Demographic Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Demographic Research 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Measuring short-term mobility patterns in North America using Facebook advertising data, with an application to adjusting COVID-19 mortality rates44
Can we estimate crisis death tolls by subtracting total population estimates? A critical review and appraisal43
How do environmental stressors influence migration? A meta-regression analysis of environmental migration literature39
International completeness of death registration29
The partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants in the United Kingdom: An intersectional life course approach using three-channel sequence analysis26
The formal demography of kinship V: Kin loss, bereavement, and causes of death25
The formal demography of kinship VI: Demographic stochasticity and variance in the kinship network23
Point estimation of certain measures in organizational demography using variable-r methods23
Variable-r in sex ratios: Formulas in honor of Jim Vaupel20
The impact of population heterogeneity on the age trajectory of neonatal mortality: A study of US births 2008–201419
First reproductive experience: A survey module18
The bootstrap approach to the multistate life table method using Stata: Does accounting for complex survey designs matter?18
Which definition of migration better fits Facebook ‘expats’? A response using Mexican census data17
Should we be concerned about low fertility? A discussion of six possible arguments16
Gone and forgotten? Predictors of birth history omissions in India15
Uncovering the underlying causes for the narrowing, stalling, and widening Black–White mortality gap from 2000 to 2022 in the United States15
Solo living in the process of transitioning to adulthood in Europe: The role of socioeconomic background14
Modifying model life tables to derive mortality curves for countries with excess mortality14
Spatial heterogeneity in son preference across India’s 640 districts: An application of small-area estimation13
Reassessing the U-shaped relationship between gender equality and fertility: A replication and extension of Kolk’s (2019) study using comprehensive gender equality measures13
Using online genealogical data for demographic research: An empirical examination of the FamiLinx database12
Periods of high uncertainty: How fertility intentions in Russia changed during 2022–202312
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s care work and employment in the Middle East and North Africa12
Programmatic access to open statistical data for population studies: The SDMX standard11
Interracial couples and intergenerational coresidence: Interracial couples who provide housing assistance to their aging parents11
Settlement intentions of Ukrainian refugees in Germany: Adhering to social status back home or restarting again abroad?11
Influenza mortality in French regions after the Hong Kong flu pandemic10
Transitions to adulthood in men and women in rural Malawi in the 21st century using sequence analysis: Some evidence of delay10
Leaving and returning to the parental home during COVID times in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom10
The Spanish flu and the health system: Considerations from the city of Parma, 191810
A dyadic approach to the study of perceived subfecundity and contraceptive use10
Incorporating subjective survival information in mortality and change in health status predictions: A Bayesian approach10
Children under 5 in polygynous households in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000 to 202010
On the relationship between life expectancy, modal age at death, and the threshold age of the life table entropy10
The effect of migration and time spent abroad on migrants’ health: A home/host country perspective9
World population aging as a function of period demographic conditions9
Feminicide as a determinant of Mexican female life expectancy in the 21st century9
The groupwise decomposition: Estimating group-specific contributions to differences between demographic measures9
Shifting spousal age gaps in Kenya and Ghana: Does education matter?9
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
Advanced or postponed motherhood? Migrants’ and natives’ gap between ideal and actual age at first birth in Spain9
On the momentum of pseudostable populations9
The ratio of births observed to births needed: An indicator to assess demographic sustainability8
Do the consequences of parental separation for children’s educational success vary by parental education? The role of educational thresholds8
Standardized mean age at death (MADstd): Exploring its potentials as a measure of human longevity8
Dynamics of the coefficient of variation of the age at death distribution8
Early life exposure to cigarette smoking and adult and old-age male mortality: Evidence from linked US full-count census and mortality data8
Separation as an accelerator of housing inequalities: Parents’ and children’s post-separation housing careers in Sweden8
Gender and educational inequalities in disability-free life expectancy among older adults living in Italian regions8
Racial classification as a multistate process8
The question of the human mortality plateau: Contrasting insights by longevity pioneers8
Subnational variations in births and marriages during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea8
Modelling the age and sex profiles of net international migration8
Religious affiliation and child mortality in Ireland: A country-wide analysis based on the 1911 Census8
Subnational contribution to life expectancy and life span variation changes: Evidence from the United States7
Increases in shared custody after divorce in the United States7
The association between childlessness and voting turnout in 38 countries7
The scale of transnational family separation: Evidence from the United Kingdom7
Describing the Dutch Social Networks and Fertility Study and how to process it7
The contributions of stochastic demography and social inequality to lifespan variability7
Attitudes toward work and parenthood following family-building transitions in Sweden: Identifying differences by gender and education7
Going "beyond the mean" in analysing immigrant health disparities7
Cumulative risk, center-based childcare and socio-emotional difficulties in early childhood: Evidence from Hungary7
Variations in male height during the epidemiological transition in Italy: A cointegration approach7
The European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) dataset: Leave duration entitlements for 21 countries from 1970 to 20247
Health expectancies among older adults in China: Results from the 2010 and 2020 population censuses7
A register-based account of period trends in union prevalence, entries, and exits by educational level for men and women in Finland6
Does race response shift impact racial inequality?6
Using household death questions from surveys to assess adult mortality in periods of health crisis: An application for Peru, 2018–20226
Spatial perspective on environmental migration: Empirical insights from a spatiotemporal approach in the United States, 1970–20106
A parallel kinship universe? A replication of Kolk et al. (2023) with Dutch register data on kinship networks6
Couple migration patterns, gender power relationships and later-life depression in China6
Unrealized fertility in demography6
Joint physical custody of children in Europe: A growing phenomenon6
Losing the female survival advantage: Sex differentials in infant and child mortality in Pakistan6
The division of housework and childcare from a dyadic perspective: Discrepancies between partners’ reports across the transition to parenthood6
Job creation, job destruction, and fertility in Germany6
Uncovering disability-free grandparenthood in Italy between 1998 and 2016 using gender-specific decomposition6
A new look at contraceptive prevalence plateaus in sub-Saharan Africa: A probabilistic approach5
Two-dimensional contour decomposition: Decomposing mortality differences into initial difference and trend components by age and cause of death5
War and mobility: Using Yandex web searches to characterize intentions to leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine5
Education, religion, and male fertility in sub-Saharan Africa: A descriptive analysis5
Special times? How COVID-specific concerns disrupted fertility desires in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Mapping son preference in India, 2002–2021: Spatial patterns and trends using model-based small area estimation5
Disentangling the Swedish fertility decline of the 2010s5
Amish fertility in the United States: Comparative evidence from the American Community Survey and Amish population registries5
The quality of fertility data in the web-based Generations and Gender Survey5
Life expectancy by religious affiliation in Finland 1972–20205
Immigrant labor market dynamics in Germany by family status5
Academic expectations and university enrolment of migrant-origin students in Italy: Evidence by migrant generation and origin group5
When investment backfires: Unbalanced sex ratios and mental health among boys in rural areas5
Age-heterogamous partnerships: Prevalence and partner differences by marital status and gender composition5
Higher incomes are increasingly associated with higher fertility: Evidence from the Netherlands, 2008–20225
The dynamic role of household structure on under-5 mortality in southern and eastern sub-Saharan Africa5
Bayesian multidimensional mortality reconstruction5
Moving towards gender equality in China: The influence of migration experiences on rural migrants’ gender role attitudes5
Interrogating the quality and completion of mortality mobile phone interviews conducted in Malawi during COVID-19: An examination of interviewer–respondent interactions5
Learning and reproductive health: Do early cognitive skills contribute to better sexual and reproductive health outcomes among adolescents in Ethiopia?5
A multidimensional global migration model for use in cohort-component population projections5
Analysing migrant fertility using machine learning techniques: An application of random survival forest to longitudinal data from France5
The role of parenthood and gender in shaping circulation patterns of Ukrainian migration to Poland4
The pitfalls and benefits of using administrative data for internal migration research: An evaluation of Australia’s Person Level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA)4
The changing inter-relationship between partnership dynamics and fertility trends in Europe and the United States: A review4
Partnership life courses and completed fertility in Spain4
Lessons from the pandemic: Gender inequality in childcare and the emergence of a gender mental health gap among parents in Germany4
Ultra-Orthodox fertility and marriage in the United States: Evidence from the American Community Survey4
Socio-behavioral factors contributing to recent mortality trends in the United States4
Local dialect proficiency and migrants’ identity integration: A case of Shanghai4
The formal demography of kinship VII: Lifetime kin overlap within and across generations4
Analyzing hyperstable population models4
Demographic convergence in marriage timing: Intersecting gender and educational expansion4
The Average Uneven Mortality index: Building on the ‘e-dagger’ measure of lifespan inequality4
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
Trajectories of US parents’ divisions of domestic labor throughout the COVID-19 pandemic4
Bayesian implementation of Rogers–Castro model migration schedules: An alternative technique for parameter estimation4
Race, class, and marriage: Components of race differences in men’s first marriage rates, United States, 1960–20194
“Family-Anchored” transitions to adult life in Mexico4
The use of mobile phone surveys for rapid mortality monitoring: A national study in Burkina Faso4
Household structure in Ghana: Exploring dynamics over three decades4
Religion and union dissolution: Effects of couple and municipal religiosity on divorce and separation3
Differences in mortality before retirement: The role of living arrangements and marital status in Denmark3
Does the fulfillment of contraceptive method preferences affect contraceptive continuation? Evidence from urban Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal3
Uncertainty, resilience, and fertility: Perceived capacity to overcome loss of employment and fertility intentions in Sweden, 20213
Decomposing delayed first marriage and birth across cohorts: The role of increased employment instability among men in Japan3
Lowest low fertility in Spain: Insights from the 2018 Spanish Fertility Survey3
Tempo effects in period TFR: Inspecting the role of shape and scale variations in a cohort model3
Refining seasonal mortality estimates through age adjustment: Evidence from Serbia, 2015–20233
Parental status homogeneity in social networks: The role of homophilous tie selection in Germany3
Religion and contraceptive use in Kazakhstan: A study of mediating mechanisms3
Fertility quantum and tempo with cubic age-specific birth rates3
Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on excess mortality and life expectancy loss within the Hispanic population3
Adolescent fertility and high school completion in Chile: Exploring gender differences3
Using Respondent-Driven Sampling to measure abortion safety in restrictive contexts: Results from Kaya (Burkina Faso) and Nairobi (Kenya)3
Probabilistic population forecasts for small regions3
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality in Uruguay from 2020 to 20223
The big decline: Lowest-low fertility in Uruguay (2016–2021)3
Frailty at death: An examination of multiple causes of death in four low mortality countries in 20173
Using sequence analysis to visualize exposure to pregnancy in the postpartum period3
Socioeconomic development and Chinese young adults’ propensity to live alone: An extended replication study3
Online obituaries as a complementary source of data for mortality in Canada3
Unpacking the black box of latent class analysis using qualitative life history interviews: A data-linked explanatory approach examining sexual behavior in rural South Africa3
Grandchildren’s spatial proximity to grandparents and intergenerational support in the United States3
The demography of loneliness: Rethinking social connections in population research3
The partnership context of first parenthood – and how it varies by parental class and birth cohort in the United Kingdom3
Do couples who use fertility treatments divorce more? Evidence from the US National Survey of Family Growth2
Women's economic empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from cross-national population data2
Partial fertility recuperation in Spain two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic2
The formal demography of kinship IV: Two-sex models and their approximations2
The vanishing advantage of longevity in Nicoya, Costa Rica: A cohort shift2
Social-class differences in spacing and stopping during the historical fertility transition: Insights from cure models2
Infant mortality among US whites in the 19th century: New evidence from childhood sex ratios2
Between two worlds: Cohort fertility dynamics before, during, and after the transition to a market economy in Hungary – A decomposition analysis2
Introduction to the Special Collection on The new roles of women and men and implications for families and societies2
Life expectancy loss among Native Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Migration, daily commuting, or second residence? The role of location-specific capital and distance to workplace in regional mobility decisions2
Jointly estimating subnational mortality for multiple populations2
A comprehensive database of estimates and forecasts of Spanish sex–age death rates by climate area, income level, and habitat size (2010–2050)2
How do fathers and mothers allocate their leisure time? Patterns and inequalities across 13 European countries2
A Bayesian model for the reconstruction of education- and age-specific fertility rates: An application to African and Latin American countries2
The demography of sexual identity development and disclosure among LGB people in Europe2
Mortality modelling with arrival of additional year of mortality data: Calibration and forecasting2
Extramarital fertility in low- and middle-income countries2
Economic insecurity and material deprivation: Coping strategies among couple families with and without small children in Europe2
A parametric survival model for child mortality using complex survey data2
How lifespan and life years lost equate to unity2
Ethnic and regional inequalities in Russian military fatalities in Ukraine: Preliminary findings from crowdsourced data2
How does the demographic transition affect kinship networks?2
Changes in birth seasonality in Spain: Data from 1863–1870 and 1900–20212
Race and agriculture during the assimilation era: Evidence from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians2
Stability in children’s residential arrangements and distance to nonresident parents in the 10 years after parental separation2
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
Neighbors’ social attitudes predict variations in live births among the Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, United States2
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
Non-intact families and adolescents’ family satisfaction during the Second Demographic Transition: A test of the institutionalization hypothesis2
Predictive utility of key family planning indicators on dynamic contraceptive outcomes: Results from longitudinal surveys in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Uganda, and Côte d'Ivoire2
Culture portability from origin to destination country: The gender division of domestic work among migrants in Italy2
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