OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Population and Development Review is 0. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
JeffGoodellThe Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched PlanetLittle Brown and Company, 2023, 400 p., $29.00	217
ClaudiaFinotelli and IrenePonzo (Eds.) Migration Control Logics and Strategies in Europe: A North‐South ComparisonSpringer International, 2023, xiv + 340 p., $59.99 (Open Access online).	79
Claire L.WendlandPartial Stories: Maternal Death from Six AnglesUniversity of Chicago Press, 2022, 356 p., $35.00.	79
Demographic Systems of Medieval Italy (6th–15th century AD)	74
Does Family Structure Account for Child Achievement Gaps by Parental Education? Findings for England, France, Germany and the United States	65
The Transformation of Polygyny in Sub‐Saharan Africa	45
Beyond Stocks and Surges: The Demographic Impact of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population in the United States	35
Changes in Literacy Skills as Cohorts Age	33
Issue Information	31
The Potential of Internal Migration to Shape Rural and Urban Populations Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America	29
Senderowicz and Maloney (2022): Comment, Rejoinder, and Erratum	27
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A Note from the New Editors	26
LucasChancel, ThomasPiketty, EmmanuelSaez, GabrielZucman, et al. World Inequality Report 2022World Inequality Lab, 2021, 234 p., Open Access	22
Issue Information	21
Survey Estimates of Sexual Orientation in the United States	21
Economic Foundations of Contraceptive Transitions: Theories and a Review of the Evidence	20
ACKNOWLEDGMENT	20
Fertility Intentions During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Individual‐ and Municipality‐Level Determinants	19
On Population and the International Order	19
Societal Pessimism and the Transition to Parenthood: A Future Too Bleak to Have Children?	17
The Demography of Crisis‐Driven Outflows from Venezuela	17
Comparisons of Global Population Projections	17
VaclavSmilHow the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and FuturePenguin, 2022, 325 p., $28.00.	16
Familial Deaths and First Birth	16

Estimates of Excess Mortality Attributable to Covid‐19	13
KyleHarperPlagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human HistoryPrinceton University Press, 2021, 686 p., $35.00.	12
The US Council of Economic Advisers on Changing Female Labor Force Participation	11
VolhaCharnyshUprooted: How Post‐WWII Population Transfers Remade EuropeCambridge University Press, 2025. 320 p., $35.99.	11
Editors' Note	11
WilliamNordhuasThe Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded WorldPrinceton University Press, 2021, 368 p., $29.95	11
A Novel Macro Perspective on Family Dynamics: The Contribution of Partnership Contexts of Births to Cohort Fertility Rates	10
Issue Information	10
Sensitivity Analysis of Excess Mortality due to the COVID‐19 Pandemic	10
ScottRozelle and NatalieHellInvisible China: How the Urban‐Rural Divide Threatens China's RiseUniversity of Chicago Press, 2022, 241 p., $19.00 (paper)	10
Remittances‐Adjusted Support Ratio	10
Climate Change and Human Mobility: Considering Context, Mechanisms, and Selectivity	10
Maternal Free Time: A Missing Element in Fertility Studies	10
“Supply‐Side Versus Demand‐Side Unmet Need: Implications for Family Planning Programs”: A Comment	9
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The 2022 UN Long‐Range Population Projections	9
Human Population and the Biosphere	9
The Journey of Humanity by Oded Galor: A Review Essay	9
The Long‐Term Development of the Mortality Gradient: Socioeconomic Differences in Adult Life Span of Swedish Cohorts 1841–1920	9
Birth Intention Status and Infant Mortality: Fixed‐Effects Analysis of 60 Countries	9
Supply‐Side Versus Demand‐Side Unmet Need: Implications for Family Planning Programs	9
Budapest Declaration on the Demographic Renewal of Europe	8
Issue Information	8
Paul R.EhrlichLife: A Journey through Science and PoliticsYale University Press, 2023, 395 p., $30.00	8
Intergenerational Educational Mobility During the Twentieth Century	7
Halford Mackinder on the Heartland of Eurasia	7
Teen Unions and Intimate Partner Violence in South America	7
Fifty Years of Population and Development Review: Shifting Research Themes, Authorship, and Academic Impact in Comparative Perspective	7
Declining Quantity and Quality of Births in Chile amidst the COVID‐19 Pandemic	7
The Consequences of the COVID‐19 Pandemic for Fertility and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Spanish Birth Registers	7
Rethinking Global Food Demand for 2050	6
EdwardPaiceYouthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the WorldHead of Zeus, 2021, 411 p., $9.65.	6
Issue Information	6
The Gendered Impacts of Partnership and Parenthood on Paid Work and Unpaid Work Time in Great Britain, 1992–2019	6
Smith or Malthus? A Sea‐Change in the Concept of a Population	6
Demographic Prospects of Niger through 2050: A UN Case Study	6
Neighborhood Trust, Cohesion, and Diversity: How Demographic Patterns and Processes Shape Their Relationships	6
Women's Legal Rights and Gender Gaps in Property Ownership in Developing Countries	6
Correlates of Contemporary Gender Preference for Children in South Korea	6
The Biased Reaction to Changes in Family‐Related Public Expenditure: How Generosity and Universalism Relate to Fertility	6
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Theories of Postindustrial Fertility Decline: An Empirical Examination	6
The Last Bastion is Falling: Survey Evidence of the New Family Reality in Italy	6
Rising Female‐Headed Households: Shifts in Living Arrangements or Heightened Gender Symmetry?	6
Progress Stalled? The Uncertain Future of Mortality in High‐Income Countries	5
NailaKabeerRenegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh ParadoxLSE Press, 2024, 358 p. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.rpg	5
Data and Trends in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, and Some Related Demographic Issues	5
Palgrave on Population	5
Trends and Decomposition of Changes in Mortality in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries, 1950–2019	5

RawanArar and David ScottFitzGeraldThe Refugee SystemPolity, 2022, 272 p., $26.95	5
Impacts of the COVID‐19 Lockdown on Gender Inequalities in Time Spent on Paid and Unpaid Work in Singapore	5
Yang SaoXiongImmigrant Agency: Hmong American Movements and the Politics of Racialized IncorporationRutgers University Press, 2022, 198 p., $29.95 (paper)	5
WHO Global and Regional Estimates of Infertility	5
Does the Labor Force Participation of Married Female Immigrants Decrease in a Low Female LFP Host Country? Evidence From Japan	5
Revisiting Women's Empowerment and Contraception	5
Editors’ Note	5
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HeinDe Haas, How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics, Basic Books, 2023. 464 p., $35.00.	4
Revolving Doors: How Externalization Policies Block Refugees and Deflect Other Migrants across Migration Routes	4
Giorgia Meloni on Italy's Demographic Challenge	4
Editors' Note on Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Celebrating 50 Years of Population and Development Review	4
Securitization and Forced Migration in Kenya: A Policy Transition from Integration to Encampment	4
Global Gender Gaps in the International Migration of Professionals on LinkedIn	4
Did the COVID‐19 Pandemic Affect Fertility Desires in Australia? Understanding Why People Changed Their Attitudes towards Having a First or Additional Child	4
John RennieShortDemography and the Making of the Modern World: Public Policies and Social ForcesNewcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2024. 171 pp.	4
The Formation and Realization of Fertility Goals Among a US Cohort in the Post‐Recession Years	4
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Jade S.SasserClimate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain FutureOakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024. 170 pp.	4
Foreword	4
Issue Information	3
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Dimensions of Environmental Attitudes and General Fertility Ideals	3
Windows of Vulnerability: Consequences of Exposure Timing during the Dutch Hunger Winter	3
Conceptualizing and Measuring the Contribution of Assisted Reproductive Technologies to Fertility Rates	3
Digital Trace Data and Demographic Forecasting: How Well Did Google Predict the US COVID‐19 Baby Bust?	3
Child Death and Mothers’ Subsequent Mental Health in a High‐Mortality African Community	3
The Effect of Maternal Education on Child Mortality in Bangladesh	3
The Missing Millions: Uncovering the Burden of Covid‐19 Cases and Deaths in the African Region	3
Evolving Fertility Goals and Behaviors in Current U.S. Childbearing Cohorts	3
Issue Information	3
Women's Low Employment Rates in India: Cultural and Structural Explanations	3
AhmedElsayed and DavidLamLabour Markets in Low‐Income CountriesOxford University Press, 2021, 256 p., Open Access.	3
Mental Health in China: Social Change in Life Course Trajectories	3
The Childhood Origins of Climate‐Induced Mobility and Immobility	3
Fertility Transitions in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: The Role of Preferences	3
Henry Pratt Fairchild on the Restriction of Immigration	3
Paul Demeny: An Appreciation	2
COVID‐19 and Contraceptive Use in Two African Countries: Examining Conflicting Pressures on Women	2
The Next 2 Billion: Can the World Support 10 Billion People?	2
Disability and Education in Ghana: Intersections With Sex and Location	2
No End to Hypergamy when Considering the Full Married Population	2
Emmanuel Macron on the EU's Control of Its External Borders	2
Not Even a Pandemic Makes Them Change Their Family Plans: The Impact of COVID‐19 on Fertility Intentions in Austria	2
The Impact of COVID‐19 on Abortions in Spain	2
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Globalization and Gender‐Specific Patterns in Individual Fertility Decisions	2
Mortality Convergence in Europe? Spatial Differences in Life Expectancy Gains Between 1995 and 2019	2
DustinWhitneyDemographic Deception: Exposing the Overpopulation Myth and Building a Resilient FutureAdvantage Books, 2023, 148 p., $29.99.	2
The Concentration of Reproduction During the Fertility Transition in Developing Countries	2
Population Aging, Demographic Metabolism, and the Rising Tide of Late Middle Age to Older Adult Loneliness Around the World	2
Scaling Up Perinatal Care: Health Benefits for Infant Survival in High‐Burden Countries	2
COVID‐19 Policy Interventions and Fertility Dynamics in the Context of Pre‐Pandemic Welfare Support	2
Pandemic Roller‐Coaster? Birth Trends in Higher‐Income Countries During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	2
The Biden Administration on Climate Migration	2
Refugee Inflow and Labor Market Outcomes in Brazil: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus	1
Dynamics between Regional Sex Ratios at Birth and Sex Ratios at Prime Marriageable Ages in China	1
Short‐ and Medium‐Term Effects of Parental Separation on Children's Well‐Being: Evidence from Uruguay	1
COVID‐19 and Childlessness among Women in the United States	1
In Memoriam: Paul Demeny 1932–2024	1
OSKARBURGER, RONALDLEE, AND REBECCASEAR (Eds.) Human Evolutionary DemographyCambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024, 780 p. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0251	1
Life Expectancy Reversals in Low‐Mortality Populations	1
Couples’ Subjective Well‐Being Around Live Birth and Pregnancy Loss	1
Reconsidering the Relationship Between Educational Hypogamy and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from India	1
Fertility in a Pandemic: Evidence from California	1
MichaelWoolcockInternational Development: Navigating Humanity's Greatest Challenge Polity, 2023, 200 p. $64.95.	1
ClaudiaGoldinCareer and Family: Women's Century‐Long Journey Toward EquityPrinceton University Press, 2021, 325 p., $27.95	1
Population and Climate Change: Considering Climate Change Demography's Past and Future	1
PDR Archives: A Fifty‐Year Chronology	1
Unhealthy Assimilation or Compositional Differences? Disentangling Immigrants' Mental Health Trajectories with Residence Duration	1
James Madison on Population and Emigration	1
Development and International Migration: The Effect of Income on Regular and Irregular Migration Intentions to Europe	1
Does Inequality Have Momentum? The Implications of Convex Inequality Regimes for Mortality Dynamics	1
Trends in Completed Fertility by Educational Field: Swedish Men and Women Born 1946–1975	1
Spousal Agreement on Sex Preferences for Children and Gender Gaps in Children's Education	1
The State of Global Learning Poverty: 2022 UpdateThe World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF, USAID, FSDO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2022, 77 p., Open Access	1
Pre‐COVID‐19 Geographic Inequalities in Non‐Hispanic Black US Life Expectancy, 1990–2019	1
MarkKoyama and JaredRubinHow the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic GrowthPolity, 2022, 240 p., $24.95.	1
“It's None of Their Damn Business”: Privacy and Disclosure Control in the U.S. Census, 1790–2020	1
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Trends in Living Arrangements Around the World	0
Female Labor Force Participation in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Cohort Analysis	0
Rising Patriarchy and Declining Economic Opportunity: Life Courses and Social Change in Egypt between 1965 and 2018	0
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Shifting Parental Age Differences in High‐Income Countries: Insights and Implications	0
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Rethinking City Population Growth: How Reclassification Matters	0
Examining the Gender Equality–Fertility Paradox in Three Nordic Countries	0
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Single Motherhood and Multigenerational Coresidence in Europe	0
Conflict and Child Mortality in Mali: A Synthetic Control Analysis	0
Contextualizing the Global Burden of COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Historical and Geographical Exploration of Excess Mortality in France, 1901–2021	0
Large and Persistent Life Expectancy Disparities between India's Social Groups	0
Disruptions in Educational Progress and Fertility Dynamics by Educational Level: Unraveling the Link between Education and Fertility Stalls in Sub‐Saharan Africa	0
Melissa S.KearneyThe Two Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling BehindUniversity of Chicago Press, 2023, 240 p., $25.00.	0
SarahBracke and Luis ManuelHernández Aguilar, Editors, The Politics of Replacement: Demographic Fears, Conspiracy Theories and Race WarsRoutledge, Abingdon, UK & New York, US, 2024. 292 pp.	0
Lori M.Hunter, ClarkGray, JacquesVéron (Eds.) International Handbook of Population and EnvironmentSpringer, 2022. 518 p., $149.00	0
Demography: Fast and Slow	0
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How Family Dynamics Shape Income Inequality Between Families With Young Children: The Case of Sweden, 1995–2018	0
Gender Asymmetries in Cross‐National Couples	0
Medically Assisted Reproduction and Partnership Stability	0
Understanding the Positive Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Women's Fertility in Norway	0
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	0
HilaryCooper and SimonSzreterAfter the Virus: Lessons from the Past for a Better FutureCambridge University Press, 2021, 444 p., $16.95 (paper)	0
Susan J.PearsonThe Birth Certificate: An American HistoryThe University of North Carolina Press, 2021, 392 p., $32.95	0
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Societal Upheaval and the Contraceptive Transition	0
IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. IPCC, 184 p., doi: https://doi.org/10.59327/IPCC/AR6-9789291691647	0
JodyHeymann, AletaSprague, AmyRaubEquality Within Our Lifetimes: How Laws and Policies Can Close—or Widen—Gender Gaps in Economies WorldwideUniversity of California Press, 2023, 328 p., $34.95 (or fre	0
Income Inequality and Increasing Dispersion of the Transition to First Birth in the Global South	0
Forecasting Population in an Uncertain World: Approaches, New Uses, and Troubling Limitations	0
On the Health Impacts of Climatic Shocks: How Heatwaves Reduce Birthweight in Sub‐Saharan Africa	0
Progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, Halfway to 2030	0
Health Transitions and the Rise of Modern Contraceptive Prevalence: Demand, Access, and Choice	0
KlaritaGërxhani, N.D.de Graaf, and WernerRaub (Eds.) Handbook of Sociological Science: Contributions to Rigorous SociologyEdward Elgar Publishing, 2021, 552 p., 22 out of the 26 Chapters are Open Acc	0
Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence Impacts Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Women in India	0
AndrewGeddesGoverning Migration beyond the State: Europe, North America, South America, and Southeast Asia in a Global ContextOxford University Press, 2021, 256 p., $100.00	0
Six Ways Population Change Will Affect the Global Economy	0
GustafArrhenius, KristerBykvist, TimCampbell, and ElizabethFinneron‐Burns (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Population EthicsOxford University Press, 2022, 648 p., $150.00.	0
It Takes a Village: Childcare and Women's Paid Employment in India	0
Fertility Desires and Contraceptive Transition	0
Henry Kissinger on Population and National Security	0
DAVIDROSNER AND GERALDMARKOWITZBuilding the Worlds That Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American HistoryColumbia University Press, 2024, 408 p. $28.00.	0
The Value of Cultural Similarity for Predicting Migration: Evidence from Food and Drink Interests in Digital Trace Data	0
Jean‐Marie Guyau on Countering Depopulation in a Secular Society	0
Individual Behaviors and Health Inequalities: Preterm Birth During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Mexico	0
JohnBongaarts and DennisHodgsonFertility Transition in the Developing WorldSpringer, 2022, 150 pp., Open Access	0
Children of Separation: An International Profile	0
Erratum	0
A New Approach to Understanding Population Change in Central and Eastern Europe	0
Interview with Executive Vice President of the China Birth Planning Association	0
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The UN's Pact for the Future and the Declaration on Future Generations	0
Reflections on the Value of Anthropology for Understanding Population Processes	0
Climatic Variability and Internal Migration in Asia: Evidence from Big Microdata	0
Fertility Postponement, Economic Uncertainty, and the Increasing Income Prerequisites of Parenthood	0
Peter Gaskell on the Effects of Mechanization on Labor	0
Trends and Patterns of Global Refugee Migration	0
A Holistic Approach to Family Life Course Change across 1930–1978 Chinese Birth Cohorts	0
RichardBanégas and ArmandoCutoloID Wars in Côte d'Ivoire: A Political Ethnography of Identification and CitizenshipOxford University Press, 2024, 345 p., $140.00	0
Personal and Social Worries Associated with the Likelihood of Having Children	0
Who Achieves Residential Independence? Living Arrangements of Never‐Married Young Adults in Urban China, 2003–2018	0
Family Policies in Low Fertility Countries: Evidence and Reflections	0
Editors’ Note	0
Children on the Move in China: Insights from the Census Data 2000–2020	0
Impact of Tuition‐Free Education Policy on Child Marriage and Early Childbearing: Does Secondary Matter More?	0
Reconciling Family Aspirations and Paid Work in the European Union	0
Nowcasting Daily Population Displacement in Ukraine through Social Media Advertising Data	0
Internal Migration Over the Course of Urbanization in Developing Countries	0
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Dynamics of Union Dissolution in Sub‐Saharan Africa	0
MargoAnderson and WilliamSeltzerUse and Misuse of the United States Census: The Role of Data in the Incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War IISpringer, 2024, 230 p., $44.99	0
Recognizing Identity Fluidity in Demographic Research	0
AchimGoerres and PieterVanhuysse (Eds.) Global Political Demography: The Politics of Population ChangePalgrave Macmillan, 2021, 459 p., Open Access	0
The Impact of Migration on Age Structure Conducive to Human Development Across the Urban Hierarchy	0
Alignment, Anticipation, Adaptation, or Lagging Behind? Age‐Based Regulations in Assisted Reproduction and Late Fertility	0
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MichaelRodriguez‐MuñizFigures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic ChangePrinceton University Press, 2021, 312 p., $29.95	0
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Do Conditional Cash Transfers Reduce Fertility? Nationwide Evidence from Mexico	0
VegardSkirbekkDecline and Prosper! Changing Global Birth Rates and the Advantages of Fewer ChildrenPalgrave Macmillan, 2022, 396 p., $17.99.	0
Karl Mannheim on the Problem of Generations	0
Slowing of World Agricultural Output Growth: USDA Estimates	0
The EU–Tunisia Agreement on Curbing Irregular Migration	0
Resilience, Accelerated Aging, and Persistently Poor Health: Diverse Trajectories of Health in Malawi	0
COVID‐19 Pandemic and Women's Age at Marriage: New Evidence From India	0
JasonFletcherBackdoor to a Dead End: A Review Essay¹The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden	0
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A Narrative Review of the Impact of Public Family Planning Policies and Programs on the Contraceptive Transition in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries	0
Worlds in Motion Redux? Expanding Migration Theories and Their Interconnections	0
Migration and Skewed Subnational Sex Ratios among Young Adults	0
The Meaning of Health in Rural South Africa: Gender, the Life Course, and the Socioepidemiological Context	0