ratios2
Gender inequality in domestic chores over ten months of the UK COVID-19 pandemic: Heterogeneous adjustments to partners’ changes in working hours2
Social-class differences in spacing and stopping during the historical fertility transition: Insights from cure models2
The gender gap in schooling outcomes: A cohort study of young men and women in India1
Women’s employment trajectories in a low-income setting: Stratification and change in Nepal1
Preparing local area population forecasts using a bi-regional cohort-component model without the need for local migration data1
Migration, daily commuting, or second residence? The role of location-specific capital and distance to workplace in regional mobility decisions1
Household living arrangements and disparities in hardship1
The formal demography of kinship IV: Two-sex models and their approximations1
Female sterilization in the life course: Understanding trends and differentials in early sterilization1
Ethnic and regional inequalities in Russian military fatalities in Ukraine: Preliminary findings from crowdsourced data1
Global bilateral migration projections accounting for diasporas, transit and return flows, and poverty constraints1
Jointly estimating subnational mortality for multiple populations1
Geographical distance between child and parent after a union dissolution in Sweden, 1974–20111
Slow-downs of fertility decline: When should we call it a 'fertility stall'?1
How lifespan and life years lost equate to unity1
Family and social resilience: A scoping review of the empirical literature1
Educational selectivity of native and foreign-born internal migrants in Europe1
Women's economic empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from cross-national population data1
Marital plans and partnership transitions among German opposite-sex couples: Couple agreement and gender differences1
The long-term improvement in father–child relationships after divorce: Descriptive findings from the Netherlands1
How do fathers and mothers allocate their leisure time? Patterns and inequalities across 13 European countries1
A probabilistic model for analyzing summary birth history data1
Partial fertility recuperation in Spain two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic1
Projection of US adult obesity trends based on individual BMI trajectories1
How does the demographic transition affect kinship networks?1
COVID-19 risk factors and mortality among Native Americans1
Changes in birth seasonality in Spain: Data from 1863–1870 and 1900–20211
Life expectancy loss among Native Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Studying individuals in same-sex couples using longitudinal administrative data from Canadian tax records: Opportunities and challenges1
Who took care of what? The gender division of unpaid work during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in France1
Socioeconomic preconditions to union formation: Exploring variation by migrant background1
Educational trends in cohort fertility by birth order: A comparison of England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland1
Sample selection bias in adult mortality estimates from mobile phone surveys: Evidence from 25 low- and middle-income countries1
Food insecurity among homeless and precariously housed children in the United States: Lessons from the past1
Migration’s contribution to the urban transition: Direct census estimates from Africa and Asia1
The growing number of given names as a clue to the beginning of the demographic transition in Europe1
Do couples who use fertility treatments divorce more? Evidence from the US National Survey of Family Growth1
The Human Multiple Births Database (HMBD)1
Predictive utility of key family planning indicators on dynamic contraceptive outcomes: Results from longitudinal surveys in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Uganda, and Côte d'Ivoire1
The contribution of assisted reproductive technology to fertility rates and parity transition: An analysis of Australian data1
Short- to medium-run forecasting of mobility with dynamic linear models1
Makeham mortality models as mixtures: Advancing mortality estimations through competing risks frameworks1
Divergent trends in lifespan variation during mortality crises1
Examining the relationships between education, coresidential unions, and the fertility gap by simulating the reproductive life courses of Dutch women1
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