Health around the time of first birth matters for future fertility - N-IUSSP

Evidence from Norway indicates that chronic health problems are just one of the factors liable to influence individual fertility. Øystein Kravdal, Emily Grundy, and Rannveig K. Hart argue that health ...

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POPCLIMA: Call for Abstracts - POPCLIMA

Population Dynamics in a Changing Climate – Future Directions for Climate Demography Organiser: University of Bologna (POPCLIMA – ERC Consolidator Grant), in...

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Estimating years lived across racial categories in Brazil* - N-IUSSP

Using multistate life tables techniques, Jerônimo Muniz, Aliya Saperstein, and Bernardo Queiroz estimate that about one out of two Brazilians initially classified as Black will be reclassified as Brow...

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Violence begets violence. Evidence from the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) - N-IUSSP

Women exposed to war are known to be at higher risk of intimate partner violence, but is this simply because their husbands, too, endured war? Studying the Nigerian Civil War ... Read more

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Can we really predict individual-level longevity? - N-IUSSP

Disparities in life expectancy across sociodemographic groups are large in the U.S. Still, using linked Census and mortality records for men born in 1910, Casey Breen and Nathan Seltzer find ... Read ...

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Son preference and reproductive behaviour in Uzbekistan - N-IUSSP

Using data from the 2021–2022 Uzbekistan Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, Khilola Dushamova, Rashid Javed, Gayrat Suyunov and Munira Zakirova find that son preference shapes reproductive behaviour a...

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Why menstrual health belongs in population surveys - N-IUSSP

Population surveys measure health and wellbeing but overlook menstrual cycle status and symptom burden, a blind spot affecting nearly half the population. Drawing on a survey review and qualitative re...

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Child stunting: lessons from global history - N-IUSSP

Child stunting, being too short for one’s age, is widely seen as a problem of today’s poorer countries. A systematic review of data from 122 countries since the 19th century ... Read more

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Change is the only constant: living arrangements in the United States, 1850–2021 - N-IUSSP

Living arrangements are the reflection of demographic and social change. Using historical census data from the United States, Ginevra Floridi and Albert Esteve summarise 170 years of change in househo...

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Women’s stable employment and first births in Europe - N-IUSSP

Although men’s employment has a consistently positive association with starting a family in Europe, this association has been less clear for women. Using harmonized couple-level data for the years 200...

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The end of lowest-low as we knew it: one threshold, many futures - N-IUSSP

“Lowest-low fertility” has become widespread but is now less informative, Stuart Gietel-Basten and Ignacio Pardo argue. Countries sharing very low fertility levels increasingly follow divergent demogr...

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China: demographic dividend and skill-based productivity - N-IUSSP

As populations grow older, the economic boost known as the demographic dividend, driven by a large working-age population, is fading. However, the drivers of prosperity are shifting. Using Chinese dem...

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On Türkiye’s recent rapid fertility decline - N-IUSSP

In the last decade, Türkiye has recorded the steepest fertility decline in Europe. Period indicators, however, reveal only part of the story. With a birth-order analysis Sutay Yavuz shows that ... Rea...

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Population growth and family planning are still important. Has UNFPA forgotten? - N-IUSSP

Projected population growth of about 2 billion in Africa and elsewhere will contribute to poverty, poor reproductive health, environmental degradation and climate change. Frank Götmark, Chukwuedozie A...

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How siblings shape cognitive aging. Evidence from American families - N-IUSSP

Yiang Li’s research on Americans born in the early 20th century shows that adults who grew up with multiple brothers and sisters, especially siblings close in age, experienced markedly faster cognitiv...

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Measuring life expectancy with care needs in Ibero-American countries  - N-IUSSP

Increasing life expectancy across the world calls for a comprehensive understanding of how these additional years are lived by individuals. By estimating years of life expectancy with care needs in .....

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Economic cycles and first births among natives and migrants’ children in Belgium - N-IUSSP

Economic cycles shape first births in Belgium and help explain aggregate fertility trends. However, as Wood, Neels and Marynissen show, pro-cyclical fertility holds for natives and European descendant...

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Extending working lives: how European birth cohorts compare - N-IUSSP

Promoting longer working lives has become a key policy response to population ageing. Jan Einhoff finds that successive European birth cohorts have spent a growing number of years in employment ... Re...

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Beyond national borders: assessing avoidable mortality across European districts (2002–2019) - N-IUSSP

Avoidable mortality is traditionally analysed at the national level. Using district-level data from 10 European countries between 2002 and 2019, Sophie Stroisch, Michael Mühlichen, Pavel Grigoriev and...

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Every year of schooling counts for dementia risk in the US - N-IUSSP

In the US, each additional year of education is linked to a lower risk of dementia in later life, Hyungmin Cha notes. The decline is steady across the education spectrum, ... Read more

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Immigrant housing and mobility across countries and generations - N-IUSSP

Harmonised cross-national data from five European countries reveals persistent differences in residential mobility and housing patterns among immigrants and their descendants in Europe. Joseph Harriso...

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How seasonal mortality shapes life expectancy in Europe (2000-2019) - N-IUSSP

Mortality in Europe follows a clear seasonal pattern, with more deaths during winter months especially, but their impact on life expectancy is often overlooked. Using data from 20 countries, Isabella ...

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Formal childcare and the next child in ten European countries - N-IUSSP

Working parents with at least one child who use formal childcare services are not always more likely to have further children. As Jonas Wood shows, the European evidence is mixed, ... Read more

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Not just later: why marriage is disappearing in South Korea - N-IUSSP

First marriage in South Korea has declined sharply over the past three decades. This is not simply a story of later marriage. Even after accounting for delayed timing, Sam Hyun ... Read more

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Your partner’s education shapes your survival - N-IUSSP

People with higher levels of education tend to live longer, healthier lives. However, education is not only an individual resource – its benefits may also be shared between partners. Using ... Read mo...

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The role of polygyny in sub-Saharan Africa’s fertility decline - N-IUSSP

Across 23 sub-Saharan African countries, fertility decline in the past few decades is in good part attributable to the shrinking share of women in polygynous unions. As Sophia Chae and ... Read more

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