The session I am co-organizing with Ariane is happening soon today! We have four fantastic papers followed the discussion from @furuyashiro.bsky.social. Join us if you can!

Ariane Ophir@arianeophir.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Family demographers, need recommendations for #PAA2026 sessions? 1/3 📅 Thursday, May 7 | 9:30–10:45 AM Experimental Methods in Studying Union Formation and Dissolution (@yiangli.bsky.social & I curated four excellent papers using #experimental methods to address key questions in #family #demography)

N-IUSSP: How siblings shape cognitive aging. Evidence from American families, by Yiang Li www.niussp.org/environment-... #demography #populationstudies

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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Excited to share that my new book (w/ Xiang Zhou), Causal Mediation Analysis, is now out from CUP. Order at tinyurl.com/3hspt6em with discount code CMA2025. Includes software for Stata and R, available here: causalmedanalysis.github.io. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.

Using HRS data linked to the 1940 Census, @yiangli.bsky.social shows that individuals with more childhood co-residing siblings are linked to steeper late-life cognitive decline, and women raised with brothers show the fastest deterioration. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

New in @ssreditorial.bsky.social with @jasonwongyh.bsky.social and Linda Waite. We introduce and examine the "linked long arms" where early family disadvantages have spillover effects within marriage on social lives with women’s early disadvantage especially consequential. doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

New paper in Social Science & Medicine with Meiyi Li and @michalengelman.bsky.social. We study spousal cognitive decline and own perception of marital strain. We find spouse’s cognitive impairment is linked to women facing higher marital strain but men report lower strain. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

The paper I started three years ago is now published in @sfjournal.bsky.social! We study how obesity/body size as measured and socially evaluated explain gendered disparities in access to partnership and partnered sex. Thanks to my advisor and coauthor Linda Waite. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... [1/7]